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The future issue Step into the future with us. As we bid farewell to 2008, and a new year filled with possibilities and adventures beckons, what better time to take a look at what lies ahead? In this issue, explore the worlds of travel, business, robotics, design, and even science fiction, for a peek of what you can expect in the months and even years to come. See you tomorrow!
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Ecuador’s most well-known treasures,
of European design graduates, and find
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fascinating South American country
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Offshore ecopolis As sea levels rise, countries might be forced to rehouse their citizens, but Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut believes he has the perfect answer with his project “Lilypad”. Callebaut’s idea is to create “a floating ecopolis for climate refugees”, which is an amphibious city designed to accommodate up to 50,000 inhabitants. The floating shape and structure are inspired by the leaves of the huge Victoria amazonica water lilies. www.vincent.callebaut.org
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500,000 SQUARE METRES IN SIZE 2100 ESTIMATED DATE OF COMPLETION 50,000 INHABITANTS
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North Madagascar They are one of the few species so ancient that they witnessed dinosaurs evolve and become extinct. And even though these green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) are on the endangered species list, it’s not all doom and gloom for them. Their main predators are humans, as their eggs and flesh are considered delicacies in some cultures. However, there are many projects underway, aimed at creating awareness of their value and promoting eco tourism to help increase numbers. www.worldwildlife.org
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1 METRE AVERAGE LENGTH 100 EGGS LAID AT ANY ONE TIME 203,000 NUMBER OF NESTING FEMALES
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1,610
km per hour
The team responsible for the 1997 land speed record is now developing a car that could reach 1,610 kilometres per hour. The Bloodhound SSC will be powered by a jet engine and hybrid rocket, and is expected to travel faster than a bullet from a gun. Project leader Richard Noble anticipates
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the car will be ready for a record attempt in 2011.
240 million
1980s
If everyone in the world appliances off rather than
2037
One of the early drafts of hit 1980s movie Back to the
leaving them on “standby”
Time capsules are so
Future, starring Michael J. Fox, had protagonist Marty
when not in use, it would
over; send your future
McFly time travel in a modified refrigerator. This was
cut CO2 emissions by around
self an e-mail blast from
changed to a DeLorean when director Robert Zemeckis
240 million tonnes in one year.
the past by logging on
switched their household
became “concerned that kids would accidentally lock
to http://futureme.org. Your
themselves in refrigerators”.
message can be sent back
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to you at any point between now and December 31, 2037. If you would prefer to
.25 billion seeds
virtually haunt someone after your death, try http:// mylastemail.com.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is now in operation. It has been designed to store duplicates of seeds from every variety of food crop on the planet. Built to protect the world’s crops from any future catastrophes, it has the capacity to store up to 2.25 billion seeds.
20,000 IN SPACE The Space Island Group (SIG) is a US-based company dealing in the commercialisation of space travel and tourism. SIG is currently developing its ambitious Space Island Project. It claims that, by 2020, up to 20,000 people could be living and working on “space island” stations orbiting the Earth.
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2015
and still building
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer continues to influence modern architecture even at the
By 2015, the US Department
ripe old age of 101. One of his most famous projects was Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, which
of Defense plans to have a
was inaugurated in 1960. Back then it was seen as an extremely futuristic city, but is now
third of its fighting capacity
thought of as “retro futuristic”, meaning what he envisioned the future might look like.
provided by robots.
1986 hit The 1986 hit The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades, by Timbuk 3, was written about the looming nuclear threat during the Cold War. However, it was broadly misinterpreted by teenagers future. Cue dozens of unintentionally ironic graduation ceremonies.
1,000 years old Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, Chairman and Chief Science Officer of The Methuselah Foundation, and author of the book Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could
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st century
Bender B. Rodriguez, the foul-mouthed robot from animated
Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime. He believes that human life
series Futurama, which was set in New York at the turn of
expectancy will eventually extend to 1,000 years, and that the
the 31st century, was named after The Breakfast Club’s moody
first person to live to 1,000 may already have been born.
rebel John Bender, played by Judd Nelson.
2050: ENGLISH TO LOSE ITS RANKING By 2050, English is predicted to lose its dominance as an international language. Currently second only to Mandarin Chinese as a native tongue, English is expected to be overtaken by Spanish, Hindi-Urdu and Arabic in the next few decades. Time to take an evening class! FUTURE Holland Herald
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Brave new worlds Is it just lucky guessing or does science fiction really influence and shape our lives? Jane Szita investigates hit and missed predictions. Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, Steve Schofield photographs some serious fans
Giles Aston, a restaurateur from London, 43, says his obsession with Star Trek’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard started as a lifestyle but is now a way of life
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Kitchen confidential: security guard and Star Wars fan Steven Burns at home in Wales, dressed as Chewbacca. He also likes to put on a Han Solo outfit from time-to-time
The people who live in the future aren’t stupid. They’ve got it all: robot servants, jetpacks, moving pavements, space colonies, talking computers and a peaceful, unified global society. Or so we were led to believe by the science fiction stories of the last century. Now, though, we’re past the year 2000, and the future has arrived – along with a certain sense of disappointment. The T-shirt slogan, “I still want my flying car,” says it all. Actually, there is a flying car, a prototype as improbably chunky as a bumblebee (see www.moller.com). And many of us have our own version of the Star Trek tricorder, in the form of a flip-top mobile phone. But gadget design aside, the world of much of last century’s science fiction now looks incredibly naïve, overoptimistic and quaint. As cyberpunk
novelist William Gibson once said, “Nothing dates more quickly than an imaginary future.” On the other hand, some science fiction becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. “There is a complex interplay between present images of the future and the future that takes hold,” says Sean Redmond, a science fiction film critic and academic at
Of course, Koolhaas’ zig-zag towers and giant spheres are not alone. Norman Foster admits being inspired by his boyhood enthusiasm for the 1940’s and 50’s sci-fi comic strip, Dan Dare. Its pages are full of buildings that look rather like his Swiss Re Tower in London. And for some years now, the hip lounge bars and stores featured in the likes of
“It’s staggering how much of what we do today is last generation’s science fiction” Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. “Look at the new Waterfront City designs for Dubai, by Rem Koolhaas. The buildings seem to come out of the pages of a sci-fi graphic novel. This is where fact and fiction collide.”
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Sf ideas that came true (sort of)
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CCTV – described by George Orwell in 1984 (1949). There are now an estimated four million surveillance cameras in the UK alone.
2 Internet – Mark Twain wrote about a “limitless-distance” telephone in From the London Times of 1904 (1898).
3 Geosynchronous satellite – Arthur C. Clarke first predicted “extra-terrestrial relays” in Wireless World magazine (1945), and featured them in his books.
4 The video iPod – a device much like this is described by H. G. Wells in When The Sleeper Wakes (1899).
5 Test-tube babies – first
like William Gibson’s Neuromancer, which coined the term “cyberspace”, are a case in point. They popularised a whole new way of thinking about computers, and encouraged the development of graphical interfaces. “These 1980s cyberpunk novelists practically created virtual reality as it exists today,” says science fiction writer Charles Stross. Stross’ latest book, Halting State, is set in the near future: the year 2018. It begins with a bank robbery in a virtual reality game – and soon after the book was published, this actually happened in the ‘real’ virtual world, in both Second Life
want to do and can’t do. That inspires the kids to go and accomplish it. When you have the advantage of hindsight, it’s staggering how much of what we do today is last generation’s science fiction.”
But some would say that reality remains so unpredictable, that seemingly prescient science fiction writers are really just making a lucky guess. Jules Verne, after all, predicted the aqualung (developed half a century later) but not the electric light bulb, which was invented just a few years after he wrote 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
featured in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932).
6 CD/DVD – in E. E. “Doc” Smith’s book, Triplanetary (1934), records survive an
“We live in a very futuristic present, with amazing advances all the time”
attack by being stored on metallic discs.
7 Robots – first named in Karel Capek’s Rossum’s Universal Robots (1920), but mechanical creatures were already being made, and written about, in ancient Greece.
8 Nanobots – in his story, A Menace in Miniature (1937), Raymond Z. Gallun imagined sinister “ultra-microbots”.
9 The screensaver – in his classic novel, A Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), Robert Heinlein talks of a TV screen
and Ultima Online. “There’s a lot of builtin obsolescence in my books,” laughs Stross. “The pace of development is so fast these days, science fiction starts ageing the minute you’ve written it.” He believes the sense of wonder of early science fiction, first formulated by Jules Verne and H. G. Wells over a century ago, is hard to recapture given today’s accelerated rate of change. “We live in a very futuristic present, with amazing advances all the time,” he says. “These days, people get a lot of science fiction straight out of the science pages of their newspaper.”
“disguised as an aquarium.”
10 Scuba diving – in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1875), Captain Nemo was equipped with tanks of compressed air. Source: The Daily Top Ten
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“The only difference between science fiction and science is timing,” said the inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen, at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. “Every generation writes about something they
“Writers may get some things right, but the predictive quality of science fiction is overvalued,” says Javier Martinez, managing editor of the science fiction studies journal, Extrapolation. “It has a treasury of images – spaceships, faster-than-light travel, aliens, galactic spacescapes – but it is always about the present. It only plays at envisioning the future. It always addresses issues that are pertinent to us in the current moment.” Martinez is keen to make a distinction between “sci-fi” – the sensationalist pulp offerings of the 1950s (themselves now a separate and muchloved genre) – and the more serious and intellectually rigorous “science fiction” or “sf”. Thanks to the lurid excesses of its sci-fi cousin, science fiction has sometimes struggled to attain respectability. Remarkably, the novelist Margaret Atwood recently denied that
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Andrew Robinson, a revenue protection officer from Bristol, 40, relaxes at home in his Klingon outfit. His wife is dressed as Dax
Beam me up: Jo from Stoke on Trent (retired) can’t get enough of Star Trek
Keith Carlos Batt (left), a film extra from Luton with his friend Stuart, whom he met at a Star Trek convention
Michael McNeil, a psychiatric nurse from Wirral, 32, prefers to be an AT-AT pilot like those featured in The Empire Strikes Back, rather than a stormtrooper like everyone else!
