Tomorrow (28 June) promises to be one of the truly engaging days in our history in more senses than one.
Events
Discovering life in Hel in the happy capital of the world
The endless daylight might not be good for the sleep pattern but it feels more like heaven than hel to me in the happiest country on earth.
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Airports
Fact and fiction converge at La Guardia Airport
The man possesses a soft, half-formed sadness. This causes a few nearby empathic passengers to pity him in a way that’s not becoming of anyone.
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Airports
The search for Ireland’s most honest travelling diners
‘Customers refund restaurant’ deserves to be right up there with journalism’s most famous aphorism, ‘man bites dog’, for sheer unlikeliness.
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Airports
Lost in (duty free) space, the sequel
With my advanced years, notoriously fickle directional capabilities AND having to focus on shooting a video, what possible chance did I have of getting out of this terrible ‘force through’ duty free?
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Airports
Twaddle deep and twaddle dumb in Auckland
My native land is anything but a back water. But that doesn’t spare it from sometimes being a swamp of twaddle deep and twaddle dumb.
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Airports
Food for thought (but maybe not for eating) in New York
I’m not so sure I would be tempted by any of those sandwiches, even if I’d been queuing since 1892.
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Airports
Celebration time beckons at Hong Kong International Airport
June and July will provide an extravaganza of festivities as the airport’s latest generation of anchor store retailers stage their Grand Openings.
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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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Events
Plenty of heat in the FAB judging kitchen
With four nationalities and diverse backgrounds and perspectives represented on the judging panel, there’s plenty of heat, lots of spice and even the occasional boilover in the judging kitchen.
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Airports
Travel packing as you never saw it, daigou style
I didn’t believe you could get so many cosmetics items into one small wheelie case. But never underestimate the ingenuity of the daigou, nor the sheer power of money.
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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
On location in changing times for Japanese travel retail
I’m just returning from a fascinating trip to Japan, where the travel retail market is evolving due to new business dynamics, changing consumer habits and a continued surge in visitor growth led by China. In advance of our full report in Moodie Davitt Print & Interactive editions for May, here are five takeaways from a