{"id":19908,"date":"2014-11-12T09:04:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/873-tranquillity-on-the-canals-travel-tales-by-sam-eletr\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:02:57","slug":"873-tranquillity-on-the-canals-travel-tales-by-sam-eletr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/blog\/873-tranquillity-on-the-canals-travel-tales-by-sam-eletr\/","title":{"rendered":"Tranquility on the canals. Travel tales by Sam Eletr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sam Eletre, founder of a company in the hi-tec sector, divides his time between Paris and California, but loves to return regularly to the peace of the canals for his holidays with his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife and I have been spending most of our holidays travelling around France on\u00a0<strong>P\u00e9nichettes<\/strong><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> for almost 15 years now. We discovered Locaboat quite by chance through searching the internet, because we&#8217;d decided we wanted a holiday on the water. We liked their website and immediately became hooked &#8211; not just on this kind of holiday, but also on Locaboat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to admit that we&#8217;ve tried other companies, but we&#8217;ve always come back to them because we&#8217;ve been struck by how attentive and thoughtful their service has been. As an example: because we&#8217;ve mainly taken our boats on the French canals, in the bay of the Somme, on the\u00a0<a title=\"Loire and Burgundy in France\" href=\"\/en\/boating-holidays\/france\/burgundy-nivernais\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loire or in Burgundy<\/a>, we were a bit thrown by the geography when we went to the\u00a0<a title=\"Boating holidays in Venice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/boating-holidays\/italy\/venice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venetian Lagoon<\/a>. It was all very beautiful and pleasant, and the boat suited us, but when it came to navigating virtually out at sea, that wasn&#8217;t really for us. After two or three days I was talking on the phone to a Locaboat representative and I just happened to mention that we were weren&#8217;t very comfortable with it. He immediately suggested continuing our holidays on the same type of boat but on the Burgundy canal! We really appreciated his thoughtfulness. And that&#8217;s the kind of thing that has turned us into loyal fans. So much so that from now on we&#8217;re going to be dreadfully disloyal: we&#8217;ve just bought a boat of our own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Eletre divides his time between Paris and California, but loves to return regularly to the peace of the canals for his holidays with his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-19908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-captain-stories","tag-regular"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19909,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19908\/revisions\/19909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}