The photography of Steve Schofield Steve Schofield’s work is a mixture of portraiture and traditional documentary. This portrait series is entitled Land of the Free. The photographs show British fans of American science fiction and pop culture taken in their own environments. Schofields says: “I have shown people in their own homes and environments wearing costumes that they would be dressed in to attend events with other like-minded individuals. It seeks to offer a glimpse into the seemingly ordinary lives of my subjects and allows the private to become public. The work hints at the depth of people’s fantasies and the methods they employ to adopt this culture as part of their own lifestyle as a means of escapism.” www.steveschofield.co.uk
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SCIENCE FICTION Dave and Alan are Star Wars enthusiasts from Birmingham. Here, they are phoning home, dressed as Imperial stormtroopers
Life on Mars? One of the themes beloved of science fiction and particularly space opera (epic dramas set
her books are sf (even though some clearly are), because, “science fiction is rockets, chemicals and talking squids in outer space.”
in space, like Star Wars), is the colonisation of distant planets. At least since Le Mystère des XV (1911) by Jean de La Hire, a settlement on Mars has been a favourite theme. As the difficulty of such an undertaking becomes increasingly clear, today’s
Increasingly, though, such dismissals are rare. “Good science fiction helps people to think outside the box,” says Anders Sandberg, a philosopher and sf fan at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. “It helps us to recognise that our assumptions about the current
Charles Stross agrees that science fiction isn’t really about predicting the future, “any more than a crime novel is about how to commit the perfect murder.” He believes, “the future is like the present – just with more stuff. It’s fun to think about what people will do with all that extra stuff,” he says. “It makes a more complex picture.” His next book might feature 3D printing and “skinnable reality” – a new kind of virtual reality which is layered over the real world around
science fiction writers tend to be more sceptical. As cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling puts it: “I’ll believe in people settling Mars at about
“Good science fiction helps people to think outside the box”
the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about 1,000 times more hospitable than Mars and 500 times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes a ‘Gobi Desert Opera’ because, well, it’s just kind of plonkingly obvious that there’s no good reason to go there and live. It’s ugly, it’s inhospitable and there’s no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticise it because it’s so hard to reach.”
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world and the human condition are just that: assumptions, rather than the way things must always be. This is why it has inspired many people to become engineers or scientists.” On the big screen, says Sean Redmond, “science fiction is the exemplary fi lm genre. If you want to know the fears, hopes and dreams of the present, a science fiction fi lm is better than a social realism fi lm.” In literature, argues Javier Martinez, “science fiction, with its attention to the intersection between the human and the technological, with its contemplation of our desire for exploration and our need to stay grounded, with its ability to examine our need for self-preservation and our drive to self-destruction – is suited for the now.”
us – which are both technologies due to arrive in earnest in the next decade or two.
For science fiction writers looking further ahead though, an important contemporary theme is what Anders Holmberg calls, “the realisation that the human species might be on the way out. As we learn to manipulate our biology, integrate it with technology or create artificial intelligence, the state of being ‘human’ becomes more of a lifestyle or career choice than a given fact,” he says. “I think it is not implausible that we are going to see various highly divergent offshoots of humanity rather than one human species.” The future, in other words, might just turn out to be stranger than science fiction.
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Ecuador an eco wonderland Snow-capped volcanic mountains, unspoilt coastlines, Amazon rainforests and the Unesco World Heritage city of Quito are all waiting to be explored in mainland Ecuador WORDS: MIA LUNDBERG NEVADO. PHOTOGRAPHY: PETE OXFORD
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Arriving at Quito airport is quite an experience for even the most experienced traveller. The first thing that you’ll notice when stepping out of the plane are the enormous roses that fi ll the airport with colour and smell. It’s a most unusual but pleasant welcome, and not one that most people expect. Aside from its roses, Ecuador has much to offer. It’s best known for the Galapagos Islands, but the mainland is also starting to become a travel hot spot. Ecuador is one of the smallest countries in South America, but its landscapes include snow-capped volcanic mountains, long stretches of unspoilt coastline, Amazon rainforests and, of course, the Galapagos Islands. It covers the whole spectrum of natural wonders. Of the world’s 32 designated “biospheres”, 26 are found here, and that’s in a country only slightly larger than the United Kingdom. All of this means that one day you can be hiking in the highlands and climbing volcanic mountains, while the next you’ll be canoeing down river in the sunny Amazon rainforest greeting shamans or even surfing the waves on the Ecuadorian coastline. “What I love about living in Ecuador is the lifestyle, the people, the diversity and the way things work – or even don’t
work,” says Jan Niedrau, who has lived in Quito for many years. He’s the German-born owner of the renowned Zazu restaurant. And then there are the roses. The rose industry in Ecuador has boomed over the past 20 years, today it’s worth over €280 million a year, and it employs around 65,000 people. Ten of its 400 rose farms have been certified as fair trade farms, and hopefully in the future this number will rise as consumers become more aware how important it is for local communities. Rose farm worker Maria Jimenez explains: “For every fair trade rose sold, the worker gets 10% of the consumer sales price, which is quite a lot of money when one rose can cost up to €8 in a European flower shop or supermarket.”
Quito actually means “the centre of the world” in Quechua (a Native American language). This was nothing new to the locals when the Spanish conquistadors founded it in 1534, because the pre-Hispanic people of Quito already knew they lived at the equator. They were ahead of their time, as they were already using solar observatories and astronomical measurements. Today, there is an impressive 30-metre monument that marks the equatorial line, 25 kilometres north of the capital. Located 2,850 metres above sea level, Quito is the second highest capital in the world. The city stretches almost 40 kilometres wide in a valley surrounded by lush green mountains and volcanoes. Because of the high altitude, headaches and
”Of the world’s 32 designated ‘biospheres’, 26 are found here” dizziness can sometimes be experienced by first-time travellers. When not taken care of properly, it can ruin even the best planned trip, so it’s always a good idea to know what to do to avoid altitude sickness. Most hotels, restaurants and cafés offer te de coca, a tea made of coca leaves. But don’t be alarmed, you can still go for that coveted government job, as you would need to drink about a 1,000 cups of it in order to get even the tiniest bit high. For centuries, te de coca has been known to help people deal with the altitude because it increases the absorption of oxygen in blood. So sip and enjoy its medicinal benefits.
Houses of the Cofan Indian tribe in the Cuyabeno Reserve
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TOP: The ruins of Ingapirca (Wall of the Inca) are located near CaĂąar BELOW: Indian dancers at the Corpus Christi festival, which is celebrated over a three week period around the winter solstice
TOP: A surfer from Washington DC visits the waves in Santa Cruz TOP RIGHT: A lookout at the Monterey Bay Aquarium RIGHT: A mysteriously labelled room at the old Deetjens Big Sur Inn, which was built by a Norwegian, Helmuth Deetjens, in the 1930s
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Rolf Blomberg, Swedish explorer Rolf Blomberg was born in Sweden in 1912 and died in Ecuador in 1996, having spent more than half his life there. Blomberg was as an explorer, writer, photographer and filmmaker, some even say he was the last Indiana Jones. His daughter, Marcela Blomberg, manages the Blomberg Archive, and the 35,000 images her father left behind from all his years travelling in search of Inca gold and new species in the Amazon. When visiting the gallery what is most surprising is that even though the photos were taken 50 years ago, the scenery in Ecuador hasn’t really changed much. A rare thing in these fast moving times. www.archivoblomberg.org
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A Quechua Indian canoeing on the Añangu Lake in Yasuni National Park biosphere reserve; an ocelot or Felis (Leopardus) pardalis; Basílica de la Merced Cathedral in Quito’s Old Town; Shaman Alberto, a member of the Cofan Indian tribe; a sparkling violet-ear (Colibri coruscans)
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The old town in Quito is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. And thanks to the Miss Universe contest that was held here a few years ago, it has been cleaned up and is now considered one of the “hippest” parts in town. Fancy boutique hotels, restaurants and cafés have opened up all over the place, the most famous of which is Plaza Grande hotel on Plaza Grande next to the Presidential Palace. There is also a new, cool boutique hotel with oxygen tanks in each room being built at Plaza San Francisco, next to the famous San Francisco Church and monastery. Right beside the church, there is a gift shop full of local products, artworks and books about Ecuador. And the café next door serves tasty humitas (soft Ecuadorian corn bread tied in corn husks); they are served either savoury or sweet and taste amazing when served with a te de coca. From this café you can sit back and enjoy the bustling life of the Old Town. Another great place nearby is La Compania de Jesus, the most beautiful of all the churches in Ecuador. It has been under renovation for many years, but has finally been completed. It’s worth a visit just to see the impressive roof, which is painted in real gold.
Hats off The “Panama hat” is actually from Montecristi in Ecuador, which is a small town by the coast. When the Panama Canal was being built in the early 1900s, the construction company ordered thousands of these versatile sun protectors for the construction workers. It
Another must try is cuy, which is the Ecuadorian
became so intimately identified
word for guinea pig. Here, it’s considered a delicacy but, understandably, most people are turned off when they find out what it actually is. When it’s well prepared, though, it tastes delicious. Guinea pigs are also considered highly spiritual
with the canal that the name became “Panama”. The hats are still produced in Montecristi, or in Cuenca, south of Quito. The companies buy the unfinished Panamas from small
”I love the people, the diversity and the way things work - or even don’t work”
producers, and then begin the process of washing and bleaching with natural products. The hat is naturally sun-dried and then ironed to fit
animals, and even though Ecuador has great hospitals and welleducated doctors, many locals feel a strong respect for and still visit the shamans, also known as medicine men. If you ask for a “poor man’s X-ray”, you will be sent off to a shaman, who will roll a live guinea pig over your body for up to two hours. If the guinea pig starts bleeding from, for example, its right ear, you will know that you need to consult a doctor to check your right ear.
one of many models. The price of a Panama depends on how it has been woven; the tighter the weaving, the more expensive the hat is. Pictured above is Fausto Mero, who started making Panamas when he was
Outside the capital, there are many smaller villages
just ten years old.
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TRAVEL ECUADOR The Cotopaxi volcano (5,897 metres) is the highest active volcano in the world. In the foreground is a herd of alpacas (Lama pacos)
hour drive from there. Vilcabamba is known for the high number of people there that live well into their 100s. Many believe the reason for this is that it has the cleanest water in the world. The water comes straight from the lakes in the Podocarpus Nature Reserve and is naturally mineralised by the rivers of Vilcabamba. There are a lot of biodynamic farmers and even a NASA astronaut who have retired here for the quiet life. Another thing Vilcabamba has hit the headlines for, are the many UFO sightings that have been reported in its vicinity. The only thing we saw, though, were the fireflies when staying up all night on the terrace of the room at the cosy Madre Tierra hotel. Casablanca is a another gem for Quito’s jet set. You can fly to Esmeraldas, and from there it’s a 30-minute taxi ride to what is considered the most exclusive beach club in Ecuador, Club Casablanca. It is the only resort on the coast of Ecuador that offers a professional golf course and the beach is pristine and safe. You can sit in one of the bars and drink fancy flowerdecorated cocktails all day long, or get a massage on the beach. Every morning, the fishermen sell their freshly caught fish and serve delicious ceviche (citrus-marinated seafood).
