{"id":2036,"date":"2020-06-29T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T14:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T14:38:05","slug":"june-29-parallel-to-the-med","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"June 29 parallel to the Med"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2037\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sete1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2037\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2037 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sete1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sete1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sete1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sete1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sete1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Sete1.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the beaches of the Mediterranean are about 1km away from the canal. An easy stop for a stroll<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2038\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete4.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2038\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2038 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete4-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete4.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from the terminus of the Canal du Midi, looking out over the Etang de Thau<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2039\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete6.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2039\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2039 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete6-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete6-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete6-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete6-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete6-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sete6.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">part of the huge oyster farming on the Etang de Thau<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I finished the Canal du Midi, and set off across the Etang de Thau, a brackish lake which is a source of over 20,000 tonnes of farmed shellfish per year. The trip across the lake reminded me of the best (and the other) of longer open water trips. I then stayed for a couple of nights at Frontignan, where I was reminded of the two fond memories I have of this place from the trip up in September. Firstly, this is where my two sisters and a brother in law joined me, for the trip to Tououse, and Frontignan has about the best market I have seen in France!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Canal du Midi, and set off across the Etang de Thau, a brackish lake which is a source of over 20,000 tonnes of farmed shellfish per year. The trip across the lake reminded me of the best &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/?p=2036\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036"}],"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=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mortimer.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}