{"id":4843,"date":"2011-08-30T23:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T23:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2015-08-06T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T07:00:37","slug":"tuesday-30th-august-2011-day-one-of-my-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4843","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 30th August 2011 – DAY ONE OF MY VOYAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure if this should actually count as Day One because firstly, there wasn’t much of it and secondly, I didn’t actually leave the country. It was however they day that I hit the road (or rather hit the rails) and so for that reason I’ve included it as a fair candidate.<\/p>\n

Having said that though, I did actually hit the road rather early. I was all washed up, cleaned up, tidied up (well, sort-of) and on the road for 09:45 because today is the day that Liz and I record the Radio Anglais<\/a> programmes for the month of September. We did the Radio Tartasse sessions in the morning and then I drove Caliburn down to Liz’s and left him there, piling myself and the baggage into Liz’s voiture<\/em> for the journey down to Gerzat and the Radio Arverne sessions. <\/p>\n

When they were over she heaved me out at the railway station at Riom and that was that. And only a wait of 75 minutes for the train. Good job there’s a coffee machine here.
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\"railway<\/a>This is the locomotive that pulled my train for Paris Gare de Lyon.<\/p>\n

I sat next to a girl on the train up and we had a healthy conversation for at least 10 minutes before we worked out that we were both British. She was from Inverness and a student at St Andrews studying French for Scientists. She was spending a year’s exchange living in the language but she’d been in Aurillac for a month house-and-dog sitting. <\/p>\n

Her family lives in the wilds and they have no mains electricity – just solar panels and wind turbines and so we had a good chat about that and I gave her a card.<\/p>\n

We had the usual struggle across Paris with my giant suitcase and there has to be a better way to go to the airport than this – hitting the city in the evening rush hour with swarms of people and escalators out of order and miles to walk. I’m going to have to resolve this somehow.<\/p>\n

At the airport, I dunno where this blasted shuttle bus has gone to – I have to wait about a year for it to turn up. And then by the time that I’ve sorted out everything at the hotel and gone for a walk, the only restaurant in this village here is closed. It only opens Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings and closes at 21:30. So that’s no use to me. <\/p>\n

Nothing to eat tonight then. I hope that the rest of my voyage is better than this.<\/p>\n

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