When you speak of a time warp hotel in Jersey in disparaging terms, I ask myself why you choose to run a time warp car while you are there. I shall not ask which establishment you are staying in, for fear that it it the same that I remember with affection from two business visits to Jersey a couple of years age as definitely of the 1980s in terms of style and amenities, and comfortable enough, and also offering a warm welcome and good cooking.
I drive old cars because I like old cars! This website is all about old cars. Many of us here love cars from the 1970s and from other past decades. That doesn't mean that we actually want to live in those past decades. I remember the 1970s very well, and with a lot of affection, but I don't want to live in the 1970s.
Nobody could accuse this hotel of having good food! My comments about the hotel were light hearted. It's cheap. Everywhere else was full. The place is mildly depressing after almost two weeks here. It's business model undoubtedly works, but that doesn't stop it being dreary. There's a certain poverty of ambition that the hotel and its loyal regular customers emanate. Some of the other customers are perhaps only a few years older than me (I am 59), but they seem to have given up on any idea of living life, if they ever had any such idea. I shall NEVER retire!
On Saturday I move to a large apartment in a rural farmhouse which costs almost nothing a night, for two weeks, and then I have another three weeks or so in a more modern hotel in one of the seaside towns.
Back to the old cars: The HF is at the local classic car garage, awaiting the arrival from Berlin of a new throttle cable. Th old one had parted at the engine end and is too frayed and worn out to be repaired.
The garage is renting me a Mimosa Yellow Triumph Stag (manual with overdrive) for the weekend.
