Cruising World - November - December 2016

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november/december 2016

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Traversing 47 locks over six days gave the crew a fi rst-class view of Pierre-Paul Riquet’s engineering
marvel, the Canal du Midi, completed in 1680. The author handles the bow line as a lock pound fi lls
(above). Plane trees and poplars (right) deter erosion all along the canal.
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