Adventure holidays, Colditz style, Hampshire

Mar. 27 Get away from it if you dare If you're tired of holidays where you can get away from it all, here's one which you can try to escape from - If you dare! For 30 you can spend a weekend as a Colditz 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. Organiser of the horror holidays is 41 year old ex-paratrooper Bob Acraman who runs a variety of adventure courses including parachuting, shooting, gliding, assault courses and abseiling at the RSA Adventure school at Weyhill, 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. Acraman is no stranger himself to an adventure 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 war 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! Photo Shows: We have ways of making you enjoy yourself. Campers will be interrogated in spartan buildings such as these. Members of the battle re-enactment association pose as Nazi guards and an RAF prisoner of war

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