Bristol is awesome...but....
So maybe I was apprehensive about staring at them now and enjoying them as I imagined all those poor African's being dragged from their beautiful sun kissed lands and being sold to build White Lady Street.
How awful?
I suppose that's the Empire for you, the sun may never have set on the Empire but the shame did.
So to tell you more about last night, I got a call from husband telling me there was an important email from NZ and so I grabbed my laptop and headed off into the night streets of Bristol trying to find any where that had WI/FI, but there was literally no place to be found, honestly, I was walking about the wee winding streets clutching a silver laptop waiting to be mugged!
I was so fucked off and angry I stomped back to the smelly room and tried to sleep.
Which brings me neatly to the sleepless night, I hear you thinking...Oh no Janey not a nightmare story...No... It was noise, fucking irrepressible noise that did it. Firstly, the hotel walls are made of papier-mâché , the room smells like old ladies pants and the room overlooks a city street, never mind that the room is also so small it would make Ann Franks house look like a Palace.
Then to top it all at 5am a shop alarm went off, I lay there silently hoping I could turn into our Scottish Lord Watson and just set fire to the place. (Lord Watson is a Scottish MP who is in prison for wilfully setting fire to hotel curtains, maybe he was pissed off it had no broadband and was noisy?).
Then I finally fell back asleep only to hear a pecking noise at the window, I got out of bed and there in the sunny day break was a smelly arrogant pigeon pecking at my window! Who the fuck lived here before? Mary Poppins?
I opened the window... (As if it would actually tell me what it wanted, I looked at it with anticipation). It simply cocked its bird flu head and flew off...even the pigeons are here to irritate me!
Today I wandered the city, which honestly is really beautiful and so trendy YET no one had wi/fi...I was beginning to feel that anger creeping back into my blood stream, even the BIG internet centre had no wireless connection!
I finally gave up and felt so low and desperately frayed, then I spotted a guy in a café with his laptop, I rushed to him excited the way Dr Watson must have greeted David Livingstone in the dark jungle and blurted out "Do you know where I can get wireless connection? Do you get it here?"
He told me there was a great place called the Watershed down on the water front that does woderful food and free wireless....so here I am and they DO!
I love this place....still hate the slave thing but I love the watershed in Bristol.
posted by: bronwynj (reply)
post date: 04.24.06 (8:55 pm)
I agree with you Janey, when will motels/hotels 'get with the programme' & install broadband?!