{"id":10600,"date":"2018-05-30T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T21:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2018-05-30T21:26:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T21:26:36","slug":"wednesday-30th-may-2018-what-a-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=10600","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 30th May 2018 &#8211; WHAT A NICE &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; tea that was!<\/p>\n<p>One of those evenings where I couldn&#8217;t think of anything much so some spicy rice with peas and carrots, and a vegan millet and mushroom burger fried with onions and garlic. Add some nice thick gravy and it was absolutely delicious. I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact it was a relatively delicious day, although you might not have thought so with the weather that we were having this morning. When I left the stinking pit (at 06:30) it was raining buckets outside.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few things that I needed to do though. Not the least of which being that the World&#8217;s Worst Bankers have struck again. I received all of the paperwork for the renewal of my insurances at the end of June &#8211; sent to the wrong address and featuring the wrong (closed) bank account.<\/p>\n<p>What is worse is that it&#8217;s the Bank&#8217;s own insurance agency that handles it. Clearly joined-up thinking is not the strong point of the Credit Agricole, is it? Anyway, I had to telephone them to sort it all out.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of photos needed to be edited as well, with the result that I missed out on a few things that I needed to do. But no worries, they can keep.  <\/p>\n<p>What wouldn&#8217;t keep though is the bread issue. Buying a new loaf was one of the things that I needed, but instead in view of the time I just nipped down to town to the <em>boulangerie<\/em> that I like for a <em>baguette<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805105.jpg\" alt=\"marite port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>At least that gave me an opportunity to take a photograph of the <em>Marit\u00e9<\/em> now that she&#8217;s come back here for the summer season.<\/p>\n<p>One day I&#8217;ll check to see if there&#8217;s an exciting sea voyage, but as you know I&#8217;ve had issues with the lazy people who manage her and they aren&#8217;t my favourite people. <\/p>\n<p>You need to be very careful about your sailing companions when you set off on a long voyage on a ship like this. They don&#8217;t seem to be interested in the ship or their potential clients at all, and that doesn&#8217;t bode very well.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>But at least the weather had brightened up by now, and it was heading to be a nice day. Although the wind was pretty strong and I didn&#8217;t enjoy sitting on my wall. And my lizard didn&#8217;t put in an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I revised a few blog entries by adding some additional photos, had the usual session on the guitar and chatted to Ingrid again. And, on a couple of occasions, teetering on the edge of falling asleep. Even my mid-afternoon walk &#8211; around the walls this afternoon &#8211; couldn&#8217;t clear my head. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805106.jpg\" alt=\"lighthouse cap lihou pointe du roc granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>By the time that I&#8217;d finished tea it hard turned into a beautiful evening and I really enjoyed my little walk which, for a change, took me around the headland.<\/p>\n<p>The late-evening sun was throwing up some beautiful colours and the lighthouse looked quite stunning. It was well-worth taking a photograph of it this evening. I do&#8217;t actually have too many of the lighthouse here, do I?<\/p>\n<p>And there weren&#8217;t too many people around either. What you might call &#8220;Phare from the Madding Crowd&#8221;.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805107.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1805\/1805107.jpg\" alt=\"baie de mont st michel cabane vauban carolles granville manche normandy france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>With the beautiful evening and clear skies, I took  photograph in the general direction of Mont St Michel to see where or not you could actually see it from here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 30 kilometres away from here as the crow flies, so the big zoom lens should pick it up if it&#8217;s in a line-of-sight, but it doesn&#8217;t look like it unfortunately. But I&#8217;m intrigued to know what those white buildings are down there. I shall have to go for a nosy some time.<\/p>\n<p>But what&#8217;s the building on the Pointe Carolles, on the extreme left? It&#8217;s called the Cabane Vauban apparently and was a lookout point dating from the 18th Century. I shall have to go for an investigation, won&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s amazing the things that you can pick out of a long-distance photo with a really impressive telephoto lens and a good image-editing program.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m off to bed now. It&#8217;s my &#8220;walk to LIDL&#8221; day and I need to pick up my rail tickets for next week. 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One of those evenings where I couldn&#8217;t think of anything much so some spicy rice with peas and carrots, and a vegan millet and mushroom burger fried with onions and garlic. Add some nice thick gravy and it was absolutely delicious. I really enjoyed it. 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