I notice on the label it’s a ‘small batch’. Personally I think that’s a mistake – they should have made a really, really big one considering it will be another 111 years before the Irish win again.
Airports
Emotion and engagement at Taoyuan International
Classic, colourful, quirky: we’ve championed the virtues of Taiwan Taoyuan International before, but a visit here this week reminds me just what a compelling experience this great airport can be. I’m here on a short trip – little more than 48 hours – to attend the official opening of The Macallan’s striking new store in
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Quirky
The sweetest of views, one of astronomical proportions
There’s nothing quite like the breathtaking view of the Milky Way from the surface of Mars.
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Airports
A divine kind of payback at Dubai Duty Free
When your luck is in, it’s really in. News reaches us via Dubai Duty Free of an Indian traveller and shopper who hit not one, but two jackpots last week. One involved no cash but a far greater prize – his life.
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Quirky
PokémonGoTR: Coming to an airport near you – Catch ’em all!
“I love the idea of TFWA Cannes going Pokémon mad,” says Clive. “How do you hold a glass, a plate of finger-food AND your mobile device all at once during the Opening Cocktail? How many people will simultaneously attack the big ice-sculpture (with an Ice-Pickémon?) when they find it’s hiding one?”
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Airports
Tangela, Flareon, Wigglytuff and Articuno: coming to an airport near you
Could we create ‘Pokéstops’ within airport shops around the world, offering ‘hatch one get one free’ Pokémon eggs, linked of course to generous shopping discounts?
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Airports
How duty free rage can cause tunnel vision
The story gets even better. Half an hour later, a beauty adviser enters the back room. “Hello, hello, there’s a man who is worried that someone is stuck in a tunnel!!”
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Quirky
Hapless hounds chase in vain as FoxTrot to Premier League quickens
The hounds are chasing hard but this is a breed of Foxes that just refuses to be caught.
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Airports
Dan to the rescue as Kangaroo catches Melbourne Airport officials on the hop
Tie me kangaroo down, sport Tie me Dan-garoo down Tie me kangaroo down, sport Tie me Dan-garoo down Melbourne Airport officials are looking into a major security incident yesterday morning when a lone male kangaroo, without a boarding card, managed to make its way into a chemist’s store on the terminal’s second floor. Sources say
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Quirky
Bringing the call of the Wilde to London Underground
Well this makes a change from the usual London Underground service information updates. Instead of ‘Severe delays are being experienced on the Piccadily Line due to a signal failure at Acton Town’ or ‘Passenger under a train at Baron’s Court”, the service information board at Boston Manor Station near Moodie HQ in West London, was
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Miscellaneous
Hitting new heights on Hong Kong Airlines
I’ve started writing this Blog from 34,000 feet, 1,000 miles out of Hong Kong. I’ve set up my most innovative Moodie Report bureau yet – onboard Hong Kong Airlines 875 out of Hong Kong International Airport en route to London Gatwick Airport. I’m two hours into the flight and I tell you something – this is
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Airports
It’s the real McCoy as champion jockey switches rides
It’s not a story we would normally run, but we loved the images so much we just had to… Heathrow Airport today announced that 16-time champion jockey AP McCoy had swapped his horse for a ride-on suitcase to compete in the first-ever ‘Trunki’ race at Heathrow to launch the airport’s programme of summer activities.
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Airlines
Getting the royal (duty free) treatment
Now this just could start a trend… The Daily Mail Online reported this week that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge were given £200 in duty free vouchers by British Airways as compensation after their inflight entertainment system failed en route back from the US. The recently wed royal pairing