Good food, good wine, good company, the rolling hills of Burgundy and tranquility. That's what we found aboard the barge l'Impressioniste as we slowly cruised the historic Burgundy Canal in Eastern ...

Shuffling by the Impressionist masterpieces in lockstep with the tourist horde wasn’t the Paris morning I’d planned. The d’Orsay was packed with people even though I’d arrived shortly after opening.

The differences between ocean, river and canal cruising are vast. One of the clearest emerged the evening before French Country Waterways’ eight-passenger luxury barge, Princess, overnighted beside a ...