Get away from it all - if you dare: If you're tired of holidays where you can get away form it all, here's one which you can try to escape from - if you dare. For $30 you can spend a weekend as a Coditz style prisoner of war billeted in freezing cold huts (no fires allowed), fed on thin soup and stale bread, driven about in the back of a cattle truck, hosed down in the middle of the night and be searched and interrogated by camp guards complete with German uniforms, guns and watchtowers, instead of friendly redcoats they'll be nice chaps from the Battle Re-enactment Association with a nice line in psychological interrogation. Organizer of the horror holidays is 41 year ex paratrooper Bob Acraman who runs a variety of adventure courses including parachuting, shooting, gliding, assault courses and appealing at the RSA Adventure school at Wayhill, Hants, Housed in a former isolation hospital the 6 acre center will become a mini Colditz from which campers will be dared to escape - at their peril. Both Acraman is no stranger himself to an adventurous life. He served for 13 years with the Parachute Brigade and won the army championship for style and was the BAOR Champion for four consecutive years, He has made over 3,000 descents in over 80 countries. He sees the prisoner of was weekends as a challenge to test wits, strength and skill rather than just providing an outlet for masochists. He believes life in Britain nowadays is so safe and dull that many people long for an opportunity to test their resources. One thing isn't in doubt campers will be able to write to their enemies " wish you were here" and really mean it.
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Photo is dated --0000.
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