From this height, one of the world’s greatest airports almost resembles a model, with little toy planes coming in to land or roaring along the runways. But it’s very much the real thing.
Airports
Discovering a curate’s egg at Paris Charles de Gaulle and being cordoned (off) bleu!
I’m not so sure that an (albeit elegantly) cordoned-off luxury store – even one bearing the most lustrous brand name on the planet – is actually that alluring.
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Travel
Flying High, Flying Free, Martin Moodie can’t you see…
I shall not pain readers with the end result, except to say that Bob Dylan’s songwriting legacy is probably safe for now from any AI assault (Truffles my cat wagging her tail/Gonna pick him up can’t ever fail/Get her from the vet she’s ready to roll/Truffles my friend let’s rock and stroll) is not yet the stuff of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Events
A drone-lit, FAB-ulous and (Brewery) X-rated experience in Ontario
The energy, the passion, the support, the hospitality, the professionalism of the ONT team were second to none. Atif has assembled one hell of a class act here and it shows through every aspect of their operation.
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Airports
From Hong Kong through Taipei and onto FAB-ulous Ontario International Airport
There’s just time to sip on a chilled 2023 Banrock Station Chardonnay from South Australia that’s a lot sprightlier than me and munch on some stir-fried cabbage with fungus and celery. The ways I spend my Saturday evenings…
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Airports
Getting the alignment, sequencing and timing right at Dubai Duty Free
Ramesh has stepped into very big boots indeed, those worn by his predecessor Colm McLoughlin with such distinction since 1983. That responsibility excites rather than daunts him and rightly so.
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Events
On Cloud Nine with DFS & Cathay Pacific and BAC to the Future in Brisbane
Ao Yun(敖云)– destined, I think, to become one of the world’s great wines – means ‘above the clouds’, which given the amount of time I spend in exactly the same place, makes it one I hope to drink a lot more of in the future
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Travel
On the road from Riyadh to Macau to Brisbane
I will be spending a great deal more of my time in the Kingdom going forward and I will not be alone within the travel retail community.
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Travel
Coming to a cinema near you: The Old Man & The Misfiring Laptop
While I would never have been likened to Robert Redford in his prime, the combination of his senior incarnation and the film’s plot did rather remind me of myself. I’m thinking of approaching him regarding a remake.
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Travel
Getting ahead of myself on the road to Riyadh
“Mr Moodie,” the check-in agent said in the tone one usually reserves for an elderly and confused grandparent. “Your flight is not until tomorrow. The 20th.”
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Events
Free as a (Kiwi) bird and flying high in Haikou
With me barely leaving my desk from 6am to midnight for several consecutive days due to needing to get our latest China Travel Retail Report eZine over the line, it has at times felt a rerun of one of many COVID hotel quarantines.
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Travel
Saying Namaste to Noida and getting ready for APTRA India
“Namaste. In India we never say goodbye, we say hope to see you again.”
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Travel
Hunkering down in paradise with the horn-eyed ghost crabs
If the crabs – carefully protected here by man as well as themselves – don’t want company, neither do you. This is a place to simply let go, to feel the weight of mental pressure and physical tiredness dissolve.