The Land Of Big Tractors
We went up to Norfolk on Monday and gosh do they have big tractors up there nowadays! Presenting a seminar for 40 or so wedding photographers who had nothing better to do that evening was fun, but the best was yet to come ...
It's comforting to know that some things never change, and that the classic 1970's English Hotel Experience can still be had. We'd asked for a quiet room, and were relieved to find that the bar underneath it wasn't actually as noisy as it could have been. Our room boasted two radiators powered by the noisiest central heating system imaginable, which ran flat out all night. We couldn't turn them off because the valves were corroded, but luckily the windows opened so we didn't overheat.
By about 3am we'd got used to the noise and had mananged to get to sleep - until at 5.25am the road sweeper lorry went very slowly past right underneath our open windows. Road sweeping lorries are very noisy in Norfolk and the drivers of them are very thorough, this one making no less than three passes up and down the same bit of road outside our room to make sure that it was left pristine. At least that made sure that we were still awake to hear the bin men turn up 20 minutes later, and to marvel at how loud the reversing bleepers are on bin lorries in Norfolk.
We were just so glad that we'd asked for a quiet room, and felt that it would have been churlish to complain about having to fill a waste bin with water to flush the loo. We're still not sure what the evil slimy fungus was that was climbing up the wall behind it, but it was really interesting.
Breakfast was OK though, in a very 1970's English hotel way ...
It's comforting to know that some things never change, and that the classic 1970's English Hotel Experience can still be had. We'd asked for a quiet room, and were relieved to find that the bar underneath it wasn't actually as noisy as it could have been. Our room boasted two radiators powered by the noisiest central heating system imaginable, which ran flat out all night. We couldn't turn them off because the valves were corroded, but luckily the windows opened so we didn't overheat.
By about 3am we'd got used to the noise and had mananged to get to sleep - until at 5.25am the road sweeper lorry went very slowly past right underneath our open windows. Road sweeping lorries are very noisy in Norfolk and the drivers of them are very thorough, this one making no less than three passes up and down the same bit of road outside our room to make sure that it was left pristine. At least that made sure that we were still awake to hear the bin men turn up 20 minutes later, and to marvel at how loud the reversing bleepers are on bin lorries in Norfolk.
We were just so glad that we'd asked for a quiet room, and felt that it would have been churlish to complain about having to fill a waste bin with water to flush the loo. We're still not sure what the evil slimy fungus was that was climbing up the wall behind it, but it was really interesting.
Breakfast was OK though, in a very 1970's English hotel way ...
posted by Dan Johnson at 8:04 AM
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