"Walking Holiday for Two in the Pennines"
The story goes as follows. Candid Camera is positioned next to a Safeway check out counter in the UK. They are filming the winners of prizes for being the , or close to Safeway's billionth UK customer. First up is customer number 999,999,998. She is the lucky winner of a state of the art colour tv (a big deal in those days) - at this point the Candid Camera pans over to the customer two places behind in the queue, and he's starting to smile. The next customer wins a Jaguar (also a big deal in those days). By now the 1,000,000,000th customer is beside himself, he's jumping up and own, breathing heavily in and out, shifting his weight from one foot to the other.
The Safeway "president" walks up, "Congratulations, as Safeway's Billionth Customer, and to commemorate this historic occasion, I am delighted to inform you, that you have won a Walking Holiday for Two in the Pennines." By now we all realize that the poor fellow has been set up and everybody's having a great time except him.
Walking in the Pennines lets you experience the magnificent scenery described by the Bronte sisters in their novels. However all I remember is the feel of soggy socks, the smell of wet wool and the sight of girls doomed to become presidents of their local Women's Institutes.
The one time I tried to get Michele to ramble in the Pennines, she told me to take a hike.
In this context it is somewhat surprising that we are about to start a walking holiday for two in the Alpujarras south of Granada - here's the link:
The two great draws are the Alpujarras scenery itself and more importantly the company of the author Chris Stewart. Chris Stewart is most famous for his best selling autobiographical book:
Michele and I actually prefer his three sequels even though they have not been as commercially successful.
If Chris is half as entertaining in real life as he is on the page, it should be a great week.
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