Boating along the Canal du Midi is surely one of life’s finer pleasures ... One of the most rewarding sections to travel is between Marseillan and Capestang, west of Béziers.

Stretching for 150 miles between rosy-red Toulouse and the southern town of Sète, the Canal du Midi is the queen of French waterways. Commissioned by Louis XIV in 1666, built by the engineer ...

By William Fleeson 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 ...

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 ... But when we only managed to travel 15 kilometres on our ...

2 If canals are your thing then the Canal du Midi is a must - the 163 miles of waterway between Toulouse and the Mediterranean are an engineering wonder. It was originally built in the 17th century to ...

Where life slips into a lower gear and scenes of southern France slip by like a magic lantern: drowsy villages, riverside markets, fields of corn, lavender, poppies and sunflowers. Stretching for ...