{"id":2291,"date":"2013-08-30T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2017-07-02T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T06:08:00","slug":"thursday-29th-august-2013-i-picked-up-my-car-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2291","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 29th August 2013 – I PICKED UP MY CAR THIS EVENING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and they knew that it was me coming, as it has almost 17,OOOkms on the clock and quite a few scratches (some of which they hadn’t noticed). But I’m not complaining as it’s a top-of-the-range model with built-in 110 volt inverter and also a reversing camera, so I can see who I’m knocking down when I’m going backwards.<\/p>\n

This morning though I went into the city centre to the railway station to see the trains but that didn’t work. It’s underground, the station, and they don’t let you down until your train is called, rather like an airport. But no worries – there weren’t many trains to see. The local rail network is a little, well, truncated. In fact there’s a line that passes about 1km from the airport and it would be the easiest thing to run a spur to it, there’s no obstructions in the way, but instead there’s just a shuttle bus running to the city centre at the mercy of the weather and the traffic, of which there is more than enough.<\/p>\n

\"park<\/a>I went for a wander around the city centre afterwards, looking at the statues (and there’s more than enough of them too) and the skyscrapers (ditto) but as far as I can see, although the city centre has some pretty beautiful spots and corners, it has some pretty desolate windswept alleys too. Overall, it’s no different than any modern city enywhere else in the world and the part of Montreal that is preserved is really just a showcase for the tourists and everywhere else it’s pushed aside in the ruthless quest of mammon.<\/p>\n

After lunch it was back to the hotel, back to thr airport, pick up the car and then off across the city to my storage unit to pick up my stuff. Now the car is all kitted up and ready to go and I’ll be off on my voyages. <\/p>\n

But at the station I had the most excellent luck. A discount electronic place that had a sale on – and they had the next dictaphone higher up in the range to my old one – exactly the same and with a “pause” but with a data connection too. And that works fine and with GOM player and its facility to step back 5 seconds at a time, this is the works. It’s compatible too with “Dragon”, the speech recognition software that the OU used, so all I need to do is to find a student who might have a copy of “Dragon” for sale.<\/p>\n

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