{"id":1256,"date":"2013-06-19T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2017-07-13T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:49:04","slug":"sunday-9th-june-heres-my-spec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 9th June 2013 – HERE’S MY SPEC …."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"caliburn<\/a>… from Saturday night’s sleepover. <\/p>\n

Leaving Calais I drove for a couple of hours and parked up at about 03:00 just short of Rouen on a motorway rest area. <\/p>\n

And probably one of the best nights’ sleeps I have ever had. Totally painless and I’ll stop here again!
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From here it was straight down the motorway through the depressing weather all the way to near Nantes and from there down to Fromentine. <\/p>\n

Not a hiccup along the way (I hope that I was sticking to the limit when I drove past the Kojak with a Kodak) except at Rouen where I ended up in some kind of mayhem around the old harbour<\/p>\n

We had marching bands, tall ships and all that kind of rubbish and it took hours to extract myself from the chaos.<\/p>\n

When are they going to build a flaming by-pass around that blasted place?<\/p>\n

At Frometine I arrived, would you believe, in the middle of a brocante<\/em>. <\/p>\n

And what a brocante<\/em>\u00a0it was – there wasn’t anything for sale under about \u20ac100. I really do think that some people have taken leave of their senses when it comes to valuing their possessions. <\/p>\n

A bit of good luck, though – the second-hand bookshop was open so I bought a few more history books. <\/p>\n

That’s one thing that I’m finding with raiding a few of these bookshops – that there are huge gaps in the British version of European history that can only be filled by a French perspective on things.<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve bought a huge volume on the Hundred Years War<\/a>, a couple of books on The Battle of the Rail<\/a> – the fight of the French cheminots<\/em> against the SS during the crucial 10 days after D-Day and today, a book on the Allied invasion of Provence<\/a>. <\/p>\n

These are all events that British historians simply gloss over, and it’s nice to read about these events from another point of view.<\/p>\n

There’s a pizza place in Fromentine, run by a woman who comes from Morlaix, a town in Finisterre where I spent a few relaxing weeks back in 1976 or something. <\/p>\n

She made me a nice vegan pizza (good job that I was prepared with my vegan cheese) – after all, it is Sunday – and then I went off to my spec from the other week to pass the night. <\/p>\n

I’ve an early sail in the morning.<\/p>\n

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