More UK tribulations.

Have just discovered that there's free wifi on this boat. Which probably explains why the ticket price has increased so much in the last couple of years.

I finally did find a crew of East Europeans to clean my car in Leamington Spa. The operation was brilliantly efficient - inside and out - and a quick calculation based on their hourly throughput and low overheads suggested a sizeable profit for the owners. Though I rather doubt the operatives are on more than the minimum wage. If that.

My list of 27 ways in which Spain is different in proceeding nicely and will be posted tomorrow. Apologies for the delay.

This may or may not be true - it was in the Daily Mail - but it seems the UK's bureaucrats are now so ignorant of Christianity that one local council banned a Good Friday street Passion play because they thought it centred on sex. You couldn't make it up.

Which reminds me . . . Exeter's luminous cathedral is Gothic in style. As I may have said before, this word was originally applied to post-Romanesque churches to mean 'ugly'. BTW - On entering the cathedral, we were told they hadn't taken a delivery of free leaflets in English but we could have the glossy guide for only a  quid, instead of two. We opted for the free leaflet in German and Spanish.

The piano player on this trip is far better than the two on the last one. In fact, he played such good blues and jazz that I got up to congratulate him. Only to find that he'd gone on his break and the piano was playing automatically.

Finally . . . The 'headline' cabaret star last night was a Tom Jones impersonator who'd been the ('cheated') runner-up in some UK copycat competition. He was announced as 'Europe's leading tribute act'. Which does rather make you wonder what he's doing on this boat, playing to drunken motor-cyclists. Perhaps Europe is awash with Tom Jones impersonators.