It's not the winning...

So last night was the North West Tourism awards. We went down to Liverpool where the awards took place in the magnificent St George's Hall.


Sadly for us the Tourism Web Site of The Year for the North West Award didn't come our way - It went instead to The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. We were just flattered to be competing in such exalted company and we had an ace time.

As the sign post in the picture below sums up - I hope we came close!


The awards were presented by Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen so Linda and Liz were very miffed not to have the chance of going up for a kiss, but everything was alright again when he appeared next to us during the buffet. He really seems a nice guy and he was just soooo charming when they asked if he'd mind having his picture taken with them. It must be a right pain and he was extremely gracious about it.


Liz and Gary who had come with us to lend support were made up when the evening's entertainment started and it was some bloke called Rhydian from the X -factor. They were even happier when they realised that we didn't have a clue who he was (we must be the only people in the country who don't watch it) so they could take the mickey again. He was really good though and he had the perfect setting for his Phantom of the Opera song as you can see below!


All in all we had a great run and we are really proud to have won the Cumbria Award that got us here. And well done M.O.S.I - A worthy winner!

We've had such a lot of fun that maybe we'll try again another year!