Day One in Hotel

Well, we checked into the Hotel Victoria in downtown Newquay tonight. We arrived just past 6:00 p.m. We ended up looking at four different hotel rooms before we were happy with the room. Room #1 was on the third floor, directly over the next-door Bertie’s Nightclub: A “no-go.” Room #2 was on the third floor, facing the main high street, which can be quite noisy at times: A “no-go.” Room #3 was on the second floor, directly over Bertie’s. Room #4 was a free upgrade to a sea-view room… a large room facing the ocean (much quieter) and the largest of the four rooms. Hooray!

We like to eat dinner earlier, say around 6:00 p.m. Dinner and breakfast are included in the hotel room rate. Dinner is served between 7:00 and 8:30 p.m. It is quite the formal affair; translation: it takes a long time in between courses. If you have to eat earlier, it turns out that the fellow who owns the hotel, also owns Senior Dicks Mexican food restaurant next door. When staying at the Hotel Victoria, the front desk folks will give you a coupon for 10% off the bill at Senior Dicks. We went to Senior Dicks, had an appetizer and then returned to the hotel for dinner. After an hour in the dining room, we were tired, and a little bit irritated, so we left before they offered us the dessert menu.

We returned home for one more night on the mattresses on the floor. The house is warm. The computer is on. The TV is on. It is a comfortable abode, even if it is camping out in virtually an empty house.

Tomorrow, we will actually take our suitcases over to the hotel and settle in there. This week is devoted to the final cleaning of the house, getting it ready for turnover to the owners on Saturday. The carpet cleaner comes on Wednesday. The hedge trimmer comes on Thursday. The folks come to retrieve the large appliances on Friday.

Now it really does feel like we are moving out… moving on!

As Charles always says: “Hold on to your sombrero, kid!” Yep… tonight at Senior Dicks, I grabbed my sombrero!

More to follow…