Holiday haunts
I'm bound to say ...and I speak only from a personal point of view... that I prefer a characterless, modern generic hotel; so the Sandman Signature, which lives in symbiosis with Gatwick's abominable airport, was my sort of stopover. Because we were compelled to rise some hours before it was served, we had to forfeit our paid-for breakfast and wait around, stomachs gurgling, in the airport's departure lounge. As you will remember, the Sandman, in northern folklore, is a figure who sprinkles magical dust, or "sand" in the eyes of sleeping children to bring them delightful dreams. The encrusted deposits found in the corners of the eyes upon waking are the residue of this material. I can only assume that the establishment's eponymous deity was negligent in his attentions on the occasion of our stay: I managed to doze for about an hour. I think of this style of architecture ...if that's what it is... as Globalist Lego-Egyptian.
With all that said, I would rather take my chances on a place like this than stay in a B&B at the verge of some arterial road in Horley, sleep under the eaves, endure the forced bonhomiousness* of the proprietor and his wife and choose between the fried bread, tinned plum tomatoes and slippery fried mushrooms of their "full English" and a safe but not particularly inviting alternative such as scrambled eggs on toast.
*If I have just coined this useful word I hereby offer it, entirely free of charge, to the English lexicon.
Holiday haunts
I'm bound to say ...and I speak only from a personal point of view... that I prefer a characterless, modern generic hotel; so the Sandman Signature, which lives in symbiosis with Gatwick's abominable airport, was my sort of stopover. Because we were compelled to rise some hours before it was served, we had to forfeit our paid-for breakfast and wait around, stomachs gurgling, in the airport's departure lounge. As you will remember, the Sandman, in northern folklore, is a figure who sprinkles magical dust, or "sand" in the eyes of sleeping children to bring them delightful dreams. The encrusted deposits found in the corners of the eyes upon waking are the residue of this material. I can only assume that the establishment's eponymous deity was negligent in his attentions on the occasion of our stay: I managed to doze for about an hour. I think of this style of architecture ...if that's what it is... as Globalist Lego-Egyptian.
With all that said, I would rather take my chances on a place like this than stay in a B&B at the verge of some arterial road in Horley, sleep under the eaves, endure the forced bonhomiousness* of the proprietor and his wife and choose between the fried bread, tinned plum tomatoes and slippery fried mushrooms of their "full English" and a safe but not particularly inviting alternative such as scrambled eggs on toast.
*If I have just coined this useful word I hereby offer it, entirely free of charge, to the English lexicon.