I just LOVE that nearly 40 years since we met at Catz, I am still such good friends with the ever wonderful Helens Tebay and Vickery.
And that we manage to carve out a couple of days every year (hoping this will continue!) to get away together. Last year Valencia, this year a rather soggy Bradford on Avon. No, not quite in the same league as concerns fabulous weather, a huge beach and lots of sangria (for them) but still a great couple of days away nattering and catching up properly. And as jolly good gin bar in the hotel to test out…
Stayed in a Sawdays hotel in Wiltshire that HT had found and pottered around locally to Bradford (small but very cute), Trowbridge (dog ugly – as even the waitress who lived there told us) and off to a nearby NT stately home whose name has already escaped my mental bounds (Lacock Abbey?) – they really aren't quite my thing, despite the Helens luring me in with promises that 'bits of Harry Potter were filmed here' – such as in the photo below! It still wasn't quite my cup of Butterbeer..
And we even slotted in seeing Indiana Jones at the flicks and a swim in the hotel pool as it was honking down outside!
All in all, a joy. So rare to have proper belly laughs and there were many. More please ladies! x