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© Declan Lyons 2017

Second edition 2017

ISBN: 978 1 85284 784 5

First edition 2009

ISBN-10: 1 85284 559 7

ISBN-13: 978 1 85284 559 9

Printed in China on behalf of Latitude Press Ltd

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Route mapping by Lovell Johns www.lovelljohns.com

All photographs are by the author unless otherwise stated. Contains OpenStreetMap.org data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. NASA relief data courtesy of ESRI

This guide is dedicated to the memory of Tom O’Driscoll – friend, colleague, runner and cyclist.

Updates to this Guide

While every effort is made by our authors to ensure the accuracy of guidebooks as they go to print, changes can occur during the lifetime of an edition. Any updates that we know of for this guide will be on the Cicerone website (www.cicerone.co.uk/784/updates), so please check before planning your trip. We also advise that you check information about such things as transport, accommodation and shops locally. Even rights of way can be altered over time.

The route maps in this guide are derived from publicly-available data, databases and crowd-sourced data. As such they have not been through the detailed checking procedures that would generally be applied to a published map from an official mapping agency, although naturally we have reviewed them closely in the light of local knowledge as part of the preparation of this guide.

We are always grateful for information about any discrepancies between a guidebook and the facts on the ground, sent by email to updates@cicerone.co.uk or by post to Cicerone, 2 Police Square, Milnthorpe LA7 7PY, United Kingdom.

Acknowledgements

The author is grateful for help from very many people for their suggestions and advice in the preparation of this second edition. Special thanks are due to Mr Jean-Marc Pougnet, the Head of Public Relations Unit with the French Navigable Waterways. My wife Mary and son Oscar accompanied me on parts of the route and I thank them for their support and encouragement throughout this project. Thanks too to the many people who contacted me and gave useful feedback and help on various aspects of the route. Tim and Mary Hoyle have given valuable information and insights gained from their cycles in the region, while Timo and Isabella Langerwerf from Relax Rentals in Béziers keep me up-to-date with the constant changes and developments along the canal’s length. Thanks too for the help, guidance and support of the Cicerone team of Jonathan and Lesley Williams, Sian Jenkins, Georgia Laval, Hannah Stevenson and Andrea Grimshaw.

Front cover: Le Somail (Stage 4)