A Day In My World

Ok so when I first came out here I was building tents. Now that I’m working as a ‘sole courier’ I have to do different things and since before I got here I had no idea a ‘courier’ did so here’s a typical day for me, at least.

So I don’t set an alarm, I wake up when the sun wakes me, usually around 9 - 930 because that’s when the heat starts to hit my tent. I’ll have a leisurely breakfast of ‘Good Cornflakes’ and coffee. Sometimes I might even treat myself and have yoghurt too!

I am trying to learn at least some Italian whilst I am here; so each day I will try and give myself a new word to use. Since I have to boil water on the gas hob it takes an absolute age for the water to boil. I’ll take this opportunity to visit reception. Say good morning and try to incorporate my word of the day into conversation. Most of the reception staff are nice and humour me with my little bit of Italian. I also have to collect a fax from reception each morning. The fax gives me details of my arrivals over the next few weeks; sometimes I will get a fax saying I have no arrivals, which makes my life so much easier.

Ok back to breakfast, I’ll take maybe an hour over breakfast because to be honest, I’m not in any rush. Once 11 o’clock hits I feel as though I should really start work so I will check which mobile homes need to be cleaned, if any. It is my responsibility to clean the mobile homes before the customers arrive. This is the part of the job I dislike. I don’t like to clean!

Depending on how clean the last customer has left the home, depends how long it takes me to clean it. But usually this is no more than 1.5 hours. Once my cleans for the day are done I will stop for lunch around 1 ish. Not that I’m a creature of habit or anything. I’ll make some pasta type dish for dinner; I’ve become quite fond of spaghetti with garlic and chilli in olive oil mmmmmmmmm.

Anyway after lunch I usually don’t have any more cleaning to do. Customers can request, baby stuff, you know cots and high chairs etc and sheets; so I’ll check that the homes look ok and then stick in the requests people have asked for into the homes too. Spraying lots of febreeze too.

When customers arrive they report to the main reception and check in with the camp site. Once they’ve checked in with the camp site the reception staffs gives me a call and then I show them to their mobile home, and give them a little info on the area, answer any question etc. Now whilst I’m waiting for the day’s arrivals I can either rake up the pine needles, clean outside of windows or just walk around and have a chat with my customers. I think it never does any harm for them to see me do some work.

If after that my customers still haven’t arrived its pool and book time (obviously with my phone, so that I can rush back to ‘work’ when they arrive). If they have arrived I prefer to go to the beach further down the coast. Then evening time I will either visit friends on other sites, go beach bar, receive visitors or just relax in my tent.  It is a hard life :- )