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Mystery on the waterways: Amandine and François, creators of the blog 'Un sac sur le dos' set off in search of the secrets of the Canal du Midi.

To celebrate its 40th birthday, Locaboat went along to meet up with one of its loyal friends. Philippe Canivet, former lock keeper.

After crossing the globe faster and faster, covering ever-greater distances, tourism is playing it cool and reinventing travel.

The New Year is still the best time to take stock of the year that’s gone by, look at all the things we enjoy remembering and those we’d rather forget.

In 2018, Locaboat will be adding to its fleet by welcoming a new boat: the Pénichette Evolution^®. It’s a Pénichette^® that is innovative and ultra-modern.

Did you know that Pénichette^® is, to a great extent, modelled on the craft that, for centuries, has navigated up and down our inland waterways: the barge?

On your boat, you creep along at a pace that gives you time to enjoy the countryside, with its lines of trees, lock keepers’ cottages and tow-path.

Part of the fun of a waterways holiday is that you'll get to explore a new route every year and also learn how to handle a different canal boat.

With 8,500 kms of canals and rivers great and small, France can rightly claim to be Europe's premier inland waterway network.