A front-row seat at Australia’s finest movie showing

The view from my window on QF127 is better than any cinema could ever offer. Australia simply stretches. And then it stretches some more. It is a wondrous country.

Sensational in Sydney: Tales of terminal transformation

I do believe it’s time for another adventure. The perfect sentiment for The Moodie Blog.

Capturing the British spirit en route to a Sydney sense of place

n my top ten airport stores’ list, this gem of a shop would be right up there. In an airport already putting its best gin foot forward, Jo Malone is surely the perfect tonic.

A Legendary Burger or a seatback surprise?

Dine with us in dietary delight and enjoy a pleasant ambience or opt for the dubious pleasures of a plastic knife and fork, a reheated meal covered in tin foil, a postage stamp dining table, and the prospect of the passenger in front leaning back suddenly and sending your canteen cuisine flying into your shirtfront.

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August 9, 2017

Worth the wait: Ngurah Rai retailers capture the flavour of Bali

Departing Bali leaves one’s heart heavy, but at least the airport and its commercial operators help ease the pain.

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August 2, 2017

Coming soon: Changing of the guard at Hong Kong International Airport

That is the nature of the open tender beast, of course. You win some, you lose some. And sometimes, as with DFS here, you do both.

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July 26, 2017

Reincarnation in Paris; reimagination in Singapore

La Samaritaine and Changi T4 are among the most exciting developments I have seen in my 30 years of covering this business.

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July 19, 2017

Landing on Lambay in a tale of two families

For Dubliners, Lambay Island has always had an air of mystery and impenetrability. If like me, you spent your summers digging sandcastles on the various strands from Portmarnock to Sutton, facing east to the Irish Sea, Lambay was a looming but in many ways distant presence. A private island around three miles offshore, we never

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July 12, 2017

Moodie in motion as more Interim Bureauxs open around the globe

My various Moodie Davitt Report Interim Bureaux of recent weeks have been more interim than usual. In the past three weeks I’ve set up shop in Toronto, Dublin, Moscow and Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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July 6, 2017

Into the swing in Portstewart with “the Rory McIlroy of duty free”

“Tubber Patrick: The finest opening hole in links golf?” the Portstewart Golf Club website asks teasingly. Or, if you translate from the native Northern Irish, it means “are you really sure you want to do this?” I’m standing on hole number one at Portstewart, home to this week’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Open hosted by

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