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Holland Herald APRIL 2011 YOUR COPY TO KEEP

The fresh issue Welcome to the April issue, and the blossoming of spring across Europe and the northern hemisphere. This month’s cover, shot exclusively for Holland Herald, is intended to convey the excitement and refreshing change this season can bring. It also gives a nod to a few traditional Dutch symbols, including tulips, the colour orange and a pair of clogs from Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf.

Enjoy your flight.

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17 The fresh files

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Water desalination, innovative art, and a funky chicken

Cover photo: Frank Uyttenhove@Unit C.M.A. Production: mantree.be. Model: Zoe at IMM-Bruxelles. Styling: gladysint.com. Hair and make-up: Vera Dierckx.

‘Raquel’ Delft Blue Viktor & Rolf clog, handmade by Jos Hoogkamp, courtesy Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen. Post-production: magicgroup.nl

26 Facts & figures Fresh by numbers, factoids, and tiny nuggets of info

54 Hip-hop

48

A brief history of rap music, from Kool Herc to Nederhop

58 Food science How a Dutch

Edible people

Munich

firm hopes to

Swedish photographer Carl Kleiner takes fresh fruit and vegetables, and brings them to life

The capital of Bavaria in southern Germany is a feast of fresh produce, from bratwurst to beer

tackle food shortages

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10 Frontlines Little bits of everything

63 Updates What’s on in The Netherlands

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67 Touchdowns The best city guides

79 Photo competition Enter your travel photos and win an intercontinental flight

Xiamen

Profile

Sitting between Hong Kong and Shanghai, China’s Xiamen may be the country’s most welcoming city

Dutch rower Sjoerd Hamburger on winning the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and his hopes for the Olympics

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CONTENTS

Holland Herald holland-herald.com Volume 46 Number 4 April 2011 Published by Ink, London, UK Editorial by MediaPartners Group, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

KLM Travellers Check

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KLM news Europe Business Class and fine dining

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Behind the scenes KLM’s social media network

People & planet Educating young entrepreneurs in the developing world

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Flying Blue news + entertainment Frequent flyers and what’s on

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klm.com KLM’s internet services

93 94 96 103 105 106

Partners Our companion companies

Plane facts KLM’s fleet in focus

Route maps The world at your fingertips

Airport hubs Amsterdam and Paris

KLM Media Manager Frederic van Nierop

EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief Mike Cooper Editor Matt Farquharson Art Director Esther Tji Concept Lava, Amsterdam Designer Allan Grotjohann Photo Editor Sandra de Cocq Contributors Daniel Allen, Kit Ballantine, Pip Farquharson, Julia Gorodecky, Annemarie Hoeve, Mark Horn, Marcus Koppen, Cecily Layzell, Kevin Lee, Fulco Smit Roeters, Wolter Top, Sam Vanallemeersch, Nick Walton, Anna Whitehouse, Ken Wilkie MediaPartners Group PO Box 2215 1180 EE Amstelveen The Netherlands Editorial inquiries +31 20 5473600 mikecooper@mediapartners.nl

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Fit for flying Tips and exercises

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Heineken returns to Asia with the ®

UEFA Champions League Trophy Trophy Tour Route The UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour, presented by Heineken, embarking its Asian route has already visited Malaysia and Thailand, in March.

It is scheduled to make its next exciting stops in April, visiting South Korea and Hong Kong.

The schedule of the 2011 UEFA Champions League Trophy Tour presented by Heineken is: March 5 - 6: Penang, Malaysia

Heineken® has embarked on its fifth

Asian consumers are actually getting

consecutive UEFA Champions League

a second chance to see the famous

March 11 - 12:

Trophy Tour, giving football fans

UEFA Champions League Trophy this

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

in Asia the memorable opportunity

year after Heineken decided to take it

to experience the unique UEFA

back to Malaysia, Thailand and Hong

Champions League Trophy first hand.

Kong four years after its first tour of the

The Trophy Tour, which was launched

continent in 2007. Back then, more

March 19 - 20:

at an exclusive ceremony by double

than 50,000 football fans turned up

Chiang Mai, Thailand

UEFA Champions League winner

to see the prestigious trophy up close.

Marcel Desailly and UEFA Champions

However, fans in South Korea will get

League Trophy Ambassador, Graeme

their first glimpse of the prize on this

LeSaux at UEFA Headquarters in

year’s Tour, when it makes its stopover

Switzerland, marked the start of an

in Seoul.

March 16 - 17: Bangkok, Thailand

March 25 - 27: Kon Kaen, Thailand April 6 - 9: Seoul, South Korea

exciting line up of Heineken events for Asian football fans ahead of the

April 15 - 17:

UEFA Champions League Final in

Hong Kong, China

London, May 28th.

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Marcel Desailly gets his hands on the UEFA Champions League Trophy once again Heineken Brand Ambassador, Marcel Desailly is no stranger to the UEFA Champions League Trophy.

He is a double winner having won it with two separate clubs. His first taste of victory came in 1993 when he played with Olympique de Marseille in a 1-0 victory over AC Milan.

He subsequently was transferred to AC Milan where he won the UEFA Champions League again the following year, scoring in the final himself in a 4-0 demolition of the heavily fancied FC Barcelona. In doing so, he became the first player to win the tournament in consecutive seasons with different clubs.

Marcel, what do you think about Heineken bringing the

in the country with the best league

concentration of all the best players,

Trophy Tour back to Asia?

in the world.

especially at the knock-out stage with 16 teams. The rhythm and intensity is

It is about their passion and their opportunity to discover how big

Will the final make for a

UEFA Champions League football

better experience for the

really is. It is for the fans and the

fans if an English team (like

What is your fondest memory

people who are very far away from

your former team, Chelsea)

of the UEFA Champions League

us [here in Europe], and to give them

reaches the final?

from your playing career?

access to the UEFA Champions League

For sure! It brings something extra if

All my victories for sure, with different

Trophy… it’s fantastic.

an English team reaches the final. It is

teams and at different times, for that

on home ground, it is familiar and it

the UEFA Champions League is unique!

What do you think the UEFA

brings extra motivation. It’s like having

Champions League Final will

the final of the World Cup in France,

be like at Wembley?

which brought something amazing to

The UEFA Champions League in the

the French national team.

worth that of any other competition.

new Wembley will be a fantastic moment for sure. First of all, because

Do you think the UEFA

it is the UEFA Champions League Final

Champions League is the

and the first in the new Wembley and

best tournament in the world?

secondly, because it will be played

Probably yes, because it is a real

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Frontlines

Arts, design, culture, events and ideas from across the globe Words: Annemarie Hoeve

Website ■ Words meet graphics

INTERNET

For all you royalists

{} If you haven’t been invited to the British royal wedding, you’ll just have to make do with the memorabilia. Putting a different spin on things is KK Outlet. They’ve made a series of plates honouring Prince William and Kate Middleton’s big day. With sentiments like ‘Thanks for the free day off’ and ‘Will 4 Kate 4 Eva’, they might not become collector’s items. See kkoutlet.com

Wordle Like playing around with words? Try the website Wordle. Copy any text into the display, hit the ‘go’ button, and Wordle arranges the contents in an appealing visual ‘word cloud’, giving prominence to those that occur most frequently.

Even the most boring report ends up looking like poetry. You can tweak the fonts, colour scheme and shape of the ‘cloud’ yourself.

Copy cluster This is the word cloud generated by entering the entire contents of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. The words ‘fish’, ‘old’ and ‘man’ figure prominently – no surprises there.

See wordle.net

Travel

As with many of these concept designs, the question remains whether this will ever really be built.

