{"id":1498,"date":"2016-07-14T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2016-07-14T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T12:10:59","slug":"july-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"July 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris J. arrived from the US and is joining me for a few days. We spent the evening walking around in Ghent, and had a great excursion. Ghent is quite well preserved with small streets, and an extensive tram system.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4380b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4380b-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4380b\" width=\"280\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4378b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1499 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4378b-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4378b\" width=\"307\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1501\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4381-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4381\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4381-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4381-768x518.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4381-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are also many new buildings and an extensive shopping area. Overnight on the Leie River moorings with a thunderstorm prepared us for the trip up the Leie in rain. Gorgeous estate homes with immaculate gardens, this section of the river is very pretty and peaceful.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1502\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4383b.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1502\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1502\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4383b-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Estate along the Leie in Belgium\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4383b-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4383b-768x456.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4383b-1024x608.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Estate along the Leie in Belgium<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1503\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4390b.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1503\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1503 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4390b-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN4390b\" width=\"260\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4390b-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN4390b-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Belfort (bell tower) in the center of Kortrijk, Belgium<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We arrived back onto the commercial waters at Deinze, where we stopped at the market, got provisions,, a little walkabout, and then on to Kortrijk, This is a major center, and we spent time exploring.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are back on the major waters, headed to Menen, and then the French border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris J. arrived from the US and is joining me for a few days. We spent the evening walking around in Ghent, and had a great excursion. Ghent is quite well preserved with small streets, and an extensive tram system. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=1498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,21,9,10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}