A few weeks ago I entered the Beautiful Britain family travel writing competition on the website Have a Lovely Time. I found out on Friday that I had…erm…won! I had to keep it a secret until it had been announced on the website but was allowed to ring my family and shriek loudly down the phone.
The competition involved writing about a family travel experience in Britain. My entry was “This way to the Devil’s Arse”, about our trip to the Peak District, involving a visit to Peak Cavern (The Devil’s Arse), Matlock Bath and Chatsworth House. I wasn’t sure that having the word ‘arse’ in the title was a very clever idea, it being a family travel competition, but crossed my fingers, counted the permitted words and emailed it to the organisers who were judging all the entries anonymously.
If you’d like to read the entry, please have a look on this link: This way to the Devil’s Arse
There is also a Readers’ Choice prize for one of the 8 runners-up. If you’d like to read them and vote for your favourite, pop over HERE.
My prize? £200, a day pass for an English Heritage property of my choice and a copy of the judge’s book, Travelling with Children (Catherine Cooper).
I have to say I’m so thrilled to have won. Really, really, really delighted.
Woohoo, well done you, thoroughly deserved and have fun spending your prize money. xx
well done! and a bonus it being a visit to my neck of the woods and a few of the places i've been to many times.
xx
Well done cuz! Brilliant!
Fantastic! ..good work.
Brilliant! Well done – you must be very proud of yourself.
It could not have gone to a more worthy winner. Good for you, champ!
Absolutely Great!! You Deserved To Win. Would send you a CD of Cliff Richard singing "Congratulations" but you'll be happy to know that, even though having scoured the whole of Panama, a copy has not (as yet) been found!!
Marion
Brilliant! And to have won for having done something well – as opposed to just having your lucky number picked out a hat, makes congratulations even more in order.
Well done you!
Congratulations – wish I could blend travel writing and humor as well as you do…would have made the palaces sound so much more interesting! Hope you enjoy your prizes – they are well-deserved!
Congratulations, Trish. It's a very interesting article and really well written. Makes me want to go and visit, especially Chatsworth with my own Mr Darcy. 🙂
Thank you everyone – you're all far too kind but I shall bask in those fabulous comments regardless! xxx
Congratulations, Trish! :o) Loved the article, you truly deserved to win!
Whoop Whoop – well done you!
Congratulations – and funny post!
Fabulous!
(so enjoy a little more basking)
Hooray! That's fantastic news, well done you! Emma 🙂
Thank you everyone,again, for such warm messages!
I'm still basking….