What have you done today thread?

[636mick]

I love the European way of breakfasting, Seems much healthier than us. In fact I’ve just had 2 croissants and a coffee for brekky instead of a bacon and egg batch.
As a government employee, we get £15 for an evening meal plus £5/day subsistence allowance. Hotels would normally include brekky. Unless, like me, you’re in Birmingham on 1st or 2nd of October when the Conservative conference is on, no decent hotels so stuck in a Travelodge with brekky in a box ffs!!

[Mr Moofo]

What did the cover? The bank would pay up to £25 for an evening meal and fiver each for breakfast and dinner. That was about 3 years ago.

Accommodation and transport was covered separately (typically arranged direct by AmEx) and then the £45 was everything/anything else. They always booked hotels with breakfast included. So it was usually a £5 lunch and a £40 pub dinner Or in my case as cash strapped Grad, two £5 meals and £35 profit.

Current place is "don't take the piss" which generally means a half decent dinner and maybe 2 rounds of drinks.

OOI, what do they have for breakfast in Germany?

Cold meats and cheese, little breads, hard boiled eggs, random yoghurt which never seems like it fits with teh other things.

There's always a Fry Up Buffet™ for the brits too.

Spuds like a european brekkie to me. Typical fayre for most hotels I've stayed at in Spain and France?

Japanese hotels serve chips for breakfast, American punters eat them.
However you can have miso soup, chicken nuggets or a fried egg

[Pirahna]

I'm sitting outside a cafe as I write, waiting for my late brekky/early lunch to arrive. The Spanish don't really do breakfast, a tostada is about it. I've ordered tomato, ham and cheese on mine.

[cheb]

What did the cover? The bank would pay up to £25 for an evening meal and fiver each for breakfast and dinner. That was about 3 years ago.

Accommodation and transport was covered separately (typically arranged direct by AmEx) and then the £45 was everything/anything else. They always booked hotels with breakfast included. So it was usually a £5 lunch and a £40 pub dinner Or in my case as cash strapped Grad, two £5 meals and £35 profit.

Current place is "don't take the piss" which generally means a half decent dinner and maybe 2 rounds of drinks.

OOI, what do they have for breakfast in Germany?

Cold meats and cheese, little breads, hard boiled eggs, random yoghurt which never seems like it fits with teh other things.

There's always a Fry Up Buffet™ for the brits too.

If my dinner bill was over I submitted it, if under I claimed no receipt.

[Mr. Dazzle]

R-R was the only company I've ever worked for where you got non-specific, unreceipted subsistence when travelling. But then again, it's also the only company I've ever worked for with a final salary pensions scheme and a foreman's club

[Count Steer]

R-R was the only company I've ever worked for where you got non-specific, unreceipted subsistence when travelling. But then again, it's also the only company I've ever worked for with a final salary pensions scheme and a foreman's club

When I was working abroad I got a daily 'away from home' payment. Lord knows what they thought my daily essentials were, the finest wines known to mankind I think. (It was probably more compensation for being away from the bosom of the family, but more tax effective the way they did it).

I came back after significant stints considerably better off than when I went.

[Yorick]

In Toronto 25 years ago, I had $50 a day allowance. 10 brekky, 10 dinner and 20 tea. 10 for other stuff.

But only 1 receipt for each meal. So nighttime was a nice meal and 1 beer. Or find a friendly bar who will do light meal, loads of beer and 1 'good' receipt

[cheb]

The side bonus for me being away was my traveling paid off island and down to the south of Scotland. It made visits to southern England much cheaper for me. I seemed to be one of the few drivers that didn't mind being away from home so I got to drive in lots of places I wouldn't normally go. I've done most of the NC500 in a bank van.

One of the few jobs I miss.

[ZRX61]

What did the cover? The bank would pay up to £25 for an evening meal and fiver each for breakfast and dinner. That was about 3 years ago.

