{"id":21,"date":"2008-02-20T16:51:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/13-the-getaway\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:21:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:21:33","slug":"13-the-getaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/13-the-getaway\/","title":{"rendered":"#13 The Getaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/13-the-getaway\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yes, as I said this morning, we skipped town for a bit of a getaway. I enjoy my work and taking time off is tough! We spent some time in the Laurentians, skiing, and then visited Montreal. It was short but fun!<\/p>\n<p>We started in the Laurentians with two nights at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.millefeuille.ca\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.millefeuille.ca%2F','L%E2%80%99Achill%C3%A9e+Millefeuille')\" rel=\"noopener\">L\u2019Achill\u00e9e Millefeuille<\/a> &#8211; a B&amp;B we discovered while cycling last summer. It&#8217;s pretty fantastic.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" align=\"top\" width=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/Millefeuille.jpg\" alt=\"Achill\u00e9e Millefeuille\" height=\"216\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Our hosts, Claude and Monique, are gentle people and superb hosts. Their largest dog, Tofu, only has eyes for Claude and pulls at my heartstrings &#8211; I lost my Tigger 16 months ago. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" align=\"top\" width=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/Tofu.jpg\" alt=\"Tofu the dog\" height=\"268\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>We skied and ate well and departed for Montreal for a couple of days. We relaxed, window shopped, did a little urban hiking and I soaked up some culture at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbam.qc.ca\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mbam.qc.ca','Mus%C3%A9e+des+Beaux+Arts')\" rel=\"noopener\">Mus\u00e9e des Beaux Arts<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" align=\"absBottom\" width=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/Montreal.jpg\" alt=\"Mus\u00e9e des beaux Arts - Montreal\" height=\"216\" align=\"right\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last night we arrived back in Chelsea just in time for a short ski in the Gatineau Hills. As much as I enjoyed the getaway I was happy to be back at work &#8211; although I am playing catch-up!\n<\/p>\n<p>Bye for now &#8211; tomorrow &#8211; ghostly portraits from a student.\n<\/p>\n<p>Harry     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Yes, as I said this morning, we skipped town for a bit of a getaway. I enjoy my work and taking time off is tough! We spent some time in the Laurentians, skiing, and then visited Montreal. It was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/13-the-getaway\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F02%2F20%2F13-the-getaway%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}