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 ...

Nothing narrow about the canal boats in France IT was early evening as we tied up to the canal bank. Travel. Edward Stephens. 23:16, 12 Oct 2012 Updated 16:39, 23 Oct 2012.

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 ...

By contrast you can hire traditional, narrow-boat style Minervois boats on the Canal du Midi - with steel-built hulls and tiller steering. Booking direct South of France specialist Arolles Marines ...

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 ...

There are three things you need to know about canal boats before taking an inland boating holiday. They are slow, they are cramped and, in reverse gear, they are out of control.

EDWARD STEPHENS discovers there’s nothing narrow about the canal boats in France IT was early evening as we tied up to the canal bank. The sun was still hot, helping to ripen the grapes on the ...

In France, England and other European countries, where canals have been in use intensively for commercial and leisure activities for decades, […] Skip to content All Sections ...

IT was early evening as we tied up to the canal bank. IT was early evening as we tied up to the canal bank. The sun was still hot, helping to ripen the grapes on the vines that stretched out as ...