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Kaleidoscopes were first made by the ancient Greeks but Sir David Brewster officially patented the idea in 1817. His invention was initially used for conducting light polarisation experiments, but they quickly took off as toys. The word itself is made up of three ancient Greek words: kalos (beautiful), eidos (form) and scopos (watcher). Other beautiful things in this issue include Burton cars, Norwegian fjords and photographs from KLM passengers.

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Vrooooom!

Scott Roane goes for a spin in a Burton kit car and talks to the brothers behind the company about the secret of their success

44 Hot shots The winner of this year’s KLM/Holland Herald Photo competition. We also bring you some of the judges’ favourite images from the thousands of entries

Visual treats

Nordic adventures

Dutch artist M.C. Escher created complex

Norway’s west coast is packed full of

images that were way ahead of his

natural wonders. Whether it’s a relaxing

time. Ken Wilkie uncovers the man

break you’re looking for or some extreme

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sports action, this is the place to go to

12 Facts and figures Bite-sized info

14 In the picture Horsing around and tribal minds

28 The style creators Dutch fashion’s top of the crop

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Updates What’s on in The Netherlands

Touchdowns The best city guides

Facial fitness A non-surgical facelift?

50 Gadgets The coolest gear around

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■ Surprise a loved-one with a gift from the Rijksmuseum Gift Shop (Holland Boulevard)

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A psychologist at York University, UK, tested the

fashion maxim that wearing horizontal stripes makes you look fatter. After asking women to wear dresses with horizontal stripes as well as vertical stripes, he found that those wearing vertical stripes were perceived as being 6% wider than those wearing horizontal stripes.

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At the height of Charlie Chaplin’s fame, Chaplin lookalike contests were all the rage in the USA. Legend has it that Chaplin himself took part in one, but only came third, although other versions of the story claim he did not even make it to the finals.

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Last year, scientists discovered thousands of new species around the world. The list of new finds includes: a pea-sized Indonesian sea horse; bacteria living in hairspray; and the world’s longestt insect. Discovered in Borneo, it measures around 57 centimetres and looks like a twig.

18TH-CENTURY CRAZE Appearance was everything at the court of Louis XIV. Courtesanss used saffron and flower pollen to highlight their features and aristocrats whitened their faces and accentuated their veins with blue make-up. Fake beauty spots called mouches, meaning ‘flies’,, were also all the rage. Made of silk or velvet, they were originally used to hide smallpox scars.

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Forget about chat-up lines, your romantic success is determined long before you open your mouth. Psychologists at Florida State University found that it only takes half a second to decide if you find someone attractive. We tend to linger on good looks for half a second longer. Other research indicates that looks are actually negligible in

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homework.

#1 ugliest The world’s ugliest eyesore is Boston City Hall, according to the Virtual Tourist website. Designed in 1962, its concrete façade is typical of the ‘brutalist’ architectural style. Montparnasse Tower in Paris came in second place. It’s France’s tallest skyscraper and fans argue that views from the top, 59th floor are unparalleled.

100 X BETTER-LOOKING Four hundred years after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei built his first telescope, plans are under way for the biggest optical infra-red telescope, the E-ELT. With a 42-metre-diameter mirror and more mirror glass than the rest of the planet’s telescopes put together, this giant eye will be 100 times more sensitive than its current counterparts. Costs are estimated at €1 billion.

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Mane attraction Hair stylist Sascha Breuer is more used to tousling the pampered tresses of the likes of Helena Bonham-Carter, Eva Herzigova and Elle Macpherson. But when the German, now based in New York and London, pitched up at London’s Kempton Park Racecourse, he was presented with two fillies, Moral (chestnut) and Robyn (white). “Why the long face?” he may have thought, and soon set about making them feel fabulous. The crimping and primping is to promote the track’s Ladies’ Day on Saturday September 5. www.kempton.co.uk

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Tribal vision These women are part of the nomadic Turkana tribe who inhabit the north-west region of Kenya. It’s one Africa’s harshest environment and the Turkana have lived on the unforgiving land for centuries by hearding their livestock across the plains in search of food and water. Camels, cows and goats are the favoured animals, along with some donkeys and sheep. The women’s colourful beads indicate their wealth, marital status and social standing.

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340,000 THE TURKANA POPULATION 40 DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS IN KENYA

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model A passion i for f design d i and classic motoring has led to a successful business for two Dut Dutch brothers WORDS: SCOTT ROANE

When you slide yourself in behind the wheel of a Burton kit car, you immediately get the feeling that you have been transported to another era.

While sitting on the springy front bench seat, faced with dials and switches that you must twist, press or pull to get the car started, you soon start to wonder if the modern cars we drive, with all their hi-tech gadgetry, can truly be called progress. When you drag the gear lever into first and bring the revs up, you’re instantly taken back to the glory days of driving, the 1950s, when people actually went ‘motoring’ for motoring’s sake.

The company that makes these nostalgic kit cars was started ten years ago by brothers Iwan and Dimitri Göbel, but but their passion for cars developed developed ve ve many years earlier.

As boy, As a b oyy, Dimitri, the design side o of duo, of tthe he d uo, collected old car parts and knocked knoc kn ocke ked and and hammered them into go-kart go-kkar go-k go art sstyle tyl yle racers, while Iwan’s entrepreneurial en ntr trep tre epreneu neurial flair started to shine ne through thro thro th oug ugh at at a young age when he started selling sell se llin llin ng spare spare parts from his father’s garage. sp

These days, they live and breathe the Burton Burto car brand from their headquarters in the historic Dutch town of Zutphen.

The T idea of kit cars is nothing new – they first became popular in the USA at the turn of o the 20th century. However, they really began to take off in the 1950s before the advent of rustproofing. A car’s ad components often outlived its bodywork comp and chassis, and a booming business was c born supplying replacements for these.

Today, Today kit cars often take the engine and chassis chass from a donor vehicle. In the case of the Burton, this is the iconic Citroën 2CV, B which was manufactured from 1949 until 1990, and chosen by the Göbel brothers because becau of the hundreds of thousands still to be found in Europe and because of its simple, simpl reliable mechanics.

Without the backing of any kind of W engineering department, like you would engin normally find in large car companies, the norm brothers broth shaped new components out of wood. wood Dimitri tells of a neighbour who dropped dropp in as he was sawing a wooden prototype fender off the car. The proto neighbour couldn’t quite grasp that it was neigh made of wood. “When I think back to the first five years working on the car, all that I can remember is hours of sanding re prototype parts. People seem to think we proto have special machines which can

Getting started Kit cars are the automotive equivalent of flat-pack furniture. You receive a box of parts and an instruction manual or DVD, with step-by-step instructions. Follow these closely and you’ll end up with a car that has already been tested and approved for road use. Major mechanical parts such as the engine, gears and chassis (the skeleton that supports the vehicle’s bodywork) are normally taken from a donor vehicle.

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“The kit car is nothing new – the first ones were sold in the USA at the turn of the 20th century” churn out new pieces, but it often starts with a simple image in my head that I then make out of whatever material I can find.”

Dimitri wanted the proportions of a 1920s racing car, such as a Bugatti, where the front wheels protrude beyond the bonnet. Unfortunately, using the existing 2CV chassis didn’t allow this, so he worked with enlarged wheel arches to give the optical illusion that the wheels are further forward than they actually are.

If you’re worried about your carbon footprint, kit cars using donor parts from old cars are quite environmentally friendly. For Burton, once the chassis and engine are removed from the donor Citroën 2CV, 95% of the remaining parts are sold via their spare parts business.

With over 30% of the entire energy that a car uses during its lifetime being used in the manufacturing process, a Burton

already starts its life with an eco-friendly kick. And despite using an older engine, it’s lightweight with great aerodynamics, which means that the car actually achieves an A class energy rating – some modern hybrids still only achieve an F rating. And for those of us who still can’t shake off the environmental guilt trip caused by an afternoon of leisurely cruising around the countryside, the Burton brothers are working hard on producing what they call an “honest all-electric version” of the vehicle in the very near future.

Traditionalists might believe that classic motoring needs the hum of an engine and the deep throb of an exhaust, but the Göbel brothers believe an electric motor concealed by the classic lines of the Burton will offer a unique experience, which Iwan likens to sailing: “It will be silent, clean motoring that allows you to glide through nature absorbing the sounds of the birds and the rustle of the leaves in the trees.”

