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.

Historic Dishes And Fortresses Along Canal Du Midi: Toulouse To Carcassonne If you're flying into France, starting in Toulouse is a convenient option for visiting the Canal du Midi — Toulouse ...

It is “l’heure endormie” — the sleepy hour — on the Canal du Midi. As our barge creeps along at a snail’s pace of 3 miles per hour, none of us on board feels like moving much faster.

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 ...

Cruising the Canal du Midi: Move over Rick Stein... it's my turn for a French odyssey By BRIDGET MCGROUTHER Published: 06:21 EDT, 21 July 2013 | Updated: 06:21 EDT, 21 July 2013 ...

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 ...

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 ...