{"id":6250,"date":"2016-06-15T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2016-06-15T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T19:30:37","slug":"tuesday-14th-june-2016-so-how-was-my-first-night-in-my-new-digs-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=6250","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 14th June 2016 &#8211; SO HOW WAS MY FIRST NIGHT IN MY NEW DIGS THEN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer was &#8220;not very comfortable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What with one thing and another, it was long after midnight before I ended up going to bed. And once I was in, I had a little listen to the radio but it wasn&#8217;t long before I switched everything off and settled down for the night.<\/p>\n<p>But the mattress, which I have put on the floor, as I have no intention of climbing up to the eaves of the room, is really uncomfortable. It&#8217;s a very cheap mattress to start with and it sags just about everywhere. But it wasn&#8217;t long before I&#8217;d dropped off to sleep, and that was how things stood until all of &#8230; errr &#8230; 05:30. I&#8217;m not used to the big city and all of the traffic and the like.<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying that I didn&#8217;t actually leave the stinking pit at that time, and when I finally did, I had plenty to do up here. Breakfast was therefore at 09:00 where I made the acquaintance of one of my co-cottiers. I had to run up and down the stairs twice as well &#8211; the first time wasn&#8217;t too bad but I was on my knees for the second. This is clearly not going to be sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>The walk up to the hospital was quite pleasant even though it was all uphill. I called at the <em>boulangerie<\/em> that I had discovered yesterday. and of course, it&#8217;s closed on Tuesdays. But there&#8217;s an Asian supermarket across the road and they sold <em>baguettes<\/em>, so that&#8217;s that problem resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The parking problem for Caliburn is semi-resolved too. I picked up a document from the hospital yesterday setting out my visits to date, and with this I was able to apply for a parking card for a free car park in the vicinity. This was duly granted. <\/p>\n<p>But having the pass is one thing &#8211; finding a free space there is quite something else. I ended up making an ad-hoc space for myself at first, and then going back out at lunchtime to pounce on a liberated space. And that took quite a wait. By the end of the afternoon though, there were a few free spaces so if I do decide to go anywhere in Caliburn it will have to be in the late afternoon that I come back.<\/p>\n<p>I made use of the hospital&#8217;s internet to check up on things and to send off another pile of e-mails. I&#8217;ve already had two replies from this load of messages, but they were both refusals. <\/p>\n<p>Walking back here was pleasant too in the early evening sun and I encountered the landlord in the building, changing a few light-bulbs including the one that doesn&#8217;t work in my room. I also had an encounter with a couple of the girls here, sorting out a place for me in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Tea tonight was pasta, kidney beans, veg and tomato sauce followed by slices of spicy cake and soya dessert. Loads of proteins in all of that. And now, having almost fallen asleep a couple of times at the hospital, I&#8217;m off for an early night.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that I can have a good night&#8217;s sleep tonight. <\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-6250 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='6250' data-nonce='ceea1ad770' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-6250 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-6250 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6250' data-nonce='ceea1ad770' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-6250 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-6250 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer was &#8220;not very comfortable&#8221;. What with one thing and another, it was long after midnight before I ended up going to bed. And once I was in, I had a little listen to the radio but it wasn&#8217;t long before I switched everything off and settled down for the night. But the mattress, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,4507,3173,3371],"tags":[6723,1673,7081,5381,2560,5911,2484,5918,7082],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-eric-hall-2","category-hospital","category-leuven","tag-baguette","tag-belgium-2","tag-boulangerie","tag-caliburn","tag-eric-hall","tag-hospital","tag-late-night","tag-leuven","tag-parking-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","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=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}