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Finding flavour
Leaders of the pack Safari magic
Jay Rayner is obsessed
From art to food to music, we track
Going on a safari while you’re in Kenya
by food, and in this Holland Herald
down the movers and shakers in
is a must, but there is a whole lot more
exclusive he tours the globe in search
the world of taste to find out what
to this fascinating part of Africa, as
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Jane Szita discovers
Cover illustration Dutch illustrator Piet Paris created this month’s cover. His images are celebrated around the globe and have been published in the USA, Japan, Russia, Germany, Belgium and the UK. He is best known for his work in fashion, and in 2008 he was awarded the 21st ‘Grand Seigneur’, one of the most prestigous awards in the Dutch fashion industry.
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A celebration of liquorice
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Weird science The secrets of our taste buds
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Taste facts & figures Words: Annemarie Hoeve
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To commemorate the 100Michel Lotito, also known as Mr Mangetout (French for
year anniversary in 2012 of
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the sinking of the Titanic,
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Swiss watchmaker Romain
a problem for this Frenchman, who ingested an estimated
Gerome is making a special
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series of watches containing parts of the ship’s wreckage
36,000 people
including reclaimed steel and coal. The Belfast Titanic Society has stated it believes this to be in poor taste, but about 1,000 watches have
Scottish researchers analysed the music tastes of 36,000 people from around the world
already been pre-ordered.
and found that fans of classical music and heavy metal showed surprisingly similar personality traits: “creative and at ease, but not outgoing”. Indie music fans were found to be “not very hard-working, kind or generous” and suffered from “low self-esteem”.
75% drop Fashion tastes change at the drop of a hat, and often it’s high-profile celebrities who determine what is ‘in’ or ‘out’. According to fashion lore, when silver screen heart-throb Clark Gable removed his shirt to reveal his bare chest instead of Photo: Corbis
a vest in the 1934 film It Happened One Night, vest sales dropped by 75%.
141 MILLION CANS SPAM is a canned ham that was launched in the mid-1930s. Over 141 million cans are now sold each year. Today ‘spam’ also refers to unwanted email messages. Early Internet users would drive rival users away by flooding their screens with this four-letter word, which became legendary in a Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch, where it is uttered some 132 times in 3.5 minutes. TASTE Holland Herald
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20,000 postcards Apart from his passion for photography, Magnum photographer Martin Parr (pictured left) has also developed what some might call “a taste for the tasteless”. For over 25 years, he has collected everything from Spice Girls memorabilia to decorated tea trays and commemorative Sputnik souvenirs, as well as 20,000 postcards divided into themes such as “Smog” and “Shopping”. The collection is currently touring the globe as part of an
Photos: Martin Parr/Magnum/Hollandse Hoogte
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Readers of Condé Nast Traveller magazine voted New Zealand as their favourite holiday destination in 2008, followed by India and Italy. Tastes do vary, as in 2001 the USA came first, followed by Australia and France.
Competitive eaters are known as ‘gurgitators’ and currently ranking number one is 23-year-old Californian Joey Chestnut. Weighing 104 kilograms, he has many eating achievements to his name, including wolfing down 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and 103 burgers in eight minutes.
1,500-METRE SANDWICH Last October, 1,500 Iranian cooks prepared 1,000 kilograms of ostrich meat to make the world’s biggest sandwich. The 1,500-metre treat was meant to promote ostrich meat as a healthy source of protein, but the record attempt failed as hungry onlookers started eating the end result faster than officials could measure it. The video footage has not yet been recognised as evidence by Guinness World Records.
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Junglescape Most of us grew up hearing that we shouldn’t play with our food. But that’s exactly what Amsterdam-based food stylist Claartje Lindhout does for a living. Originally trained as a chef, Lindhout now uses her understanding of food to develop stunning culinary creations that elevate gastronomy to art. This misty autumn forest scene is composed of seasonal fruits, nuts, vegetables and spices along with meat, which is cooked slowly in a warming stew. The meat forms the path, while mushrooms, herbs and asparagus tips represent the overhanging shrubs and trees. www.claartjelindhout.com
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Field of dreams While this may look like Aboriginal art, it is in fact a field of lentils in the gentle rolling terrain of Palouse Hills. Situated between the states of Washington and Idaho, it is ideal for agriculture. Wheat is the main crop, but lentils are also grown in abundance. They are harvested from mid-August, and after harvesting, the majority of the lentils are loaded onto barges and sent down Snake River for export. Lentils are high in fibre, which is believed to play a role in reducing the incidence of heart disease and diabetes. They are thought to have come from northern Syria and south-west Asia, and are one of the most ancient cultivated foods.
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Tour de food Jay Rayner is an award-winning restaurant critic. He is also a self-confessed greedy traveller, and in this Holland Herald exclusive, he discusses the lengths he will go to in order to satisfy his taste buds Going on holiday
with a greedy traveller can be a frustrating business. Just ask my wife. She’s had to do it an awful lot. While she is leaving notes for the milkman, I am scanning the Internet for not-to-be-missed eating opportunities. While she is flicking through guidebooks for tourist attractions that might enthrall the kids, I am flicking through the Michelin Guide for starred restaurants which have to be tried, what with them being a mere 160 kilometres away from where we’re staying. A two-hour drive there, lunch, and a two-hour drive back. What could be wrong with that? And yes, I’m sure the boys will just adore a three-hour lunch. Or maybe not. I accept it’s an obsession, though I also like to argue I am like this when I am at home too, so it shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise. After all, I earn my living as a restaurant critic. Being unnaturally interested in my dinner – and my lunch, and my breakfast, and all the other itty-bitty meals you can squeeze in between – is what I’m paid for. But when I’m travelling I acknowledge everything is amplified. At home, just occasionally, a meal is merely something you have to stop for (even, whisper it, for me) as a means of taking on fuel. When you are away from home, particularly on holiday, everything is meant to be fun and enjoyable. Which means it’s acceptable to treat every meal as an event.
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I’ve always been like this. When I was a kid, we went as a family most summers to a hotel on England’s south coast. Looking back, I suspect the food was lousy, the worst kind of fussy, clumsily cooked stuff the English liked to call dinner back in the 1970s. But if you asked me for my memories of the place, it wouldn’t have been the giant pirate ship in the kids playground, or the swimming pool. It would have been the dessert trolley, laden with apple tarts and trifles, chocolate mousse, fruit salad and more. One year, as a break from routine, we went to Portugal. My strongest memory? The day of a general strike, which meant the hotel restaurant could not serve the bland menu of ‘international cuisine’ – think truly appalling versions of Wiener schnitzel – but had to fall back on Portuguese home cooking, courtesy of the hotel managers’ mothers: sweet, salty clams in a powerful broth, hunks of smokey chorizo, peri peri chicken that you could taste on your breath for hours 16
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TRAVEL FLAVOURS PREVIOUS PAGE: A passion fruit tart with sesame, argan oil and meringue LEFT: Mesmerising views and food make Tokyo a culinary paradise
after. Even now, if you ask me whether my holiday was any good, what spins through my mind is a succession of meals, the rest of the experience built around those all-important staging posts on the route to happiness: the un-improvable burger I ate with my kids in the park in the middle of Manhattan last summer, the freshly charcoal-grilled fish, down by the beach in Greece, the crisp-skinned duck confit with goose-fat potatoes taken in a country bistro in the Lot Valley in France, under the shade of a plum tree. The problem is that, for every great food experience happened upon accidentally, there is always bound to be a profound disappointment. And I do so hate wasting meal times. I concluded that the secret was the all-important research. And travelling alone. Even the best meal can be ruined by a loved-one rolling their eyes in boredom because it’s your obsession, not theirs. Divorces are made of so much less. Eventually I got the chance when I set out to research my book, The Man Who Ate The World, about the great new food cities of the 21st century, and my search for the perfect meal therein. I was intrigued by the way certain places had developed shiny new restaurant sectors, boasting eateries fronted by big-name chefs – Alain Ducasse and Joël Robuchon of France, Nobu Matsuhisa out of New York, Gordon Ramsay from Britain – and wondered whether any of them were any good. It led to some very strange experiences.
”The best food city in the world is Tokyo”
In Dubai, for example, where the temperature can pirouette upwards to near 50˚C,
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I found myself eating heavy, cream-and-butter-laden French classics in a fiercely expensive restaurant reached by a submarine simulator. The machine was designed to convince you that the restaurant was not on the ground floor of the sail-like Burj Al Arab hotel, but 90 metres out across the sea bed. It didn’t fool me, but I did eat a rather nice lobster bisque. The one thing I really wanted in Dubai – a city where only 15% of the population is local – was to try real Emirati food. It was tough, I was told. Nobody ate Emirati or was even sure what it was. Eventually I bagged an invitation to an Emirati feast, from a local catering company, to be
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eaten at the top of the local World Trade Centre. Or to be more precise, I got to taste a sequence of dishes which were so numerous the varied forkfuls added up to one meal. There were bowls of hummus and baba ganoush and a rich, long-simmered tomato paste flavoured with walnuts and chilli. There was home-cured salmon and seared prawns. There was a bowl of tabouleh, that traditional mix of chopped flat-leaf parsley dressed with lemon juice, and another of the Lebanese salad fatoush, in which the vegetables are layered with crisp, curling slices of toasted pitta bread. There were lamb and chicken kebabs roasted in Indian tandoors. There were dainty cheese or meat burrek – small pies – and vegetable samosas from the Punjab. There was food, and lots of it. At each end of the table were ornate silver platters covered, in turn, by vast silver domes. This, I was told, was the main event, the true Emirati dishes. Each covered a tiny, Dubai lamb that had been cooked over simmering water. The first had been made with chestnuts and was delicious, though not, Khalel, the Jordanian-born chef told me, exactly traditional. The second lamb recipe – ouzi laban – was, however, made exactly the way it had been taught to Khalel by an Emirati who could trace his family back to 1824. The meat, which had been cooked underneath thin sheets of flat bread, was so tender it could be carved with a spoon and was pale, almost white. This, I was told, was due to the sauce of dried yoghurt with which it had been cooked. There are many foodstuffs I have not heard of before let alone tried – novelty is a pleasure of the job – and dried yoghurt is one of them. The moment I put the meat in my mouth I knew why I had never tried it. Dried yoghurt is another way of saying milk that has gone off. It is sour and has an edge of bile that catches at the back of the throat. The flavour was so foul, so putrid, I found it hard to swallow. It was a warning to me: be careful what you wish for.
”I took a multi-course tasting menu, in five top restaurants, in one night”
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restaurants, in one night. We bounced across Manhattan in a cab from shiny places like Per Se, where chef Thomas Keller did lovely things with lobster, butter and carrots, through Eleven Madison Park, where we were served honey-lacquered duck, to the Willy Wonka-like wd~50 where a mad professor-style chef called Wylie Dufresne served desserts flavoured with carrot. But it was not all high end. I also went to Katz’s Deli, a landmark in New York, and sat in the shabby, cafeteria-style dining room eating a salt-beef sandwich as big as my head, and felt certain that all was well with the world. But the best food city in the world, the one to which I would happily return to time and time again, was Tokyo. There are more restaurants in Tokyo than in any other city, most of them devoted to a minutely intricate craft. There are places that specialise only in tempura – deepfried food – that emerges crisp and greaseless from the oil. By the fish market I ate pristine sushi made by men with the fastest yet steadiest hands I had ever seen. Next to the Sumo stadium, I had platters of sticky, glazed eel in a restaurant that served nothing else. I slurped dirt-cheap bowls of fabulous noodles, and spent the equivalent of $500 on an extraordinarily intricate multi-course kaiseki menu, each dish served on a piece of ceramic that might otherwise have been a museum piece. When I came home, there was only one question anybody wanted to ask me. A flight to Tokyo takes 14 hours from London. Was it, my friends asked, really worth all that time and effort just for something nice to eat? And I would nod. Yes, I would say, it really was. What can I tell you? I’m a greedy traveller. And I probably always will be.
