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August 8, 2021

Saying Jihwaja in Seoul and bidding farewell to the Land of the Morning Calm

With a two-week hotel quarantine starting on arrival, I’m going to need a little quality liquid sustenance to help sustain the website that never sleeps. Jihwaja!

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Travel

August 2, 2021

Breaking into a gentle Trot on a road trip in Busan

Trot is a popular, highly sentimental form of Korean music, sometimes described as the unofficial soundtrack of road trips because the upbeat tempo and repetitive rhythm can get stuck inside your head. It certainly has in mine.

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Miscellaneous

July 29, 2021

Rain and shine, a room indoors and edging towards a revival

Our gathering evoked the value of the relationships that so many of us in the industry have forged over many years, and the trust and friendship that underpins them.

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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

July 14, 2021

Maintaining caution in Korea, becoming dumb & dumber in the UK

I’ve had so many sticks poked up my nostrils in recent weeks I’m starting to feel like Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) after getting his nose plugged by Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) to stop his snoring in that priceless scene from ‘Dumb & Dumber’.

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Airports

July 13, 2021

Passion, pride and purpose at Hamad International Airport

Visiting Hamad International Airport and Qatar Duty Free is like taking an elixir for those COVID blues.

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Airlines

July 11, 2021

From inconclusively negative in London to conclusively upbeat in Qatar

Checking in is not as simple a process at it was in those halcyon pre-COVID days. PCR test results need to be checked along with all other details. Do NOT – as we had been forced to – turn up at the last minute.

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Travel

June 1, 2021

Back where it all began and a Flying Kiwi again

My only fear is that all these Nasopharyngeal Swabs will play havoc with my wine nosing ability.

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Travel

May 29, 2021

Any day now I shall be released

I’m going to focus on the soon-to-be-opened rather than the temporarily shuttered here as I think the real story is now one of future renaissance not bleak recent past.

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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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Airports

April 30, 2021

How Hong Kong Airport is getting all dressed up and ready for take-off

Better times are coming at this magnificent gateway and the Airport Authority Hong Kong team is more than prepared for them.

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Travel

April 20, 2021

Lifeguards, drag queens and Dave Dobbyn all say welcome home

I would just about concede the Wallabies the Bledisloe Cup if all of us could start to travel freely again and sing our own equivalent of Nau Mai Rā.

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Travel

March 28, 2021

Pondering a post-batch 210102 visit to Mauritius

Today, my eye has alighted on Mauritius, all 2,040 sq kilometres of its loveliness perched out there alone in the Indian Ocean. I reckon I could be there in around 9 hours and 45 minutes.

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