With the current eco travel boom, Ecuador has suddenly found itself on the hot list. After organisations such as the Rainforest Alliance and Smart Voyager came to Ecuador to help out with their eco credentials, many resorts and hotels have now been certified. This means they work according to the standards of Rainforest Alliance to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behaviour. One of the most incredible eco experiences available is at the Tapir Lodge. The lodge is located in the heart of the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in north-eastern Ecuador. The 28
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solar-panelled lodge is affi liated with the International Ecotourism society, and its German owner, Kurt Beate, built the lodge in conjunction with the locals from the Siona Community. Kurt has spent most of his life in Ecuador and as you canoe up and down the river with him, he’ll point out snakes, monkeys, caymans and pink dolphins. To get to the lodge is quite an adventure. It’s a three-hour drive in a bus from Lago Agrio, followed by a three-hour canoe ride. Kurt is also good friends with the local shaman, Alberto, and his family who belong to the Cofan ethnic group. After a canoe trip and a long walk we arrive at Alberto’s home. First he takes us for a tour in his garden, where he’s been studying natural medicine his whole life. He knows the herbal cure for many ailments. After our tour, he welcomes us inside and asks if he can perform a cleansing ceremony. He’s wearing a beautiful, colourful, traditional shaman costume and an impressive feather headdress. He places me in front of a fire and starts singing, putting herbs all over me while blowing on the fire. The whole thing lasts about 20 minutes and, after the ritual, I do feel very relaxed.
”Vilcabamba is known for the number of people there living well into their 100s” Alberto says: “What I know about nature and natural medicine, I learned from my father, who learned it from his father, who learned it from his father and so on…” Yachana, which means “a place for learning” is another eco lodge. It won Condé Nast Traveler magazine’s Eco Traveler Award in 2004 because of its eco work, and for creating schools to teach the indigenous people about organic farming. Eco tourism is very important for Ecuador, it can bring in money and opportunities, and help sustain the many indigenous local communities. When travelling around, especially in the highlands and the Amazon, where people still live like they did hundreds of years ago, it might seem to the outsider that the inhabitants have been left behind. But in these times of financial crisis and global warming, maybe they have a lot more to teach us than we think.
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Ecuador fact file WHERE TO STAY
Plaza Grande Hotel
Tapir Lodge
WHERE TO SHOP
Rumiloma lodge
Homero Ortega & Hijos
One of Quito’s oldest and
The Tapir lodge was built in
Located on the mountainside
grandest hotels.
partnership with the local
of Quito with great city views.
www.plazagrandequito.com
Siona Community.
Best shop to buy a quality
cuyabenoecuador.com
Panama hat. Homero Ortega is
www.rumiloma.com
Hacienda Cusin
a fifth-generation family
Le Parc
A restored 17th-century
Sani Lodge
business. They even produce
For the stylish traveller,
Andean estate that lies 90
Set deep in the Amazon near
hats for Hermés in France.
the latest hotel in town is
minutes north of Quito.
the Cuyabeno Reserve.
www.homeroortega.com
Le Parc. www.leparc.com.ec
www.haciendacusin.com
www.sanilodge.com WEBSITES WHERE TO EAT
Further information
Zazu
on Ecuador:
This restaurant has put Quito
www.hipecuador.com
on the world map for foodies.
www.exclusivehotelsecuador.
With a German owner, a
com
Peruvian chef with Chinese GETTING THERE
blood and a Japanese sous-
KLM operates five flights
chef, it’s hard to go wrong.
per week (every day except
www.zazuquito.com
Tuesday and Thursday) from
Tanoshii and Sake
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Sushi restaurants Tanoshii and
to Quito International
Sake Sushi are worth a visit.
Airport Mariscal.
www.sakerestaurants.com
Luna Runtun
www.swissotel.com
Small hotel located on the mountainside in Sangay National Park in Banos. www.lunaruntun.com
South America
Napo Wildlife Center
Colombia
Napo Wildlife in Yasuni Park is a famous eco lodge. www. napowildlifecenter.com
TOP: Sani Lodge, which is close to Yasuni National Park TOP LEFT: Roasting Guinea pigs LEFT: A blue and yellow Macaw
Pacific Ocean
Esmeraldas Quito Cotopaxi Cotopaxi volcano
Ecuador
Galapagos Islands
Peru Loja Vilcabamba
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Designing A fresh set of talent recently exhibited in The Netherlands at Eindhoven’s prestigious Designhuis gallery. Annemarie Hoeve asks this new generation of European design graduates what they have planned for us – and for themselves PHOTOGRAPHY: FULCO SMIT ROETERS
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the future
Fredrik Forsman, Sweden THE PROJECT: GCS101 “GCS stands for Global Command System. It’s an existing defence concept in the American military. Part of this system involves developing UCAVs (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles), which are like flying robots fitted with bombs. So that’s what this is, a type of UCAV made from solid wood. I chose the shark form as they exemplify the most streamlined design of all time.” THE FUTURE: “Is this the future we want? That’s what I want to ask. It’s a critique towards the military growing out of proportion. I think designers have an important role to play in society, we can illustrate world issues by mixing sculpture with metaphor. We don’t have to just design things for galleries.” www.jointeffort.se
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Katharina Mischer, Austria THE PROJECT: FUNGHI SHELF “I decided to make fun of the latest design hype about limited editions because often limitations aren’t ‘nice’ at all. Think of people who don’t have enough to eat, or think of endangered species. There’s an Austrian mushroom that’s now almost extinct. There are only about 220 left. I cast them in tin and there are 20 of them on this shelf. The shelf is numbered: 20 out of 220. So that leaves only 200 tin mushrooms that I can do something with. In this way, I wanted to reflect how many of the species are really left. If the real number of mushrooms rises, I can make more shelves. If they die out completely, these shelves will act as a lasting memory of them. Any money this project makes should help maintain the habitat of these endangered species. If these sell, I can help reverse the process.” THE FUTURE: “Design can be relevant. It doesn’t have to just be ‘nice’. I was depressed for a while, wondering what designers are doing these days – we just produce waste. I wanted to show how designers can have a goal and do something positive. That’s why I really want to be careful about what I do in the future.” www.mischertraxler.com
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Halldor Ulfarsson, Iceland THE PROJECT: HALLDOROPHONE, VERSION #5 “Most of my friends are musicians, but I have no musical talent. I can’t even remember a tune. So I thought I’d invent an instrument. I wanted to make something that is beautiful, but is also a real instrument, one that only I know how to play. The sounds I make are entirely intuitive. [Halldor says it sounds like a whale in pain - ed.] Making an instrument is an exact science. There’s also something mysterious about the process. One extra millimetre makes it sound different.” THE FUTURE: “I’ve just received a grant to commission the composer Hildur Gudnadottir to study my instrument and compose something especially for it. I studied fine art, so the Halldorophone is my first actual design project. I want to focus on content and emotion in my future work.” halldorion@gmail.com
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Vladi Rapaport, Ukraine and Israel THE PROJECT: THE SPEAKER “Music evokes all sorts of emotions, but the source of the music, the speakers, is often impersonal. I wanted to make a connection between the speakers and your emotions. So I used a human form for them. You can change the pose; spread his arms when music is playing and he becomes the singer. He’s a different person for every song. It took me four months to make and I cut and stitched all of the leather myself.” THE FUTURE: ”People are tiring of industrially produced products and are looking for something more personal. The search for the personal is something that continues to inspire me.” www.vladirapaport.nl
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Camille Scherrer, Switzerland THE PROJECT: WORLD OF THE MOUNTAINS “I wanted to make a ‘magic’ book. So I wrote some short stories about the mountains where I grew up, and added some of my grandfather’s old photos. I asked two people from a local technical college, Julien Pilet and Fanny Riedo, to create a computer program that looks for pictures on a page. It’s a huge algorithm and enables a camera hidden inside a desk lamp to film the pages of the book as you turn them. It then simultaneously displays them on a computer screen. When the camera registers one of my grandfather’s photos on a page, it adds my own animations. So on the screen, the photos from the book come to life with everything from fish to foxes in helicopters to birds and falling snowflakes. This program enables me to ‘hide’ animations inside any book, and at first, it just looks like a regular book.“ THE FUTURE: “I love the mix of old-fashioned and hi-tech. I’m quite a romantic and love playing around with pictures and past feelings. I also love computers.
www.designhuis.com
Now I can combine everything.” www.chipchip.ch
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Futurenomics Douglas Rushkoff is a renowned author, teacher and documentarian. He investigates the way people, cultures and institutions create, share and influence each other’s values. In this Holland Herald exclusive, he give his thoughts on post-crisis business
The credit crunch may actually be good for business. No, not in the short term. When money becomes more expensive, it is harder for most businesses to get the capital they need to conduct their most basic operations. Even successful companies borrow money to buy materials, pay employees, and cash in on invoices that have yet to be paid. Without the cash flow provided by banks, it is a lot harder for many companies to function – much less expand. With any luck, however, the future of business will be entirely less dependent on banks and the currency they lend into existence. The Fortune 500 will become something other than brand names on piles of debt, and business operations will be characterised more by what they produce rather than how much credit their “stories” can earn them on one of the stock exchanges.
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TIME FOR SCI-FI
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“The financial meltdown will help many businesses realise that their priorities have been artificially skewed”
Yes, we are watching something melt down. But I’d argue the thing that’s dying is not business itself, but a financial parasite – a speculative market place that no longer funds business, but instead seeks to extract value from healthy commerce. More a funds vampire than an infuser of needed capital, the investment industry has been exposed as a drag on business. The future of commerce looks bright to me because it may be unencumbered by the weight of this non-productive capital.
