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natural The toucan is real, but the jungle setting of our cover and the scene on this page have a slightly more unnatural twist. To create these images, the Holland Herald team spent a day at the Jungle Dome in Center Parcs Het Heijderbos, which is a recreation of a South American jungle, right in the heart of The Netherlands. In this issue, we also take a break in the great outdoors, discover Canada’s wild side and peek behind the scenes at Leiden’s Naturalis Museum.
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How IHC was able to go at full speed ahead again Imagine a Dutch shipbuilder which cranks up turnover year after year, expands its workforce by 20%, which reopens long-deserted shipyards, and which has an order book filled for 18 months into the future. Who in 2003 still held such hope for the Dutch shipbuilding industry? As a matter of fact, Rabobank did. Rabo Private Equity took a 49% stake in IHC Merwede in early 2005. Since then, the shipyard is back up to speed. In just five years, turnover has tripled and the workforce has grown from 1,800 to 2,800. IHC Merwede has also begun building for the offshore, ferry boat and cruise ship industries. Last but not least, it reopened the historic shipyard Van der Giessen-de Noord at Krimpen aan den IJssel in 2007. So thanks to Rabobank, once again IHC Merwede was able to go at full speed ahead. For all Rabobank’s business cases see Rabobank.nl/businesscase
Now it’s time for a bank that invests in long term relationships It’s time for Rabobank.
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A green revolution
Firm favourites
Gardening is no longer just for the more
Take a look behind the scenes at the
gentile folk among us. These days,
Naturalis Museum in Leiden, The
everyone is doing it - including Britney!
Netherlands, and find out about some of
It’s time to get digging
the staff’s favourite artefacts
10 In the picture Minerals and surreal surf
14 Facts and figures Bite-sized info
Hole in one Swing into action with this month’s KLM Open. We bring you a beginner’s guide to golfing terms, advice on the course and a look at the competition’s top talent
28 Freaks of nature A real creature feature
40 Clean breaks Escape into the great outdoors
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Gadgets The coolest gear around
Updates What’s on in The Netherlands
Touchdowns The best city guides
Photo competition Get snappy!
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Natural disaster It looks stunning, but this salt flat has created devastating environmental damage. Up until the early 1900s, Owens Lake, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, was a healthy flowing lake and had been for 800,000 years. But in 1913, in a series of shady deals, the city of Los Angeles started to divert the lake’s water, and by 1926 it was completely dry. The area has been plagued by toxic dust storms ever since. Plans are underway to alleviate the damage, as parts of the lake are being planted with a salt-tolerant native grass, while other areas are being covered with thin sheets of water to turn it into shallow mud flats.
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800,000 YEARS THE LAKE WAS FLOWING 1926 YEAR THE LAKE WAS DRAINED
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6 METRES HEIGHT OF WINTER WAVES 2006 YEAR OF COMPETITION Award-winning photographer Vincent Laforet captured these surfers riding a wave during the Rip Curl Pro Pipeline Masters in Oahu, Hawaii. Local surfer Andy Irons went on to win the series against long-time rival Kelly Slater in surf that was well over two metres. The island of Oahu is home to Hawaii’s state capital, Honolulu, and is often nicknamed ‘The Gathering Place’. www.vincentlaforet.com
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Riding high
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Natural facts & figures Words: Annemarie Hoeve
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Covering an area of almost 350,000 square kilometres
(which is bigger than the
UK, Switzerland and The Netherlands combined),
Scientists have discovered that hippo sweat can be useful for humans. It contains microscopic structures that scatter the sun’s harmful rays and also act as a natural insect repellent and antiseptic. Researchers hope to develop a three-in-one product based on this natural secretion to protect our skin from environmental onslaughts.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest natural
80 MILLION PILLS
structure made by living organisms. It can be seen from space, and CNN named it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Vote for yours at www. sevennaturalwonders.org
been used since ancient times as natural painkillers. Hippocrates of Cos (460377 BC) already noted that
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MILLION CROONERS
Parts of the willow tree have
chewing willow leaves reduced pain. Willow extracts were also a main ingredient for aspirin. Today, some 80 million aspirin tablets are swallowed every day in the USA – all thanks to the willow.
Lightning is a natural discharge of electricity that can reach speeds of 220,000 kilometres per hour and temperatures of up to 30,000°C. There are 16 million lightning storms globally each year. While the chance of being struck (once) are estimated at one in 600,000, US park ranger Roy Sullivan survived seven lightning strikes over 35 years, earning him a place in the Guinness World Records.
200-METRE ECO-SNAKE A 200-metre snake could soon generate enough natural energy to provide power for 2,000 homes. British researchers have developed a special rubber tube, dubbed the Anaconda, which is anchored to the ocean floor and moves with the waves to harvest their power. Within five years, groups of coastal Anacondas could already form sustainable ‘wave farms’.
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Natural facts & figures
70,000 insects The South American cochineal beetle produces a natural crimson dye, which was exported to Europe in the 1600s to colour the robes of Catholic cardinals and English ‘redcoats’. The pigment’s source was kept secret by the Spanish until the 18th century when biologists discovered its insect origins. Today it adds colour to everything from jelly to sausages. It takes 70,000 insects to produce 500 grams of pigment.
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A recent survey found that many UK residents are so out of touch with nature, they have problems identifying even the country’s most common trees. Five per cent of those questioned could not correctly name any tree. The oak was recognised by 68%, but almost a quarter (23%) did not know they produced acorns.
% ADMIT IT
Lying seems to come naturally. A University of Massachusetts study found 60% of students tested admitted to lying at least once during a taped ten-minute conversation. Other studies reveal that, on average, people tell one to two lies a day.
3,000 BREWS For the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth, scientists teamed up with the Darwin Brewery to develop a festive pint. They named it Natural Selection, after the legendary naturalist’s revolutionary theory of evolution. The brewery only made 3,000 bottles, but another Darwinian brew called Evolution is still in production. NATURAL Holland Herald
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Rocky mountain A trip to Canada’s western province of Alberta offers a range of experiences, from the city of Calgary to the 6,641-square kilometre Banff National Park, with its glaciers, forests and alpine landscapes WORDS: JANE SZITA PHOTOS: ROB VAN DER VET
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A great fishing spot near Nakoda Lodge, Alberta
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Ride ‘em Dating from the early days of the last century, when it was a whisky trading post, Rafter Six Ranch is on the edge of Kananaskis Country – the location for the film Brokeback Mountain. Back in the 1940s and 1950s, Rafter Six itself featured in several Hollywood movies, including River of No Return, starring Marilyn Monroe. Now run by the colourful Cowley family and a range of skilled ‘wranglers’, the ranch retains its photogenic charm and its authentic cowboy credentials – just the place for a spot of trail riding, Western style. South Ranch Road E, Exshaw, Alberta; +1 403 6733622. www.raftersix.com
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“From a horse, you don’t just see the magnificent western landscape: you experience it like a true ‘wrangler’”
“See that rock there?”
asks BJ, reining back his horse and pointing at a large, upturned stone, which looks like a mini megalith, to the side of our trail. We try to line our horses up with his, but right now they’re far more interested in chomping on the lush-looking grass. “That stone’s been lifted by someone, and that someone’s a bear,” BJ continues, pulling on the brim of his Stetson to underline his point. “They lift ’em up looking for ants, and they leave ’em standing.” His blue eyes twinkle in a face as craggy as the panorama of the Canadian Rockies all around us. BJ is our trail guide, a former Mountie who was practically born on a horse, having started riding at the tender age of three. Like almost everyone else you meet in the Rockies, he has a repertoire of bear tales. “Must’ve seen at least 100 bears,” he says, as our horses clatter up the scree-strewn trail with its backdrop of snow-topped peaks, to a soundtrack courtesy of the fastflowing Kananaskis River. “Matter of fact, I saw one yesterday. On horseback, I’ve never had a problem with ’em,” he adds. “Bears and horses got a lot of respect for each other. The bear’s not an attacking kind of animal. It’s a scavenger, really. And it’ll never go for a horse.” Bears – both black bears and grizzlies – are one reason why it pays to visit the Canadian Rockies in the summer. Turn up in the
winter for skiing or snow-shoeing, and they’ll all be hibernating. But in the summer, there’s a chance of seeing these big, furry symbols of the Rockies, or at least their traces – along with other wildlife, like the majestic, white-breasted falcon sitting atop a tree, and the white-tailed deer standing and blinking at us from the shadows as we trot past. And of course, trail riding through the scenery that stole the show in the film Brokeback Mountain is another summer plus. From a horse, you don’t just see the magnificent western landscape: you experience it like a true ‘wrangler’, from the scent of the pine forest and the wind in your hair, down to every hoof-slip on mud or scree.
Unless you’ve plenty of time to spare, you really need a car to head further into the Rockies. Driving towards Banff National Park on the Trans-Canada Highway is a memorable road journey by any standards: the mountains loom larger with every minute. Yet in contrast to their seemingly timeless, unchanging presence, the weather is mercurial in the extreme. Having begun with grey skies and rain, it turns to sleet, then stinging hail, then snow and a biting wind, before – finally – making amends with brilliant, warm sunshine. One minute you’re in Gore-Tex; the next in a T-shirt. Round here, you have the sense that Nature is in charge. NATURAL Holland Herald
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The Banff Fishing Unlimited boat at the Vermillion Lakes
Bear necessities Bears have a special place in the human imagination – partly because they are big and dangerous. So it’s good to remember that they’re generally shy and retiring creatures. “In the Canadian Rockies, bears are 90% vegetarian,” says mountain guide Mike Vincent. “Since records began, bears have killed three people per year in Canada, while domestic dogs have killed 25 on average.” Bears can, however, attack if surprised. “So you should make some noise as you walk along a trail,” he advises. “That gives the bear a chance to flee. And if you come across fresh bear droppings or tracks, leave the area.” If you see a bear, he recommends backing away while talking calmly. “Never approach a bear or attempt to feed one by hand,” he says. “Problems can arise when
“It can snow 12 months a year here,” says John Samms, over a dinner of seasonal halibut and a fine Canadian Shiraz in a cosy restaurant in Canmore, a former coal mining town. John, a Jamaican-born fly-fishing guide, lives here in the shadow of the majestic trio of peaks known as the Three Sisters. “Last year, we had snow on July 4,” he says, not altogether reassuringly. “But it disappears as suddenly as it arrives, thanks to the chinook. That’s an Indian word, meaning ‘snow-eater’. And that’s just what it does – the chinook is a warm weather front from the Pacific, and when it comes in, it comes in fast. The snow just vanishes.”
bears associate people with food.” That means all supplies
Sure enough, the next morning is bright and warm, and
must be kept out of reach,
the Three Sisters dazzle in the sunlight. We hit the road again, and Banff National Park unfolds in endless ranges of intricately cragged grey limestone peaks, topped with white crowns of snow, etched in startling clarity against a brilliant blue sky. Getting out of the car, and into nature, is irresistible. On a natural meadow in the massive presence of Mount Rundle, an imposing geological sandwich of shale and limestone, we join Ronna Schneberger for some invigorating ‘eco yoga’. “I started the yoga because I want to help people reconnect to nature,” she says in the pause between poses. “We forget how deeply connected we are to the landscape, with disastrous results for ourselves and the natural world. Yoga, like these mountains, helps us enquire into our timeless nature.”
and disposed of only in those ubiquitous bear-proof trashcans. Says Vincent: “We, not bears, have to change the way we act.”
