{"id":7203,"date":"2016-11-17T22:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7203"},"modified":"2016-11-17T22:28:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:28:32","slug":"thursday-17th-november-2016-i-think-that-i-have-made-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=7203","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 17th November 2016 – I THINK THAT I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hostellerie<\/a>… with this hotel. <\/p>\n

It looks really impressive from the outside, that’s for sure. But inside is a totally different story.<\/p>\n

It’s a really bad parody of a 1960s coach-tour holiday hotel. The ground floor is crammed – and I do mean crammed – with furniture, much of which dates from the 1950s and looks as if it’s been sat on by Hattie Jacques for every day of that time.
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\"hostellerie<\/a>There’s a 1970s-style radiogram complete with multi-stack record player, all covered in dust, stuck in a corner just like something out of a time-warp. And the endless tape of early-70s bubblegum music does nothing whatever to dispel the image.<\/p>\n

And not only that, the owners have a little brat of about 4 who is the noisiest little brat that I have ever heard, and how no-one has gone out to drown him before now I really do not understand. and it’s now 22:48 as I type, and the brat is still not in bed. It’s a disgrace.
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Yes, I’m still here at this time, and there’s a reason for this. There’s no internet in the bedrooms, only down in the bar. And it’s the worst internet connection that I have ever encountered. It makes mine back in the Auvergne look like lightning. I’ve been here for hours trying to do what normally takes 20 minutes to do back at home.<\/p>\n

The room is as you would expect. It’s clean and tidy but it’s long-since passed its sell-by date. I have a bath and a shower attachment, but no shower curtain and so I’ll drown the place out before too long.<\/p>\n

The place is also full of Dutch pensioners. all of the signs are in Dutch too, so that tells you what the place is really like.<\/p>\n

The good side is that I’m paying just \u20ac40 per night for bed and breakfast, and I have no real complaint about the breakfast. But that’s it. I’m really disappointed by all of this.<\/p>\n

But at least I managed yet another “sleep of the dead” last night. Out like a light and I remember absolutely nothing at all.<\/p>\n

Except of course that I had been on my travels. It had been a “Men from the Ministry” episode where N\u00b01 and N\u00b02 had gone off to a meeting and I had remained behind to cook tea. I made a curry, although there wasn’t much to make it with and ended up having to use bean sprouts. Eventually n\u00b02 came back and we waited and waited for n\u00b01 to come back. When he finally arrived he insisted that n\u00b02 make him some sandwiches immediately. At that I exploded, After all that I had done to make the food and after all the waiting around that we had done and there he was issuing all the orders like this and all the food that I stayed behind to cook was now heading for the bin.<\/p>\n

Downstairs for breakfast afterwards (it doesn’t start until 08:00) and then back to my room for a few hours until the cleaners threw me out. That’s when I came down here to discover exactly how bad the internet really is.<\/p>\n

\"vresse<\/a>As for the village of Vresse sur Samois, it looks very pretty from up here and quite rightly so. But there’s another story to tell about it.<\/p>\n