This all began back in the Renaissance, when a waning monarchy was looking for ways to preserve its power in the face of a rising merchant class. The merchants were becoming richer than the royals. So the monarchs came up with an idea: chartered monopolies. By granting one of these new companies exclusive province over a particular industry or region, monarchs earned their undying loyalty – as well as a generous portion of shares in the enterprise. They began to write laws that favoured their chartered companies, such as preventing inhabitants of colonies from creating any value for themselves; they had to ship raw resources back to the mother country, where they were processed into clothes or other finished goods. This model of business-by-extraction carried over to finance as well. European towns had used local currencies for centuries. Farmers would bring their wheat to a grain store, who would in turn give them receipts for the amount of grain kept for them. These receipts served as local currency. The system was so efficient, and people were living so well, that people of this era were taller than at any time until the last few decades. By making local currency illegal, a monarch could force people to use his own more expensive “coin of the realm” instead. So, rather than being earned into existence, this money was borrowed into existence. Over the next 400 years, the business of money slowly grew bigger than business itself. A central bank creates money and charges interest to the next bank down the line, and so on, until it gets to the business that needs it to do something useful. The problem is, more value is being extracted on each level than businesses can produce. There are simply too many institutions – too many lenders – to be paid. As the banking industry grew bigger and less regulated, institutions consolidated, making the notion of a local lender obsolete as well. Loans are centrally processed by bankers who have little knowledge of the companies or people to whom they are lending – and little reason to learn about them, since they are simply packaging and selling the loans, anyway. The house of cards had to fall eventually. The truly amazing thing is how long it actually lasted. And before we attempt to prop it back up again, we might consider whether there is a better way to do business. I think there is.
The beauty of this era – this networked, hi-tech, and decentralised world – is that we no longer have to do everything from the centre. The laws and regulations requiring us to run our finances and resources through tremendous industrial age corporations are more obsolete than ever. And real people are beginning to catch on to how inefficient and risky it is to conduct their transactions in this way. They are starting to trust the real world around them more than the mythologies created by the public relations departments of distant corporations. In my own town, for example, there’s a tiny organic cafe called Comfort that is seeking to expand. John, the owner, secured a second location for a sit-down restaurant, but doesn’t have enough money to renovate the space. Although he has great credit, he cannot get a loan from any of the banks in town. Even though the bankers know him, they don’t have lending authority from the conglomerates that own them. So what exactly is John supposed to do?
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John has turned to the community for help. He invented “Comfort Dollars” that people can buy at a discount of 20%. If you spend $1,000, you receive $1,200 in Comfort Dollars that can be spent at the restaurant. John gets the cash infusion he needs to complete his expansion – and for less than the bank would charge him. The local community gets a 20% discount on food they would be buying anyway, as well as the chance to invest in making their town better. This is a 20% return on investment, payable as fast as the investor and his family can eat. The Comfort Dollars scenario reveals just how much of the current mess has resulted from the way we “outsourced” our finances to begin with. The real problem underlying the global fi nancial meltdown has much less to do with low efficiency, bad labour, or poor innovation than it does with the decreased utility of the financial industry itself. Money has stopped working properly – at least in its capacity to lubricate transactions. The sad part is that money is working exactly as it was designed to.
Once we accept the fact that the money and banks we have grown accustomed to using are not the only ways to generate capital, we liberate ourselves and our businesses from a finance industry that has enjoyed a monopoly over our commerce for much too long. The industry has not only abused our trust through corrupt self-dealing, but abused their privilege through systemic usury. Businesses are only obligated to support their employees, owners and customers – not an entire finance industry. The financial meltdown will help many businesses realise that their priorities have been artificially skewed towards making bankers and investors happy – and their own communities less so. As we start to finance locally or from our own non-local communities, our services will become more finely tuned towards them as well. We will get better at what we do, rather than being obsessed with growth (to pay back lenders) or financing (to achieve that growth through acquisition). This is all good – at least for businesses that have any remaining connection to a community or core competency. It should now be possible to scale companies appropriately rather than to infinite expansion. It will also be easier to take and share profits rather than watch them be extracted by last year’s lenders. This new way of doing business will favour local and connected businesses instead of big chains operated from afar by corporations behaving as if it were still the 1500s and they had a royal imprimatur on their business license. The future of business – real business – is bright, as it has been for close to a millennium. It just might not be reflected in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for quite some time, if ever. That’s because instead of creating money, we’ll be creating value.
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NAIROBI: A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
Nairobi, popularly known as the “Green City in the Sun”, is one of East Africa’s most energised cities and is a fine gateway to the land of the safari. As well as functioning as a good base to view the continent’s indigenous wildlife in nearby game reserves and parks, the city itself offers lively shopping in its many markets, and serves both local and WRITER’S RETREAT: THE KAREN BLIXEN MUSEUM
WHAT TO SEE
History on display
international cuisine in its restaurants.
WHERE TO SHOP
To market…
restaurant (+254 20 251811;
The Nairobi National
The shopping highlight of a
www.tamarind.co.ke), while
Museum, in the Westlands
Nairobi holiday is its visitor-
Kenya’s ranch lands produce
district, houses informative
friendly markets, like Embakasi
can be sampled at The
displays on Kenya’s ethnic
Market, Mombasa Road, where
Carnivore in Langata (www.
groups, natural history and
Maasai people in traditional
tamarind.co.ke/carnivore).
houses many hominid fossils.
dress sell local handicrafts, from
The gardens contain a snake
wood carvings to colourful
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines,
park and several contemporary
beadwork and batiks.
together with partner Kenya
DON’T MISS
Animal magic Founded in 1979, the AFEW Giraffe Centre in Langata exists primarily as a breeding centre for western Kenya’s endangered Rothschild’s giraffes. Visitors can look at the animals eye-to-eye from viewing platforms. There’s also a nature trail and coffee shop (+254 20 890952; www. giraffecenter.org).
Airways, operates two daily
African sculptures (+254 20 3742131; www.museums.or.ke).
WHERE TO EAT
flights direct to Nairobi Jomo
Set in a leafy suburb, the
Mixing pot
Kenyatta International Airport
Karen Blixen Museum was
The local staple of ugali (maize
from Amsterdam Airport
the residence of the
porridge) and stew is widely
Schiphol.
celebrated Danish author of
available, and many menus
Out of Africa from 1917 to 1931
incorporate elements of spicy
Tourist information
(+254 20 882779; www.
coastal Swahili cooking.
www.nairobi.com
museums.or.ke). Despite its
Westlands has many reasonable
suburban location, Nairobi
eateries, including the Indian
Looking for handy, up-to-date
National Park has an
Haandi Restaurant (+254 20
travel information? Check out
unfenced southern boundary,
4448294), as does Hurlingham,
KLM’s new Destination Guide
crossed seasonally by
home to the Blue Nile
pages – and book your flight –
migratory herds of wildebeest,
Ethiopian Restaurant (+254 20
on www.klm.com. Content
zebra and gazelle (+254 20
2728709). In central Nairobi,
provided by Frommer’s Unlimited
602121, www.kws.org).
Tamarind is a top seafood
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Deep in the night
CANAL STREET MARINA
CULTURE IS COOL IN CHICAGO’S MILLENNIUM PARK
City slicker
River North rocks with SoundBar (www.sound-bar.com) and Excalibur (www.excaliburchicago.com), while many stylish saloons like The Signature Lounge (www. signatureroom.com) are located in Near North and downtown. Blues and jazz haunts are scattered throughout the city, as are sports bars and funky establishments like The California Clipper (www. californiaclipper.com). You’ll find a bit of everything in Lincoln Park from B.L.U.E.S (www.chicagobluesbar.com), the Goose Island Brewery (www.gooseisland.com) and Webster’s Wine Bar (www. websterwinebar.com).
Let the Windy City blow you away. Chicago’s solid trading past, rooted in the grain, lumber, meatpacking and steel industries, has created a no-nonsense metropolis with buckets of ambition and diversity, packed with high culture, and an even higher city skyline. Art and architecture abound, downtown skyscrapers and Near North’s shopping and restaurants are awe-inspiring, while the city’s museums and nightlife are outstanding. WHAT TO SEE
WHERE TO EAT
at Uno Chicago Grill, which
Take in the sights
Choice cuisine
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(www.unos.com).
On clear days, the view from the
Chicago’s River North, Near
towering John Hancock Center
North and Lincoln Park
and Observatory takes in four
restaurants have so much
states and the Lake Michigan
variety, it’s like taking a round-
shoreline (+1 888 8758439 or + 1
the-world culinary trip. Many
operates one daily flight direct
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believe that Arun’s, in Irving
to Chicago O’Hare International
observatory.com). On the
Park, has the best Thai
Airport from Amsterdam Airport
Architecture River Cruise,
cuisine this side of Asia
Schiphol.
floating down the Chicago River,
(www.arunsthai.com). Arched
you’ll learn about 50 significant
walkways, tiled floors, murals,
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Tourist information Chicago
architectural sites (+1 312 9223432; and classic dishes like
Convention and Tourism
www.architecture.org). The 24.5-
homemade ravioli, fresh risotto
Bureau, 2301 S. Lake Shore
acre Millennium Park is a
and veal scaloppini underscore
Drive; +1 312 5678500;
centre for art, music, architecture the classic Italian theme at
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www.choosechicago.com
and landscape design, and
Trattoria 10 (10 North Dearbon;
hosts a variety of events. The
+1 312 9841718; www.trattoriaten.
Looking for handy, up-to-date
cutting-edge Museum of
com). Deep-pan pizza was
travel information? Check out
Contemporary Art (MOCA)
invented in the city in 1943.
KLM’s new Destination Guide
concentrates on surrealism,
Although there are coutless
pages – and book your flight –
minimalism and photographic
pizza parlours in Chicago, some
on www.klm.com. Content
works (+1 312 2802660; www.
of the most authentic and
provided by Frommer’s Unlimited
mcachicago.org).
delicious recipes can be found
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TOUCHDOWN
EXERCISING IN FRONT OF SHANGHAI’S IMPRESSIVE CITYSCAPE
Modern mix
DON’T MISS
Shanghai competes with Beijing for the accolade “Asia’s most thriving metropolis”. The
A must sea
grand European architecture and smart bars and restaurants of the Bund contrast with
Asia’s largest aquarium in Pudong is home to sharks, penguins and 10,000 other sea creatures. There are nine sea life zones from around the world, including Antarctica and Africa. The aquarium has the world’s longest underwater viewing tunnel (55 metres). (Yincheng Bei Lu 158; +86 21 58779988; www. sh-aquarium.com).
tree-lined avenues and boutique shops in the French Concession quarter. Ornate pavilions of Yu Yuan Garden blend seamlessly with modern Shanghai’s futuristic skyscrapers - which are best viewed from the 88th floor of JIn Mao Tower in Pudong. WHAT TO SEE
Old City, where hundreds of
Xinjiang Fenwei (+86 21
The oldest modern art space
stalls offer silk and cashmere.
