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<\/a>And to such an extent that never mind the 06:42 train – I was on the 06:32 to Oostende.<\/p>\nYou can see it pulling in, 2 minutes late, being pulled by one of the Class 18 electric locomotives from 2011<\/p>\n
As a result, I was in Bruxelles-Midi station even earlier than normal. I had plenty of time to go to Carrefour for my raisin buns for breakfast.
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We were called up to the platform somewhat earlier than usual, and when we arrived on the platform we found that our TGV was already in.<\/p>\n It’s another one of the Reseau 38000 “PBA” (Paris Brussels Amsterdam) transets, number 4538<\/p>\n My neighbour was a nice young lady but she was extremely taciturn. She just sat gazing out of the window all the way to Paris Gare du Nord and I had a little relax. At Paris, I dashed down into the Metro and leapt aboard the train, only for it to be held up at almost every station. In fact, the journey that usually takes me about 45 minutes took just about 65 minutes. It’s a good job that the TGV arrived on time.<\/p>\n My train to Granville was on time too. My neighbour was an elderly lady who needed quite a lot of attention which meant that I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to do.<\/p>\n But in my reading of “Wineland the Good” by Arthur Reeves, I came across something quite interesting. Reeves refers to some documents relating to the discovery and voyages to Vinland – the ‘Breve Chronicon Norvegiae’ – that were discovered in the files of the Earl of Dalhousie and which dated to the mid 15th Century.<\/p>\n Dalhousie is of course not too far away from Roslin and the presence of these documents up the road may well provide some kind of link that led to the voyages of Henry Sinclair<\/a> and their relation to the strange carvings at Roslin Chapel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here it is in the station, parked up next to the train to Rennes – one of the Bombardier X76500 series of multiple-units.<\/p>\n As an aside, I’ve discovered that I can actually catch a train from Granville to St Malo if I change at Dol de Bretagne. And there’s talk about laying on a direct train some time in the future. There seems to be an enormous amount of goods down there waiting to be loaded up on board. That should keep them out of mischief for quite a while with all of that.<\/p>\n Seeing as there were some men around there today, I should really have gone down to talk to them. Part of the pavement has been closed off for as long as I have been there due to some loose stones that have been falling out of the wall, and I had heard some story that they might be doing some work on it.<\/p>\n So it looks as if they have already started. Probably hammering the loose stones back in and repointing the walls.<\/p>\n And as regular readers of this rubbish will recall, I spent a couple of summers doing that on my house and it’s a long, heavy, difficult job. Back here I had a really good relax for a couple of hours before attempting the unpacking. Definitely feeling the strain.<\/p>\n Tea was easy too. One of the portions of shepherd’s pie out of the freezer with veg and gravy. However, the slice of chocolate cake that i’d left out of the freezer had turned. But those in an airtight container in the fridge were fine and there was some soya dessert left.<\/p>\n There was still a touch of light left – enough to take a few photographs of the coastline, like this one of St Martin de Brehal.<\/p>\n It’s come out really well, all told and I’m quite pleased with it. So now I’ll go to bed. There’s not much food in here so it’s a shopping day tomorrow. A nice walk up to LIDL I reckon.<\/p>\n I’ll see how I feel.<\/p>\n<\/a>Surprisingly I didn’t have too long to wait at Bruxelles-Midi even though I was in early.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Despite almost everything, our train pulled in at Granville bang on time.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>This time I managed to walk all the way back home, admiring Normandy Trader<\/em> being loaded up at the quayside as I did so.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>Further up the hill, I noticed that they were working on the city walls.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/a>later on, I went for my walk around the headland. It was quite pleasant out there but yet again I was the only one out there.<\/p>\n
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