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“Every artist who visits says they can work more intensely here than anywhere else”
Early morning at one of Banff’s many inspiring lakes
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“The mountains and their creatures are central to the culture of the Stoney Indians”
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The New West “You know you’re from Calgary,” a local quips, “when your belt buckle costs more than your watch.” That tells CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Who needs spare tyres in horse country? Watch out for grizzlies; If a horse is not available, you can always take your bike
you how much this city cherishes its cowboy roots, and is proud to be known as the capital of Canada’s New West. On a Saturday, the streets are thronged with stalls selling Stetsons, ‘snake-kicker’ boots, checked shirts and yes, belt buckles, while buskers play Western hoedown fiddle music to an appreciative crowd. But the time to really savour the city’s Wild West culture is during July’s Calgary Stampede – a ten-day rodeo epic featuring chuckwagon races, bull riding, calf roping and other events. The first stampede was held in 1886, just a few years after Calgary started life as a Mountie fort, established on
In this relative wilderness, it’s sometimes easy to forget that people have been connecting with the nature of the Rockies for many thousands of years. The mountains and their creatures, especially the bear, are central to the culture of the Stoney Indians, also known as the Rocky Mountain Sioux, who lived here long before the first Europeans arrived. “For us, the mountains are alive,” explains Stoney Jackson Wesley, at the First Nations museum in Banff. “In our philosophy, everything in the world has a spirit, but the mountain is the most powerful spirit of all, because it protects us from the elements. Every day, the Stoneys pray to the mountains to keep us alive.”
the beautiful Bow River to counter the illegal whisky trade. Today, you can still see Mounties in their iconic ceremonial red coats and pony Stetson hats on the city streets, but modern Calgary is built around another trade entirely; it’s the centre of Canada’s oil industry. The oil business has even influenced the name of the city’s ice
One mile above sea-level, on the shores of Lake Louise,
hockey team: the Calgary
Mount Victoria is going out of its way to prove the Stoneys’ ‘living mountain’ hypothesis. With a sound like distant thunder, a white cloud, like breath, appears a third of the way down its face: a glacier collapse. “Yes, the mountains are alive,” says mountaineer and guide Mike Vincent, with a respectful nod to the ring of towering peaks that dwarf us as we hike along the edge of the lake. “Mountaineers know that – at least, if we survive long enough
Flames. But some things never change. “Calgary,” one native explains, “is said to be conservative. Actually it’s libertarian – it has the real Wild West mentality.” www.calgarystampede.com NATURAL Holland Herald
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TRAVEL CANADA CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT: A school athletics field in Canmore – what a view!; A Mountie on patrol; Canadians are a sporty bunch, so you’ll find plenty of bicycle racks, like this one, in Calgary
“These mountains inspire people in a spiritual, emotional way” we do. When you’re young, mountain climbing is all about conquest. But as you get older, you realise that it’s up to the mountain whether you get up there or not. Is that the same as the Stoney view? Well, it originates in a physical rather than a spiritual perception, but I think it comes down to the same thing.” “These mountains inspire people in a spiritual, emotional way,” agrees Jill Sawyer of the Banff Centre, the park’s surprisingly large arts institute, which is surely one of the few places on earth to host an annual Mountain Film Festival. “Every artist who comes here says the same thing: they can work here more intensely than anywhere else.” The Rockies do seem to put a spring in your step, leaving you unaccountably energised. “There’s a strong positive vibe here,” adds mountaineer Mike Vincent. “Miserable people don’t last very long.” Or, as John Samms the fly-fishing guide puts it, “The mountains heal you, whether you like it or not.”
Not far away from the road, close to the Vermillion Lakes, civilisation has slipped away. A fox slinks through the trees, and in the distance there are elusive, bear-shaped shadows to be glimpsed, keeping you on your toes. A tiny, hyperactive chipmunk, no bigger than a finger, hops along ahead of you.
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A female elk passes so close, you can see her breath. Later, on the way to Lake Minnewanka, three bighorn sheep are literally stopping the traffic – well, all three cars of it – as everyone pauses to take a photo. The sheep, with their fine curved horns, look surprisingly demure for an animal that, during the rutting season, can headbutt its rivals at up to 110 kilometres per hour.
Down on the little jetty, the huge, glassy expanse of the lake reflects every shimmering detail of the mountains and the sky. On a small boat a few feet away, Scotty, of Banff Fishing Unlimited, is finishing up for the day with his friend Pete. He deftly fillets two lake trout for supper, then calls us to come and see as he throws the innards into the water “for my pets”. He means the metre-long brown trout that flash up to the surface to gobble the treat before swiftly vanishing again. “An endangered species,” Scotty explains. “But you wouldn’t catch these anyway, would you? They’re too beautiful.” The lake is as smooth as a mirror right now, but some days, he says, there are 1.5-metre waves. Other days, you can’t see for snow. “But that’s the nature of the job,” he says contentedly. “Constantly changing, never boring.” And, he could add, that’s the nature of the Rockies too.
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Wild things No matter what we humans invent, nature still seems to come up with the craziest designs. Here are a few favourites
This deep-sea barreleye fish has extremely light-sensitive green eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head. Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute used remotely operated vehicles (a type of robotic submarine) to photograph and videotape this fish in its native environment. They found it survives by stealing food from the tentacles of predatory deep-sea jellyfish.
The body and wings of the Wahlbergii Pseudocreobotra Wa mantis) are (or spiny flower man packed with an array of little colours. These beautiful beaut creatures are African natives, but are also very po popular owners with exotic pet owne around the world.
Cool shades The Amazon River dolphin is a superfriendly and sensitive mammal with a stunning pink hue. They are one of the most endangered species in the Amazon due to hunting, human intrusion and degradation of their habitat.
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Sneaky disguise This slippery little sucker has the remarkable ability of being able to mimic more than 15 different aquatic creatures. In its ‘natural’ state it has brown and white stripes. All octopodes can change colour and texture, but the mimic octopus is the first of its kind to be observed actually impersonating other species.
Photos: Corbis; Getty Images; Hollandse Hoogte; Naturepl.com; Andre Seale/Imagequestmarine.com; Foto Natura; National Geographic. Words: Ruth Lindsay
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Hide and seek Hid The leafy sea dragon is slightly larger than its slig seahorse relative but, as with sea sea seahorses, the male of the spe species cares for the eggs. Its leaf leaf-like exterior is just cam camouflage – it actually pro propels itself with its alm almost transparent fins.
Eye, eye! The Philippine tarsier is one of the world’s smallest known primates and is no larger than an adult hand. However, its eyes are enormous and are fixed in its skull, which means the eyes can’t turn in their sockets. Instead, like an owl, it has a special adaptation in its neck that allows its round head to be rotated 180 degrees.
High flyer This cute little climber is known as Matschie’s tree kangaroo and can be found in New Guinea. At around 50-75 centimetres, it’s much smaller than its more wellknown Australian cousin. It has a stocky body, strong limbs and a long, cylindrical tail used for balance while leaping among the branches.
All aglow The sea firefly lives in the oceans around Japan. These colourful creatures are nocturnal, so during the day they dwell in the sand, then at night they make an appearance and emit a strong luminous glow.
Live flesh Only discovered in 2005, these flesh-eating Hawaiian caterpillars have a special taste for snails, which is a rare thing in the normally plant-eating caterpillar world. They belong to the Hyposmocoma species.
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you dig it? Jane Szita gets her hands dirty and discovers that gardening is the new cool ILLUSTRATIONS: JOSE LUIS GARCIA
Earlier this year,
Michelle Obama was photographed like no First Lady ever before: with a spade in hand, digging the White House’s new, organic vegetable garden. “When you grow something yourself and it’s close and it’s local, oftentimes it tastes really good,” she wrote on the White House blog, adding later that her garden had already produced 80 pounds (36 kilograms) of produce – the first time the White House has grown its own food since the Second World War. Her actions underline the fact that gardening has been undergoing a massive image change. No longer is it the harmless but dull preserve of pipe-smoking men growing giant marrows or prize dahlias. These days, celebrities are keen to be seen doing it. On Earth Day, Julia Roberts demonstrated composting on Oprah’s TV show, and even Britney Spears is reportedly ‘addicted’ to gardening, having been spotted backstage reading Jack Canfield’s Chicken Soup For The Gardener’s Soul and observed putting in long hours on her California garden between tours. “So much has changed,” comments well-known Irish gardener, Helen Dillon. “Up to about ten years ago, gardening was very fuddy-duddy. That’s all different now. Gardening is trendy. It’s suddenly OK to do it.” Or, as new wave gardening writer John Hershey recently put it in the San Francisco Chronicle: “What we are witnessing is the revenge of the horticultural nerd. When I was in college, growing tomatoes in a pot on my dorm room balcony made me the dweebiest of dorks. Now, hip young ‘guerrilla gardeners’ sneak onto vacant city lots and surreptitiously plant lettuce and garlic… Next thing you know, rappers really will be hanging out at garden shows.” It isn’t just a media phenomenon, either: booming gardening sales figures show that the trend is real, with many seed companies this year reporting increases of anywhere NATURAL Holland Herald
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“Next thing you know, rappers will be hanging out at garden shows” Adopt a veg In the 19th century, 120 varieties of garden pea ensured we could eat them fresh all summer.
from 20% to 60%. What’s more, in both the USA and the UK (where 2009 sales of growbags have increased five-fold on the previous year), purchases of vegetable seeds have outstripped those of flower seeds. That’s the first time this has happened since the wartime Dig for Victory campaign in the UK and North America, which transformed public parks and just about every available inch of lawn into vegetable gardens.