Hungry for more? Jay Rayner’s book, The Man Who Ate The World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner, is available in paperback from Headline publishers from April 30. Rayner is currently British newspaper The Observer’s restaurant critic, and has won numerous awards, including Critic of the Year at the 2006 British Press Awards.
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Chew on this! It has been around since ancient times and, while liquorice is not everyone’s cup of tea, Karin Engelbrecht discovers that the Dutch just can’t get enough of it
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aromatic flavour is described in the very meaning of the word itself, which is derived from glukurrhiza, the Ancient Greek for ‘sweet root’. Glycyrrhizin is the substance behind this sweetness and is actually 50 times more saccharine than sugar. English monks at the Pontefract Abbey in Yorkshire were the first to make liquorice sweets. Today, Pontefract is host to an annual liquorice festival in July. However, no nationality has absorbed it into their daily diet quite like the Dutch, who call it drop. They manage to chew their way through an astonishing average of two kilograms per person per year, meaning they have the highest per capita consumption of liquorice in the world.
The Dutch drop market has a total value of €150 million.
Available in all shapes and sizes, drop also comes in different flavours, often with added menthol, bay leaf or honey. “Our best-selling flavour right now is an all-in-one combo of drop and fruity wine gums,” says Lonneke Trommar, senior brand manager at Venco, the market leader in The Netherlands. It’s not just the Dutch that savour the delights of liquorice, though. The British have their classic allsorts, salty liquorice is a favourite in Northern Germany and Nordic countries (as well as The Netherlands), the Italians prefer the
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Those whose molars can’t cope with all the chewing involved need not miss out. They can opt for their habitual dose in liquid form. It is often infused in herbal teas and soft drinks, such as the Egyptian erksoos, while liquorice-flavoured aperitifs are popular all over the Mediterranean. The French are proud of their pastis, the Italians salivate over
”The Dutch drop market has a value of €150 million” Sambuca, the Greeks adore ouzo and the Spanish savour their anis seco. With its wide range of uses all over the world, for everything from medicines, to sweets, breath fresheners and beverages, liquorice is rather versatile. Not bad for a simple woody root.
Types of Dutch drop 1 drop jojo’s (yo-yo) 2 sleuteldrop (key) 3 muntdrop (coin) 4 katjesdrop (cats) 5 verkeersdrop (traffic) 6 dropkabels (cable) 7 salmiakjes (salmiak – salty Finnish liquorice) 8 autodrop (car) 9 boerderijdrop (farmer)
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Benjamin Herman The jazz musician
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When he’s not touring with his band, New Cool Collective, ground-breaking jazz musician Benjamin Herman spends his time collaborating with legends such as Han Bennink, Stan Tracey and Paul Weller. In 2008, Herman was recognised for his musical talent and style when he received his third Edison Jazz Award and was crowned Esquire magazine’s Best Dressed Man of the Year. On the question of taste, he says: “It’s about taking pride in what you do, not money and expensive clothes. I’m a saxophonist, and have been performing since I was 13, so, of course, style is important to me. I don’t think about it as pressure, though, as I’ve always been into looking good on stage, and off.“ His musical influences include Louis Armstrong and Sonny Rollins, and as far as developing a taste for jazz, Herman recommends Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin or Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue as good places to start. www.benjaminherman.nl
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Style gurus These Dutch creatives are leaders in the fields of music, art and food. Find out what drives the people who shape and influence the taste of things to come PHOTOGRAPHY: THIJS WOLZAK WORDS: RUTH LINDSAY TASTE Holland Herald
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Siebe Tettero The art dealer
Artworks: Studio Job (chair) and Paul Evens (sculpture)
Before joining the art world, as head of Sotheby’s modern and contemporary art department in Amsterdam, Siebe Tettero was a successful architect. And his creative talents don’t stop there. He has also been nominated for a prestigious British Design Award for his work on Viktor & Rolf’s Dollhouse exhibition. His current job allows him to constantly explore new ideas. And, despite the current economic downturn, he says: “It’s a great time to buy art, as prices are reasonable and true quality is shining through.” His top tip for 2009? “The same thing that happened with Chinese art is happening with contemporary Turkish art. It’s the appreciation of the ‘bad boys’ and anti-establishment art.” www.sothebys.com
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Margo Reuten The chef Margo Reuten has been creating sumptuous food for her customers at the Da Vinci restaurant in Maasbracht since 1993. This year, she was awarded two Michelin stars for her efforts, and is currently the only female two-star chef in The Netherlands. Her interest in food started at a young age. “My father was a cattle farmer and my mother had her own vegetable garden. Everything on our table was fresh, so I believe anything that incorporates beautiful products and ingredients is good taste. This year, food is all about freshness, with lots of vegetables, as well as things that have a certain ‘bite’ or are surprising in some way,” she says. www.restaurantdavinci.nl
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Claudy Jongstra The fabric designer Her award-winning career has launched her on to an international stage, but every bit of fabric Claudy Jongstra creates in her studio, in Friesland, is very local. She gets the wool for her stunning felt fabrics from her own herd of 200 sheep and only uses natural dye products. Jongstra’s designs have led her to work with some of fashion and architecture’s top names, from Rem Koolhaas to John Galliano and Christian Lacroix. She also created 50 metres of felt for the Jedi warrior costumes in the Star Wars film The Phantom Menace. Jongstra says: “Taste is related to the care and attention that has gone into making something, and with my fabrics, you know where it originates from, who makes it, it’s all unique, it’s all handmade.” www.claudyjongstra.com
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Timo Janse The barman As head barman at Amsterdam’s ultra-cool, 1920s-style bar, Door 74, Timo Janse is constantly inventing flavour sensations. “I love serving the perfect drink, so I’m very precise in my measurements. I feel it’s my job to create the right atmosphere as well as the right drinks, from the conversation to the music,” he says. Janse’s interest in flavours isn’t limited to cocktails, though; he’s also a trained barista and has published a book, Shake It!, which is packed full of fun, nonalcoholic cocktail recipes for kids. He believes, the cocktail taste of 2009 is “bitter-sweet”. www.door74.nl
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To get a taste for Kenya, a safari should definitely be on your agenda but, as Jane Szita discovers, there is much more on offer in this part of Africa PHOTOGRAPHY: ROB VAN DER VET
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”Here they were, beautiful, well-fed, larger than life and completely unfazed by us”
It seemed too good to be true. We’d bumped along the mud tracks of the Maasai Mara for barely half an hour, and now a lioness and her two cubs were drinking at a waterhole just a couple of metres away. We watched from our Land Rover in entranced silence. The only sounds were the big cats lapping, the buzz of flies and the occasional click of a camera shutter. From time to time, the lioness turned to look at us with total unconcern; but one of her cubs, its face half pink with blood from the recent kill, watched us with considerably more interest, for all the world like a playful kitten. We had headed out into the Mara before breakfast, to the spectacular soundtrack of dawn in the bush: a symphony of shrieks, squeaks, whistles and countless other unclassifiable, unidentifiable noises. At first, the undulating grasslands seemed empty. Then, from the top of a rise, a panorama suddenly unfolded: blue-flanked topi, delicate impala, impressive wildebeest and several hundred zebra, stretching away as far as the eye could see. It didn’t take long for Lolotuno Nkalma, our sharp-eyed Sambura guide, to spot the kill: a zebra carcass on the ground, freshly disembowelled, its innards glistening crimson in the morning light, a perfect illustration of “Nature, red in tooth and claw.”
As a Sambura – close cousins of the Maasai and speakers of the same Maa language – Lolotuno grew up knowing all
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about lions. For nomadic cattle herders like his tribe, they’re an occupational hazard. “The lions have gone to drink,” he announced, as we stared at the unguarded kill. Sure enough, heading for the nearest waterhole, we soon spotted the thirsty trio. And now here they were, beautiful, well-fed, larger than life and completely unfazed by our attention – which isn’t surprising, as these particular lions are TV stars. Part of the Marsh Pride, made famous by the BBC’s Big Cat Diary, they’re used to a large audience, although we were the only people watching them now. However, one thing was becoming clear, making Big Cat Diary is probably a lot easier than it looks.
Here in the Mara, as in all Kenya’s game reserves, the animals are the bwanas, the bosses, and they know it. A group of three young cheetahs strolled casually past, coming within a whisker of our jeep. An enormous male lion carried a young zebra kill, presumably stolen from one of the cheetahs, and hid it nonchalantly in a bush, oblivious to the three Land Rovers clustered around him. Humans are invisible to these animals – although you get the idea that, if you stepped out of the vehicle, or if they were really hungry, it might be a different story. “Because we don’t hunt the wildlife in Kenya, the animals have no reason to fear people, which is great for tourists,” says Duncan Mouli, our guide in the reserves of Amboseli and Nakura, where elephants and rhinos respectively hold
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Naibor Camp, where you can hear the hippos and the Talek river at night
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Shore leave A short ferry ride and drive from Mombasa, Diani Beach is a great example of Kenya’s beautiful Indian Ocean coast. It’s pure postcard perfection: wide stretches of pearl-white sand, fringed by coral reefs and dotted with shady palm trees. The mzungas share the beach with local fishermen and their dug-out canoes, laughing children, coconut sellers and other traders. Most easily spotted are the kikoi and kanga sellers, whose colourful wraps are hung out like strings of rainbow flags. Many are printed with Swahili proverbs. Embe mbivu yaliwa kwa uvumilivu, says one: “A ripe mango should be eaten slowly” – a good motto for beach life.
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sway. Both of these huge herbivores suffered greatly from poaching in the 1980s, but Kenya fought back with a ruthless anti-poaching policy that has seen both populations recover – although rhinos remain in danger of extinction. For some animals, human presence is still unwelcome. A large bull elephant, ambling silently along against the giant blue Nakura sky, suddenly spots us in our motionless Land Rover. His ears billow out in alarm like a pair of leathery umbrellas. We take the hint and drive off quickly, anxious to avoid the fate of a couple we saw earlier, reversing their vehicle rapidly while a huge and irate Cape Buffalo charged towards them in an ominous cloud of dust.
ABOVE LEFT: One of Alfajiri’s luxury villas on the Kenyan coast ABOVE RIGHT: Obamamania takes hold in Mombasa’s Old Town
Local hero Order ‘an Obama’ at a Kenyan bar, and you get a Senator beer, produced by East African Breweries to celebrate the success of Barack Obama, whose father was Kenyan – a source of immense national pride. Travelling through the country, you see signs of Obamamania everywhere. His image is painted on cars,
”A ripe mango should be eaten slowly. It’s a good motto for beach life”
buildings and kikoi wraps. There’s even an Obama Day: November 6. Kogelo, a small town that was home to Obama senior, a member of the Luo
“Lone males are always dangerous,” says Duncan, shaking his head. “You should never approach one.” Later, at a picnic spot on Baboon Cliff, with its commanding views of vast, glassy Lake Nakura and its great white flocks of pelicans, we see the same couple fall prey to a pair of opportunistic baboons, who raid their jeep and make off with milk and Pringles, both of which they open with practised skill. We lose our bananas too – basically, we’re mugged by a particularly determined, battlescarred and frankly terrifying individual, who flies towards us, teeth bared and screeching. But this is baboon territory after
tribe from the Lake Victoria area, is now firmly on the tourist map. As any Kenyan will tell you, “Everyone here is crazy about Barack Obama.”
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all, and, as Duncan explains, while wary of Africans, they regard all mzungas (Europeans) as fair game.