Our rate away from the airport was $1000/day & expenses were whatever we spent on hotel, food, gas etc... which is why we were apt to spend the afternoons at the hotel pool drinking cocktails

[v8-powered]

I managed a team a few years back who bounced between Poland, Germany and Switzerland - they received £35 a night for dinner. Poland and Germany, they were laughing - in Switzerland they were lucky to get a kebab for that! So much so they often stayed across the border in Germany and commuted over to Switzerland....

[Noggin]

Before we got the programme for this week from the instructor, and when we were told it would be the same as last week, I booked an hotel for tonight. Couldn't get the one I'd started using (with aircon and the same price as the shitty Formula1 place!) but thought I'd booked one near the centre of town, still closer to school than the normal place, but also near a doctor's office that I need to go to.

Nope, turns out that it's just by the Formula1 - and I think it might even be less nice!!

FFS!!!

Hey ho - just one night.

[Taipan]

Yesterday actually, I did first day of a Govt Spanish course.
I've tried loads of stuff here to learn, but struggled. Did a few courses, but not with proper teachers.

This lass was good and had us all interacting with each other. I like the way it works. 30 week course

She spoke Spanish all the way through, but clearly and slowly with simple words. I was surprised how much I already knew.

El Cato sat on el mato?

Una jarra por favor.

[Yorick]

El Cato sat on el mato?

Una jarra por favor.

We're learning Spanish here and the teacher has to add the proper Spanish words when she uses Canarian Spanish. And also comments on the Latin Spanish sometimes.

Then there's Catalan Spanish

[MyLittleStudPony]

Bocadillos con quesos, rapido, rapidomundo!

[Yorick]

Bocadillos con quesos, rapido, rapidomundo!

¿Con papas fritas?

[gremlin]

Not today, but yesterday, whilst on the train journey from Hell, I helped a bunch of Italians out on the train, translating the announcement and letting them know there were more seats up at the front.

The lady came back to thank me and we had a little conversation (basic, but understood) in Italian.

I was quite chuffed with myself, and basked in the glow of looking all exotic and cultured in front of my fellow monolingual travelers.

[Yorick]

Not today, but yesterday, whilst on the train journey from Hell, I helped a bunch of Italians out on the train, translating the announcement and letting them know there were more seats up at the front.

The lady came back to thank me and we had a little conversation (basic, but understood) in Italian.

I was quite chuffed with myself, and basked in the glow of looking all exotic and cultured in front of my fellow monolingual travelers.

Can you order a pizza yet?

[Count Steer]

Given blood. Well, not exactly....been for a 6 monthly scale and polish at the dentist. None too gentle.

Consoled ourselves with a trip to a new, rather chi-chi café for breakfast. 'Café' doesn't really seem like the right word, given the crisp white tablecloths and the chandeliers + the welcoming 'Good morning! Breakfast? Have you booked?'

Had breakfasts (coffees, scrambled eggs (+bacon and smoked salmon respectively) with sourdough toast...of course. V nice.

Got the bill.

Went to Screwfix to pick up some guttering bits which I'll use to repair a couple of leaking joints...when (if) it stops raining.

[gremlin]

Not today, but yesterday, whilst on the train journey from Hell, I helped a bunch of Italians out on the train, translating the announcement and letting them know there were more seats up at the front.

The lady came back to thank me and we had a little conversation (basic, but understood) in Italian.

I was quite chuffed with myself, and basked in the glow of looking all exotic and cultured in front of my fellow monolingual travelers.

Can you order a pizza yet?

Si.

[Taipan]

Not today, but yesterday, whilst on the train journey from Hell, I helped a bunch of Italians out on the train, translating the announcement and letting them know there were more seats up at the front.

The lady came back to thank me and we had a little conversation (basic, but understood) in Italian.

I was quite chuffed with myself, and basked in the glow of looking all exotic and cultured in front of my fellow monolingual travelers.

Can you order a pizza yet?

I heard him on The Highway yesterday, Domin-oh-hoo-hoo ...