Enter the frozen pea, and most of the 120 have all
Leigh Hunt of the UK’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) reports that his
but disappeared – a sad
organisation’s advisory service is flooded with enquiries from people who have absolutely no gardening experience but who have decided to grow their own food. “For example, queries on growing apples have risen by 200% this year,” he says, obviously delighted. “Our Grow Your Own campaign has been setting out to persuade people that vegetables can be grown anywhere – on a windowsill, the roof, or in a pot in the living room. Our mission is to get people to garden and enjoy it.” However, the phenomenon isn’t confined to the English-speaking world. “There’s enormous interest in organic vegetable growing here in The Netherlands too,” says Herman Vroklage of the Dutch Amateur Gardeners Association (AVVN). “The current waiting list for allotments has over 20,000 names on it – whereas just a few years ago, they were lying empty. And the demographic has changed – there are more young people, young families and independent women taking on allotments now.”
loss when abundant vegetable varieties could be vital in times of plant disease or climate change. Help preserve one by adopting a rare variety – €24 will help the Minogue onion or Bacardi broad bean survive into the future. www.gardenorganic.org.uk
The ten easiest veg to grow TOMATO BEETROOT CHARD COURGETTE RADISH CARROT SPINACH LETTUCE ONION PEA (source: ecosalon.com)
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In the USA, Vicki Garrett of the American Community Gardens Association (ACGA) thinks the increased interest in gardening is mainly due to food safety concerns. “During this decade, we’ve had toxic additives in imported food, E.coli outbreaks, GMO proliferation and so on, and it has all combined to make people more aware of the quality of their food,” she says. “Then global warming concerns have made many people more conscious about eating locally. Because food travels an average of 2,400 kilometres from farm to plate, eating locally is an environmentally responsible act.” Industrialised agriculture’s contribution to greenhouse gases is variously estimated at up to 32% of global output, and it impacts the environment in many other ways – for example, through its intensive use of water. According to Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at the University of London, and author (with Michael Healey) of the book Food Wars, our current food production system is unsustainable and will result in a global food crisis unless the issues are addressed. And amateur gardeners are definitely part of the solution: “Organic food growing is a big part of the new food culture that will have to emerge in the 21st century,” he says. The arguments of Lang and others are convincing governments of the need for ‘food security’, particularly in Western cities, which – in contrast to their counterparts in the
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developing world – often produce no food at all. The ‘edible city’ is the big new idea of urban planning: municipalities from Rotterdam to Tokyo are experimenting with various forms of the kind of community gardening pioneered by New York back in the 1970s. But the food-growing city isn’t just providing things to eat: it’s also maintaining a valuable biotype for wildlife and for bees, whose populations are declining globally, and its gardens will help keep cities cool in a warming world. Then there’s a whole range of social advantages. “If we eat food that’s grown where we live, then we’ll treat that area better,” says Louis de Jel, of The Netherlands’ De Aarde foundation. “Gardening allows us to meet people, to learn the language if we’re an immigrant, and to get better food.”
In her book, Freshly Picked, Jojo Tulloh describes the life-changing process of developing an inner-city allotment from scratch in London. “I have learnt to garden in the same way I learnt to cook, with curiosity and delight standing in for experience,” she says. “I am very much an enthusiastic amateur rather than an expert. My battles against weeds, slugs, droughts and floods are often unsuccessful, but beside the wonder and satisfaction of planting and harvesting your own food, none of these trials matter and it’s a wonder worth sharing.” The wonder and satisfaction that Tulloh describes, so familiar to any gardener, have led to a whole new kind of ‘horticultural therapy’, based on the physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of growing things. In the 19th century, pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale already noticed that patients recovered faster if they had a green, natural scene to look at – and recent studies indicate that wounds can heal twice as fast with such a view. Gardening provides valuable physical exercise, enhances self-esteem, eases stress, improves mood, promotes social skills and increases the sense of control – and some researchers have suggested that brainwaves produced while gardening are like those seen during meditation.
Getting started “Really good tomatoes are a luxury we can all afford,” says allotment guru Jojo Tulloh. “All you need
For some, the need to green our cities is so intense that gardening becomes essential,
are a packet of seeds,
even when a garden is lacking. “In October 2004, I was living in a tower block in London,” says Richard Reynolds, a prominent spokesman for the guerrilla gardening movement, which creates gardens in derelict areas in the city. “There was a neglected piece of land outside and I wanted to garden there, to make it beautiful and to enjoy it.” Since then, he has been cultivating swathes of ‘orphaned land’ in the city, often nocturnally, and encouraging others to do the same. Reynolds, who plants flowers rather than food and has written the book On Guerrilla Gardening, has noticed an increase in the activity, with “more people e-mailing me, blogging and signing up to our site”. Illicit cultivation is now an international phenomenon, reported everywhere from Libya to New Zealand, and May 1 this year was designated a global ‘Sunflower Guerilla Garden Day’ – when idle, fenced-off areas everywhere were scattered with sunflower ‘seed bombs’. Horticultural Robin Hoods like Reynolds, and their determined greening of our cities, point to the powerful place that gardening holds in our modern psyche. Gardens are such a strong symbol, partly because myths from all over the world tell how humans originated in one – from the Biblical Eden to China’s Garden of Immortal Peaches to the Celtic Avalon. Gardens literally take us back to our roots. They are full of meaning. As Christopher Macintosh writes in his book, Gardens of the Gods, they can be used “to convey a world view, a mood, a thought or an ideal”. That changes in time: earlier epochs sought to improve nature by gardening. But for us modern-day city dwellers, perhaps a garden is a chance to return a part of the concretecovered world to a more natural state – and with it, parts of ourselves, too.
a flowerpot and some compost.” In March or April, plant the seeds in seed trays, cover them with clingfilm and put them on windowsills (cover the sills with foil and newspaper to protect from water). When they start to grow, remove the clingfilm. After a week or so, or when the plants look strong, put them into bigger pots. Start putting them outside on the balcony for a few hours in the day. After a couple of weeks, they go into their final pots (30 centimetre-high terracotta ones) and can stay outdoors. But what if you forget to water them? “Tomatoes like a bit of abuse – starving and underwatering means betterflavoured crops,” says Tulloh. NATURAL Holland Herald
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Night at the museum old wing
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With its unique collection of more than 11 million objects, the Naturalis Museum in Leiden, The Netherlands, is a real treasure trove of wonders from the natural world, as well as a leading research facility. Here, five staff members tell us about their favourite artefacts PHOTOGRAPHY: FULCO SMIT ROETERS WORDS: RUTH LINDSAY
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René Dekker DIRECTOR OF COLLECTIONS “This is the liger, which is a cross between a tiger and a lion. It was born in Amsterdam Zoo on May 16, 1841. At that time these animals were kept together in the zoo, which would never happen today, although there are private collectors who probably do breed these animals. This liger, or tion, is special as it shows such a strong will to survive – he looks like he’s smiling, even though he probably didn’t live more than a day. I was going to show you our collection of Darwin finches, as I’m an ornithologist, and have been bird watching since I was six years old. However, I thought this little guy was even more fascinating. We are hoping to open up our collection to the public when the new building is complete, which will be in 2014. We also intend to expand the collection to 35 million objects.” Situated on the appropriately named Darwinweg (Darwin Way) in the historic town of Leiden, the museum is a mix of modern and historic architecture
”The ‘liger’ is special as it shows such a strong will to survive”
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”We have the biggest Japanese fish collection in the world”
Martien van Oijen CURATOR OF FISHES “We have 3,500 fish in storage, the oldest from 1796. Many are from Japan and the Dutch East Indies. This is the Myrispristis Japanicus from Japan and dates back to 1834. It has been injected with colour as the fish usually lose their natural shades when they are preserved. We also have an impressive collection of Japanese prints of the fish, some of which are so rich and detailed that you have to use a microscope to appreciate how intricate and well-crafted they are. Many Japanese scientists and visitors come to see our collection, as we have the biggest Japanese plant and fish collection in the world. It demonstrates the cultural history between Japan and The Netherlands, which reaches back 400 years. I feel it’s my duty to bring the collection to life and to make it more accessible to everyone.”
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Krista Leusink MUSEUM EDUCATOR “The platypus is my favourite object as it’s such a bizarre animal. It has a bill like a duck, the skin of a mole and a tail like a beaver. When it was first brought to Europe in 1799, people thought it had been sewn together, as no one actually believed such a weirdlooking, egg-laying mammal could exist. They look so cute and cuddly, but they’re not. They actually have poisonous spurs. As an educator they make my job a pleasure. It’s easy to show the children how stunning nature is when you have such a fascinating animal as the platypus to show them.”
