OPINION Have you heard about the latest travel trend? It's not an up-and-coming destination, or a must-have accessory. It's called ‘rawdogging’, and you're more likely to encounter it on TikTok than in a roadside lay-by…
As practised by British rapper ArrDee, and Manchester City star, Erling Haaland, rawdogging is essentially the ‘art’ of flying long haul with absolutely no distractions. That means no inflight entertainment (no films, books, podcasts, music), no eating or drinking alcoholic beverages and – in the most puritan cases – not even any water, loo breaks or sleep.
Instead, practitioners stare straight ahead into nothingness, or at the rip-roaring thrill of the inflight map. It sounds like a macho test of endurance, but according to Haaland, it's “#easy”.
The craze is linked to a TikToker called…