No Internet Access
I suffered from No Internet Access this week. I attended a meeting for work at Nymboida. The Nymboida Coaching Station Inn is lovely. The rooms are huge, the food is great and the sounds of the water rushing over some little rapids outside my windows was stunning.
The trouble is there was No Internet Access along with very limited phone access. That’s right, 24 hours with no access. I hadn’t encountered that in years and frankly, I wasn’t prepared for it.
As usual when leaving home I had packed my laptop, loaded up my smart phone with a map to get to the Nymboida Hotel and was ready for the meeting and how to keep myself occupied at night. I am a self confessed internet addict so missing my daily fix was not going to happen.
Anywho, driving along, following the map, and my phone loses signal. There goes my google maps with the directions. Ok, I’ll just keep driving till I get the signal back. It didn’t happen and all the signs were just saying how it was 165 km’s to Armidale, nothing at all about Nymboida.
Still no signal, which also meant no internet access, the phone number for the hotel was also on the phone, everything I needed was on the phone !!
I decided, oh well, keep driving until I either saw the hotel or hit Armidale and knew I had gone too far. Of course, I found the hotel, it’s in a stunning location, right next to the river so I arrived safely.
I then checked with other people staying there and found out there was absolutely no access to the internet. You could get a signal up on the main road if you are tall enough (alas at 158 cmes I’m not) however it cut in and out. You could use a phone box and you could have phone access in your room, but that was it.
Luckily for me, because all of my ebooks are on my Windows 7 Smart Phone, as they had been downloaded I had something to read. I enjoyed the surroundings and had a great meal. I had king prawns with a sweet dhukka (however it was too hot) so they made me a new meal with balsamic dressing. I then had fillet steak cooked to perfection.
I enjoyed my 24 hours of No Internet Access but it proved to me just how much I depend on the Internet and I don’t want to do that again any time soon.
When have you lost Internet Access?
Tania Shipman
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It goes to show how much we rely on our internet and devices in the 21st century. Having no internet access would have been challenging for the best of us. Glad you had a nice time though, sounds beautiful
Jackie Stenhouse recently posted..Can You Really Make Money Out Of Blogging?
Hi Jackie
I managed to survive but I realised just how much I did depend on the internet. It was a beautiful place to stay at indeed. Thanks for the comment
Hi Tanny, I definitely get withdrawal symptoms without internet or phone accessibility. I have left my phone at home before, only realising when I got to work….and that is hard enough for me.
Yeah it is hard to imagine a time that the internet wasn’t just at my fingertips! Crazy thing about it all that this luxury wasn’t there not too long ago. Many days I wonder if I really am more connected or just more out of touch with things going on around me. Who knows…..maybe I should google it!
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Thanks Charles, I loved your reply.
It’s hard to imagine that not that long ago having access to the internet was “interesting” I was told. Something that ‘other’ people did.
Now even my mum msn’s me rather then rings me.
Let me know what your google search returns
Hi Tania,
I enjoyed reading your article about no internet access. I take my laptop with me in case I get stuck and my wife wants to stay overnight with friends or family.
My uncle Jim is 85 years old and he has the internet, in fact I don’t know anyone who does not have it. I’m glad to hear you made the best of it. Cheers!
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Hi Keith, I had my laptop and my mobile smart phone and there was just no internet access at all. Phones only worked if you stood right near the road and with large trucks passing through, it wasn’t really a relaxing place to access the internet.
Luckily my downloaded books worked so I could read my ebooks and it was only a few days but it really made me realise just how dependent on the internet we are now.