But why let a trivial detail such as reality get in the way? It’s more fun to fantasise about the future. See iags.carbonmade. com

Floatel Hotel design ■ Shape-shifter

For Italian architect Gianluca Santosuosso, the luxury hotel of the future floats, can change shape and sail the seas, docking at different harbours en route. His MORPHotel concept is to be an ‘independent aquatic organism’, with its own vegetable garden and floating farm for producing food. Each pod resembles a vertebra, and strung together it becomes a one kilometre long, floating ‘spine’.

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FRONT LINES For disorganised souls always losing keys, wallet, phone, diary, sunglasses and gum to the deepest, darkest depths of their handbags, this leather BagPod organiser should sort you out. See reddogabergavenny.com

TREATS

In an age of digital audio files, the mixtape revival is in full swing. This unisex wallet by London designer and illustrator Haniboi is a practical blast from the past. See haniboi.com

Daredevils can now record their most hair-raising exploits with this water- and shock-proof video camera, the comfortcam Adventure Camera. It attaches to your helmet, has an inbuilt microphone, and plugs in to a PC or TV. See trebs.nl

Flavour of the month New York ■ Temporary restaurant

KEUKENHOF ■ Until 20 May

Seven million flower bulbs – all planted by hand – create this stunning, multi-coloured ‘spring garden’, one of the most photographed places on earth.

Take a boat ride through the 32-hectare park, which also pays homage to that famous Dutch symbol, the tulip, by featuring more than 100 varieties. For more details see keukenhof.nl. Nearby Tulipland (tulipland.nl) in Voorhout has a 63m by 4m panorama painting of the fields as they were in the 1950s and films about the history of flower growing in the area. For more events in Amsterdam and The Netherlands, turn to pages 63 and 65.

A new take on the pop-up trend is What Happens When, a restaurant in New York. It will completely reinvent itself every 30 days for nine months, until it is demolished. One chef, two designers and a sound composer will alter the menu, setting and sounds for an experience based on suggestions from individual patrons via the website. It’s all being funded by Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform for creative concepts. See whathappenswhennyc.com

Scenic Points Amsterdam

BOOKS

More than 44 million visitors in the last 60 years

Photo: Felix Voss

Culture

Amsterdam, seen from above. This new guidebook reveals 30 of the best spots for surprising bird’s eye views of the city.

There are the golden oldies, such as the Westerkerk, but also a few less obvious vantage points.

Written in Dutch and English, although the English can be a little quirky. Published

by Gottmer.

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Rubbish idea Recycling ■ Bin it

DESIGN

Is it a robot, a spaceship, or a giant Easter egg? Actually, this slick piece of design is nothing more than that most mundane of household objects, a rubbish bin. Apart from looking good, it also adds to your green credentials: it’s made from recycled polymers and has separate compartments for materials that can be recycled.

It’s a waste not to give it a prominent place.

First launched at the 2008 London Design Festival, the Ovetto bin has already become something of a contemporary classic, with Italian architect and designer Gianluca Soldi proving that recycling doesn’t have to be boring. See gianlucasoldi.com

Architecture

Urban antics Nature ■ City life Turku, Finland is the 2011 European Capital of Culture. Among the usual raft of theatre and art extravaganzas is antspotting. There are a number of special routes acquainting visitors s with the secret life of Turku’s most industrious insects, whose work the city seems particularly proud of. Zoom in on these hidden urbanites between 1 May and 31 August. See turku2011.fi/en

Ferrarti Driving ambition

Dutch painter Ton Pret has no regrets. Until five years ago, the self-taught artist sold insurance. At the age of 51, he traded it all in for his calling. His unmistakable style has since attracted celebrity clients such as U2 singer Bono, who asked him to design a T-shirt for his fair-trade clothing line. And last year, he exhibited his true artistic drive by painting a Ferrari F355 GTS. See english.tonpret.nl

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Photo: Hilleen Peters

A colossal walkway of coloured glass will be opening soon on the roof of ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. The artwork by Olafur Eliasson, entitled Your Rainbow Panorama, will cast a kaleidoscope of hues on the city below. Eliasson is best known for his Weather Project, resembling a giant sun, at London’s Tate Modern in 2003. See aros.dk

From insurance to fast cars

Inside a rainbow

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FRONT LINES Colour code

Kodachrome

Pantone’s colour gurus have determined that the 2011 ‘colour of the year’ is Honeysuckle, aka Pantone 18-2120. Why? “In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating colour that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. Last year’s colour was Turquoise, so there might be quite some blues to ward off.

Famous for its vibrant colours, and a 1973 Paul Simon song, Kodachrome film became obsolete at the end of last year when Dwayne’s Photo Service, the last developer, stopped developing it. Before the final hour, Jim DeNike drove from Arkansas to the Kansas store to hand in his last cache of 1,580 rolls. It cost him $15,798 to have the 50,000 slides developed.

They were all of trains.

ENVIRONMENT

An emotional way to save water

Sink or swim?

Conservation ■ On tap To stop people from wasting water, designer Yan Lu is tapping into a new type of emotional blackmail: goldfish guilt. Turn on the tap of his Poor Little Fish Basin and the water level in the bowl drops, spelling imminent disaster for Mr. Fish. When the tap is off, the water returns to its original level. In case you’re worried about fishy water, or a soapy fish, it’s all fake. Bowl and tap are not connected, and the fish can be fake. See yanlu.com

New

Band aid

IDEA

Music plaster ■ Technology

A top app for lazy linguists is Word Lens. It translates printed words instantly with your phone’s built-in video camera. Currently only for iPhones, from English to Spanish and vice versa, but other languages will soon be added. But beware that you can still find yourself lost in translation.

If music is good for the soul, and plasters help heal your body, put both things togetherr and you’ll double the benefit, designers Chih-Wei Wang and Shou-Hsi Fu must have thought while concocting their musical MP3 plaster.

It’s called ‘Skinny Player’ and the idea is to stick it to your skin and use the energy generated by the body as a battery. So far, the concept only exists on paper. See yankodesign.com

An MP3 player you can wear like a plaster – for music on the move. Nice idea, but will this ever happen?

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Designer dining This is the work of Marcel Wanders, the internationally renowned Dutch designer made famous by his ‘knotted chair’ of the mid ’90s. Best known for furniture and interiors, Wanders has given a fresh look to the meals enjoyed by KLM’s business class passengers, having completely redesigned the tableware.

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Unsalted This is a freshwater factory.

Mangroves in the tanks feed off seawater and release fresh water through their leaves. This evaporates, then condensates to be collected in a freshwater tank. That water is then released to irrigate surrounding fields.

Designed by Paris-based architects DCA (Design Crew for Architecture) it was recently awarded a Special Mention in architecture magazine eVolo’s 2010 Skyscraper of the Year competition. It has yet to be commissioned.

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CABERNET-SYRAH Vin de Pays d’Oc Dark deep ruby red colour with an intense bouquet of cherry & blackcurrant enhanced with a light delicate spicy note.

In the mouth, it is beautifully balanced and nicely structured.

MERLOT Vin de Pays d’Oc Extremely deep garnet red with expressive notes of red fruit, blackcurrant and cherry. With a very long finish, it reveals smooth and silky tannins.

GRENACHE-CINSAULT Vin de Pays d’Oc Very shiny salmon-pink rosé with expressive aromas of fresh red fruit and strawberry. In the mouth, it is fine, fresh and elegant with a perfect balance.

COLOMBARD-SAUVIGNON Vin de France Pale yellow colour with a very expressive bouquet highlighting subtle notes of lime fruits. Fresh and lively on the palate, it reveals a perfect balance between fruit and acidity.

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These are the ďŹ rst few seconds of life for an Australian Carpet Python (morelia spilota). This newly hatched little critter is around 15cm long, and will look rather less cute when fully grown, as adults average about 3m in length and 15kg in weight.

They kill their prey (typically small mammals) by wrapping themselves around and constricting.

