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 ...

Amelia Romanos moors her self-drive canal boat in the smallest villages along Canal du Midi and mingles with the locals. It's perhaps the most quintessential of New Zealand summer experiences — a ...

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 ...

The Canal du Midi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a picturesque waterway snaking its way through the heart of southern France. PALM BEACH, FLORDA, UNITED STATES ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 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 ...