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 ...

A lack of water supply was the obstacle that genius Pierre-Paul Riquet overcame to construct the Canal du Midi in the 17th Century. An engineer from Béziers, his feat in its day was equivalent to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The famous Suez Canal often receives worldwide recognition but Europe's version is no less impressive. The Canal du Midi in the south of France is an extraordinary feat of engineering, history, and ...

42,000 plane trees which run along the historic Canal du Midi will have to be chopped down due to the spread of an infectious, incurable fungus. The site has UNESCO status and links the Atlantic ocean ...