Arachnophobia
On holiday with a mate en route to the Belgian Grand Prix (via a week's touring in Switzerland), we stopped off in northern Germany in a place called Trier, to break the journey. I don't recommend going there, as there's nothing to see, but anyway, we found this decent-looking hotel at a remarkably reasonable price, and checked in.

Up we went to the room. OK so far, two clean beds, bathroom fine, working telly, nice view over the river.

But it was stinking hot, and there was no aircon, so we opened the windows and went out for some food.

An hour or two later, we returned to what appeared to be the set of Arachnaphobia. The room was full of spiders. Dozens of the buggers. Up the walls, on the floor, in the bath, in the beds. Everywhere.

Now, I'm not afraid of spiders, but I don't really relish spending the night with them crawling all over my bed, so we decided to chuck them out. We captured them and threw them out of the open window, whereupon we noticed the root cause of the problem. The entire front wall of the hotel was covered in spiders' webs.

Evidently the hotel management was quite aware of this, which is why they'd kept the windows shut. But surely they could have employed a cleaning company for a day or two to de-web the hotel?

No wonder it was cheap.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 10:12, 2 replies)

Nothing to see in Trier?
It's got some fantastic Roman remains, like the Porta Negra (a big fuck-off city gate) and the Basilica (a big fuck-off basilica) plus three sets of baths and an amphitheatre.
(ubergeekian, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 11:07, closed)

Fair enough
I should have said there's nothing obvious to see in a half hour wander round the city centre looking for a restaurant when it's getting dark and you're hungry.

Although possibly some of the spiders' webs may have dated from the Roman era.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 11:51, closed)