Boating On River Meuse

The calm waters wash over the sides of the boat as you cut through the current on your way to a fancy riverside restaurant. The perfect weather seems to stretch into infinity in a beam of light that bounces off the water, turning the occasional white cloud into a glowing puff of incredible softness hovering above. From 1301, the upper Meuse roughly marked the western border of the Holy Roman Empire with the Kingdom of France. It is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea. It has a total length of 925 km (575 miles). The Meuse is navigable over a substantial part of its total length: In the Netherlands and Belgium, the river is part of the major inland navigation infrastructure, connecting the Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Antwerp port areas to the industrial areas upstream. An international agreement was signed in 2002 in Ghent about the management of the river between France, Wallonia, Germany, Luxembourg, Flanders, the Netherlands, Brussels and Belgium. The costs of this Commission are met by all these countries, in proportion of their own territory into the basin of the Meuse: The Netherlands and Wallonia 30%, France 15%, Germany 14,5%, Flanders 5%, Brussels 4,5%, Kingdom of Belgium and Luxemburg 0,5%. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=120951