Hello Dear Reader,

I’m staying in a basic, cheap or economy hotel or so the ‘brochure’ says. We’d read the reviews and still came as we did so on location and price. You don’t get tea and coffee making facilities so we brought our own along with a flask to take a hot drink with us.

On the first day of our mini break, we brought a day’s worth of picnic with us. On our second day we bought some food at the supermarket take away and had some fabulous French stick ‘sandwiches’.

We’ve walked around lovely old towns ooooing and aaaahing. We’ve sat by the harbour and read.

We know that ‘basic’ hotels offer bed and board but there are things you have to pay extra for. Take your own towels, a kettle, mugs and a few tea bags. Take a couple of your own pillows and you’ll save having to pay for any extras. We also discovered ‘self service’ breakfast which I thought was great as we could eat as much of what we liked and help ourselves to hot drinks. They even had take away cups and foil so you could take your breakfast with you.

I usually self cater on holiday so I don’t think of this as budget but really comfy. Maybe I have low expectations but I’m really happy to stay in the hotel equivalent of Ryan Air and I’m happy to bring the extras they would otherwise charge for.

We’ve had bright and warm, albeit windy, weather here. We love it here and although we don’t have the money for a fancy holiday,we have each other.

Until later,

Love Froogs xx