<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Gaza:
In fact I’m sure it would be a good business idea for someone to set-up a Travel Agent in a Euro Zone country offering just such a service including organising transport from the UK to collect the tickets. </font>
In fact I saw something similar in
Business Traveller or some such thing, where an agency in Belgium will purchase the tickets for you and then send them either for collection at Brussels Airport or to your office via mail (if you wanted to try skipping the first segment).