We live in London and usually go for small holidays and days out in the UK, usually villages and small towns etc. It’s just me and my DH, no children at the moment.
We’ve just spent three nights in a nice city with a cathedral, old buildings, museums, nice scenery, cafes and restaurants etc. I’m not going to name the city in case I’m unfairly singling anyone out, but we’ve had a problem at nearly every place we’ve eaten at, and we’re not difficult customers, we’re easy going.
One restaurant had us waiting 45 mins because they’d forgotten about us. One had the staff running around like mad and we actually felt stressed, had to ask several times for basic things. One was a small cafe where they just couldn’t cope with the number of visitors. There are others too.
I realise there’s a shortage of waiting staff and chefs right now, but we’ve visited several other places and I’ve never seen it so pronounced as in this city. Did we just have bad luck? Is it the time of year? Is it just too many tourists compared to the population?