{"id":20003,"date":"2017-05-25T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/mystery-on-the-waterways\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:01:54","slug":"mystery-on-the-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/blog\/mystery-on-the-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery on the waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mystery on the waterways: Amandine and Fran\u00e7ois, creators of the blog &#8216;Un sac sur le dos&#8217; set off in search of the secrets of the Canal du Midi with Locaboat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several months ago, we contacted globe-trotters Amandine and Francois, who write a blog called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unsacsurledos.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Un sac sur le dos\u2019<\/a>(\u2018a rucksack on your back\u2019), about an intriguing adventure in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/boats\/\">P\u00e9nichette<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0canal barge: a mystery on the Canal du Midi. The mission they tackled was a fantastic four-day adventure on the Canal du Midi on a self-drive boat (no permit needed). Their aim: to solve the mystery of the Malpas tunnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an epic journey of discovery as they had no knowledge of their destination, had never driven a P\u00e9nichette<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> or even been on a canal cruise before. Clues left along the route of their waterways adventure led them to Argens-Minervois, Le Somail and Capestang before they eventually reached the Malpas tunnel. The quest allowed Locaboat to showcase the Canal du Midi, its villages and local crafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video of their adventure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/219085177?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"792\" height=\"446\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/219085177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[EN] Mystery on the waterways<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/locaboat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Locaboat Holidays<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/the-writers-of-the-blog-un-sac-sur-le-dos-give-us-their-tips-for-the-canal-du-midi\/\">their tips<\/a>\u00a0are available on our blog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery on the waterways: Amandine and Fran\u00e7ois, creators of the blog &#8216;Un sac sur le dos&#8217; set off in search of the secrets of the Canal du Midi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[384,378],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-argens","tag-canal-du-midi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","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=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21532,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions\/21532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}