August 09: Photograph

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Last month I did a photograph/picture that was very much an abstract image with a "blurb" in praise of Travelodge. This month continues the theme with another photograph that captures "a moment in time" and is actually in a Travelodge again!  This picture is in The Regent Hotel, Leamington Spa - now a Travelodge. The picture shows my wife on the main staircase. Queen Victoria - as a princess aged 11 years - probably ran up these stairs when she stayed here in 1830. The hotel came close to demolition recently - but survived*.  My wife, daughter and I should not really have stayed here - but Travelodge double booked the rooms in the Stratford-on-Avon hotel where we should have stayed and had to find us alternative accommodation -- which was ironically fortunate for us since we had mistakenly only booked a  Double Room and needed a Family Room - which is what we got at The Regent!!

*(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Regent_Hotel).