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Canal du Midi : Hire-boating in southern France

23 July 2015

When I took over as editor of WW in 2012, the office I inherited had two large maps adorning its walls. One, a straightforward route-planner of the UK's navigable canals and rivers, was familiard enough. The other, showing the waterways of the European mainland, was rather less so...

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