Monday, July 24, 2006

Early one morning

Twenty past seven on a sunny Monday and I'm having an early breakfast consisting of a double shot cappuccino which will be followed by more of the same until the computer screen comes into focus.

It's cooler today which is most welcome -Aarlene, in case you hadn't noticed: we Brits spend most of the year complaining that it's cold and wet, and the remainder complaining that it's too hot and dry!

It was a busy weekend with 11 guests on Saturday only one of whom was a walk-in. The rest were all booked. We had another two couples looking for rooms after that and redirected them to other B&Bs. A pity we don't have the new rooms available yet. The Italian guests came down for breakfast an hour early having forgotten to change their watches - some Norwegian guests did the same last week. I'm usually very careful to say "breakfast is at 8.30" and not "half eight" because to Germans (and possibly others) "half eight" means half before eight (i.e. 7.30)

Most of our guests stay one night and their reason for staying is "passing through". It's better having guests for one night than not at all, but it would be nice if we got more guests who actually decided to base themselves in the Borders for a holiday.

So it's pleasing to report that on Saturday L took a booking for mid September for 5 people who want to stay for 5 nights. They're walking the Borders Abbey Way which was officially opened this year. The number of people walking the St Cuthberts' way is increasing too. Both these routes go through Jedburgh. We're getting a number of bookings for golfers too with the visitscotland golf guide being one of the more effective pieces of advertising they do.

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