Starting in the lagoon city of Venice, the journey follows Italy’s longest river, the Po. From its delta, we travel by way of Cremona, Vercelli and Turin up to its source in the Cottian Alps.
Today the journey takes us to eastern Germany. From the Mecklenburg Lake District, the route follows the rivers Havel and Spree through Berlin into the Spree floodplains in Brandenburg.
Starting in the Camargue, we travel up the Rhône, the most voluminous river in the country, past Arles, Avignon and Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The route then follows the wild Ardèche into France’s Massif Central.
Exploring Poland on the waterways of Europe: Starting from Hel Peninsula, the journey travels the Baltic Sea down to the Hanseatic city of Gdansk, then follows the Vistula and the Elblag Canal to the Masurian Lake District.
Always upstream, today’s journey takes us to the Netherlands and Belgium. From the North Sea and the port city of Rotterdam, we travel along the Maas. Passing Venlo, Maastricht and Liège, the route follows the Ourthe river into the Belgian Ardennes.