If you haven’t got the 160 hours needed to build the car yourself, they’re also available ready for the road, starting at just €11,000. The only work you’ll have to do involves choosing from the thousands of options available – colours, windscreens, wheels and materials. This ensures no two Burtons are exactly the same. But if you’re not quite ready to commit your time and money, you can also just rent one for the day. www.burtoncar.com

ABOVE LEFT: Brothers Iwan and Dimitri with their firstever Burton creation ABOVE RIGHT AND RIGHT: The range of dials and switches on the dashboard will soon have you in the mood for some classic motoring

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An artist’s view

Day and Night (1938); woodcut printed from two blocks

M.C. Escher repealed the laws of perception to make your eyes say yes and your mind say no.

Ken Wilkie investigates the man and his mission

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In Maurits Escher’s weird world, three-dimensional reality is turned upside down.

Two people can move side by side in the same direction, yet one is going downstairs and the other upstairs. An atheist, he drew monks endlessly climbing a staircase that chases its own tail and thus never ends. Impossible? Look at his watermill that, at first glance, looks plausible but a second look reveals it is incompatible with all physical, geometric and gravitational laws.

Although Escher looked upon himself as neither an artist nor a scientist – “All artists are fakes,” he once claimed – he was in fact a unique mixture of both. Without realising the scientific significance of what he was doing, his craft illustrated abstract notions that scientists and mathematicians had been puzzling over for years.

The appeal of Escher’s work is unprecedented in its diversity. He was a conservative gentleman with a tidy beard and workmanlike hands, and he created his art from his studio overlooking a sleepy garden in the suburb of Baarn, The Netherlands. Escher just could not understand why rock groups all over the world were plastering their albums with his prints and why his work appealed equally to psychedelics, crystallographers, engineers, composers, mathematicians and children. It baffled him. But he was never side-tracked.

Most art critics found his work “too cerebral to be real art”. But the aloof Escher couldn’t care less about critics. He lived in a visual world beyond their reach. He was a print maker in the old sense. With his bone spoon (an ancient Japanese method), he created, ran off and sold his own editions, mostly woodcuts, without middlemen. His instruments – gouges and chisels – were hung tidily together in a cupboard. He placed his right shoulder to the light to engrave and draw, as he was a left-handed craftsman and a right-handed writer.

That’s impossible Sir Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, caught his first glimpse of Escher in the 1950s.

“I was attending a congress in Amsterdam and went along to see an exhibition of Escher’s work. I‘d never seen anything like it,” he says. “When I got back to England, I came up with an impossible triangle, which can exist in three parts but not as a whole. My thoughts on the subject were published in the British Journal Regular Division of the Plane Drawing #21 (1938); ink and pencil watercolour

of Psychology, crediting Escher, of course. I drew the triangle for fun and to confuse, but it illustrates an important point – non-integrability.” Escher used the triangle idea three times in constructing Waterfall and for the staircase in Ascending and Descending. It was a paradox in itself that Escher said he didn’t understand mathematical thinking. “It doesn’t surprise me that Escher was bad at maths at school. Teaching of maths in many cases doesn’t reveal a person’s latent ability. Einstein was very bad at maths too.”

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Virtual Escher When Escher was shown examples of early computer animation back in 1964, 4, he said that he felt he had been born before his time. Today, Eschers can be found on over 60,000 websites and his is work is a source of inspiration for a new ew generation of computer graphic artists s who are digitally exploring the complex ex world he created. Foremost among them em is Dennis Ketelaars. “When I first saw Escher’s Tetrahedral Planetoid (a woodcut made in 1954), I was drawn to o recreate it on my computer, which took k me four months,” he says. The resulting g 3-D Navigator won Ketelaars the Miglia a Graphic Art Award in Cannes. “Had Escher her been living today, he would almost certainly have been working his ideas out digitally,” says Ketelaars. The impossible is still there to explore.

Development II (1939); woodcut in brown, brown grey-green and black and printed from three blocks

Seventy-three when he died, Escher was born in 1898 into an affluent family in Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland. His father was a civil engineer. As a boy, he loved to draw and was encouraged by a teacher to make linoleum cuts. In his youth he was strictly a representational artist, and travelling through Italy in 1922, he became fascinated by the geometric structures found in nature and architecture.

In Ravello he met his future wife, Jetta Umiker, daughter of a silk manufacturer who had escaped from Russia to Switzerland during the revolution of 1917. After their marriage in 1924, the couple settled in Rome, where they stayed until 1935. During these 11 years, Escher travelled throughout Italy, visiting hill villages, like Castrovalva in the Abruzzi, and southern coastal villages, like Positano and Atrani on the coast of Amalfi. There, and in Sicily and Corsica, Escher recorded impressions that he would later transform into prints during the winter at his home in Rome.

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The rise of fascism in the 1930s prompted the Escher family to return to The Netherlands, which they did in 1941. En route, he visited the Alhambra fortress in Granada, Spain. It was here that an obsession began to take hold of him. The Moors’ interlocking designs struck chords in Escher’s geometricallysensitive brain. He began copying mosaics from the walls and floors. He saw that these designs could, in principal, continue to infinity. Escher took up the theme and carried it further, using animals, plants and people. He drifted into an inscrutable world of his own creation, deserting all the known laws of perspective.

From 1941 until his death in 1972, Escher lived quietly with his wife and two sons in Baarn. He no longer drew the world around him but instead brought to life the intriguing and often macabre inventions of his mind.

As Escher retreated, or advanced, further into himself, his work became more and more complex. For instance,

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All M.C. Escher Works © 2009 The M.C. Escher Company – The Netherlands. All rights reserved. www.mcescher.com

Mick and Maurits Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones was one of Maurits Escher’s biggest fans. But the feeling wasn’t mutual. On New Year’s Day, 1969, a lengthy correspondence began between Jagger, from the Stones’ office in London and Escher in Baarn. Jagger wanted to use an Escher work for the cover of an upcoming Stones’ LP. The letter was lengthy, very complimentary to Escher and polite. Jagger said he found Escher’s work “incredible”. “…Would you please consider either designing a ‘picture’ for it …the optical illusion idea very much appeals to me... You might even like to do a long one like Metamorphosis, which we could then reproduce as a folding-out sleeve… Naturally, both you and your publishers would get full credits on the sleeve, and we could negotiate a fee on hearing of your decision to do it…”

It was signed: Above: Tetrahedral Planetoid (1954); woodcut printed from two blocks Below and throughout the feature: Metamorphosis III (1967-1968); woodcut

“Yours very sincerely, Mick Jagger, for Rolling Stones Ltd.” The answer from Escher, whose

in Day and Night, birds fly in opposite directions, over the same Dutch village – one flock into day and the other into night, creating an effect as though time were merging at opposite ends of the print. “What I give form to in daylight is only 1% of what I’ve seen in darkness,” he once said.

musical taste was strictly

In his lifetime, Escher made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and engravings and more than 2,000 drawings and sketches. A fair sample of his work and memorabilia can be seen at a permanent exhibition, ‘Escher in the Palace’, housed in the former residence of Queen Beatrix’s great-grandmother, Queen Emma, Lange Voorhout 74, The Hague. Visit www.mcescher.com for more information, plus a webshop with details of Escher products and prints.

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classical, was brief and negative. He said he didn’t have the time to co-operate with anyone who addressed him as “Dear Maurits”.

Peter Swales at The Rolling Stones’ office saying: “Please tell Mr Jagger I am not Maurits to him, but Very sincerely, M.C. Escher.”

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The style files These Dutch fashion figures will help you get the look you want.

From couture classics to street chic, they have got it covered WORDS: RUTH LINDSAY PHOTOS: THIJS WOLZAK

Viktor & Rolf The fashion designers Whether they are designing a range of clothes for high-street chain H&M, or creating extravagant costumes for a German opera production, one thing is certain: the global fashion superstars Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren are always leaps and bounds ahead when it comes style.

According to the dynamic duo, they don’t actually work as a team but as one designer: “We are one-minded. We don’t divide our work, we like people to think of us as one.” It goes some way to explaining their trademark similar looks, which have been an important part of their image since their early days at the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design. But with so many projects on the go at any one time, what is their favourite part of the creative process?