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Photo: Beach flip by Debbie Miller

The Daily Painters Gallery is taking the slow and meticulous process of putting pigment on canvas, and updating it for the internet age. Its website, started by artist Micah Condon, puts several new artworks up for sale every single day, created from a stable of around 150 prolific artists. Condon’s independent judges ensure that the artists and their work are of a high enough standard. This colourful beach scene was created

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Egg head What Came First? asks the title of this carefully constructed little masterpiece by British designer Kyle Bean. Made with real shells, this egg-fresh effort was carefully glued by hand. Bean typically works with card and paper, creating intricate works with materials that wouldn’t be out of place in a kindergarten.

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Facts+ figures

Numbers, knowledge and nuggets of fresh info Words: Anna Whitehouse Illustrations: Sam Vanallemeersch

Spa attraction 41.5 gallons of beer

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Minty fresh 1,800 toothpastes Keen to beat German Carsten Gutzeit’s 500-strong toothpaste collection, dentist Dr Val Kolpakov of Michigan asked friends across the world to send him as many varieties as possible. He now has 1,800, in flavours including whisky, curry and bamboo, and the ‘largest toothpaste collection’ Guinness World Record. “I even have one from World War II, made with radioactive compound,” he says.

It’s all about detox and retox at the Czech Republic’s Beer Wellness Land. Run by the Chodovar Brewery, spa-goers shun eucalyptus oil and herbal tea for a wallow in the yeasty brew and a pint of Chodovar’s finest. The Czechs drink more beer per capita (about 41.5 gallons per person annually, according to a recent survey) than anybody else on earth.

Bath oil 1,500 snakes The Carnivorous Plant Farm in Northern Israel may not be the most obvious place for a spa, but that’s what it doubles up as. Alongside regular massages, guests are treated to a snake bath, filled with more than 1,500 of the slithering reptiles. The writhing is, allegedly, quite therapeutic; the larger ones give a more intense massage, while the smaller ones caress the skin.

Cleaning cats and dogs 30 minute wash Invented by Spain’s Eduardo Segura and Andrés Diaz, the Lavakan is a side-loading petwashing machine. The pair decided their dogs deserved a shower, and argue it is safer and less stressful for the animals than washing by hand. The Lavakan soaps, rinses and dries cats and dogs in less than 30 minutes.

Record (ice) breaker 1 cold man Dutchman Wim Hof can handle chilly weather. ‘The Iceman’ holds 18 cold-endurance records, including longest unaided under-ice swim (57.5 metres) and longest time immersed in an ice bath (1 hour 44 minutes). He once tried to climb Mount Everest in just a pair of shorts, but a foot injury curtailed his attempt.

“I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass’” Phyllis Diller, comedian

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Pump it up 1,700 heat exchangers Israel Siegel’s ‘Gravity-Powered Shoe Air Conditioner’ is all about keeping those tootsies fresh and airy. Its network of 1,700 heat exchangers pump air in and out of the trainer as you walk, run or jump, making stinky feet a thing of the past.

“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency” Franz Kafka

Fish and tips 80 permanent residents A Dutch travel firm went above and beyond the call of duty when it trialled a Goldfish Hotel at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

With 80 permanent residents, a tennis court and pool (with slide), the hotel offered all that a modern goldfish could want, allowing owners to jet off in the knowledge that their beloved pet was safe.

Guests got their own compartment so they could be reunited with the right owner. Alas, lack of guests meant it wasn’t open for long.

Butter wouldn’t melt 1 butter stick A group of Chinese inventors have come up with a fresh way to butter toast. Their aptly named ‘butter in a stick’ looks like a glue stick, but actually delivers a slick of butter on pretty much any edible surface. Not only does it keep the contents fresh, but it also delivers a clean, even spread.

At the time of writing, the patent is still pending.

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Water tight 15l of water For anyone concerned about their increasing water bills, the Japanese upside down umbrella may be the answer.

Fitted with a storage tank that can hold up to 15l of water and a handle for easy transportation, all those H2O woes can be left behind. As long as it rains, of course.

Great lake 20% of earth’s fresh water With an average depth of 744.4 metres, Lake Baikal (meaning ‘nature lake’) in Russia is the world’s oldest and deepest, and contains approximately 20% of the world’s fresh water supply.

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Rabobank. Geen Nederlandse bank heeft een groter internationaal netwerk.

Waar grote financiële transacties worden gesloten, is de Rabobank ter plaatse. Bijvoorbeeld in Brazilië, India en China, de snelst groeiende economieën van de wereld. De Rabobank was er al actief toen deze landen nog in de beginfase van hun ontwikkeling zaten.

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Xiamen might be ‘the Middle Kingdom’s’ most welcoming city. It’s also one of the greenest, hippest, and most attached to its heritage, finds Nick Walton PHOTOGRAPHY: KEVIN LEE

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RIGHT A hat-trick of Xiamenners on Gulangyu Island FACING PAGE Posing with the island’s colonial architecture

There’s a cry,

then another, and a noticeable shift in the crowd. People surge towards one side of the ferry, men and women yell out like children, and an orchestra of cameras click.

There’s a graceful flash of pale pink tail as a dolphin frolics in the ferry’s wake. The faces of the crowd break into smiles; this is a white dolphin – the numbers of which are slowly increasing thanks to conservation initiatives – and is considered a very good omen.

Anyone who has travelled to increasingly industrialised China would be forgiven for their surprise at seeing dolphins in the waters of ‘the Middle Kingdom’. But this is Xiamen, a Chinese city with a difference. Clean, modern and dynamic, Xiamen has maintained a balance between its heritage and the onslaught of modernity.

But it shouldn’t be a surprise that Xiamen is so unlike many other Chinese cities. For hundreds of years, this has been a gateway; first for Chinese traders, then for European

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merchants, followed by overseas Chinese looking to invest in dynamic, post-communism China.

Xiamen and its surrounding province of Fujian have maintained strong commercial and cultural links with nearby Taiwan, while preserving the remnants of the colonial period, especially on Gulangyu, a tiny patch of turf where European merchants first set up shop after the Opium Wars.

As China’s first designated ‘Special Economic Zone’ – a flirtation with capitalism that heralded huge economic growth – Xiamen has long been a poster child for prosperity amid preservation.

As the crowded ferry putters across the narrow strait between Xiamen and the former European settlement, Gulangyu Island comes into focus, bristling with the colonial architecture that makes it such a popular day trip. Only ten minutes from downtown, but a world away from any Chinese metropolis, there are refreshingly no cars or motorbikes allowed, and tranquility prevails among its colonial mansions and leafy parks.

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air is infused with the smell of roasting “Everywhere, thechestnuts, frying eggs, and Chinese tea “Coming here is like stepping back into the past,” says Lara Cheung, a diminutive tour guide originally from Xian, who controls a gang of tourists by waving her bright pink flag, not unlike a matador with his cape. “Our groups come from all over China, to see the ocean, to breath the fresh air and to see the beautiful buildings. For them, it’s a step into the history books.”

And history is everywhere. A towering statue of Zheng Chenggong, a general from the Ming Dynasty, stands tall and proud at the island’s southern tip. The nearly 16m-tall granite

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statue was built to celebrate his 361st birthday, while a screen of his writings frame a bronze sculpture of Zheng on his horse, leading his men to victory.

There is such an easy vibe on Gulangyu; the narrow paths lead over leafy hillocks where colonial-era mansions are being restored, some as private homes, others as galleries or museums. There are tiny cafes filled with soft toys and the smell of strong coffee, artists working at easels, musicians busking with traditional instruments. Old men fry glutinous

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FROM FAR LEFT Alternate transport in the old town; a selection of Chinese teas; fresh Fujian crab

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rice cakes infused with local shrimp at tiny carts, and families picnic on grassy banks facing the city.

