Water closets all around SUN. JULY 18

   My hotel last night was not a great experience.  It was well reviewed on TripAdvisor, but I think the reviewers were small people.  The room was a "single", which hereabouts means "smaller than a twin" .  The bed was 30 inches wide (an American twin is 36) and the room was double that width.  The bathroom was a one-piece modular thing the size of an airplane restroom.  No, I mean really!   Except that they crammed a shower in there…  I am above average through the chest and shoulders--25 inches across at the elbows if sitting flat against a chair or standing back flat to a wall.  As I mentioned, the bed was 30 inches across.  Most economy airline seats are 18-19 inches, some less and very few larger than that.
The shower in this bathroom was square on 3 sides and bowed at the open side, where the curtain hung.  It was 30 inches long and 18 inches at the widest part of the bow.  If I stood lengthwise with a shoulder toward the nozzle, I could fit but not move…  I don' t think any average or larger man could use it.  Considering it was by far and away the most expensive room of any of my trips this year (which have included some pretty nice rooms) I was, uhm, disappointed?
Arriving at The Kilns this afternoon I discovered that here we have a traditional water closet, which contains only a toilet.  There is another old one (Lewis's personal WC) that also has a sink, and 2 newer ones the same but they are in parts of the house where I won't be using them.  There is also a traditional bath-room… that is a room with a bathtub and sink, and another recent addition of a small shower in a room of its own.  Lewis would have used the bath, of course.
  Tonight we went to Evensong at the local parish church, which Lewis considered to be his church and attended faithfully.  He is buried in the churchyard—a beautiful place with a touch of wild—along with his brother Warnie, whom he also referred to as "his best friend".  One window in the church now has scenes from Narnia cut in it.
The pictures are (above) the hotel shower (notice a normal bath towel almost fills it) and below, the grave and the church from the grave.

***update #1-  I think they left the ham and cheese of the free hotel continental breakfast out too long.  Nasty things are happening…
***update#2-  I was running late when I left the hotel (they have an early check-out and I left a bag of socks and my US Open hat behind… when I called them this afternoon, they insisted they had not found anything.  But as I left the room I snapped a picture to show the size, and I can see the bag sitting on the bed!