How to get from the North Sea to the Black Sea (or Aegean/Adriatic Sea) via inland waterways?
I would like to travel from the North Sea to the warmer waters of the south Mediterranean. Either the Black Sea, Adriatic, or Aegean. From wikipeadia I see that there is a link from the Netherlands on the Rhine river, its tributary the Main, and down a canal linking it to the Danube river into the Black Sea. (wiki link to Rhine-Main-Danube) I found some ferries that do inland cruises along those waterways, and they look great.
Trying to look for other alternative but similar routes has been interesting. Just looking at maps there seems to be other rivers from the North Sea like the Elbe which could go south wards, but I do not know whether they will have connections to the main bodies of water down south. I can find extensive information on tourist sites, webpages etc. Not even the common maps have features from what I know on them on how to see only the rives and main water ways in Europe.
Best Answer
There are several possible routes from the North Sea or the English Channel down to the Mediterranean. All of them eventually end up in the Rhone, but you can enter pretty much any major North Western European port and navigate all the way south the the mouth of the Rhone near Marseilles.
For routes just google "inland waterways map Europe" to find a good map. There are several. The better maps code the routes according to their class, which basically tells you what the biggest vessel is that can take them.
This is a good example of such a map:
https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/doc/2013/sc3wp3/AGNP2013-v3.pdf
As you can see you have several options. From Germany you eventually have to make your way down to Mulhouse, and take the Rhine - Rhone canal and then travel down the Rhone. But from The Netherlands of Belgium there are several options as well. You can also enter at several of the French Channel Ports. It is certainly doable, and many pleasure craft do this every year.
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