Heartbreak Hotels and Sleepless Nights (part I)
I am not sure if I am the only person around who has a long series of tales of woe about choosing hotels really badly or not being able to find hotels but I am hoping that it isn’t the case. Let’s look at a few of the unfortunate beds I have managed to lay my weary head on while I learn Spanish is South America.
No Room at the Inn
When you make a long bus journey which has a change of bus in the middle of nowhere there is always of the fear of being stranded. It is something I managed to avoid for an unfeasibly long period of time but my luck finally ran out in the north of Argentina. I got stuck in a place which could have been described as a one horse town if it had only had a horse in it. I spent ages wandering around the place looking for somewhere to stay. Finally I paid over the odds for a bed that was shoehorned into a room that was only slightly bigger than me. Luckily the dripping toilet was close enough to my head that the constant “tap tap tap” lulled me off to sleep by the time the clock struck 4.
I Want the Whole Night
You might learn Spanish pretty well but in my experience things take longer to sink in when you speak a second language. I was in another small town and the best looking hotel in town was called something like Los Dos Amantes or Corazones Juntos or something. The clues were st