64689198).
in Shanghai, the ShanghART
Xintiandi is host to luxury
Warehouse and Gallery, is
shops, including the famous
situated in the city’s cutting-
Shanghai Tang (www.
edge artistic hub in Jingan, an
shanghaitang.com) and Suzhou
operates two flights per day,
area which houses over 100
Cobblers (www.suzhou-
on Thursdays to Mondays, and
galleries (Moganshan Lu 50;
cobblers.com), near the Bund,
one per day on Tuesdays and
+86 21 63593923; www.
which sells exquisite,
Wednesdays direct to Shanghai
shanghart.com). In the Old City,
embroidered slippers.
Airport from Amsterdam Airport
Yu Yuan Garden features 30 Ming and Qing dynasty pavilions surrounded by
HOW TO GET THERE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Schiphol. WHERE TO EAT
All tastes
Tourist information China
lotus ponds and ornate
Shanghai offers food for every
National Tourist Office;
bridges. In the surrounding
budget. The French Concession
www.cnto.org.
bazaar, the dumplings at
quarter offers tastes from
Nan Xiang restaurant are
across China – sweet
Looking for handy, up-to-date
renowned (+86 21 63282465).
Shanghainese at Bao Luo (+86
travel information? Check out
21 54037239), fragrant Yunnanese
KLM’s Destination Guide pages
WHERE TO SHOP
at Lost Heaven (+86 21
- and book your flight -
Shoppers’ paradise
64335126), spicy Sichuanese at
on www.klm.com. Content
Have a new wardrobe tailored
South Beauty (+86 21 64452581),
provided by Frommer’s Unlimited
at the Fabric Market in the
or hearty Xinjiang cuisine at
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New meets old
Shanghai
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AZULEJOS (TILES) IN THE CENTRE
Photo: Jean Daniel Sudres / Hollanse Hoogte
Madrid TOUCHDOWN
PLAZA MAYOR: MADRID’S LIVELY NIGHTLIFE IS LEGENDARY
Capital treasure Madrid offers you the chance to enjoy a holiday filled with high culture and historic sights.
DON’T MISS
Feast on world-class art, Spanish regional cuisine and sample some of the city’s famous
Take a stroll
nightlife. If clubbing isn’t your style, you can always take in the opera at Teatro Real.
Retiro Park, near the Prado Museum, is a large, 17th-century, French-style garden. Highlights include the Alfonso XII Monument overlooking the boating lake, the Crystal Palace, Velázquez Palace and the Fountain of the Falling Angel. Nearest metro to the park: Banco de España.
WHAT TO SEE
Rooms with a view
cuisine, from Valencian paella at La Barraca (+34 91 5327154) or
Artes (+34 91 3605400) are
Reina Sofía Museum is home
Galician seafood at Ribeira Do
great places to warm up before
to Picasso’s world-renowned
Miño in Chueca (+34 91 5219854)
the serious bar-hopping begins.
Guernica, as well as other
to Castilian roast suckling pig at
masterpieces (Paseo del Arte;
Botin in the Old Town (+34 91
+34 91 7741000; www.
3664217; www.botin.es) and
museoreinasofia.es). The
cocido madrileño, a speciality of
operates four daily flights direct
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
La Bola (+34 91 3664217; www.
to Madrid Barajas International
features the most significant
labola.es). Gourmet tapas in La
Airport from Amsterdam Airport
artists and European art
Latina and new-wave
Schiphol.
movements of the last 700
restaurants in Chueca and
years (Paseo del Arte; +34 91
Salamanca bring new flavours
Tourist information Municipal
3690151; www.museothyssen.
to old classics.
Office of Tourist Information,
org). The Prado Museum
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HOW TO GET THERE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Plaza Mayor 3; +34 91 3665477;
contains an unrivalled Spanish
WHERE TO BOOGIE
www.spaininfo.com;
art collection, including Goya’s El
Join the clubs
www.gomadrid.com
Tris del Mayo and Velázquez’
From the seven-level Kapital
Las Meninas (Paseo del Arte;
(+34 91 4202906) to the bars and
Looking for handy, up-to-date
+34 91 3302800 / +34 91 3302900; disco bars of trendy Chueca,
travel information? Check out
www.museodelprado.es).
alternative Malasaña, stylish La
KLM’s new Destination Guide
Latina and multicultural
pages – and book your flight –
Lavapiés, Madrid’s nightlife is
on www.klm.com. Content
vast and varied. Café
provided by Frommer’s Unlimited
Commercial (+34 91 5215655) and
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WHERE TO EAT
GARDEN OF DELIGHTS
Café del Círculo de Bellas
A modern-art extravaganza, the
Country tastes Madrid offers authentic Spanish
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Ray (1890-1976) from his personal estate. Fotomuseum, Stadhouderslaan 43, The Hague; +31 70 3381144; www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl
ERASMUS Until February 8 Cranach: Charles V
150 works of art convey the influence Dutch Renaissance humanist Desiderius Erasmus had on society and the arts. Boijmans van Beuningen, Museum Park 18-10, Rotterdam; +31 10 4419400; www.boijmans.nl
XXTH CENTURY Until March 1 A vast exhibition showing the impact of
A feast of films
events such as the Wall Street Crash and the
The 38th edition of this superb
contemporary art. Includes work, by
annual film fest dishes up a quality
Picasso, Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Toorop
Russian Revolution on modern and
and Lewitt.
selection of worldwide independent,
Gemeentemuseum, Stadhouderslaan 41,
innovative and experimental
The Hague; +31 70 3381111;
cinema, as well as film-related
www.gemeentemuseum.nl
visual arts exhibitions and live performances. Premières abound. ROTTERDAM January 21 to February 1; www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com ‘TWO LINES’ DIRECTED BY SELIM EVCI
IMPERIAL ROME! Until
Emperor Augustus
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
March 8 More than 450 objects – including marble sculptures, jewellery, terracotta, cameo, glasswork and coins – make up one of the
EVENTS
Netherlands and Belgium purvey their wares
largest ever exhibitions on classical culture.
at this exclusive annual fair, held within a
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Westzeedijk 341;
Kung-fu spectacle The Holy
church in the 17th-century fortress town of
+31 10 4400300; www.kunsthal.nl
Mountain sees Shaolin
Naarden.
Monks from China and Kalari
De Grote Kerk, St Annastraat 5, Naarden;
masters from India together
www.kunstenantiekweekend.nl
SHAOLIN MONKS January 11-25
Muziekcentrum Frits Philip
on stage. Performances take
EXHIBITIONS
WINTERNACHTEN January 15-18 This year’s international literature festival explores manipulation and truth in art, the
Dujardin: Two Donkeys
place across The Netherlands. www.ruuddegraaf.nl
GIGS Live From Buena Vista January 21,
THANKS TO REMBRANDT
(Eindhoven). Live From Buena Vista January 23,
Until January 12, 2009
Lucky & Co (Rijssen).
Rarely exhibited drawings
Live From Buena Vista January 24,
from the Dutch Golden Age
Vredenburg (Utrecht).
by masters such as Anthony
Live From Buena Vista January 25,
van Dyck, Rubens and
Oosterpoort (Groningen).
media and politics. It opens with acclaimed
Rembrandt himself.
Reel Big Fish January 29, Effenaar
Somali author Nuruddin Farah.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol (Between
(Eindhoven).
Festival Centre: Theater aan het Spui, Spui 187,
Piers E and F), Schiphol Airport; +31 20 6747000;
Soulfly January 30, Effenaar
The Hague; +31 70 3465272;
www.rijksmuseum.nl
(Eindhoven). Speedy J January 31, Factory 10
www.winternachten.nl
MAN RAY: UNCONCERNED BUT NOT ART & ANTIQUES FAIR January 22-25
INDIFFERENT January 24 to April 19
Antiquarians and art dealers from The
A substantial overview of the work of Man
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(Rotterdam). Info and tickets: www.livenation.nl
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EVENTS REALISME 07 January 14-18 This huge art fair purveys contemporary figurative and realistic art by Dutch and international artists. PTA (Passenger Terminal Amsterdam), Piet Heinkade 27; +31 20 6264020;
PARADISO KORENDAGEN January 17, 18 The annual “Choir Days” weekend sees around 140 choirs perform in a former church. Paradiso, Weteringschans 6-8; +31 20 6264521;
Photo: Michel Cavalca
www.realismeamsterdam.com
DYNAMIC DANCING
www.paradiso.nl
SCAPINO BALLET ROTTERDAM
Out on a limb
January 20, 21
This renowned French company perform William Forsythe’s hypnotic triptych,
Rotterdam’s groundbreaking dance company
Limb’s Theorem, the first integral performance of the work in Amsterdam.
performs Tous les Jours, infused with texts
Forsythe creates a world that is “alternately exuberant and peaceful, but
from Roman emperor and philosopher
which is continually under tension”. Composer Thom Willems sets the
Marcus Aurelius.
appropriate musical tone.
Theater Bellevue, Leidsekade 90; +31 20 530
BALLET DE L’OPÉRA DE LYON January 14, 16, 17; Muziektheater, Amstel 3; +31 20 6255455;
5301; www.theaterbellevue.nl
© Jumpimg Amsterdam
www.muziektheater.nl
JUMPING AMSTERDAM January 22-25
GIGS
This prestigious equine
HOLY INSPIRATION Until April 19
event is celebrating its 50th
Religion and spirituality in modern art
Finley Quaye January 9, Paradiso
anniversary this year, and
explored.
James Morrison January 14,
represents the cream of the
De Nieuwe Kerk, Dam; +31 20 6386909;
Heineken Music Hall
www.nieuwekerk.nl
Live From Buena Vista January 22,
crop in jumping and dressage competitions.
Paradiso
RAI, Europaplein 22; +31 20 5445720;
VOODOO: ART & MYSTICISM FROM HAITI
AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FASHION WEEK January 24 to February 1 A veritable showcase for Dutch fashion and an inspired alternative to traditional fashion
Johnathan Watts
www.jumpingamsterdam.nl
Enter Shikari January 23,
Until May 10
Melkweg
More than 250 art objects
Shinedown January 27, Melkweg
provide an intriguing picture of this religion which
WEBSITES
evolved from slavery.
www.expatica.com
weeks.
Tropenmuseum, Linnaeusstraat 2; +31 20
Inside information for expats.
Various locations;
5688200; www.tropenmuseum.nl
www.specialbite.com Cool and comprehensive restaurant reviews.
www.amsterdamfashionweek.com
RESTAURANT EXHIBITIONS
www.underwateramsterdam.com
LOLA’S
Events and info galore.
