{"id":2080,"date":"2012-04-14T00:21:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-04-14T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T04:47:13","slug":"things-to-do-on-a-sunday-when-youre-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/2012\/04\/14\/things-to-do-on-a-sunday-when-youre-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to do on a Sunday when you’re in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I slipped my beanie and gloves into my suitcase I felt a bit silly. Surely it wasn’t going to be that cold. But when I was standing on a Paris street on Sunday 8 April before the sun came up and it was about 1\u00b0C, it didn’t feel like such a stupid idea!<\/p>\n

It was only last year that I told myself I had to get to the Roubaix velodrome at least once in my life. Strike one thing off the bucket list!! It’s an experience I think I’ll always remember. The roar of the crowd as Tom Boonen edged closer and closer to the velodrome, only to reach an amazing intensity when he actually entered. Not something that you easily forget.<\/p>\n

\"Start
\nThe start for Paris Roubaix<\/p>\n

\"Pave
\nThey even have to start on pave!<\/p>\n

\"Pros
\nFuture pros perhaps?<\/p>\n

\"Stuart
\nStuart O’Grady’s shoulder…<\/p>\n

\"Stuart
\nStuart O’Grady’s ear…<\/p>\n

\"Stuart
\nLook! It’s Stuart O’Grady!!<\/p>\n

\"Pro
\nContemplating what’s to come.<\/p>\n

\"Australian
\nIt’s not a bike race in Europe if there’s not at least one Australian flag.<\/p>\n

\"Sign
\nYa gotta go that way!<\/p>\n

\"Pave\"
\nOur first cobble section at Inchy. I had enough trouble walking on it, couldn’t imagine what it’d be like to ride on it.<\/p>\n

\"Pros
\nAll that standing around and they go by so quickly!<\/p>\n

\"Pros
\nThere they go!<\/p>\n

\"Entering
\nBreakaway group entering the corner at our second stop, Haveluy.<\/p>\n

\"Pros<\/p>\n

\"Thor
\nThor!! <\/p>\n

\"Georgoe
\nGeorge!!<\/p>\n

\"Peleton
\nThese are not happy faces. Stuart O’Grady tucked right in the middle. From what I can gather, GreenEdge did not have a good race.<\/p>\n

\"Breakaway
\nBreakaway group at Orchies.<\/p>\n

\"Peleton
\nPeleton coming through!!<\/p>\n

\"The
\nRoubaix velodrome.<\/p>\n

\"Tom
\nAnd he’s arrived! Tom Boonen entering the Roubaix velodrome.<\/p>\n

\"Boonen
\nI think he deserves a hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I slipped my beanie and gloves into my suitcase I felt a bit silly. Surely it wasn’t going to be that cold. But when I was standing on a Paris street on Sunday 8 April before the sun came up and it was about 1\u00b0C, it didn’t feel like such a stupid idea! It was only last year that I told myself I had …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[85,2],"tags":[403,401,305,402,398,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2108,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hatfullofsky.net\/littlewords\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}