The 1000 Day Holiday

Living in hostels is quite a change from everyday life, and I’m sure if I had stayed only in hostels for the last 760+ days I would be completely bonkers. Personal space gets squashed, and there’s a lot of snorers, snorees, talkers, plastic bag rustlers etc.

One thing I’m not a fan of is Neuken in de Dorm room. So when people get amorous they should find somewhere a little more private. The problem is the limited options, especially when its cold outside.

CCTV is now in almost every hostel Ive been in, its advertised, conspicuous and everyone knows its there. But what goes on tour is sometimes not what would be done at home.

A case in point. We had been in Edinburgh for a few days and were socialising with the crew of the hostel in the evenings. On one of my last days there, I was heading past the front desk, on my way out and the guy working said to come over and check something out.

The something was the CCTV monitor reviewing the footage from 5am in the lounge area. This was a 25minute session on the only couch left in its folded out state, which just happens to be situated square and centre of the cameras view of the room.

During the following day I overheard many of the different staff asking each other if they had seen last nights highlights…

So what goes on tour, may stay on tour. although its more likely to get watched by bunch of staff having a laugh and possibly even ending up on an TouristsGoneWild CCTV DVD available soon from your local Pron shop.

As a funny aside, this hostel had 6 kitchens! ( keuken´s), these were locked after 11pm, killing the possibility of Neuken in de keuken.