{"id":237,"date":"2012-04-24T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=237"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:02:49","slug":"miserable-wet-grey-and-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 24th April 2012 – Miserable, wet, grey and depressing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… but that’s enough about me. Let’s talk about the weather.<\/p>\n

And that’s also miserable, wet, grey and depressing. <\/p>\n

But the exciting thing is that I’m sitting at a desk looking out of my hotel window and I can see the planes taking off from the runway at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. And in 8 hours time I’ll be there too.<\/p>\n

\"sncf<\/a>The train journey was exciting and I’ll do this again. <\/p>\n

The one from Riom to Lyon was a multiple-unit thing that rattled and clanked its way along. <\/p>\n

No coffee unfortunately but at least the seats were comfortable and there was plenty of room.
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<\/p>\n

At Lyon you leave the train, go downstairs where there’s a waiting area and a coffee machine. When your train is called you go back upstairs and there you are. Simple as that.<\/p>\n

\"lyon<\/a>The TGV was a double-decker thing and athough we had a 20-minute wait for a late connection we went like stink as expected.<\/p>\n

The lateness didn’t matter one single iota. I walked straight out of the airport onto the hotel shuttle (once every half-hour) that was already outside. <\/p>\n

So if we had been on time I would have had to wait outside the airport for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

Downside of the TGV is that coffee on the double-deckers is a long walk away and luggage space is VERY MUCH at a premium. Upside is that my train was going to Lille Europe and there was a TGV coming from Brussels on the opposite platform. <\/p>\n

Doesn’t that open up exciting possibilities for my British and Belgian friends? Both of them!
<\/p>\n

Anyway, here I am. And there I’ll be in a bit. And, as I said to Bill as he dropped me off at Riom railway station,
\n“Thank you Bill for bringing me here”.
\n“You’ll be an inspector, have no fear”<\/p>\n

-2<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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… but that’s enough about me. Let’s talk about the weather. And that’s also miserable, wet, grey and depressing. But the exciting thing is that I’m sitting at a desk looking out of my hotel window and I can see the planes taking off from the runway at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. And in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[504,1309,4507,1616,258,2697,1308,620],"tags":[5398,199,1312,6596,2560,5565,5756,5755,9959,4619,1311,286,5411,1315,5486,1318,6738],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-dudgeon","category-charles-de-gaulle-airport","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-lyon","category-paris","category-riom","tag-bill-dudgeon","tag-brussels-2","tag-charles-de-gaulle-airport-2","tag-double-decker","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-lille","tag-lyon","tag-magic-bus","tag-multiple-unit","tag-paris-2","tag-rainstorm","tag-riom","tag-sncf","tag-tgv","tag-tgv-running-late","tag-the-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9538,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/9538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}