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- Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:40 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Attending to Upset Guests
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5734
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...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 6:06 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7266
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...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7266
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...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 1:03 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7266
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:38 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7266
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...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 9:31 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7266
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...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:48 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7266
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...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 9:45 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7266
helpless guests, what to do...???
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...
- Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:48 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Lost property woes
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4568
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...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:37 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Lost property woes
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4568
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 ...
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 9:58 pm
- Forum: B&Bs
- Topic: why do french people forget they have babies ? just a rant.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6018
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 ...
- Fri Jun 26, 2015 6:24 pm
- Forum: B&Bs
- Topic: Question re room cleaning
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12181
- Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:11 pm
- Forum: B&Bs
- Topic: Question re room cleaning
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12181
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:34 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: What a mess!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7721
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 ...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 4:30 pm
- Forum: The Cafe
- Topic: pfff - giving up a bit!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1257
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...