We’ve been trying to get back to this canal for years and to walk it’s banks, one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. I guess it’s this year or never.
From The Guardian:
French to say au revoir to canalside trees
Thousands of plane trees along the banks of the Canal du Midi, a Unesco heritage site, will have to be cut down because of a deadly fungus.
More here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl