Day 15 White Wonder!

Tuesday-Days Inn Killington Lake Room 21

Slow start today..... joy of joys looked out our window across the cemetery to the chapel and snow abounds.... Wow how wonderful it is.... the scene it just so pretty..... when they predicted Snow I really thought they were like home with predicted rain, talking through their hat! But they were spot on.....

My time this morning was taken up with catching up in 2 days of diary... I best not do that again it really puts you behind... plus the computer is playing up when trying to down load my 100’s of pics. So once again I have a melt down, John trying to remain patient with me but ready to chook me, finally takes over the process.... He finally understands that there is a glitch in the set up and figures out how to go around it... but still doesn’t change the fact I lose it every time I hit a wall with the photo down loading process..... So I have to pull my head in so to speak. Enough personal disclosure!

So once packed, off we set only to get about 2 mile down the road and we hit a road block on the back roads of the area.... well it turns out in the UK farmers have right of way on any of the roads.... the local farmer in this area was shifting his cows obviously to get the milking done... and a line of cars were behind him as he walked them up the road.... not one car tried to go around. At home all the cars would have zipped around the cows and away, but no not one behind them went around all travelling at 10 kms an hour as we went along them. Cars and trucks coming the opposite direction did go past but very, very slowly.... interesting to watch the respect they give to their farmers. I saw a sign at one of the stops we made a few days ago, telling the public that the Farmer was the life blood of the UK that they have right of way and were to be respected.... shame our government doesn’t have the same respect for our poor farmers who do it tough so often.....
Anyway the cows eventually made it to their milking shed thank goodness so off we speed....

The Hwy was mayhem, with 1,000 heading him from the Easter break.... but what made it difficult was the weather was just awful, misty, raining, cold and miserable +++..... the traffic going in the opposite direction to us kept coming to a stand still, you could see them at a stop for miles! Be frustrating on that side of the Hwy..... heading north didn’t seem as bad!

A stop at a roadside service centre for late m/tea, ohh my goodness it was packed with 100’s of people.... this service centre was like a mini shopping centre, cloths shops, grog shops, pokies, mini super market and fast food.... had our break then off again..
Got nearly to Kendal then off the busy Hwy finally and I to the quaint township of Kendal.... found a shopping centre to stock up before going to our hotel.... after all this stoggy food we needed some fruit.... love their little supermarket very neat and well set out.... got our stores had a wander down the street before heading to our hotel.
First realisation is it is on the Hwy no where near town, second realisation is it is at a Service centre, filled with 100’s of travellers and no one stays in this hotel for yep we had booked it for 4 nights.... not 3 like we thought.....
I wanted to cry, I firstly said to the girl, bet no one books here for 4 nights, she looks at me and says they did think it strange..... then when I asked the girl was there a restaurant, nope sorry just next door at the fast food outlet.

The room I will admit is great, plenty of room, unlike others we have had, and yes has a view over the snow capped mountains and the lake... bonus!

On going next door for lunch we quickly realise there is definitely no fresh food all fast food, sandwiches, rolls, wraps and Maccas.... but no fresh veggies, salads or even soups.... So lesson is really research where your going to stay even check out eating spots before booking.... the pic on the website does make it look amazing with Lake views and that to a point is real.... just made it look like a lovely Manner.... but as we know and well understand we pay cheap we get cheap. That’s the trade off.... so suck it up baby!

The room is pretty quite really considering we are next to a major highway, and there are people coming and going... we can see the bunnies and there are heaps, darting all over the lake banks... the little buggars have dug 100’s of holes everywhere you really will have to be careful when walking or you’ll fall down a one of the many holes out there!

Anyway it is what it is so as time goes by I am sure it will be like any of the other hotels we have used to date just as a base to head off from....
Trouble is I have an expensive taste with a budget account, so I have to cope with what we have.... warmth and views what more do you want.Read more