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH
Open every day for lunch and dinner, this
www.amsterdam.info
Until January 18
trendy two-floor establishment – a new hot
Useful tourist information.
Last chance to see paintings
spot near the Leidseplein – offers a
www.lastminuteticketshop.nl
and drawings by the
brasserie menu downstairs and fine dining
Half-price tickets to events.
renowned master of the
upstairs. Or you can simply pop in for a
German romantic landscape tradition.
cocktail from the bar and enjoy its late-night
Hermitage Amsterdam, Nieuwe Herengracht 14;
club vibe.
REMEMBER! This copy of Holland Herald is yours to
+31 20 5308755; www.hermitage.nl
Kerkstraat 23; +31 20 3204336; www.lolas.nl
take off the plane.
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RoboSport It’s not rocket science anymore. The e o cool science of today is robotics. So d what can we expect? Holland Herald b headed to the Delft Biorobotics Lab in The Netherlands to find out
Robots. Inn science fiction blockbusters they are re often portrayed as sinister, trying to enslave the human race through a superior erior physique and artificial intelligencee gone haywire. Their art creators are, according cre ing to Hollywood, a bunch of frustrated,, power-hungry bu scientists as devoid of emotion as their sci robotic offspring. And yet, upon entering rob the Biorobotics Lab,, which is located in the basement of Delft lft University of Technology (TU), everything Tec verything looks remarkably innocent. rem nt. No crazy scientists sts here. Just a handful of sstudents working on a headless robot called TUlip. It’s being cal ng developed in conjunction with Philips con hilips and two other Dutch universities in Du n Eindhoven and Twente. The head is lying on a table somewhere in a corner, ner, it’s the body they’re interested in for now. At the tap of the keypad, a robot leg jolts forward. “We’re finding out how to deliver the best
TOP: The Biorobotics Lab expects to see something similar to this hand being used to pick fruit soon RIGHT: A computer animation of a robot footballer
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Creating robots for entry into the RoboCup is about more than just their footballing skills
kick,” one of the students, Arjan Smorenberg, says. Why would a robot need to kick? Maybe it isn’t all so innocent.
Words: Annemarie Hoeve. Photos: David Joosten
“It’s for the RoboCup,” robot researcher Freerk Wilbers says. RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition whose ultimate goal is to develop a humanoid robot team that can win against the world football champions by 2050. Hang on a minute. Football? So the engine driving developments in cutting-edge robotics departments across the world is nothing more hi-tech than a game of football? What about robots that can perform surgery, or help around the house? Of all their possible applications, somehow robots scoring goals never figured in my vision of a future utopia. Nevertheless, since its inception in 1992, RoboCup has grown into a huge
event, with over 300 teams. “Of course it’s not really about football – football is just the stimulus to see how far we can go. If a robot is advanced enough to play football, it can also do a lot of other things,” Wilbers says. Student Yutaro Takahashi is also working on TUlip. He’s wearing an orange Total Football track jacket. “Hopefully it will be ready for its first steps soon,” he says. They still have a long way to go before the RoboCup in Graz, Austria, this summer. Last year’s entry, Flame, is still in his blue flight case. He clocked up a few Air Miles on his way to the 2008 event in China, but lost to a Japanese competitor. This year, the Dutch team is determined to win.
There is more to this department than just football, though. They have developed a robot arm, complete with two moveable fingers and a thumb that can grab a ball or a tomato. Its design was based on the human hand, which is why this is called the Biorobotics department: they look to biology for design inspiration. Wilbers expects to see similar arms being used soon to pick fruit in greenhouses. Throughout the lab, various prototypes portray the leaps and bounds robotic science has made since the lab was founded ten years ago. The oldest model has four legs and weights stuck to it with masking tape. A few prototypes later and I meet
“I think robots will be taking over a lot of things currently done by people”
Denise. “It’s the first one we made with knees so we called her De-knees,” Wilbers explains. Despite her accomplishments in walking, she only has an empty blue plastic bucket for a head. “We try to make their appearance match their abilities. We don’t want to make them look too intelligent, because they aren’t – yet,” Wilbers says. He explains how they focus on smart mechanics rather than relying on lots of processing power and energy, because in the end, it’s a lot more efficient. So these robots may still be a few chips short of an IQ, but what does the future hold? “In 50 years, I think robots will be taking over a lot of things currently done by people: helping to build houses faster, working in the food industry, cleaning rubbish from the streets. They really are the ‘next big thing’. I think one of the biggest challenges will be to come up with robotic solutions that are as smart and elegant as we are,” says Wilbers. In his office, an army of toy robots of every description is assembled on the shelves. He shrugs. “You get them as presents.” He grabs a very un-android wooden duck. “This is the basis of making robots walk.” The duck’s feet propel it down a ramp one step at a time. It’s all about the right proportions.” It looks like Carl Jung was right: “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct... The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” And whether that is a wooden duck, or a football, it seems that somehow you end up with some rather cool robots. FUTURE Holland Herald
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Photo contest
If you provide the year’s best shot, you’ll be globetrotting before you can say “where did I WOUTER VELTHUIS: MOAI STATUES ON EASTER ISLAND
put my passport?”
See the world! How does it work?
Don’t be late…
There’s a new theme every three months.
Entries for the Landscapes category must
At the end of the fourth quarter (March
be received by April 3, 2009. See our
2009), KLM will award the Grand Prize to the
website below for submission details.
What can you win?
overall winner.
Feeling inspired? What theme?
Check out other beautiful shots from
For January, February and March 2009, the
previous winners at:
theme is Landscapes.
www.hollandherald.nl
THE GRAND PRIZE A round-the-world ticket for the annual, overall winner
CONTEST RULES • Photographs larger than 10x15cm cannot be accepted • Photographs will not be returned • Holland Herald, KLM and the publishers, MediaPartners Group, accept no responsibility for lost material • Copyright clearance and permission of subjects are the responsibility of the photographers. KLM and MediaPartners Group acquire the rights for future use of the images. • The competition is open to readers of Holland Herald who are 18 years of age or older on the date of entry, and who have flown with KLM during the same period as the theme category • Entrants for the Grand Prize will be notified as soon as possible after the closing date of the theme category • Employees of KLM and MediaPartners Group, participating promotional agencies, contributors to Holland Herald, and the families of any of the above are not eligible to enter this competition • The judges’ decisions are final • The Grand Prize cannot be exchanged for cash.
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KLM NEWS
Travellers Check NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR PASSENGERS
1946 This original poster promoted KLM’s first post-war flights to New York, which took over 25 hours!
Poster: KLM / MAI
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KLM NEWS “The future has already arrived at KLM”
Intercontinental Crown comfort Photo: Ghetty Images
Renovation of our second Crown Lounge at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is now complete. In addition to a luxurious and modern environment, this area offers complimentary Wi-Fi, state-of-the-art ventilation with a separate smoking area, a comfort zone with ten showers, a selection of healthy food and beverages, and a Flying Blue service desk, to name just a few of the benefits! The 3,600m2 lounge, which provides a 3600 bird’s-eye view of the airport, can be
It’s all about networking Bluenity – the first social network for
found between Piers E and F. The lounge is available for intercontinental travellers who are booked in KLM World Business Class, or Flying Blue Elite members who either depart or make a same-day transfer to an intercontinental SkyTeam flight.
air transport travellers - is now available from AIR FRANCE KLM. Free of charge, this network allows you to exchange travel tips - such as restaurants and accommodation - with other passengers and crew members. In addition, you can contact fellow travellers to meet them during your trip, or just to share a taxi from the airport! To join, simply register your traveller’s profile at www.bluenity.com.
CROWN LOUNGE CREATURE COMFORTS
Fleet update The first of KLM cityhopper’s ten new EMBRAER 190s has taken to the skies. This addition forms part of a fleet renewal programme, in which the oldest Fokker 100 aircraft will gradually be replaced by the E190 aircraft. The E190 has a host of new features which improve fuel-efficiency and comfort. As a passenger, you will benefit from a twoabreast seating configuration and the convenience of significantly increased SKY-HIGH LUXURY AND EFFICIENCY WITH THE NEW EMBRAER 190
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KLM PARTNERS
Our Partners, Your Benefits KLM is a member of SkyTeam, an alliance of 11 airlines and 3 associate airlines. This offers you a
higher membership tier, each offering
largest airline group; together with KLM’s
different benefits such as access to
long-standing US partner, Northwest
airport lounges and extra baggage
Airlines, we guarantee you a perfectly
variety of benefits such as: 905 global
allowance. AIR FRANCE KLM is Europe’s
integrated network.
destinations; access to more lounges worldwide; a coordinated timetable for improved connections; and more opportunities to earn Flying Blue Level and Award Miles. Award Miles can be spent on flights, or with over 100 nonairline partners, such as Marriott and Hertz. Level Miles count towards a
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WWW.KLM.COM “Reserve extra baggage space”
Room for more
Destinations uncovered Whether you’re looking for inspiration or you’re ready to book, our handy online
Destination Guide offers up-to-date, out-of-the-ordinary information and
No need to worry about excess
Featuring 100 countries, the guide
luggage! You can reserve extra baggage
covers restaurants, shopping, nightlife,
space on your flights via check-in on
events and things to do. It also has practical tips about transport, currencies, visa requirements and current weather forecasts.
Photo: Pete Oxford
practical advice.
www.klm.com. By arranging this online, you not only save time at the airport, you DISCOVER ECUADOR WITH DESTINATION GUIDE
also save 30% on the normal charges levied at the airport check-in desk.
KLM e-services make your and more rewarding than ever.
Wanted: more legroom
For example, you can relate your
Passengers can choose seating in
travel experiences with a direct,
Economy Class with more legroom or
easy-to-use link with KLM
with only two seats in a row, when
Customer Support. Via the “Contact
checking in via www.klm.com.
travel planning faster, easier
us” button on the website, your
These preferred seats are available
communication can usually be
on all KLM flights worldwide (except
handled within five days! KLM
KLM flights from the USA) for a
offers a full range of services via
small surcharge.
its website www.klm.com.
Fly, drive and stay Did you know that, as well as booking flights, you can also make Photo: NH Hotel Constanza, Barcelona
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KLM PLANE FACTS Boeing 747-400
1920 May 17: the first KLM flight from London to Amsterdam.
1933 The Fokker F-XVIII Pelican sets a new record for the flight Amsterdam-Jakarta of four days, four hours and 35 minutes.
1934 October: the McDonnell Douglas DC-2 Uiver wins first prize in
22
the handicap section, and second prize
(Combi 17)
overall in the London-Melbourne Air
390,100
428
Race.
