{"id":349,"date":"2011-12-17T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=349"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:46:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T06:46:33","slug":"julies-mum-said-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 17th December 2011 – NEXT TIME …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… that I do this crossing, I shall book a couchette<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the trip – easily one of the best crossings that I have ever had and I’ll be doing it again. But it’s so uncomfortable to curl up in a corner – there just aren’t any corners in which to curl up.<\/p>\n

And when I discovered that a couchette would set me back a mere \u00a320:00 if booked in advance (they were all sold out on this trip – I did check), well, it’s a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

This journey saves me a couple of hours and about 10 litres of fuel over driving to Calais, and it puts me in a much better position for going up to the Midlands and the north, missing out all of London and the M25.<\/p>\n

A couchette would more-than pay for itself, I reckon.<\/p>\n

We were decanted into Le Havre at dawn and at a leisurely pace, took me less than 8 hours to reach home. The roads are excellent, as are most French roads, but these were comparatively quiet. I even managed to fit a little shopping in on the way home.<\/p>\n

I beat the snow home – but only just. A huge pile of it had followed me all the way from the coast. And it was taters in here. Absolutely freezing in my attic, although the wood stove soon sorted that out.<\/p>\n

And while I had been away the place had been ravaged by 75 kph winds. That generated a few amps of electricity, I can tell you.<\/p>\n

So I’m not doing much now. A bit of food – curled up by the fire, and here I’m staying to catch up with my beauty sleep. <\/p>\n

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… that I do this crossing, I shall book a couchette. I enjoyed the trip – easily one of the best crossings that I have ever had and I’ll be doing it again. But it’s so uncomfortable to curl up in a corner – there just aren’t any corners in which to curl up. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,9861,258],"tags":[6867,9929,2560,5481,5565,1787,871,1180,3149,5366,2005,9567,294],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-le-havre","category-les-guis","tag-calais","tag-couchette","tag-eric-hall","tag-ferry","tag-france","tag-freezing-outside","tag-heavy-snow","tag-high-winds","tag-le-havre-2","tag-les-guis","tag-london","tag-m25","tag-wood-stove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9486,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/9486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}