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Out & about
The lighter side of travel
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Abta match heats up
Rumours that the C&M Recruitment football
.YOUTRAVEL OPERATORS’ FOOTIE TEAM.
team is preparing for this year’s crunch match
by practising have raised the stakes ahead of 1 Andy Washington goalkeeper
Lastminute.com
this year’s Travel Convention. 2 Mark Hopper defender Click with Technology
“Talk is cheap – we’ll do our talking on the 3 Jeremy Skidmore defender Freelance journalist
pitch,” said Paul Riches (pictured above), boss 4 Phil Dickinson midfielder Sandals
of the
Youtravel.com operators football team. 5 Nathan Philpot centre-half Wexas
Sources close to the rival agents and 6 Robin Searle centre-back TTG ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON
suppliers’ team have muttered about formal 7 Paul Riches coach
Youtravel.com Here is Caribtour’s Camilla Barrett,
training sessions and even warm-up matches 8 James Moore midfielder Affordable Car Hire pictured at the TTG Travel Awards, who
ahead of the big game in Gran Canaria. 9 Nick Hughes midfielder Affordable Car Hire bears an uncanny resemblance to Emma
Riches said: “After the 5-1 hammering we 10 Juan Romero forward PortAventura Watson, aka Hermione from Harry Potter.
gave them last year, they’re clearly trying to 11 Neil Herbert midfielder Travel Buddy Do you know of a good (or bad!)
use scare tactics to put us off our game.” 12 Denis Wormwell forward Shearings lookalike? Email
rmurray@ttglive.com
The agents/suppliers versus operators 13 Joe Lavers midfielder Goldtrail
football match kicks off at 4pm at the 14 Giles Hawke defender Complete Cruise Solution
Maspalomas Stadium on Monday, October 6. 15 Wayne Darrock anywhere! JTA
Spectators will have the chance to win a 16 Andy Crowe forward DFDS Seaways
week in Gran Canaria courtesy of Youtravel and 17 Rupert Diggins sub Holiday Options
“It can’t be me;
C&M Travel Recruitment in a prize draw. All 18 John Fair sub
1st4cruising.com
proceeds will go to Family Holiday Association. mine does calypso”
Tui’s Dermot Blastland explains why
O’Leary gives protester the naked truth
the phone that interrupted him
during the firm’s first birthday
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary needs no excuse Not only was the protester the wrong sex, he
wasn’t his
to give “eco nuts” a piece of his mind, so imagine exacerbated his mistake by accusing Ryanair of
his delight when a naked male protester carrying 12 million passengers around Europe.
interrupted his annual general meeting. O’Leary was quick to point out that in fact
Actually, he claimed to be not quite as Ryanair carried 60 million people.
GOT A FUNNY STORY?
delighted as he would have been had the “We’ll send him one of our five million ¤5 tick-
Don’t keep it to yourself – let TTG share it
protester in question been a woman. ets which he can avail of to travel from his home
with the travel trade. Hilarious photos
“She would probably make as little sense as in Clare on one of our routes from Shannon. also welcome. Please call Rupert Murray
this guy this morning, but at least she’d be “In return I hope he’ll send me some of what on 020 7921 8010 or email
more attractive,” he said. he’s been smoking on the Costa del Clare.”
rmurray@ttglive.com
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