Monday, January 30, 2006
This sunday was the first aniversary of Andrea and I meeting.To celebrate, we spent the weekend back in Milton Keynes, staying at the Cock Hotel, in Stony Stratford.
The Cock is a famous place, though you may not know it. Ever heard of the 'cock and bull story', or "We'll ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross"?.... that's The Cock Hotel in Stony.
Saying that... the quality of service, and general level of maintenance in the place left something to be desired. Some of the staff were great, but jeez, some were really miserable bastards... and the faults and safety issues in the place... if they'd had a surprise health and safety visit, they'd be shut down in an instant.
This didn't matter hugely to us though, as we'd booked into the place on a discount online bookinjg scheme, and weren't even paying half of full price. Had we been paying full whack though, I suspect we'd have left and gone somewhere else.
Anyway... not wanting to go on about the hotel, coz it wan't a biggie really....
So, did we have fun? Yup, very much so. I can't say we did anything unusual, exotic or out of the ordinary... we just enjoyed the time going to places we used to go to when I lived there, like down to the river, or for drinks in the Vaults Bar while they had a folk workshop.
Oh yeah.
After 5 months, I got a haircut at last. It's kinda funny, coz I could get it done here really easilly, but I waited to travel 105 miles before I had it cut, so I could go to the same place I always used to have it done.
We'll definitely go back again, and next time, we'll probably go see some friends and family too. We decided not to do that this time, coz.. well... being a special occasion for us, we just wanted the time to ourselves.
A year eh? How'd that happen?
Labels: hotels, Stony Stratford
Steve 3:54 PM [+]
Comments:
Post a Comment
The Benway Empire |
 |