{"id":11512,"date":"2018-12-27T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11512"},"modified":"2019-02-14T13:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:43:25","slug":"thursday-27th-december-2018-the-only-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11512","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 27th December 2018 – THE ONLY PROBLEM …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026 with going to bed early is that despite all of my best efforts, I end up waking up early.<\/p>\n

But no danger of me leaving the stinking pit at 04:50. Instead I turned over and tried to go back to sleep until the alarm at 06:00.<\/p>\n

I’d been on my travels too. I was making some coconut macaroons so I’d deep-fried the mandarin oranges and I’d assembled a pile of desiccated coconut but I couldn’t remember what else to put in them. And so I was scratching around trying to find a recipe.<\/p>\n

When the alarm went off, I was up quite quickly and finished the packing. I left some stuff behind but all that I could practically take, I brought with me.<\/p>\n

It was a good plan to come home today because there was almost no-one around. At the station, I arrived just as the express from Genk pulled in. And it was still there by the time I had bought my ticket so I leapt aboard. Usually it’s packed to the gunwhales but today it was quite empty as the commuters have another day off.<\/p>\n

No-one in the queue at the Carrefour supermarket on the station where I bought my raisin buns for breakfast, and I forgot AGAIN about the chemists – to see if the one on the station would be open.<\/p>\n

\"Thalys<\/a>Our train was our old friend 4304 – one of the Thalys PBKA (Paris, Brussels, K\u00f6ln, Amsterdam) trainsets from the mid-90s. Nice and comfortable but starting to show its age like most of them.<\/p>\n

There were a few spare seats on board too so we weren’t too hemmed in. I sent the journey to Paris reading a book in comparative comfort.<\/p>\n

At the Gare du Nord I stepped onto the Metro platform just as a train pulled in. And that was empty too. I had a seat all the way to Montparnasse which was just as well because this lt in my luggage was heavy.
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\"84577<\/a>As I negotiated my way around Montparnasse, Rosemary rang me. And we had a little chat for a few minutes. Then I had to nip down to Vaugirard for my train.<\/p>\n

It was already there so I had to shift someone out of my seat before I could make myself comfortable. And it was cold on there too. Ice and frost everywhere and as we left the station we rolled into a thick bank of fog that came with us all the way to Granville.<\/p>\n

Not that I know all about it because I had a little doze along the way.
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Outside the station I was almost squidged by a woman driver who doesn’t seem to understand the principle of a zebra crossing.<\/p>\n

It was a struggle to come back here. I was definitely feeling the strain of all of my exertions. But I eventually made it back and I was glad, even though it was cold in here.<\/p>\n

I haven’t done much since I’ve been back. Just some unpacking (but not all of it) and made my tea (a burger and the veg that I brought back).<\/p>\n

\"night<\/a>Later on, I went for my usual evening walk around the headland.<\/p>\n

By now, the fog had come down and closed in and it wasn’t very easy to see anything. Everything outside was swathed in a surreal orange glow thanks to the reflection of the street lights.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t thick enough to dissuade the fishing boats from working. There were plenty of those unloading in the harbour tonight.
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So now I’m off for an early night. I’ve earned it, and I need it too. But whether I’ll get it is another thing. You know how things are these days.<\/p>\n

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\u2026 with going to bed early is that despite all of my best efforts, I end up waking up early. But no danger of me leaving the stinking pit at 04:50. Instead I turned over and tried to go back to sleep until the alarm at 06:00. I’d been on my travels too. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,3,7527,8630,44,4507,1616,8338,7526,8629,8571,3371,1308,7876],"tags":[1673,199,7528,5360,8632,1302,10855,212,2560,4171,6835,5565,8351,8631,7414,12117,11568,8581,5918,1311,7891,288,2380,1315,5486,12115,320,6834,12073],"class_list":["post-11512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-brussels","category-brussels-midi","category-condo-gardens","category-dream","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-gare-du-midi","category-gare-du-nord","category-gare-montparnasse-vaugirard","category-granville","category-leuven","category-paris","category-place-darmes","tag-belgium-2","tag-brussels-2","tag-bruxelles-midi","tag-carrefour","tag-condo-gardens","tag-crash-out","tag-dekenstraat","tag-dream","tag-eric-hall","tag-fog","tag-forgot-medication","tag-france","tag-gare-du-midi","tag-gare-du-montparnasse-vaugirard","tag-gare-du-nord","tag-gec-alstom-regiolis","tag-genk","tag-granville","tag-leuven","tag-paris-2","tag-place-darmes","tag-rosemary","tag-sncb","tag-sncf","tag-tgv","tag-thalys-pbka","tag-tidying-up","tag-vegan-burger","tag-zebra-crossing-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11512\/revisions\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}