{"id":3029,"date":"2019-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kergudon.com\/https-www-kergudon-com-sunday-25-august-back-to-work-next-week\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:55:47","slug":"sunday-25-august-back-to-work-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/sunday-25-august-back-to-work-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 25 August – Back to Work (next week …)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ended last week\u2019s blog<\/a> saying that there were no excuses for not clearing out the garage bays and starting to fill our serre \u2013 although I may be able to find some.  Well, here they are \u2026!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week was the last when we had some very good friends staying with us so we wanted to spend time with them.  It was also, unlike the preceding week, another of amazing summer weather so I was able to spend some time outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The week was predominantly a number of smaller jobs including plumbing in another water butt; cutting lots of kindling; progressing the hedge cutting that had stalled while it was wet; lawn mowing as the grass has gone wild after last week\u2019s rain; and progressing my wood store on our terrace (photos next week) \u2013 but not a lot of serre filling or garage bay clearing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We even took a day off on Friday to spend with our friends on the beach at Carantec<\/a>.  Amazingly, and disappointingly from our perspective, despite the amazing weather we have been enjoying this year, it was the first day we had spent at the beach this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carantec is a fun little town which has an excellent beach and great restaurants on the seafront including a favourite of ours which does great Moules Frites and burgers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While I may not have been the most active this week, other people have.  2019 has seen the running of the Paris\u2013Brest\u2013Paris<\/a> cycling event which happens every 4 years and passes through the centre of Sizun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea of the event<\/a> is for participants to cycle the 1,216 kilometre course, unsupported, within a certain time limit.  The time available, dependent on which event within the event is entered, is either 80, 84 or 90 hours.  At its quickest this means cycling an average of 15.2 kmph non-stop for 3\u00bd days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are approximately 6000 riders participating in the event, all of whom ride through Sizun town centre en-route to Brest \u2013 and then again a day later heading back to Paris.  Being unsupported I suspect the bar and boulangerie should do well from the riders \u2013 if not the spectators who travel miles to watch.  Some of our guests bumped into Australians who had travelled here specifically to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David has had a mixed week.  Sadly it started with the bad news that New York Gym, where David taught his group exercise classes, is closing down at the start of September.  David\u2019s classes were very popular at the gym, he enjoyed giving them as much as his participants enjoyed attending and he has met some good friends through them.  He was very fortunate to have found the gym to use his fitness qualifications that was flexible enough to work around the g\u00eetes but all good things \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the girls who attended his classes is helping him put together a French CV which he will send off to other gyms to see if he can get anything else.  Unfortunately the timing is not great as French gyms, as many other businesses, focus on getting themselves staffed and ready for now \u2013 the end of holidays back-to-work \/ school time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end of the week was better as David celebrated his birthday when our friends were here.  They were kind enough to give him a birthday lunch in Carantec and he and I had a birthday dinner at Au Lac last night which has become a tradition for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our guests left us yesterday morning so next week there is genuinely no excuse for not making more progress than we have done in the last few weeks \u2013 including the garage bays \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salut.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ended last week\u2019s blog saying that there were no excuses for not clearing out the garage bays and starting to fill our serre \u2013 although I may be able to find some.  Well, here they are \u2026!! Last week was the last when we had some very good friends staying with us so we…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ben-and-daves-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kergudon.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}