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Our Gareth is back from his travels. Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Kyoto were some of the destinations privileged to experience the ‘G’. After having a brilliant time site seeing, cooking strange food on street corners with total strangers and drinking lots of alcohol he has just about managed to drag himself back from his amazing experience. He also done some useful things while he was away! Spending time researching both eastern and western brands and retail across the cities he visited. The power of global brands and how they build cities just as much as the bricks (or wood) and the people themselves was clear to see especially in ultra fast developing cities like Dubai and Shanghai (in preparation for World Expo 2010). He has kindly brought us back some presents which included condoms, an umbrella, lots of weird flavoured sweets, a mechanical bug that changes direction when you clap your hands and wait for it… something you sprinkle over your food that probably has good intentions but doesn’t really look very appealing! I will have to repay the compliment when I come back from Blackpool with a stick of rock and a miniature version of the Blackpool Tower! Amazing!