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Room with a view, I didn't mind slumming it for a few days until the new upgraded room became available. |
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After 4 days we were able to move to a sea view room. Only 2 raffia mats in this room, goes together well with the tropical bamboo mirror frames, bed for communal fu sleeping. |
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Close up view of that wall mounted mat from the old room. |
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On loan from the Pompidou in Paris. |
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The hotel's party line, oh the things you hear through the bathroom air vents, makes me blush just thinking about it. |
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What do you do with your old raffia table mats, make an interesting wall feature of them of course. |
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Nice views with a wrap around balcony. |
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Raffia pineapple |
We stayed there once. A "lovely" view of the street from the terrace, and a "wonderful" view of the bins and the car park from the other side. Last time we went to Sitges, we thought we'd booked the same hotel again - but, no! We were actually in the Subur Maritim - a half a mile walk away from town (not far from the beach bar pictured in your last post, actually). It turned out (despite the nightly exhausting stagger back from a long evening's drinking) to be a far nicer option, with a fab garden. And a lot cheaper. And we could even get the stupid little tourist mini-train back during daylight hours.
ReplyDeleteI don't even think there was any raffia involved, either. Jx
PS Adore Goldfrapp!
DeleteSounds very much like room 299 where we stayed, did the bin men wake you up in the early hours, emptying the bottle bins, the sound was horrendous. The Subur Maritim is more me and I don't mind a walk drunk or otherwise, thanks for the recommendation. We used to stay at the Apollo apartments until a man drowned in the pool there and we've never been back since. We often stay at Plaja d'or on the on the sea front, equally as scruffy as the Subur but it has a nicer atmosphere and there is room to 'roam' there! If you're after some company just sit on the sofa next to the lift and you will soon get an invite into someone's room.
DeleteAlison Goldfrapp the best Noosha Fox impersonator out there.
DeleteI have been saying that for years! Jx
DeleteMy mother had an album of theirs that's why I'm familiar with the group. Whilst looking at your link I noticed someone with a Madonna True Blue avatar, that reminded me of a video I watched/listened to on YouTube when I was bored out of my mind, in Sitges, it was Madonna's True Blue Album as if it was recorded in the 1950s and Blondie's Parallel Lines.
DeleteOoh - right up our street! Jx
DeleteI've been lucky to stay with friends when in Spain. so missed all such taffi-raffia. Oh bugger! Now I might have insulted the Welsh! (But it was in Spain that I fell in love with Sicilian olives. OMG!
ReplyDeleteTaffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief;
DeleteTaffy came to my house and stole a leg of beef...
I'm not keen on olives, Sicillian or otherwise. I don't mind a tapenade though.
I went to Taffy's house, Taffy wasn't in;
DeleteI jumped on his Sunday hat and poked it with a pin.
You're lucky I'm not "woke" or I could have sued for "Welshist discrimination" 🤣. Jx
I'll look forward to the knock at the door.
DeleteI do wonder if the raffia mats were used to cover unfortunate stains to save complete redecoration?
ReplyDeleteSx
I thought that too. I used the fan in pic 2 to cool myself but more importantly to look coquettishly at young man on the balcony opposite, I've been reading too many of MC Beatons historical novels.
DeleteI can live with these pseudo handy craft kitsch - but the breakfast room gives me the creeps. It looks like a dubious sports bar, usually a front for organised crime. The motor bike surely was used in some robberies. I would not eat there ; maybe a beer from the bottle, I'll open it meself, thanx.
ReplyDeleteYou gazed wistfully at that ceiling? Good grief, look at the state of it!
ReplyDeleteStill, as you say, the view from your pre-upgrade room made up for it.