On the western beachfront, the Xiamen Gulangyu Piano Museum was founded by Australian-Chinese collector Hu Youyi on ancestral land, and features more than 100 beautifully preserved instruments from the UK, France, Germany, Austria and Australia, including a Broadwood & Sons piano and a French street-musician’s barrel organ.

From here, it’s an easy amble down through the Shuzhung Gardens, created during the Sino-Japanese War, to Guanhaiyuan Beach, where Chinese tourists dressed in serious dark swimsuits play in the sand and take speedboat tours of the harbour.

There are great little cafes along the beachfront where

Whisky has become a status symbol across much of Mainland China, including Xiamen, where affluent visitors from other Chinese cities compete with Scotchswilling locals for the top drops. Max Kelner, a professional golf player turned whisky enthusiast, struggles to keep up with the growing demand in Xiamen for world-class, collectable whiskies.

“Xiamen has a lot of affluence,” says Max. “Combine that with wealthy tourists coming for the beaches and weather, and you have a lot of very interested collectors.” Max’s company, FCNC, has a stylish showroom in central Xiamen, serving only the finest single-malt whiskies.

Bottles go for more than RMB200,000 (€22,000) as premium drams increasingly replace the traditional fire waters. “Xiamen has come of age, and now its people are turning to the finer things of life,” says Max.

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ABOVE Artfully displayed dish of mushrooms, green bean noodles and soup RIGHT A traditional puppet show on Gulangyu Island

tourists can take sustenance before tackling the stairs up to Sunlight Rock, the island’s highest point.

Stepping off the ferry back on Xiamen, I delve into the nearby Zhongshan Road, a pedestrianised shopping street from which bustling alleyways branch like throbbing retail capillaries.

Crumbling storefronts sit next to fluoro-lit fashion boutiques flooding the streets with blaring Canto-pop. There are shops selling calligraphy brushes, quirky fashions from Japan and Taiwan, tiny photographic galleries in bland Communist-era concrete apartments, and luxury brands encased in glass shopping malls.

In the middle of all this sits Huang Ze He I Restaurant, a Xiamen institution that serves over 200 snacks and desserts,

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including ‘Seven Treasures’ rice filled with mixed vegetables; sha cha mian satay noodles (first introduced by Malaysian traders); and the store’s famed sweet peanut soup.

Outside, in the late afternoon sun, one old man fries eggs with spring onion, sandwiching them between ‘buns’ of deep-fried rice as children stumble by, grasping long sticks of candied strawberries in sticky hands.

Everywhere, the air is infused with the smell of roasting chestnuts, frying eggs, and Chinese tea. Shy ‘tea girls’ giggle in the doorways and offer thimbles of steaming ‘cha’, including Fujian’s famed Oolong, to passers-by.

At the Nanputuo Temple, one of Fujian’s most important Buddhist centres, volunteers scrub the stairs under the gaze of demi-gods and brightly painted dragons,

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while the faithful light incense and pray at dusty, smokestained altars.

But for a more contemporary religious experience, I head to Temple Café, housed in a family shrine that was restored in 1987. Community elders decided to open the cafe to help pay for the shrine’s upkeep.

Despite being a popular watering hole for university students and expats, it still plays an important role in the religious lives of local residents, with Taoist ceremonies taking place several times a year.

Thomas Huang, an economics major at Xiamen

University, tells me, “I love this place,” over a ten yuan Tsing Tao beer. “During the day it’s lovely and quiet, and we can study here in peace. Grandmothers come in to pray and burn incense and it gives the whole place a great ambiance. It was things like this, the spirituality and customs, that I missed when I studied in Europe.”

At dusk, the cafe turns into a bar, with bossa nova playing on hidden speakers and hamburgers and fries served from a back door kitchen. “We often come down here after classes on Fridays,” says Thomas. “It’s nice to go somewhere that embraces both the old and new.” Much like the city itself.

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Different strokes Dutch rowing ace Sjoerd Hamburger talks Oxford University and the Olympics, with Daniel Allen PHOTOGRAPHY: FULCO SMIT ROETERS

The first thing you notice about rower Sjoerd Hamburger is his sheer size. Standing just over 2m tall, it’s easier to picture the genial Dutch giant dunking baskets than contorted into a sleek racing scull.

“I grew up in a little village called Oldeberkoop,” he explains with a smile.

“My father is 6’6” [1.98m] and my mother is 6’2” [1.88m], and everyone else in the village seemed to be big too.

Maybe there was something in the water.

It wasn’t until 2002, when I moved to Utrecht, aged 18, that I began to realise my height was so far above average. I felt a bit like Gulliver in Lilliput.”

It was Hamburger’s lofty dimensions that first brought him to the attention of the coach at Utrecht’s Orca Rowing Club.

“Although both my parents were rowers, at that point I had no interest in rowing,” explains Hamburger. “It was only because I was a ‘big guy’ that somebody recommended I get into a boat.

“I decided to try rowing for one

year and see how I felt,” he continues.

“Almost immediately I fell in love with the sport, and it’s been a natural progression from that point onwards.

My parents are always thrilled by my enjoyment and success, but they’ve never pushed me into anything. What they have done is given me great support over the years – they’re usually among the big contingent of Dutch parents at rowing events all over the world.”

Since committing to the sport, Hamburger’s rise has been steadily impressive. In 2003, he rowed in an Orca coxed four that came sixth at the World Under-23 Rowing Championships.

He then switched to single scull, broke the Dutch national record during the World Cup finals in Lucerne, and became World Under-23 Champion in Amsterdam. The Beijing Olympics in 2008 saw him finish 13th.

But perhaps his most unique achievement came after Beijing, while

studying for a Master’s degree at Oxford University in England. He was part of the Oxford crew that defeated Cambridge in the 2009 running of the famous old Boat Race, and was then elected President of the Oxford University Boat Club for 2009/10. This made him the first president in the club’s near 200-year history to come from outside the English-speaking world.

“I thought some people might object to a Dutch president,” he says, “but in the end I was accepted easily.

Oxford University is actually a very cosmopolitan institution. I guess it was destiny that a non-native-English speaker would be elected one day.”

While Hamburger’s associates had no problems with his Dutch passport, they did have a few difficulties with his name. “Yeah, I guess for many people my first name isn’t the easiest to pronounce,” he says with a grin. “I got a lot of weird variations, especially

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in my village was tall.

“Everyone It wasn’t until I moved to Utrecht that I realised my height was so far above average. I felt like Gulliver in Lilliput

from the Brits. Most of the time I just introduced myself as Stuart, although my nickname, quite ironically, was ‘Shorty’.”

In 2010, Hamburger was the only member of the victorious 2009 Oxford crew to return for another Boat Race, but in place of the previous year’s elation came bitter disappointment. “Losing to Cambridge was heartbreaking,” he says. “Everyone gave 100% but on the day, it just wasn’t enough. I had a big responsibility as president. At the end, there were some massive guys weeping out there and I had to console them. That defeat taught me that, win or lose, the world keeps going, and that no matter what, you have to stick with your crew.”

Now back in The Netherlands, Hamburger’s time is focused on getting in the best possible shape for next year’s Olympics in London. “Right now I train an average of 12 times a week,” he explains. “Typically that means waking at 6am, training at 7.30am, at noon, and again at 3pm. I’m usually home by 7.30pm, so it’s a long workout.

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kilocalories every day, which is four times the normal intake for an adult male.”

At London 2012, he’ll be in the heavyweight men’s eight. “We’re certainly aiming to win a medal,” he says. “A couple of guys came out of retirement for our crew, and we came fourth in the World Rowing Championships in Karapiro, New Zealand, at the end of last year. It’s a very tough field though – the Germans are good, the Brits are very good, and the Canadian and US crews are also strong.”

