Hillside Self Catering

And half, but only half, it's our fault - only ourselves to blame. We read the description of the place a little hastily, and, comparing the promise of a "breakfast basket" to "self catered accommodation", we deduced that it was a type of accommodation as we have already experienced with satisfaction in UK, or places where self catered meant that we had to make tea or coffee ourselves, (... not ideal but we can survive :), or warm our own bread in the toaster, but the rest it was provided through free access to a well-stocked pantry with everything needed for a good continental breakfast, or better still through a rich basket deposited in front of our door. Alas 'it is not so', the basket means two dried pastries and all the rest, but everything, you have to go and get it 'who knows' where, since we are in the middle of nowhere and the first supermarket is miles away. distance. Great shock and waste of time, but we would have done it, were it not that the food purchased would have had to be kept in the room in an old noisy fridge, which we had to unplug immediately so as not to be dazed. The other half that does not depend on us is the untidiness, discomfort and poverty, aesthetic and functional, of the accommodation. A sink suitable only for Barbie bathing, a shower that can only be entered if very thin, a hot executioner but no fan ... in the closet the broken hangers fixed with a round of plaster! - and buy new ones, right? - we are talking about plastic hangers, not precious wood. The owner is a gentleman who is formally very courteous, and says all his "Thank you" and "Please" at the right point, .. but basically he doesn't give a damn about the customer. He is endowed with a resonant baritone voice, from Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which he uses at will to entertain his personal visitors or other clients, as and when he gets ticked, including at 7 am and 11 pm. Clearly the subtext is "I'm at home and I have the right to do what I want when I want", and technically I wouldn't even know how to blame him, - but in his place, if I really cared not to have limitations, - I I would refrain from receiving PAYING guests.