“It has to be the light bulb moment, which is the time at the beginning of something when you just have a blank page. It all starts with just one great idea, and the rest is all about realising the idea and making it happen.” V&R’s latest creation is a new perfume, Eau Mega, which began with the name and took them three years to develop.

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Leyp The sneaker freaks From their Rottterdam studio, project manager Fernon Lagenhorst, illustrator Darrin Umboh and graphic designer Nick Kailola are the Leyp Creative Collective. Leyp started humbly with a sneaker customising website in 2004, but since then the business has expanded, and the three friends now run a full design studio. Their work incorporates anything from creating T-shirts, custom kicks, websites, flyers and illustration work. Nick says: “I became involved in sneaker customising as it gave me an outlet to combine the things I like: sneakers, design and arts and crafts. In Dutch we call that knutselen. It also gave me a unique product, and this aspect made it fit perfectly into what modern society is looking for: personalised, individual products.” Leyp customise sneakers especially for their clients, but their funky creations can also be bought off the shelf. Either way, with their designs, you’ll always have something original on your feet. ww.leyp.com

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Marlies Dekkers The underwear designer With stores in cities such as Paris, Cologne, Bangkok and throughout The Netherlands, Marlies Dekkers’ Undressed label is at the cuttingedge of underwear design. Her creations are not the typical romantic ribbon and lace, but are made up of lines, layers and subtle cut-outs in unexpected places. “A lot of lingerie these days is designed from a man’s point of view, and is aimed at what he finds attractive and sexy. I design from a feminine point of view. My dream has always been to design lingerie in which women can feel beautiful and seductive, but at the same time powerful and independent.” She adds: “When it comes to looks, I believe we should all ‘dare to be’. Dare to be yourself, dare to explore, dare to dream. My whole company follows this philosophy and it is a great pleasure to see how it pays off.” www.marliesdekkers.nl

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Fokke de Jong The suit supplier Since the first Suitsupply store opened in the Schiphol area in the year 2000, entrepreneur Fokke de Jong’s business has been a great success. Suitsupply now has 30 stores, including two in London, one of which is on the corner of Savile Row, a street famous for its men’s bespoke tailoring and for being a notoriously difficult place to set up shop. Fokke explains his secret: “Our customers are quality conscious. They know about fit and styling and are quite often willing to make interesting choices instead of going for the obvious. At Suitsupply we control everything, from manufacturing to running the stores. We only use the best Italian fabrics – we have 600 to choose from – and we use traditional tailoring to make the perfect suit, all for a much better price than you would pay in normal high-end stores.” www.suitsupply.com

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Hester van Eeghen The leather designer Hester van Eeghen fell in love with leather after discovering a shop in Amsterdam’s red-light district that sold it by the ounce. “I was studying Dutch literature and law at the time, but I broke my foot and was wheelchair-bound, so I started designing handbags as it was something I could do without moving around too much.” She opened her first handbag store in Amsterdam in 1987; this was followed by a shoe store in 2001.

Hester is inspired by a number of things: “I like architecture, particularly Bauhaus, and painters, such as Sonia Delaunay whose colours I love, but I’m also inspired by the many objects I collect from antique markets during my travels.” Hester says: “The looks for this season are daring colours like pink and yellow, along with simplicity in shape.” www.hestervaneeghen.com

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TRAVEL NORWAY

The Sognefjord ferry coasting through the narrow mountains of the Nærøyfjord, which is a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Fjord focus Norway’s western fjords feature some of the world’s most spectacular views, with every peak battling to offer a more startling panorama WORDS: MATT FARQUHARSON PHOTOS: EIVIND SENNESET

An axe-wielding 75-year-old has brought 14 people to a halt halfway up a blue glacier. “Photo!” she shouts, as she plants her pick in the ice. She wobbles on her crampons, steadies herself, and snaps away. Then she makes a sound like a little girl who has just been given a pony. It’s a kind of squealed “ooh” that rises in pitch for several seconds and ends in a coquettish giggle, accompanied by a rapid hand clap. The rest of the group, all tied together with a line of rope and none less

than 20 years her junior, know the scene will be repeated soon, just as it has been all the way up. But any excuse to look around is welcomed. Steep mountains rear up on either side and, down below, the ice yields to a lake of luminous greens and blues.

This is the Nigardsbreen glacier in Jostedal National Park, western Norway, where a 50-metre deep, 2,000-year-old ice wave tumbles down a mountain. From a distance it has a bluegrey hue, but the brilliance of its colours and crevices is best LOOKS Holland Herald

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TRAVEL NORWAY Siri Bente Haugen is a guide at the Nigardsbreen glacier OPPOSITE PAGE: A cable car up Mount Hanguren provides an easy entry to the skies above the town of Voss for many extreme sport enthusiasts

“From day to day, glaciers change a little bit, so next weekend I will see something new”

experienced up close. Wherever there is a break in the top layer of ice, a brilliant iridescent blue shines through.

“It’s quite special, the ice,” says Siri Bente Haugen, a diminutive glacier guide with a relentless positivity in her face.

“And it’s beautiful, seriously beautiful.” She comes from a town 20 minutes away, and when she works she makes the two-hour hike to the top twice a day. “From day to day, glaciers change a little bit,” she says, “so next weekend I will see something new – maybe a new tunnel or a new crack.”

Down at the bottom, Friegard, the 75-year-old happy snapper explains her excitement in stuttering English. “I came from Germany to see this – I wanted to see it while I still could.

It’s just like it was in my head.” Her cheeks are flushed, but she has the same childlike grin and smiling eyes that everyone who comes off the ice seems to have. It’s a look that appears permanently etched in the faces of those who work on the glacier.

A 40-minute drive away is Marifjøra, where hotel owner Bård Huseby explains why his part of the world is so special.

“Last year,” he says, “DN [a Norwegian newspaper] said this was the best place to live. Norway regularly comes top of lists of the best countries to live in, so…” A contented smile explains the rest. He is on the wooden veranda of his hotel, which borders the waters of the Sognefjord, and a sheer mountain face laced with stringy white waterfalls. It’s hard to disagree with him.

Filmmakers call it ‘the magic hour’, though it only tends to last about 40 minutes. It is that period at the end of the day when the sun darkens and envelops the world in a rich, golden glow. Careful use of it often leads to cinematography Oscars.

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hour’ lasts all evening. The sun doesn’t really set, but dips just below the horizon at midnight for a quick peek at Antarctica.

And in the hours before it goes, everything is washed in a golden light before fi nally shifting to a bright orange, then a dark copper and fi nishing with a blast of candyfloss pink. This is a part of the planet that possibly looks more wonderful than anywhere else and it even comes with a carefully considered colour scheme.

Here, ‘sightseeing’ is really all that can be done. It doesn’t involve ruins or castles or galleries, but is an activity to be taken literally – every peak climbed or corner turned reveals a new feast for the eyes. The visual treats begin in the city of Bergen. Look out from the central square and the red roofs and white walls of traditional wooden homes push towering pines back up imperious mountains. A stroll in the steep and narrow streets around the Mariakirken shows chocolate-box homes clinging together on unlikely perches. But perhaps the best views in the city are enclosed, down in Bryggen, the town’s photogenic port and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some of the wooden houses date back to the 15th century, and they slump against each other like drunks at a bar. Wherever an alley runs between them, the roofs lean in and almost meet overhead.

It’s like walking through a carefully constructed, unlit bonfire.

Tourists tiptoe around, worried that a wild swing of the camera might knock a building over.

But Bergen has its peaks too, and for a complete panorama there is Flørien station, a funicular that climbs 320 metres at a 26° angle to a view over icy blue waters, surging green mountains, and the town itself. It’s best observed in the early evening, when the light is most golden.

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“Between April and October, 'the magic hour’ lasts all evening.

The sun doesn’t really set” Bryggen (it means 'The Wharf' in Norwegian) is a series of Hanseatic commercial buildings lining the eastern side of the fjord as you head into Bergen

Guiding lights The sheer mountains that rear up around most fjords mean that some places are only accessible to boats and goats.

To view fjord life up close, get yourself a fjord escort (not to be confused with a Ford Escort), and take to the water.

