Cruising the Briare Canal in France with European Waterways
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Cruising the Briare Canal in France with European Waterways

B1IntermediateJuly 11, 202656 min

Hear about luxury barge cruising in France as Chris Christensen describes a week aboard the Renaissance, a European Waterways hotel barge traveling through Western Burgundy and the Upper Loire. Chris and his wife previously cruised with European Waterways on the Canal du Midi. For this journey, they returned to France to explore the Briare Canal, one of the country’s oldest canals, aboard a vessel carrying just eight passengers and five crew members. The result was an unusually intimate trip combining French cuisine, historic towns, private châteaux, Sancerre vineyards, canal locks, and long, leisurely aft...

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Hey, it's Christopher Kimball from Milk Street Radio. It sounds like I'm bragging, and I am. We're the number one most downloaded food podcast in America. You know, Milk Street Radio travels the world in search of the very best food stories.

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Amateur Traveler episode 1004. Today Amateur Traveler talks about canals, barges and locks, chateaus, vineyards and aqueducts as we go cruising with European waterways on the Briar Canal in France. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Let's talk about luxury barge cruising. This is going to be another solo episode of the show, but not a solo trip. This is actually a trip that I did with my wife.

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