Cycle through a landscape where history and nature intertwine, pedalling alongside one of the most amazing engineering feats in Europe from 350 years ago.

Eight couples, all of them from Fairbanks except for one couple from Homer and a woman from Seattle, made the trip across the Atlantic to the Canal du Midi, where the adventure really began.

This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is one of the most remarkable feats of civil ...

The Canal du Midi in the south of France is an extraordinary feat of engineering, history, and beauty. This iconic waterway ...

This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is one of the most remarkable feats of civil ...

On the final leg of their journey, David Baddiel and Hugh Dennis head to the Mediterranean port of Le Somail and take a ...

The 42,000 plane trees lining France's historic Canal du Midi are being felled because of a fungus brought to Europe by US soldiers in World War II. Will the planes that decorate the streets of ...

Gunpowder was first used in 1679, to build an underground section of the Canal du Midi, a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The tunnel was 157 meters long ...

FACTFILE for a cruising holiday on the Canal du Midi in south western France. Ken Bennett travelled as guest of Connoisseur Holidays. You can telephone them on tel. 0870 774 9933, or log on to ...