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Friday, 14 March 2014

BIRMINGHAM HERE I COME PART 2


So we went off to our em. Hotel?

Hahahahaha.

Well, not quite.

My friend said it didn’t look quite as she expected. I thought, oh what? Hahaha.

As we got out of the car into the beautiful sunshine, we headed to the doors of our first nights stay.

Oh God, the smell of the foist flung itself furiously in our faces.

A punch in the nose. I thought, that is not a good start?

The receptionist was friendly but handed us one key.

One key for our quote, “double room?

We informed the girl, we had booked a twin room. In otherwords, a room with two single beds,not one double bed?

She said that they had no twin rooms and only double. I said OK, can we have two double rooms then? Answer, no.

She then said see what we thought of the room, the bed may be good enough for us, but if not, there were no alternatives.

Well, we expected to just take a lift to our room,

Lift?

Em

No!

In fact, our room, wasn’t even in the same building.

Up three steps, down two steps, out of the back door. My friend cracked me up saying that we were to use the traidsmans enterance.

Down two other steps outside and along a tiny bit of concrete. Up four enormous steps onto some grass and across the path. Well we laughed as the place boasted on line that it was in acres of land? Acres?

Em

No!

As for the beautiful countryside it boasted, well, there were a few trees which held a few crows.

So across the tarmac and around a group of buildings that my friend said looked like Grandma’s old cottages. Hahahaha. Oh God, we got to our door. Used the key, and couldn’t get in. Tried the second time with the other key on the ring and bingo, we were in. The locks were really high and very old and rusty. The inteeriour doors were kind of like a plastic coated.

Oh heck, you should have seen the bed? My friend and I were to share?

It wasn’t even a double bed, it was a three quarter bed. Now, if I lay on my back, I almost filled the bed, my friend is tiny, but she would not be able to lay on her back, that was for sure. Hahahahaa

I just couldn’t imagine how this was going to turn out?

The room had everything you would wan’t. A trouser press, mind you, not quite sure who uses a trouser press these days? A hair dryer and toiletries as well as a kettle and cups, but no spoons. My friend made a cup of tea for us and we did laugh when she handed me the cup with the tea bag still in it and she joked again saying it was a good job we didn’t take sugar?

There was a note pad without a pen and the place was so cold. There were no switches for the heating, so we phoned, yes there was even a phone.

The receptionist said she would send up help.

The man my friend called learch. A TV carictor.  But it got warm. Then my friend couldn’t see as the lights didn’t work. Hahahhahahaha. I told her I would help her to find the way.

We went to dinner, needless to say, we didn’t change for dinner, as felt rather over dressed for the place as it was.

Oh the night got better. We were to have a tour of the wonderful place.

So after leaving our door, around the ramp over the tarmac and grassy verge. Down the huge steps and back up again, we were told to turn around to go on the tour and start again all the way back to where we had just come from. We were like a line of ants. Everyone was rather serious but not my friend and myself. WE laughed like naughty school girls, couldn’t believe how we had just come from the same place, but this time, we were to visit the

“fitnesscentre!”

Oh yes, we had a fitness centre.

We passed our room, still outside around the houses. Oh, sorry, I mean the hotel? With the cars passing on the street outside our rooms. Basicly, it was a street of houses turned into the hotel that we learned can’t be called a hotel. Hmm.

The fitness centre was one other little house, a room, and we all, all 21 of us, walked in, as two girls were working out. We were sure the girls were staff. Haha. Paid to pose for our benefit.

Fitness centre? Oh God, me sides, if not for my friend and her dry sense of humour, she made it worse, I couldn’t keep a straight face with her little comments.

So, all the way back and we had before drinks. My lovely drink was?

Orange cordial.

Oh, and sodour. I was so hot and enjoyed it.

But I did laugh only inside when the girl told me it was cordial. Just sounded really childish.

It was then when we met Mrs Frosty knickers as my friend named her. Hehehehehehhehehehe

Oh my God. We were approached by the maniger. She was so rude to us. She insisted that we told her of my disability. This is how the conversation went.

Frosty knickers “excuse me, can I ask you is there something I should know about?

Me. Em, no!” Of course I knew what she was on about, but was I hell going to make her life easy as she was a horror.

Frosty. “Have you got a disability? I should have said no, but I answered yes, oh then she asked what it was? Hahahhahahaha. I should have said I was in a wheelchair the stupid woman. I said I was blind, then wait for it Bloggets. Just wait for this one?

“Oh I need to know these things, so I can inform the fire brigade?

Hahahaha.

 Say what?

My friend was in shock, she asked me as we went to dinner, why did the fire brigade need to know about me? Hehehehehe. Oh God we did laugh, as I made up a story about through the night a fireman would just burst through my door. For no reason, only because Frosty knickers said he should and we must all do what Mrs. Frosty says, right? Em, nope.

 

 We all had to sit on a large table     I stook to it. It was a sticky mess. The table was so old and God knows what was on there?

But as I sat next to the bar maniger, my friend whispered among the noise how he looked? Again, she was really amusing, so funny. He had a comb over and the other bits of hair he had, were sticking up all over. But he was a nice guy.

I tell you, the food was lovely, I am serious, really nice and I don’t eat goats chees, I think that should be left for the goats, so they made me something not on  the choice of two things on the menu, they made me a delicious Chinese meal. So we had three courses and really, it was lovely and the staff were great, we had the choice of two tables to sit on and we made sure we didn’t’ sit on Mrs Frosty knickers table.

The conversation was hard as it was noisy, but between the barmans voices and my friends, it went OK. I learned that the place couldn’t be called a hotel. Cadbury’s bought the land and these were the houses for the workers. Frosty was on the other table telling everyone that twin rooms wouldn’t work. Well, it was up to everyone to tell her and the barman what we thought of the place. We tried, she wouldn’t listen. The barman was great he, did.

After the meal, it became funnier. As the guy who got us all together, began to give a speech about the place being quotes quirky

Frosty knickers was standing behind him, listening to how he compared the place to a Catholic hostel in Durham without mirrors and one hair dryer for all the guests. Haha. I don’t think she would be happy about that, do you? He also said that this place could be given a chance, if the staff would listen to us as we were not the  guinea pigs, more like the labotory rats? Hahahahaha.

Cheeky?

He just kept putting his foot in everything he said, considering we got a free nights stay. Oh as I asked the guy about the second night, saying would we get a twin room then? He was shocked as he said

“Oh no, there is not stay over the second night, only a meal at the nice hotel.

Hahahahahaha. Oh God, my poor friend, had brought two lovely dresses for the posh hotel the next day and her bathing costume and even shaved her legs for the occasion.

I told my friend she should say

“No stay at the other place? Don’t you know I have shaved my legs?

But she didn’t’

It was funny though the stuff we took for one night?

So to bed? More on that later.

 

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