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 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. Pattie Fellowes for The ...

Crikey, I thought the QE2 was in Dubai! That is my slightly shocked reaction to being shown the boat on which we are about to negotiate the Canal du Midi. I'd naively thought, at first, that we'd be ...

Boats berthed on the bottom of the Canal du Midi after water was drained for maintenance work in November, 2019. (Photo by ERIC CABANIS / AFP) As drought forces the reopening of the Canal du Midi to ...

Our final night after a week of cycling through the south of France is spent at the once fabulous, now faded Grand Hôtel in Sète, a small maritime town known as the “Venice of the Mediterranean”. It’s ...

Along with the Canal de Garonne, it forms the Canal des Deux Mers, which joins the Atlantic near Bordeaux to the Mediterranean. Running from the city of Toulouse down to the Mediterranean port of Sète ...