For month upon miserable month through the pandemic, HKIA resembled a cross between a ghost town and a military hospital. You could almost sense the tumbleweed about to blow along the arrivals hall. How good it is to see the place humming once more.
Events
Sunrise in Shanghai, tenderness in Tokyo; and the cream of the crop with Sōmrus
I’m up, up and away again on one of those aircraft, on a 16-hour, 8,045 mile flight to New York, the first leg of a two-week journey that will in six days hence see me in Cannes for the TFWA World Exhibition.
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Travel
Meeting a guardian angel called Maki at Tokyo Station
For a moment prospects of recovering my laptop seemed between slim and none. And slim, like my train, had just left town.
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Travel
Back in HEL’s kitchen and bound for Hong Kong
But my life, my wife and my heart are in Hong Kong these days and I am looking forward to an extended stint living out of my home rather than out of a suitcase.
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Travel
Discovering the ins and outs of international travel
I’m back in blighted Blighty where an increasing number of things simply seem not to work anymore. Fortunately one of them is called Boris Johnson but elsewhere the situation is rather more serious.
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Events
Creating unforgettable memories with Maison Margiela
Chris Lee, delicate, almost bird-like in her androgynous beauty, was the star of the show, generating a rapturous reaction from hundreds of fans gathered for the event launch.
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Travel
How my encounter with Keanu Reeves passed by in a blur
And so my readers will just have to take my word for it and my colleague stay with her husband. Yes, I did meet, chat and have my photo taken with Keanu Reeves. But like my life in general, the moment passed by in a blur.
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Travel
Back in blighted Blighty
The wretched, long-discredited ruling (as in they make up the rules as they go along) Tory party stumbles from fiasco to fiasco, epitomised in our industry of course by their stupendously inane decision to scrap tax free shopping.
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Airports
The power of four: Destination Doha assumes a new dimension
A Trinity-plus (or quaternity) collaboration if you like – airport, retailer, brand and Chef – is born.
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Travel
Wedding bells in Singapore and watch this space in Doha
It was thoughtful of Martell to put up a sign explaining why for once I was away from my screen.
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Travel
Going green in Grasse and finding solace with Cloudy Bay in Discovery Bay
An apoplectic older man at the check-in counter muttered away not so merrily in what sounded like a whole lexicon of Finnish curse language to an unamused check-in assistant, culminating in the universally understandable “No more Finnair!”
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People
Frontline excellence at Changi and Helsinki airports
As I went to set up my Interim Helsinki Bureau in the Finnair lounge I realised I had left my mouse (as in laptop accessory not rodent) on the plane. But help was close at hand,
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Airports
Stocking up in Hong Kong and making a return to Taipei
It looks like a full flight for the 70-minute journey to Taipei. Just the way it used to be. And the way, hopefully it will be for a long time to come.