Bredonborough Morning reading First thing
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Bredonborough.
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Front Door call for the TrevMobile at 10.00.
21.03 Hotel Modesto – But It comes With Lotsa Smoke At No Additional Charge! - Damme-Sijsele, (a few miles from) Bruges, Belgium.
A punctual arrival of the TrevMobile, leaving behind a grieving Minxie Road Widow I…
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… as we drove away…
… from Bredonborough towards Studio Jakko, just outside Berkhamsted. Arriving c. 12.40, Trev dismantled the Solar Voyager…
… while Jakko played 3 surround-mixes from THRAK…
The Solar Voyager loaded, farewells to Jakko c. 13.45, and away again through leafy lanes…
… to the Channel Tunnel. Arriving early, we experimented with the modest amenities of the nearby facilities…
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A 75-mile drive to near Bruges, passing the old town c. 5 miles from our modest & tired accommodations, albeit colourfully appointed I…
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WiFi is 25 euros for 24 hours, or E15 for 60 minutes. US visitors please note, that’s c. $27.50 for one hour. The linen-laid restaurant promised good meals, but a little too much for arriving travelers with 30 minutes ordering time left. The bar is smoke filled, the behind-the-bar chatelaine smoking furiously with her visiting guest-pal also smoking furiously, other guests also smoking. The stench in the small bar is awful, drifting through the rest of the small building & up the stairs to our guest rooms.
Nevertheless, this is what it is. The room is clean, acceptable – and no charge for the smoke that permeates this guestroom (with a No Smoking sign on prominent display).
A call to the Minx. Today was the Willcox family lunch & day to celebrate Barbara’s birthday. They sailed Beric’s boat Tortuga Bay from the Wyre Mill Club and moored it at the end of Barbara’s garden, a short distance up-river. This was a moving moment for the family and for Beric’s friends at the club, as the Willcox family-boat left the club after 50 years, never to return.
Beric & the club celebrating his 80th. birthday, October 2000...
23.10 Computing enough.
