Life on the Canal du Midi, Episode 393
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today, Annie Sargent brings you a conversation with Michel Ravitsky about Life on the Canal du Midi. Michel is French and a young retiree. He lives on his barge (péniche in French) part-time. Michel has taken some great trips on the Canal du Midi and other canals as he explains.
If you ever think about renting a boat on a Canal in France, and especially on the Canal du Midi, you’ll want to listen to this episode because Michel gives us the inside view of what it’s like. He's seen boat renters struggle to make it work and fall into traps that leads them to waste their time. There are things you can do to make your vacation on the Canal du Midi smoother!
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| 0:00.0 | The This is, join us in France, episode 393. |
| 0:17.0 | 3rd, 4. Three, three-cate-Vant-Threes. |
| 0:23.0 | B'o-Joure, I'm Annie Sergeant, and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:29.6 | Everyday life in France, great places to visit in France, French culture, history, gastronomy, and news related to travel to France. |
| 0:39.0 | Today I bring you a conversation with Michael Ravitsky about life on the Canal de Midi. |
| 0:46.0 | Michel is French and a young retiree. |
| 0:50.0 | He lives on his barge part time and has taken some great trips on his barge part-time and has taken some great trips on his barge on the canal, as he will explain. |
| 0:57.0 | If you ever think about renting a boat, a barge on any canal in France and especially on the Canal de Midi. |
| 1:04.7 | You'll want to listen to this episode because Michelle gives us a great insider view |
| 1:10.2 | of what it's like. |
| 1:12.3 | This podcast is supported by donors and listeners who by my |
| 1:16.3 | tours and services including my itinerary consult service and my GPS self-guided tours of Paris on the Voicmap app. |
| 1:26.0 | And you can browse all of that at Anise Boutique, join us in France.com |
| 1:31.0 | for slash boutique. I emailed the people who joined my mailing |
| 1:35.5 | list to let them know about the French Immersion Week slash Join Us in France |
| 1:40.1 | reunion that will take place between Sunday, May 21st, and Saturday, May 27th in |
| 1:47.2 | 2023. That's a bit of a long name. I'm not sure I'll keep calling it that. |
| 1:52.0 | Maybe I'll call it France boot camp or something like that. |
| 1:55.4 | What do you think? The concept is that you learn French in the morning in language school |
| 2:02.1 | We'll go to lunch and then in the afternoon we'll do a visit around our lovely city of Toulouse where Elis and I live. |
| 2:10.0 | So we look into our first ever France boot camp in to lose because it'll be fun. |
| 2:16.0 | Is it on your calendar yet? Save the date and if you want to hear about it subscribe to my newsletter by going to join us in France.com |
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