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'Written for powered boat users, it has much of relevance to paddlers, including the frequent colour photographs and the clear sketch maps.' --Canoeist (January 2010)
'This guide is the perfect passage planning volume...features kilometre by kilometre descriptions of the Canal du Midi, plus maps and highlights.' --Practical Boat Owner (November 2009)
A handy, pocket-sized book with a good selection of colour photographs and maps.' --Nautical Magazine (January 2010)
'This guide is the perfect passage planning volume...features kilometre by kilometre descriptions of the Canal du Midi, plus maps and highlights.' --Practical Boat Owner (November 2009)
A handy, pocket-sized book with a good selection of colour photographs and maps.' --Nautical Magazine (January 2010)
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The Canal du Midi is probably the most popular canal in France. Linking the Bay of Biscay with the Mediterranean, it is not only renowned for its beauty and picturesque sights, it also performs the invaluable service of saving boaters the long (and arduous) trip around Portugal and Spain to reach the Med. This handy-sized guidebook has all the information boaters need to navigate the canal, and is packed with cruising and background information about each stage. There are enticing colour photos and distance maps of each section, showing locks, bridges and yacht havens. This book will accompany sailors and motorboaters all the way, enabling them to make the most of their journey down one of the most famous canals in the world. The chapters cover the following: Technical data on the waterways Canal d'Arles a Fos-sur-Mer Petit Rhone Canal du Rhone a Sete Lez Etang de Thau Canal du Midi Herault Canal de la Robine
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book's strengh is in the detailed navigational information that warns you, for example, where a tight bend is coming up that will require you to listen carefully for the horn of any commercial vessels before proceeding. It is logically laid out and easy to follow, with good schematic maps. These maps have no scale, which makes planning trips more difficult but bridges and locks are clearly shown. If you have little inland waterways experience you will need information on european regulations (there is an RYA guide available) and advice on the basics of how to tie-up, negotiate locks etc'. This could have be included very easily with just a few extra pages on each topic but as this information is missing you have to buy two extra books unless you already have the experience. This is a prety slim volume and is worth the money at Amazon's reduced price but is nowhere near extensive enough to justify the full cover price. One point of detail: the author recommends using the french tourist offices if you want a combined boating and land-based holiday. Definitely do not do this. They have a lot of poor quality property, often without much information before you can book. Use the online holiday letting websites and choose places that have lots of internal and external photos showing you exactly what you're getting. Also I couldn't see any reference to the cheapest boat hire company which is 'Ad Navis', based at Agde. One final piece of advice - take your bikes with you or hire them from the boat company, an absolute must to get you to the resturants, wine 'caves' etc'!
Happy boating!
Happy boating!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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We turned down the chance to buy an expensive guide to the canals on our recent holiday but really they are a must for planning - whether you want a lock free holiday or if there are particular places you want to stop. This guide is excellent and will show you all the information you need to plan your own route and stops along the way. If you are a novice you will really find this helpful. Although they say you don't need any experience to take a cruiser down the canals, really it is quite demanding and requires some skill in boating and "parking" in awkward places. If you can't reverse a car then you'll definitely have trouble reversing a boat! This is a well put together book and at a much cheaper price than from your holiday company.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I have purchases and used many of the canal guides for the UK canals and rivers.
In September 2008 I had a short 4-day cruise on Canal du Midi and did not buy a guidebook but used the information supplied by the boat hire company. I found this information was missing a lot of detail that would be helpful. We enjoyed the trip and decided to go on a trip on another part of the canal for 2 weeks and I bought this book hoping to gain additional information. I first read the opening chapters, the area I last cruised in than then the area we intended to cruise in. I found that it did not add anything to my knowledge of the area I travelled in and found that many points missing.
Information I would like to have got. Where are water points, where are the provision shops, what facilities are available at the moorings and some guide to cost.
A little information on how the locks operate, and mooring in the locks especially the deep locks would have helped.
I have found more general information on the canal using the Internet.
Unfortunate I have not found a better book.
In September 2008 I had a short 4-day cruise on Canal du Midi and did not buy a guidebook but used the information supplied by the boat hire company. I found this information was missing a lot of detail that would be helpful. We enjoyed the trip and decided to go on a trip on another part of the canal for 2 weeks and I bought this book hoping to gain additional information. I first read the opening chapters, the area I last cruised in than then the area we intended to cruise in. I found that it did not add anything to my knowledge of the area I travelled in and found that many points missing.
Information I would like to have got. Where are water points, where are the provision shops, what facilities are available at the moorings and some guide to cost.
A little information on how the locks operate, and mooring in the locks especially the deep locks would have helped.
I have found more general information on the canal using the Internet.
Unfortunate I have not found a better book.
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This is an excellent guide and I use it in conjunction with the DVD's of the Rick Stein cookery programmes carried out on a barge traveling on the Midi.
Published on 22 Feb 2010 by Mr. K. R. Ballard
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