Like so many things that have happened at this outstanding airport over the past extraordinary few weeks (let alone 20 years), these performances are hitting exactly the right notes.
Airports
Flames at HQ, typhoon in Taipei
My original Worldwide Headquarters back in West London is looking more interim than permanent after my neighbour decided to light a bonfire at the back of his garden on Saturday. During a heatwave. As you do.
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Airports
Bouncing towards victory with the big man in Ballyliffin
“Did you buy those clubs in a yard sale, man? Wow, they’re old…” That was how the world number five ranked golfer Jon Rahm greeted me (and my elderly set of Taylor Mades) today at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open Pro-Am in Ballyliffin, County Donegal. An insult from one of the world’s greats to
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Events
Spain out in World Cup but Spaniard triumphs in Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby contest
The lesson is clear; if you want your football team to prosper in the World Cup, do NOT enter a Moodie Davitt competition.
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Airports
Watch this space – in every sense
Tomorrow (28 June) promises to be one of the truly engaging days in our history in more senses than one.
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Miscellaneous
Shake-up time in travel retail media
Its banner claim, ‘The Genuine Market Leader’, is an affront to the Trade Descriptions Act.
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Events
Discovering life in Hel in the happy capital of the world
The endless daylight might not be good for the sleep pattern but it feels more like heaven than hel to me in the happiest country on earth.
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Airports
Fact and fiction converge at La Guardia Airport
The man possesses a soft, half-formed sadness. This causes a few nearby empathic passengers to pity him in a way that’s not becoming of anyone.
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Quirky
Gourd almighty! It’s World Cucumber Day!
I’m even prepared to be the travel retail face of the campaign. Then again, I suppose they’re far more likely to cast Benedict Cucumberpatch.
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Food
And next… from Next 88
Smart man. Or should that be smart cookie?
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Airports
The search for Ireland’s most honest travelling diners
‘Customers refund restaurant’ deserves to be right up there with journalism’s most famous aphorism, ‘man bites dog’, for sheer unlikeliness.
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Airports
Lost in (duty free) space, the sequel
With my advanced years, notoriously fickle directional capabilities AND having to focus on shooting a video, what possible chance did I have of getting out of this terrible ‘force through’ duty free?
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Airports
Twaddle deep and twaddle dumb in Auckland
My native land is anything but a back water. But that doesn’t spare it from sometimes being a swamp of twaddle deep and twaddle dumb.