The Moodie Blog

What do your beauty products say about you? Does your array of potions and lotions signify that you take care of yourself? Why not go one step further: use any of the products from philanthropic new beauty and lifestyle brand All for Eve, and you’ll be taking care of other women too.
The brand, developed and [...]

Of the many jokes we receive during the course of the year, we thought this one was particularly good, especially in the light of the recent airline onboard ‘one-bag’ furore.
Michael O’Leary, Chief Executive of Ryanair, arrived at a hotel in Dublin, went up to the bar and asked for a pint of Guinness.
The barman nodded [...]

Among the many impressive industry stories of ingenuity in getting home while stranded during the volcano ash crisis, was there a more impressive one than that of ARI Group Retail Operations Director Nick Forbes?
Nick had been in Moscow when Irish and UK airspace was first closed last Thursday.  At first things looked bleak, very bleak. [...]

I was blue, just as blue as I could be
Ev’ry day was a cloudy day for me
Then good luck came a-knocking at my door
Skies were gray but they’re not gray anymore
Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see
- Irving Berlin
“JFK please!”
They were the words that during my darkest moments in the past week, I [...]

I’m dreamin’ tonight of a place I love
Even more than I usually do
And although I know it’s a long road back
I promise you
I’ll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
The Moodie Report may, just may, be about to relocate its New York Bureau to the other side of the Atlantic.
Things change fast in a [...]

“Veal meat again…”
It sounded like I was about to burst into a Vera Lynn wartime song but I was simply ordering the best chop in New York.
The Moodie Report’s Americas bureau has doubled in size with the arrival of Deputy Publisher Dermot Davitt after a 15-hour flight from Hong Kong, step one on his epic [...]

‘Homeless – please help’
As I lean over to give the poor black woman on Madison Avenue a few Dollars, I can’t stop myself commenting: “So am I…”
She smiles at me with a confused expression.
Day five of my extended stay in New York and metropolitan fever is starting to set in. While it would be unfair to say [...]

And the papers love to say
It’s the meanest town in the USA
But I think it’s okay
It’s the town I’ve made my home
- New York City Blues, Neil Sedaka
Things you don’t want to read when you’re stranded abroad (1): “The last recorded eruption of Eyjafjallajokull lasted over a year (1821-1823) but we don’t know if it [...]

Clouds so swift
Rain won’t lift… You ain’t goin’ nowhere
- Bob Dylan
“You ain’t going nowhere Honey.”
The American Airlines representative at JFK Airport looked at me with an expression that combined sympathy and insistence, shaking her head as she spoke.
It was Thursday evening and having spent the afternoon at JFK Terminal 4 reporting on the great new Tanqueray [...]

The Moodie Report’s Big Apple bureau at the Courtyard Marriott hotel near New York JFK Airport may turn out to be a little less temporary than planned…
My supposedly whistle-stop visit to JFK – to report on a new collaboration between Diageo Global Travel & Middle East and DFS – is now threatened by ash. No, [...]