{"id":14099,"date":"2011-04-28T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/laustrals-maiden-voyage-from-marseille-2\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T15:27:00","slug":"laustrals-maiden-voyage-from-marseille-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/04\/laustrals-maiden-voyage-from-marseille-2\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Austral\u2019s maiden voyage from Marseille"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DcEWhz6fFI0\/Td4ENbcEiEI\/AAAAAAAAOnk\/Mx4zbZ7pmt0\/s1600\/Cruise_Int.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DcEWhz6fFI0\/Td4ENbcEiEI\/AAAAAAAAOnk\/Mx4zbZ7pmt0\/s400\/Cruise_Int.png\" width=\"400\">\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/en.ponant.com\/var\/ezflow_site\/storage\/images\/nos-croisieres\/toutes-les-croisieres\/croisiere-inaugurale-bienvenue-a-bord-de-l-austral\/photos\/c-filippo-vinardi\/129038-1-fre-FR\/C-Filippo-Vinardi_carrousel.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"178\" src=\"http:\/\/en.ponant.com\/var\/ezflow_site\/storage\/images\/nos-croisieres\/toutes-les-croisieres\/croisiere-inaugurale-bienvenue-a-bord-de-l-austral\/photos\/c-filippo-vinardi\/129038-1-fre-FR\/C-Filippo-Vinardi_carrousel.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Four years ago, the founding members of France\u2019s Compagnie du Ponant sat down together to dream up their ideal cruise ship. The result was two luxury mega-yachts: Le Bor\u00e9al, launched last year, and L\u2019Austral, which made its maiden voyage last night.<\/p>\n<p>I was on board, sipping champagne, as L\u2019Austral drew out of Marseille just before sunset \u2013 and discovered that the French ideal of a mega-yacht is just as elegant and sophisticated as you might imagine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cruise-international.com\/laustrals-maiden-voyage-from-marseille\/\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Four years ago, the founding members of France\u2019s Compagnie du Ponant sat down together to dream up their ideal cruise ship. The result was two luxury mega-yachts: Le Bor\u00e9al, launched last year, and L\u2019Austral, which made its maiden voyage last night. I was on board, sipping champagne, as L\u2019Austral drew out of Marseille just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342],"class_list":["post-14099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ponant-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}