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Big Short Breaks

Original Travel's portfolio of Big Short Breaks, launched in 2003, contains long weekends to suit all requirements from city breaks to skiing, adventures and escapes, all chosen with accessibility in mind... minimum time and maximum experience.

While these trips are as much tailored to your specific requirements as our further flung holidays, they represent perfect nugget-sized long weekend trips. The team at Original Travel research hundreds of potential Big Short Break destinations, but only the very best make the grade in terms of accessibility, originality and value for money.

Those that do appear here might raise an eyebrow or two – can you really spend the weekend sampling sauvignon blancs in South Africa’s winelands? Certainly you can, with the benefit of overnight flights and minimal time changes. Or seeing polar bears in the wild? Equally possible with a night in Oslo followed by two or three in Svalbard, the desolate Norwegian island chain deep in the Arctic Circle. These and more pocket adventures are a phone call away.

Trips

Budapest
Budapest
Hungary

Arguably the most beautiful city in Middle Europe, Budapest is the perfect urban Big Short Break destination.

Family Adventure in Iceland
Iceland

Ideal for active and adventurous parents and children, Iceland is filled with natural wonders and has the benefit of a short flight.

Icelandic Adventure
Icelandic Adventure
Iceland

Iceland is only a three hour flight from London so the ideal Big Short Break destination.

Sicily & the Aeolian Islands
Sicily & the Aeolian Islands
Italy

An extraordinary diversity of sights in one small area, from the classical ruins and beaches of Sicily to the volcanic outcrops of the Aeolian Islands.

Puglia
Puglia
Italy

Puglia, on the heel of Italy's boot, is a destination apart, both culturally and geographically.

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