Friday, September 24, 2004
End of the season
The last full day of the season. All the guests staying in our gites go home tomorrow and there is nobody new arriving in the afternoon. We have got days to do the gite changeovers rather than the usual couple of hours. It's really nice having people around, (in some ways the place needs people), however I'm really looking forward to having the run of the place next week. I can use all my boys toys power tools, anytime, without disturbing anyone.
It has been a good year for us and much better than last year, both financially and emotionally. All the gites have been just about full from the end of May to today, that covers the financial side, but the emotional side is a bit more complicated. Last year we worried too much about everything. Were the guests happy? Were we providing a good holiday environment? - we needed feedback from the guests, but didn't want to be intrusive. This year we have both relaxed much more (part of our raison d'être) and it's been more enjoyable all round. We clearly weren't doing too much wrong last year because we had several repeat bookings for this year, but next year our repeats have really shot up.
It's been a good year for all us, me, Caroline and the children, and to cap it all, no molehills for three days !
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End of the season
