Martin

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:56:51 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Runge wrote:
    >> "erilar" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
    >> news: [email protected]...
    >>> In article <[email protected]>, "Runge"
    >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>> Try the specialists
    >>>> www.hrs.de
    >>> That's where I find most of my rooms. Haven't been disappointed yet. 8-)
    >> me neither
    >I have. No wonder - I tend to look after the real cheap deals.
    >Sometimes I really long to be back as an employee with an enormous
    >expense account.

or just have the enormous expense account?
--
Martin

Jesper Lauridsen

On 2005-08-11, Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> wrote:
    > [email protected] wrote:
    >> Please post your address, and some directions to your house.
    > 11.74621 E
    > 48.17207 N

Follow E533-B23-B2 for 9.8 km
Follow A95-E533 for 68.9 km
Turn right, follow Anschlussstelle München-Sendling-Süd for 50 m
Exit: 1 follow Heckenstallerstrasse-Mittlerer Ring for 4.2 km
Follow Candidstrasse for 15 m 82.9 km 00h 44
Follow Mittlerer Ring-Candidtunnel for 800 m 83.7 km 00h 46
At sign SALZBURG / PASSAU / NÜRNBERG / FLUGHAFEN MÜNCHEN , follow E54 for 1.4 km
At sign FASANGARTEN , exit: 1 follow the ramp Anschlussstelle München-Giesing
for 100 m
Exit: 1 follow the motorway A995-E54 for 10.0 km
Follow the motorway A99 for 19.9 km 115.0 km
At sign KIRCHHEIM / ASCHHEIM , exit: 15 follow the ramp Anschlussstelle
Kirchheim Bei München for 600 m
Turn left, follow St2082 for 350 m

The last 300m are left as an exercise for Gaston.

Jesper Lauridsen

On 2005-08-12, Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> "erilar" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
    >> news: [email protected]...
    >>> That's where I find most of my rooms. Haven't been disappointed yet. 8-)
    > I have. No wonder - I tend to look after the real cheap deals.

What do you expect from really cheap deals?

Jens Arne Maennig

Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
    > On 2005-08-12, Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> "erilar" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
    >>> news: [email protected]...

    >>>> That's where I find most of my rooms. Haven't been disappointed
    >>>> yet. 8-)
    >> I have. No wonder - I tend to look after the real cheap deals.
    >
    > What do you expect from really cheap deals?

Spacious rooms, perfect service, presents of the management, free drinks
at the bar and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters.

Or what did you think I meant by writing "no wonder"?

Jens

Jens Arne Maennig

Jesper Lauridsen wrote:

    > The last 300m are left as an exercise for Gaston.

That's where most people get confused. Hint: Streets with no access for
cars actually exist :-)

Jens

Martin

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:44:22 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
<[email protected]> wrote:


    >> What do you expect from really cheap deals?
    >Spacious rooms, perfect service, presents of the management, free drinks
    >at the bar and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters.

That's not how you described your spare room. :-)
--
Martin

Jens Arne Maennig

Martin wrote:
    > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:44:22 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
    > <[email protected]> wrote:

    >>Spacious rooms, perfect service, presents of the management, free drinks
    >>at the bar and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters.
    >
    > That's not how you described your spare room. :-)

Nope. This is the guest room:

http://jam.uttx.net/room.jpg

And this is the maid:

http://jam.uttx.net/maid.jpg

I'm afraid the place is getting even more attractive for you this way,
but anyway...

Jens

Chancellor Of The Duchy Of Besses O' Th' Barn And

Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Martin wrote:
    > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:44:22 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
    > > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > >>Spacious rooms, perfect service, presents of the management, free drinks
    > >>at the bar and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters.
    > >
    > > That's not how you described your spare room. :-)
    >
    > Nope. This is the guest room:
    >
    > http://jam.uttx.net/room.jpg

Lovely! Have you considered renting out cubby holes as well? :)

--
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usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
pictures at http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer

Martin

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:29:59 +0100, [email protected]
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h
offy) wrote:

    >Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Martin wrote:
    >> > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:44:22 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
    >> > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>
    >> >>Spacious rooms, perfect service, presents of the management, free drinks
    >> >>at the bar and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters.
    >> >
    >> > That's not how you described your spare room. :-)
    >>
    >> Nope. This is the guest room:
    >>
    >> http://jam.uttx.net/room.jpg
    >Lovely! Have you considered renting out cubby holes as well? :)

and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters? :-P
--
Martin

Martin

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:28:22 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Martin wrote:
    >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:44:22 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
    >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>>Spacious rooms, perfect service, presents of the management, free drinks
    >>>at the bar and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters.
    >>
    >> That's not how you described your spare room. :-)
    >Nope. This is the guest room:
    >http://jam.uttx.net/room.jpg

En suite & equipped for pole dancing!

    >And this is the maid:
    >http://jam.uttx.net/maid.jpg

The pole?

    >I'm afraid the place is getting even more attractive for you this way,
    >but anyway...