The Fjord Safari firm based in Flåm (www.fjordsafari.no) takes speedboats on three-hour tours that includes a stop at

Voss is another spot that is worth a visit. And the road there is painted with encouragement. ‘Come on!’ it says on one hairpin bend, ‘nearly there’ it cajoles on another. The steep climb up Skjervet presents the final challenge in a bicycle race from Bergen to Voss, which the very best can complete in four hours – about the same time as a leisurely drive with photo stops. Up here, even in the height of summer, snow lingers by the side of the road. It may be why Voss has become known for extreme sports – the terrain doesn’t allow you to do any other sort. Most of these involve throwing yourself down Nanguren, a mountain that rears up from Voss town.

“It takes five minutes to get up, and ten to get down,” says a Danish paraglider waiting for the rickety Hangursbanen cable car. “Two if you zigzag”, smiles his accomplice, who perches his cigarette in his mouth to motion closing the canopy and sharply dropping down. Their launch point is a flat spot next to the top of the cable car wire. It is silent but for the tinkle of sheep bells, the tweet of birds, and the careful unwrapping of canopies. In winter they ski down here, but in summer it’s mountain bikes, mountain boards (a kind of off-road skateboard) and paragliding.

the village of Undredal and goes past Viking burial sites, frolicking otters, tiny wooden villages, and, if you’re lucky, mountain eagles.

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They fan out their parachutes and run to the edge of the mountain. Just as it looks like they might plummet, they’re running on air, the canopy fi lls and they rise above us.

The curious can sign up for a tandem paraglide, while the

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Sight and sound Edvard Grieg was a tiny man who was big on views. The 1.6-metre composer loved the vantage point from his summer house outside Bergen. So much so that when he died he was buried in the cliff face below it, leaving him to ponder the view over Nordås Bay for all eternity. It is a scene that could inspire even the most tone-deaf to rustle up a concerto or two. And for those CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: One of three caves within the Lærdal tunnel, the world’s longest road tunnel at 24.5 kilometres; A king crab stall at the Bergen fish market; Boats in the Sognefjord seen from the small village of Marifjøra

that don’t feel inspired to compose on the spot, there are regular recitals in a small auditorium with a roof tiled with grass. Inside, the ivorytinklers do their bit in front of a grand window overlooking the water, sharing the view the great little man has forever. www.kunstmuseene.no LOOKS Holland Herald

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Visitors admiring the unique wooden structures that huddle together in Bergen

“You just hike into nature, and then you can camp anywhere you want” less adventurous can just take in the view before swinging back down in the cable car.

The Costa Luminosa is 16 decks and 92,000 tons of thought-free touring. It is a cruise ship that stands taller than all but the grandest buildings in Norway. But from Blåskavlen, 800 metres above the waters of the magnificent Songefjord, it looks like a Tic Tac in a bathtub. It will stop in Flåm for a few hours and disgorge its guests for a quick trip up the Flåm railway, and then leave again before sunset. This, reckons local brewery owner Evan Lewis, is a mistake. “The shame is that most tourists that see Flåm arrive on the train and have about half an hour to get on the boat, or vice versa. The only thing they get is ‘wow, beautiful mountains, now we have to go’.”

Voss native Ole Kristian Årmot agrees. “There are lots and lots of small villages around – places like that are really special, with lots of culture and views. There are no tourists, so

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if you’ve got a tent or a camper you can really find some peaceful places to chill out. You just hike into nature, and then you can camp anywhere you want.”

But the main attraction of Flåm remains its railway. This single-gauge line tackles one of the steepest inclines in the world, rearing up 866 metres of the most awe-inspiring scenery.

Windows steam and clear as passengers stare in open-mouthed wonder at the dramatic nature before them. A few moments from the top is the Kjosfossen waterfall, with its viewing platform drenched in a fine, fresh mist.

However, the grandest part of this journey is the descent.

Some walk the 22-kilometre track, and some cycle. Either way, it’s a gentle decline through meadows, waterfalls, rushing rivers and cooling forest, where you sip water from a stream if you’re thirsty and lay in wild flowers if you’re tired. In a country whose peaks demand to be scaled for their views, one of the best sights is to be found on the way down.

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Whey out Just outside Undredal, a village of 80 people and 500 goats, farmer Pascale Baudonnel is ushering her freshly milked stock to the field and explaining the village’s fight to continue selling unpasteurised products to the EU. “If you pasteurise, you cut the umbilical cord to the land,” she explains. “When you use milk unpasteurised, the cheese is a pastiche of the land.” Originally from France, Baudonnel has lived in Undredal for 30 years. She is one of three farmers here who combine their stock to produce Norwegian brown cheese. It is a product made from curd, rather than whey (which is used for most cheese), and sweetened with 10% cow cream. The result is a cheese with a hint of caramel.

Whatever the difficulties of the EU’s recent decision to try and ban unpasteurised cheeses, she feels blessed. “I think most people who are born here don’t see it like me,” she says. “They see the land as steep, cold, no sun – a hard life. But every day I think I am living in the most beautiful place in the world.”

The view from Vikafjellet (Vik Mountain) between Voss and the Sognefjord

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PHOTO COMPETITION

The winner KIRANGA VILLAGE, UGANDA “I am an artist and teacher and I had the opportunity to visit and live in Kiranga for a few weeks. Children in the village have no access to secondary education, but this photo was taken on the day of the opening of The Tabbitha National School, which is a community project. I thought the most lasting gift I could take was teaching aids, so most of my baggage was books and papers. The locals were hugely grateful and organised a big meeting to celebrate. Several hundred people were gathered under the trees in front of the school. The opening speeches had just begun when a torrent of rain began to fall, and everyone crowded into the classrooms for shelter where I took this photo. For me, it recalls the dignity, grace and love I received from the people of Kiranga Village.”

Laura Williams, United Kingdom

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PHOTO COMPETITION

MADRID, SPAIN “I took this shot at the Rock in Rio music festival, in Madrid. When I entered the ‘Rock’ city, it was a very hot day and people were searching everywhere for cool spots. I saw these two kids who were just happy in their own world, running from side to side through the water, and I thought it was a magic moment. It’s a colour photo but, with the silhouettes and the lighting, it’s as if it were taken in black and white.”

Paulo Amorim, Portugal

BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM “I was studying and living in England at the time I took this photo.

Very early one Saturday morning, I decided to go into the city to take photos, as the light is great at that time. I went to Birmingham by train and spent an hour walking around this building. This spacey and quite surreal image is actually the outside of the Bullring shopping centre. It is the roof of the Selfridges store and is one of my favourite buildings, as the modern architecture is really amazing.”

Sophie den Heijer, The Netherlands

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JUMEIRAH BEACH, DUBAI, UAE “I was on a business trip when I captured this shot. This picture is of four women, all in their 30s, and I think it perfectly illustrates the cultural diversity of the people who live and work in this remarkable city.”

Tony Peaker, United Kingdom

PATAGONIA, CHILE “This photograph captures the amazing landscape of the Laguna Larga Lake, which is situated in the Cuernos del Paine National Park. I spent ten days holidaying in the area, and on eight out of the ten days there was stormy weather. I initially thought this was bad luck, but then I realised how amazing it made the landscape look, so it turned out to be a good thing.”

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NANJING, CHINA “This shot was taken from the seventh-floor window of my hotel near the train and bus station in Nanjing, China. I really like the dynamic feeling that the colourful umbrellas and buses add to this otherwise very rainy day.”

Ben Paulides, The Netherlands

TOKYO, JAPAN “I was impressed by the design and structure of this Prada building in Tokyo. Because of all the glass, it has great colours and a real feeling of openness. It was starting to get dark when I saw the building, and the light was perfect. Then the salesmen came down the stairs, which really added some impact to the image.”

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DHAULAGIRI MOUNTAIN, NEPAL “When I heard my friends were organising a small expedition to Nepal, I jumped at the chance to join them. This shot was taken in the Dhaulagiri Japanese base camp. My friends were drinking tea and playing cards in the tent, but I went out into the freezing cold with my camera and tripod and captured this moment. I really like their silhouettes against the orange tent with the majestic mountain in the background.”

