Some details on the route

Greetings from the Lot-et-Garonne (47, Martin). I attach here the map from Julien Savary’s first booklet which covers the latter part of our journey and shows the bits of the Canal du Midi towpath which are ‘voie verte cyclable revêtue’ (surfaced greenway – red on the map!) and those which are ‘itinéraire cyclable non revêtu’ (non-surfaced cyclable route - orange). Just to recap, the various greenways from the Dune du Pyla to the Garonne Canal are all tarmacked, as is the towpath to Toulouse – so no problems there. After Toulouse, the towpath is surfaced as far as Port Lauragais. Then there are small red stretches as follows: through Castelnaudary; through Carcassonne; from Béziers towards Agde for a few km. The rest is orange. There are also a few exclamation marks, which the booklet describes as ‘difficultés’. The majority of these seem to be in the region of Sallèles-d’Aude, Argeliers, Capestang, Poilhès, but there are some around Carcassonne as well, which I will try to research. I will also ascertain which IGN maps are relevant and attempt to transfer the information concerning the towpath surface onto them and hence find alternative roads. More on all this later ... 
May I lead for the first day? I'm looking forward to finding our way through the initial twists and turns to Mios and onto the ex-railway line to Bazas. I hope the weather will be kind to us. Here it has been rubbish recently, with showers and temperatures of only 12 C max, altho at last things are beginning to change: temperature today is 15 C.

A final final meeting?

.. or an excuse for a taste of one or more of the Flower Pot ales?? We had previously mooted the idea of this possible meeting to cross the "t"s and dot the "i"s for our French trip. Assuming a Thursday we have 19/4, 26/4, 3/5 and 10/5 as possibles provided that Clyde is at his winter palace (ie UK based). We could cover:

Accomodation, where and what for each day.
Maps, what have we, do we need any additional ones
Ride leading - perhaps most important to/from the chemin d'halage to our nightly stops or to avoid those bits of towpath (if any) which are not rideable.

Can Clyde confirm which of these dates are feasible and then everyone indicate which of those is convenient.