”They look so cute and cuddly, but they actually have poisonous spurs”
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Hanneke Meijer RESEARCH ASSOCIATE “Ever since I saw Jurassic Park when I was little I have been fascinated by dinosaurs and extinct creatures. Most kids grow out of that, but I never did. I chose the dodo as it’s just such a big, clumsylooking and cute bird. It’s also the perfect example of evolution because it’s an island bird, and over time the dodo lost its ability to fly. It didn’t need to because it had no natural predators. I’m about to go to Mauritius on a research project to uncover more dodo bones. I have been before and discovered
”It’s important to apply knowledge from the past to the present”
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Brahim Hamham MUSEUM GUARD “Kids love the dinosaurs and the wildebeest exhibition. The bones behind me are from an Irish Elk (megaloceros giganteus) and are about 11,000 years old. It’s hard to choose a favourite artefact as I also like the camarasaurus that we also have displayed. Its bones were found by a farmer in Utah, in 1992. We have 80% of its body, but the head is from another dinosaur. I think the kids appreciate coming here more than going to an art gallery. It is real to them, as nature is everywhere. Most of them are very well behaved, although the younger kids are the best – most of the teenagers seem to only think about going to McDonald’s!”
The Naturalis is appropriately situated on Darwinweg (Darwin Road) in the historic town of Leiden. It’s packed with excited schoolchildren, more grown-up visitors, research students, educators and scientists,
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Adventure bound It’s time to head out into the great outdoors with one of these holidays from the book Clean Breaks
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Canyoning in the Sierra de Guara SPAIN
Rafting on the Klarälven
Canyoning is one of the fastest-growing sports in the Pyrenees. It’s a heady combination
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of scrambling, climbing, jumping off rocks in sculpted gorges then floating and swimming
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down ravines – and there are few better places in Europe to do it than the Parque de la
ultimate DIY travel experience,
Sierra y los Canones de Guara near Huesca. In this protected area, the four main rivers (the
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Flumen, the Guatizalema, the Alcanadre and the Vero) have carved out a range of geological
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and float down the Klarälven,
catch your breath, you can peer into ancient cave dwellings, spot a variety of birds and
Sweden’s longest river. The
enjoy spectacular water pools. www.caiaragon.com. For canyoning in France (near Barèges
idea is to construct a floating
in the western Pyrenees), see www.mountainbug.com
raft big enough to carry five or six people using just a dozen ¨LVEN KLARA
ropes and logs. Your teamwork (and sense of humour) will be put to the test but if you’re
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are more like granny knots, helpful instructors are on hand to give advice. You can build a raft in a morning and take it out on the river for the afternoon, but to get the most out of your craft – and the river – it’s best to go on a five- or eight-day trip to enjoy the tranquillity of Värmland (Sweden’s most southerly wilderness) and have time inland to explore the villages along the Klarälven. You can choose to stay overnight under canvas, on your moored craft, or in a tent by the river. www.vildmark.se
Dive at Bunaken INDONESIA No one’s really sure how many fish dwell in the gin-clear waters of Bunaken Marine Reserve in the north of the Sulawesi archipelago. It’s probably more than 2,500 species, but the number keeps changing as more are discovered. It’s one of the best places to dive in the world. Most of the reserve’s accommodation is on Bunaken Island – mainly basic homestays. But if
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GREAT GETAWAYS KARASJOK
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Join the Sami Reindeer Migration
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NORWAY Norwegian tour operator Turgleder offers you a unique opportunity to travel like the Sami. Join Scandinavia’s indigenous people as they follow the annual migration of reindeer. This is not a made-for tourism experience: this is how they’ve been herding reindeer for centuries. So expect to eat and sleep like them in their lavvus (Sami tipis), cook over an open fire and go ice-fishing. The trip begins at Engholms Husky Lodge, six kilometres outside Karasjok, where guests spend the first two nights acclimatising and learning about the Sami. You then join up with a Sami family and spend four days travelling with the reindeer, feeding and caring for the herd. www.turgleder.com EOURRES
Walking with a donkey FRANCE France Spain
Here’s one way to keep the
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kids happy. Based in the village of Eourres, 35 kilometres west of Sisteron in Haute-Provence, English-speaking company Bamboul’âne runs donkey trekking holidays in the National Regional Park of the Baronnies,
A slice of Mongolia
home to wild roe deer, chamois,
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teach you basic riding skills as
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well as how to pack-saddle
designed yurts, set in the midst
your donkey. You can stay at
of cork trees and olive groves.
Bamboul’âne’s farm campsite.
Each yurt (traditional Mongolian
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tent) has a double bed, sheepskin rugs, velvet cushions and a private garden. After a day in
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can enjoy the warm evenings by
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dining in the lantern-lit pergola.
£18.99. Available from www.roughguides.com or any good bookshop.
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Swing it back Get a slice of the action at the KLM Open, which is taking place this month in The Netherlands
PAR: 4 METRES: 397 A tricky tee shot as the fairway has a narrow dog’s leg to the left. Not many birdies on this hole.
Hole 08 PAR: 3 METRES: 203 Every player should aim for par 3 on this hole, but it can be made a little more challenging with a strong headwind.
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PAR: 4 METRES: 382
Club house or the 19th hole as it’s otherwise known!
PAR: 3 METRES: 155 A short but deceptively difficult hole. There is sure to be some excitement around this hole at the KLM Open, as a BMW X6 is up for grabs for any player who gets a hole in one.
Hole 18 PAR: 4 METRES: 363 The deciding hole. The ideal approach is up the left side of the fairway. With a headwind this is not a hole that will get many birdies.
Hole 15 PAR: 3 METRES: 151 A great hole for spectators. If players undershoot, their bal ba wil roll balll will back bac k down d the hill.
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On August 20-23
the eyes of the golfi ng world will be focussed on the Kennemer Golf and Country Club in the picturesque Dutch town of Zandvoort. This is where the world’s top-ranking players will be battling it out at the annual KLM Open, which is part of the European Tour. Even if golf is not really your thing, here we aim to give you an introductory guide to this year’s tournament, with some highlights from this famous course and biographies of some of the Dutch and international hopes, along with a beginner’s guide to all the golfi ng terms you need to know. The 2009 Open is a particularly special event – not only is KLM celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, it’s also the 90th edition of this international competition.
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ROBERT-JAN DERKSEN PLACE OF BIRTH: Blaricum,
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Golf glossary ALBATROSS - Playing three strokes under par. Also known as a Double Eagle BIRDIE - A hole played one stroke under par BOGEY - A hole played one stroke over par CONDOR - A hole played 4 under par (a tricky shot) EAGLE - A hole played two strokes under par FADE - A shot that sends the ball veering slightly to the right FAIRWAY - Area between the tee and the green GREEN - Smoothest and most closely mown area on the course where putts are played HANDICAP - Average difference between a player’s score and a set standard. It’s a number that is used to provide equality among the players HOLE IN ONE - Hitting the ball directly from the tee into the hole IRON - A club with a flatfaced steel head, generally numbered from one to nine PAR - An abbreviation of professional average shot – standard number of strokes expected to finish a hole PUTT - A shot played on the green, usually with a putter SWING - Movement made by a player to make a stroke. The perfect swing is what everyone strives for TEE - A small (usually wooden) device used for setting the ball above the teeing ground – the area where each hole begins ZINGER - A ball that is hit
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Robert Karlsson is the son of a greenkeeper; he is also Sweden’s most prolific golfing champion. He ensured his place in his home country’s golfing history when he became the first Swedish player to win the acclaimed Order of Merit at last year’s European Tour.
ROBERT KARLSSON PLACE OF BIRTH: Katrineholm,
Sweden AGE: 39
Robert-Jan Derksen first held a golf club at the age of 14 – and an impressive amateur career followed that event. He won the Dutch Match Play and Stroke Play titles before turning professional in 1996. Derksen has notched up two victories on the European Tour, his most recent being the 2005 Madeira Island Open Caixa Geral de Depositos. The other was in 2003 when he held off the challenge of Ernie Els to win the Dubai Desert Classic. He finished second in the 2008 BMW Asian Open.
MAARTEN LEFEBER PLACE OF BIRTH: Eindhoven,
The Netherlands AGE: 34
DARREN CLARKE PLACE OF BIRTH: Dunganon,
Northern Ireland AGE: 41
In 2008, Darren Clarke returned to form and won two major titles, including the KLM Open. As well as being a force to be reckoned with on the golf course, he’s also head of The Darren Clarke Foundation, which helps further the development of junior golf and raises money for breast cancer awareness. Can he repeat last year’s Kennemer win?
Maarten Lafeber is the former Dutch, Swiss and Spanish Amateur Champion – he turned pro in 1997. He made his PGA tour debut in 2000 and one of his career highlights to date came in October 2003, when he created much excitement among Dutch golfing fans after becoming the first home player to win the Dutch Open since Joop Rühl lifted the trophy in 1947.
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Holland UPDATE from Rotterdam’s top restaurants in tents set up on the grassy verges of the city’s Parklaan.
Leegkerk, Groningen. Photo: Pieter Malfiet
www.heerlijkrotterdam.nl
FESTIVAL OUDE MUZIEK August 28 to September 6 Concerts of ‘old music’ are held in various locations in the historical centre of Utrecht. This year’s event honours ‘Three Germans in England’ – Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. TAKE A SPIN IN GRONINGEN
www.oudemuziek.nl
HORTUS FESTIVAL Until August 30
Natural cycle
Weekly recitals of early 20th-century chamber
Get close to nature – in particular, the beautiful scenery of the Reitdiep valley,
music, performed in
north-west of Groningen – for this unique, one-day event. You can cycle along a
beautiful gardens in Haren,
countryside route, stopping off on the way to take in no less than 26 new jazz and improv concerts held in medieval churches and farmers’ barns. This year’s event focuses on the use of ‘strings’ or snared instruments in contemporary jazz,
Putten, Leiden, Utrecht and Amsterdam. www.hortusfestival.nl
and drummer/guitarist duo Knalpot.
