I am on the road again. Or more rather on the tracks. Since I’m travelling almost entirely by train.
Whatever.
It’s a 7 1/2 hour journey from where I live to where I have to be at 7pm.
Instead of leaving at midday and making a usual late appearance, I chose an early train so that I arrived at about half past 2 and had time to admire the town. I’ve been here before but didn’t get to see much of the 16th century architecture and pokey cobbled alleyways.
There’s also quite a lot of a castle left – although it’s not quite IN the town itself, it’s still not too far to walk.
That was my plan.
It was raining lightly when I got off the train. Grey and damp is always the best way to see a town…. *sigh*.
After wobbling along the line between what I wanted to eat and what I’d given up for lent at the ‘proper’ bakery next to the station, I wandered towards the hotel via a church closed for repairs and a graveyard with a mixture of war memorials and more recent memories, my pink umbrella standing out from all the grey like the red-jumpered man in a Constance painting.
When I got there the hotel foyer was deserted, except for a landline phone (with a curly cable :)) next to a small sign with a phone number on. Once I’d convinced myself that there really wasn’t anyone around, I phoned the number and let it ring a couple of times before hanging up.
The hotel man, who appeared a couple of seconds later, seemed a bit miffed that I’d hung up on him, but he still handed me the key for my room, which was all I wanted anyway 🙂
I dumped my bag, went to the loo, sat on the bed and promptly decided to take off my coat, shoes and glasses. Big beds can only mean one thing – sleep!
Fast forward a good couple of hours (can almost 3 still be a couple??) DB phoned to get my help setting up a new computer. (That’s a bit like me phoning him up and expecting him to talk me through changing the oil in a new car, one neither of us has ever seen before…).
And now it’s time to go to the restaurant for an evening-before-the-real-meeting meeting.
Ho-hum.
Next time I’ll have to plan to get here a day in advance!
The title ahahahaha. Loved it
🙂 Maybe I’ll stick to writing titles and ignore the rest 😉
Welcome to my world – I’m not sure I welcomed you properly last time you wrote. If I did, rejoice in being doubly welcomed 🙂
Aww haha it’s all my pleasure. Also, no, the title sort of summarised the whole story and threw it in a punch, which made it really funny.
Safe travels
Thank you 🙂