On Word heritage Canal du Midi
Beziers - Carcassonne or reverse.

Cruises starts: Saturday afternoon 16.30 pm ending the following Friday morning after breakfast 10. am

Charter 6 guests 14 000 €

What is included:

Champagne welcome ; Two bilingual crew; captain and hostess. French breakfast.
7 days , 6 nights on the barge in a double cabin with private bathroom.
Transfers to and from the barge to pre-arranged meeting point.
Use of the onboard bicycles and Jacuzzi.
Provision: You will be able to buy local products to an able you to have a light lunch on board. A fridge will be made available.

Not included:

Dinners, luncheons, fine wines and beverages from the bar and seller.
Gratuity for the crew.

Saturday – Guests are met at 16:30 pm in Béziers and transferred to Clair de Lune, moored nearby. Welcome aboard , champagne reception with canapés, meet the Captain and crew. Settle in and enjoy the Jacuzzi as the canal unfolds while you cruise to your first overnight mooring in Villeneuve-les-Beziers. Dinner in or near Villeneuve at your expense There is a choice of restaurants, some need a reservation can be made by your hostess upon boarding.

Sunday – During the morning cruise we cross the aqueduct over the river Orb up the canal and ascend the seven-locks of Foncerannes in Beziers. Lunch on board in or near Colombier. Afternoon cruise involves picturesque views of the tree-lined canal. You can enjoy the Jacuzzi and sundeck or perhaps cycle or walk at your leisure. there is enough time to visit the Oppidum d’Enserune, a two and a half thousand years old hilltop archeological city-site located near the canal’s only tunnel at Malpas. Evening mooring and dinner in Pouilles. Jane Martin ex barge chef has opened a restaurant and there is an other restaurant in the port.

Monday – Morning cruise to Capestang where you can enjoy lunch on board. Time to visit Capestang and stroll through the tree covered square. The afternoon cruise takes us along the meandering canal to our evening mooring near the village of Argeliers. Perhaps an active guest may desire an invigorating cycle along little vineyard tracks up to the village of Quarante to view its thousand-year-old Romanesque church, a true gem of the Languedoc region. Overnight stop in the country side near village of Argelliers, with a few restaurants to choose from.

Tuesday – Narbonne, founded in 118 B.C. by the Romans as their Capital in Gaul, include the towering 13th century Gothic Cathedral and the 100-year-old covered market with its wonderful selection of fresh seafood, fruit, vegetables, cheese and many other delicious delicacies. There are also the chariot-rutted paving stones of the Roman road the “Via Domitia” in the central square where one can enjoy an espresso or cappuccino or visit the impressive Archaeological museum, the Fine Arts museum or shop and browse the boutiques along the quaint pedestrian streets. Enjoy Lunch with the locals at the market’s restaurant. They only serve the produce from the market. After lunch return to the Clair de Lune for some more cruising to the evening’s mooring. A short stop-over in the picturesque hamlet of Le Somail and browse the collection of its famous ‘used & rare bookshop’ overnight mooring in Paraza or Vantenac We moor near the chateau of Ventenac and can sample some of the local wine of the region. with a tapas bar on the port in Paraza or nice farm-house style cooking in the village.

Wednesday – Morning cruise and lunch stop in the countryside near the wine-cellers of Bassanel. The new owners welcome you in the old barn decorated with the old time tools for wine making. Wines variety like Vionier Chardonnay Grenache and of course some of the oak aged Minnervois wines. Afternoon cruise to Homps or if you like a bike ride to Olanzac just a mile and a half from the canal and visit its lovely town square. Homps has a large choice of restaurants, bakeries, bistros, snack-bars. Return to the barge for more cruising up through the locks to a village of where we will moor for the night.

Thursday – Carcassonne. 1,700 years of history await you with its impressive double walls and 52 towers, the Romanesque and Gothic Cathedral with its gorgeous 13th century rose windows and the winding cobbled streets lined with boutiques. Lunch in Carcassonne will provide an excellent opportunity to try a Cassoulet, the regional stew of beans, duck or goose along with sausage from Toulouse. Afterwards you return to Clair de Lune to continue cruising, to the old town of Trebe build as a roman for- post on the affluence of two rivers l’Aude giving its name to the region and l’Orbiel a wide choice of restaurants in our overnight stop in Trebe.

Friday – After breakfast, disembark Clair de Lune to be transferred to a pre arranged departure point for the next leg of your travels.