Win or lose, London 2012 is likely to be Hamburger’s last outing as a professional athlete. “I’ll never stop rowing though,” he says. “It’s in my blood for life. It’s such a great sport – it teaches you discipline and keeps you extremely healthy.

“But I’d love to see rowing taught in more Dutch schools,” he continues. “The set-up here is still too elitist compared to England or Germany. Since 1988, rowing has been a big medal winner for the Dutch and we need to keep discovering fresh talent.” Maybe Oldeberkoop would be a good place to start looking.

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Photographer Carl Kleiner brings fresh produce to life

GREEN IN THE FACE Swedish snapper Carl Kleiner likes to play with his food.

This series was shot for a restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon, called Cafe M.

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The Bavarian Alps are Munich’s kitchen garden. And when you want to work off the local produce, just pull on your hiking boots, says Anna Whitehouse PHOTOGRAPHY: MARCUS KOPPEN

“Es ist so viel größer,” assures ruddy-faced housewife Marta von hauling a huge carrot from Löenfeld, ha under the table and waving it tauntingly taunting under best friend Genevieve’s nose.

Genevie Even w without translation, it is easy to see from the wild gesticulating that she believes believe her carrot is the clear winner. Genevieve disagrees, holding Ge up a vegetable that resembles a small, veg orange pneumatic drill. For lack of a referee, refere the conversation moves swiftly on. on The pair are sitting in Löwe am Markt, a heaving, ru rustic Bavarian haunt that commands prime real estate on p Viktualienmarkt, Munich’s historic Viktualienm market. Like the hordes of other housewives nosing about this housew cobbled cobble square, Marta and Genevieve have had the same Genev routine routi for years: navigate the stalls all morning, pick up a carrot carro or two (and whatever else is in season), settle down for a lingering chat and some postling shopping analysis. shop

“We use different grocers, so it is essential to compare,” says Marta, ploughing into a steaming plate of weisswurst, Bavaria’s zesty veal sausage, and a piping hot pretzel that has just landed with a thud on the oak table. Two Löwenbrau (‘lions brew’) beers follow, served up in what look like large flower vases – it’s not a delicate scene.

Viktualienmarkt thrives in the shadows of The Rathaus-Glockenspiel, a resplendent 20th-century structure that looks like its been popped out of an intricate jelly mould: one tourist exclaims, “Look at the Walt Disney castle,” while another visitor asks, “Is that a European mosque?”

A troupe of 32 hand-carved, wooden model men wearing tiny lederhosen nestle in the building’s rafters, waiting to burst into a jolly Bavarian dance at the moment the clock strikes 12. This is the glockenspiel part.

“We like our ducks, or is it chickens?

Whatever they are… we like them in a row,” says butcher Hans Utting, who believes attention to detail is intrinsic to Munich’s DNA.

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Bath time The Bavarians love a good soak and the most famous place to wallow is Munich’s Müller’sches Volksbad on the banks of the River Isar.

Ornate wooden doors open up into a marbled lobby embellished with Grecian statues and intricate spiralled staircases. The pool, equally grandiose, is covered by a stained glass ceiling that wouldn’t look amiss in one of Italy’s duomo’s, while the warren of saunas is infused with the scent of fresh mountain herbs. For the prudish, it is important to note the ‘textile free’ policy, although within moments of entering, any embarrassment tends to disperse with the lavenderinfused steam.

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And this is also a place that takes pride in its food. When asked about his freshly churned obatzda - a Bavarian delicacy made of 24 local cheeses - Bart von Manner, a leathery-faced man with a moustache waxed into two little Alpine peaks, simply deadpans, “It is the best.”

Fishmonger Visse Witte’s slogan boldly claims, ‘if it swims, we have it’, and as if on cue, a woman swathed in fur pops a lobster, wriggling with the last pulse of life, into her shopping bag.

Martin Fauster, head chef at Hotel Königshof ’s Michelin-starred restaurant, is a regular at Tötze Kaasladen, a small, pungent cavern rammed with antiquated etchings of Munich’s dairy markets and an abundance of oozing, creamy produce.

One cheese, the wissenblumenkäse, is peppered in meadow flowers and grass from the very same fields the cows munch on. It’s a happy collision of the city’s obsessions for detail and for taste.

The Bavarian Alps are Munich’s kitchen ggarden, their fresh fields putting food on the city’s table. In the spa town of Tegernsee, just 40 minutes south of Tegernse Munich, small brooks babble their way through densely forested mountains and huts that are home to past ramshackle ram local dairy dai farmers herding, churning, in the hope of triumphing and tasting tas Munich’s cheese boards. on Mu In this sparsely populated area punctuated by neat wooden houses that punctua wouldn’t look amiss in The Sound of Music, SSimpert Ernst, a strapping young whacks a writhing trout on fishmonger, shmon nose, guts it and hands it to a toddler the nose has been distracted by a whose mother m crate of ttranslucent, squirming shrimps.

It’s a trade that’s cherished by Munich’s Munich Hunting and Fishing Museum, a former form Augustinian monastery that pays homage to the likes of Gerhard pay Beil, B whose 24kg pike saw him

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crowned ‘fisherman of the year’ in 1926.

“Life and then death, a fresh fish maketh,” chirps Simpert, whose family has been fishing in the Bavarian Alps since the early 15th century. He earned his stripes at Fischerei Tegernsee, a shop that local Richard Daan, who recently relocated from Hamburg, declares is “reason enough to move here.”

A charcoaled metal hut where the fish are hung, drawn and smoked is next to Lake Tegernsee, which occasionally ripples with life before returning to a glassy stillness.

The jade green and bluish allure of the crystal waters pulls in swimmers throughout the year, but Magnus Wagen, a pot-bellied Tegernseer, prefers to sweat it out at the lakeside Seesauna.

Hunched and perspiring in a pinewood cabin overlooking the sundappled Alps he says, “I sit here for ten minutes and I am a new man,” before easing himself into the icy depths of the lake, slathering honey over his purpling arms and emerging to the sanctuary of his fluffy towel. Despite looking undeniably dewy, he still has a schnappsinduced twinkle in his eye.

In the nearby village of Rottach-Egern, Johen Hagn, owner of Enzianhütte, a wooden restaurant and bar smattered with Bavarian artefacts, busily stokes the fire ahead of the imminent rush. His home-brew apple and pear schnapps is invariably responsible for the lederhosenclad punters bumbling around the windy roads after closing time. Magnus is a regular customer.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria was more of a beer drinker. A convivial chap who ruled in the mid-19th century, he was known as ‘The Swan King’ (or in some circles, just ‘Mad King Ludwig’).

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across Bavaria – the fairytale-like Nymphenburg Palace on the outskirts of Munich is worth a peek – and bailing out his dear friend, the composer Richard Wagner, he championed Bavaria’s age-old purity law, ruling that only three ingredients were allowed in beer: water, barley and hops.

While this legislation was ditched by the EU for non-compliance with the common market, breweries still cling to the principle. Herzoglichen Bräustüberl Tegernsee, housed in a magnificent old building, produces beer that epitomises the Bavarian folk: rustic and to the point.

“Of course we can eat, drink and be

merry!” exclaims Garbent Manner, a Bavarian tour guide with a face that has weathered many a storm. “If we’re not hiking, we’re skiing; if we’re not walking, we’re cycling.” He points to Halserspitz, a mountain towering over the Tegernsee valley where a couple, resembling two tiny ants on a hunk of bread, clamber against a cloudless blue sky.

“There’s a common joke that Bavaria is not actually part of the country, but ‘near it’,” he says before shrugging, “but it’s because the rest of Germany is jealous, no?” As he swoops off on his bicycle, in a Lycra blaze against the sun-drenched mountainside, it is hard to disagree.

