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Well that was a job that started off small and ended up going on and on ……….we decided when we first had our holiday apartment in Chester that, as soon as we could, we would put our Wharton Lock Apartment forward for the “Chester and Cheshire” Self Catering Holiday of the Year Tourism Award. There was also a category for Tourism Website of the Year and so it couldnt be much more work to put the website forward too and after all Simons (and our) hard work on the website, this could be a nice way of saying thanks to him.

 We had read the paperwork and it said it would take 2 hours to complete the form and yes, that wasnt a bad guide but the folder of supporting information took forever!! We had to analyse all the bookings, where all the guests came from, print out screen shots of the website (Simon had to show us how to make the screenshots look good) and basically blow our own trumpet!

The apartment has been so busy and successful and so many people including other owners and the Chester Tourist Board have complimented the website but it can sound so pushy to say “Hey I’m good!”

 Anyway on Wednesday we took the package containing both submissions and folders of supporting to DHL at Malaga Airport. They happily weighed it and assured us it would arrive in Chester before Friday 11th April (the deadline for submissions) but to our horror they gave us the price of 129 euros!!!!!

So we quickly retreated to the car park and rang Simon to ask him to search for a cheap flight to the UK, it would be cheaper to personally deliver it than to DHL it. Only to find out due to school holidays it was infact expensive to fly it there.

So back in to DHL and part with 129 euros and off it went winging its way to the UK - oh how I hope that at least one of the submissions gets to the short listing! Happily we received an email from Lucy at Chester Tourist Board to say it arrived on Thursday morning - in good time for the Friday deadline. So now we sit back and wait to see if we get short listed and get called to an interview.

How horrified we were to hear, today, that on Friday the deadline was extended for 6 days - this would have meant we could have posted it for just 10 euros! Lets hope we have some success to make it all worthwhile.