{"id":11523,"date":"2019-01-01T01:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2019-02-13T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:02:54","slug":"monday-31st-december-2018-by-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=11523","title":{"rendered":"Monday 31st December 2018 &#8211; BY THE TIME &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 I get to Phoen &#8230; errr &#8230; that you read this you&#8217;re probably already in 2019, so belated New Year wishes from me.<\/p>\n<p>May I wish everyone for 2019 exactly the same as you wished for everyone else in 2018. And I also send special New Years wishes to everyone who was kind enough to offer me hospitality as I travelled around the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>As I have said before \u2026 <em>&#8220;and you&#8217;ll say it again&lt;&#8221; &#8211; ed<\/em> \u2026 I don&#8217;t have many friends, but those whom I have are the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The morning, such as it was, didn&#8217;t start until about 10:15. That might sound much more like a reasonable time when I have a day off, but I forgot to mention that so engrossed was I about some things that I was doing during the evening that it was almost 04:00 when I went to bed last night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812307.jpg\" alt=\"vegan pain au chocolat granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>A late breakfast therefore, and there was a treat in store for me.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember from Saturday when I bought the vegan <em>pains au chocolat<\/em> from LeClerc? This morning I made a start on them. A quick 30 seconds in the microwave to warm one of them up and to freshen it up, and on the table for breakfast<\/p>\n<p>And they weren&#8217;t too bad at all.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do very much for the rest of the day. After all, I&#8217;m on holiday, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>Lunch was a couple of slices of toast with hummus followed by some fruit. No point in having a pile of butties when it&#8217;s late like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812309.jpg\" alt=\"people on beach pointe du roc granville manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>A little later on I went out for my afternoon walk.<\/p>\n<p>There were the usual crowds of people about this afternoon around the walled town. And there were quite a few people out on the beach having a paddle in the sea to celebrate the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>And good luck to them too &#8211; sooner them than me.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Tea was some falafel and pasta in tomato sauce. Delicious it was too<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary rang me up after tea and we had a chat for \u2026 errr \u2026 one hour and forty-four minutes. And would have gone on even longer had the battery not gone flat in my telephone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1812\/1812314.jpg\" alt=\"night port de granville harbour manche normandy france\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\"><\/a>At 23:30 I went out for a midnight walk. It&#8217;s New Year and I wanted to be out on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>My ramble took me down to the harbour, across the lock gates and into town. I took a few pics of the harbour at night and then wandered into town. There can&#8217;t have been more than a couple of dozen people around, and some of them were quite noisy.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t actually the New Year&#8217;s celebrations that I was expecting, an so I came home. It&#8217;s not exactly early but it&#8217;s not late either. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m off to bed.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>So while you all admire the photos, I&#8217;ll clear off. 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May I wish everyone for 2019 exactly the same as you wished for everyone else in 2018. And I also send special New Years wishes to everyone who was kind enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,8571,7876],"tags":[2560,2117,5565,8581,2484,5368,1731,1906,7891,11917,11158,288,12077],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-granville","category-place-darmes","tag-eric-hall","tag-falafel","tag-france","tag-granville","tag-late-night","tag-leclerc","tag-lie-in","tag-new-year","tag-place-darmes","tag-plat-gousset","tag-pointe-du-roc","tag-rosemary","tag-vegan-pain-au-chocolat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523","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=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11700,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}