Just in case anyone's interested . .
.
Thursday, 17 April
Drove from Leamington Spa to
Dorchester, arriving an hour later than expected. No time to write
the How Spain is Different piece.
Friday, 18 April;
Walked along the beautiful Dorset
coast with an old friend from law school. Saw the fascinating
Durdle Door
19.00: Arrived in Newton Abbott, to
find myself in the only house in the UK without internet.
Saturday, 19 April.
Thanks to
my old Anglo-German friend, I learnt that toilet paper makes an
acceptable alternative to filter paper for coffee. Or kitchen paper,
if you're fussy.
Visited Exeter cathedral and then
went into a nearby place offering free internet. It didn't work and,
when I asked them to switch the router off and back on, they refused
on the grounds that their till was connected to the internet. Then
they added 12.5% service charge to the bill, even though 10 is the UK
norm. But tourists are their main custom so I suppose they don't give
a damn that I won't be going back there
Exeter cathedral, though, was worth
the money. It's possibly the lightest cathedral I've ever seen, thanks
to the brilliance of the 12th century architects. On the way in, we
passed a couple of men exiting via the entrance. One of them was
saying to his rather resigned looking colleague: "If it was free
to enter, I'd probably chuck 5 quid into the donations box but I'm
not willing to pay 6 quid when it's compulsory". As he was old
enough to pay the 4 quid Senior rate, I guess we can regard
'probably' as the (in)operative word of his complaint.
Sunday, 20 April
Finally found somewhere with working
internet - McDonalds in the centre of Plymouth, where they charge you
for parking even on Easter Sunday. Heathens.
Spanish Differences will have to wait
until Tuesday.
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