EXHIBITIONS
SUMMER JAZZ BICYCLE TOUR August 29; www.zjft.nl
SLEEPING BEAUTY Until September 20 Victorian paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, including Flaming
EVENTS SUMMER DARKNESS August 5-9
NOORDERZON PERFORMING ARTS
June by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)
FESTIVAL August 20-30
and five works by Edward Burne-Jones
This annual festival takes place at various
Expect impressive
(1833-1898).
locations in Utrecht and focuses on gothic,
performances by Dutch and
Gemeente Museum, Stadhouderslaan 41, The
metal, darkwave, electro and techno music,
international groups at this
Hague; +31 70 3381111; www.gemeentemuseum.nl
with parties.
fest in the north of the land.
www.summerdarkness.nl
Various locations, Groningen; www.noorderzon.nl
HMS Bounty
DELFSAIL August 22-26
GÜNTER BRUS: MITTERNACHTSRÖTE Until September 20 A collection of fantastical drawings and
Tall ships, small ships,
KARAVAAN Until August 26
image-poems by this maverick Austrian
steamships... there’s all
This travelling theatre festival stages
artist, reminiscent of the Symbolist work of
manner of sailing vessels at
performances in unexpected places en route
earlier Viennese artists like Egon Schiele and
this spectacular marine
in the province Noord-Holland.
Gustav Klimt.
extravangza, held in and
www.karavaan.nl
Gemeente Museum, Stadhouderslaan 41,
around Delft Harbour.
The Hague; +31 70 3381111;
Havenbedrijf Delfzijl, Handelskade Oost 11,
PREUVENEMINT August 27-30
Delft; +31 596 616655; www.delfsail.nl
Annually, visitors flock to the heart of Maastricht to sample exquisite food and
www.gemeentemuseum.nl
GIGS
PINKPOP CLASSIC August 15
wine at this festive culinary event.
Kings of Leon July 2, Ahoy (Rotterdam)
Simple Minds headline at this one-day music
Vrijthof Square, Maastricht;
Pearl Jam August 13, Ahoy (Rotterdam)
festival, which also sees Sinéad O’Connor, The
www.preuvenemint.nl
Stranglers and Living Colour take the stage. Megaland, Hofstraat 13-15, Landgraaf; 0900
DELICIOUS ROTTERDAM August 27-30
3001250 (NL only); www.pinkpopclassic.nl
For four days, the public can sample dishes
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Lowlands August 21-23, Walibi World (Biddinghuizen)
Info and tickets: www.livenation.nl
Festival Oude Muziek: Ensemble Inegal. Photo: www.vojtechvlkj.com. Hortus Festival: Orangerie. Photo: Hortus Botanicus, Leiden
and includes musicians such as jazz cellist Ernst Glerum, pianist Fred van Hove
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Amsterdam UPDATE EXHIBITIONS
Go wild
AVANT-GARDES ’20 I ’60 Until August 23 The turbulent 1920s and 1960s explored
Explore the nature surrounding
through works by Lichtenstein, Warhol,
Amsterdam in this five-hour
Mondriaan and Picasso.
excursion by canoe. You will travel
Van Gogh Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7;
through a 17th-century landscape
+31 20 5705200; www.vangoghmuseum.nl
that inspired Dutch painters, while an English-speaking tour guide
THE ART OF FLYING Until October 26
points out the fauna and flora.
Seven paintings by Melchior d’Hondecoeter
WETLANDS SAFARI Meet: VVV
(1636-1695), the most renowned Dutch
Koffiehuis (opposite Centraal Station);
painter of 17th-century ‘bird pieces’.
+31 20 6863445; www.wetlandssafari.nl
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol (between Piers E and F), Schiphol Airport; +31 20 6747000; www.rijksmuseum.nl
RESTAURANT CANVAS The seventh floor of a former newspaper building is now home to an arty café/ great views across Amsterdam. Enjoy Photo: Petra van Vliet
sandwiches, salads and soups for lunch, or more creative dishes cooked by young chefs in the evening. Dinner is often accompanied – or followed – by DJs. Tuesday is ‘Cocktail Night’. Wibautstraat 150; +31 20 7163817; www.canvasopde7e.nl CAPITAL EXCURSION
GIGS EVENTS AMSTERDAM GAY PRIDE Until August 2
courtyard of the Hermitage Amsterdam.
David Byrne August 2, Melkweg
www.grachtenfestival.nl
Primal Scream August 8, Paradiso
Street parties and the highlight: Saturday’s
Taking Back Sunday August 8, Melkweg
canal parade.
UITMARKT August 28-30
Billy Ocean August 14, Paradiso
www.amsterdamgaypride.nl
Free-entry performances herald the new
Sinéad O’Connor August 16, Paradiso
cultural season.
The Mummers August 29, Paradiso
Various locations; www.uitmarkt.nl
Macy Gray August 31, Paradiso
PLUK DE NACHT August 6-15 A free, open-air film festival of international arthouse movies. www.plukdenacht.nl
CIRCUS STILETTO August 5-30
WEBSITES
Prize-winning international
www.dutchnews.nl
LITESIDE FESTIVAL August 14-16
acts, including a clown, a
Daily Dutch news in English
East meets West in this celebration of
contortionist and acrobats.
www.specialbite.com
crossovers in all performance cultures.
Carré, Amstel 115-125;
Cool and comprehensive restaurant reviews
Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Haarlemmerweg
0900 2525255 (NL only);
www.underwateramsterdam.com Events and info galore
8-10; www.liteside.nl
www.stardusttheatre.com
GRACHTENFESTIVAL August 15-23
DE PARADE Until August 17
Useful tourist information
Classical music concerts
Take the special Parade Boat from the
www.lastminuteticketshop.nl
held in historic watery
Stopera to where this wonderful kitsch
Half-price tickets to events
locations around town. It
theatre festival has pitched its tents.
opens with Svadebka! The
Martin Luther Kingpark; www.deparade.nl;
REMEMBER! This copy of Holland Herald is
Village Wedding in the
www.paradeboot.nl
yours to take off the plane.
www.amsterdam.info
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Grachtenfestival: Fancy fiddlers. Photo: Ronald Knapp. Circus Stiletto: Ellen ten Damme, Pavel Boyarinov and Dima Shine. Photo: Roy Beusker
restaurant, cocktail lounge and terrace – with
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LAKE ZURICH: LAP IT UP
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Zurich TOUCHDOWN
SWISS PERFECTION
Timeless beauty
DON’T MISS
Dancing in the street
Old-world charm meets 21st-century cool in this quintessential Swiss city. The Schipfe area boasts boutique shops, while the Altstadt (Old Town) is a ticket to world-class galleries. Zuri-West is popular for its emerging designers and electric nightlife.
Modelled on the Berlin Love Parade, the Zurich Street WHAT TO SEE
Parade began in 1992, and has now mushroomed from some
Heavenly sights
Schweizer Heimatwerk
the Zeughauskeller
2,000 people dancing around
The medieval Grossmünster
(www.heimatwerk.ch), art deco
(www.zeughauskeller.ch).
a few loudspeakers to over 30
soars dramatically above the
porcelain at Time Tunnel
‘lovemobile’ sound systems
Altstadt, while the world’s largest
(www.timetunnel.ch), and
and half a million revellers. The
Giacometti collection is housed
everything from cuckoo clocks
parade begins in the early
at Kunsthaus Zurich (www.
to army knives at Teddy’s
operates six direct daily flights
afternoon at Utoquai and ends
kunsthaus.ch). Zuri-West
Souvenir Shop (www.
(five on Saturdays) to Zurich
at Hafendamm Enge. House
showcases graphic art at the
teddyssouvenirshop.ch).
Airport from Amsterdam Airport
and techno music predominate.
Museum of Design Zurich
August 8; www.street-parade.ch.
(www.museum-gestaltung.ch)
THE PARADE HAS BLOOMED
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and contemporary masters at
HOW TO GET THERE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Schiphol. WHERE TO EAT
Currying flavour
Kunsthalle Zurich (www.
The Altstadt offers a real
kunsthallezurich.ch).
mix, from Thai curries at
Tourist information www.zuerich.com
Blue Monkey (www.
Looking for handy, up-to-date
WHERE TO SHOP
kramergastronomie.ch) to fine
travel information? Check out
Art, crafts and cuckoo clocks
dining at Haus Zum Rüden
KLM’s Destination Guide
(www.hauszumrueden.ch). Enjoy
pages – and book your flight –
Roam Schipfe’s cobblestone
Swiss classics at beamed
on www.klm.com. Content
lanes for local artists’ creations.
Bierhalle Kropf (In Gassen 16;
provided by Frommer’s
The Altstadt lures shoppers
+41 1 2211805) or metre-long
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with Swiss-made crafts at
sausages with foaming beer at
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Singapore TOUCHDOWN
STATUE IN HAW PAR VILLA GARDENS
GO WITH THE FLOW IN SINGAPORE’S BUSINESS DISTRICT
Harmony in motion
DON’T MISS
Tooth pick
A city rich in contrast and colour, Singapore nevertheless harmoniously blends culture,
A Singapore Chinatown landmark, the Tang dynastystyle Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum opened in 2007, costing $62 million. As well as housing the holy incisor, its vast 100 Dragons Hall displays hand-painted ceiling tiles and a golden statue of the compassionate Maitreya Buddha. Upstairs is an ‘enlightenment museum’. South Bridge Road 288; +65 62200220; www.btrts.org.sg
cuisine, art and architecture. Brimming with energy, this little dynamo in south-east Asia displays the finest from both East and West. A single day’s trail will take you from exotic ethnic enclave to bustling business centre, from serene gardens to sleek skyscrapers.
WHAT TO SEE
shops selling textiles and
centres, where low-cost Asian
souvenirs. Chinatown’s Pagoda
dishes are served.
Botanic Gardens (www.sbg.org.
Street Market comes alive at
sg) reveals a blaze of orchids,
night. Tanglin is best for
while the Asian Civilisations
antiques.
Museum (www.acm.org.sg), on
HOW TO GET THERE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operates one daily direct flight
Singapore River, exhibits
WHERE TO EAT
to Singapore Changi Airport from
Javanese puppets. Some of the
What’s cooking
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
best museums lie in the elegant
Seafood hallmarks East Coast
Colonial District, including the
Parkway, especially the famed
Tourist information
ornate Peranakan Museum
crab at Long Beach Seafood
www.visitsingapore.com
(Armenian Street 39).
Restaurant (www. longbeachseafood.com.sg).
