I had a holiday, about last October, I think it was. Nothing anywhere near as bad as Saz and AliCat's, but it seemed a bit of a disaster at the time. By that time, I'd met a wonderful soulmate via a Tolkien fan club, and we had decided to meet up for a weekend. She living in Croatia, she decided to visit me in merrie England. I floundered about for a place to take her, and thought 'I know - what about Torquay? There's some fab churches down that way, she likes architecture and medieval buildings. A nice seaside town, cheerful.'
I have often prided myself on my sense of timing. In this case, it didn't let me down, as I booked a weekend break two months in advance - only for the actual holiday to co-incide with the biggest hurricane the UK had ever seen since '87 hitting the south coast.
Brrrrr.
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