On 2013-10-03 09:59:50 +0000, Martin said:

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 10:31:39 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 2013-10-03 09:39:45 +0100, Martin said:

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 22:55:53 +0100, Sacha
wrote:
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Our bed is 7x7 so we have plenty of individual space and
neither of us will *ever* forget the 3 or 4 days we spent with friends
whose spare room contained a 4' bed for the two of us! It really was a
case of synchronised breathing and turning!

One of the problems with renting holiday cottages is the awful beds.
Some owners use them as a last resting place for their old beds.

I don't know if it's just a British habit to do that but friends have
told us of some horrendous encounters with tatty furniture,
uncomfortable beds, washing machines that don't etc.

In France it is even worse. The French dump beds, in holiday cottages,
that were awful when new. We had an awful tiny double bed in a Dutch
B&B. We didn't expect a child size bed with a rock hard mattress in a
room advertised as a double.

Everywhere we
stayed in NZ was, without exception, comfortable, beautifully furnished
and with superb breakfasts. Their b&b association does a great job.

We took one cottage in France where every time you breathed the bed
creaked ominously and the wooden slats the mattress was on shifted
around. And the pillows were cheap supermarket ones about the thickness
of a biscuit.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon