Editorial
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Chicken Telly
My laptop’s on. I’ve chucked another log on the stove. Outside on the windowsill two chickens dibble amongst their feathers, pause, press against the window, extend their necks and stare in, pecking at spots of dirt on the glass. Tap. tap, tap, tap… My inbox proffers a couple of press trip invitations. Both are vaguely…
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Planes, trains and automobiles…
Perhaps in the hope that it’d be buried beneath the kind of trite tosh that surfaces when most folks are taking a break, BA recently announced a revised sequential boarding procedure. Nothing new in that, save that this process is allegedly based on what you pay rather than where you sit. I said then that…
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Travel Journalism WTF?
Having cleared my desk before Christmas – all commissioned pieces filed – I find myself inhabiting the un-festive season of oh-bloody-hell-now-what? A few loose ideas dangle in the uncertain future but that’s about it. Although I know I’m doing it, writing instead of writing and pitching inevitably leads to this abyss. Like Wile E Coyote,…
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Return from WTM…
Yes, I am still alive, and back from WTM (World Travel Market.) Never one of my favourite events, I’m puzzled why some exhibitors continue to attend, while others who should, and might benefit, are inexplicably absent. EXCEL’s static-inducing carpet is as ever rolled out for a mosaic of stands, some rammed by gawpers transfixed upon…
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Blog Roll Despair
It’s time to update to my blog – once a year, regular as clockwork… What has predicated this further prodigious outpouring? An earnest need to record social injustice, a duty to highlight an humanitarian catastrophe, an epiphany that the world should know Dubai is not after all a sterile, air-conditioned prison of bars and spas? …
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Smells like festive spirit…
To be clear from the outset, I don’t like Christmas. Even if a vestigial spiritual aspect remained I’d be unmoved. In common with Norwich I have no religion, not even Jedi. However, I’ll agree that when mornings are dark and days short we all need to be cheered up and if rituals involving eating and…
The Irresponsible Traveller 