when I did my OU degree I did a nice summer school at Stirling University in the halls of residence. They were round a Loch. I bet theres some similar nice places in England - some other students told me York was very nice. Plus universities have got nice auditoriums lecture theatres and the like.

My neice was at Exeter University - that had a some good halls of residence - although Exeter is very popular as a location for English as a Foreign Language courses in the summer.

Anyway the Butlins festival I went to was in Bognor and it featured jazz as well as folk and country.

Wild Bill Davis was a really old jazz trumpeter (Eddie Condon, Bud Freeman era) he got up for his first number and he said, I wondered about the English sense of humour - then they showed me my chalet, and suddenly I got it....they thought I was staying there!

all the best

Big Al