While rains have made the Mara green and grassy, Amboseli is dry, the parched earth every shade of umber, the fiercely blue sky swirling with ‘dust devils’ that sometimes turn it a purplish red. Here, Kilimanjaro forms a stupendous backdrop, although its snow-streaked peak only occasionally emerges from the clouds. The Maasai herding their cattle in the distance seem as much a part of this ancient landscape as the mountain, or the elephants and giraffes around them. Oltiyani, a nearby Maasai enkang, or village, seems to grow organically out of the ground: a cluster of earth-coloured round huts, ringed by a circular fence of thorny acacia. A more camouflaged, and more completely sustainable, human settlement would be hard to imagine.
milk, blood and meat. For a Maasai, wealth is not money or possessions, but cows. “We are nomads,” says Lemalon, the village spokesman. “We cannot live in the city. There would be nowhere for our cows.” Although the Maasai are the most recognisable (as one Kenyan puts it, “a brand as well as a tribe”), they are just one of 42 different peoples in a country where human diversity is almost as rich as the variety of wildlife. A succession of lively villages and towns gives a glimpse of that human heritage, the brightly painted buildings and stalls of mangoes and vegetables interspersed with Islamic women in billowing black buibuis, girls in vividly patterned kangas and kikois, and spear-carrying men in tribal dress riding bicycles. Frequent flocks of kids in school uniform remind you that Kenya is a young country, in every sense of the word: the average age here is only 18.
”The Maasai herding their cattle in the distance seem as much a part of this ancient landscape as the elephants” The thorn fence keeps out lions and other predators: at night, the cattle are herded inside the fence and the ring of dwellings. The 125 villagers live in compact huts, which are made from cow dung. In the past, the Maasai got everything from their cattle: housing, clothing and food in the form of
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In the Rift Valley, where human beings most likely evolved, we stop at a teahouse on the shores of Lake Elementaita. ‘Karuma’, it says, ‘Welcome’. And then, ‘hotel’. The huge number of hotels was puzzling at first, but by now it’s clear that a Kenyan ‘hotel’ is usually a café or restaurant. Outside, a boy wearing a David
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Warrior culture “We Maasai believe that all the cows in the world belong to us,” says Lolotuno Nkalma, a guide in the Maasai Mara. “In the past, we raided cattle and hunted lion with spears; now we just hunt them with tourists and cameras.” The warrior (moran) culture of the Maasai once made them East Africa’s most feared tribe. Today, Maasai are often askari (guards) at safari camps, where their presence amid the nocturnal animal cries is genuinely reassuring. Dressed in their tunics or orkarashas, which are often red, and decked out in their intricate bead jewellery (the colours and patterns indicate clan, origin, and status), they try to maintain a complex traditional culture – no easy task given the pressures of modern life. But there are hopeful signs for them, such as their increasingly active involvement in tourism. As Kakuta Ole Maimai, the founder of the Maasai Association, puts it: “A Maasai without culture is like a zebra without stripes. Change is inevitable, but we want to be the agents of our change, not victims.”
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Ocean city “The sea at Mombasa is as blue as a cornflower, and, outside the inlet to the harbour, the long breakers of the Indian Ocean draw a thin, crooked white line, and give out a low thunder even in the calmest weather.” Karen Blixen’s description of Kenya’s oldest city, in Out of Africa, is still accurate today, and she
TOP LEFT: Fishermen on Lake Naivasha TOP RIGHT: Soak in the scenery and get ready for your day with an outdoor breakfast at Loldia House
Beckham shirt and carrying a battered radio asks for a pen. The look on his face when he gets one is like a European child at Christmas. Inside, we sit on a wooden bench and drink sugary cups of tea, sharing jokes with the proprietor, who is very glad to see us. The brief episode of violence in the wake of Kenya’s elections, now over a year ago, had a catastrophic effect on tourism, which is vital to the economy. Now, everywhere we go we are welcomed with a hearty ‘jambo!’ like long-lost friends. People’s kindness is humbling; I’m given shells at the beach, beads by a Maasai, a drawing by a girl at the school we visit in Loldia. It’s always easy to share a laugh. An expat tells me, “A sense of humour gets you far in Kenya,” and that seems exactly right.
would still recognise the Old Town – if not the pop song, Jambo Bwana, with its refrain of hakuna matata (the phrase, meaning ‘no problem’, could be Kenya’s national motto),
”We are welcomed everywhere with a hearty ‘jambo!’ like long-lost friends”
floating over the ancient streets the day we arrive. The
Back in the bush, it’s easy to guess where the humour
stone fort was built by the
comes from: the scale of the landscape and the dominance of nature are an ever-present reminder of man’s relative insignificance, one that’s all too often lacking in the modern world. Who could take themselves too seriously in the face of such evidence? It’s often said that, with all the variety it has to offer, Kenya is Africa in miniature. That might seem like an exaggeration. But at night, with only a tent (albeit a luxurious one) to call home, sitting under a velvet sky studded with glittering stars, while lions call to each other across the savannah, it feels even bigger than that.
Portuguese, and the houses bear ornate wooden doors from Gujurat or Oman. The local culture is Swahili – a distinctive combination of Arab and African influences that’s reflected in Mombasa’s architecture, dress and (most deliciously) food.
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Sudan
Kenya fact file
Ethiopia
Somalia
Rift Valley
Uganda
Kenya Lake Naivasha
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times with a homely, nostalgic
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ESSENTIALS
A visa is compulsory and available on arrival in Nairobi or Mombasa ($50). Before you
feel, Loldia overlooks Lake
Naibor, Maasai Mara
go, make sure you are
Naivasha in the majestic Rift
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vaccinated for yellow fever,
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Beautiful secluded villas with
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private pools, overlooking the
solar-powered lighting and
WHERE TO STAY
Alfajiri, Diani Beach
bush showers. www.shompole.com
KENYA TOURIST BOARD
For any additional travel information, contact the
Il Moran
Kenya Tourist Board.
In the heart of the Maasai
Address: Asterweg 20 e-3,
Mara game reserve, Il Moran
1031 HN, Amsterdam
has ten ultra-opulent tents
Phone: +31 (0)20 6384661
on the banks of the Mara
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River – just perfect for hippo-watching. www.governorscamp.com
GETTING THERE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines operates two daily direct
CLIMATE
flights from Amsterdam Airport
Kenya is a year-round
Schiphol to Nairobi Jomo
destination, although in April
Kenyatta International Airport.
and June be wary of the LEFT: One of the rooms at the Alfajiri resort TOP: Enjoy a fresh mango for breakfast
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‘long rains’. The average
SPECIAL COMPETITION
temperature in Mombasa is
In April and May KLM will be
22-30°C, with slightly cooler
hosting The Africa Experience,
weather in both the highland
along with a competition.
and inland areas.
Check page 56 for details.
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Tickle your taste buds by taking a trip to one of these mouthwatering festivals
Out for a bite...
Aplec del Caragol Lleida May 22-24, 2009 If you thought only the French ate snails, you’ll discover that’s not the case at the Aplec del Caragol (or Snail Festival). It celebrates the gastronomy of the town of Lleida in Catalonia. Up to 12 tonnes of snails are consumed. www.aplec.org
SPAIN
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Salon Passion Chocolat Quebec November 20-22, 2009 Chocoholics beware, if you’re in Quebec in November, there is little chance of resisting temptation at this fifth annual chocolate festival. Demonstrations and events are based around all things sweet and cocoa-like.
Photo: Kenneth Tan
THE NETHERLANDS
www.salonpassionchocolat.com
CANADA
Preuvenemint Maastricht August 27-30, 2009
International Mango Festival Chandigarh Throughout June 2009
Maastricht is famous for its culinary culture, and on the last weekend in August this legendary food city celebrates with as many as 40 stalls serving food and wine in the Vrijthof Square. Just make sure you arrive with an empty stomach.
This fruity festival celebrates one of India’s favourite foods, the mango, with more than 100 varieties on display. It’s held at the famous Pinjore Gardens, and every type of mango product can be tasted, from jams, jellies and pickles to delicious juices.
www.preuvenemint.nl
SCOTLAND
www.incredibleindia.org
INDIA
Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival Speyside May 1-10, 2009 It’s the tenth birthday of this spirited festival, which, suprisingly, is not just all about drinking. There are many events organised around the town, including art exhibitions and concerts as well as the chance to tour distilleries that are rarely open to the public. www.spiritofspeyside.com
Photo: HTA/Kirk Lee Aeder
USA
Kona Coffee Festival Hawaii November 6-11, 2009 Coffee and culture form a perfect brew at this event. Hawaiian art and music are all on the programme, as are bean picking contests and, of course, tastings of this lovely, locally grown coffee. www.konacoffeefest.com
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Las Vegas TOUCHDOWN
BE DAZZLED ON ‘THE STRIP’
Glitz and kitsch The brassy, glam capital of gambling, shopping and entertainment is the most populous city in the US state of Photo: iStockphoto
Nevada. Originally a stopover on the pioneer trails to the American West, it was the legalisation of gambling in the USA in 1931 that led to the advent of the casino-hotels, for which Las Vegas is now famous. As a neon-lit, brash, overthe-top, once-in-a-lifetime experience, it can’t be beat.
PARIS, VEGAS-STYLE
WHAT TO SEE
On the up
DON’T MISS
Cirque du Soleil’s Mystère
General Store (www.
(www.treasureisland.com). You
stratospherehotel.com) and
gamblersgeneralstore.com).
can also try your luck at the
Eiffel Tower Experience (www.
There are bargains galore at
tables and slots, ranging from
parislasvegas.com) both provide
Las Vegas Premium Outlets
the high-end Bellagio Casino
stunning views. Vegas history
(www.premiumoutlets.com).
(www.bellagio.com/casino) to the beginner-friendly
abounds at the Neon
Gush and gosh
Boneyard (www.neonmuseum.
WHERE TO EAT
Golden Nugget (www.
org) and Fremont Street
Art of cooking
goldennugget.com).
The light, sound and water
Experience (www.
Some of the world’s top dining
show that is the Bellagio
vegasexperience.com). Savour
destinations are here, with
Fountains on ‘The Strip’ lures
high-class or high-kitsch with
epicurean French feasts at Joël
big crowds as geysers blast
visits to the Guggenheim
Robuchon (www.mgmgrand.
operates seven daily flights
HOW TO GET THERE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
into the sky, and streams
Hermitage Museum (www.
com) and Picasso (www.
(with one transfer) in
seem to dance hypnotically to
guggenheim.org) and the
bellagiolasvegas.com). You’ll
cooperation with Northwest
music. Best viewed at night for
Liberace Museum (www.
also find budget selections
Airlines to Los Angeles
the full effect. 3600 Bellagio
liberace.org).
without sacrificing quality: try
McCarran International Airport
Thai masterpieces at Lotus of
from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
Hotel, South Las Vegas Boulevard; +1 702 6937111;
WHERE TO SHOP
Siam (www.saipinchutima.com)
www.bellagio.com
Get in gear
and Italian sub sandwiches at
Las Vegas is retail bliss, with the Capriotti’s (www.capriottis.com).
Tourist information
Roman-themed The Forum
www.visitlasvegas.com
Shops at Caesars (www.simon. com) and exclusive Cartier
Photo: Corbis
com), or Gambler’s
The Stratosphere Tower (www.
WHERE TO PARTY
Spot the celebs
Looking for handy, up-to-date
jewellery and sleek Ferraris at
The hottest nightlife can be
travel information? Check out
the Esplanade at Wynn Las
found on The Strip, with
KLM’s Destination Guide
Vegas (www.wynnlasvegas.
celebrity hang-out nightclubs
pages – and book your flight –
com). Get a piece of ‘Sin City’ at
such as Tao (www.taolasvegas.
on www.klm.com. Content
Bonanza Gift & Souvenir
com) and Pure (www.
provided by Frommer’s
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purethenightclub.com) and
Unlimited © 2009,
www.worldslargestgiftshop.
world-class entertainment at
Whatsonwhen Limited.
