Please note: You can only take part in this trip if you are vaccinated or recovered from Covid! As of Oct , subject to change. Feel save, book flexible: FREE rebooking up to 6 w eeks prior arrival to any alternative date in - applies to bookings between May 01 and June 15 , t he price of the newly selected date applies in the event of a rebooking.
The destination of the tour is Montargis, with its small canals adorned with many flowers, giving the town a charm all of its own. The program of this trip is also possible in the opposite direction. This is an easy to moderate bike and boat tour with average daily distances between 22 and 34 miles. Participants should be in good physical shape and comfortable with cycling around 25 miles before the tour. Most of the cycling is on relatively flat roads and in river valleys, but to enjoy the tour fully, guests should be able to manage moderate slopes of up to about max.
Check-in is at 1 pm, followed by a welcome and introduction of the crew. The boat leaves the port of Paris at 3 pm at the latest and sails along the Seine to Evry, where you will spend the night. We recommend that you arrive in Paris one or more days early so that you have enough time to discover the city. You stay on the banks of the Seine for a while.
The first stop is the typical French market in Corbeil-Essonnes. The destination of the cycle tour is Melun, a town also known as the domaine des reines blanches "domain of the white queens" , as it was the residence of the widows of French kings. After dinner, you can take part in a tour of the town. After visiting the local museum, you continue on to the castle of Fontainebleau, which was particularly popular with the French kings due to the many hunting opportunities in the surrounding forests.
The Fleur awaits you in Moret-sur-Loing, a charming medieval fortified town that inspired the artist Sisley to create his beautiful impressionist paintings. In the townhall of Bourron-Marlotte we can admire a few magnificent impressionist paintings. We meet the Fleur again in Nemours. There we may visit the castle or the prehistoric museum of the Ile-de-France region. Today we bike through a wooded area with rugged rocks.
