If its not broke don’t fix it

If you go back to somewhere, what do you expect, do you expect it to be more or less the same, even years later?

As I get older, I find things aren’t the same as I remember and I know things change and move on, but sometimes I think, “if its not broke, don’t fix it.”

I remember taking Dave to Glasson Dock, a place I had gone to as a child. I remember ice creams, a souvenir shop a cafe and a couple of pubs. The view was lovely, small boats on the water etc. I hadn’t been for 50+ years and it had been somewhere we drove by on the way to somewhere else, but we always stopped for a walk, an ice cream and a walk. When I returned it looked like a great big dock – the end. It was not like my childhood memories and I just gathered times had changed and the place had to move on and be a fully working dock.

More recently on our trip to Boston we returned to the Cheers Bar. Do you remember Cheers on TV?

I had first visited this place in 1987, when you literally had to queue to get in the door. I remember going for breakfast, at 11.00am, and starting to queue early morning, as it was the only day on my trip I had time to queue and it was our last day.

Dave and I visited it on a couple of trips, the last one being 8 years ago and had really enjoyed the food and the atmosphere. It was always busy, but it was pleasant and the food and service were good. This time it had changed. 

I am not sure if it was because of the wheelchair, but we had to go in a different way and we had to sit in the bar area, although other diners were seated, but it wasn’t the same. There was a constant stream of people just walking by to see the bar, not having a drink or food. The food wasn’t as good and the service wasn’t good either. 

It was so disappointing, we wouldn’t ever go back……….