I’ve been travelling so much that when I visited my dentist on Friday, I actually (and I swear this is true) went to fasten my seat belt as I sat in my chair. Given my aversion to dentists and what followed, I probably should have.
Airports
Building a showcase for South Africa at Johannesburg Airport
Travel retail, already a fine showcase at OR Tambo, can be a gateway to deeper knowledge and wider engagement with the best that South Africa has to offer.
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Travel
From a Dante-esque hell to the heaven of home
The staff at the Airport Regal do a good job and my ten-pace room was ok but I still feel like I have escaped from room 1072 rather than simply having checked-out.
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Travel
Reigning Supreme at the Regal while discovering a new variant
To ward off bordeom I recommend the COVID equivalent of the old Pick-up Sticks game. In this version (I guess we should call it a variant) you use swabs instead and push them up your nostrils.
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Food
Local flavour, world-class experience – a snapshot of South Africa at Durbanville Hills
What we’ve discovered in the past few days is the sheer diversity, wealth and quality of South African cuisine, alongside magnificent hospitality.
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Travel
Discovering 5-star values in Phuket
Tourists, so often lost in their own pleasure zones, tend to be unaware of what their presence can mean to regional economies. In contrast, local people are profoundly aware of it.
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Travel
Cementing an accident-prone reputation
In a battle between a concrete mixer truck and a Bangkok cab, there can be only one winner.
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Travel
Planes, (s)trains and very expensive automobiles
Breaking news: A very different kind of airline high jacking at Heathrow.
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Lifestyle
A world turned upside down
With my recent luck, if I avoid COVID, I’ll get sunstroke instead.
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Airports
Shedding and selling some Writers’ Tears as green becomes the new black
What an outstanding showcase for Irish whiskey Aer Rianta International provides at The Loop (which may, just may, have been named after a Johnny Sexton-called backs move).
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Travel
Feeling iffy by the Liffey
Oh what great craic this travel life is, sitting isolated in a foreign hotel room shoving cotton buds up one’s nostrils.
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Airports
Celtic rays and Camouflaged peas
I didn’t mind the price but I did question the value. The peas were about as freshly minted as a 1930s coin, more the colour of army camouflage gear than the bright, fresh-picked green of the menu photo.
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Miscellaneous
Mounting a challenge at Mount Juliet
“It’s not how, it’s how many.” With that well-worn golf phrase and a wry smile did Paraguayan pro Fabrizio Zanotti try to temper my disaffection with another ropey golf shot at the Horizon Irish Open Pro Am at Mount Juliet, County Kilkenny on Wednesday. There I was a guest of Executive Vice Chairman and CEO