Tuesday, 15 June 2010

A Visit From Sweden

We had a couple pop into the hotel this week from Sweden who are staying on St Mary's. They wanted to visit the Bell Rock Hotel after reading about us in a newspaper back home in Sweden, but we were unable to accommodate them as we were already booked up.
I was puzzled at the fact that they said they knew of me from a newspaper in Sweden and knew that I had spent some time over there in the small town of Vara. I had originally gone to Sweden on a college student exchange probably 14 years ago! I also thought it bizarre that they linked me to the Bell Rock Hotel as back then I was not associated with the hotel. I had been pictured as a group for the local newspaper as part of the college exchange, but this didn't add up.
...Then something twigged!! In my first year as manager at the Bell Rock Hotel 2007, we had a couple of Travel Writers stay for a few nights and they interviewed me to go along with their article on the islands. I had forgotten all about this.
...So if you can read Swedish please follow the link (and if you can't, good old Google can "sort of" translate the page for you!)
(Having snags with the direct link... hopefully will follow shortly, but in the mean time, copy and paste this if you wish! Sorry)
http://www.icakuriren.se/Resor-Fritid/Upplev-det-tropiska-England/


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