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FISHING
The Somme valley boasts the best fishing in northern France. Eels here are the star attraction. But the ponds and meres are rich too in pike and carp. The area is well known too for bream, roach and above all rudd, often of record-breaking size! Do slow down in your Pénichette when you pass the many fishermen on the bank; you will see their faces crease into a smile as they thank you for not making too much wash. You will need a licence to fish. A 15 day permit is available for 25€ anywhere in France.
ACCESS TO BASES
Lutzelbourg |
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Locaboat HolidaysLe Port Amont - BP 11 FR - 57820 Lutzelbourg Tel : + 33 (0) 387 25 70 15 Fax : 03 87 25 70 18E-mail : <a href=
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Ardennes NautismeEcluse de Pont à Bar F 08160 Dom-le-Mesnil Tel : + 33 (0) 324 54 61 78 Fax : + 33 (0) 324 54 61 78E-mail : info@ardennes-nautisme.com
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Base of Anseremme / Dinant |
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Base of Anseremme / DinantArdennes Nautisme - Darse d'Anseremme - BE 5500 Anseremme-DinantTel : + 33 (0) 324 54 61 78 Fax : + 33 (0) 324 54 61 78 E-mail : info@ardennes-nautisme.com
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Info-region
FRANCE
Alsace-Lorraine Ardennes
ALSACE-LORRAINE
Canal de la Marne au Rhin, Canal de la Sarre, Moselle, Canal des Vosges
Our base at Lutzelbourg provides an Alsatian welcome, with its castle and its famous crystal workshops. Whichever way you cruise, half timbered houses gay with window-boxes, onion-domed church-towers, intricate wrought-ironwork and a hundred small details give the villages a festival air.
Wherever you stop, you'll find the food equally special: choucroute and charcuterie as well as mouthwatering plum and greengage tarts. Cruising the Canal de la Sarre you pass mainly through woodland with the odd small town to tempt you with a restaurant meal.
At Sarreguemines you'll be charmed by the hand-decorated pottery. On your return you'll travel on the boat lift at Arzwiller which replaces 17 locks.
Following the Marne-Rhine Canal you pass through Saverne with its ducal palace and across the Alsatian plain to the heart of Strasbourg.
At Toul, a town fortified by Vauban and enjoying fine views over the loops
of the river Moselle, you are entering Lorraine. Its countryside is just as fine as its cities, of which Nancy and Metz are the highpoints.
New : In Lorraine and the Ardennes locks will stay open on Easter Sunday, Whitsun and on the 14th July. In Alsace locks will operate at Easter and Whitsun, and probably on the 14th July (check at the time of booking).
ARDENNES
Canal de la Meuse, Meuse, Canal des Ardennes, Canal de l'Aisne à la Marne
With Ardennes Nautisme
With the canal de la Meuse takes you through the lush pastures and verdant
countryside of Lorraine as far as Verdun, the River Meuse itself loop
romantically into the tangled hills of the Ardennes whose forests act as a great lung for Europe. Home of wild boar, roe-deer and some of France's rarest birds, the Ardennes forest also shelter in their protected wetlands such rarities as orchids and the fly-catching sundew. At Sedan don't miss a visit to
Europe's largest fortress, while you can discover all about marionnettes at
Charleville-Mezieres, world capital of the art.
If you decide to head for Belgium, you'll be struck by the very special
character of the villages and towns of the Ardennes. Protected by the
mountainous terrain they have acted as a natural line of defence and have been scarcely touched by successive wars. Close to Givet you can admire the ruins of Charlemont Castel, founded by Charles V
The grand mountain scenery leads on to Namur and Dinant, perhaps the most lively and fascinating towns of the Belgian Ardennes.
