Captain your own vessel on the canals and waterways of Europe this summer. Le Boat tour company offers private boats for rent that couples, families or groups can use to explore at their own pace.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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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