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 ...

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.

The Canal du Midi traverses the Occitanie region and gives cyclists of all skill levels access to parts of France that are rich in lore, yet sometimes passed over by visitors.

I snapped orange life vests onto my two boys and climbed on deck as my father-in-law put the barge into gear and we set out for a week’s journey on the 19th-century Canal du Nivernais in ...

Houseboat on the Canal du Midi. Credit: 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.

The Canal du Midi starts outside Sète and runs for 150 miles to the city of Toulouse, where it meets the Canal de Garonne. Above is the bustling harbor in Sète. Pattie Fellowes for The New York ...