SPRAY PLAY
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LEARNING CURVE: THE PONT DE L’UNIVERSITÉ SPANS THE RIVER RHÔNE
Photo: RhÔne-Alpes Tourisme
Photo: iStockphoto
TOUCHDOWN
Lyon
PLACE DES TERREAUX
French flair
DON’T MISS
Undoubtedly, Lyon has its beautiful parts – what better place to build a city than at the confluence of two of France’s most graceful rivers, the Rhône and the Saône – and its
Classic cuisine
history stretches back to Roman times, but the nation’s second city is perhaps best loved for
Léon de Lyon is the place for
the here and now: for food, fashion and culture.
classic Lyon gastronomy. Its imaginatively prepared
WHAT TO SEE
The silk route
specialities include pheasant silk manufacture leaves a
traditional Lyonnais
soup with foie gras and red
Attractive sites showcasing
luxurious legacy, with workshops
andouillettes (tripe), pork and
beans. Four ultra-swish dining
Lyon’s long history of culture
like L’Atelier de Soierie (www.
chicken at modest prices. Opt
rooms are lined with chef
and industry, such as the
atelierdesoierie.com) selling
for good-value, set menus.
Jean-Paul Lacombe’s own
Fabrics Museum (www.musee-
elegant products. Part-Dieu is
des-tissus.com) and Fine Arts
centred on one of Europe’s
HOW TO GET THERE
door, offers a less expensive
Museum (www.mba-lyon.fr/
largest malls, and is home to the
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines,
menu. Rue Pléney 1;
mba), cluster on central
main food market Les Halles de
in partnership with Air France
+33 4 72101112; www.
Presqu’île and just across the
Lyon (http://halledelyon.free.fr).
and Brit Air, operates four daily
bistrotsdecuisiniers.com
Saône and Rhône. Delve into the narrow streets and traboules (covered alleys) in the atmospheric old silk-workers’
oil paintings. Petit Léon, next
direct flights to Lyon SaintWHERE TO EAT
Brasseries and bouchons
Exupery Airport from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
quarter La Croix-Rousse (www.
Acclaimed throughout France as
Tourist information
lyontraboules.net), or the
the nation’s gastronomic capital,
www.lyon-france.com
medieval and Renaissance
Lyon is bursting with gourmet
Vieux Lyon district. Take a
restaurants. Most cluster on
Looking for handy, up-to-date
funicular up the Fourvière Hill
lively Presqu’île and touristy
travel information? Check out
for panoramic views.
Vieux Lyon, from classic, bustling
KLM’s new Destination Guide
Brasserie Georges (www.
pages – and book your flight –
WHERE TO SHOP
brasseriegeorges.com) to cosy,
on www.klm.com. Content
distinctive bouchons, such as
provided by Frommer’s
The Carrée d’Or is the crowded
low-priced Le Garet (rue Garet 7;
Unlimited © 2009,
shopping district. Centuries of
+33 4 78281694), serving
Whatsonwhen Limited.
Fair squares
WHAT A SAUCE...
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Cape Town TOUCHDOWN
WATERFRONT ARCHITECTURE
Photo: www.southafrica.net
Height of perfection The second most populous city in South Africa, Cape Town is set on a peninsula consisting of soaring, rocky heights and lush valleys. Immense natural beauty and the fast pace and bright lights of a great urban centre meld effortlessly here. The ‘Mother City’ offers a myriad things to do and places to see, whatever your budget.
NIGHTTIME VIEW FROM TABLE MOUNTAIN
WHAT TO SEE
Blooms with a view
DON’T MISS
crafted African gifts, including
competition is fierce. Pick a
Indigenous flora grows at
wooden masks and near life-
restaurant in Kloof Street for
Kirstenbosch National
size wildlife. The quaint
leisurely dining or try a curry in
Groot Constantia, 20 kilometres from Cape Town, was established in 1685 and is the oldest wine estate in South Africa. Its wines have achieved international recognition. Daily guided tours, including sample tastings of five cellar wines, can be booked throughout the year.
Botanical Gardens (www.sanbi.
Bo-Kaap area specialises in
Bo-Kaap.
org); and penguins inhabit
local beadwork, while the
Boulders Beach. On clear days,
Victoria & Alfred (V&A)
Table Mountain offers
Waterfront mixes classic with
outstanding city views and, if
cutting-edge international
operates one daily direct
the temperamental Cape Doctor
retailers. Shop all day at Canal
flight on Wednesdays,
wind howls, test your
Walk, Africa’s biggest mall, or go
Thursdays, Saturdays,
windsurfing ability or go
window-shopping at Platandia
Sundays and Mondays to
wine-tasting in Groot
(www.platandia.com), one of
Cape Town International
Constantia (see ‘Don’t Miss’).
Cape Town’s most exclusive
Airport from Amsterdam Airport
Private Bag X1, Constantia 7848; 27 21 7945128;
Both the Robben Island
diamond shops.
Schiphol.
www.grootconstantia.co.za
org.za) and the South African
WHERE TO EAT
Tourist information
National Gallery (Government
Must sea
www.tourismcapetown.co.za
A vine time
HOW TO GET THERE
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Museum (www.robben-island.
Avenue, Company’s Garden;
Kalk Bay restaurants like
+27 21 4674660) tell the story
Harbour House (www.
Looking for handy, up-to-date
of the country’s turbulent
harbourhouse.co.za) showcase
travel information? Check out
history.
seafood with ocean views.
KLM’s Destination Guide
Long Street specialises in
pages – and book your flight –
WHERE TO SHOP
game and burgers. Serious
on www.klm.com. Content
Gifts and gems
Italian food is served at La
provided by Frommer’s
Greenmarket Square within
Perla (www.laperla.co.za) in Sea
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the city centre sells hand-
Point, where restaurant
Whatsonwhen Limited.
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THE DOMED MAGNIFICENCE OF SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE
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Photo: iStockphoto
TOUCHDOWN
Florence
TASTY TUSCAN TREATS
Glittering gem This Italian jewel – capital of the Tuscany region – is one of Europe’s most beautiful cities.
DON’T MISS
Its museums, palaces, and churches house some of the world’s greatest cultural treasures.
All that art
Home to the finest collection of Renaissance art, Florence also bustles with craft shops,
The queues for the Uffizi Gallery in central Florence give a clue to the esteem in which this cultural powerhouse is held: quite simply, it’s the world’s finest collection of Renaissance art. Although you’ll probably never get around to seeing all the jaw-droppingly beautiful works of art on show, try not to miss Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and early works by Leonardo da Vinci. Piazzale degli Uffizi; +39 55 2388651; www.polomuseale.firenze.it.
traditional Tuscan trattorie restaurants and riverside ‘aperitif’ bars. WHAT TO SEE
Farmaceutica di Santa Maria
market area, or simple self-
Novella (www.smnovella.it).
service Il Vegetariano (Via
(see ‘Don’t Miss’), visit the
Backstreets like Borgo Santi
delle Ruote 30). Some
iconic, domed Cathedral of
Apostoli are worth exploring.
restaurants are located on the
Santa Maria del Fiore (www.
For designer clothes, make for
romantic banks of the Arno.
duomofirenze.it) and the
Via de’Tornabuoni and Via
exquisite, adjoining,
de’Calzaiuoli, or travel to The
11th-century Baptistry. Marvel
Mall (www.themall.it), an outlet
at Michelangelo masterpieces
in Leccio Reggello. Pick up
in cooperation with code-share
at the Galleria dell’Accademia
leather goods at the San
partner Meridiana, operates
(www.polomuseale.firenze.it),
Lorenzo Market (Piazza San
two daily direct flights to
or cross the Ponte Vecchio
Lorenzo).
Florence Peretola Airport from
bridge to the Oltrarno district WHERE TO EAT
Palace (www.polomuseale.
A taste of Tuscany
Boboli Gardens. WHERE TO SHOP
The right prescription
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines,
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
and potter around the Pitti firenze.it) and its romantic
HOW TO GET THERE
Tourist information www.firenzeturismo.it
Eating out in Florence means savouring regional dishes. Look
Looking for handy, up-to-date
out for bistecca alla Fiorentina
travel information? Check out
(Florentine steak), or tasty bean
KLM’s Destination Guide
soup. Dining options range from
pages – and book your flight –
Florence is home to great craft
restored palace Alle Murate
on www.klm.com. Content
workshops and individual
(www.allemurate.it) to traditional
provided by Frommer’s
stores, like apothecary
Trattoria ZàZà (www.
Unlimited © 2009,
Officina Profumo-
trattoriazaza.it) near the central
Whatsonwhen Limited.
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Choice culture As well as the Uffizi Gallery
THE HEIGHT OF CULTURE
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Holland UPDATE
VERZAMELAARSJAARBEURS Until April 19 Europe’s largest collector’s fair, purveying antiques, paintings, curiosa, toys, coins, stamps, vinyl and CDs. Frides Laméris Art and Antiques
De Jaarbeurs, Jaarbeursplein 26, Utrecht; www.verzamelaarsjaarbeurs.nl
QUEEN’S DAY April 30 This jolly national holiday sees flea markets and street parties in towns and cities throughout the country. www.koninklijkhuis.nl 17TH-CENTURY CRYSTALLINE HUNTING HORN
KEUKENHOF Until May 21 The stunning gardens are in full bloom as
For all tastes
Keukenhof celebrates its 60th anniversary. Keukenhof, Stationsweg 166a, Lisse;
The oldest art and antiques fair in The Netherlands first started exhibiting in
+31 252 465555; www.keukenhof.nl
1967, with just six antique dealers. Since then, it has grown into one of the most important events in the European antiquarian calendar, attracting 90
EXHIBITIONS
leading Dutch, Belgian and German exhibitors, and with an annual attendance
HOLLAND & JAPAN: 400 YEARS OF
figure of around 25,000. There’s something for everybody, with diverse exhibits checked for quality, condition and authenticity. ART & ANTIQUES FAIR April 19-26; Brabanthallen, Diezekade 2, ’s-Hertogenbosch; +31 76 5148760; www.afsh.nl
EVENTS
TRADE Until May 25 Folding screen (1795)
dating from 2000 BC to the present day. All items on sale are rigorously
The artistic and cultural exchange between Dutch traders and the Japanese is the theme of this free-entry exhibition.
for a festive weekend with free – or reduced
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol (Between
TRANCE FESTIVAL April 1-5
– entrance.
Piers E and F), Schiphol Airport;
The phenomenon of trance in various
www.museumweekend.nl
+31 20 6747000; www.rijksmuseum.com
film and concerts in
FORTIS MARATHON ROTTERDAM
LOVE! ART! PASSION!
Amsterdam, Rotterdam and
April 5
Until June 1
Utrecht (plus Antwerp in
The place to go, to see a wealth of
Seventeen artist couples – including Frida
Belgium). www.operazuid.nl
international distance runners in action.
Kahlo and Diego Rivera – take the spotlight.
Start: Coolsingel, Rotterdam;
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag,
www.fortismarathonrotterdam.nl
Stadhouderslaan 41, The Hague; +31 70 3381111;
MOVIES THAT MATTER FESTIVAL April 2-8
www.gemeentemuseum.nl
MOTEL MOZAÏQUE April 9-12
documentaries, debates and exhibitions on
This eclectic festival of music, performances,
Burma All Inclusive
Expect engaging feature films,
GIGS
human rights (formerly the
art and DJs includes Röyksopp, 2ManyDJs,
Mary Black April 2,
Amnesty International Film
The Whitest Boy Alive, ...And You Will Know
Muziekcentrum Frits Philips (Eindhoven)
Festival).
Us By The Trail of Dead.
Mary Black April 9,
Filmhuis Den Haag, Spui 151,
Various locations, Rotterdam;
De Vereeniging (Nijmegen)
The Hague; +31 70 3656030;
www.motelmozaique.nl
Ute Lemper April 10, Nieuwe Luxor Theater (Rotterdam)
www.moviesthatmatterfestival.nl
SPRING DANCE FESTIVAL
Ute Lemper April 11,
NATIONAL MUSEUM WEEKEND
April 16-26
Orpheus (Apeldoorn)
April 4, 5
Compelling cutting-edge international dance.