Looking for handy, up-to-date
WHERE TO SHOP
Little India offers good-value
travel information? Check out
Malls and markets
restaurants, although fish-head
KLM’s Destination Guide
Singapore loves its air-
curry fans flock to Tanglin’s
pages – and book your flight –
conditioned shopping malls,
Samy’s Curry (www.samyscurry.
on www.klm.com. Content
especially those along Orchard
com). Victorian Lau Pa Sat
provided by Frommer’s
Road. The gentrified streets
(Raffles Quay 18, Boon Tat
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around the Arab Quarter house
Street), crowns the city’s hawker
Whatsonwhen Limited.
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Flower power A ticket to the Singapore
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LICENSE FOR LUXURY
THE SEVEN-STAR BURJ AL ARAB HOTEL GRACES DUBAI’S SKYLINE
Photo: iStockphoto
Photo: Hollandse Hoogte
Dubai TOUCHDOWN
Spoilt for choice A flight to Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, is a ticket to five-star luxury. Lavish shopping malls dot the city, while world-class events, from horse racing and motor sport,
DON’T MISS
ensure magnificent entertainment, and creative chefs serve award-winning cuisine in
No small mall
top-quality restaurants.
The Ibn Battuta Mall, in Jebel Ali, has several international
WHAT TO SEE
high-street brands, local
Motors, museums and mosques
boutiques, an IMAX theatre
The Wafi Mall (www.wafi.com)
Hadeerah (www.jumeirah.com).
specialises in rare collections HOW TO GET THERE
and multiple restaurants.
Whizz around at the Dubai
and unique boutiques. The
Decor is based on the travels
Autodrome (www.
Dubai Festival City is a giant
of the famous Arabic explorer,
dubaiautodrome.com) or chill out
waterfront shopping and
operates a daily direct flight, plus
Ibn Battuta, featuring Persian,
at the indoor ski slope at Ski
lifestyle resort with 550 retail
an additional flight on Fridays,
Indian, Chinese, Egyptian and
Dubai (www.skidxb.com). Visits to
outlets and 90 dining venues
Mondays and Wednesdays, to
North African architecture.
Dubai Museum (Al Fahidi Fort,
(www.dubaifestivalcity.com).
Dubai Airport from Amsterdam
www.ibnbattutamall.com
Bur Dubai), the Bastakia District (Bur Dubai), and Jumeirah
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Airport Schiphol. WHERE TO EAT
Desert desserts
Tourist information
jumeirah.htm), give an insight into
Savour celebrity-chef cuisine at
www.dubaitourism.ae
Dubai’s history and culture.
Gordon Ramsay’s Verre in Deira
Mosque (www.cultures.ae/
SHOP IN STYLE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
(www.hilton.co.uk/dubaicreek).
Looking for handy, up-to-date
WHERE TO SHOP
Mediterranean dishes are served
travel information? Check out
Riches galore
200 metres above sea level at
KLM’s Destination Guide
The Gold Souk in Deira has
Al Muntaha in the seven-star
pages – and book your flight –
pearls, diamonds and gold
Burj Al Arab hotel (www.jumeirah.
on www.klm.com. Content
jewellery. Sniff around the Spice
com), or venture out to the
provided by Frommer’s
Souk (near Nasser Square,
desert to sample traditional
Unlimited © 2009,
Deira) for exotic ingredients.
Arabic fare under the stars at Al
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TOUCHDOWN
THE MAJESTIC MILLENNIUM STADIUM AND CARDIFF’S WATERFRONT
ARCADE SHOPPING
Capital appeal
DON’T MISS
With its bustling city centre, luxury hotels, a network of shopping malls and arcades, and a wide range of top-quality restaurants, cafés and bars, you’ll never be at a loss for things to do in this Welsh metropolis.
WHAT TO SEE
Rock on
network of Victorian and
The Cottage (St Mary Street;
The Millennium Stadium
Edwardian arcades has helped
+44 29 20337195) is one of the
(www.millennuimstadium.com)
Cardiff establish a reputation as
oldest traditional pubs in Cardiff,
hosts major sporting events,
one of the UK’s top shopping
serving award-winning food
and music concerts. Guided
destinations. The Central Market
and real ales.
tours are available. The
and Riverside Real Food
National Museum Cardiff
Market sell home-grown and
(www.museumwales.ac.uk) has
traditional Welsh produce.
one of the finest collections of
The Cardiff Festival is in full swing and offers a wide variety of (mostly free) events, from street theatre and music podiums to family fun. Among the attractions this month are the MAS Carnival (August 1), Classic Motorboat and Car Rallies (August 15-16) and the Cardiff Harbour Festival (August 30-31). www.cardiff-festival.com.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operates a minimum of three
WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK
daily flights to Cardiff Airport
Paris. Sturdy Cardiff Castle
Quay spot
from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
(www.cardiffcastle.com) has a
Cuisine from around the world
fascinating history.
is on offer in dozens of
Tourist information
restaurants, bars and cafes
www.visitcardiff.com
Precinct paradise
Festive spirit
HOW TO GET THERE
Impressionist paintings outside
WHERE TO SHOP
Cardiff
in Mermaid Quay (www. mermaidquay.co.uk). Among
Looking for handy, up-to-date
The main Queen Street area is
them is Ba Orient (www.
travel information? Check out
teeming with designer brands,
baorient.com), which serves
KLM’s Destination Guide pages
major chains and independent
imaginative cocktails and
– and book your flight – on
shops and boutiques. The city’s
perfectly crafted dim sum.
www.klm.com. THE FESTIVAL’S ‘BIG WEEKEND’
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Photo contest
See the world!
What can you win?
How does it work? There’s a new theme every three months. At the end of the fourth
THE GRAND PRIZE
quarter (March 2010), KLM will award
A round-the-world ticket for the annual, overall winner
the Grand Prize to the overall winner.
CONTEST RULES • Photographs larger
What theme?
than 10x15cm cannot be accepted •
For July, August and September 2009,
Herald, KLM and the publishers, MediaPartners
the theme is Children.
Photographs will not be returned • Holland Group, accept no responsibility for lost material • Copyright clearance and permission of subjects are the responsibility of the photographers. KLM and MediaPartners Group acquire
Don’t be late… Entries must be received by
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
October 9, 2009. See our website
date of entry, and who have flown with KLM
below for submission details.
• Entrants for the Grand Prize will be notified as
during the same period as the theme category soon as possible after the closing date of the theme category • Employees of KLM and
YOUNG BOY IN GANGTOK (SIKKIM), INDIA, BY JACQUES DE CEUNYNCK
Feeling inspired? Check out other beautiful shots
MediaPartners Group, participating promotional agencies, contributors to Holland Herald, and the families of any of the above are not eligi-
If you provide the year’s best shot, you’ll be globe-
from previous winners at:
ble to enter this competition • The judges’
trotting before you can say “where did I put my passport?”
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exchanged for cash.
decisions are final • The Grand Prize cannot be
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KLM NEWS
Travellers Check
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NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR PASSENGERS
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KLM BEHIND THE SCENES
Nature trails projects focus on the conservation of existing rainforests and their value to ecosystems and surrounding inhabitants.” A helping hand
CLEAN WATER AND AIR ARE TREASURES TO BE VALUED
KLM is a global player. As such, any decisions the airline makes affect not only the employees who work for the company, but also the many thousands of people – and their habitat – in the destinations it operates services to. “We fly the world,” says Jan Ernst de Groot, Managing Director of KLM, “but that world – our planet – and its incredible biodiversity have to be safeguarded. You can’t ignore the impact your actions may have on the natural order of things, on the ecosystems that nurture life.” While acknowledging the negative effects that an airline can have on the environment – in particular, CO2 emissions – De Groot emphasises the many projects that KLM supports, or has instigated, under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme,
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to increase the positive impact on biodiversity worldwide. “Many of our customers travel the world to view wildlife or coral reefs. We consider it our duty not only to mitigate the negative impact of their journey, but also to help ensure that those natural treasures remain intact. Tropical rainforests are doubly significant, as they contain valuable biodiversity elements, as well as acting as important CO2-absorbing ‘sponges’.
“It’s important to keep these issues in the public eye, to make them ‘visible’,” continues De Groot. “We all realise how fragile our ecosystems are, and most of us would like to do something to help but, very often, people don’t know how to go about this. KLM reaches millions of customers and provides ways and means of helping – but without force or duress.” Closer to home, KLM has initiated a lot of CO2-reduction and energysaving programmes within its own organisation, such as the construction of ‘high environment quality’ (HEQ) spaces, recycling of aircraft scrap metal, and the development of sustainable jet fuels. “Our natural kingdom is full of treasures. Often they are of no visible economic value but remain treasures
“It’s important to keep these issues in the public eye, to make the value of nature ‘visible’ ” “Our Destination Nature programme provides financial help and publicity for specific nature conservation projects at some of our destinations. For example, we have initiated a tree planting project in Kenya, which aims to plant 120,000 trees to help reverse soil erosion in areas that threaten the livelihood of the local population. Other
nevertheless. Clean air, clean water, or just simply enjoying nature – it all comes at a price. At KLM, we are constantly busy finding ways to protect these riches,” concludes De Groot. AIR FRANCE KLM’s Sustainablity Report 2008/2009 is downloadable in pdf format from www.klm.com/csr.
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KLM NEWS “On the ball with KLM!”
Flight information via your mobile Don’t worry about arriving at the wrong gate, missing your boarding announcement or waiting for updates on delayed or cancelled international flights – you can now get all this information sent directly to your mobile phone for free! Visit www.klm.com and register via Manage My Booking.
Bucharest bound KLM and Romanian airline TAROM have signed a code-share agreement for flights between Amsterdam and Bucharest. After an absence of five years, TAROM recently reintroduced a direct flight between Amsterdam and the Romanian capital, which, together with the flights that KLM already operates, brings the total number of daily flights between the two cities to four. Domestic TAROM flights under KLM flight numbers, connecting Bucharest with the cities Iasi, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca and Sibiu, will also operate under the code-share agreement.
The green scene Watch the birdie from August 20-23, when the hugely popular KLM Golf Open tees off at the Kennemer Golf & Country Club in Zandvoort, The Netherlands. The tournament is part of the PGA European Tour and counts towards inclusion in the lucrative ‘Race for Dubai’ golfing event which is being held for the first time this season.
