Alton Towers

I spent the weekend at Alton Towers - the theme park is closed for their winter maintenance, but we were at the Splash Landings Hotel which has an indoor water park attached. "We" were British Naturism, running their 7th Alton Towers weekend (Friday evening through to Sunday lunchtime), although it's the first one I've been to. It was pretty much sold out, with approaching 400 naturists staying. Strangely, Alton Towers don't allow their name to be used in advertising the event, and it can only be marketed to BN members - so they're happy to take our money (what's known as the buff pound) but not to be publicly associated with naturists. Would their regular clientele be completely freaked out? The waterpark was great fun, with a couple of good water slides - one of them was long, fast and dark. A real blast! As well as various activities (yoga, tai-chi, paper plane making, a portrait photography workshop (not by me) and evening musical...
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National Memorial Arboretum

Some photos from a trip to the National Memorial Arboretum, near Lichfield - the national services memorial. An interesting place, with several moving memorials. Worth a visit. By the way, do please tell me if you think I'm overdoing the black and white. For some reason the photos from the new camera just seem to work really well - crisp and sharp and well suited to contrasty b&w....
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