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Tag Archives: hotel
Farmyard animals enjoy indoor luxury of family seat (Rousse)
The family seat of the Hanna dynasty was now a hotel. I wondered what the descendants of this noble line would make of the pigs and donkeys happily housed on the ground floor just behind the reception desk.
Bodies in the boot (Rousse)
It was a terrible end to our holiday. When we parked at the airport I noticed that the boot of the car was already open. Surely we’d shut it properly when we set off from the hotel? Once we got … Continue reading
Lives saved, but with a fine to pay (Rousse)
It was meant to be a short walk to get some fresh air between sessions at a conference based in a Marriott hotel somewhere in the US, but within minutes disaster struck. One by one we slipped from the footpath … Continue reading
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Tagged air, chain, concrete, conference, fence, fine, footpath, fresh, hotel, Marriott, over-weight, post, posts, river, sessions, walk
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Class-conscious Cotswolds offers mixed welcome (Rousse)
Everyone* we knew had moved to the Cotswolds. We drove down to see if life there would suit us too. My sister J set up an introduction for us with the vicar’s wife, also newly arrived in the village. The … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, awning, awnings, ball room, blonde, booking, bookings, boots, car, class, climb, Cotswolds, cup, dance, dancing, drive, driving, four-wheel drive, furniture, furry, grand, gravel, groceries, grocery, hill, hotel, maître d', piano, rank, seating, shirt, shopping, sister, snack, social class, son, staff, steep, table, tables, tea, teach, trousers, vicar, vicarage, village, wife, working class
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Wedding day blues: you just can’t get the staff (Rousse)
My wedding day was fast approaching. All that I needed to do now was transfer my hair straighteners and make-up to the hotel bedroom and then I’d be all set for the ceremony. The hotel bedroom was palatial. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged alcoholic, alcoholics, antiques, bedroom, blues, brush, carpet, ceiling, ceremony, Christmas, classroom, cleaner, complaint, contract, dignity, dirt, dustpan, hair, hair straighteners, handyman, hoover, hotel, make-up, makeup, marriage, mess, needles, refusal, shift, staff, standards, straighteners, tile, tiles, tree, wedding
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“Friend” of royalty responsible for luggage loss (Rousse)
Although the conference had changed format for 2012, it still attracted the same crowd. AA and I waved greetings to everyone we knew as we crossed the main exhibition hall on our way out to check in at the hotel. … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminium, bank, banks, bog, border, camera, career, careers, conference, degree, Diana, drown, drowning, exhibition, France, German, Germany, hall, hotel, Kensington Palace, lost, luggage, palace, peat, pink, postgraduate, Princess of Wales, purse, rail, research, revolving door, royal, royalty, skirt, stand, stream, study, suitcase, television, train, vouchers, water, wool
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A stay at the budgie hospital hotel (Rousse)
How fortunate that AM and I were allocated to the same hotel bedroom. Without her tutoring, I would never have known that bedside light fittings also double up as iPhone chargers, nor would I have had access to the wide … Continue reading
Shetland’s craziest coach driver (Rousse)
We had both settled into our seats on the train on the way to the airport when I asked TPR what he had done with the suitcase. Although we’d both remembered our rucksacks as hand luggage, he’d forgotten to pick … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, bag, bags, boast, boasting, bumper, car, cars, children, coach, conversation, crazy, cycling, dead, death, diversion, dodgem, driver, driving, experience, flight, gate, hand, hillside, hotel, late, luggage, miss, missing, mountain, mountains, near-death, passengers, peak, peaks, reception, rucksack, rucksacks, seat, seats, Shetland, shop, shopping, souvenir, souvenirs, suitcase, tandem, theme park, toy, toys, TPR, train, watch
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The girl with the dragon tattoo is an Outer Hebridean alien (Rousse)
Lisbeth Salander was just one of the surprises at the guest house on the Isle of Lewis. Also packed in with the “regular” guests were my nephew PF and his sister AF, Mikael Blomkvist (on hand to help Lisbeth track … Continue reading
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Tagged alien, aliens, aluminium, bedroom, bedrooms, blue, briefcase, briefcases, case, cases, cat, cats, criminal, dinner, dragon, expressionless, eye, eyes, girl, girl with the dragon tattoo, guest, guest house, guests, hotel, incognito, Isle of Lewis, larsson, Lisbeth Salander, luggage, Mikael Blomkvist, nephew, niece, novel, novels, Outer Hebridean, Outer Hebrides, pallor, Roswell, seat, seats, sister, skin, space, steig larsson, stieg larsson, suitcase, suitcases, table, tattoo, travel, travelling, trolley, trolleys
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Makeup tips for women over 40 (Rousse)
Belle and I happened to be staying at the same conference hotel. I was so excited to see her, keen to take advantage of a rare opportunity to snatch five minutes together alone. I congratulated Belle on her recent Dreamaticus … Continue reading
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