{"id":16107,"date":"2022-07-01T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16107"},"modified":"2022-07-01T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T20:54:17","slug":"friday-1st-july-2022-whatever-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=16107","title":{"rendered":"Friday 1st July 2022 – WHATEVER HAPPENED …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… to the Vanilla Queen?<\/p>\n

She was the “fascinating lady” whom I met on MY TRIP AROUND THE HIGH ARCTIC IN 2018<\/a> and who came to “haunt me, even in my dreams” for a while thereafter.<\/p>\n

While I was driving around this afternoon THE SONG FROM WHICH SHE TAKES HER NAME<\/a> came round on the playlist and that got me thinking that I’ve not had the pleasure of her company for a quite a while.<\/p>\n

She certainly blew down my fences, and I wasn’t the same for quite a while – until the following year when it all kicked off again when I had that rather bizarre encounter with Castor. I don’t know what it is about the High Arctic.<\/p>\n

While we’re on the subject of being haunted in our dreams … “well, one of us is” – ed<\/em> … I had another weird encounter today. I was crashed out for an hour or so this morning in a layby and while I was asleep I saw someone walk past me – someone in his 40s with dark thinning hair, a thin face with a prominent pointed nose and a red, pink and white patterned shirt.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t as dramatic as seeing Zero a few weeks ago but it was pretty close.<\/p>\n

This morning there was tons more stuff on the dictaphone that I’ll have to transcribe later.<\/p>\n

And after a shower I went for breakfast that was included in the price. All in all it was excellent value, the hotel, and I’ll stop there again.<\/p>\n

As well as that I almost managed to drive away without paying. I’m never sure whether this booking agency makes me pay in advance or not. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. I was just on the point of driving off when the receptionist came running after me.<\/p>\n

It was raining quite heavily this morning and cool too so it was a pleasure to drive. But I couldn’t keep going for long. I found a lay-by down a lonely road and crashed out for a while when I had my strange encounter.<\/p>\n

The rest of the drive was fairly uneventful. Nothing much happened and I even crossed the Rhine without really realising it.<\/p>\n

There was however a bad attack of the Jimmy Ruffins as I entered Stuttgart. ‘I’ve passed this way before” I sang to myself. Even the traffic jams, and there were plenty of those between Stuttgart and Pforzheim, looked strangely familiar.<\/p>\n

And the diversions too. In fact there were plenty of those all over Germany. Getting in my way wherever I try to travel. But at least the weather improved later on in the day as I went further north.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m at a hotel in Pirmasens a couple of hours from Luxembourg. The hotel is like some kind of Gothic horror out of the 1960sbut then again so are the prices. I’ve never stayed in a hotel as cheap as this anywhere in Europe apart from a unit hotel at a French motorway exit.<\/p>\n

So tomorrow I have a choice of several directions to take. It all depends how I’m feeling and how is about, I suppose. We shall see.<\/p>\n

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