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A brief history of hip-hop Over 30 years, rap music has changed popular culture across the globe. But where did it come from, and who on earth was DJ Sven? Kit Ballantine investigates ILLUSTRATIONS: WOLTER TOP

In November 2008, MTV News screened an interview with a famous man. He complimented the interviewer on his hair (“man, you look tight!”) and, when asked about his views on low-slung jeans, replied “brothers should pull up their pants.”

A few months earlier, he had told Rolling Stone magazine that his iPod was stuffed with Jay-Z and Ludacris. None of this is very remarkable, except that a few days later, the man in question became the President of the United States of America.

The following year, Russians were treated to the even more unlikely spectacle of former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin presenting a graffiti artist with a rucksack full of spray paint, in the finale of Battle for Respect, a popular hip-hop reality TV show. Sadly, he stopped short of a freestyling battle.

Both stories are timely reminders of how – in the 30 or so years since its appearance - hip-hop has sprayed an indelible graffiti tag on global culture.

“Hip-hop has shaped the world in so many ways,” says Patrick Neate, author of Where You’re At, a guide to

global hip-hop. “It’s not just changed popular music; it’s also had more impact on fashion than any musical movement since punk; more influence on global language than any music since jazz; and it’s made kids all over the world grow up with black American role models. Thirty years ago, that was unimaginable.”

It’s a long way from hip-hop’s beginnings in New York’s South Bronx in the early ’70s, where a Jamaican DJ, Clive ‘Kool Herc’ Campbell, first noticed that revellers would go particularly demented to the ‘breaks’ in funk records – the instrumental passages in which the beat is emphasised.

Using two copies of the same record and a pair of decks, Campbell was able to prolong these breaks indefinitely, while enthusiastic participants developed a limber new dance style known as ‘break-dancing’.

He’d embellish the music with rhythmic spoken chants, inspired by a practice called ‘toasting’ he remembered from Jamaican dancehall parties. It was a unique sound, which earned Campbell’s parties a mythic status in New York.

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establishment-bothering form of “It’s still the most music since Elvis first shook his pelvis Other DJs were soon emulating the ‘two turntables and a microphone’ technique, often with teams of MCs. In 1979, the first hip-hop record landed in the US Top 40: Rapper’s Delight, by The Sugarhill Gang.

Curiously, the group was not an ‘authentic’ hip-hop posse, but actually assembled by a record producer – a sort of ghetto version of The Monkees.

Nevertheless, the disco-flavoured track opened the floodgates for a new genre, with fellow New Yorkers Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa both releasing groundbreaking records swift on its heels.

After Blondie’s Debbie Harry rapped her way through the group’s 1981 international hit Rapture, hip-hop gained a foothold in the mainstream.

The 1980s unfolded in a blur of subgenres: rock-influenced new-school acts like LL Cool J and Run DMC; white brat-rappers the Beastie Boys; political guerrillas Pubic Enemy; and N.W.A., whose Straight Outta Compton set the template for gangsta rap – still the most establishment-bothering form of music since Elvis shook his pelvis.

The 1990s saw hip-hop’s mass appeal rise and its credibility take a sharp nosedive, when a man in very big trousers released a song called U Can’t Touch This. But while MC Hammer was shifting albums by the trouser-load (18 million of them to date, mockers should note), Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg brought a new flavour to the charts, and Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. were gunned down in the increasingly acrimonious rivalry between East and West Coast rappers.

A new generation of rap-rock acts, from Rage Against the Machine to Korn, took the hip-hop formula and smothered it in heavy guitars and angst. Then in 1999, a very angry young white man from Detroit called Eminem released The Slim Shady LP and turned everything on its head.

In the last ten years, a new breed of global hip-hop megastars – typified

by Jay-Z, Eminem and Kanye West – together with numerous successful records like Beyonce’s Crazy In Love, which blend hip-hop influences into radio-friendly pop melodies, have ensured that virtually no corner of the

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globe is free of the genre’s influence.

“It’s become a tool for exploring and choosing your own personal identity,” says Patrick Neate. “I’ve come across MCs of Aboriginal descent in Australia, who use it to explore race and alienation, and a white Anglican priest in the UK who uses hip-hop and beatboxing as part of his mission.”

The Netherlands has created its own clutch of home-grown talent.

Although things got off to a dubious start with 1986’s Madonna-sampling novelty euro hit Holiday Rap, by duo MC Miker G and DJ Sven, the so-called Nederhop scene went on to spawn Urban Dance Squad (whose rap-rock would inspire a young Rage Against the Machine) and received a boost in 1990 with King Bee’s international rap hit Back By Dope Demand, which still reverberates through clubs from New York to Amsterdam.

“The Netherlands is a small country and it still doesn’t have a big national hip-hop industry like, say, Germany,” says All Star Fresh, the Dutch DJ and producer behind King Bee, who

STOLEN SAMPLES, NAUGHTY LYRICS, AND HUGE TROUSERS: HIP-HOP THROUGH THE AGES 1973 DJ Kool Herc jabbers

1985 Birth of the so-called

In The Mornin’, the first

over funk beats. Crowd

Golden Age of Hip-hop:

gangsta rap song.

invents break-dancing.

marked by musical

1988 Public Enemy prove

1979 Sugarhill Gang’s

innovation, Levi 501s, and

that rappers do get angry at

Rapper’s Delight released.

fancy bling.

things other than other

Hip-hop’s first compromise

1986 Ice-T kicks off world of

rappers, by verbally sticking

for mass market appeal.

political incorrectness with 6

it to ‘The Man.’

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continues to be one of the country’s most high-profile hip-hop figures.

“But over time it’s bubbled up from the streets. Now the music and the fashion have become a lot more marketable, it gets more attention from the ‘establishment’.”

With new Nederhop groups like Zwart Licht bringing elements of fashionable genres like grime and dubstep to their sound, it’s an industry that only looks set to grow.

So how long until The Netherlands gets itself a national leader who’s as wise to hip-hop as his or her counterparts in America and Russia?

“I don’t think it’s really affected politics here,” laughs All Star Fresh. “You have to remember that for a long time, those people thought this music was just a phase.”

At a time when Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet sits in America’s National Recording Registry for ‘culturally, historically and aesthetically significant’ sound recordings, and JayZ’s 99 Problems echoes through the White House, it seems they’ve been proved pretty wrong.

1990 Vanilla Ice, armed with a

1992 Dr Dre, unperturbed by

whole sack of issues to

2010 Gangsta icon Snoop

stolen Queen sample and

lack of medical degree,

become a global superstar.

Dogg guests on Katy Perry’s

eight-foot quiff, releases

releases The Chronic.

2002 Baffling array of new

California Gurls. Eh?

megahit Ice, Ice Baby.

1995 America’s East and

styles like crunk, snap and

2011 Hip-hop continues to

1990 MC Hammer informs

West Coast rappers’ feud is

glitch-hop appear.

find favour from Tokyo to

world U Can’t Touch This. At

at its height.

2005 Kanye West’s Late

Timbuktu, and Vanilla Ice

least not during ‘Hammertime’, 1999 Eminem blunders

Registration breathes new

prepares to release his

though it’s never established

into charts with a chainsaw,

life into what some say is a

comeback album. Breath is

when that is.

a bleached crewcut and a

dying genre.

not baited.

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FOOD F OOD S SCIENCE C IENCE

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The secret

A Dutch firm is using new technology to tackle food shortages. Ken Wilkie tastes the fruit and veg of the future

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life of plants In the last

100 years years, earth’s population has tripled. In 2011 2011, according to UN figures, we w will reach the seven billion mark mark. And by 2045, the global population is projected to reach nine billion – twice what it was in 1980.

Meanwhile, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) states that 30 million people a year are dying of hunger (the equivalent of 100,000 folk per day), with another two billion suffering from malnutrition.

