Hull FC vs Travel Trade?

Farewell and congratulations to Nick Cust who is planning to step down from the board of HolidayBreak plc at the end of the year.

Nick joined the main board in 1997, having previously served as an associate director and before that he was joint MD of Superbreaks. Nick was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year’s Honours List in recognition of his services to tourism.

Our own favourite story about Nick dates back to a Travel Agent conference we both attended in the rather grand setting of Monte Carlo.

During one of the conference afternoons, at a coffee break in one of the sessions, we struck up a conversation with Nick about the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final (as it then was) to be played at Wembley that afternoon. As it happened, for some reason, we had been upgraded to a room in the Grand Hotel on the square next to the Casino and one of the, rather nice, features was satelite TV.

Nick quickly demonstrated his lightening decision making facilities. Abandoning the rest of conference we quickly de-camped to our room where, complete with bottles of over-priced 1664, we spun-out the rest of the afternoon watching Hull FC vs Wakefield.

Those were the days.