Biking The Forgotten Canal Du Midi: Day 5

The region gets serious about the canal's future.

Read Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4.

For Day 5, we had a 28-mile route from Villeneuve-lès-Béziers to Sète, our final destination along the Mediterranean Sea. The path along almost the entire route was paved, making for gentle riding under the rows of trees that offered plentiful shade.

There was a short stretch where we had been advised to divert from th…