KLM recently announced the continuation of its sponsorship of the Open until 2012. The event always attracts a healthy number of Dutch golfing stars as well as international names. This year, participants will vie for prize money totalling €1.8 million. For further information, visit www.klmopen.nl. See also our feature on page 44.
GET IN THE SWING AT THE KLM OPEN
A little bit extra…?
CAPITAL SIGHTSEEING IN ROMANIA
A new, simplified excess baggage policy has been introduced on all KLM and AIR FRANCE flights. On flights based on weight concept, fees per kilogram are based on three zones: AIR FRANCE domestic flights; European, Caribbean and Indian Ocean flights; and other international flights. On flights based on piece concept, flat fees apply. Various rates apply for excess sporting equipment. Visit www.klm.com or www.airfrance.com for full details.
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KLM PEOPLE & PLANET
Be a sustainable tourist…
Niños Hotel Every year, millions of passengers board KLM flights with a burning desire to discover new lands.
putting sustainable tourism into practice. Be souvenir savvy! Watch out for any trinkets or artefacts which may have been produced using threatened animal or plant species. Coral, for example, or shoes made from crocodile or lizard skins. For a Top
It’s great to go on holiday! However, as
NIÑOS HOTEL IN CUSCO, PERU
Ten of tourist souvenirs and gifts to be
Unfortunately, these countries can also
wary of, visit www.wwf.org (in English) or
be home to millions of children in need
www.wnf.nl (Dutch).
– a need identified in the UN
You can already contribute to
Millennium Development Goals. KLM
we travel to ever more distant and
sustainable tourism before you pack your
AirCares offers promotional, logistical
exotic destinations, it’s good to bear in
bags. Compensate for the C02 emissions
and financial support to NGOs to help
mind that the countries which afford the
that your flight will produce via the
them achieve these goals.
most stunning natural wonders are quite often the most deprived. Awareness of the
CO2ZERO link on www.klm.com, and choose to make a personal investment to
charity Niños, which runs two hotels in
consequences that your holiday could
help a variety of Gold Standard certificated
Cusco, and a hacienda in Huasao, Peru.
have on the any existing socio-economic
global projects supported by the WWF– and
All profits from the accommodations,
structure or ecosystem is a step towards
fly C02 neutral!
together with donations, are used to
AirCares is currently supporting the
give 600 extremely neglected children a hot meal each day, a warm shower,
Home, sweet homes In addition to cash donations and publicity, many charities also rely on the
medical and dental assistance, homework help, and sports lessons. the Netherlands
decent, affordable shelter. Habitat for Humanity builds and
Show your support To donate money and/or Flying Blue
goodwill and enthusiasm of individual
renovates simple houses, with the help of
Miles to this or any other AirCares
volunteers. KLM encourages this through
the homeowner families and financed with
charity, please visit www.aircares.nl
its online ‘volunteer plaza’, which allows
affordable loans. The organisation has
or make a donation during this flight.
staff to offer their services or request help
offices all over the world. The Netherlands
For payment details, see the last page
with charitable projects.
branch – see www.habitat.nl – organises
of our KLM Inflight Boutique tax-free
many activities, including global village
shopping section in this issue of
organisation which seeks to eliminate sub-
building trips where volunteers can fly out to
Holland Herald.
standard housing and homelessness, relies
a Habitat for Humanity site to assist with the
on all three – donations, publicity and
building of houses.
Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit
volunteers. Since 1976, it has built more than
For full information about Habitat for
Alternatively, support the charity by booking into the two-star Niños accommodation, located in renovated
300,000 houses around the world,
Humanity, and details of offices worldwide,
historical buildings. For further
providing more than 1.5 million people in
visit www.habitat.org – and help to build a
information, visit www.ninoshotel.com.
more than 3,000 communities with safe,
better world.
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KLM ENTERTAINMENT “More than six days of back-to-back movie viewing”
Let the fun begin! State-of-the-art entertainment is available on all intercontinental KLM flights.* Just a few clicks will bring you to a virtual world of...
USE THE HANDSET TO MAKE YOUR CHOICE
Watching
Interaction
Instant access to over 85 movies, available
Who could resist sending someone a
in various languages, ranging from the
‘Guess where I am?’ text message from a
classics to the latest big-screen
mile above the Atlantic? Forgotten to
blockbusters. Comedies, sit-coms,
bring directions to your hotel? Simply
documentaries, news and travel shows
use the built-in email to ask a colleague
are just a click away.
to forward directions.
Listening
Stimulation
Compile your own playlist or select a
Challenge a fellow passenger to a game,
specific CD. There are hundreds of hits for
browse our extensive database of
every taste and every mood. If you prefer,
information and interesting trivia, or
you can just sit back and relax with a great
expand your horizons with one of the 23
audio book.
Berlitz language courses.
MOVIE TOP 10 - AUGUST The Boat That Rocked (Comedy) Dean Spanley (Comedy) Fast & Furious (Action/Adventure) Genova (Drama) Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (Comedy) Knowing (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) The Soloist (Drama) Star Trek XI (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Sci-Fi/Fantasy) The Young Victoria (Drama) ‘THE YOUNG VICTORIA’ - ONE OF 85 MOVIES AVAILABLE ONBOARD
Too much choice?
Cinema has previously celebrated an aging Queen Victoria with Mrs Brown, but The
Check out our online movie guide before
Young Victoria looks at the monarch’s early life. Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) stars as
your next flight at www.klm.com (select:
the queen in this costume drama that chronicles her rise to the crown and her romance with
Travel Information; On Board; Entertainment).
Prince Albert. The movie also stars Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent, and Miranda Richardson.
* With the exception of Economy Class on Boeing 747-400s, where phased retrofitting has recently commenced.
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WWW.KLM.COM “A website you can rely on for all your travel needs”
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 practical advice. Featuring over 100 countries, the guide covers restaurants, shopping, nightlife, events and things to do. It also has practical tips about transport, currencies, visa requirements and current weather forecasts. Destination Guide can be accessed via ‘Travel Information’ at www.klm.com
PARIS: A GRAND PLACE TO VISIT
KLM e-services make your travel planning faster, easier
Wanted: extra legroom
and more rewarding than ever.
Perhaps it’s a special occasion, or
For example, you can tell us your
you simply want to treat yourself or a
travel experiences with a direct,
loved one? The solution: Economy
easy-to-use link with KLM
Class seating with extra legroom or just
Customer Support. Via the Contact
two seats in a row.
Room for more
us button on the website, your
When checking online via www.klm.com,
Worried about excess luggage? You
communication can usually be
or at one of the kiosks at Amsterdam
can reserve extra baggage space
handled within five days. KLM
Airport Schiphol, these preferred seats
on your flights via check-in at
offers a full range of services via
can be reserved for a small supplement.
www.klm.com
its website www.klm.com
Available exclusively using our online check-in.
By arranging this online, you not only save time at the airport, you also save 30% on the normal charges levied at the airport check-in desk.
Fly, drive and stay Did you know that, as well as booking flights, you can also make a hotel reservation or rent a car via www.klm.com? KLM works with reliable partners such as Booking.com for hotel reservations, and Avis for car rental. Flying Blue members can earn up to 700 Award Miles per car rental, and are TAKE A BREAK WITH KLM’S PARTNER HOTELS
eligible for a free upgrade. Holland Herald
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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
3
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
4
850
3,600
65,300
129
33.60
Boeing 737-400/300
35.80
10
800
3,600
28.88
10
800
2,850
28.88
62,800
147
36.45
56,900
127
33.40
EMBRAER 190
5
850
45,700
100
4,500
Fokker 100/70
12
740
2,400
28.08
24
743
2,400
28.08
44,400
103
35.53
38,000
80
30.91
28.72
36.25
Fokker 50
KEY
SCALE: 1 CM = 6.3 M
NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT
10 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)
29
Fleet data information valid at magazine publication date
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WESTERGASFABRIEK
KLM MAPS AMSTERDAM
CENTRAL STATION
VVV AMSTERDAM TOURIST OFFICE ANNE FRANK HOUSE BEURS VAN BERLAGE WESTERKERK
NEMO MUSEUM
VAN PAMPUS THE NIEUWE KERK NIEUWMARKT MARITIME MUSEUM
DIAMOND CENTER GASSAN DIAMONDS AMSTERDAM HISTORICAL MUSEUM
ZUIDERKERK
REMBRANDT HOUSE WATERLOOPLEIN
FLOWER MARKET
HORTUS BOTANICUS
OPERA HOUSE
WATERLOOPLEIN JEWISH HISTORICAL MUSEUM
ARTIS
HERMITAGE AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG FOAM
KEY
MAGERE BRUG CARRÉ THEATRE WEESPERSTRAAT
TRAMLINE RAILWAY
RIJKSMUSEUM
RED LIGHT DISTRICT
VAN GOGH MUSEUM
MUSEUM DISTRICT JORDAAN HEINEKEN EXPERIENCE
CONCERTGEBOUW
ALBERT CUYP MARKET
IMPORTANT BUILDING WIBAUTSTRAAT
RAILWAY STATION METRO STATION ZOO GENERAL ATTRACTION MUSEUM CHURCH THEATRE MARKET TOURIST OFFICE
REVERSO SQUADRA CHRONOGRAPH GMT www.jaeger-lecoultre.com
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KLM PARTNERS
Our partners, your benefits AIR FRANCE KLM, Europe’s largest
Hertz. Level Miles count towards a
Together with our new US joint venture
airline group, is a member of
higher membership tier, each offering
partner, Delta Air Lines, we guarantee you
SkyTeam, an alliance of 10 airlines and 3 associate airlines. This offers
different benefits such as access to airport
a perfectly integrated network and
lounges and extra baggage allowance.
superior customer service.
you a variety of benefits such as: 905 global 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
KLM and its main partners Founded: 1933 / Home base: Paris Fleet size: 427** / Passengers: 52 million WWW.AIRFRANCE.COM ** including Régional, Britair, Cityjet and VLM Airlines
Founded: 1928 / Home base: Atlanta Fleet size: 1,015 / Passengers: 170 million WWW.DELTA.COM Founded: 1919 / Home base: Amsterdam Fleet size: 210* / Passengers: 22 million WWW.KLM.COM * including KLM Cityhopper, Martinair and transavia.com
Other KLM partners Combined code-share and Flying Blue partners
Flying Blue partners
Code-share partners
You can earn and/or spend Miles with all SkyTeam alliance members and KLM’s Flying Blue partners in Flying Blue, AIR FRANCE KLM’s loyalty program. For detailed information visit www.klm.com or www.airfrance.com. A code-share partner means that even though you have booked a KLM flight number, you may find yourself travelling on a service operated by that partner.
