Advantages: A wonderful book full of imagery and romance Disadvantages: None for me
FRENCHMAN'S CREEK
DAPHNE DUMAURIER
"When the east wind blows up Helford River the shining waters become troubled and disturbed and the little waves beat angrily upon the sandy shores. "
Frenchman's Creek
Sorry about this but I'm back with another of my all time favourites, yet another from the pen of Dame Daphne Du Maurier - Frenchman's Creek.
There is a reason that Daphne du Maurier's books are classics today and that reason is her wonderful haunting use of language. All her books, are so beautifully written and the Cornish ones epitomise the timeless, lonely quality of Cornwall and makes the reader feel that they are there.
Frenchman's Creek was published in 1941, written at a low time in Du Mauriers life as her husband, Tommy, was away at war and her children and nanny were all ill - so it was ...
Advantages: Fantastic water cannons, lots of ways to get wet, the water coaster, hot tubs, great waterslides.. Disadvantages: ...And would love there to be more!
The Cariba Creek Waterpark is the waterpark at Alton Towers. It is built into the Alton Towers Splash Landings hotel. It has many indoor water cannons, hot tubs, waterslides and even a water coaster! This is my experience.
My parents and I were staying at the Alton Towers hotel, (we have the Merlin Pass so we decided it was worth going to Alton Towers.) we stayed there for two nights and on the second day we decided to go to the Cariba Creek Waterpark.
When we walked through the Alton Towers hotel on the reception floor, we passed through some rooms than we noticed the carpet changed...so we knew that we WERE in the Splash Landings hotel.
We brought our tickets, but because we were staying at the hotel, we got a discount, if you stay at the main hotel you get a discount (like us,) but if you stay at the Splash Landings hotel, it ...
I’m not a very good wine drinker. Well, actually, I’m a GREAT wine drinker, in that I am able to consume great quantities of the stuff once I got started. Trouble is that I just don’t hold it very well. And the wine that I like not to hold very well best is Jacob’s Creek Semillon Chardonnay. I’m sipping a glass right now, in fact, so if I trail off subject mid-op and start telling you that you’re all my best friend, you’ll have to excuse me.
Jacob’s Creek SC is from the South Eastern region of Australia, which is the area I believe most Aussie wine comes from. Not that it matters to me where it comes from – it tastes good on the buds and that’s the main thing.
The wine comes in a standard looking 75cl bottle with a simple and rather classy label – no kangaroos ...
