For similar one-week luxury-barge trips on the Thames (for six passengers), prices are from $550 to $585 per person; in Burgundy, France (twenty-four passengers), from $575 to $610; and in Holland ...

Around that time in Arles, on the Rhône River in what is now southern France, the stevedores did ... to be the aft port side of a 102-foot-long barge. The barge was almost intact; most of it ...

Visitors will be able to learn about the vessels in a floating museum and take a trip along Beverley Beck. Syntan, Sun and Mermaid have each been restored by the Beverley Barge Preservation ...

Jamie Niblock/BBC Nick Baker said the river used to be a very busy trade route The barge used for the trip would not have normally travelled the river, but was similar to sailing vessels that were ...