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Travel bosses from a Nantwich store partied with Peter Andre after scooping a top award for the third year running.
Don Bircham and Lindsey Barber of Hays Travel North West, which runs a Hays Travel store in Swine Market, met the Mysterious Girl singer at the Jet2 VIP conference for independent travel agents in Calpe, Spain.
The three-day conference recognises work and commitment of the best independent travel agents throughout the UK.
Hays Travel North West took one of the main prizes for the best large independent travel agency in the UK, winning for the third consecutive year.
They received their award from Andre and went on to enjoy celebratory events laid on as part of the trip.
Don, who set up his business in 2000 with one store in Mold, North Wales, and now runs almost 40 stores across the North West and North Wales region, said: “Peter was fantastic and really great fun.
“He came and sat next to me and Lindsey on the plane on the way over where we chatted to him and then I sat on the same table with him during the awards dinner.
“He came across as the most genuine guy and we chatted about all sorts.
“We talked about our families and he told me about his own and how much they meant to him.
“He told me he came from a very stable and loving family which had helped him a lot with the demands of fame and he just said he was loving his life and enjoyed being involved with so many varied projects in his work life.
“What struck me is that he took a real interest in the people around him, asking them all sorts about them and their family, as well as talking about himself and his own life, which of course, most of us were very interested to find out!”
His colleague Lindsey added: “He was lovely, he was polite, so sociable, professional and a very caring guy who really seemed interested in everybody.
“He asked us about the business and what we do, where our shops are, that sort of thing and he just mixed in with everybody with no airs and graces whatsoever.
“It was a real pleasure to meet him.”
Don and Lindsey were joined on the trip by Hays Travel North West Regional Manager Toni Smith, and manager of the firm’s Maghull store in Merseyside, Emma May.
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