Saturday 17 July 2010

Help! Please!
I have written my blog for last weeks trip to France and saved it in a word document. I desperately need to copy and paste this to my blog page. I have done it before but for some reason am unable to do it now!
If anybody knows what I am doing wrong then please contact me at the e-mail address or on 07956 029 344.
I would be very grateful.

Am up at 04:30 wishing I could stay in bed!
I am off to the Harz Mountains in Germany today staying tonight in Bruhl, southof Cologne.
All of the pick-ups go to plan and I am away from Guildford by 07:30, arriving in Folkestone at 09:30. We are booked on the 11:24 shuttle but I manage to change to the 10:50 which is a right result.
Dropping my keys in the bin is not a right result though! I cleared up some rubbish from the coach and took it over to a wheely bin parked nearby. As I threw in my rubbish I heard the heavy sound of my keys hitting the bottom of the bin!
I had to lay the bin down and crawl into it to retrieve my keys from amongst the discarded coffee, split rubbish bags and dirty nappies! Yuk!
I now have the cleanest keys in Folkestone!! And hands!!
We leave the terminal area and proceed to the passport and security areas. Passing the English passport control I am stopped by a young lad wearing a yellow jacket, a smirk and holding a walkie talkie.
My lane is dwindling and the cars inthe other lane are coming across and taking our place. The security bays are all full, there is no need to keep me here.
I open my door and nicely ask the young man why he has stopped me here - "Because I told you to" was his reply. What a pr***! I am not impressed.
Eventually young Adolf lets me go and we join the queue for our train.
Arriving in Calais we drive towards Brussels, stopping for lunch on the motoray, and then onto the Belgian/German border where we have another short stop.
Our hotel tonight is the Ramada Hotel Bruhl, located south of Cologne.
This is a very nice overnight hotel with both buffet breakfast and buffet dinners. We arrive at 18:15 and dinner is at 19:30.
The rooming list does not have any names to room numbers only our alloted amount of double, single and twin rooms.
I hand out the keys to the passengers and am left with nothing! No key for me! As we do not have names to rooms and the correct number of rooms have been allocated then we must be a key short, but which one!
I have to ring every room to narrow the choice down and am eventually left with room 251. By the time I collect the spare key I have wasted 40 minutes in my search.
My beer before dinner tastes very good!