A few days away

We treated ourselves to a few days away last week. It was a lovely break and to an area tht neither of us had visited before ....... or so we thought.

The hotel was Tortworth Court in South Gloucestershire. When we got there we found out some of this history of the building and it had quite a history. It was an american air base at one time andthey built a hospital in the grounds. This hospitl was then taken over and became Leyhill Prison, a place where Nick spent some time in his erly days!

The house lay as a ruin for many years until a consortium took it over and renovated it to its former glory. It is a magnificent building and has been very sympathetically extended and turned into wonderful 4* hotel.

Now for an explanation - the time that Nick spent as Leyhill prison was the first few years of his life as his father was Prison Governor at the time that he was born so he spent his first few years of life there (not as an inmate).