Hop onto your boat at Homps — a small, quiet village in the vineyard-dotted region of Minervois — located roughly an hour and a half from Toulouse Airport. Le Boat offers a range of self-drive boats ...

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 see ...

The Canal du Midi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a picturesque waterway snaking its way through the heart of southern France. Immersed in history and surrounded by stunning scenery, it offers the ...

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Amelia Romanos moors her self-drive canal boat in the smallest villages along Canal du Midi and mingles with the locals. It's perhaps the most quintessential of New Zealand summer experiences — a ...

The French countryside has it all; rolling green hills, spectacular vineyards, picturesque medieval villages and of course, heaps of brilliant restaurants serving up that world-famous cuisine. Trying ...

This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is one of the most remarkable feats of civil ...