{"id":7975,"date":"2011-07-26T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T23:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7975"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:21:52","slug":"tuesday-26th-july-2011-next-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7975","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 26th July 2011 – NEXT MORNING …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… saw me in IKEA where they had sold out of everything interesting and so instead I went to Marianne’s. <\/p>\n

After lunch we took a pile of my old stuff down to the Charity Shops and then we went to Brico to buy a pile of cable to rewire all of her internet connections, and that took me most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

At 19:20 precisely I left Brussels, maybe for the last time as I now have no reason to be back there, and headed off home. <\/p>\n

And I was glad to leave, I can tell you. Charity shops refusing goods, and refusing them with a sneer and an offensive remark, large vans deliberately turning into your path when they can see you coming, and the final straw was the brand-new Range Rover that tried to run me down on a zebra crossing. Yes, by that time I had really had enough and now I’m wondering how that Range Rover driver will be explaining the large size 9-sized dent in his rear wing. <\/p>\n

Yes, I was in a bad mood when I left.<\/p>\n

The journey home was exciting. The Lady Who Lives In The Satnav predicted that I would arrive home at 03:51, and I was home at … errr …. 03:50 precisely. <\/p>\n

And that was quite a surprise, and for several reasons.<\/p>\n

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  1. She took me down a completely different route – the Mons by-pass, then the N2 via Soissons to the Francilienne, and then round via Melun, Fontainebleu and the RN7. She also wanted to send me via Nevers and Moulins but I took the short cut via Bourges.\n<\/li>\n
  2. \"old<\/a>I made a few unscheduled stops along the way. One of the stops, not too far beyond Mons but in France was this absolutely gorgeous thing that I saw.\n

    It’s been absolutely ages since I’ve featured any nice and interesting old cars in my postings, so it’s high time that we showed you another one. This is an original Panhard-Levassor and I think that it might be a CS model from the early 1930s – not that I know too much about it. But whatever it is, it is beautiful – it really is<\/li>\n

  3. Another unscheduled stop was at Melun where at the ELF garage there – the cheapest in France, diesel was at 129.9. That called for a major fuel-up.<\/li>\n
  4. and then we had the road works. The way out of Brussels was full of them, as was the Francilienne. I calculated that I lost about 15 minutes at least in that lot. And there were also road works on the roads between Gien and Bourges and that slowed me down quite a lot as well. In fact, along that stretch of road I started to fall asleep. It had been a long day<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But apart from that, I didn’t stop at all – not even for food or coffee (luckily at Marianne’s I had made a big mug of coffee in my thermal mug). I was in a hurry to return home.<\/p>\n

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