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OPEN MONUMENTENDAG September 12, 13 Historical monuments across The Netherlands are all open free of charge. www.openmonumentendag.nl

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The Dutch film industry showcases recent

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DNO September 29-October 6 De Nederlandse Opera perform Fromental Halévy’s La Juive, Michel van der Aa’s After Life and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

Het Muziektheater, Amstel 3; +31 20 6255455; Photo: Leonie Purchas

www.muziektheater.nl

EXHIBITIONS AT THE RUSSIAN COURT Until Jan 31, 2010 More than 1,800 treasures from the collection DAVID AND BRON, FROM THE SERIES ‘IN THE SHADOW OF THINGS’, 2007

of the State Hermitage in St Petersburg.

Hermitage Amsterdam, Amstel 51; +31 20 5308751; www.hermitage.nl

The complex relationships within families and the interplay of nature versus nurture are at the heart of the compelling work by Leonie Purchas, winner of this year’s KLM Paul Huf Award for young international photographers. The prize includes a solo exhibition at Amsterdam’s Foam gallery. For In The Shadow of Things, Purchas

RESTAURANT RESTAURANT MERKELBACH The large terrace is the pièce de résistance of this restaurant, which occupies the former coach house of a 17th-century manor house.

focuses her lens on her own family – throwing up themes of isolation, depression

Located in Frankendael Park, Merkelbach

and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Purchas’ work has appeared in Portfolio

opens daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine and Newsweek.

Middenweg 72, Frankendael Park; + 31 20

THE KLM PAUL HUF AWARD 2009, September 11 to October 25; Foam, Keizersgracht 609;

6650880; www.restaurantmerkelbach.nl

+31 20 5516500; www.foam.nl. KLM passengers will receive a ‘2 for 1’ discount on entry to the Foam gallery when they present their boarding pass, until October 25.

GIGS Paul Potts September 3, Carré Average White Band

EVENTS

Zaandam in this special 25th anniversary

September 4, Paradiso

THEATRE FESTIVAL September 3-13

edition which also features a night run.

A Flock of Seagulls September 9, Paradiso

This year’s Dutch theatre festival includes

Start: Prins Hendrikkade; www.damloop.nl

Klaus Shulze featuring Lisa Gerrard

PICNIC September 23-25 This inspiring

Chris de Burgh September 21,

four performances subtitled in English. www.tf.nl

September 20, Melkweg conference for the creative industry features

Heineken Music Hall

INTERNATIONAL GAUDEAMUS MUSIC

top-notch movers and shakers.

McFly September 21, Paradiso

WEEK September 7-12

Westergasfabriek, Pazzanistraat 41;

Starsailor September 28, Melkweg

Talented young composers from all over the

www.picnicnetwork.org

WEBSITES

world perform their works at different venues in the eastern docklands.

DE RODE LOPER September 26, 27

www.amsterdam.info

www.muziekweek.nl

A fun festival of art, music, fashion and

Useful tourist information

poetry taking place in the east and

www.dutchnews.nl

Watergraafsmeer district. For all ages.

Daily Dutch news in English

www.rodeloper.org

www.lastminuteticketshop.nl

AFRICA IN THE PICTURE September 9-14 Recent films from Africa and the African diaspora.

Half-price tickets to events

Het Ketelhuis, Pazzanistraat 4;

WOONBEURS September 26 to

www.specialbite.com

+31 20 6840112;

October 4

Cool and comprehensive restaurant reviews

www.africainthepicture.nl

A huge fair featuring the latest trends

www.underwateramsterdam.com

in home and interior design.

Events and info galore

DAM-TO-DAM RACE September 19, 20

RAI, Europaplein 22; +31 20 5491212;

65,000 runners race from Amsterdam to

www.woonbeurs.nl

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Africa in the Picture: Skin. Photo: Anthony Fabian, UK/South Africa, 2008. DNO: After Life. Photo: Hans van den Bogaard

A shadowy family

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SKY-HIGH ADVENTURES AWAIT YOU IN MANHATTAN

DON’T MISS

A Dutch touch A Dutch ship called the Halve Maen (Half Moon) arrived on the shores of what is now New York City 400 years ago.

From September 8-13, The NY400 Week will focus on Dutch arts, design and architecture as well as other areas of Dutch expertise with a series of great outdoor events, festivals, flotillas and exhibits in and around NYC’s Hudson River, Governor’s Island and the historic New Amsterdam district (Downtown Manhattan). www.ny400.org

SOAK UP THE STREET SCENES

Be a part of it New York feels like the centre of the known universe. Whether you’re planning on visiting for business, shopping, culture or other-worldly wining and dining, the Big Apple has it all.

September is a particularly great month to visit because of all of the NY400 events, celebrating 400 years of Dutch-American history.

WHAT TO SEE

Viewer’s delight

shopaholics. Those with a taste

last a week, Katz’s Deli is the

See the planet’s premier

for trinkets should get

place to go (www.katzdeli.com).

collection of all things arty and

themselves to the Hell’s Kitchen

modern at MoMA (www.moma.

Flea Market (www.hellskitchen

org). Find out what the huddled

fleamarket.com) and hunt out

masses went through between

some vintage goodies.

1892 and the early 1950s at the

HOW TO GET THERE

KLM operates four direct daily flights to JFK International and one direct daily flight to

Ellis Island Immigration

WHERE TO EAT

Newark Liberty Airport from

Museum (www.ellisisland.org) in

Dining treasures

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

the shadow of the Statue of

The whole world’s cuisine

Liberty (www.nps.gov). Eschew

is available in New York,

Tourist information

the Empire State for the 360°

from the finery of Gramercy

www.iloveny.com

panorama from the 70th floor

Park and Flatiron, including

of the Rockefeller Center

the Gramercy Tavern

Looking for handy, up-to-date

(www.topoftherocknyc.com).

(www.gramercytavern.com),

travel information? Check out

to the high-end homeliness

KLM’s Destination Guide

of the Union Square Café

pages – and book your flight –

(www.unionsquarecafe.com), a

on www.klm.com. Content

Fifth Avenue is the spot for

stalwart of Italian-American

provided by Frommer’s

designer dandies, while Macy’s

cuisine. Or for a smaller budget,

Unlimited © 2009,

(www.macys.com) is a Mecca for

and a sandwich large enough to

Whatsonwhen Limited.

WHERE TO SHOP

Bling and buy

A REPLICA OF THE HALF MOON

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TOUCHDOWN

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Beijing

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your own piece

OF PAR ADISE. BEIJING OFFERS A FASCINATING MIX OF PEOPLE AND PLACES

City limits The vast, chaotic and utterly fascinating Chinese metropolis of Beijing has old-fashioned hutongs in the shadow of immaculate malls, and imperial palaces surrounded by breathtaking 21st-century architecture.

Whatever you decide to do while visiting, you definitely won’t have time to be bored.

WHAT TO SEE

Out and about

WHERE TO EAT

China plate

Trips to the Forbidden City

Beijing’s best belly-fillers are

(www.dpm.org.cn) are not only

found in the Chaoyang district

allowed, they are practically

with spots like the Green T.

compulsory. A trip to the Temple

House (www.green-t-house.com;)

of Heaven (+86 10 67028866)

and the Xinjiang Red Rose

includes watching hundreds of

(+86 10 64155741).

grannies and grandpas going through their morning exercises in the surrounding park. Avoid the

HOW TO GET THERE

KLM, in partnership with

crowds at the sections of the

China Southern, operates two

Great Wall near Beijing city, and

direct daily flights to Beijing

opt instead for the Simatai

International Airport from

sections (Gubeikou Town) 120

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

kilometres away.

Tourist information WHERE TO SHOP

Make Curaçao your second home.

Inquire about owning a suite, a villa, or building an oceanfront home of your own at our luxurious property located at the western-most point of the island: Lodge Kura Hulanda & Beach Club, with breathtaking coral cliffs surrounded by a sugary white sand beach.

