Sunday 31 October 2010

The Bolholt Country Hotel in Bury

 

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In my Last post i mentioned i’d won a 2 night break in a hotel. Wooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

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On arrival we were greeted with a wonderful receptionist who directed us to our room. It was raining quite a bit when we arrived but that really didn’t matter.

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Dave walked into the room first and said “Oh Dear” I obviously thought we maybe had bunk beds or something. How wrong i was.. We were greeted with a magnificent four poster bed and Dave knew i’d probably cry at the sight of such splendor, he was right, a few tears fell as, as i’ve mentioned before, i have never won anything that i really felt i "needed" or stayed anywhere so nice.

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Once we’d settled in we had a wander around to take some photographs and to take a look at the leisure centre too. Later on we grabbed our swimming costumes and headed back for my dreaded swimming lesson!

I was absolutely petrified, i’ve always been scared of water since i was about 8 years old when someone tripped me up at the local swimming baths and i went under for what seemed like ages. The water phobia has been with me since. I think i’m the only person who can manage to shower without getting my face wet. Anyway i managed to waggle my arms about for a bit but my feet seem to have a problem lifting from the floor!  I did eventually swim though but can’t say i enjoyed it too much as i couldn’t relax. We then went for a Sauna… nipped into the Steam room and then a wonderful relax in the Jacuzzi.

Later we went down to the bar

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where we ordered our food and had a drink, before been taken into the restaurant.

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Dave wasn’t very adventurous and ordered Broccoli & Stilton soup. I ordered Fresh Mussels cooked in a thai sauce, they were absolutely gorgeous.

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We both settled for a T bone steak for our main course as we cannot afford such wonderful food at home, it was cooked to perfection.

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Dave had a side order of potatoes and vegetables, i had homemade chips with side salad and a Diane sauce.

The waitresses were great and made sure we were well catered for, we felt like royalty.

The following morning we had breakfast a choice of either a full English, Vegetarian or Continental. The Continental had everything you could imagine.. cheese, freshly sliced ham, croissants, fresh fruit.

All in all we had a fantastic 2 days and arrived home on Thursday relaxed and content.

5 comments:

  1. Tracey, that sounds and looks like a perfect couple of days.

    I don't "get" Halloween either.

    Gill in Canada where it is snowing??!!??!!

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  2. looks wonderful..glad you had such a good time

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  3. That was a marvellous stroke of luck to get that holiday.
    I am also scared of water and it sounded as though you did much better than me! I wouldn't have gone in in the first place!

    Glad you had such a wonderful time.
    Maggie X

    Nuts in May

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  4. That looks wonderful! That 4P bed is gorgeous!

    Well done you on the swimming lesson xx

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  5. Wooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! good for you

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