The lock door slowly opened, the water churned in a white rush and I quickly realized that we’d tied up too far forward. The easy-going lock keeper noticed my mistake and slipped my bowline from ...

Try this once in your life: Stand on a boat as it moves slowly down the narrow waterway of a foreign country. The world passes by, close and observable, and you watch it with a sense of elevated ...

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 ...

It's summertime in southern France and we're cycling the towpath of a canal built more than a century before the bicycle was even invented. One of Europe's oldest canals still in operation, and ...

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 ...

The speed limit in kilometres per hour for boats on the canal. It’s a supremely relaxing way to travel: the boats glide past vineyards, and under avenues of greenery created by the branches of plane ...