Captain your own vessel on the canals and waterways of Europe this summer. Le Boat tour company offers private boats for rent that couples, families or groups can use to explore at their own pace ...

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. Le ...

With a Canal du Midi boat hire, you'll be free to savour the slow and easy pace of travel past lush vineyards in the heart of the Languedoc wine region.

Hoseasons (0844 847 1170, www.hoseasons.co.uk) offers boating holidays on the Canal du Midi. A week on the Caprice, which sleeps up to six, starts from £1,335. Sea France operates 15 daily return ...

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 ...

FACTFILE for a cruising holiday on the Canal du Midi in south western France. Ken Bennett travelled as guest of Connoisseur Holidays. You can telephone them on tel. 0870 774 9933, or log on to ...

Boats line the Canal du Midi in the tiny town of Homps, France, which is a busy canal boat base in the summer. There are a few restaurants, shops and access to fresh water along the banks of the ...

The Canal du Midi passes through the hill on the top channel, created by Riquet in 1679. Below it is a railway tunnel, constructed in 1854. Both tunnels are all the more impressive for still being ...