It’s fairly public knowledge that the travel industry like many others is having a pretty topsy-turvy time with most people being careful with their spending. Some types of breaks can really come to the fore and prove pretty resillient.

Wassily Kandinsky, Yellow, Red and Blue

At the moment we are selling lots of breaks to Euro Disney , mainly because of the promotions that Disney themselves have funded , needed to start reversing the visitor numbers to the park . But we have also sold a fair number of breaks to see the Kandinsky exhibition that’s just about to end at the Pompidou in Paris…hardly something that would be considered a big draw.

This winter there is a Renoir Exhibition at the Grand Palais which will no doubt be as big a sucess

On Wednesday night a select delegation from Short Breaks took the opportunity to show off their superior product knowledge at the Flanders Face Off - organised by our friends at Tourism Flanders at their London HQ.

Bruges by night

The competition was tough but the Short Breaks Team prevailed to win by a a point - obviously the visits to Mechelen , Leuven, Bruges have paid off.

Unusually the prizes of ornamental Special Edition Belgian beer and glasses havent made it back to the office……….!!!!!!

Well as we were 10 Years old this Year and we only had a bit of a smallish Christmas Party _The Short Breaks Crew decided a night in Disney would be a good way to celebrate. We met with our friends from Eurostar and Disney at St Pancras on Saturday morning and after sampling the new Frequent travellers lounge ( very nice) we boarded a train to Paris ( very cleverly we had been placed away from the rest of the travelling public)

The trip was full of firsts ( well a couple anyway) - instead of travelling direct to Disney by Eurostar there were two mini vans waiting for us and we drove to Disney - was a really easy trip and actually took about 40 minutes - the same that an RER would take from Gare Du Nord - it was a Staurday afternoon so not much traffic though. Also my first experience fo Disney in the snow which was pretty cool.  It did however mean that as the outdoor rides were closed the queues for the indoor ones were quite long - but it didn’t deter us too much - after grooving through The Rock’n'Rolla Coaster - we lifted off in the  Tower of Terror which once again

Before we went on !!!!

Just about survived and then some more of the real entertainment as we hit Hurricane’s  - for those of you who are unawrae - Disney has ( for the time being ) it’s very own nightclub in the Disney Village. Was a really good night   but memories are far too hazy to give any more detail other than Tony in high heels and danny making friends :  ) ….Next morning the hard core tried on vain for one last ride on Space Mountain - unfortunately it wasn’t to be ….our ability to negotiate queues etc was sorely diminished -

Journey home was a slightly quieter affair although Tony did his best ( I;m not sure that was Coca Cola in that bottle…….

Thanks to Cat ( and others ) at Eurostar and Mark from Disney - most of all the staff here - getting a little older but we can still handle the pace - here’s to 20 years