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Canal du Midi

The Ultimate Guide

Authors:	Andrea Hoffmann, Hans Zaglitsch
Edition:	2021
Format:	Paperback
Size:	221 x 122 mm

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Plan Your Canal du Midi Adventure in Style

This beautifully illustrated, pocket-sized guide offers expert tips, maps and travel advice for a perfect boating holiday through Southern France.

Canal du Midi: The Ultimate Guide is a compact, up-to-date travel companion for one of the most beautiful waterways in Europe. An UNESCO World Heritage site, the Canal du Midi is perfect for boating holidays filled with wine tasting, historic towns, and waterside cafés.

This comprehensive guide offers everything boaters – whether first-timers or experienced – need to plan a successful trip. It includes route highlights, nautical information, practical tips, and sightseeing suggestions, plus a concise English–French vocabulary, excellent photography and easy-to-use maps.

Introduction
The Canal du Midi
Stage 1: Étang de Thau
Stage 2: Entry onto the Canal to Port Cassafières
Stage 3: Port Cassafières to Béziers
Stage 4: Béziers to Argeliers
Stage 5: Argeliers to Homps
Stage 6: Homps to Puichéric
Stage 7: Puichéric to Carcassonne
Stages 8 and 9: Carcassonne to Castelnaudary via Bram
Stage 10: Castelnaudary to Gardouch
Stage 11: Arriving in Toulouse
Travel Tips from A to Z
Index

About the Authors

Andrea Hoffmann is an art historian specialising in medieval architecture. She works as a travel journalist, mainly in Southern Europe, and has known and loved the Canal du Midi region for 20 years.

Hans Zaglitsch is an Austrian photographer who moved from Vienna to Amsterdam over 20 years ago. He specialises in travel photography, architectural work and reportages. His photographs have been published in numerous travel and city guides, brochures, glossy magazines and photobooks since 1992.

Praise for Canal du Midi: The Ultimate Guide

"A handy-sized, up-to-date guidebook covers all the practical information and sightseeing opportunities that boaters – whether first-timers or experienced – need to know during their holiday on the Canal du Midi."
– Michael Howorth, thehoworths.com

"Packs a great deal into a handy pocket-sized book... there's plenty of information about the tourist sights and interesting features of all the towns and villages on the route."
– Canal Boat

"The handy size makes this an ideal travel companion, the maps are clear and easy to use, the pictures stunning... full of practical advice and suggestions for off-water excursions."
– Alison Alderton, Towpath Talk

"The guidebook includes help for planning your trip, handy tips and nautical information."
– Joie de Vivre magazine

"An effective brief introduction to the gorgeous architecture, unpleasant history and rich cuisine of this waterway."
– Yachting Monthly

"Chock full of insider information... the sort of detail that can change your boating holiday from great – to really great."
– The Good Life France

"Elegantly put together... this guide could be the ticket to your next French adventure."
– The Connexion

"If being locked down has got you craving a big French adventure, then this thorough and up-to-date guide to the Canal du Midi is an invaluable resource."
– France Magazine

"All in all, if you're planning on heading this way, your life will be made easier with this guide."
– Sailing Today

"Packed full of beautiful images... it's a pocket-sized book that will prove hugely useful once you can travel the waterways."
– Waterways World