The Canal du Midi is still in operation with characteristics essentially unchanged since its creation. The numerous modifications that it has undergone over the centuries (initial adaptation to the ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...