This is a

a join us in France episode 22.

Hello, I'm Annie.

And I'm Elise.

And we welcome you to the join us in France Travel Podcast.

Elise is a professional tour guide, art historian, and a really good storyteller.

I love to tell stories.

On today's shows, we take you to the beautiful Canal de midi. The French word that describes it is

bucolic. Buecolic. Buecolic. And I think it's bucolic in English. It's bucolic. Yes, yes, so you've heard it. I didn't make that up.

Yeah, yeah, no, that's another word for it like maybe pastoral, you know. I think pastoral is actually better yeah it's it's just a lovely

low key kind of place low energy well not low energy I don't know it's a well I mean it is it's a

it's a canal yeah it's a canal but is today I mean we'll talk about what it was and the history of it because it's a fascinating history

But of course I think what you're referring to is that nowadays

It's a it's a canal that's used mostly for people to take what we could call slow travel trips

Exactly. It's five kilometers an hour You can't go very quickly and the only thing that's fast is the guys on the mountain bikes. They go zooming past really fast.

We'll talk about all of that. Yeah, in a few minutes. So we are excited to be talking about this lovely area near to our home.

Near to our home, and it'll give me a great opportunity to go with the camera and take lots of pictures.

We'll be very fun.

So we'll have a little music to get us in the mood and then we'll get back to it. the Okay, we're back to talk about the Canal Dimidi. But first I have a short announcement to make. I'm feeling quite lonely on Google Plus.

So yes, you see I'm trying to reach out to new listeners obviously and so I decided I'm going to do some Google

Plus page but it's very lonely I only have one follower. Oh dear it pathetic. So if you happen to be on Google Plus

listeners you have to circle us. We're the Join Us in France Raffle Podcast and I

...