Great response, great new friends….a phantom and a cockroach!

IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER - As I mentioned, this weekend we went off to the French Property Exhibition at the Olympia in London to launch www.breeze-france.com to the world! What a great reception we got! We had loads of visitors to our stand and great positive feedback. We’re not big or well known enough (yet) to bribe folk with champagne and canapés but we did have a few seats for tired visitors and nice sweets wrapped in our colours, plus a snazzy little leaflet that, trust me, no one left without. We were blown away and we had a blast the whole time (though don't mention sore feet).

The show lasted three days and time flies when you're having fun. What a great experience to be able to talk about the site to people who've never heard of it but were genuinely inspired by what we were doing. I don't think anyone said (to our faces anyway) that they didn't like it. We also made more new friends amongst the other exhibitors and look forward to developing relationships with them in the coming months.

All the visitors were impressed and we got fantastic comments like "Wow, your site is exactly what I've been saying we needed" and "What a great idea" and "I'm going to look at your site as soon as I get home". Sure there were a few people too shy to express their glee but we could see it in their eyes. We launched a website and people like it. How great is that?

So all in all it was a worthwhile event, made even better when Heather treated us on Friday night with tickets to enjoy The Phantom of the Opera (thanks again, Heather!). After the show we stopped by Piccadilly Circus to see the dazzling lights of the massive advertising panels (…imagining our Breeze logo replacing Coca-Cola!!) and thought it would be an interesting experience to join some of those big-city “binge drinkers” we hear so much about! Sadly it wasn’t to be – it was late and they were probably tucked up in their spinning beds. So we stepped over the lager can evidence of their party and headed back to the hotel.

We did have one unwanted visitor to our exhibition stand… a cockroach (the size of a hamster!) crawled out of my computer bag on the first morning! A nice souvenir from the hotel that had successfully deceived us with their lovely internet pics and from which we had just made “the great escape” (another story!). Needless to say, the efficient Breeze team jumped quickly into action, donned our safari hats, hunted it down and bravely disposed of the beast before the inevitable panic ensued. Go Team!

Talking about deceiving – or misleading, or just plain uninformative - internet pictures – has anyone experienced that when hunting for French property? Uh-huh? Well, add a comment and share your stories. It’s important that property advertisers on Breeze hear what you expect from them.

Hoping to hear from you,
Big Game Hunter Ronaldo