{"id":692,"date":"2011-07-02T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-07-03T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T18:11:08","slug":"canal-du-midi-day-two-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/canal-du-midi-day-two-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Canal du Midi day two"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canal Di Midi day two<\/a>, a set on Flickr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We woke up early after a pretty average sleep as it was so hot during the night. After breakfast we set sail, saying good bye to our new boating friends. Mooring up along the edge is a bit like camping were you get to know the people next to you.
\nOur first stop was a little town called Puicheric. It was supposed to have a market on today, so we off loaded our push bikes and biked into the town. There was no market on, so we bought another buegette for lunch, loaded the bikes back on the boat and carried on. The first lock was a double one which kept us on our toes and the next was the same but this time we watched as they placed 3 boats in the lock at once. Thankfully we were not one of them. However by the time we reached the next one we had to bunch in with a few others who were from Austarlia and Tasmania. When several boats are in the lock at once it’s a bit like dodgem cars but with boats.
\nIt is really hard work getting the boat through these locks and little Sheree was doing an amazing job catching ropes, tying up and passing the stern ropes back to me and holding the boat with the bow rope as the water rushed in and raised the boat. She had to soak her feet in a bucket of cold water at one stage (see pic). Some of the triple locks lifted us nearly 20meters
\nAs the day went on it got hotter and hotter and soon we were both covered in sweat working these locks. They expected it to be 35deg today and we think it was all of that.
\nWe finally arrived at Trebes around 7pm. This will be our stop for the night so we tied up again along the canal edge. We had a quick wash and headed into the town for tea which is only 2 mins from the boat.
\nIt has been a very busy and tiring day but OMG what a lot of fun and it is so lovely cruising along the Canal De Midi. We have seen and experienced something that is so unique and loved every minute of it.
\nTomorrow we will be up early and heading for Carcassonne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canal Di Midi day two, a set on Flickr. We woke up early after a pretty average sleep as it was so hot during the night. After breakfast we set sail, saying good bye to our new boating friends. Mooring up along the edge is a bit like camping were you get to know the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","tag-canal-du-midi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharps.ws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}