Lionel Richie April 13, Ahoy (Rotterdam)
In this popular annual event, over 500
Various locations, Utrecht; +31 30 2332032;
museums throughout The Netherlands open
www.springdance.nl
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cultures explored through
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work of influential New York fashion and portrait photographer Avedon. Foam, Keizersgracht 609; +31 20 5516500; www.foam.nl
RESTAURANT VAN GOGH AND THE COLOURS OF THE NIGHT Until June 7 Famous twilight and nocturnal works by Van Gogh. Van Gogh Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7; +31 20 5705200; www.vangoghmuseum.nl
BORN IN GEORGIA Until June 14 Contemporary art from Georgia in this modern museum, just outside Amsterdam.
Under the knife This bright and modern media café occupies a former pathology laboratory, which the witty décor – such as the giant operation lights hanging from the ceiling – subtly alludes to. There’s a ‘lab’ dish of the
Cobra Museum, Sandbergplein 1, Amstelveen; +31 20 5475050; www.cobra-museum.nl
VOODOO: ART & MYSTICISM FROM HAITI Until May 10 An intriguing exhibition of this religion which evolved from slavery. Tropenmuseum, Linnaeusstraat 2; +31 20 5688200; www.tropenmuseum.nl
day for €13.50 and free Wi-Fi. LAB 111, SMART Project Space, Arie
GIGS
Biemondstraat 111; +31 20 6169994;
Jools Holland April 3, Paradiso
www.lab111.nl
Kim Wilde April 6, Paradiso
DO SOME TASTE TESTING IN LAB 111
Bob Dylan April 10-12, Heineken Music Hall Ute Lemper April 13, Concertgebouw
EVENTS
DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER
Razorlight April 14, Paradiso
YANKEE COME BACK From April 1
April 21, 22, 24, 25
Adele April 17, Heineken Music Hall
The Boom Chicago comedy crew’s hilarious
Love and betrayal in late-Victorian London.
Simply Red April 21-22,
multimedia assault on the 400-year relations
The Berliner Ensemble perform Bertolt Brecht
Heineken Music Hall
between America and The Netherlands.
and Kurt Weill’s take on John
Tiga April 29, Paradiso
Leidseplein Theater, Leidseplein 12;
Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera
Miss Kittin & The Hacker April 30,
+31 20 4230101; www.boomchicago.nl
(1728).
Paradiso
Muziektheater, Amstel 3; +31
The car’s the star at this enormous indoor
20 6255455; www.muziektheater.nl
www.expatica.com Inside information for expats
show. RAI, Europaplein 22; +31 20 5491212;
EXHIBITIONS HOLY INSPIRATION Until April 19
www.autorai.nl
www.specialbite.com Cool and comprehensive restaurant reviews
Religion and spirituality in
www.underwateramsterdam.com
modern art explored.
Events and info galore
Formerly known as the
De Nieuwe Kerk, Dam;
www.amsterdam.info
Amsterdam Fantastic Film
+31 20 6386909;
Useful tourist information
Festival, this event
www.nieuwekerk.nl
www.lastminuteticketshop.nl
IMAGINE April 15-26 I Sell The Dead
WEBSITES
celebrates 25 years of sci-fi, horror and fantasy films.
Half-price tickets to events RICHARD AVEDON: PHOTOGRAPHS
Tuschinski, Reguliersbreestraat 26-34;
1946-2004 Until May 13
REMEMBER! This copy of Holland Herald is
www.imaginefilmfestival.nlEXHIBITIONS
The first major retrospective devoted to the
yours to take off the plane.
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twisters Why isn’t the wine you bring back from holiday as delicious at home? What happens when you lay the table for dinner and what does any of this have to do with the way things taste? Annemarie Hoeve delves deep into the science behind everyday flavours...
Enter a bookstore
”The canteen staff is used to getting the oddest requests”
and feast your eyes on entire departments dedicated to cookery, switch on the television and see one culinary programme melt into the other, hear supermarket shelves groan under the stacks of different flavours on offer – and that’s just the crisp aisle. The evidence abounds: taste is an obsession. Yet, considering the intensity of this modern love affair, it is perhaps surprising how little we know about it. We know of course that taste is one of our five senses, that our primary taste organ is the tongue, and that we can distinguish between four main types of flavours: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Less people are aware that we also have receptors for a fifth taste, called umami, a type of savoury flavour. Think of the hearty, almost meaty taste of shiitake mushrooms, and that’s an example of umami. A complex interplay of combined sensations lies at the heart of everything we taste. “When you bite into that biscuit, a lot happens,” explains Professor Kees de Graaf, a specialist in the effect of taste on our eating behaviour at Wageningen University’s Centre for Food and Nutritional Sciences in The
Netherlands. “You taste sugar and think ‘yum’, smells come up through your nose and the nasal passages at the back of your throat, then you experience the texture. All of this together makes you decide these biscuits are tasty,” he says.
This is just the first step. Our sense of taste actually extends far beyond our mouths; beyond the plate even. To find out just how far, the university’s staff canteen has been converted into something called ‘The Restaurant of the Future’. What do they do here? They watch people eat. From cameras hidden in the ceiling. Everyday. Inside the nearby control room, images stream in from every corner of the canteen and cameras can zoom in and out on people munching their lunch. Sounds voyeuristic? It is, and even De Graaf admits that. No need to worry, this is the country that invented reality TV series Big Brother, remember. However, the information gathered here remains anonymous, De Graaf says. Researchers can monitor every move staff members make to learn about their eating behaviour. So far, the food on offer looks rather run-of-the-mill, with the usual spread of bread rolls, fruit and cartons of yoghurt. “We try and keep TASTE Holland Herald
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WEIRD SCIENCE
everything as normal as possible here, otherwise people will start behaving differently,” says Johan Verbon, head of catering. As if the overhead cameras weren’t frightening enough, however, hidden in the floor in front of the cash register is a scale to weigh people as they
”Hidden in the floor is a scale to weigh people as they buy lunch” pay for their lunch. And yes, people have consented to this. They are evidently happy to sacrifice some privacy in the pursuit of knowledge.
In these surroundings, the giant mushrooms set out on some tables suddenly become highly suspicious. Are they testing the effect of fungi on the palate? “They’re wax – just for
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decoration,” smiles De Graaf. So what do they test here? All sorts of things it seems, from how the placement of food affects eating habits, to the role lighting can play. Verbon and his staff are used to getting the oddest requests from the researchers. Sometimes they are asked to wear dirty uniforms or to be very unfriendly while serving to see if that affects how people eat. “It’s a lot of fun,” Verbon says.
Upstairs are ‘mood rooms’ where researchers can further alter the lighting and infuse the room with certain scents such as vanilla or lemon. “Although, we don’t know what vanilla does yet,” De Graaf says. What they do know is that the eating environment affects taste more than you might think. A recent study in a care home for the elderly proves this. Malnutrition is a big problem as the elderly do not eat enough, partly because their sense of taste deteriorates. “Instead of serving everything at once on individual trays, we put the food in the middle of the table and let people help themselves. We got people to eat together and dressed up the whole experience with real cutlery, tablecloths and flowers. The results showed a big improvement without doing anything about the actual taste of the food,” De Graaf says. Since the experiment, dozens of care homes throughout the country are changing their ways. His colleague, molecular flavour scientist Professor Gerrit Smit, has another example: “How many times have you enjoyed a fantastic wine on holiday, while watching a beautiful sunset, only to realise – after you’ve bought a whole case – that somehow at home it doesn’t taste as good?” he asks. “The taste hasn’t changed, just the setting.”
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It does not stop there.
Food also has to look good. As far as taste is concerned, looks can be highly misleading. Smit again has a revealing wine anecdote at the ready. In a famous experiment, a group of professional wine experts in France were invited to sample and describe the characteristics of two sets of wines. On the menu before lunch were various white wines, to be followed after lunch by a number of reds. The descriptions of the afternoon batch were in line with what you would expect of red wines, right down to the tannins, except there was one problem. The wine they had been given in the afternoon was the same white wine they had sampled that morning, except coloured red. “It’s all about expectations. You learn to associate certain tastes with certain appearances,” Smit says. “If you change the colour, it throws you off and your brain makes a whole set of other associations,” he adds. “We fed people green tomato soup and asked them what flavour it was. They didn’t know. I’ve done the test myself and also couldn’t name the flavour,” Smit smiles. Interesting examples, but why should it matter whether we can recognise the taste of tomato soup when it is green instead of red? The point is that these experiments show that our taste expectations can actually override the taste of the food itself. And why is this important? “By understanding these patterns, we can use them to make foods taste better,” Smit says. He has found that by adding spices which people normally associate with salty foods, soup seems saltier, even though less salt has been added. The same can work for sweet or fatty foods. This brings us to one of today’s biggest
challenges: to get people to eat more healthily. The problem, both scientists stress, is that we are genetically hardwired to prefer the taste of sweet, salty and fatty foods, which are the very foods we need to cut down on. “We used to believe in the ‘wisdom of the body’, that you automatically end up choosing the things you need in your diet. Today we know that this is not true; if left to their own devices, people choose what tastes best,” De Graaf says. “Sadly, foods that are better for us often just don’t taste as good,” adds Smit.
”Change the colour of the food and your brain makes a whole set of other associations”
So if science can help make healthy food more palatable, it’s not just good news for our taste buds but also for our waistlines. In the meantime, regardless of the vast amount of knowhow fuelling new foods, the proof of the pudding is still in the eating, and at Wageningen University there are still plenty of puddings to be tested. Yum. Don’t you just love science? TASTE Holland Herald
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Photo contest
If you provide the year’s best shot, you’ll be globetrotting before you can say “where did I put my passport?”
RAPHAELLE STOPIN: COBALT-BLUE BOTTLES, MEXICO
See the world! How does it work?
Don’t be late…
There’s a new theme every three months.
Entries for the Blue category must be
At the end of the fourth quarter (March
received by July 6, 2009. See our
2010), KLM will award the Grand Prize to the
website below for submission details.
What can you win?
overall winner.
Feeling inspired? What theme?
Check out other beautiful shots from
THE GRAND PRIZE
For April, May and June 2009, the theme
previous winners at:
is Blue.
www.hollandherald.nl
A round-the-world ticket for the annual, overall winner CONTEST RULES • Photographs larger than 10x15cm cannot be accepted • Photographs will not be returned • Holland Herald, KLM and the publishers, MediaPartners Group, accept no responsibility for lost material • Copyright clearance and permission of subjects are the responsibility of the photographers. KLM and MediaPartners Group acquire the rights for future use of the images. • The competition is open to readers of Holland Herald who are 18 years of age or older on the date of entry, and who have flown with KLM during the same period as the theme category • Entrants for the Grand Prize will be notified as soon as possible after the closing date of the theme category • Employees of KLM and MediaPartners Group, participating promotional agencies, contributors to Holland Herald, and the families of any of the above are not eligible to enter this competition • The judges’ decisions are final • The Grand Prize cannot be exchanged for cash.
JOSE EMILIO LORENTE: BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
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KLM NEWS
Travellers Check NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR PASSENGERS
1954 Dior models flying KLM. The French couturier named the featured beige woollen suit ‘Flying Dutchman’
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THE AFRICA EXPERIENCE
Amazing Africa Throughout April and May, KLM is providing an Africa Experience for its intercontinental passengers: a feast of events encompassing food, wine, video and other activities, focusing on this fascinating and beautiful continent
SHARE EXPERIENCES
Spread your wings Wherever you conduct your business, it’s always useful to swap experiences and pick up tips from fellow visitors to the destination you’re travelling to. KLM Club Africa is a service for members of Flying Blue, the frequent flyer program of AIR
Africa – full of spectacle, colour, excitement and adventure. A wonderful world rich in wildlife, natural beauty, magnificent scenery and fabulous food. Embark on a journey of inspiration to this vast, diverse expanse over the next two months with KLM’s Africa Experience. KLM intercontinental flights from Amsterdam Schiphol and African destinations Cape Town, Johannesburg and Nairobi* will feature delicious African-inspired menus and wine choices, in cooperation with travel specialists andBEYOND and wine importer Fourcroy Nederland. Menu cards, napkins, headrest covers,
cutlery envelopes and salt and pepper sachets will introduce themed elements. Onboard destination movies will be tailored towards the Africa Experience, as will special promotion videos in KLM lounges at Schiphol. The lounges will also host special African wine-tasting events. And that’s not all. KLM’s tax-free shopping assortment on board also includes numerous articles related to the African Experience. But don’t take our word for it. Enter a special Africa Experience competition (see opposite page) and you could be experiencing the beauty of Africa yourself – courtesy of KLM and andBEYOND!
