It was ominously looming on me my 50th year on this planet..... I have to say I wasn't looking forward to my birthday....
My ever thoughtful and darling wife had been deceiving me for weeks, I knew something was happening but I've got to be honest I had no idea what she had planned.... she finished work early and then when I finished work, she turned up in the car without the kids, which immediately got me on edge.... we drove, and drove... it started to get dark, we still drove out into the wilds of Wales....
then the water pump blew on the car..... we sat there looking at each other, Andrea had a bit of a melt down because the surprise had been scuppered by the BMW's water pump going and dumping our entire coolant over the road, and we were out in the middle of nowhere... and by nowhere I mean absolutely nowhere even the local sheep were miles away.....
So we had a discussion after the minor hysterics and I explained that logically to decide what to do that she had to tell me where we were going .... So I asked would we lose any money if we cancelled, apparently yes..... all of it.... Soooooooo I spoke to our friendly garage owner on the phone and he gave me a number of somebody local in St Clears who did recovery..... and then I phoned my parents and my father eventually picked us up from our wilderness break down, and carried us to our final destination...... The £95 sting of the vehicle recovery marred things somewhat, and we knew we'd have a massive repair bill for the water pump (well I did)
My father bless him turned up about an hour and a half after we broke down and drove us to our final destination.......I have to say I was blown away with this 5 star hotel, they upgraded us because of our unlucky car troubles and probably because they felt sorry for us, but I wasn't complaining ... it was stunning, the whole place was pure sumptuous luxury.... They had a treatment room/spa.... hell there isn't any point in me describing it on here.....
just go here and take a look at the place
Amazing place.....
We were booked in for two nights weekend break and it was worth every penny......
Having to go down to the bottom of the enormous drive and wait for the local bus to take us into Crickhowell did raise a few eyebrows with the locals on the bus.... We were the only guests who didn't have our own car... but I've got to say it didn't dampen the weekend very much at all....
My wife also sprang a surprise visit by our friends on the Saturday night which was a lovely surprise.....
I've also been rocketed into the 20th century with an Android smart phone, which I'm still getting to grips with......(which by the way I'd managed to lose on a walk within hours of getting it... but it was recovered.....eventually)
Overall I've had the most fantastic 50th birthday a person could wish for.....and I'm married to the most thoughtful, loving and beautiful uber fit wife a man could wish for :)
