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Nina's Blog - Thursday 5th June 2025

Thursday 5th June 2025, 08:06

The weather has changed. It's distinctly cooler and there isn't so much as a scrap of blue in the sky.

Leaving Maidstone today and heading off to Reading.

Had my last CB Beef brisket sandwich and a pint of dry cider in Craft Brewed yesterday evening. I must get back in the habit of creating entries in the Lipstick Trail
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
Thursday 5th June 2025, 16:40

I'm in Reading. Turns out my room is in the building next to the main hotel building. Looks like it's been relatively recently converted from flats and it has its own entrance from the road and its own car park.

It's not the Ritz. But the room seems clean and though smaller than the room in the Travelodge in Maidstone it is better appointed with a wardrobe, fridge, and microwave. The bed is a small double rather than the Travelodge king size; but for one sleeper it's plenty big enough. The grounds are a bit tatty and muddy though, I presume that it's work in progress.

However, the Wi-Fi is worse than at the Travelodge! It keeps dropping out and almost every time it reconnects you have to open the login page again, just like the Travelodge but much more often.

I don't understand it. Back home every supermarket and every cafe has Wi-Fi that just works and even in Maidstone Wi-Fi worked pretty well in most of the cafes, why is it that hotels can't get it right? I wonder if Norwegian hotels are as bad, I haven't stayed in one recently but the last time I did the Wi-FI functioned properly.

Why do they even need passwords on Wi-Fi, what's the point?
turbineman40 · 80-89, M
@ninalanyon Programers have to make them selves important to the operation of their Wi-Fi system so you have to change your password to give them something to do
Ha