FRANCE and KLM, and BlueBiz. It is
Visit www.africaexperience.nl for full details.
www.klm.com/clubafrica
an exclusive network for people doing business with or in Africa. You can meet members on almost every page within KLM Club Africa. Every member has their own profile page with personal information. You can easily contact other members via the message centre or add them to your contact overview. There are many ways within KLM Club Africa to find out who is where at what moment. By filling out your personal calendar for instance, KLM Club Africa informs you about other members who will be travelling at the same time, maybe even to the same country or destination. Join the club at
*A limited African-themed menu will be available on flights to and from Japan, Korea, India and China.
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THE AFRICA EXPERIENCE
Menu Available in World Business Class (WBC) and Economy Class as a first meal on intercontinental flights out of Amsterdam. Flights out of Cape Town, Nairobi and Johannesburg will also serve the WBC menu as a first meal. A limited African-themed menu will be available on flights to and from Japan, Korea, India and China.
FOOD WBC Guinea Fowl with Couscous and
potato, sliced carrot with mint and fine
Harissa Salad.
green beans with ginger.
Baked Fish Chermoula:
Ostrich Potjie: Braised ostrich served
Hake accompanied by mashed sweet
with a sauce, roasted diced pumpkin, sugar snaps, new country potatoes with herbs, spring onions and white beans. Chicken Macadamia and Sultanas:
CAMP IN COMFORT AT KICHWA TEMBO
Marinated chicken breast with a parsley, sultana sauce and fine green
Win a trip for two to Kenya
beans with ginger.
Experience the stunning beauty of
Lumberjack Cake with Amarula Sauce.
Africa yourself by entering a simple
macadamia marinade, coconut rice with
competition. You could win a
ECONOMY CLASS
fabulous four-day stay at the Kichwa
m two trays: Passengers can choose from
Tembo Maasai Mara Tented Camp. One of Kenya’s best-loved safari
Tray 1
Tr 2 Tray
camps, Kichwa Tembo offers a
Couscous Salad.
Sp Spiced Carrot Salad with
quintessential game-viewing
Beef Bobotie with Yellow
Sp Spinach.
experience, with sweeping vistas of
s Basmati Rice, Red Peppers
Au Aubergine Curry with
the magnificent Maasai Mara and the
and Mango
Cousc Couscous (with coriander and
Sabaringo River. Kichwa Tembo is
Chutney.
raisins) and Spanish Red Peppers.
renowned for its gracious Kenyan
Passion Fruit.
Passion Fruit.
staff whose warm welcome, charming service and effortless energy delight
WINES
guests from all over the world. Your
WBC
flights will be arranged courtesy of
Nederburg Premier Cuvée (a sparkling
KLM, and accommodation arranged
wine served as a welcome aperitif).
through andBEYOND, a world leader
Nederburg Manor House Chardonnay
in luxury adventure travel and safari
(white).
vacations (www.andbeyond.com).
Nederburg Manor House Sauvignon
To take part in the competition,
Blanc (white).
visit www.klm.com/clubafrica and
Kanu Chenin Blanc (white).
share your successful, memorable,
Nederburg Manor House Shiraz (red).
funny or bitter experiences of doing
Plaisir de Merle (red).
business with or within Africa. Closing
Allesverloren Vintage 2006.
date for entry is May 31, 2009.
ECONOMY CLASS Nederburg Foundation Sauvignon Blanc Chardonnay (white). Nederburg Foundation Merlot (red). Food developed by andBEYOND. Wines supplied by
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KLM BEHIND THE SCENES
Creative catering Inflight catering is achieving higher standards than ever before. Just how is KLM meeting the challenge? Since the 1920s, when low-altitude turbulence meant catering had to be kept simple, inflight food has undergone quite a transformation. The 1950s saw a huge improvement in choice and quality, with the introduction of onboard ovens which enabled prefrozen meals to be easily heated up. The trend for innovation has continued to the present day. The wow factor Celebrity and Michelin-starred chefs now help KLM to keep its menus in the premier league. The latest of these, Sergio Herman, who has three Michelin stars to his name, explains how he brought the ‘wow factor’ to KLM’s World Business Class meals. “The whole process of planning the meal starts, remarkably, one year before it actually arrives in front of the passenger. You have to bear in mind that each meal will be prepared thousands
meals to be served at 35,000 feet, are as different as night and day. People lose about 20% of their sense of taste at high altitudes so you need to use stronger flavours. The subtleties of sweet and sour, salt and bitter also change. You have to take into
SERGIO WORKS ON A THREE-STAR CREATION
account that the meal will be reheated in an oven for 20 minutes, so things like sauces have to have a different consistency. Individual needs “In an effort to cater for individual tastes and different nationalities you
“One in five say they wouldn’t use an airline again if the inflight meal didn’t meet expectations” of times and under considerable time pressure. Despite this, you can still achieve something spectacular! “Cooking everything fresh in a fully equipped kitchen, for people sitting a few metres away and preparing
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ingredients and peanuts. Once you’ve decided on the meal and tested it in the kitchen under similar circumstances to the final preparation, it goes through two or three more testing rounds. I even go up in the air with it, to make sure it looks and tastes as good under
always have to be conscious that you don’t make the menu too neutral. But you can easily overcome this through a creative and original use of seasonings. “Some things have to be avoided completely, such as bones in fish, raw
airplane lighting and at high altitudes. “According to some reports, one in five people say they wouldn’t use an airline again if the inflight meal did not meet their expectations. With this kind of statistic you’re under a lot of pressure to get it right – and, of course, you’ve got your reputation to think of. It’s a different sort of pressure than I face every day in the restaurant, making sure that you’re always top of your game. “Customers’ expectations for inflight food will continue to grow and as people travel more they become more critical. KLM’s regular menu changes and its focus on quality and originality are all good ingredients to meet these future demands.”
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KLM NEWS “Food that brings a smile to your face”
A taste of history
Let’s be direct...
Think of The Netherlands and windmills, clogs, cheese and Delft Blue, the famous Dutch earthenware
heritage, given it a modern twist and applied it to the design of our new inflight catering on European Economy Class flights.
Modern nostalgia Packaging, by designers Blond-Amsterdam (www.blond-amsterdam.nl), takes design cues from the famous Delft Blue
JUST ONE OF LIVERPOOL’S MANY HIGHLIGHTS
Photo: www.AllCanadaPhotos.com
years of KLM, we’ve taken this Dutch
Photo: John Launois/Hollandse Hoogte
design, spring to mind. To celebrate 90
BOOM TOWN CALGARY
porcelain. But they’ve given it their own
With its latest new route, KLM Cityhopper brings Europe’s 2008 Capital of Culture, Liverpool, to just
fourth largest economic region will be
over an hour away from Amsterdam.
also lies at the heart of a strategic oil and
Birthplace of the Beatles, Liverpool has
energy market. Arrival times have been
continued to evolve into a cultural and
planned with the needs of business
architectural jewel and is an interesting
passengers in mind. As a holiday
destination for business travellers. KLM’s
destination, Calgary serves as the perfect
extensive network seamlessly connects
starting point to explore the Rocky
Liverpool with over a hundred destinations
Mountains. The scheduled service,
worldwide. Three daily flights offer
together with KLM’s joint venture partner
complete flexibility.
Northwest Airlines, will be operated using a
Starting on May 3, Calgary, Canada’s
served by one KLM flight per day from Amsterdam, five days per week. Calgary
KLM Airbus A330-200.
Double celebration BLOND-AMSTERDAM’S NOSTALGIC DESIGN
KLM turns 90 as the Keukenhof gardens in The Netherlands turn 60.
unique treatment. If the packaging
To mark this achievement, a selected
doesn’t bring a smile to your face, then
flower grower has created ‘Tulipa KLM’, a
the contents will! A modern interpretation
new tulip which will be christened on April
of Dutch culinary heritage has evolved
7 by KLM President & CEO Peter Hartman,
into a ‘Dutch trattoria’ concept, using only
and Frederique van der Wal, former top
the best ingredients. The Dutch love of
model and founder of the first
good bread, combined with the highest-
international flower brand ‘Frederique’s Choice’. For opening dates and times visit
quality, Italian-themed fillings, delivers a tasty treat. Eet smakelijk!
THE NEW ‘TULIPA KLM’
www.keukenhof.com. Holland Herald
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KLM PEOPLE & PLANET “A unique approach to fighting HIV/AIDS”
Dance4Life www.aircares.nl or click on the Flying Blue link at www.klm.com. You can also make a donation during this flight. For payment details, see the last page of our KLM Inflight Boutique tax-free shopping section in this issue of Holland Herald.
CO2ZERO KLM’s CO2ZERO service offers passengers a user-friendly opportunity EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT HIV/AIDS
to compensate their flights’ CO2 emissions by investing directly in
Every year, millions of passengers board KLM flights with a burning desire to discover new lands.
Inspire, educate, take action!
renewable energy projects. There are no
Dance4Life travels to schools around the
hidden costs - every ‘Compensation Euro’
world to inspire young people with positive,
will be invested in Gold Standard
Unfortunately, while offering new and
fun and powerful workshops that help them
projects, approved by the WWF.
exciting experiences, these same
challenge taboos regarding HIV and AIDS.
countries can also be the home of
Dance4Life offers these young people
One such project - a combined wind/
millions of children in need – a need
correct information and the skills to take
biofuel power-generation facility on
identified in the UN Millennium
responsibility and to protect themselves.
Bonaire - will start producing electricity
Development Goals. KLM AirCares
this year. Twelve wind turbines will save
offers promotional and financial
Celebrate!
around 30,000 tonnes of CO2 per year
support to NGOs to help them achieve
Every two years these young people are
and a new diesel power plant will start a
these goals.
invited to a Dance4Life event, so they can
gradual switch to biofuel in 2011. The goal
celebrate their achievements. United live by
is to make Bonaire a 100% renewable
Dance4Life
satellite they dance as one to inspire the
energy island. For further information visit
Half of the 6,800 people infected with
world to support them, and to remind world
www.klm.com/csr
HIV every day are under 25 years old.
leaders to keep their promises according to
Dance4Life is striving to change the way
the UN Millennium Development Goals.
the HIV pandemic is addressed – it can
“KLM’s passengers can support these
and will be stopped the moment young
young people by donating their Frequent
people have the power to stand up and
Flyer Miles. This will allow us to start up in
say no to unsafe sex.
nine new countries this year,” says Eveline
Dance4Life is a truly global youth
Aendekerk, Director of Dance4Life Int.
movement, using the language of dance and music to connect with young
Contribute today
people. Since 2004, Dance4Life has
For further information about Dance4Life,
empowered and united 500,000 of them
or to donate money and/or Flying Blue
in 20 countries.
Miles, please visit the KLM AirCares website
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KLM DESTINATION NATURE
Coastal conservation Ali Mwachui is Project Manager for the Kiunga Marine National Reserve, one of four global conservation and development projects run by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and part of KLM’s Destination Nature programme. Via a crackling telephone connection to the remote reserve on the northern coast of Kenya, he explained the work he’s doing. “The Kiunga Marine National Reserve has been identified as a biologically important hot spot – meaning that any changes could have a significant impact on the people who depend on it. The marine
INTRODUCING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
population and the coral reefs are coming under threat due to unsustainable fishing
wouldn’t be possible. So a compromise had
waste, as it can’t be kept fresh. We are
practices, pollution by plastic debris from all
to be made.”
currently installing solar panels to provide enough electricity to run a freezer. It’s a
over the world and rising sea temperatures.
