Would You Like a Hotel Owner Like Basil Fawlty
I was thinking back to the good old days with a great friend of mine the other day. We got chatting about some of the fantastic old comedy shows that we used to tune into back in the 1970′s
She was saying that one of her all time favourites used to be Fawlty Towers, in which John Cleese played the main character.
I had to agree that this show was British comedy at its very finest, and certainly caused a great amount of laughter, something that nowadays seems to be sadly lacking.
We got on to talking about the stars of the show and actually had a bit of a row about John Cleese and his real life wife. My friend was absolutely convinced that John Cleese had been married to Prunella Scales, who played his other half in the show, but I knew he was actually married to Connie Booth who played the character of Polly.
It’s strange that such a silly conversation can get so out of hand, but you know what it’s like when 2 women think they are right, nobody likes to back down and admit that they are wrong.
We eventually did what we should have done in the first place and did a search in Google to find out which one of us was right. Well of course, it turned out that I was right, which didn’t go down very well with my friend.
She said that perhaps I should think about booking a self catering Torquay holiday. I said that I would rather visit some of the hotels in Devon in the hope that one of them might actually have a real life Hotel owner like Basil Fawlty.
Of course nowadays in Torquay there are plenty of activities to keep you occupied. One of my friends who organises bowling holidays for her Club was pretty impressed with Torquay during a recent visit. In fact she loved the place so much that she has already booked up for 2 bowling tournaments next year.
I bet she is secretly hoping to have a hotel owner like Basil Fawlty, at least she would be assured there was never going to be a dull moment!!