Not only is food production totally out of balance with human needs, as Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, points out, but humans are living off natural capital – eroding soil and depleting groundwater – faster than they can be replenished.

In short, we are not making enough food, and much of what we do make is unevenly distributed.

Photo: Mark Horn

The FAO sees technology as the key to creating food for all that’s affordable, safe and preserves natural resources. But what kind of technology?

One revolutionary answer is being

developed in The Netherlands, once home to the 17th-century ‘Father of Microbiology’, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. It is called PlantLab. “We have created a plant paradise here,” says PlantLab’s managing partner Gertjan Meeuws, introducing this new world of cultivation in Den Bosch.

Meeuws’s ‘plant paradise’ is no green oasis basking in the sun, but a controlled high-tech environment where fruit, vegetables and flowers are made to measure in a way that has never before been done.

PlantLab is housed in a hangar next to a parking lot at the University of Den Bosch’s Centre for Growing Concepts, a study centre for the plant managers of the future.

Sealed off from sunlight, a white corridor leads to a series of computercontrolled cultivation chambers accessed through thick aircraft-like doors. Inside, from floor to ceiling, are rows of vegetables and fruit: courgettes, peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, lettuces, peas, tomatoes – all growing at controlled rates in pots of earth under infrared and blue LED lighting.

The atmosphere is psychedelic.

Walls are pink. Plants look greyishpurple. I expect Dr Spock to be beamed up any minute. But when Meeuws takes a plant out of the chamber and into the corridor’s white light, it gradually turns green as my eyes adjust. I taste a slice of fresh PlantLab cucumber. I am not a cucumber expert, but this was one of the most succulent and refreshing that I have tasted.

Meeuws explains: “Because of mathematical calculations, the plants here are growing to ultimate efficiency and free of pesticides. They enjoy their ideal requirements of water, light, humidity, CO2 and room and root temperature. There is no wastage. The latest LED technology makes it possible to create the ideal light combination of blue, red and far-red to suit the plants’ individual requirements.”

LED lighting is costly, says Meeuws, “but LED performance is increasing spectacularly. We use only the latest sustainable LED lighting and only provide wavelengths that are useful for growth and development of the crop.

The LED lighting we use is more energy efficient than the light that is normally used in glasshouses.”

Unlike sunlight and traditional electronic lighting, LED only emits one colour of light. So, no energy is wasted with light spectra that are superfluous to the plant’s needs.

“We provide exactly the colours that the plant requires for photosynthesis,” says Meeuws. “Plants mainly need blue and red light for photosynthesis. But plants also need far-red, a colour not visible to the human eye, but ‘visible’ to the plant. The relationships between the light colours determine the form of the plant. Our use of LED lighting is economic and, in certain countries, use can be made of solar panels as an energy source. Every plant acquires an ID. They all grow completely independent of sunlight, rhythms of night and day, seasons and weather. And, on top of

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We humans are “ not making enough food this, our plants require less than 10% of the water that would be needed in a glasshouse.”

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be regulated under glass, a lot of costly moisture and CO2 escapes when windows are opened and sudden bright sunlight can destroy a carefully created climate. Our Plant Production Units Meeuws and his colleagues, John van Gemert, Leon van Duijn and Marcel remedy all these limitations.”

Kers are not just far-sighted engineers realising a vision, they are motivated by By cultivating in tiers, the PlantLab a passion for the role that they feel solution also saves space. Meeuws PlantLab can play in the future of our explains: “It is possible to cultivate in planet. Walking around PlantLab and five, ten or 20 levels in a large hall. In a listening to Meeuws, the significance for Plant Production Unit, less evaporation the future is clear to see. is needed to cool the crop which means Meeuws himself provided the basis we save over 90% of water, compared to for the unique thinking about plant traditional cultivation methods. In balance, back in 1989. “After 10,000 short, we can provide identical crop years of land cultivation, we are now performances anywhere in the world, seeing new forms of indoor farming.” on industrial premises, in the tropics, He explains: “Dickson Despommier, the far north or in the desert.”

Professor at Columbia University, PlantLab’s partner, Imtech, is developed the first concept of vertical responsible for the technical service of farming in 1999. This went from rooftop the units and claims to be able to place gardens to flats with cultivation floors.” nurseries virtually anywhere.

Meeuws feels that, energy-wise, “PlantLab’s first city nursery will greenhouses are outdated. “Light cannot soon be in action,” says Meeuws.

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“Either Amsterdam or Rotterdam will be chosen as the launch city. There are more than 300 cities in the world with over one million inhabitants, all dependent on fresh food that sometimes comes from thousands of kilometres away and is on the road for days,” he says.

“All over the world there is a growing need for nutritious food instead of mere filling. Malnutrition is an increasing problem in both developed and developing countries.

With our technique, we can grow and distribute our fruit and vegetables on the spot, in the centre of the city and at any time of the year.”

Meeuws envisions cruise ships having their own system-grown fresh fruit and vegetables on board. “But, more important, an entire country can adopt the PlantLab concept,” he says.

“The Plant Production Units are tailormade for large or small production. For a major city or a small African village.”

He agrees that traditional local farming is still a good idea where it can be done, but feels it will never be able to feed nine billion people by 2045.

And so, the PlantLab project shows one possible way to help meet the needs of the future.

Groundbreaking technology used to create a better-fed world. It could be a fresh start for food.

Photo: Maarten Laupman. Sketch: PlantLab and Imtech

FAR LEFT Gertjan Meeuws in the lab LEFT A sketch of a possible innercity farm

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Dutch delights Wake up your taste buds with a visit to one of these culinary havens SUCRE Hobbemastraat 2, 1071 ZA Amsterdam

Amsterdam’s foodies will be pleased to learn that as of 14 April, Peter Scholte’s restaurant, Sucre, will relocate to Hobbemastraat. Not only does the restaurant now offer guests the opportunity for fine dining, but those wanting to stock up on goods to take

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RESTAURANT VINKELES Keizersgracht 384, 1016 GB Amsterdam

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BRIDGES RESTAURANT Oudezijds Voorburgwal 197, 1012 EX, Amsterdam

Bridges, the restaurant of Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam, has a clearly defined concept: it’s all about fish (fins) and wine (vins). At Bridges, guests can relax and enjoy the restaurant, the Cocktail Bar, the Raw Bar, the Vinothèque and the completely restyled garden terrace. The French chef de cuisine, Aurélien Poirot, whose style is best characterised as internationally oriented, builds a bridge between Dutch and French culinary traditions: fresh Dutch fish, prepared with a French twist.

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Role playing Visitors are invited to adopt the roles in the exhibition title to experience this museum.

En route, enjoy works by Richard Long, Joseph Beuys and Sarah Charlesworth, plus Surasi Kosolwong’s fabulous upside-down VW Beetleturned-swing.

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EVENTS NATIONAL MUSEUM WEEKEND 2, 3 April More than 500 museums throughout the country open for free – or reduced entrance – for a special 30th-anniversary edition of this annual event.

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EXHIBITIONS I PROMISE TO LOVE YOU Until 15 May A selection of over 80 paintings, photographs and installations from the Caldic Collection 2000-2010, including work by Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei and Sam Taylor-Wood.

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Delicious Amsterdam A selection of restaurants and caterers to make your mouth water

BRIDGES RESTAURANT Oudezijds Voorburgwal 197, 1012 EX, Amsterdam

Bridges, the restaurant of Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam, has a clearly defined concept: it’s all about fish (Fins) and wine (Vins). At Bridges, guests can relax and enjoy the Restaurant, the Cocktail Bar, the Raw Bar, the Vinothèque and the completely

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Peter Scholte’s hip restaurant, Sucre, is located in the fashionable ‘Amsterdam-zuid’ area.