For information call (5999) 839-3616 Email: realestate@kurahulanda.com Visit us at the Second Home Fair Jaarbeurs Utrecht 2ctober 9-11, 2009. Stand '053

www.cnto.org/beijing.asp

Cultural exchange Avoid the shopping malls and

Looking for handy, up-to-date

head for Plastered T-shirts

travel information? Check out

(www.plasteredtshirts.com) in

KLM’s Destination Guide pages

Dongcheng, or the humble

– and book your flight – on

chaos and ‘replicas’ at

www.klm.com. Content

PanjiayLuan Market

provided by Frommer’s

(200 Panjia Lu, Chaoyang;

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07-08-09 14:41

FACIAL FITNESS

Get the look Can you really get a non-surgical facelift? Beauty guru Eva Fraser believes it’s possible; she says that by retraining the muscles in your face they can become firmer and stronger.

Here are three of her top Facial Fitness exercises, revealed exclusively for Holland Herald readers. Time to get stretching Upper cheek lift Press your back teeth lightly together.

Place side of index fingers lightly along laugh lines.

Slowly lift upper cheek muscles in direction of arrows in six steps – like going up a very steep ladder.

Hold for a count of six still feeling the lift.

Return slowly in six steps.

Repeat once more.

All moverments are from finger touch.

Lower face lift Hold firmly on collarbone with finger pads.

Stretch chin upwards so that front of neck is held taut – keep this position.

Eyelid exercise

Bring jaw slightly forward.

Now place lower lip over top lip.

Look straight ahead, and into the mirror if possible, throughout this exercise.

Hold this position and smile out towards top of ears, feeling an upward and backward stretch over jaw line.

Raise eyebrows, curve index fingers under eyebrows and hold against the bone.

Repeat once more.

Close lids and feel a gentle downward stretch from finger hold.

Hold for a count of ten then release slowly.

Eva Fraser was born in 1928 and and discovered her Facial Fitness technique while in her fifties. She opened her London clinic in 1990. Lessons take place with a personal instructor and the course consists of four lessons, each lasting 1.5 hours; +44 20 79376616. www.evafraser.com

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Open lids, relax and breath.

Repeat once more.

illustrations: Cover Mechanics

Blink six times.

Hold for six to ten counts and release slowly.

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KLM NEWS

Travellers Check

Photo: KLM / MAI

NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR PASSENGERS

1951 Ava Gardner, Hollywood film star and lead actress in the film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, poses with avid fans.

contents Hartman quarterly KLM news People & planet Flying Blue news KLM entertainment

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www.klm.com The fleet KLM route maps Schiphol, hub gates Fit for flying

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KLM HARTMAN QUARTERLY

Looks aren’t everything When you hear the name KLM, the chances are you’ll see us too - one of our aircraft, our uniform, our logo, a brochure, even a flight ticket or a KLM check-in desk.

The name KLM immediately brings to mind a variety of images, and the one thing they all have in common is the globally trusted ‘KLM blue’.

Since its beginnings on October 7, 1919, KLM has always used a blue accent, but the foundations for our recognisable ‘look’ were only established in the 1960s. Despite this being fine tuned and tweaked over the decades, KLM has clearly remained KLM. In the meantime, ‘KLM blue’ has become so recognisable that seeing just a small amount of it has become enough to trigger instant awareness.

Believe me, there are many who are envious of the fact that we had enough foresight to take ownership of this sky-blue colour, at such an early stage in the history of aviation.

Blue stands for, above all, trustworthiness and structure. It has a calming effect and aids concentration - vital for our industry.

The success of our branding doesn’t mean that we are letting it take a back seat. Far from it. We live in a rapidly changing world and KLM is a modern organisation that is well aware that it has

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DESIGNER MART VISSER AND KLM UNIFORMS FROM DIFFERENT ERAS

to change with the times. Our passengers place great value on our trusted reputation and reliability, but they also expect innovation and a modern image.

And that means getting a facelift every now and then. We recently introduced a new house style and very shortly you’ll see a new uniform being worn by 11,000 female colleagues. Created by the wellknown Dutch designer Mart Visser, this is our tenth uniform restyle.

As previously done with our MD-11s, we’re also focusing considerable energy

on retrofitting the Economy Class of our Boeing 747-400s with new seats and personal in-flight entertainment systems.

But for me personally, the arrival of a new aircraft, like our recent new fuel-efficient Embraers, is a real high point. There’s nothing more satisfying than a brand new aircraft on its maiden voyage, freshly sprayed in the KLM colours.

I’ve only been talking about our ‘look’.

But looks aren’t everything. If comfort was missing from our shiny blue aircraft, if the welcoming smile of our personnel wasn’t backed up by customer service, and if our blue tickets weren’t available for a sharp and competitive price, then our customers wouldn’t be fooled. And, believe me, we’re fully aware of this. Looks are important, but in the end it’s about the complete package.

PETER F. HARTMAN, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES

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KLM NEWS “Making the journey a little bit easier...”

Increased efficiency, reduced CO2 emissions INCREASED CONVENIENCE AT SCHIPHOL

Time-saving drop-off Customers’ core needs are at the heart of all innovations introduced

by KLM Passenger Services. That’s why, in Departure Hall 2 at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, passengers can now take advantage of five KLM SelfService Baggage Drop-Off Points to quickly and efficiently check in up to two pieces of baggage. The facility can also be used by passengers checking onto connecting flights. This unique pilot programme will be used to test the new facilities until early 2010.

As part of its ongoing fleet renewal programme, KLM has taken delivery of a fourth Boeing 777-300ER. This state-of-the-art aircraft is equipped with ‘completely lie-flat’ sleeper seats in World Business Class and personal on-demand entertainment systems with adjustable widescreen LCD displays in Economy

Class. Using around 20% less fuel than similar-sized aircraft, it will also contribute to KLM’s long-term aim of achieving C02-neutral status. This aircraft is named National Park Amboseli to help raise awareness for the park, part of the Amboseli ecosystem located in Kenya.

Further information: www.kws.org

KLM’S NEW BOEING 777-300ER WITH UNIQUE SKYTEAM LIVERY

The seat of your choice...

MORE WAYS TO SELECT YOUR SEAT

For some passengers it’s 4E on a B747, for others, seat 1A on a B777. Whatever your preference, passengers on intercontinental flights can now select their seat from 90 days before departure, 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

Whether you booked online or at a travel agent, you can now select or change your seat via Manage My Booking at www.klm.com Or perhaps it’s a special occasion and you want to treat yourself or a loved one? A limited number of Economy Class

seats, known as preferred seats, offer additional benefits such as extra legroom or a location in a row with just two seats.

For a small supplement, these preferred seats can be reserved online from 30 hours before departure (24 for the USA) or using the kiosks in the departure and transfer halls at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. These seats are free of charge to Flying Blue Platinum and Gold Elite Plus members.

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KLM PEOPLE & PLANET

Niños Hotel

Wash or throw?

Every year, millions of passengers board KLM flights with a burning desire to discover new lands.

Environmentally conscious citizens reuse and recycle. And at KLM that’s exactly what we believe in too. When it comes to flying though, weight is an additional factor that influences the environmental impact of items used NIÑOS HOTEL IN CUSCO, PERU

on board. It’s this that made us question our use of porcelain dishes, instead of

Unfortunately, these countries can also

disposable alternatives that weigh up

be home to millions of children in need

to eight times less.

– a need identified in the UN Millennium Development Goals. KLM

So we asked TNO, an independent

AirCares offers promotional, logistical

research company, to perform an

and financial support to NGOs to help

environmental ‘life cycle analysis’ for

them achieve these goals.

both types of articles - from obtaining

a higher impact in terms of production,

the raw materials, how they’re used, all

distribution and disposal, this is far

the way through to disposal.

outweighed by the increased fuel

charity Niños, which runs two hotels in

required to carry the additional weight

Cusco, and a hacienda in Huasao, Peru.

of the porcelain dishes.

All profits from the accommodations,

The conclusion was surprising: porcelain dishes have six times more environmental impact than the

Based on this research, KLM switched

AirCares is currently supporting the

together with donations, are used to

disposable version on intercontinental

to disposable cutlery and crockery for

give 600 extremely neglected children

flights. While the disposable version has

Economy Class in June this year.

a hot meal each day, a warm shower, medical and dental assistance, homework help, and sports lessons.