Change in mindset
simple solution to a costly problem. The
on the sea and the land for their
“We provide fishermen with sustainable
freezer will enable fish to be stored and
livelihoods, but were unaware of the
fishing gear which allows young fish to
used the next day, meaning less fish has to
damage that fishing with drift-nets was
escape so that they can mature and
be taken from the ocean.
doing to marine life. The unique and near-
reproduce. As a result, only the bigger fish
pristine environment of the reserve is also
are caught. We are also educating fishermen
different local community groups is already
to return younger fish caught by accident.
reducing as they see that we come with
“Members of the local community rely
“Sustainable fishing gear allows young fish to escape and mature” one of only a few breeding spots for the
“I’m particularly proud of the change in
“Initial resistance to these changes from
viable solutions which help everyone. This
mindset towards marine turtles. We have
will make our work in education a lot easier.
introduced a system which allows local
We’ll also continue to monitor
communities to contact us if they discover
environmental changes to see if these are
a turtle nest. Around 58% of discoveries are
caused by global warming or local
now being reported across the reserve.”
conditions. Because even if we cannot
endangered marine turtle. Over 12,000
influence the larger processes, on the
turtles hatch on the beaches in this area
Overcoming resistance
every year. Traditionally, turtles were simply
“Our presence has also brought additional
an additional food source for locals; others
benefits to the community. Mobile medical
Destination Nature is a KLM programme
believed they cured diseases, like asthma.
teams sometimes accompany us on our
that contributes to the sustainable
visits into remote areas of the reserve. This
development of nature and biodiversity at
simple: put a ban in place. But by doing so
has drastically improved the immunisation
its destinations. Besides financial support
you take away both a key food source and
of children under five years, pre-natal care
of specific projects, we actively promote
income. Also, the isolated and expansive
and increased HIV and AIDS awareness.
the nature conservation objectives of the
“To outsiders, the solution might seem
area means that enforcing such a ban
“Around half the fish caught goes to
ground there’s plenty more work to do!”
organisations we work with. Holland Herald
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FOOTBALL EXPERIENCE Highlights of this year’s UEFA Champions League matches will be shown as part of KLM’s inflight entertainment programming in April and May
Set sail for Thailand Heineken will play host to football fans from all over the world to watch the UEFA Champions League Rome Final 2009 on a tropical beach on May 27
PARTICIPANTS IN ICELAND’S STAR FINAL DEMONSTRATE THEIR ENTHUSIASM FOR THE EVENT!
FANS ENJOY THE STAR FINAL IN SOUTH AFRICA
The Star Final is all about watching
one enthusiatic fan after the Star Final in
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Iceland. “It was an amazing experience, just
fan experience by entering the online
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brilliant,” was a typical reaction received
game at www.starfinal.com/traveller.
exotic location with Heineken as your
after the event in South Africa last year.
host. Last year, more than 250 elect
This year’s Star Final will take place at
The UEFA Champions League is the greatest club football competition in the
participants watched the UEFA Champions
an exotic location in Thailand from May
world. It showcases the best players, the
League Final in the middle of the African
25-27. You will receive a chance to win
best clubs and some of the most
wilderness. The year before, the lucky ones
tickets for a three-day journey to discover
passionate fans in football. With coverage
got hold of a ticket for a special location
the sights, sounds and flavours of
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under the starry sky of Iceland. Both
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it has become a truly global phenomenon.
events scored extremely high with the
of the trip: watching the UEFA Champions
A natural fit for the world’s most
participants: “I thought the entire trip was
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in virtually every country in the world..
WATCH THE STARS ON A TROPICAL BEACH! To play the game and win tickets for the Heineken Star Final, go to www.starfinal.com/ traveller. From April 1-30, 2009, football fans can compete online. By following clues, answering football questions and working together, players can win a place at a fantastic party in Thailand, where they will join a global audience and enjoy the UEFA Champions League Rome Final 2009 on a tropical beach. The race is on! Holland Herald
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KLM FLYING BLUE NEWS “End your journey with the ultimate in luxury”
Italian glamour Following the acquisition of Jolly Hotels and Framon Hotels Group, Flying Blue partner, NH Hoteles, is now able to offer even more choice for business travellers and those looking to escape for a few days of pampering. Each stay offers another opportunity to earn Award Miles. To get there, why not take advantage of Promo Awards@ which offer great flight deals exclusively to Flying Blue members. Visit www.nh-hotels.com for more information. NH HOTELES NHOW MILANO
How to join Flying Blue
Urban escapes
AIR FRANCE KLM’s frequent flyer programme, Flying Blue, allows you to earn both Level and Award Miles.
Parkroyal Hotels and The Doyle Collection are the latest additions to the Global Hotel Alliance. These
Award Miles can be redeemed for
hotels offer everything from gastronomic
flights and other products. Level Miles
delights to spa treatments but, above all,
count towards a higher membership tier,
a new level of comfort and hospitality in
each offering different benefits such as
11 key global cities. Flying Blue Members
access to airport lounges and extra
earn up to 500 Award Miles per stay
baggage allowance.
and Platinum members can request an
To enroll, please take a brochure from
upgrade subject to availability.
the racks on board, ask the cabin crew or
For further information visit
visit www.klm.com.
www.globalhotelalliance.com.
PHONE ON BOARD In the air, you can still be there. Discover how easy it is to keep in touch, with phones on board KLM’s B747-400, B777, MD-11 and Airbus 330 aircraft. • For operation of the wall-mounted phone, see the placard on the wall below the phone. • If you have in-seat entertainment,
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.
CROKE PARK HOTEL, DUBLIN
Platinum, Gold, Silver and Ivory go green Flying Blue has come up with an innovative new way to protect the environment. By the end of this year, we will become the first frequent flyer programme to have replaced all of our membership cards with cards made from natural vegetal polymers. This move will save around seven tonnes of PVC annually.
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Exceptional moments for valued customers. Whether you’re traveling 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.
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.
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
To sign up, please take a folder out of the racks onboard or ask the cabin crew. You can also sign up online at klm.com or airfrance.com
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KLM ENTERTAINMENT “More than six days of back-to-back film 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
Interacting
Instant access to over 85 movies, available
Who could resist sending someone a
in various languages, ranging from the
‘Guess where I am?’ SMS from a mile
classics to the latest big screen
above the Atlantic? Forgotten to bring
blockbusters. Comedies, sit-coms,
directions to your hotel? Simply use the
documentaries, news and travel shows are
built-in email to ask a colleague for
just a click away.
directions.
Listening
Stimulating
Compile your own playlist or select a
Challenge a fellow passenger to a game,
specific CD. There are hundreds of hits for
browse our extensive database of
every taste and every mood. If you prefer,
information and interesting trivia, or
you can just sit back and relax with a great
expand your horizons with one of the 23
audio book.
Berlitz language courses.
MOVIE TOP 10 - APRIL Frost/Nixon (Biography/Drama) Marley & Me (Comedy/Romance) Revolutionary Road (Drama/Romance) Role Models (Comedy) Seven Pounds (Drama) Spion Van Oranje (Action/Comedy) The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Drama/Fantasy) The Wrestler (Drama/Sport) Transporter 3 (Action/Adventure) Yes Man (Comedy) BENJAMIN BUTTON - JUST ONE OF 85 MOVIES AVAILABLE ONBOARD
Too much choice?
Adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case Of Benjamin
Check out our online film guide before your
Button is about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. A man like
next flight at www.klm.com (select: Travel
any of us, unable to stop time. It is the moving tale of the loves he loses and finds, the
Information; On Board; Entertainment).
joys of life, and the sadness of death. Starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
* With the exception of Boeing 747-400 Economy Class. Retrofittng will commence this summer.
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WWW.KLM.COM “Treat yourself to more during your next flight”
Room for more
Up-to-the-minute info With KLM’s flight notification service you’ll find out about any changes to your flight as soon as they happen! To receive text message or email notifications about delays or
Worried about excess luggage? You can
www.klm.com, select ‘Manage My
reserve extra baggage space on your
Booking’ and enter your preferred
flights via check-in at www.klm.com.
mobile phone number or email address. You can also receive boarding alerts and gate changes for Schiphol.
KLM e-services make your travel planning faster, easier
Photo: Getty Images
cancellations, simply visit
By arranging this online, you not only save time at the airport, you also save 30% on the normal charges STAY INFORMED BY TEXT MESSAGE
levied at the airport check-in desk.
Wanted: extra legroom
and more rewarding than ever.
Perhaps it’s a special occasion, or you
For example, you can relate your
simply want to treat yourself or a loved
travel experiences with a direct,
one? The solution: Economy Class
easy-to-use link with KLM
seating with extra legroom or just two
Customer Support. Via the ‘Contact
seats in a row.
us’ button on the website, your
When checking in via www.klm.com
communication can usually be
these preferred seats can be reserved
handled within five days! KLM
for a small supplement.
offers a full range of services via
Available exclusively using our online
its website www.klm.com.
check-in.
Fly, drive and stay Did you know that, as well as booking flights, you can also make a hotel reservation or rent a car via www.klm.com? KLM works with reliable partners such as Booking.com for hotel reservations, and Avis for car rental. Flying Blue members can earn up to 700 Award Miles per car rental, and are eligible for a free upgrade. WWW.KLM.COM OPENS DOORS FOR CAR RENTAL
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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.
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920
12,900
1989 KLM is the first European
412,800
112,000
70.67
64.44
airline to introduce the new generation 747-400s.
Boeing 777-300ER
2001 KLM is the first European airline to introduce the next generation of 737-900s.
2003-2004 KLM embarks on an extensive fleet renewal programme.
Artwork KLM fleet: Hans Murris, KLM Engineering & Maintenance, SPL/WM
2005 KLM starts adding the first of
2
900
14,200
64.80
351,543
425
73.86
yes!
12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft to its fleet.
2008
KLM’s first two (out of a
total of six) Boeing 777-300ERs are
Boeing 777-200ER
put into operation.
Thanks to its efficient network, its modern fleet and many economical measures, KLM’s performance regarding fuel efficiency is one of the best in Europe. The website www.klm.com/ travel/csr_en gives full information
15
900
13,400
60.90
297,500
327
63.70
yes!
on KLM’s corporate social responsibilty and sustainable air transport activities.
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How big, how small, how far…?
KLM PLANE FACTS
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
10
880
11,400
51.96
280,300
294
61.21
yes!
Airbus A330-200
Boeing 737-900/800
10
880
10,700
60.30
233,000
251
58.37
yes!
5
850
4,600
35.80
21
850
4,200
35.80
76,900
189
41.91
73,700
171
39.47
Boeing 737-700
4
850
3,600
65,300
129
33.60
Boeing 737-400/300
35.80
13
800
3,600
28.88
10
800
2,850
28.88
62,800
147
36.45
56,900
127
33.40
EMBRAER 190
3
850
47,790
100
4,500
Fokker 100/70
16
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
12 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
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Our partners, your benefits KLM is a member of SkyTeam, an alliance of 11 airlines and 3 associate airlines. This offers you a
higher membership tier, each offering
largest airline group; together with KLM’s
different benefits such as access to
long-standing US partner, Northwest
airport lounges and extra baggage
Airlines, we guarantee you a perfectly
variety of benefits such as: 905 global
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Amsterdam / Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands
B18 B14 B12 B10 B8
Gates B
M7
4 B19 B15 B11 B17 B13 B9
M6
H7
M5
Gates M
C14 to C21 - C26
C12
C16
Gates C
C10
C8
C15 - C18
C6
4
M4 M3
C5
H2
Schiphol Plaza
T2
H1
3
D14 D12 D68
D2 D4 D60 D8 D62 D64
D10 D66
3
6 Lounge 3 4 T9 12
G2
3
Lounge 2
F2
T8
Holland Boulevard E2
D43 D73
3
G7 G9
G4
Lounge 3
G6 G8
F3
T6
F4
E4
Gates G
F5
3 E3
F7 F6
E6
E5
F9
Gates F E8
7
E9
E18
E17
Transfer desk E20
Self-service transfer
Gates E
KLM Crown Lounge
F8
E7
E15
T
3
2 1
D41 D71
D42 D44 D72 D46D74 D48 D76 D52 D78 D54 D82 5 D47 D56 D84 D49 D77 D86 D51 D79 D53 D81 D55 D83 D57 D85 D87
G3 G5
1
2
T5 T4
D3 D5 D59 D7 D61 D63
Gates D
Gates B-C, D 59-87, M
G11-16
8
Lounge 1
Schengen
Gates H
H3
M1
C11
D16 D18 D22 D24 5 D26 D21 D28 D23 D25 D27 D29 D31
H5 H4
4
M2
C7
C9
H6
C4
4 C13
KLM flights arrive at / depart from gates B, C, D, E, F. Air France and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from gates B and C. Continental, Delta and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from gate G. Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from gate E. Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from gate D. For KLM passengers travelling to Antwerp (Thalys) and Rotterdam (NS): Please ensure you collect your luggage in Amsterdam and change your KLM (e-) ticket for a Thalys/NS ticket at the Netherlands Railways (NS ) desk at Schiphol Plaza (just past immigration).
to B22 - B29
Passengers with access to KLM’s Crown Lounges and who are transferring to European (Schengen) flights are kindly advised to use Crown Lounge 25, located near the Schengen gates behind passport control, when arriving on intercontinental flights.
