The Fridays Tour

[Sketchley]

Derwent Manor breakfast service starts at 7. Might be an idea to email them and ask nicely to do it a little earlier, just get milk tea & cereals out...

Speak for yourself! If I'm cycling all those miles each day I want a proper breakfast and coffee.......

 

[Sketchley]

Just had this from Burnbank Cottage we are already sorted in Kinross but I thought I would pass it on.

From: bandb@burnbank-kinross.co.uk
> To: xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Online enquiry for Burnbank Cottage
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:14:17 +0000
>
> Hi, thank you for your enquiry. I all ready have an enquiry from another
> chap who is doing the same ride and is willing to share. If you like I could
> put you in touch with him and the three of you could share our family room,
> the cost would then be £35 per person.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ann

 

[dellzeqq]

They'll usually give you coffee and breakfast early if you ask - and, as it happens, you have a sensational negotiator with you! Bear in mind that Corbridge is only 13 miles from Derwent Manor.

 

[dellzeqq]

Just had this from Burnbank Cottage we are already sorted in Kinross but I thought I would pass it on.

thanks Chris!

 

[Sketchley]

They'll usually give you coffee and breakfast early if you ask - and, as it happens, you have a sensational negotiator with you! Bear in mind that Corbridge is only 13 miles from Derwent Manor.

If you don't feed me before I leave, I reserve the right to be very grumpy and fairly annoying for those 13 miles......

p.s. I don't think we are staying in Derwent Manor, we appear to be at Hownsgill Bunkhouse so no idea how that work with breakfast which we have booked but not paid for...

 

[dellzeqq]

the bunkhouse should be fine - they're used to cyclists and walkers!

Mailing should be in your inboxes now!

 

[dellzeqq]

(silence....they're all reading diligently....)

 

[srw]

I was just wondering where the end of the last sentence got to...

 

[Moodyman]

Burnbank Cottage let me down. They gave me a provisional yes, and now told me they've no rooms.

Anyone got a twin / family room that they need a sharer for?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

"Mr. Verloc, getting off the sofa with ponderous reluctance, opened the door leading into the kitchen to get more air, and thus disclosed the innocent Stevie, seated very good and quiet at a deal table, drawing circles, circles; innumerable circles, concentric, eccentric; a coruscating whirl of circles that by their tangled multitude of repeated curves, uniformity of form and confusion of intersecting lines suggested a rendering of cosmic chaos, the symbolism of a mad art attempting the inconceivable"; the booking of accommodation for The Fridays Tour.

Saturday 16th (Nottingham) http://www.eastbridgfordhill.com/ twin room inc breakfast for Greg and Adrian.

Sunday 17th (York) Crooklodge http://www.crooklodge.co.uk/ Two rooms booked: 1 x Greg Collins; 1 x Adrian C inclusive of Breakfast.

Monday 18th Castleside http://www.bw-derwentmanorhotel.co.uk/ Twin room in B&B for Greg and Adrian.

Tuesday 19th Jedburgh http://www.jedburgh-hotel.com/accommodation/Glenbank Twin room for Greg and Adrian

Wednesday 20th Kinross http://www.thekirklandshotel.com/ Twin room for Greg and Jim Gill (No room for Adrian!)

Wednesday 20th Kinross The Windlestrae Hotel, Kinross. Double room with single occupancy for Adrian

Thursday 21st Newtonmore http://www.oxfordhotelsandinns.com/ourhotels/highlander
Twin room Jim Gill & Greg Collins

Thursday 21st Newtonmore http://www.newtonmore.com/places-to-stay/b-b/larick-house.html Twin room Adrian and Moodyman

Friday 22nd Tain http://www.dunbius.co.uk/ Two twin rooms Adrian and Moodyman; Greg Collins &Jim Gill

Saturday 23rd Wick http://www.mackayshotel.co.uk Greg, Adrian Twin room

"They swarmed numerous like locust, industrious like ants, thoughtless like a natural force, pushing on blind and orderly and absorbed, impervious to sentiment, to logic, to terror, too perhaps." on their way to John O'Groats.

 

[dellzeqq]

I was just wondering where the end of the last sentence got to...

I had another thought and then decided that now was not the time. It concerned shorts. And mintyarselard

 

[mistral]

They no longer have the twin.

Me & Olaf got that one on Wednesday

 

[dellzeqq]

the self-catering place at East Bridgford has now gone! Remember that there's still a bed for a gent sharing at Glen Bank in Jedburgh

 

[Sketchley]

Me & Olaf got that one on Wednesday

There was one left, until I booked it.

 

[mistral]

Me too - I've failed to resolve my main clash so will have to wish you all well!

That's a shame