(Combi 396,900)
(Combi 280)
1946 KLM launches its scheduled
920
12,900
64.44
35,000 (Combi)
70.67
yes!
Boeing 747-400ER Freighter
service between Amsterdam and New York.
1960
KLM introduces the
McDonnell Douglas DC-8 into its fleet, marking the beginning of the ‘jet age’.
1971 KLM’s first Boeing 747B heralds the start of the ‘wide-body’ age.
4
920
12,900
1989 KLM is the first European
412,800
112,000
70.67
64.44
airline to introduce the new generation 747-400s.
Boeing 777-300ER
2001 KLM is the first European airline to introduce the next generation of 737-900s.
2003-2004 KLM embarks on an extensive fleet renewal programme.
Artwork KLM fleet: Hans Murris, KLM Engineering & Maintenance, SPL/WM
2005 KLM starts adding the first of
2
900
14,200
64.80
351,543
425
73.86
yes!
12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft to its fleet.
2008
KLM’s first two (out of a
total of six) Boeing 777-300ERs are
Boeing 777-200ER
put into operation.
Thanks to its efficient network, its modern fleet and many economical measures, KLM’s performance regarding fuel efficiency is one of the best in Europe. The website www.klm.com/ travel/csr_en gives full information
15
900
13,400
60.90
297,500
327
63.70
yes!
on KLM’s corporate social responsibilty and sustainable air transport activities.
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How big, how small, how far…?
KLM PLANE FACTS
McDonnell Douglas MD 11
10
880
11,400
51.96
280,300
294
61.21
yes!
Airbus A330-200
Boeing 737-900/800
10
880
10,700
60.30
233,000
251
58.37
yes!
5
850
4,600
35.80
21
850
4,200
35.80
76,900
189
41.91
73,700
171
39.47
Boeing 737-700
3
850
3,600
65,300
129
33.60
Boeing 737-400/300
35.80
13
800
3,600
28.88
10
800
2,850
28.88
62,800
147
36.45
56,900
127
33.40
Embraer 190
2
850
47,790
100
4,500
Fokker 100/70
28.72
36.25
Fokker 50
20
740
2,400
28.08
23
743
2,400
28.08
44,400
103
35.53
38,000
80
30.91
3,500
KEY
SCALE: 1 CM = 6.3 M
NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT
13 20,800
505 50
2,200 25.25
MAX. TAKE-OFF WEIGHT (KG)
TELEPHONE ON BOARD
WINGSPAN (M)
MAX. RANGE (KM)
CRUISING SPEED (KM/H)
LENGTH (M)
MAXIMUM PASSENGERS
MAX. FREIGHT (KG)
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Amsterdam / Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands
B18 B14 B12 B10 B8
4
Gates B
M7
B19 B15 B11 B17 B13 B9
M6
H7
M5
Gates M
C14 to C21 - C26
C12
C16
Gates C
C10
C8
C15 - C18
C6
4
C5
D14 D12 D68
3
Gates B-C, D 59-87, M
2
T5 T4
12
3
G7 G9
G4
3
Lounge 2
F2
T8
Holland Boulevard E4
Lounge 3
G6 G8
F3
T6
E2
D43 D73
3
G2
2
F4 E3
Gates G
F5
3
F7 F6
E6
E5
F9
Gates F 7
E8
E9
E18
E17
Transfer desk E20
Self-service transfer
Gates E
KLM Crown Lounge
F8
E7
E15
T
G3 G5
1 1
D41 D71
D42 D44 D72 D46D74 D48 D76 D52 D78 D54 D82 5 D47 D56 D84 D49 D77 D86 D51 D79 D53 D81 D55 D83 D57 D85 D87
Schengen
G11-16
6 Lounge 3 4 T9
D3 D5 D59 D7 D61 D63
Gates D
H1
3
8
D2 D4 D60 D8 D62 D64
D10 D66
H2
Schiphol Plaza
Lounge 1
Gates H
H4 H3
M1
T2
C11
D16 D18 D22 D24 5 D26 D21 D28 D23 D25 D27 D29 D31
H5
4
M2
C7
C9
H6
M4 M3
C4
4
C13
KLM flights arrive at / depart from gates B, C, D, E, F. Air France and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from gates B and C. Continental, Delta and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from gate G. Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from gate E. Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from gate D. For KLM passengers travelling to Antwerp (Thalys) and Rotterdam (NS): Please ensure you collect your luggage in Amsterdam and change your KLM (e-) ticket for a Thalys/NS ticket at the Netherlands Railways (NS ) desk at Schiphol Plaza (just past immigration).
to B22 - B29
Passengers with access to KLM’s Crown Lounges and who are transferring to European (Schengen) flights are kindly advised to use Crown Lounge 25, located near the Schengen gates behind passport control, when arriving on intercontinental flights.
E19
E22
Top Level Second floor
E24
KLM Crown Lounge
25
Gates D KLM Crown Lounge KLM Crown Lounge
52
41
Paris / Charles De Gaulle Airport Terminal 2, France Delta, Northwest Airlines and AeroMexico flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2E. Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2C.
KLM and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2F, gates F21-36. Air France flights arrive at / depart from Terminals 2A, B, C, D. E and F.
Continental flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2A. Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2B.
TERMINAL 2E TERMINAL 2A
TERMINAL 2C C86-C87 C84-C85 C82-C83 C88-C89
C80-C81
T
C90-C91
E91-E96
A48-A49 A46-A47 A44-A45 A42-A43
A50-A51
T
T
E51 E76
3
T
F56
T
F54-F55
F2
F21-F25
T
F41-F43 F44-F45
F49 F51
F26
F1
F27
Thalys/RER/TGV Railway station
TERMINAL 2F Schengen
3
4
3
3
2
T
T D74 D76
D53-D54
D72-D73
D55-D56 D57-D58 D61-D62 D64-D65 D70-D71 D60-D61
B33-34 B31-B32 B21-B22 B23-B24 B26-B27-B28 B29-B30 B25
F28
F33
F48 F52
T
F34
F47
F53
F36 F35
F46
3
3
4
3
2
3
3
4 4
A40-A41
TERMINAL 2D
F29 F32 F31
TERMINAL 2B
F30
F50
E80-E87
KEY Check-in
A1 Gate Numbers
Self-Service Check-in Passport control / Security check
Baggage Claim 4
Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)
T
Transfer desk Air France Lounge Transfer by train
3
Transfer by shuttle 3 outside Customs Area Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area, only between 7:30am and 1:30pm
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Moscow / Sheremetyevo Airport, Russia Most domestic flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 1. KLM, Air France, CSA, Alitalia, Korean Air and Delta flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2. Classic Lounge
TERMINAL 1
7 8
9
11
13
6
1415 16
12
5
17
4 3
TERMINAL 2
18 19
2
20
21
1
Mexico City / Lic. Benito Juárez International Airport, Mexico
1 4
3
2
1
4
5
T
6 7
8
2
3 10
11
12
1
13
14
1
3
4 15
2
16
17
18
1
29
4
1
T
4 28
30
36
1
31 21
19
22
23
24
25
26
34
27 32 33
9
20
TERMINAL 1
60 61 72
35
KLM, Air France and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 1. Delta, Continental and AeroMexico flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2. Salón Premier
59
58
57
56
71
73
69 74
55
67 70
65 68
5
53
3
54 52
63
66
4
64
1
TERMINAL 2
KEY Check-in Self-Service Check-in Passport control / Security check
72
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A1 Gate Numbers T
Transfer by shuttle bus
Transfer desk Baggage Claim
Transfer by train 4
Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Milan / Malpensa Airport, Italy Satellite A serves arrivals at / departures from all Schengen countries. Airlines on this pier are KLM, Air France and Alitalia.
TERMINAL 1
5 5
10
5
5
Satellite B serves arrivals at / departures from all non-Schengen countries. Airlines on this pier are Delta and Continental.
5
VIP Lounge
Satellite A
Satellite B
Rome / Fiumicino Airport, Italy KLM, Air France and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Delta, Continental and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal C.
5 10
TERMINAL A
VIP Lounge
5
TERMINAL C
5 5
TERMINAL B
Satellite
Prague Airport, Czech Republic Terminal 1, pier A (gates A1-A8) and pier B (gates B1-B9) serve arrivals at / departures from all nonSchengen countries. Airlines on these piers are Delta, Aeroflot, Kenya Airways and Czech Airlines. T
T
A3
A1 A2
A4
A5 A6
A7 A8
Gates A
T C1 C14
TERMINAL 1
B1 B10
TERMINAL 2
B3 B19
B2 B11 B5 B13
C3 C15
C4-C5 C17
C6 C16
B4 B18
B6 B14 B7 B15
C2 C12-C13
C8 C19 B8-B9 B16-B17
Gates B
C9 C21
Gates C
C7 C18
Lounge C10-C11 C20
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Minneapolis / Saint Paul International Airport, USA
LINDBERGH TERMINAL
B1 B3 B5 B7 B9 B11 B13 B15
B Concourse D Concourse
D4
B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 B12 B14 B16
C Concourse D5
D3 D2 D1
C5 D6
C1
C3
C4
C7 C6
C9 C8
C11
C14
C10
C13 C12
C2
C22 C15 C17 C19 C21 C24 C26 C20 C16 C18 C23 C25 C27
A Concourse A1
A2
A7 A9 A11 A13 A3 A5 A4 A6 A8 A10 A12 A14
E4 E9 E7
E5 E3
E1
E Concourse
(Lower level)
F Concourse F5
First floor
International flights arrive at / depart from gates G1 to G9. Continental and Delta flights arrive at / depart from Concourse E. KLM flights arrive at / depart from Concourse G. Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from all concourses. WorldClub Facility
F1 F3
F9 F7 F11 F2 F13 F15 F10 F16 F14 F12
F6
G22 G21
F4
F8
G9
G1
G10 G3 G2
G5 G4
G7 G6
G8
G11 G13 G12
G15 G14 G16
G17 G19 G18 G20
G Concourse
New York / John F Kennedy Airport, USA TERMINAL 8
TERMINAL 7
TERMINAL 6
TERMINAL 9
KLM, Northwest Airlines, Continental, Continental Express and Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 4. Air France, AeroMexico, Aeroflot, Alitalia, and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 1. Delta flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 3.