I imagined something more like this
http://www.pbase.com/vinz/image/47286033
--
Martin

Jens Arne Maennig

Martin wrote:

    > I imagined something more like this
    > http://www.pbase.com/vinz/image/47286033

Not this one?
http://www.pbase.com/vinz/image/47286038

Jens

Martin

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:46:29 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Martin wrote:
    >> I imagined something more like this
    >> http://www.pbase.com/vinz/image/47286033
    >Not this one?
    >http://www.pbase.com/vinz/image/47286038

Made me think of Miasma . :-((
--
Martin

Martin

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:46:29 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >Martin wrote:
    >> I imagined something more like this
    >> http://www.pbase.com/vinz/image/47286033
    >Not this one?
    >http://www.pbase.com/vinz/image/47286038

Have you got relatives with a hotel in Bournemouth?

http://tinyurl.com/c33dj
Room service
Paddy Burt visits the Hermitage Hotel, Exeter Road, Bournemouth.
(Filed: 13/08/2005)

Wish we weren't here at the seaside

'I don't know why you don't choose proper hotels, like those normal
people stay in," writes Mr JK.

While I certainly don't go out of my way to choose improper hotels, I
do appreciate the recommendation of another reader, Mrs AS, of the
Hermitage Hotel in Bournemouth. She says, "the food is excellent and
the staff friendly and helpful, though what really prompted me to
write was that there were sheets and blankets on the beds . . ."

On the Hermitage website there's a photograph of a uniformed porter
unloading a guest's luggage. Certainly looks as if this is a proper
hotel and they seem happy to accept our booking for just one night.

Car parking is in front of the hotel. All the spaces are taken but
that's "No problem, so long as you don't mind leaving your keys," says
the receptionist.

What is a problem is that having checked in and been given a card with
a room number on it, when we arrive at the room I realise we haven't
been given a key.

My husband returns from reception - I am guarding the luggage - and
says the receptionist has given him the spare key as they seem to have
mislaid the correct one. After a couple of minutes of trying to make
it work, there's an irate cry of "Oi! What you doin'?" from inside.

Another trip back to reception and we discover that the room number
has been changed on the computer. "Nobody told me," grumbles the
receptionist.

At this point, Gary is summoned to escort us and our bags to Room 617.

"This has never happened before," he says, looking embarrassed. "I
shall take it up with the Front of House Manager."

The journey to Room 617 takes us through one end of the dining-room
and along a corridor with a "behind the scenes" look about it (lots of
stacked spare tables), up a back staircase, and then through a door
marked 617, inside which are two rooms and a bathroom. They are tall
and narrow with a single ceiling light.

"Bit like an artist's impression of high-security cells," remarks my
husband. One contains a double bed, the other is an equally no-frills
single - no pictures or bedside lights - and a view of a yard with
storerooms or kitchens.

We phone reception. "Have you got another room, with bedside lights at
least?" No. The hotel's full.

At the bottom of the stairs is a notice showing which rooms and suites
are to be found upstairs. We're not surprised when Room 617 isn't
among them.

The bar, though, is nice, with polished panelling and uniformed staff.
As it's getting late (last orders must be placed by 8.20pm, I was told
when booking) we go to the restaurant. Here, traditional English
cuisine is being served in an elegant room with oak panelling, crystal
chandeliers and sumptuously patterned fabrics.

Here we meet the tall, bespectacled restaurant manager - very
welcoming he is - brandishing menus. I choose mushroom and coriander
soup, my husband the turkey and salad with a beetroot dressing.

"Have a taste of my soup," I say.

"Mmm. What is it?" he asks.

"Go on, have a guess."

"Hard to tell," he says at last.

''It's supposed to be mushroom,'' I tell him.

Both our main courses - salmon with a sweet chilli jam and confit of
duck - arrive with roast potatoes, and soon the waitress is back,
offering more. My husband, knowing his duty, accepts some cauliflower
mornay. "It doesn't really taste of anything - certainly not cheese!"

In the morning I don't fancy the bath - it's chipped - and my husband
doesn't have his customary shower. "The hot-water supply keeps
stopping and starting. I could have been poached!"

On the way downstairs, we notice that some rooms have newspapers
outside. Nobody asked us if we'd like one.

Breakfast's indifferent with rubbery scrambled egg. Now we know what a
proper hotel is like.

Looking through the printed pages of the website, we read that "the
Hermitage Hotel is privately owned and has a management philosophy of
sophistication and high-quality service, represented in our exemplary
accommodation." Fancy that!

The Hermitage Hotel, Exeter Road, Bournemouth, BH2 5AH (01202 557363,
www.hermitage-hotel.co.uk), has 74 rooms. Paddy Burt paid £132 for
dinner, b & b; £24.90 for drinks & wine. Total £156.90.
--
Martin

barney2

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Jens Arne Maennig) wrote:

    > *From:* Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]>
    > *Date:* Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:28:22 +0200
    >
    > Martin wrote:
    > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:44:22 +0200, Jens Arne Maennig
    > > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    > >>Spacious rooms, perfect service, presents of the management, free
    > drinks
    > >>at the bar and charming chambermaids with tiny skirts and garters.
    > >
    > > That's not how you described your spare room. :-)
    >
    > Nope. This is the guest room:
    >
    > http://jam.uttx.net/room.jpg
    >

Stop, Mixi will be getting envious!

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current century placed after the first word.

Juliana L Holm

Jens Arne Maennig <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> That's not how you described your spare room. :-)

    > Nope. This is the guest room:

    > http://jam.uttx.net/room.jpg

The house swap is definitely off.

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Julie
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