{"id":21169,"date":"2024-07-11T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T12:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/our-captains-views-mark-porter\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:06:52","slug":"our-captains-views-mark-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/blog\/our-captains-views-mark-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Our captains’ views – Mark Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long Delayed Trip of a Lifetime<\/h2>\n

“We can\u2019t thank the Locaboat people enough for our wonderful week (13\/05-20\/05) boating between Argens-Minervois and Bram. It was a trip of a lifetime we had planned for since before Covid.<\/p>\nInstead of staying in home port the first night, as was suggested, we set off for Le Somail, a short ride up the canal and oozing with small cafe\u2019s. It\u2019s a great place for your first nights\u2019 stay.\n\nMay is a great time on the canal. Not too many boats competing to get through the locks, not to many people competing for restaurants. Weather during the day was in the high 60\u2019s, at night it dipped to around 50. The heat on our 1500FB Penichette had an easy time keeping us comfortable.\n\n

\"\"<\/center> \n\nWe spent overnights in Le Somail, Capestang, Homps, Marseillette, Carcassonne, and Bram. The only one to skip would be Marseillette, there\u2019s one cafe and it\u2019s not very good at all.\n\nI\u2019ll talk briefly about food and drink. Two restaurants stand out and you better get reservations. Le Cathare, in Carcassonne, has wonderful dry-aged steaks and delicious fois gras. Just get the house red wine, it\u2019s delicious! The other restaurant to call out, and the biggest surprise, was L’\u00cele aux Oiseaux which is in the same building as the Port Captain (Locaboat) in the Port of Bram. Don\u2019t miss either of these. They are overwhelmingly good.\n\n
\"\"<\/center> \n\nAs for vineyards, they\u2019re all over the place! My favorite happens to be the most convenient to boaters, the Chateau Paraza between Argens-Minervois and Le Somail. Wonderful, family-owned business has struggled through COVID and the loss of the patriarch. The wines are exceptional, tasting is free, tie up right in front of the place and just walk up the path.\n\nOne final word. After covering 143km of canal, and talking with other boaters, we realized that Locaboat has the newest and cleanest boats with the best maintenance programs. We\u2019ll never use anyone else.”\n\n
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Vous \u00eates de plus en plus nombreux \u00e0 choisir de\u00a0naviguer en p\u00e9nichette\u00ae\u00a0l’esprit libre, en toute s\u00e9r\u00e9nit\u00e9. Aux nouveaux moussaillons, nous allons expliquer pourquoi !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[429,378,374,337],"class_list":["post-21169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucket-list","tag-bourgogne","tag-canal-du-midi","tag-france","tag-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169","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=21169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21170,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169\/revisions\/21170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}