Less carbon for cargo

Show your support To donate money and/or Flying Blue

Investment in more fuel-efficient

Miles to this or any other AirCares

aircraft and CO2 compensation of our own business flights are just a couple

charity, please visit www.aircares.nl

of ways that KLM is helping to reduce

For payment details, see the last page

its carbon footprint. CO2 compensation is also available to KLM passengers, but

of our KLM Inflight Boutique tax-free

or make a donation during this flight.

shopping section in this issue of Holland Herald.

to passengers, each year Air France

insight into their CO2 emissions and the option to compensate. Just like the

Cargo-KLM Cargo transports more than 1

service for passengers, the entire

booking into the two-star Niños

million tonnes of cargo around the world.

contribution will be completely invested

accommodation, located in renovated

That’s why we’ve launched a CO2 compensation service especially for

in Gold Standard renewable energy

historical buildings. For further

projects, certified by our long-standing

information, visit www.ninoshotel.com.

cargo customers. This provides a detailed

partner, the Worldwide Fund for Nature.

this is only part of the story. In addition

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Whether you’re travelling to discover new places, enjoy family weekends or on business, it’s essential to make the most of every second. With the benefits that the Flying Blue frequent flyer programme offers, you become a privileged customer, recognized by AIR FRANCE and KLM and every SkyTeam alliance airline.

Thanks to our network of over 900 destinations, every trip is a new opportunity to earn Miles. With over 130 partners worldwide, there are lots of ways to enjoy your Miles.

Whether it’s a flight to a destination you’ve always wanted

You can sign up online at klm.com or airfrance.com

to explore, a stay in a luxury hotel, or countless other ways to spend your Miles, the choice is yours.

As you travel more and more with us, we reward your loyalty by multiplying the services you can enjoy, to make every trip a moment that stands apart.

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KLM FLYING BLUE NEWS “More special Award Miles offers than ever before”

Silver lounge access Flying Blue Silver members can now access all KLM lounges at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, and AIR FRANCE lounges (except Terminal 2 G and ‘La Première Lounge’) at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, on payment of a €35 fee per visit.

Access to lounges at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol can also be paid with 5,000 Award Miles. These access payments can also be extended to additional invited guests of Platinum and Gold (Elite Plus) members, who can invite SILVER MEMBERS, START YOUR TRIP IN STYLE

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Reward yourself

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Together with European hotel partner

Promo Awards@ from AIR FRANCE and

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• A selection of Sofitel, Pullman and

destinations are available flying from Amsterdam. All Promo Awards@ are subject to availability, so book now to be sure you don’t miss these great offers!

Visit www.flyingbluenews.com for further details.

MGallery hotels in France for just 95,000 Award Miles.

• Novotel and Mercure hotels in London, Edinburgh or York (UK) for just 55,000 Award Miles.

• A selection of Novotel and Mecure hotels in Spain and Portugal for just 42,000 Award Miles.

How to join Flying Blue

PHONE ON BOARD

AIR FRANCE KLM’s loyalty programme,

In the air, you can still keep in touch.

Flying Blue, allows you to earn both

Discover how easy it is to make calls

Level and Award Miles. Award Miles can

using phones on board KLM’s B747-400,

be redeemed for flights and products

B777, MD-11 and Airbus 330 aircraft.

from over 130 partners worldwide. Level

• For operation of the wall-mounted

Miles count towards a higher membership

phone, see the placard on the wall

tier, each offering benefits such as

below the phone.

access to airport lounges and extra baggage allowance.

For further details or to enroll, simply

• If you have in-seat entertainment,

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tickets. Up to 30 regularly updated

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Accepted credit cards

Info & Fun in the category Onboard.

• Calls cost US$5.90 per 30-second increment. There is a minimum charge of one minute per call.

• Payment is made by inserting your credit card into the side

your handset also acts as a phone.

of the phone and

See the onscreen instructions under

swiping downwards.

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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.

IN-FLIGHT MOVIE TOP 10 Angels & Demons (Action) Departures (Art House) Fighting (Action) Imagine That (Comedy) My Life In Ruins (Comedy) Night At The Museum 2 (Comedy) State Of Play (Drama) Terminator Salvation (Sci-Fi) The Hangover (Comedy) The Proposal (Comedy) ‘ANGELS & DEMONS’ - JUST ONE OF 85 MOVIES AVAILABLE ON BOARD

Too much choice?

The best-selling Dan Brown novel, Angels & Demons, has been made into a film filled

Check out our online movie guide before

with amazing details about the centuries-old conflict between the church and the secret

your next flight at www.klm.com (select:

Illuminati organisation. Actor Tom Hanks faces a race against the clock to uncover an

Travel Information; On Board; Entertainment).

antimatter bomb, set to destroy the Vatican.

* 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”

A new era: e-boarding card

More bags Less time Less money

Check in at www.klm.com using your

just as

computer, mobile phone, PDA, or

you

BlackBerry and an e-boarding card will

would

Extra baggage no longer means extra

be sent to you via SMS, MMS or email.

with a

time and hassle at the airport. KLM has

paper

introduced a simple solution: with just a

boarding pass.

few clicks you can reserve and pay for

At the gate, simply hold your electronic device in front of a reader and the details will be scanned. The only document you’ll

rther For further

extra baggage when you check-in online

need is your ID. You can use the

on about when information

electronic boarding pass at security

re this helpful and where

checks, for purchases in tax-free stores

service iss available, visit

save time at the airport, you also save

and to access lounges (when applicable),

m.com www.klm.com

30% on the normal charges levied at the

at www.klm.com By arranging this online, you not only

airport check-in desk.

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.

us button on the website. Your

When checking online via www.klm.com,

communication can usually be

or at one of the kiosks at Amsterdam

handled within five days. KLM

Airport Schiphol, these preferred seats

offers a full range of services via

can be reserved for a small supplement.

its website www.klm.com

Available exclusively using our online check-in.

One-stop travel shop www.klm.com offers much more than just flight tickets. You’ll find everything you need to get from home to your hotel and everything in between, including car rental, airport parking and transport to and from a number of airports.

You won’t have to worry about shopping around either. We’ve made sure our prices are never higher than bookings made directly with our partners — all TRANSPORT TO THE AIRPORT AT WWW.KLM.COM

specially selected for their reliability.

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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

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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

4

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

9

800

3,600

28.88

10

800

2,850

28.88

62,800

147

36.45

56,900

127

33.40

EMBRAER 190

6

850

45,700

100

4,500

Fokker 100/70

11

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

Gates M

C14 to C21 - C26

C12

C16

Gates C

C10

C8

C15 - C18

C6

4

C7

C9

T3 T2

C5

Lounge 1 D14 D12 D68

D10 D66

3

G11-16

2

T5 T4

12

3

Lounge 2

F2

Lounge T8 3

Holland Boulevard

Schiphol World Avenue

G7 G9

E4

G6 G8

F3

T6

F4

Gates G

F5

3

E3

F7 F6

E6

E5

F9

Gates F 7

E8

E9

E18

E17 E20

Gates E

F8

E7

Transfer desk Self-service transfer

3

G2

G4

E2

D43 D73

3

2 1

D41 D71

G3 G5

1

E15

T

H2 H1

6 Lounge 3 4 T9

D3 D5 D59 D7 D61 D63

Gates D

Gates B-C, D 59-87, M

M1

3

8

Gates H

H4 H3

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

H5

4

M2

C11

D16 D18 D22 D24 5 D26 D21 D28 D23 D25 D27 D29 D31

H6

M4 M3

C4

4

C13

KLM flights arrive at / depart from gates B, C, D, E, F. Air France and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from gates B and C. Continental, Delta and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from gate G. Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from gate E. Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from gate D. For KLM passengers travelling to Antwerp (Thalys) and Rotterdam (NS): Please ensure you collect your luggage in Amsterdam and change your KLM (e-) ticket for a Thalys/NS ticket at the Netherlands Railways (NS ) desk at Schiphol Plaza (just past immigration).

to B1 - B8

E22

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

Top Level Second floor

E24

KLM Crown Lounge

25

Gates D KLM Crown Lounge

52

Paris / Charles De Gaulle Airport Terminal 2, France TERMINAL 2E TERMINAL 2A

TERMINAL 2C 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

F49 F51

F27

TERMINAL 2F Schengen

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

F48 F52

F26

F1

F34

F47

F53

T

Thalys/RER/TGV Railway station

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

5 5

10

5

5

Satellite B serves arrivals at / departures from all non-Schengen countries.

