Lay My Hat

PW: my experience as well. once a guest is upset, whether or not your fault - it does get worse and worse. you usually recognise the body language when you approach. 'no, i did NOT sleep well.' okay, bad sleepers do exist. 'there are numerous insects in the room, we find it dirty and the linen is fu...

samv: be careful - eating stroopwafels can be quite addictive! condensed milk is a very old dutch product - in the old days, people here used it to sweeten up their strong perculator coffee. helenb: that does not surprise me - both supermarkets are very popular in the netherlands. i stock up a lot f...

bunny, generation after generation of dutch children grow up on a slice of bread with butter (as thick as mum allows...) an a lot of the chocolate thingies! or did you mean the icecream...? actually it is a very simple three-ingredient-recipe from nigella lawson! for ca. 1 liter of icecream you need...

butter!

condensed milk... i make icecream with it!

pambon i also LOVE a cooked breakfast! tasted so many during my trips through the UK, scotland and ireland... after that we've usually skipped lunch... i did once in a while make it - but never as good as those i ate! f.i. the thick bacon slices are very hard to get here, as no butcher understands w...

bunny, the chocolate sprinklets are normally (?) used to make a thick layer of it on a slice of bread... my son who lives in paris, introduced the 'stroopwafels' locally :-D visiting me, he always takes back at least 10 packages of 10. he and his french wife also 'introduced' indonesian cuisine in t...

thank you all so much for your support! we've actually solved it, in a combination of gestures and some text via google i memorized. :-) about the cool box: they've travelled quite a distance yesterday, so very practical to have one stocked up with things like water. it is right now, connected to th...

new arrivals today, for 5 nights, from france. they don't speak english. trying to explain in my best french (...) how to use the jacuzzi, they said 'only to want to use the shower over the bath'. no, i do not keep a house book with explanations in x languages. well, for the last hour, i've heard th...

are they still married...? ;-) eh... 'we' once forgot almost all our weekend luggage too... at the house of my parents in law... i was taking care of the baby (3 months old) and carried him plus the huge nappy bag to the car. rest of our bags were waiting at the door... hubby didn't even notice, i g...

don't ask me! recent guest left a loader, i found it and put it aside, as i was too busy to look up his contact info and had many othr problems to deal with. guest phoned a week later - could i mail it please...? i did pronto, same day. had to buy one of these protective envelopes and spent 3 euros ...

phone call, late afternoon. 'can we book a room with you for tonight... please? but we need an extra bed for our son.' me: 'i do have a foldable baby cot available - how old is your child?' '11.' no, i cannot and do not allow third persons of any age in my guestrooms. not to sleep in the double bed ...

fleur, i think that could have been the answer. if one of my guests does that, although i do have a spare key of course, i do not go in there. for me this is a 'signal' they do not want me or my cleaner in their room. it happened only twice in the 6 years i run my B&B, as said: most of my guests...

i have no experience in staying in B&B's outside the netherlands, but in my B&B i let my guests' privacy prevail, so except taking away the used breakfast dishes, cups etc., the leftovers and removing any remaining crumbs from the table, i do not touch anything - or i must expect bad weather...

i suffer sometimes from 'not being able to get to the toilet in time' (related to irritable bowel syndrome) but would NEVER leave the mess i caused, for someone else to clean up. let alone soil a bed and not even TRY to at least prevent further damage. poor cleaners, having to face this. in 6 years ...

thank you all for your nice supportive posts - i did sleep a bit better last night. i did exactly that: turn of the central heating. it normally drops to an inside temp of 15C at 23, all radiators have individual thermostatic valves, so that was why i was a bit worried not to heat only the house but...