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Cheap Weekend Break
ne of the most significant hours away. aspects of vacation travel in Europe has been the Edinburgh and Glasgow were some recent explosion of interest in of the most popular weekend break the short break vacation market. locations in UK, while Paris, No-frills airlines have led the Amsterdam, Palma, Dublin, way to opening up cheap routes Brussels, Venice, Nice and Madrid from London and regional airports were their most popular European to destinations all over Europe. weekend destinations. Other A short weekend break in some airlines have reported strong thrilling city has now become a interest in Prague, Rome and viable alternative to sitting Barcelona. home in front of the television set. The key ingredients to a successful weekend break away A UK survey of Britain's vacation were spending quality time with a habits recently shows that this partner, sampling local food and weekend escape plan is now worth drink, cultural sightseeing, a phenomenal £34 billion a year. weather and, (for the ladies), People are spending an average shopping. Nightlife, perhaps amount of £760 a year on these unsurprisingly, was more short breaks, flying off to important to the younger European cities, cultural travelers than the more elderly. festivals and sporting events. Psychologist Dr. Aric Sigman The three-day break is most said, "The results indicate that popular, with 21% of respondents the British have now developed taking Friday off work to fly out proper escape plans to and 34% arriving back late Sunday counterbalance the fact that they evening, giving them some 55 work the longest hours in Europe.
The low cost and accessibility of slopes in winter. Visitors to the short haul travel now enables UK from North America are also people to act out the growing taking advantage of these need to be physically and no-frills flight options, spicing geographically removed from their up their vacation in England with everyday surroundings in order to short breaks in cities as far truly get away psychologically afield as Copenhagen, Berlin, and emotionally. In fact it has Prague in the Czech Republic, been found that when it comes to Spain's Barcelona and Athens in dealing with stress, frequent Greece. short breaks are more effective than infrequent long holidays. Given the astronomical prices What is interesting is that most charged by West End restaurants people spend their weekend breaks where dinner for two can set you in a low-key way involving time back £250 or more, it makes sense alone with their partner, dining to take off for a paella to the and R&R as opposed to the sound of Spanish guitar in frenetic activity and nightlife Barcelona, a spaghetti and a sought by previous generations." bottle of Bardolino under the stars at a pavement restaurant in Whatever the reason, many UK the Piazza Santa Maria in Rome's residents are now taking Trastevere, or a more expensive advantage of rock bottom romantic dinner for two on a no-frills prices to spend four or Seine bateau mouche in Paris. more short breaks in the Before only the jeuness dore and thrilling cities of Ireland, the jet setting glitterati could Scandinavia, Europe and the afford such extravagances. But Mediterranean during the summer things have changed and many months, the German Christmas prefer to take a number of such Markets and Alpine or Spanish ski fun jaunts through the year
rather than undergo the hassles long vacation. concomitant with organizing a
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