With our wedding invites obviously lost in the post we took it upon ourselves to hold a best dressed wedding guest competition in the cottages4you office today. Here you can see our very own Shirley Brooks, Pam Rebanks and Janet Pollitt ready for the big day!
It’s our weekly wrap-up, Suite-Hostel where we round-up the best and the worst hotel news of the week. Get it? Hopefully, your weekend is more suite than hostel but whatever happens, we want to know about your recent hotel experiences! So send ‘em to us!
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Our 2011 Hotel WiFi Report 
Staying in a Treehouse Nest! 
Dream Downtown is So Cheesy ALSO: Cat-POO-cino!
Certain parts of the US are expected to see severe weather conditions today (April 27th).
Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes have been forecast for certain parts of the United States of America today (April 27th) – and the warning may be a timely one for those heading across the Atlantic this spring.
Flooding has already swept through Midwestern states, including Kentucky and Arkansas, but further extreme conditions are on the way.
The country’s National Weather Service said storms and tornadoes are expected to hit sections of the Tennessee Valley and south-eastern US tonight, with northern Alabama, north-eastern Mississippi and far north-western Georgia all believed to be in the line of attack.
Yesterday, 1,000 people had to be evacuated from close to the Missouri city of Poplar Bluff due to a levee failure and the resultant fear of flash flooding.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) advised anyone in a storm’s path to keep listening for state and local announcements via radio or TV.
“Residents should take this threat of active weather seriously, be prepared and stay informed,” said Beth Freeman, Fema Region VII administrator. Read full topic…
We were planning on adding High Force Waterfall as this week’s entry to ‘101 places to go’ because it allowed us to make a hilarious joke about April showers (seriously, it was brilliant). But wouldn’t you know, the weather’s been so lovely in the past few days that we’ll have to make do with letting England’s biggest waterfall sell itself.
Located in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the land surrounding High Force is worth a visit, even if you don’t take the tranquil woodland walk to the falls. Below are a couple of our favourite things to see and do.
Have you been to the North Pennines? Let us know you