{"id":9586,"date":"2017-08-12T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2017-08-12T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:00:18","slug":"saturday-12th-august-2017-the-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 12th August 2017 – THE LAST TIME …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… that I had to be up and about for a train, I remember saying something about the internal alarm clock. And so itwas this morning.<\/p>\n

With the alarm set for 06:00, I was wide awake at … errr … 04:27.<\/p>\n

Of course it goes without saying that I … errr … rested until the 06:00 alarm went off. And by 07:00 I was sitting down having had breakfast, cleaned the bathroom and toilet and tipped bleach everywhere (I’d washed the floor last night before going to bed). <\/p>\n

Not only that, I’d taken all of the rubbish to the collection point and washed the wastebins too. <\/p>\n

The bus was on time more or less and it was all pretty painless. But Brain of Britain has struck again – battery in the camera is flat. So no picture of the train this morning. I wasn’t going to use the phone camera, seeing as we are now in the middle of a torrential downpour. Flaming August, hey?<\/p>\n

The train is only as far as Versailles – the Versailles Chantiers railway station. There’s a lot of perturbation<\/em> on the Paris railway network with the construction of this new metro line so we are having to take the bus.<\/p>\n

It took its time too getting to the Vaugirard railway station and then I had to fight my way through the metro. <\/p>\n

We started off as we meant to go on, with the new suitcase being jammed in the turnstile and I had to appeal for help from the staff.<\/p>\n

But the new suitcase proved its worth – being quite easy to pull along, unlike the previous one. And it’s a much more convenient shape too for passing through the crowds.<\/p>\n

But there was a curious incident at Paris Gare du Nord. <\/p>\n

Some young guy stopped me to ask me the way to the metro. And a minute or so later, as I was fighting my way through the exit turnstile, my bumbag became disconnected and fell to the floor. <\/p>\n

Was someone trying to disconnect it in the crush? I couldn’t see how because they couldn’t have got away, but it was weird all he same.<\/p>\n

The TGV was packed to the gunwhales and it shot along at a fair old pace into Brussels. I was soon installed in my hotel – the Midi-Zuid where I stayed with Hannah back in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having fought of waves of sleep on the TGV, I wasn’t so successful here and was out for about an hour. And when I awoke, it was with a severe attack of cramp – so severe that I can still feel the pain in my calf even now.<\/p>\n

Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that I suffered terribly from cramps in the leg but apart from a brief one about a week or 10 days ago, I’ve not had one for months and months. But this one was the daddy of them all.<\/p>\n

\"foire<\/a>I went out a little later for some food, but as luck would have it, I ran straight into the Foire du Midi<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s that tile of the year again when the whole of the central reservation of the big boulevard around the city centre in the area by the Gare du Midi<\/em> is transformed into a giant funfair.<\/p>\n

Hordes of people and all kinds of events taking place here.
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\"foire<\/a>I fought my way through the crowds to find something to eat – and that wasn’t easy because I found myself in the wrong street – I’m definitely losing my touch.<\/p>\n

But having satiated my appetite I went back to watch the entertainment for a while. It’s all good fun and you could hear the screams from across town. <\/p>\n

It would certainly put me off my chips being up there with them.
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So now it’s an early night and prepare myself for the fray tomorrow. I’m meeting Alison and we’re going for a walk around the market. That should be fun.<\/p>\n

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