Going Dutch

Fourteen for breakfast this morning and it's worth noting that 12 of these appeared between noon and 8pm yesterday. One was through visitscotland.com - our first booking from them. Who says they're useless?

Well...

Almost everyone actually.

Just as we were finishing the washing up, four Dutch tourists arrived asking for breakfast. They had stayed in Peebles overnight, were heading for Harwich and fancied a Scottish breakfast before they crossed the border.

It would be nice to think that almost any Scottish hotel would provide breakfast to chance guests well out of breakfast time, but I have a feeling that a lot of places would refuse. That's a pity because it's not a huge amount of work and the goodwill it generates is enormous.

Thinking about places I've stayed on holiday, it's always been little things that get remembered whether it's the b&b in Tarbet on Harris who said "Come away in boys" and provided home made shortbread, or the place in Dufftown which had the sign saying "showers between 6 and 7.30pm only".

The Dutch tourists will hopefully remember the nice friendly hotel in Jedburgh and tell their friends. Or they'll come back again:-)

It's not even 12 noon yet - Aarghh!