March 2008.
Updated 21st March 2008.

Congratulations to David Barnes and Nigel Guthrie for winning the Grandmaster section of the Ranked Masters pairs 2008 competition.

New Venues Winchester, Malta and La Quinta Menorca in October & Dom Pedro Golf Resort Hotel, Durrant House Hotel N. Devon, see below

Flights for the 2nd - 9th May 2008. S'Algar Hotel Menorca, now available from Bristol.

Winchester 13th - 17th March 2008

Our first visit to The Winchester hotel was a great success. We received lots of compliments relating to the location and staff. We are looking forward to receiving dates and prices for next year and will obviously publish full details when known.


Vilamoura Portugal 17th - 31st January 2008.

Our last visit to the Vilamoura Beach Hotel. They call things like this "sod's law" and so it proved to be again. It has always been our most popular venue and this year everything went better than ever, we had 14 days of unbroken sunshine, people were raving about the food, service and friendliness of the staff. Our thanks as always go to all who attended, the management and staff of the hotel and Graham & Berry Hedley our directing team. In any event things never stand still so next year we are going to the hotel next door. The Dom Pedro Golf Resort Hotel. Having talked to many who have been with us in Vilamoura we decided it was ridiculous to change a winning formula, everything about the location is right, it's on the level, by the sea, there are shops and cafe's in the immediate vicinity. Our visit to the Dom Pedro Golf is from the 22nd January - 5th February 2009. Please click here for full details.

Madeira 19th - 26th November 2007

What a fabulous break. The food, service, and facilities were excellent. The weather was slightly unkind to us especially as up to the week before it had been very prolonged sunny period. The rain when it came was spectacular but it failed to dampen anyone's spirits or enthusiasm. The British really are a stoic lot. Many thanks as always to Andrew Kambites for his professionalism; (and very tongue in cheek his humour) to Ann Clark and the Atlantic holidays rep Rita Abreu, plus the management and excellent staff. Most importantly of course the 77 participants who were light hearted and fun to be with throughout.We are returning next year but at a different time. 8th - 15th September 2008.Please click here for pricing. Apparently there is a wine festival. We will publish more detail when we find out exactly what's involved.

Why do computers always break down when you are on foreign soil?

General

New Year at Reading was extremely successful, we are going to change the format slightly next year as we can't always guarantee the suitability of the live group on New Years Eve. Next year 2008/2009 New Years Eve we will have a gala dinner followed by bridge and then back to the restaurant for Champagne and Canapes to welcome in the New Year, for those that want to join in the dancing which will be held in one of the suites, there is an open invitation. Please remember if you have been on one of our holidays in the preceding 12 months and have electronic photographs we will be pleased to feature some of them, or if there is one of you on the site you like we will be delighted to send it to you electronically.

New Holidays.

La Quinta Hotel Menorca 17th - 24th October 2008
Cavalieri Hotel Malta 17th November - 1st December 2008

Dom Pedro Golf Resort Hotel 22nd January - 5th February 2009
Durrant House Hotel, Bideford, N. Devon. Two 5 night breaks. 31sy May - 4th June 2009. 19th - 24th July 2009


La Quinta Hotel Menorca 17th - 24th October 2008 and have just finalised our first fortnight in Malta Mid November 2008 and the Dom Pedro Golf replaces the Vilamoura Beach Hotel situated in Vilamoura the Algarve Portugal.
If you click on the experienced button (top left) full details can be found there.

Miscellaneous

Don’t forget there is £100.00 on offer for the bridge quiz which can be found on the site. We look forward to seeing many of you again and to meeting those of you who are joining us for the first time. Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter, any comments, items of interest, suggestions, will as always be welcome. Thank you for your continued support.
If you need to contact us you can do so
by E-mail martin.holcombe@btconnect.com
Tel. 01934 876500 Mbl. 07771 901579 Fax. 01934 835819
All the best
Martin & Judy

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