Seva Duty Free. Remember the name, you’ll be hearing it a lot more.
Airports
Time to Split after a tough couple of days
After an horrendous couple of days. it’s time to split. As in get the hell out of the UK and as in fly to Split.
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Travel
Free of duty in a holy place in the Aegean
I forgot to bring my power adaptor for the local plugs, which meant I was without access to my laptop or phone for the first day. God’s way perhaps of saying I should slow down and simply take in the splendour.
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Airports
Mamma mia, Korea we go again…
I do not read British newspaper The Sun, but I did stop at BA’s Heathrow T5 lounge to admire the title’s unlikely marrying of events Korean and Swedish in one brilliant headline.
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Miscellaneous
Heading home from my Jeju journey
What a beautiful island Jeju is, full of natural wonder, history (some of it dark and poignant) and culture. It is known as a healing place, somewhere to take stock of life’s pressures and priorities.
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Airports
World class in Waiheke – and making a connection through duty free
I’m over north-eastern Australia on the long Emirates flight from Auckland to Dubai, as my final trip of the year draws to a close. I’m winging my way back to Ireland for Christmas after visits to Melbourne and Auckland airports (more on their respective retail developments on our home page). When I travel at this
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People
The Whinging Pome: Tales from a life in travel retail
“The Whinging Pome Random Rules, Rule 22: Always engage with those sitting next to you on a flight, but very quickly make an assessment whether such an engagement is going to be worthwhile. If not, apply The Whinging Pome Random Rules, Rule 52: Cease all contact and employ diversionary tactics. If Rule No 52 fails,
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Airports
Experiencing the world’s first run-through duty free store
“There seems to be a problem. I’m sorry, you can’t get on this flight. And you’re very late.”
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Airports
Finding funnel-webs and missing apostrophes in Melbourne
I was tempted to go up to the information counter and ask politely, “Where can I find an apostrophe?”
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Travel
Replacing the batteries on Koh Samui
You get what you pay for, as they say. I wonder what a ‘genuine fake’ (as opposed to a fake fake?) Armani suit looks like?
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Airports
#LifeinHel: Saving private Ryan moments on social media
Featuring the ‘World’s longest layover’, #LIFEINHEL is a mix of reality TV, game shows and social media. It relates the story of how Ryan is living in a little cabin inside Helsinki Airport for 30 days.
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Airlines
Flying high in First Class with Bombay Sapphire and Virgin
A little tipple is surely justified as today (19 October) is International Gin & Tonic Day and I’m about to be flown First Class to New York to celebrate.
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Airlines
What will I do with the leftover wine?
Tonight I’m down the back of the plane (in a middle seat goddamn it) but one of the benefits of having squillions of points is that I have access to some decent lounges whichever part of the big steel bird I am flying.