Airlines on this pier are Delta and Continental.

5

VIP Lounge

Satellite A

Satellite B

Rome / Fiumicino Airport, Italy KLM, Air France and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Delta, Continental and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal C.

5 10

TERMINAL A

VIP Lounge 5

TERMINAL C

5 5

TERMINAL B

Satellite

Tokyo / Narita International Airport, Japan

Concourse C C87

C85

C83

KLM, Air France, AeroMexico, Delta, Continental, Korean Air, Northwest Airlines and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 1.

Concourse D C81

D88

D91

D93

D95

D97 D99

T

D86

D98 C84

C82

D92

D94

D96

E80

WorldClub Facility

TERMINAL 2 Concourse B

Concourse A 58

B74

B73

B72

B71

T

E60

A61

A62

A63

A64

57 56 55

11A 11B 14

54

12 51

53

T

15

Satellite 1

52

16

17

18 47

21

TERMINAL 1

T

Satellite 2

23

24

46

32

22 28A 25 2F

26

27

31

34

33

38

36

35

37

45 44 41

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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

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 6

TERMINAL 9

TERMINAL 5

TERMINAL 1

TERMINAL 4

TERMINAL 2

TERMINAL 3

Newark Liberty International Airport, New York, USA 136 137 138 139 128

135 134 133 132 131

A1

130

125 126 127 124 123 122

121 120

TERMINAL A 23 24 25

TERMINAL C

20

A2

28

101

27

26A 26B

102 104A 104B 106 108A 110A 108B 110B112A 112B 114A 103A 105 114B 103B 107A 109 107B 115A 111 113A 115B 113B

70

TERMINAL B

72 71 90

91

73

A3

93 80

82

B1

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81

84

B2

B3

83

86

85 88

Holland Herald

94

96 98

75

78

92

74

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

87

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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Atlanta / Hartsfield-Jackson Intercontinental Airport, USA B36

NORTH

C36

C35

A33

B34

B33

C34

C33

D36

D35

T14

A32

A31

B32

B31

C32

C31

D34

D33

A30

A29

B30

B29

C30

C29

D32

D31

D30

D29

D28

D27

D26

D25

C17

D24

D23

C15A

D22

D21

C15

D16

D15

C11

D14

D13

D12

D11

D10

D9

D8

D7

D6

D5

A28

A27

B28

B27

C28

C27

A26

A25

B26

B25

C26

C25

A24

A23

B24

B23

C24

T12 T11 T10

A22

A21

B22

B21

C20

T9

A20

A19

B20

B19

C18A

T8

A18

A17

B18

B17

C18

T7

A16

A15

B16

B15

C16

A14

A13

B14

B13

C14

A12

A11

B12

B11

C12

A10

A9

B10

B9

C10

C7

A8

A7

B8

B7

C8A

C5

T6

C9

T4

SOUTH

E32

E31

E30

E31A E29

E28

E27

E26

E14 E16 E18

E12 E15 E17 E10

E11

C7A

T5

T3

E33

C23 C21

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.

E34 E36 E35

A34

T13

TERMINAL T

D38

T15

A6

A5

B6

B5

C8

C3

T2

A4

A3

B4

B3

C6

C2

D4

D3

T1

A2

A1

B2

B1

C4

C1

D2

D1

E8

Crown Rooms (Delta Airlines)

E9

E6

E7

E4

E7A

Presidents Club E5 E2 E1 E3

TERMINAL A

TERMINAL B

TERMINAL C

TERMINAL D

TERMINAL E

Houston / George Bush Intercontinental Airport, USA TERMINAL A North Concourse

TERMINAL B North Concourse

TERMINAL C North Concourse

C18

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.

TERMINAL D North Concourse

C19 C17 C20

B79 B79A

A14

A15

A12

A11

A10

B81 A9 B81A

B80

A2

A1

C16

B86 B85A B77 B77A

C21 B85

C15

B87 C22

B84A B84B B84C

B76 B76A

C14

B88

A7

C26

C25

C24

C30

C31

C32

D6 D6A

D5

C23

B83 B83A

A8

D1

D2

D4 D3 D4A

C43

C44

C45

D7

D8

D9

D10 D11 D12

T

C27

B67

B68

B72

B60

B64

E24

C29 B69

B71A B70

B61

B71

B63 C33

E10A E10B

E1

B62 B62A

E12

E11

E14

E23

C34 C42 C35 C41 C36

TERMINAL A South Concourse

TERMINAL B South Concourse

E2

E9

E15A-E15B

E3

E8

E16

E21

E7A-E7B

E17

E20A-E20B

E4A-E4B

TERMINAL C C37 South Concourse C38 C39

C40

TERMINAL E E18A South Concourse

E22

E6

E5A E5B

Presidents Club

E19 E18B

Detroit / Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, USA B20 B18 B16 B12 B10 B8

B6

B4

B2

C2

C4

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

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

Delta, Continental and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Concourse B and C.

A77

A1

A75 A3

A5

A7

A9

A11

A15

A17

A19

A21

A23

A25

A27

A29

A31

A33

A35 A41

Concourse A south

A43

A45

A47

A49

A51

A53

A55

A57

A59

A61

A63

A65

A67

A69

A71

WorldClub Facility

A73

Concourse A north

KEY Check-in Self-Service Check-in Passport control / Security check

A1 Gate Numbers T

Transfer by shuttle bus

Transfer desk Baggage Claim

Transfer by train 4

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Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)

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Treat your biz to a bonus.

Enrol on klm.com/bluebiz and earn free flights.

BlueBiz is KLM’s company loyalty programme.

Sign up now and your business will be given Blue Credits on every trip. On top of your Flying Blue Miles.

You can redeem your Blue Credits for free flights, for business or leisure, for anyone in your company.

Not enrolled? You should be. It’s free. Just take a look at our leaflet on board the aircraft or visit www.klm.com/bluebiz.

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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

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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You can support Pink Ribbon by buying one of the special merchandise items from the KLM Inflight Boutique. Your purchase will help to fund research, and will also help Pink Ribbon to tell women worldwide that early discovery of breast cancer considerably increases their survival rate. Stand shoulder to shoulder with us and support Pink Ribbon.

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À WWW MONTBLANC COM À WWW UNICEF ORG

signature for good. | The ability to read and write is a fundamental human right and the most important asset for children. It is essential for the development of the individual and of society, helping pave the way for a successful and self-determined life.

Deeply committed to the culture of writing, Montblanc is cooperating with UNICEF for the third time. Since 2004 more than US$1 million has been raised to support UNICEF education programmes worldwide. Part of the proceeds* from this Meisterstßck special edition will again be donated to UNICEF and its literacy projects, with a minimum amount of US$1.5 million being guaranteed by Montblanc. – The Meisterstßck Signature for Good edition has been handcrafted by our master craftsmen in the customary tradition of every Meisterstßck since 1924. It features a precious blue sapphire and gold-plated wreath on the cap.

*For every item in the Signature for Good collection sold in the US and UK between 1 June 2009 and 31 May 2010, Montblanc will donate 10 per cent of the retail price to support UNICEF education programmes. UNICEF does not endorse any brand or product. No portion of the purchase price is tax-deductible.

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signature for good. | The ability to read and write is a fundamental human right and the most important asset for children. It is essential for the development of the individual and of society, helping pave the way for a successful and self-determined life.

Deeply committed to the culture of writing, Montblanc is cooperating with UNICEF for the third time. Since 2004 more than US$1 million has been raised to support UNICEF education programmes worldwide. Part of the proceeds* from this Meisterstück special edition will again be donated to UNICEF and its literacy projects, with a minimum amount of US$1.5 million being guaranteed by Montblanc.

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*For every item in the Signature for Good collection sold in the US and UK between 1 June 2009 and 31 May 2010, Montblanc will donate 10 per cent of the retail price to support UNICEF education programmes. UNICEF does not endorse any brand or product. No portion of the purchase price is tax-deductible.

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Land amidst the arresting fragrance of Jasmine. Marvel at Pandya architecture and temples. Head to the multi-coloured sandy beaches of Kanniyakumari, pay homage at the Vivekananda Memorial and round of your trip by rejuvenating in Courtallam - the natural spa of the south.

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