I am with my husband in a holiday cottage by the English seaside and, four days into our week-long break, we’re still tussling with myriad unfamiliar elements of the house including the heating, the plumbing, the recycling, the kitchen layout and equipment, the electrics, the heating, the plumbing and the recycling.
I stayed in the town where you are, Fran, a couple of years ago, and your description is making me wonder if you're in the sane house we were in! I hope your post will go into the Visitor's Book and/or will serve as your feedback on the accommodation!!
By the way, a few years ago I was in self catering accommodation in Australia with family, and my sister (a very experienced cook) could not fathom the electronics of the oven and had to give up.
Let this be a warning to all owners of self catering holiday accommodation to stop trying to outdo everybody with fancy devices...
To be fair, the house itself is lovely and more like a family home than a holiday cottage. But we need another month or so to get used to all its idiosyncrasies ...
Your post did make me shake with laughter because I kept remembering various self catering cottages we've stayed in over the years. It's amazing; you never forget them and their idiosyncrasies. Probably everything you mentioned brought up a memory of one we stayed in, in Alnwick, York, Eastbourne, Lyme Regis, St Ives, Australia, New Zealand... all those elements may be infuriating at the time, but one always remember them with affection!
Haha! I always end up breaking something when I stay in an Airbnb.
I think this house might have broken ME.
I stayed in the town where you are, Fran, a couple of years ago, and your description is making me wonder if you're in the sane house we were in! I hope your post will go into the Visitor's Book and/or will serve as your feedback on the accommodation!!
By the way, a few years ago I was in self catering accommodation in Australia with family, and my sister (a very experienced cook) could not fathom the electronics of the oven and had to give up.
Let this be a warning to all owners of self catering holiday accommodation to stop trying to outdo everybody with fancy devices...
To be fair, the house itself is lovely and more like a family home than a holiday cottage. But we need another month or so to get used to all its idiosyncrasies ...
Your post did make me shake with laughter because I kept remembering various self catering cottages we've stayed in over the years. It's amazing; you never forget them and their idiosyncrasies. Probably everything you mentioned brought up a memory of one we stayed in, in Alnwick, York, Eastbourne, Lyme Regis, St Ives, Australia, New Zealand... all those elements may be infuriating at the time, but one always remember them with affection!