{"id":982,"date":"2011-05-29T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2011\/05\/29\/the-last-of-the-canal-path\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:09:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:09:52","slug":"the-last-of-the-canal-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"The Last of the Canal Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 19 &#8211; Blain to Carquefou<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday May 22, 2011, 56 km (35 miles) &#8211; Total so far: 664 km (413 miles) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We continued along the unpaved path along the canal. We were both starting to get a bit bored with it now. The gravelled path is pretty hard on the bum, and the scenery doesnt change very much.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of times the track ended and we had to backtrack and cross over the to the track on the other side of the canal. The French don&#8217;t signpost things very well.<\/p>\n<p>There were no campgrounds on the path so we checked into a nice hotel beside a lake just outside Nantes. It was such a beautiful day and it seemed such a waste checking into a hotel. We much prefer sitting outside cooking our meal in the evenings. But &#8211; we took advantage of the free internet, the bath, and the half price Sunday rate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 19 &#8211; Blain to Carquefou Sunday May 22, 2011, 56 km (35 miles) &#8211; Total so far: 664 km (413 miles) We continued along the unpaved path along the canal. We were both starting to get a bit bored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=982\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-fQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}