“Do you know where this restaurant is?”, asked Jane.
“Not a clue”, replied husband Frank.
It was not surprising. They had never visited this town before, and only chosen it now because it was a handy stopover on their way back from vacation. And because the hotel lay on the outskirts, they had not even been able to check their bearings when they had first arrived.
“I just saw it in the guidebook, it’s got three stars, so I thought it might be a nice treat for our last night away. We’d better give ourselves some time to find the place.”
“Make sure you bring the sat nav, so we can find it”, Jane responded.
They left their hotel a full thirty minutes before their table reservation. Just in case. Installing themselves in their car, Frank switched on the device and, while it fixed its location, he tapped in the restaurant’s address. As they left the hotel’s car park, opposite they noticed a small parade of shops, now all closed for the evening.
“You have reached your destination”, said a voice. As Frank looked up in surprise, one of the shop-fronts in front of him was transformed into light.
For no reason in particular. This is a true story which happened to us coming back from vacation one year.
The shop had disappeared?
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The “shop” was the restaurant. I got a lot of stick for that!
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😂😂My satnav in France used to do this to me all the time. Vous etes arrive, when we were in the middle of nowhere. (Sorry, can’t figure out how to get accents on my laptop.)😂
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Funny enough it was our chat about Le Touquet reminded me of this. The restaurant turned out to be a full 200m from the hotel! Still, at least I could have a drink.
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Nice one!
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Did you go in? Yikes
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I seem to remember it was a beachfront hotel so I probably parked back up and we’d have strolled for a few minutes. We’d have had daughter with us who’d have been u-10, so…well, it’s like walking the dog really, isn’t it? 🤣
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Walking the dog? 🙄
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oh, yeah, we needed to give her her exercise!
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😁
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