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Do you have a Traitors-shaped hole in your life? A weekend getaway like this is the cure

Source: Unique Homestays/David Curran

I was sitting in the sauna of Gulliver’s Hall, the immaculate party house in Gloucestershire, with my old friend Jack, when suddenly the conversation turned serious. A few moments ago we’d been catching up on what had been going on in our lives over the past couple of years, but now the conversation had taken a turn.

“You’d tell me wouldn’t you?”, he said to me, looking deep into my eyes. “Can I trust that you’re faithful?”

No, he wasn’t being over-protective of my husband. We were in the middle of an intensely enjoyable , the dinner party game that popular BBC TV series is based on. The game had been taking place all day in the many spaces of the rambling house we’d rented for the weekend.

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