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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT was the cocktail hour. Time to moor the boat in the tree-lined shade, pour a pastis and watch with pleasure as the water turned it milky green. And then to sit on deck in the dappled sun, talk and ...

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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 ...