I'm getting seriously grumpy in my old age, especially about hotels.
I've recently been on the road with my one-woman tour and have slept in 30-odd inns round the UK.
Mostly, the experience has been miles better than it would have been 20 years ago. But the little problems – that could so easily be put right but aren't – bug me. Do you think hotel owners or managers ever sleep a night in their own establishments? Surely, if they did, most of my niggles would get cured next day.
Let's start with the obvious: those little bottles of shampoo, conditioner, bath gel and body lotion. If you aren't wearing your specs (and who wears them in the shower?), you can't read the tiny, pale
