As I begin this Blog, I’m five hours or 4,004 kilometres out of Hong Kong, just south of my regular ‘blogspot’ Novosibirsk and north of Ust-Kamenogorsk. It’s 6a.m. in London time, 2a.m. Hong Kong time and goodness knows when Moodie time. At 35,000 feet I’m listening to the exquisite ‘silver violin’ of Nicola Benedetti as
Miscellaneous
Top class in Tumon Bay
DFS may have suffered a stinging reverse in its efforts to retain the duty free and specialist retail concession at A.B. Won International Airport, Guam (though it is still challenging the process that led to Lotte Duty Free winning it), but the retailer continues to run a splendid and thriving downtown Galleria in nearby Tumon
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Airports
Dan to the rescue as Kangaroo catches Melbourne Airport officials on the hop
Tie me kangaroo down, sport Tie me Dan-garoo down Tie me kangaroo down, sport Tie me Dan-garoo down Melbourne Airport officials are looking into a major security incident yesterday morning when a lone male kangaroo, without a boarding card, managed to make its way into a chemist’s store on the terminal’s second floor. Sources say
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Events
Hell at Heathrow; Hafa Adai Guam
When you don’t see me Blog for a while, you just know I am very, very busy… I’ve been in Guam – still am in fact – initially attending and co-moderating the excellent ACI Asia-Pacific Small & Emergent Airports Seminar, while simultaneously working with my tremendous team in London finalising our monster Cannes print edition.
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Miscellaneous
Thirty minutes to The Heart of Cognac
Last Wednesday I took a taxi from my home in Singapore and, within a half hour, I was transported to Cognac, France, surrounded by aged oak barrels and the intense aromas of some of the finest cognacs from the House of Rémy Martin. No, this isn’t the work of some revolutionary new teleportation device (although
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People
And now I am three once more
At the precise time that I write this Blog, exactly three years ago a wonderful surgeon was hard at work performing surely one of the most onerous jobs on the planet, one where the stakes are always, just always, life and death. That day, 5 October 2010, he was busy leading a complex seven-hour operation
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Miscellaneous
All set for a FAB-ulous occasion in the land of Atlantis
From the lush greenness and mild Autumn climate of Limerick to the blazing heat of Dubai; from the Atlantic coast to a modern-day Atlantis, it’s a tale of contrast for the ever-relocating Moodie Report interim Bureau over the past few days. I’m back on the move. The image above shows the spectacular skyline looking out from