Gary Guest, 42, was on holiday in Albufeira in Portugal when he met a young woman named Marie at a bar
A besotted holidaymaker has launched a desperate appeal to find a woman he met on a summer break.
Gary Guest, 42, was on holiday in Albufeira in Portugal when he met a young woman named Marie at a bar.
The love-struck Crossrail worker asked the woman, aged around 25, where she was from and was told she was from the North East.
He bought her a drink but then forgot to ask for her number and has been ruing his mistake ever since.
Upon returning home, he is now asking for the public’s help to hunt down his very own ‘Vicky Pattison’.
Mr Guest, from Nottingham, said: ‘It sounds like a soppy love film storyline but all I’ve thought about is her since I’ve got back.
‘She was strikingly beautiful and I was dumb-struck. I didn’t ask for her number but I can’t stop thinking about her.’
He was sitting at the Sir Harry’s bar in the Old Town Square on Tuesday, June 19 when a group of girls walked into the bar at around 11pm.
‘I was sitting having a drink with four of the boys when this group of ladies walked towards us and sat at a nearby table. She just stood out and I passed comment to the boys when she walked in, saying she was beautiful,’ added Mr Guest, a section foreman on the HS2 rail link.
Mr Guest (right row, closest to the camera) is appealing for the public’s help to track down a woman he met called Marie
‘The bar waitress came over to our table asking if we wanted another round and I asked her to tell the beautiful lady that I wanted to buy her a drink.
‘The waitress came back with the drink and I took it across to her and said ‘that is for a beautiful princess’.
‘I was love-struck dumb and didn’t say anything else and went to sit back down.
‘I kept looking across at her and about five minutes later she came across and said thank you for the drink and gave me a peck on the cheek.
‘We asked her where she was from and she said the North East, I said “you can be my Vicky Pattison” and she said “I CAN be your Vicky Pattison”. We asked her name and she said it was Marie before she sat back down.
Mr Guest said the woman he found could be his own ‘Vikki Pattison’. Pictured: The reality television celebrity Pattison
Mr Guest, from Nottingham, said: ‘It sounds like a soppy love film storyline but all I’ve thought about is her since I’ve got back’
‘About 10 minutes later the women got up from their table and left and I got up and kissed her on the cheek. She walked out and, like a fool, I let her go.’
Marie was with a group of around seven other woman and had jet black hair that flowed half way down her back and was wearing a black, knee length dress, with a red, orange and yellow wrap.
‘I’ve been thinking of nothing else since I got back,’ added love-sick Mr Guest. ‘I most certainly want to take her out on a date but I need to find her.
‘I never got her last name or number, my stupidity for being love-struck dumb, she was beautiful. I understand there are hundreds of Maries in the North East and obviously can’t search Facebook.’