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.

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 ...

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 ...

Where life slips into a lower gear and scenes of southern France slip by like a magic lantern: drowsy villages, riverside markets, fields of corn, lavender, poppies and sunflowers. Stretching for 150 ...

If you want to relax and really take in the local culture, a Le Boat holiday is the perfect way to travel. As the captain of your own boat (yes, its a real boat), you decide where to stop and what to ...

If you want a relaxing holiday, taking a slow boat up a French canal is hard to beat. Here is a list of the main UK operators and the top websites in France WAKE up in a secluded rural mooring, cycle ...

We were an unlikely trio, meeting in the south of France to collect our rental boat: three female New Yorkers who shared a decades-long friendship and love of adventure, and not an ounce of boating ...

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 ...

Where life slips into a lower gear and scenes of southern France slip by like a magic lantern: drowsy villages, riverside markets, fields of corn, lavender, poppies and sunflowers. Stretching for 150 ...