We have a 2 night journey to France and normally we stop at the cheap formula 1 hotels, but as we are driving towards Barcelona we remember the luxury hotel we stayed in there a couple of years ago.
We decide to push the boat out and book in again, we look on line for any deals and find a price but it is in British pounds and my phone will not let me change it to euros too pay on line, we decide to just call on the off chance and the price is not that different paying direct, we also ask about dinner and there is an option for a 3 course dinner with water and a glass of wine for 16 euros.
We relax in our wonderful room and I even get to luxuriate in the bath, it has been so long since I lay and relaxed in bubbles, I really think I have died and gone to heaven (we are definitely putting a bath in the new house!)
We then go for dinner and watch the sunset over montserrat, the meal is fantastic, the view is fantastic but it does mean we have been to Barcelona yet again without visiting the city, but we don't mind, we realise how lucky we are that we don't have to try to cram everything in to each trip as we can come as often as we want to, and feel it would be better to fly into barcelona and spend a weekend there sometime soon rather than try to drive and park in the city.
The next night we stay in a budget formula 1 hotel and order the breakfast, we go out to a Court Paille for a burger dinner, nice but nothing spectacular.
We do however laugh at the salad starter, which consists of a bowl of lettuce leaves!
When we tot up the prices, it turns out that the night of luxury was only 30 euors more expensive than a budget night with a shared toilet and a burger.
Sometimes cheap isn't necessarily cost effective it is just cheap!
we always do one buffalo grill when in france and thats their idea of a salad too.....pleased john fine and look forward from afar to your jottings from your next adventure......(one day ill stop livng my life second hand and have an adventure of my own!!) ha ha
ReplyDeleteyes the salad is great, we ordered one on our first trip and John could not get over it ha ha. Glad you are sticking with us and you are never too old to have an adventure :)
DeleteGlad Johns fine, must have been pretty scary for everyone. Salade in French means lettuce, an English salad is normally called Salade du chef ( lettuce,tomatoes, cucumber, often egg , tuna etc ). Gave us a laugh as well at first.
ReplyDeletethank you, it was very scary, but the salad is great, I think John wanted to cry the first time he saw it ha ha (it is one of those things you learn very quickly)
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