Le Musee Du Touage

Great engineering and a hard battle won

As we continued to follow my grandfather military trail, we went to the canal opening. It was interesting as we meet up again with 3 generations of British doing the same thing. The canal was a proj...

Friendly & Helpful Curator & Staff

Looking for the St Quentin Canal where my Grandfather finished his WW1 action and found it below this quaint little Museum dedicated to the tow boats & their history. The curator advised me to hurry d...

Great engineering , fascinating history

The St Quentin Canal was first mooted as a water highway between France and Belgium in 1769 , but work stalled in 1775 due to lack of funds . However , the ascent of the emporer Napoleon I in 1801 , a...

Small gem of a museum with insight into a slice of canal boat life

We left the car near the entrance to the museum and first walked down to examine the entrance to Riqueval Canal tunnel, which passes beneath the American Memorial at nearby Bony. (This was the scene o...

Worth the wait

After the informative film and seeing inside the towing boat so that you really understand what it does, make your way very carefully down to the towpath and wait for the current tug to appear. Peer ...