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What more idyllic escape from city-centre Toulouse than to potter up the Canal du Midi on foot, by bike or \u2013 best of all \u2013 in a boat? Hear how \u2018Europe\u2019s biggest public works project since the fall of the Roman Empire\u2019 came to be opened in 1681, and find out what there is to see along its banks, just day-out distance from Toulouse. Enjoy the reminiscences of writers who describe sailing down it as \u2018motoring though an impressionist painting\u2019 or drifting lazily through \u2018a land of sunflowers, wheat fields, vineyards, ancient cities with red-tiled rooves, crumbling ruins wrapped in mystery.\u2019\nhttp://www.citybreakspodcast.co.uk