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| Not bad for a last minute booking... |
At
this point I am thinking will a bit of screaming get me a room, how long is the
drive to the station so I can just get back to my own comfortable bed in London.
So you are thinking is this the only hotel around, right? Holiday Inn is next
door and that’s fully booked too. I am 101 miles(gotta love Google maps) may be
sleeping rough tonight if a room doesn’t come up. This also means the hotel
booking for the 3 days that I am in Peterborough also vanished into thin air
across the very wide World Wide Web. I
sent a frantic text to my colleague and he got it just after I had a
confirmation for a room 4 miles from where my original booking was. He is only
in Peterborough for one night which means that he saves the day or evening. He
will check out early tomorrow and have his room allocated to me for Wednesday and Thursday.
In
the meantime, I have just been offered a room at the Marriott hotel. BUT at a
slightly higher rate than I had originally booked. Ha! So you are telling you
are fully booked but you have a room available at an extortionate price?!
Slight exaggeration there but you can see where I am coming from, right? All
that time you were searching for the run-away booking and you could have
allocated a room for me?
Ok,
so let’s just leave that there for a moment. I haven’t told you about my
project, have I? So I am joining TI or Technical Infrastructure. What’s that, I
hear you ask? More precisely building desktops from the project details I got.
Not literally building them, that’s Delboy’s job. Sorry I mean Dell’s job….Lost
my trail of thought as a call came through from my climbing instructor. As I am
working from Peterborough for the next few weeks means that I had to cancel my lead climbing course I was
meant to have next week. I also cancelled a meeting I was meant to go to in aid
of the International Women’s Day on the 8th March. See, the things I give up just to pay my bills!
Typical day in the life of a traveller or gypsy as my niece called me yesterday
when I mentioned that I have to leave my new flat just after moving in.
Got
off the call with my climbing instructor to some good news! I am now booked
into the Marriott AND I also get the corporate rate too. I don’t care who they
had to kick out what matters is that Bee is not sleeping rough tonight! That
makes me sound awful, doesn’t it? Anyway, I have to say though, the hotel stuff
were really nice throughout hence why I avoided the scream fest. It would have
been easier to go down that route if they weren’t so accommodating in calling
all the other hotels and arranging a taxi to take me there. So now I am trying
to decide what to eat next to two hooligans colleagues who are screaming
down the place watching Arsenal Vs Milan…See you on the other side!
Ah! Nearly forgot. My post title came from a typo I made on the Lync(internal IM) and I spent the day fielding questions from colleagues telling me to correct my grammar...If it wasn't Tuesday I seriously would have put this down to Monday madness.
Over
and out!
Bee
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