Year in Review: The Moodie Blog
The Moodie Blogs of the Year
(Continued)
July
How Brodie Leslie crushed it and Alina Alam refused to be one of Nero’s guests
“Mere seene mein nahin toh tere seene mein sahi. Ho kahin bhi aag lekin aag jalni chahiye.” (If not in my heart, then in your heart. Fire may burn anywhere but it must burn).
“I started Mitti Café with zero start-up capital and faced multiple rejections. I didn’t even know what capex and opex were when I began. But when you have nothing to lose, at your lowest point, that’s when you’re strongest. So I went from door to door, shop to shop, house to house, asking people to join the movement of inclusion.” – Alina Alam
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Flying High, Flying Free, Martin Moodie can’t you see…
One of the keys to using AI adroitly is how you shape the information or the question/s you give it. What if I asked Suno to write a song about a travel retail publisher called Martin Moodie, known as Flying Kiwi in deference to his provenance and intensive travel schedule?
And so I did. In approximately the same time it took me to write the previous sentence, I had my song. ‘Flying Kiwi’.
How Mathieu Herrero and Dag Rasmussen each carried a dual Olympic and travel retail torch
I salute these two good men and true from the business sector that has given me such an enriching living for four decades. For they are indeed torchbearers for the excellence and the values that our definitively global business sector so often represent.
August
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.
September
Perfect pours, great green fehlers and The Incredible Bulk
The great fehler (mistake) is believed to have inspired a similarly named American World War II movie starring Steve McQueen as a POW in which the original choice of a Springstab or pogo stick as his choice of escape vehicle was accidently translated as motorbike.
October
Is Changi the world’s most user-friendly airport?
Changi offers a quality that is almost a contradiction in terms with most world airports. Serenity.
November
Finding a new way to shed Writers’ Tears in Galway
The Moodie Davitt Report.com is known as the website that never sleeps for good reason. And despite the earliness of the hour, it certainly does not slumber on the Galway to Dublin bus.
A last red rose and a final farewell
Colm’s loving wife Breeda, brave and beautiful but seemingly shrunken in grief, threw a single red rose on top of the coffin; the priest said some consoling words; and then the family and the hundreds who had gathered to show their last respects shuffled silently away into the chill of an Irish afternoon.
Vibrant Vietnam delivers The Trinity Forum 2024 in triumphant style
Ho Chi Minh was a fabulous location, and I have run out of superlatives to describe the hospitality, grace, support and professionalism of our co-hosts Airports Corporation of Vietnam and IPP Group.
December
On the road to Mandalay where the Flying Kiwis play
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere I go.
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