The entrance to this business park looks like a studio film lot, with boom gates manned by uniformed guards. Who knows what industrial secrets or government installations lie beyond in the faceless steel warehouses?

"We're going to the hotel", my wife said. "Right you are then", said the guard, and the gate lifted. Whatever they're protecting there, the terrorists or other neer-do-well's won't need a PHD education to break in.

The uninspiring architecture (detailed in one of my photographs) doesn't prepare the guest for the grim interior. A display table in the "lobby" has pamphlets for local attractions (most with a WWII theme, hooray for Churchill and Our Boys sort of stuff), solo entertainers, and forthcoming events like a James Bond night and Murder Mysteries. Dear dear.

Up a flight of stairs, down a corridor, round to the right, down another corridor, up some more stairs, down another corridor and we're in the room... more