E19
E22
Top Level Second floor
E24
KLM Crown Lounge
25
Gates D KLM Crown Lounge
52
Paris / Charles De Gaulle Airport Terminal 2, France Delta, Northwest Airlines and AeroMexico flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2E. Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2C.
KLM and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2F, gates F21-36. Air France flights arrive at / depart from Terminals 2A, B, C, D. E and F.
Continental flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2A. Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 2B.
TERMINAL 2E TERMINAL 2A
TERMINAL 2C C88-C89
C86-C87 C84-C85 C82-C83
A50-A51
A48-A49 A46-A47 A44-A45
4
3
4
4
3
F41-F43
T
F56
T
F54-F55
F2
F44-F45
F34
F47
F53
F48
F52
F49
F51
F36 F35
F46
F26
F1
F27
F32 F31
3 2
T D74 D76
D53-D54 D55-D56
D57-D58 D61-D62 D64-D65 D70-D71 D60-D61
D72-D73
B33-34 B31-B32 B21-B22 B23-B24 B26-B27-B28 B29-B30 B25
TERMINAL 2D
F29
TERMINAL 2B
F30
A1 Gate Numbers
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2
3
T
F28
F33
TERMINAL 2F Schengen
F50
E80-E87
T
Thalys/RER/TGV Railway station
3
3
4
T F21-F25
3
A42-A43 A40-A41
T
T
E51 E76
80
C80-C81
T
C90-C91
E91-E96
Baggage Claim 4
Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)
T
Transfer desk Air France Lounge Transfer by train
3
Transfer by shuttle 3 outside Customs Area Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area, only between 7:30am and 1:30pm
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Milan / Malpensa Airport, Italy Satellite A serves arrivals at / departures from all Schengen countries. Airlines on this pier are KLM, Air France and Alitalia. TERMINAL 1
Satellite B serves arrivals at / departures from all non-Schengen countries. Airlines on this pier are Delta and Continental.
5 5
10
5
VIP Lounge 5
5
Satellite A
Satellite B
Rome / Fiumicino Airport, Italy KLM, Air France and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Delta, Continental and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal C. VIP Lounge
5 10
TERMINAL A 5
TERMINAL C
5
5
TERMINAL B
Satellite
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Minneapolis / Saint Paul International Airport, USA
B1 B3 B5 B7 B9 B11 B13 B15
LINDBERGH TERMINAL B Concourse D Concourse
D4
B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 B12 B14 B16
C Concourse D5
D3 D2 D1
C5 D6
C1
C3
C4
C7 C6
C8
C9
C10
C11
C14 C13 C12
C2
C22 C15 C17 C19 C21 C24 C26 C20 C16 C18 C23 C25 C27
A Concourse A1
A5
A3 A4
A2
A7 A6
A9 A8
A11 A13 A10 A12 A14
E4 E9 E5 E3
E7
E1
E Concourse (Lower level) F Concourse F5 F9
WorldClub Facility
F1 F3
F7
F11 F13 F15 F16 F14
First floor
International flights arrive at / depart from gates G1 to G9. Continental and Delta flights arrive at / depart from Concourse E. KLM flights arrive at / depart from Concourse G. Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from all concourses.
F2 F6 F10
G22 G21
F4
F8
G9
G1
G10
F12 G3 G2
G5 G4
G7 G6
G8
G11 G13 G12
G15 G14 G16
G17 G19 G18 G20
G Concourse
New York / John F Kennedy Airport, USA TERMINAL 8
TERMINAL 7
TERMINAL 6
TERMINAL 9
KLM, Northwest Airlines, Continental, Continental Express and Czech Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 4. Air France, AeroMexico, Aeroflot, Alitalia, and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 1. Delta flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 3.
TERMINAL 5
TERMINAL 1
TERMINAL 4
TERMINAL 2
TERMINAL 3
Newark Liberty International Airport, New York, USA 136 137 138 139 128
135 134 133 132 131
A1
130
125 126 127 124 123 122
121 120
TERMINAL A 23 24 25
TERMINAL C
20
A2
102 104A 104B 106 108A 110A 108B 110B112A 112B 101 114A 103A 114B 103B 105 107A 107B 109 111 115A 113A 115B 113B
28 27
26A 26B
70
TERMINAL B
72 71 90
91
73
A3
92
94
74 93 80
82
B1
81
84
B2
B3
95
97 99
83
86
85 88
96 98
75
KLM, Air France, Delta, Czech Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Continental and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Continental (from / to Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Washington D.C.) flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A. Continental (from / to London Heathrow) flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Continental and Continental Express flights arrive at / depart from Terminal C. Presidents Club
87
WorldClub Facility
82
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Atlanta / Hartsfield-Jackson Intercontinental Airport, USA
B36
NORTH
C36
C35
A34
A33
B34
B33
C34
C33
D36
D35
T14
A32
A31
B32
B31
C32
C31
D34
D33
A30
A29
B30
B29
C30
C29
D32
D31
A28
A27
B28
B27
C28
C27
D30
D29
A26
A25
B26
B25
C26
C25 D28
D27
A24
A23
B24
B23
C24
D26
D25
A22
A21
B22
B21
C20
C17
D24
D23
C15A
D22
D21
C15
D16
D15
C11
D14
D13
D12
D11
D10
D9
D8
D7
T12 T11 T10 T9
A20
A19
B20
B19
C18A
T8
A18
A17
B18
B17
C18
T7
A16
A15
B16
B15
C16
A14
T6
A13
A12
B14
A11
B12
C21
C14
B13 B11
C9
C12
E31
E30
E31A E29
E28
E27
E26
E14 E16 E18
E12
A10
A9
B10
B9
C10
C7
A8
A7
B8
B7
C8A
C5
A6
A5
B6
B5
C8
C3
D6
D5
T2
A4
A3
B4
B3
C6
C2
D4
D3
T1
A2
A1
B2
B1
C4
C1
D2
D1
Crown Rooms (Delta Airlines)
E15 E17 E10
E11
C7A
T4 T3
E33 E32
C23
T5
SOUTH
E34 E36 E35
T15
T13
TERMINAL T
D38
KLM, Air France, AeroMexico and Korean Air flights arrive at / depart from Terminal E. Continental, Continental Express and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal D. Delta flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A, B, C, D, E and T.
Presidents Club
E8
E9
E6
E7
E4
E7A E5 E2 E1 E3
TERMINAL A
TERMINAL B
TERMINAL C
TERMINAL D
TERMINAL E
Houston / George Bush Intercontinental Airport, USA
TERMINAL A North Concourse
TERMINAL B North Concourse
TERMINAL C North Concourse
C18
TERMINAL D North Concourse
C19 C17
KLM, Air France, AeroMexico flights arrive at / depart from Terminal D. Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Delta flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A. Continental Connection flights arrive at / depart from Terminal A. Continental Express flights arrive at / depart from Terminal B. Continental flights arrive at / depart from Terminal C, D and E.
C20 B79 B79A
A14
A15
A12
A11
A10
B81 A9 B81A
B80
A1
A2 A8
C16
B86 B85A B77 B77A B76 B76A
C21 B85
C15
B87 C22
B84A B84B B84C
C14
B88
A7
C26
C25
C24
C30
C31
C32
D6 D6A
D5
C23
B83 B83A
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
B71
B61
B63 C33
E10A E10B
E1
B62 B62A
E11
E12
E14
E23
C34 C42 C35 C41 C36
TERMINAL A South Concourse
TERMINAL B South Concourse
TERMINAL C C37 South Concourse C38 C39
E2
E9
E15A-E15B
E3
E8
E16
E21
E7A-E7B
E17
E20A-E20B
E4A-E4B C40
TERMINAL E E18A South Concourse
E22
E6
E5A E5B
E18B
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SKYTEAM AIRPORT HUB GATES Detroit / Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, USA
B20 B18 B16 B12 B10 B8
B6
B4
C2
B2
C4
KLM, Air France and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Concourse A.
C6 C8 C10 C12 C14 C16 C18 C20 C22 C24 C26 C28 C30 C32 C34 C36 C38 C40
McNAMARA TERMINAL
C43 B21 B19 B15 B11 B7
B5
B3
B1
C1
C3
C5
C7
C9 C11 C15 C17 C19 C21 C23 C25 C27 C29 C31 C33 C35 C37 C39 C41
Concourse B
Delta, Continental and Northwest Airlines flights arrive at / depart from Concourse B and C.
Concourse C Tunnel
A6
A8
A10
A4
A72 A12
A18
A20
A24
A28
A30
A34
A36
A38
A40
A46
A50
A54
A56
A60
A64
A66
A68
A74
A76 A78
A70
A2
A77
A1
A75 A3
A5
A7
A9
A11
A15
A17
A19
A23
A21
A25
A27
A29
A31
A33
A35 A41
Concourse A south
A43
A45
A47
A49
A51
A53
A55
A57
A59
A61
A63
A65
A67
A69
A71
WorldClub Facility
A73
Concourse A north
KEY A1 Gate Numbers
Check-in Self-Service Check-in Passport control / Security check
T
Transfer by shuttle bus
Transfer desk
Transfer by train
Baggage Claim
Walking distance from point to point (average time in minutes)
4
Tokyo / Narita International Airport, Japan
Concourse C C87
C85
C83
KLM, Air France, AeroMexico, Delta, Continental, Korean Air, Northwest Airlines and Alitalia flights arrive at / depart from Terminal 1. Facility WorldClub
Concourse D C81
D88
D91
D93
D95
D97 D99
T
D86
D98 C84
C82
D92
D94
D96
E80
TERMINAL 2 Concourse B B74
B73
B72
Concourse A B71
T
E60
A61
A62
A63
58
A64
57 56
14 15
Satellite 1
12
55
11A 11B
54 51
16
17
18
22
21
T
Satellite 2
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52
23
24
47
32 28A 25 2F
26
27
31
34
33
38
36
35
37
46 45 44
41
42
43
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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 with an antenna must be switched off completely throughout the flight. Mobile
Electronic equipment without an antenna, such as CD players,
are served to
laptops or electronic games,
passengers in their assigned seats. For
phones may be used
during cruise flight and ground-stop.
on board the aircraft
At all other times, please switch off
as long as the aircraft
and stow your personal
bar. Passengers are not permitted to
doors are open
electronic equipment if
drink alcoholic beverages brought
(unless communicated
the ‘Fasten Seat Belt’
on board with them.
otherwise by flight/
sign is on.
cabin crew).
may be used
Individual drinks
safety reasons, the purser may close the
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
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1 re-sealable
transparant plastic bag
Medication
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per passenger
Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino and Switzerland. For further information visit http://europa.eu.int.
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Tax
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Quantity
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