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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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