Dates: Through October. Price: For July, $4,157 per boat on the Canal du Midi. Includes damage waiver and boat cleaning charge. Boat accommodates up to 10 people.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 Royal was renamed the Canal du Midi during the Revolution, and by 1856 it carried 111,000 metric tonnes of cargo and a million passengers a year.