When it comes to French waterways, whichever route or river ship you choose there’s fabulous French food, great wine and la vie Française to fall in love with on trips to picturesque villages and medieval towns where kings, emperors and struggling (but soon-to-be-famous) artists once trod.
Everyone knows of the Seine, the river that heads north from Paris, and the Rhône/Saône, which together flow from Switzerland into the Mediterranean.
Scratch a little deeper though, and you’ll find chateaux galore on a CroisiEurope cruise along the Loire on a custom-designed paddlewheel boat, and endless wine tasting on voyages river cruise lines will call Bordeaux, but actually combine a three-way sailing on the Garonne, Gironde and Dordogne Rivers in Aquitaine.
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