The first week's guests have now left, so i feel it is now safe to write about them without the risk of one of them looking over my shoulder. We had a lovely family, 4 students, a couple and a divorcee with his two kids. Most of the week was fine. I ran around after them like i should, cleaning rooms etc. First full day i ended up cleaning sick out of one of the student's bins! Not what i expected. Then later in the week another student fell over running from the hot tub to the snow outside and back. His injury.... His second toe nail had been almost completely ripped off. Guess who had to play nurse! His girlfriend kinda left him to it. So with my handy plasters and Savlon, (we do not have a first aid kit!) i patched him up. I didn't pull his toe nail off but i watched him pull it off in the spa shower. It did make me feel really rather nauseous, as it looked like there was so much blood in the shower tray but obviously the water from the shower had diluted it. Needless to say the 3 student guys were impressed with my dealing with the situation and not being squeamish like they all were. Must have come from my mother. :)
The other set of our guests that stood out was the divorcee and his 2 kids. They were the only Northern people out of the guests and in my opinion he had a big chip on his shoulder. I didn't realise the whole Northern Southern difference were still so prominent. They thought of us as posh! But Graham (changed his name for privacy reasons) was not a very nice man. He would sit on skype just before dinner and get his kids to talk to their mums (half brother and sister), this is fair enough, but the girl was 14 and the boy 12, and this happened every night! I mean for goodness sake it is only one week! Another thing is he treated the ski host as a ski instructor which is not on when his kids had only had about 7 hrs practise in a snowdome! It meant that everyone in the ski hosting session had to wait for them. But then on the last evening when we were all settling up the honesty bar, he gave Rachel (ski host) 10 euros to settle a 7 euro debt, and said "I'll take a snickers in the morning, and you can keep the change"..... That was our tip.... bearing in mind we each received 20euros from the couple and 10euros each from the other family and an eighth of a bottle of vodka from the students!
Our next load of guests.... a group of 17 who are a family and are out for Christmas. They're all lovely and very helpful when it comes to clearing up! It helps to save so much time.
Ciao for now
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