COMPETITION

Tell us about your travels behind the Iron Curtain for the chance to win a hotel stay worth over £500

With talk of a second Cold War, Nick Trend reveals what it was like travelling to Eastern Bloc countries in the Soviet era (Page 20). With this in mind, we’d like to hear about your trips to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Yugoslavia or any communist country before the fall of the Berlin Wall. How did it feel, and what are your memories?

The reader who sends in the best entry wins a hotel stay worth over £500.

ABOUT THE PROVIDER Seaham Hall (seaham-hall. co.uk) is an immaculately restored Georgian country house on Durham’s Heritage Coast, in a cliff-top position just steps from the beach and the England Coast Path.

Dating back to 1791, its history is fascinating: Lord Byron was married there in 1815; it was a military hospital during the First World War; and it served as a Spey whisky smuggling den at the time of US Prohibition (the tunnel used is still visible in the wine cellar).

The five-star hotel boasts two restaurants (the Dining Room and panAsian Ozone), the “Five Bubble Luxury” 44,000sq-ft Serenity Spa and 21 individually designed suites, some with private outdoor hot tubs. Its glamorous Ada Lovelace Suite, honouring Byron’s daughter (the world’s first computer programmer), is a superb split-level suite with two mischievously placed slipper baths overlooking Seaham

Hall’s 37-acre grounds.

THE PRIZE

Seaham Hall is offering an escape for two people, staying for one night with breakfast in a luxury

Junior Suite, including a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a three-course dinner in the Dining

Room, a Rasul Mud treatment to share and full use of the spa facilities, worth over £500.

Bookings are subject to availability and valid for Sunday to Thursday stays only until June 30 2022. Excludes bank holidays (April 17-18; May 2; and June 2-3 2022).

HOW TO ENTER

Email your entry (as close to 150 words as possible please) together with your name, address and telephone number, by midnight on Tuesday March 29, to yoursay@ telegraph.co.uk.

Only one prize can be won per person and it is non-transferable and non-refundable.

Other T&Cs apply.

See telegraph.co.uk/ tt-yourtravels for details.

Seaham Hall has a colourful history dating back to 1791