Almost every time we drove our 15 metre canal boat into one of the small oval locks on France’s Canal du Midi, we drew a crowd. It could be our audience was made up of engineering fans there to ...

The Canal du Midi, entirely hand-dug and hailed as an engineering marvel on completion in 1681, offers a refreshing alternate take on French travel: a bikeable path through the towns and ...

The Canal du Midi is still in operation with characteristics essentially unchanged since its creation. The numerous modifications that it has undergone over the centuries (initial adaptation to the ...

A four-night self-catered cruise on the Canal du Midi on board a Horizon 5, during the 2023 boating season, starting and finishing at Le Boat ’s base at Homps, is priced from £2,499 per boat.

Houseboat on the Canal du Midi. Alamy It's summertime in southern France and we're cycling the towpath of a canal built more than a century before the bicycle was even invented. One of Europe's ...

Boating along the Canal du Midi is surely one of life’s finer pleasures. And with the speed limit set at just 8km/h you cannot but slow down – and relax.

The Canal du Midi is a 150 mile long canal in southwestern France connecting the Garonne River to the Étang de Thau on the Mediterranean. By Henry Samuel 26 July 2011 • 7:00am ...