Hit The North!
It's great to exercise the power of the favour.
Last Friday, 15 December, was and is traditionally the busiest day of the year at the restaurant, as it is the last Friday before the Christmas weekend. Everybody wants to have their Christmas dinner parties on that day. I was pleased last week when the work schedule came out and I was only booked to work until 6:00pm. Added to that joy was a whole Saturday off the following day. Of course the lunch shift turned out to be insanely busy as well, but I was comforted by the idea that I would be heading home before the second rush came. I had planned on checking out Belle & Sebastian at a local club in town with my housmate and his girlfriend. B & S were doing a DJ set, which I was keen to check out as I did not know they did that sort of thing.
As luck would have it, neighbour/junior sous chef Tom pulled me aside around 4:30 with a favour to ask. I knew right away what it was, and so I was on the spot. Stay for the double shift and make a little extra cash, or go home at 6:00 and leave them understaffed for the night. I sent a quick message to housmate Jason to find out what the plan was. As it turned out they were probably going to that venue, but not really wanting to pay the £8 to see the band. So I decided I would stay on at work on two conditions. The first was that I could finish when service finished, meaning no clean-up. The second condition was that I get two consecutive days off the following week (which is now the current week). It was agreed.
So now I finally have time to go somewhere rather distant for a time. I decided that Leeds was the place. People have told me that I should check out Leeds, so now I will. I plan to catch the train from Nottingham station this afternoon and return Friday morning in time for my noon start at work.
Unfortunately Leeds doesn't seem to have much for hostels but I did stumble upon a place called Roomzzz, an apartment-style hotel. And it was cheaper than any other hotel I found. It's basically a small apartment with a kitchenette, LCD tv, memory foam mattress bed, etc. for £35 a night. I can save some cash by bringing some food and having a few meals "at home."
So Wednesday to Friday will be my first mini-holiday, and my first trip out of the Derbyshire-Notts area into West Yorkshire - the North, where the accents will be a little thicker.
In January, as I mentioned I will be heading to Wroclaw, Poland for five days. I couldn't resist a discount flight. I fly from East Midlands Airport direct to Wroclaw. I'll likely spend a few days there and a couple in Krakow, with a side trip to Auschwitz along the way. It will be nice to see snow and experience what negative double digit temperatures feel like once again.
See you on the other side of Leeds.
Cheers.
Last Friday, 15 December, was and is traditionally the busiest day of the year at the restaurant, as it is the last Friday before the Christmas weekend. Everybody wants to have their Christmas dinner parties on that day. I was pleased last week when the work schedule came out and I was only booked to work until 6:00pm. Added to that joy was a whole Saturday off the following day. Of course the lunch shift turned out to be insanely busy as well, but I was comforted by the idea that I would be heading home before the second rush came. I had planned on checking out Belle & Sebastian at a local club in town with my housmate and his girlfriend. B & S were doing a DJ set, which I was keen to check out as I did not know they did that sort of thing.
As luck would have it, neighbour/junior sous chef Tom pulled me aside around 4:30 with a favour to ask. I knew right away what it was, and so I was on the spot. Stay for the double shift and make a little extra cash, or go home at 6:00 and leave them understaffed for the night. I sent a quick message to housmate Jason to find out what the plan was. As it turned out they were probably going to that venue, but not really wanting to pay the £8 to see the band. So I decided I would stay on at work on two conditions. The first was that I could finish when service finished, meaning no clean-up. The second condition was that I get two consecutive days off the following week (which is now the current week). It was agreed.
So now I finally have time to go somewhere rather distant for a time. I decided that Leeds was the place. People have told me that I should check out Leeds, so now I will. I plan to catch the train from Nottingham station this afternoon and return Friday morning in time for my noon start at work.
Unfortunately Leeds doesn't seem to have much for hostels but I did stumble upon a place called Roomzzz, an apartment-style hotel. And it was cheaper than any other hotel I found. It's basically a small apartment with a kitchenette, LCD tv, memory foam mattress bed, etc. for £35 a night. I can save some cash by bringing some food and having a few meals "at home."
So Wednesday to Friday will be my first mini-holiday, and my first trip out of the Derbyshire-Notts area into West Yorkshire - the North, where the accents will be a little thicker.
In January, as I mentioned I will be heading to Wroclaw, Poland for five days. I couldn't resist a discount flight. I fly from East Midlands Airport direct to Wroclaw. I'll likely spend a few days there and a couple in Krakow, with a side trip to Auschwitz along the way. It will be nice to see snow and experience what negative double digit temperatures feel like once again.
See you on the other side of Leeds.
Cheers.
posted by Mark Bauche at 3:14 PM
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