{"id":1453,"date":"2011-06-10T22:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T05:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2011-06-10T22:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T05:20:47","slug":"le-sketch-du-jour-bourges-auberge-de-jeunesse-june-20-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/2011\/06\/le-sketch-du-jour-bourges-auberge-de-jeunesse-june-20-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"le sketch du jour: Bourges Auberge de jeunesse. June 20, 1980."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Streetscape: Bourges, France.<\/p><\/div>\n

Fri. June 20, 1980. \u00a0(notes from my sketchbook journal: The Johnson County girl comes out).<\/p>\n

Well! \u00a0I am writing this so I will remember how I feel but won’t write that<\/em> home. We are in Bourges in an Auberge de jenuesse. It is the pits. \u00a0There is a festival going on in Bourges so there is a huge group of 15-16 yr. old girls from Brittany. It is quite pungent.<\/p>\n

The bus couldn’t get on the street to the Auberge so we all had to get out of the bus and pick up those little Italian cars so we could get by. \u00a0In the meantime, we caused a HUGE traffic jam & people were furious. Lots of yelling and gestures.<\/p>\n

Dinner was at 7:30. \u00a0It was a sort of dormitory place. \u00a0It consisted of 1\/2 grapefruit (pamplemousse), some kind of mystery sausage that looked like hormel sausage uncooked, rice, cheese, & apple. \u00a0Then everyone stacked up the dishes and scraped plates, at the table<\/em><\/span>. <\/em> Then we sponge off table and dry the silverware. \u00a0The curfew was 11:00 pm and I took one look at the 8″ of water standing in the shower & decided not to bath for two days until Morzine. \u00a0You can imagine how wonderful I am in this sort of environment.<\/p>\n

We did go to a town carnival after dinner which was a lot of fun. [my motivation for Thursday night’s visit to carrousel in Wichita, June 9, 2011]. \u00a0All the same bumper cars, games, rides, lights, but beignet & gauffre (thick waffles with whipped cream and berries) & escargots instead of popcorn, cotton candy, and hotdogs.<\/p>\n

Cindy (Bean) and I ran at 10:00 pm. \u00a0It was still light and no one bothered us (3 mi.). Talked to Amy and Ginna Getto outside for a while. We all agreed to travel in groups of 3 & save money for hotels. \u00a0The truth is finally out after we all tried to be cheery on arrival.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’m going to the Festival here & the Bourges Cathedral. Au revoir \u00e0 demain!<\/p>\n

P.S. Bedtime<\/p>\n

There is a sheet sleeping bag you stick your feet in and a horsehair blanket! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

You would be proud of my attitude here, though. I have been thoroughly pleasant. \u00a0Much<\/em> nicer than I would be with my own family.<\/p>\n

P.S. June 10th, 2011. \u00a0I read this last week. And, as I went to yoga, I noticed that a Carnival was setting up in the parking lot behind Siva next to the Baseball Stadium. This area used to be the old airport runway. Friday evening after my class, I could not resist.<\/p>\n

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the best horse!<\/p><\/div>\n

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and the best shoes!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fri. June 20, 1980. \u00a0(notes from my sketchbook journal: The Johnson County girl comes out). Well! \u00a0I am writing this so I will remember how I feel but won’t write that home. We are in Bourges in an Auberge de jenuesse. It is the pits. \u00a0There is a festival going on in Bourges so there… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,233],"tags":[283,275,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}