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Amsterdam / Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands B34 B36
B30 B32
B26 B28
B22 B24
B18 B20 B16
B14
4
Gates B B35
B31
B27
B17
B23
M7
B15
M6
B13
H7
M5 C14 C16
Gates C
C12
to C21 - C26
C10
C8
C15 - C18 C13
C7
C9 C11
C6
C4
4
Gates M 4
D10 D66
2
D3 D5 D59 D7 D61 D63
1
12
3
Lounge 2
Holland Boulevard
E2
D43 D73
G3 G5
3
Schiphol World Avenue
F2
Lounge T8 3
G7 G9
E4
G6 G8
F3
F4
T6
Gates G
F5
3
E3
F7 F6
E6
E5
F9
Gates F E8
7
E9
E18
E17 E20
Gates E
F8
E7
Transfer desk Self-service transfer
3
G2
G4
1
D41 D71
G11-16
2
E15
T
H2
6 Lounge 3 4 T9
T5 T4
Gates H
H4 H3
H1
3
8
3
Gates D
Gates B-C, D 59-87, M
H5
4
M1
Schiphol Plaza
D2 D4 D60 D8 D62 D64
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
M4 M3
T3 T2
C5
D14 D12 D68
H6
M2
Lounge 1 D16 D18 D22 D24 5 D26 D21 D28 D23 D25 D27 D29 D31
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 B1 - B8
E22
Top Level Second floor
E24
KLM Crown Lounge
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
KLM Crown Lounge
25
Gates D KLM Crown Lounge
52
Paris / Charles De Gaulle Airport Terminal 2, France TERMINAL 2E TERMINAL 2C
TERMINAL 2A
C86-C87 C84-C85 C82-C83 C88-C89
C80-C81
T
C90-C91
A48-A49 A46-A47 A44-A45 A42-A43
A50-A51
T
T
E51 E76
1
5
3
4
4
5
TERMINAL 2E GATES E51 TO E76
A40-A41
1
T
1
5
1
5
F41-F43
T
F56
T
F54-F55
F2
TERMINAL 2G GATES G21 TO G40
F21-F25 F36
F44-F45
F35
F46
F34
F47
F53
F48 F52 F49 F51
T
F26
F1
F27
Thalys/RER/TGV Railway station
4
3
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
TERMINAL 2F Schengen
1 4
T
TERMINAL 2D
F29 F32 F31
TERMINAL 2B
F30
F50
Delta, Northwest Airlines, AeroMexico and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2E.
KLM and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2F, Gates F21 to F36. Air France flights arrive at / depart from Terminals 2C, 2D, 2E and 2F. Passport control / Security check
KEY A1 Check-in Self-Service Check-in
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Gate Numbers Baggage Claim
4
Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)
T
Continental flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2A. Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2D.
Self-service transfer
Landside connection shuttle to/from Terminal 2G
Transfer desk
Transfer by shuttle 1 outside Customs Area
Air France Lounge Transfer by train
1
Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area, only between 7:30am and 4:15pm
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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
Satellite B serves arrivals at / departures from all non-Schengen countries. Airlines on this pier are Delta and Continental.
5 5
10
5
VIP Lounge 5
5
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. VIP Lounge
5 10
TERMINAL A 5
TERMINAL C
5 5
TERMINAL B
Satellite
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Minneapolis / Saint Paul International Airport, USA
B1 B3 B5 B7 B9 B11 B13 B15
LINDBERGH TERMINAL B Concourse D Concourse
D4
B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 B12 B14 B16
C Concourse D5
D3 D2 D1
C5 D6
C1
C3
C4
C2
C7 C6
C8
C9
C10
C11
C14 C13 C12
C22 C15 C17 C19 C21 C24 C26 C20 C16 C18 C23 C25 C27
A Concourse A1
A5
A3 A4
A2
A7 A6
A9 A8
A11 A13 A10 A12 A14
E4 E9 E5 E3
E7
E1
E Concourse (Lower level) F Concourse F5 F9
WorldClub Facility
F1 F3
F7
F11 F13 F15 F16 F14
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.
F2 F6 F10
G22 G21
F4
F8
G9
G1
G10
F12 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 26A
TERMINAL C
20
A2 26B
28
101
27
70
TERMINAL B
102 104A 104B 106 108A 110A 108B 110B112A 112B 114A 103A 114B 103B 105 107A 107B 109 111 115A 113A 115B 113B
72
71
90
73
91
A3
93 80
82
B1
B3
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84
B2
94
96 98
75
78
92
74
85 87
95
97 99
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 WorldClub Facility
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Atlanta / Hartsfield-Jackson Intercontinental Airport, USA
B36
NORTH
D38
E34 E36 E35
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
D29
A26
A25
B26
B25
C26
C25
D30 D28
D27
A24
A23
B24
B23
C24
D26
D25
A22
A21
B22
B21
C20
T9
A20
A19
B20
B19
C18A
C17
D24
D23
T8
A18
A17
B18
B17
C18
C15A
D22
D21
A15
B16
B15
C16
C15
T7
A16
D16
D15
A14
A13
B14
B13
C14
C11
D14
D13
D12
D11
D10
D9
D8
D7
T12 T11 T10
T6
A12
T5 T4 T3
SOUTH
C35
T15
T13
TERMINAL T
C36
A11
B12
B11
C23 C21
C9
C12
C7A
A10
A9
B10
B9
C10
C7
A8
A7
B8
B7
C8A
C5
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.
A6
A5
B6
B5
C8
C3
D6
D5
T2
A4
A3
B4
B3
C6
C2
D4
D3
T1
A2
A1
B2
B1
C4
C1
D2
D1
E33 E32
E31
E30
E31A E29
E28
E27
E26
E14 E16 E18
E12
E15 E17
E10
Crown Rooms (Delta Airlines)
E11
E8
Presidents Club
E9
E6
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 A14
A15
A12
A11
A10 A1
A2
TERMINAL B North Concourse B80
A8
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
C16
B86 B85A B77 B77A
B81 A9 B81A
TERMINAL C North Concourse
B76 B76A
C21
B85
B87
C15 C22
B84A B84B B84C
B88
B83 B83A
A7
C14 C26
C25
C24
C30
C31
C32
C23
D1
D2
D4 D3 D4A
C43
C44
C45
D6 D6A
D5
D7
D8
D9
D10
T
D11 D12
C27
B67
B68
B72
B69
B71A B70
B71
B60
B64
B61
B63 B62 B62A
E24
C29 C33 C34 C42 C35 C41 C36
TERMINAL A South Concourse
TERMINAL B South Concourse
TERMINAL C C37 South Concourse C38 C39
C40
E10A E10B
E1
E11
E12
E14
E23
E2
E9
E15A-E15B
E3
E8
E16
E21
E7A-E7B
E17
E20A-E20B
E4A-E4B
TERMINAL E E18A South Concourse
E22
E6
E5A E5B
E18B
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B20 B18 B16 B12 B10 B8
B6
B4
C2
B2
C4
KLM, Air France and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Concourse A.
C6 C8 C10 C12 C14 C16 C18 C20 C22 C24 C26 C28 C30 C32 C34 C36 C38 C40
McNAMARA TERMINAL
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
Delta, Continental and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Concourse B and C.
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
A75 A3
A5
A7
A9
A11
A15
A17
A19
A23
A21
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
WorldClub Facility
A73
Concourse A north
KEY A1 Gate Numbers
Check-in Self-Service Check-in Passport control / Security check
T
Transfer by shuttle bus
Transfer desk
Transfer by train
Baggage Claim
Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)
4
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.
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D88
D91
D93
D95
D97 D99
T
D86
D98 C84
C82
D92
D94
D96
E80
WorldClub Facility
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B73
B72
Concourse A B71
T
E60
A61
A62
A63
58
A64
57 56
14 15
Satellite 1
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55
11A 11B
54 51
16
17
18
22
21
T
Satellite 2
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31
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36
35
37
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42
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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, keeping your toes on the floor, stretch 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 maintained and designed
Stimulate your circulation by walking
Don’t eat too heavily the night before
to withstand all sorts of turbulence
around in the cabin and stretching
you leave, or drink too much coffee or
Try to relax – breathe in deeply through
Avoid sitting with your legs crossed
alcohol
your nose, hold for three seconds and
as this restricts circulation
Eat protein-rich meals at times that
exhale slowly
Taking your shoes off might be
are normal for your new time zone
KLM partner, VALK Foundation, can offer
more comfortable
At your destination, take light exercise,
support to people with a fear of flying. Visit
Drink plenty of water and not too
such as a walk
www.valk.org or call +31 71 5273733
much alcohol, tea or coffee
Spend at least 30 minutes in daylight
HOUSE RULES All
electronic devices must
The only electronic devices which
during the flight
Drinks are served
one at a time
to
be turned off completely whilst
may be used
walking to/from the aircraft, and
and ground stop are:
passengers occupying
• Those with a ‘flight mode’ or ‘flight
their assigned seats.
during take-off, approach and landing. Mobile phones
safe’ setting. This must be activated before the aircraft doors are closed. • Laptops, if the WLAN/
may be used on board
WiFi is turned off.
the aircraft as long as
• Electronic games,
the aircraft doors are
MP3, DVD and
open (subject to local
CD players.
regulations).
For safety reasons, the purser may close the bar. Passengers are not permitted to drink alcoholic beverages brought on board with them.
Smoking on KLM flights 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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per passenger
Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino and Switzerland. For further information visit http://europa.eu.int.
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