As hard as I've tried I cannot think of any reason that one person would need 8 pillows. It's not even as if they're small. You couldn't fit two of these under your head if you tried. Perhaps my stay in this room was preceded by that of a world champion gymnast or free runner who wanted to practise some tricky moves.
Perhaps there was a mix up and 7 rooms had no pillows at all that night. I know for a fact that all hotel rooms aren't the same - some are more equal than others. For example, the other night we stayed in a hotel and after a bad night's sleep in a tiny room with a single bed I expected the rest of the band and crew to be grumpy too. It turned out that Guy, who sells the merch and lovingly sets up my drumkit, had slept in a 4-poster bed while the tour manager had slept in a heated water bed! I've never even seen a water bed apart from in The Woman in Red.
Before this tour began I hadn't spent much time in Germany. Having been here for a month I've noticed a few things peculiar to this country. First off, they charge you to take a piss. Every service station either has an automatic barrier or you get some creepy old lady sitting outside with a silver tray for your 20c. The automatic machines give you change but I can never bring myself to ask for change from the creepy lady - hence, on occasion even the smallest wee has cost me 2 Euros. Combine that with the fact that some hotels charge you 20 Euros a day for internet and I'm making a loss on this tour. I need to stop drinking and stop writing about it!
The other thing I noticed is that they don't like big duvets. Every hotel gives you a tiny single bed duvet and they fold it in half. So, after throwing 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 pillows on the floor you then have to unfold the duvet. I'm not used to such work before bed time. Even when you have a king-size bed they give you two folded up single duvets. More than once I've managed to wake up in the gap.
J
