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December 18, 2025

Mundo Fantástico da Sardinha Portuguesa – where “the sardine is queen”

I ended up buying two more tins, each bearing the birth years (most definitely not to be revealed but clearly I knew what was on their Christmas fish-lists) of my wife Yulim and The Moodie Davitt Report Publisher Irene Revilla

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Events

November 5, 2025

Get yourself down to El Gordo, ‘Asia Pacific Travel Retail HQ’, for a Sinead Especial, the best Taco in town

November is lung cancer awareness month. Harry responded by launching ‘The Sinead Especial’, a sublimely tastebud-tempting taco based on some of my daughter Sinead’s favourite ingredients. How about that?

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People

February 12, 2023

Filip Sedic’s journey from Queen to King of wellbeing for everyone

“I like to wake up with five fresh new ideas. And start them today. I figured I would not be able to live a life when I wake up and don’t know what to do today.”

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Wellness

July 29, 2021

How Simone Biles faced – and defeated – the kaiju once more

This was a gold medal-wining display of courage from a brilliant athlete, a role model to millions of young women, a global superstar who made a choice about her destiny, and who confronted – and defeated – the kaiju of mental illness.

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Travel

July 16, 2021

A free man in Busan but staying away from trains

We’re all on a kind of Train to Busan. That foul spreading monster called COVID-19 is of course the zombies and we, as individuals, companies and societies are all doing our best to survive the menace.

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Travel

May 26, 2021

Collinson joins the dots as I return to the skies

The closest I have come to an overseas trip in ten months is via my regular ferry rides between Discovery Bay and Central. Now I can experience the real thing again at last.

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Travel

March 25, 2021

No shot in the arm but a stab in the heart

Now, as with so many others around the globe, my plans are – unlike me – up in the air. It sucks but to stay with that not particularly attractive verb, one just has to suck it up.

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Latest Posts
  • From Lisbon to Lon Y Coed and on to Hong Kong
  • Mundo Fantástico da Sardinha Portuguesa – where “the sardine is queen”
  • In memory of Roopa, a Mitti Café and travel retail heroine
  • Discovering a show-stopping Spanish brandy at Alicante Duty Free
  • Get yourself down to El Gordo, ‘Asia Pacific Travel Retail HQ’, for a Sinead Especial, the best Taco in town
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