I am serious ……..and don’t call me Shirley.
Hello, I’m back from the ‘The North’ for a brief stop over and laundry, the Panserbjørne haven’t got me yet and I’m driving back up tomorrow.
The hotel they have us in is very nice and was probably quite exclusive in its day, although it’s looking a bit ‘worn’ at present, but it still has a few pretensions of grandeur i.e it is not cheap.
There’s no bar/snack menu, everything has to be ordered off the restaurant menu and at £13.50 for what is fish & chips no matter how much you tart it up and £15.50 for a cheese burger and chips even if it is 100% Aberdeen Angus, well let’s just say there’s not much left of the ‘per diem’ if you eat in. Fortunately there’s a 2xMeals for £10 pub just down the road so that’s sorted.
But really £5.99 to watch a 31 year old film is taking the piss, did I mention there’s no free wifi either, no, if you want to connect to the net you can use the in-room ‘HI-SPEED INTERNET’ a bargain at only £4.95 for 15 minutes or £19.95 for 24 hours (and that’s clock time, not time actually connected)
So I will be travelling back with a portable hard drive loaded with movies & TV and a £10 PAYG dongle.
An amusing (to me) aside, As an exercise, we individually had to prepare and deliver a 10 minute presentation on a random subject with very little time and materials. After I’d finished the trainer seemed impressed and asked if I’d ever done any presenting before, how I chuckled [inwardly of course]
Still the breakfasts are good (and inclusive) Although I have no idea what the green stuff is doing there, perhaps it fell off a pot plant in passing.
Live Long and Prosper
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British Hotels, chain or otherwise all seem to be run by stunted short termist shitheads. Always a bloody underwhelming experience. It's what prompted me to open a Trip Advisor account and lambast the tossers at every opportunity.
Though similarly when you do occasionally find a little gem (And that is not often) it gives one the opportunity to sing its praises.
Love your blog.
@MtL
Very true, it's always screw the punter for as much as you can get over here. not realising how self defeating that is.
I am definitely going to do the trip adviser thing. but as I am going to be staying there on and off until well into the New Year and I don't want them spitting in my coffee.
I'm going to leave it a while
thanks for the compliment
£5.99s a bit steep but still, it's a classic.
Nervous?
Yes
First time?
No, I've been nervous before
@Bucko agreed
Along with The Princess Bride and Spinal Tap , there's a quote for every occasion
It's either parsley for decoration (which is weird) or possibly coriander for decoration (which is several magnitudes weirder)...
...or perhaps it's a nod to 'healthy eating' - maybe they think that if there's something green on the plate, the SASS* nazis won't shut them down.
It also enables guests to reassure their health-obsessed spouses when they get home; "Yes dear, I had something green for breakfast every day".
(*That's Salt, Alcohol, Sugar and Saturated fat - the four horsemen of the obesity apocalypse, at least according to Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, who wants to tax SASS out of existence)
Bon appetit!
PS You can add Life of Brian for quotability.
Now that is a breakfast!
For me it could do with less mushroom and more fried spud, (or hash browns if you insist), but that's a real breakfast.
And it has loads of vegi stuff in it already; Baked Beans AND tomato sauce, AND a tomato, (grilled I hope) AND mushrooms, and there's bound to be something vegi in the sausages. I mean, add in the fried potatoes and that's practically your five a day already.
And then it has bacon. Mmmmm Bacon.
Hope all is going well up in the Hyperborean wastes. (As a Yorkshirewoman, I'm allowed to say that). I think they are being very 'near' with that film charge, btw. I hope you are not so busy training that you don't have time to try some of the good things about the Leeds/Bradford area. Give the pub a rest a couple of evenings and go and try 1. Mumtaz or Akbar's and 2. a good fish 'ole where they fry in beef dripping. The Keighley and Worth Valley railway is lovely, too.
@Kevin Ooooh yes hash brown would be the icing on the cake, or some of those fried potato cubes you some times get.
@Caesar's wife
I am hoping there might be some weekend stop overs, but 9-5 leaves little time for sight seeing.
I have managed to get to Murgatroyds and the fish & chips were excellent, although The Sea Cow in east Dulwich will always be my favourite
Can't stand black pud.
Ah, a proper breakfast with black pudding. As an ex-pat northerner moved darn sarf I can identify the green thing for you: that's your side salad.
You're not obliged or expected to eat it. Unless your northern host has gone to the trouble of deep-frying it, that is.
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