European Waterways is announcing a new route for Clair de Lune, the luxury barge hotel. This year, between July 17 and September 24, it will cruise down the 330-year-old Canal du Midi. Clair will sail ...

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 ...

We were an unlikely trio, meeting in the south of France to collect our rental boat: three female New Yorkers who shared a decades-long friendship and love of adventure, and not an ounce of boating ...

Canal boating in southern France is, for the most part, a felicitous affair and few carry it off with the poise of Les Bateaux Belmond. An exemplar of luxury travel, with a spiffy portfolio of ...