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21 - 28 February 2012	Calpe, Costa Blanca, Spain	Hotel SH Ifach (4 star) All inclusive star value, free bar open 10 hours a day. Two excursions. Return flights and transfers. Good flight times: leave Gatwick at 3pm and return there 8.45pm. Bridge room provided free. £539 with included insurance, £520 if you have your own insurance.
30 March - 1 April 2012	Eastbourne	Congress Hotel Usual programme, full board, no single supplement. Full details at club meetings, where there will be a list on which to sign up for this weekend. £108
27 - 30 April 2012	Great Yarmouth, Norfolk	Nelson Hotel (3 nights). There will be 2 full day excursions one to Sandringham House and the other to Cromer and Sheringham. Please let Jenny know either at the bridge club or by email. £189

Geoff's Holiday blog

Here is an update of our holiday news:

Our trip to Guernsey went as planned from 2nd.to 9th. October 2011. The numbers fell due to illness, but those of us who went had a lovely time. The weather was good, everyone was out and about every day, getting around the island and going to the nearby islands of Sark and Herm. We had enjoyable bridge each evening. The hotel was excellent, accommodation was good, food was excellent, staff and owners were most helpful. The only downside was me being accident prone, breaking my wrist.

Our autumn weekend in Eastbourne was a bit earlier this year (11th. to 13th. November). It was the usual success, we had the hotel to ourselves, so they gave us more bridge playing space. There were 50 of us, which I believe to be the largest number we have had at a weekend. (We had 48 at Bournton-on-the-Water once.) The weather was good to us, no snow this year. The prizes went around well. I think we gave 26 prizes, and I do not think that anyone took two. My partner (Judy Scanlon) and I won the Vi Ingrams Trophy, played for over two sessions of bridge. I was very pleased as Vi was my partner for many years, and she loved the Congress Hotel, where she and I started going with Bromley Bridge Club about 20 years ago.

Our next week abroad will be at the SH Ifach hotel, Calpe in Spain from 21st. February to 28th. February 2012. The terms are "all inclusive" , so it is three meals a day and free drinks - oh well someone has to do it? I hope that is as good as it looks. The Saga rep tells me that he has sent bridge parties there before and they enjoyed it.

This trip to Spain will be the last one which I will organise, but do not panic - Jenny Jessup has agreed to take over from me, and she will start with the return visit to The Congress Hotel in Eastbourne from Friday 30th. March to Sunday 1st. April 2012, for which 20 people have put their names down already.

I would like to thank everyone who has helped to make our holidays and weekends away so enjoyable over the last fourteen years that I have been arranging them.

Best regards,

Geoff 25 November 2011

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