TERMINAL 5
TERMINAL 1
TERMINAL 4
TERMINAL 2
TERMINAL 3
Newark Liberty International Airport, New York, USA 136 137 138 139 128
135 134 133 132 131
A1
130
125 126 127 124 123 122
121 120
TERMINAL A 23 24 25
TERMINAL C
20
A2
102 104A 104B 106 108A 110A 108B 110B112A 112B 101 114A 103A 114B 103B 105 107A 107B 109 111 115A 113A 115B 113B
28 27
26A 26B
70
TERMINAL B
72 71 90
91
73
A3
92
94
74 93 80
82
B1
81
84
B2
B3
95
97 99
83
86
85 88
96 98
75
KLM, Air France, Delta, Czech Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Continental and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Continental (from / to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Washington D.C.) flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A. Continental (from / to London Heathrow) flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Continental and Continental Express flights arrive at / depart from Terminal C. Presidents Club
87
WorldClub Facility
74
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Atlanta / Hartsfield-Jackson Intercontinental Airport, USA
B36
NORTH
C36
C35
A34
A33
B34
B33
C34
C33
D36
D35
T14
A32
A31
B32
B31
C32
C31
D34
D33
A30
A29
B30
B29
C30
C29
D32
D31
A28
A27
B28
B27
C28
C27
A26
A25
B26
B25
C26
C25
T12 T11 A24 T10
A23
B24
B23
D30
D29
D28
D27
D26
D25
C17
D24
D23
C15A
D22
D21
C15
D16
D15
C11
D14
D13
D12
D11
D10
D9
C24
C21
A22
A21
B22
B21
C20
A20
A19
B20
B19
C18A
T8
A18
A17
B18
B17
C18
T7
A16
A15
B16
B15
C16
A14
A13
B14
B13
C14
A12
A11
B12
B11
C12
A10
A9
B10
B9
C10
C7
A8
A7
B8
B7
C8A
C5
A6
A5
B6
B5
C8
C3
T2
A4
A3
B4
B3
C6
T1
A2
A1
B2
B1
C4
C9
E31
E30
E31A E29
E28
E27
E26
E14 E16 E18
E12 E15 E17 E10
T4
D8
D7
D6
D5
C2
D4
D3
C1
D2
D1
Crown Rooms (Delta Airlines)
E11
C7A
T5
T3
E33 E32
C23
T9
T6
SOUTH
E34 E36 E35
T15
T13
TERMINAL T
D38
KLM, Air France, AeroMexico and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from Terminal E. Continental, Continental Express and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal D. Delta flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A, B, C, D, E and T.
E8
E9
E6
Presidents Club
E7
E4
E7A E5 E2 E1 E3
TERMINAL A
TERMINAL B
TERMINAL C
TERMINAL D
TERMINAL E
Houston / George Bush Intercontinental Airport, USA TERMINAL A North Concourse
TERMINAL B North Concourse
TERMINAL C North Concourse
C18
TERMINAL D North Concourse
C19 C17
KLM, Air France, AeroMexico flights arrive at / depart from Terminal D. Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Delta flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A. Continental Connection flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A. Continental Express flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Continental flights arrive at / depart from Terminal C, D and E.
C20 B79 B79A
A14
A15
A12
A11
A10
B81 A9 B81A
B80
A1
A2
C16
B86 B85A B77 B77A
C21 B85
C15
B87 C22
B84A B84B B84C
B76 B76A
C14
B88
A7
C26
C25
C24
C30
C31
C32
D6 D6A
D5
C23
B83 B83A
A8
D1
D2
D4 D3 D4A
C43
C44
C45
D7
D8
D9
D10 D11 D12
T
C27
B67
B68
B72
B60
B64
E24
C29 B69
B71A B70
B61
B71
B63 C33
E10A E10B
E1
B62 B62A
E12
E11
E14
E23
C34 C42 C35 C41 C36
TERMINAL A South Concourse
TERMINAL B South Concourse
E2
E9
E15A-E15B
E3
E8
E16
E21
E7A-E7B
E17
E20A-E20B
E4A-E4B
TERMINAL C C37 South Concourse C38 C39
C40
TERMINAL E E18A South Concourse
E22
E6
E5A E5B
Presidents Club
E19 E18B
Detroit / Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, USA B20 B18 B16 B12 B10 B8
B6
B4
B2
C2
C4
C6 C8 C10 C12 C14 C16 C18 C20 C22 C24 C26 C28 C30 C32 C34 C36 C38 C40
McNAMARA TERMINAL
KLM, Air France and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Concourse A.
C43 B21 B19 B15 B11 B7
B5
B3
B1
C1
C3
C5
C7
C9 C11 C15 C17 C19 C21 C23 C25 C27 C29 C31 C33 C35 C37 C39 C41
Concourse B
Concourse C Tunnel
A6
A8
A10
A4
A72 A12
A18
A20
A24
A28
A30
A34
A36
A38
A40
A46
A50
A54
A56
A60
A64
A66
A68
A74
A76 A78
A70
A2
A77
A1 A3
A5
A7
A9
A11
A15
A17
A19
A21
A23
A25
A27
A29
A31
A33
A35 A41
Concourse A south
A43
A45
A47
A49
A51
A53
A55
A57
A59
A61
A63
A65
A67
A69
A71
A75 A73
Delta, Continental and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Concourse B and C. WorldClub Facility
Concourse A north
KEY Check-in Self-Service Check-in Passport control / Security check
A1 Gate Numbers T
Transfer by shuttle bus
Transfer desk Baggage Claim
Transfer by train 4
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Tokyo / Narita International Airport, Japan
Concourse C C87
C85
C83
KLM, Air France, AeroMexico, Delta, Continental, Korean Air, Northwest Airlines and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 1.
Concourse D C81
D91
D88
D93
D95
D97
WorldClub Facility
D99
T
D86
D98 C84
C82
D92
D94
D96
E80
TERMINAL 2 Concourse B B74
B73
B72
Concourse A B71
E60
T
A61
A62
A63
58
A64
57 56
14
55 54 51
T
15
Satellite 1
12
11A 11B
16
17
53
52
18
TERMINAL 1
22
21
T
Satellite 2
23
24
47
32 28A 25 2F
26
27
31
34
33
38
36
35
37
46 45 44
41
42
43
Seoul / Incheon Airport, South Korea
3
2
KLM, Air France, Korean Air, Northwest Airlines and Delta flights arrive at / depart from this airport. 1
50 49
6 7
Airline Lounge
48 47
8
T 9
46 10
45 43
11
T 25
29 26
12
42
T 27
28
30 14
41 24
15
16
31
40
39
32
23
17
38 22
18 19
20
33
21
37 34
35
36
KEY Check-in Self-Service Check-in Passport control / Security check
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A1 Gate Numbers T
Transfer by shuttle bus
Transfer desk Baggage Claim
Transfer by train 4
Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)
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KLM FIT FOR FLYING
Our handy hints can help you to stay feeling great both during and after the flight. Exercises should be performed slowly with steady, even breathing 10 TIMES
15 TIMES
30 TIMES
5 TIMES
15 TIMES
10 TIMES
Feet
Ankles
Knees
Shoulders
Legs
Back and arms
With your heels on the floor, stretch your toes upwards. Then keep your toes on the floor, and stretching your heel upwards.
Rotate your foot first in one direction and then the other.
Raise your leg, tensing the muscles of your thigh.
With your hands on your thighs, rotate your shoulders in a circular motion.
Bend forward slightly. Wrap your hands around your knee and raise it to your chest. Hold for 15 seconds.
Place both feet flat on the ground and hold in your stomach. Bend forward, moving your hands down your legs.
Relax whilst flying
During the flight
Reducing jetlag
Statistics show that flying is much safer
Ear pain? Pinch your nose shut,
Start adjusting your body clock to
than many situations in our daily lives
close your mouth and swallow or
the time zone of your destination the
The crew in control of the plane are
blow out against your closed mouth.
night before departure by going to
highly trained and experienced
Alternatively, chew gum
bed earlier or later
KLM aircraft are thoroughly maintained
Stimulate your circulation by walking
Don’t eat too heavily the night before
and designed to withstand all sorts of
around in the cabin and stretching
you leave, or drink too much coffee or
turbulence
Avoid sitting with your legs crossed
alcohol
Try to relax – breathe in deeply through
as this restricts circulation
Eat protein-rich meals at times that
your nose, hold for three seconds and
Taking your shoes off might be
are normal for your new time zone
exhale slowly
more comfortable
At your destination, take light exercise,
KLM partner, VALK Foundation can offer
Drink plenty of water and not too
such as a walk
further advice. Visit www.valk.org
much alcohol, tea or coffee
Spend at least 30 minutes in daylight
HOUSE RULES All electronic devices with an antenna must be turned
Electronic equipment without an antenna, such as CD players,
are served to
off completely whilst
laptops or electronic games,
passengers in their
walking to/from the
may be used
assigned seats. For
during takeoff, approach and landing.
during cruise flight and ground-stop. At all other times, please switch off and stow your personal
bar. Passengers are not permitted to
Mobile phones may
electronic equipment if
drink alcoholic beverages brought
be used on board the
the ‘Fasten Seat Belt’
on board with them.
aircraft as long as the
sign is on.
aircraft, and
Individual drinks
safety reasons, the purser may close the
aircraft doors are open (subject to
Smoking on KLM flights
local regulations).
is strictly forbidden at all times.
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EU AIRPORTS
Hand baggage rules at EU airports To increase passenger safety, security rules for hand luggage are in place for all flights, in accordance with European Union regulations
Airport shopping in the EU Within the European Union,
Carrying liquids and gels in your hand baggage
liquids and gels that you purchase after passing through passport control, or on board the aircraft
When passing through security control, you will be required to present liquids and
will be packaged and sealed for
gels separately. Please follow the guidelines below.
you, together with the receipt. The unbroken seal is valid for
18-20 cm
24 hours.
Airport shopping outside the EU If you buy liquids or gels at a 20-22 cm
non-EU airport and change planes at an EU airport, your purchases will be confiscated at the EU airport security check. This can also happen for purchases you make on board an aircraft operated by an airline from a non-EU country. For further information visit www.klm.com
The plastic bag
Liquids, gels, pastes, lotions and
may not exceed
aerosols are not permitted in
Animal products
1 litre in volume
containers bigger than 100ml
To prevent the spread of animal diseases, you are prohibited from entering the EU with meat, meat
For use only during the flight, you may also take on board: Special diet food
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permitted on arrival from Andorra, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland,
1 re-sealable
transparant plastic bag
Medication
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products, milk and milk products.
per passenger
Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino and Switzerland. For further information visit http://europa.eu.int.
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