Bravo Becky Paskin. I am proud that you are our partner on World of Spirits, an event that will welcome women and men from all over the world but will bar sexism from entering the door.
Events
A hidden gem no longer
Thanks to a range of enthralling virtual tastings that I have been invited to over recent weeks plus a barrage of entries for The QDF Factor (more of that in a subsequent Blog), I could now open one of the best bars in Hung Hom.
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Quirky
Boris in Blunderland and quite the stupidest T(ory) party you’ll ever visit
“Short-sighted, incomprehensible and, let’s say, quite masochistic decision! I love this country, but sometimes I hardly understand it”
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Miscellaneous
Raising the bar every day to a ceaseless, magical rhythm
We think we have created something ground-breaking not just in travel retail terms but within the whole digital world.
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Quirky
From one Martin to another, and another… and another
I had a dream, and it involved Martins. Lots of Martins.
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Airports
Kia kaha Canterbury – stay strong
Kia kaha indeed. In these dark COVID-blighted days, it seems as apposite a phrase as it was back in the dark moments of 2010 and 2011.
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Miscellaneous
Sunshine through the fragrant harbour (and COVID-19) haze
It is now reasonable to expect that better days lie ahead, not on some distant and perhaps mirage-like horizon but in the relative near term.
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People
COVID-struck but Wild Tiger’s Wild Cat will roar again soon
Get well Gautom (and Vinaya), we need you roaring again and your seemingly inexhaustible supply of bad tiger puns flowing again like the Wild Tiger Rum on a good night out.
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People
Saying Si Yu’us Må’åse to Marian Aldan-Pierce after 44 amazing years with DFS
“Marian has been a part of the DFS family ever since 1976 and DFS Saipan would not be what it has grown to be without her” – DFS co-founder Robert (Bob) Miller
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Miscellaneous
Keeping the (masked) ball rolling in Hong Kong
Who will be the first travel retailer to launch an own label mask? Qatar Duty Free perhaps? Dubai Duty Free through its in-house Akaru brand? How about destination-specific masks, surely a winner in the travel sector?
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Miscellaneous
Toy Town, Trump tosh and quarantine roulette
Perhaps the oven analogy will strike home for Boris. After all, most of his government’s response to this crisis to date has been half-baked.
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Miscellaneous
Untagged in Hong Kong as the space race heats up
Sputnik is the Russian word for satellite. The choice of name is apt, for many have likened the search for a vaccine to the space race contested by the Soviet Union and the US during the Cold War.
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Lifestyle
Bloody Shiraz, bloody good
I tried it with tonic (with deference to COVID-19, it had to be Fever-Tree of course) to balance the sweetness and then I tried it straight. Gin straight? I tell you, well chilled and on the rocks (the gin, not me) it was a revelation.