{"id":594,"date":"2007-09-08T06:49:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytomorocco.com\/2007\/09\/08\/hotels-are-for-wimps\/"},"modified":"2011-07-11T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T08:32:56","slug":"hotels-are-for-wimps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/hotels-are-for-wimps\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels are for wimps&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and me.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I gave in and crashed at a hotel. It was a bargin at $25 but dear me I wish I hadn&#8217;t. Amazingly it was the worst nights sleep I&#8217;ve had so far, even with air-con a comfortable bed and clean sheets. I&#8217;m obviously getting far to used to my sleeping mat! (I told you it was comfortable).<\/p>\n<p>But tongiht sees me hunting out a hotel again, as there&#8217;s no camping on Gibraltar. You&#8217;d think this was easy, there&#8217;ll be loads of hotels here! Think again. There are about 6, and they&#8217;re all full. The only hope I have is the Youth Hostel which opens at 4:30pm. It has 2 single rooms (\u00a325) and then dorms that sleep 12 (\u00a315). I&#8217;m crossing my fingers that I can get the single room, but if not then the dorm will have to do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here for 2 nights as I digest the recent politcal unrest in Morocco and wait for the latest advice from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fco.gov.uk\/servlet\/Front?pagename=OpenMarket\/Xcelerate\/ShowPage&amp;c=Page&amp;cid=1007029390590&amp;a=KCountryAdvice&amp;aid=1013618386829\" title=\"F&amp;C Office advice on Morocco\">Foreign and Commonwealth office <\/a>after the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6984821.stm\" title=\"BBC News\">bombings in Algeria<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s totally unconnected, but at the same time, I&#8217;d rather sit here for and extra day and make sure that everything is fine before I grab the hourly ferry across to Cetua.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6982843.stm\" title=\"BBC News\">BBC News the election has gone well<\/a>, with little unrest and with a low turn out&#8230; this boads well, but given the latest attempt to set off a terroist device next to a tourist coach in Meknes if I do go, I need to be very vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I plan to see a little of Gibraltar, but I don&#8217;t want to see too much as it&#8217;s quite possible my darling wife will be flying out to join me here around the 27th September for a couple of days, and I&#8217;d rather leave things for us to do together. I miss her dreadfully and it&#8217;s the hardest thing to deal with whilst I&#8217;m away. I find myself quite tearful most nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and me. Last night I gave in and crashed at a hotel. It was a bargin at $25 but dear me I wish I hadn&#8217;t. Amazingly it was the worst nights sleep I&#8217;ve had so far, even with air-con a comfortable bed and clean sheets. I&#8217;m obviously getting far to used to my sleeping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/hotels-are-for-wimps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hotels are for wimps&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28,33,34],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morocco","category-on-the-road","category-touring","category-travel","tag-morocco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}