More than 320 structures are dotted along the Canal du Midi, including 40 aqueducts ... home-cooked meals in the wood-panelled galley, and regular cruises along the river in the company of ...

A lack of water supply was the obstacle that genius Pierre-Paul Riquet overcame to construct the Canal du Midi in the 17th Century. An engineer from Béziers, his feat in its day was equivalent to ...

Eight couples, all of them from Fairbanks except for one couple from Homer and a woman from Seattle, made the trip across the Atlantic to the Canal du Midi, where the adventure really began.

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. Stretching some 240km between Toulouse ...

Crikey, I thought the QE2 was in Dubai! That is my slightly shocked reaction to being shown the boat on which we are about to negotiate the Canal du Midi. I'd naively thought, at first ...

le réseau du canal du Midi, réalisé entre 1667 et 1694, constitue l'une des réalisations de génie civil les plus extraordinaires de l'ère moderne, qui ouvrit la voie à la révolution industrielle. Le ...

My journey started in the quaint town of Sallèles-d’Aude, adjacent to the Canal du Midi, a waterway recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Our “floating hotel” would take us along this ...

The Canal du Midi traverses the Occitanie region and gives cyclists of all skill levels access to parts of France that are rich in lore, yet sometimes passed over by visitors. By William Fleeson ...