Scholte travelled the world to learn the best of different culinary cultures – from San Francisco to Oxford to Rosas, Spain (home of El Bulli) – before opening Sucre. Sucre’s menu boasts exciting internationally inspired dishes, like Japanese yellowfin tuna with oyster tempura, each accompanied by a wine suggested by sommelier Aline Mannes. Culinary journalists have been giving the restaurant rave reviews since it opened its doors.

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ensures that every detail is sorted. At HaykeKookt only the highest-quality ingredients are used, with an emphasis on locally sourced, seasonal products. And for those struggling to come up with an ideal location, HaykeKookt’s new studio, KookaandeZaan, has room for up to 40 guests.

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Dietrich’s director More than just ‘the man behind Marlene Dietrich’, the Austrian-gone-Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) also made documentaries besides famous films like Der blaue Engel, as this retrospective testifies. One of several highlights is live music accompanying a screening of the 1928 silent movie The Docks of New York, featuring shots of the Big Apple at night.

JOSEF VON STERNBERG RETROSPECTIVE Until 27 April; EYE, Vondelpark 3; +31 20 5891400; eyefilm.nl DYNAMIC DUO: VON STERNBERG AND DIETRICH MADE SEVEN FILMS TOGETHER

EVENTS CINDERELLA Until 3 April Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of Prokofiev’s fairytale ballet, set against the backdrop of wartime London.

Carré, Amstel 115-125; 0900 2525255 (NL only); theatercarre.nl

will love the ‘Night of Terror’ programme.

Kriterion, Roetersstraat 170; +31 20

which explores the fiery colour’s many meanings in different cultures.

6231708; imaginefilmfestival.nl

Tropenmuseum, Linnaeusstraat 2; +31 20 5688200; tropenmuseum.nl

AUTORAI 13-23 April The car’s the star at this enormous indoor motor show.

as spaghetti and ravioli are also on the menu. Rather refreshingly, the wines are simply categorised as ‘Cheap’, ‘Decent’, ‘Good’ and ‘Special’.

Open daily from 18.00.

Rhijnvis Feithstraat 43; +31 20 6187415; restaurantforno.nl

RAI, Europaplein 22; +31 20 5491212;

GIGS

autorai.nl

THE WITCHES OF VENICE 16, 17 April Set to music by Philip Glass and performed by Fondazione Musica per Roma, this charming family opera about courage and friendship is a treat for children (7+).

FAIRYTALE ROMANCE Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella story

Het Muziektheater, Waterlooplein 22; +31 20 6255455; hetmuziektheater.nl

DER TOD UND DAS MÄDCHEN 9 April Honouring the centenary this year of Gustav Mahler’s death, Amsterdam Sinfonietta performs three special works

by Schubert, Mendelssohn and the man himself.

EXHIBITIONS

Heinkade 1; +31 20 7882000;

WORLD PRESS PHOTO 22 April-19 June The renowned annual competition for press photography returns, featuring the overall winning shot by South African photographer Jodi Bieber.

muziekgebouw.nl

Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein 23; +31

Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Piet

20 6258284; worldpressphoto.org

IMAGINE 13-23 April The superb annual fantasy, horror, sci-fi and animation film festival will be screening around 45 feature films and 25 shorts: hardcore horror fans

RED Until 8 May A collection of more than 300 red-coloured objects – including ethnographic artefacts and modern art –

‘THE WIDOW (WHITE)’ Photo: Inez van Lamsweerde

PICASSO IN PARIS, 1900-1907 Until 29 May An exhibition that sheds light on Picasso’s artistic development following his arrival in Paris in 1900.

Van Gogh Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7; +31 20 5705200; vangoghmuseum.nl

RESTAURANT FORNO COMMUNALE This cosy, candlelit restaurant can be found on a quiet street west of Vondelpark. Mainly frequented by locals, it purveys thin-crust pizzas topped with a sprinkling of fresh ingredients and baked in wood ovens. Expect a wait.

Naturally, Italian dishes such

Adele 8 April Paradiso Chris de Burgh 13 April Heineken Music Hall The Wombats 27 April Melkweg Raphael Saadiq 27 April Paradiso Gentleman & The Evolution 29 April Paradiso

WEBSITES dutchnews.nl Daily Dutch news in English specialbite.com Cool restaurant reviews eat-amsterdam.com Food news and dining deals underwateramsterdam.com An insider’s city guide iamsterdam.com Comprehensive city portal amsterdam.info Useful tourist information lastminuteticketshop.nl Half-price tickets to events

REMEMBER! This copy of Holland Herald is yours to take off the plane.

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TOUCHDOWN LEEDS

DON’T MISS

Joust the ticket

Yorkshire tales Boutique shopping, lively nightlife and Victorian heritage await in the northern English city of Leeds. From the centre, it’s a short trip into the countryside for stately homes and the rolling Dales.

jewellery, from both designer

Leeds (leedsgrandtheatre.com)

Victorian secret

boutiques and high street

provides the North of England’s

Leeds has lots of Victorian

chains. Some of the best

focal point for theatre, ballet,

heritage in the carefully

boutiques are in the beautifully

opera and classical music.

restored city centre, where the

restored Victoria Quarter (v-q.

City Museum (+44 113 2243732)

co.uk). Close by, the handsome

tells the Leeds story. In

Edwardian Kirkgate Market

KLM operates several daily

contrast, there is new

(leedsmarket.com) throngs with

direct flights to Leeds Bradford

architecture on the attractive

browsing locals.

International Airport from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

riverside, where The Royal Armouries (see ‘Don’t Miss’)

HOW TO GET THERE

WHERE TO BOOGIE

are packed with military

A grand night out

Tourist information

history. Or take a bus into the

Leeds’ most popular dance

visitleeds.co.uk

countryside to explore the

venues are mainly in the city

stately Harewood House

centre. Highlights for live music

Looking for handy, up-to-date

(harewood.org).

include leading gig venue The

travel information? Check out

Cockpit (thecockpit.co.uk) and

KLM’s Destination Guide

jazz club The Wardrobe

pages – and book your flight –

Accessorise this

(thewardrobe.co.uk). The

on klm.com. Content provided

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Victorian opulence of The

by Frommer’s Unlimited © 2011,

clothes, accessories and

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WHAT TO SEE

Falconry, displays of uniforms and jousting by knights in armour are among the sights at The Royal Armouries on Leeds’ riverside. Modern and purpose-built in 1996, the museum serves as both a family attraction and an important national archive. royalarmouries.org

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Photo: David Constantine/Hollandse Hoogte

TOUCHDOWN KILIMANJARO / DAR ES SALAAM

High and mighty Majestic, breathtaking Mount Kilimanjaro dominates the Tanzanian landscape, while Dar Es Salaam’s busy streets bustle with dust-shrouded safari cars, suit-clad office workers and traders in colourful traditional dress.

WHAT TO SEE

of Tanzanian life and are on sale

particularly in Namanga, where

Hit the trail

all over Dar. Or hunt for bargains

you’ll find the country’s only

For the determined, climbing

in Kariokoo and Mwenge

Croatian restaurant, Simona

Mount Kilimanjaro can be

markets. For last-minute gift

(Kimweri Road).

done in five days, and will lead

shopping, try The Slipway

you through thick forests,

shopping centre (slipway.net) on

alpine grasslands, desolate

Msasani Peninsula.

rock faces, and brilliant white glaciers. In ‘Dar’, stroll among

HOW TO GET THERE

Ferry nice South Beach on Kigamboni Peninsula is popular with locals.

Hop on the ferry from Kivukoni in Dar Es Salaam. A boat also shuttles between White Sands beach resort in Jambiani and Mbuja Island, where you can feast on fresh fish.

KLM operates five direct weekly flights to Kilimanjaro

WHERE TO EAT

International Airport from

the peacocks in the Botanical

For all tastes

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Gardens (Samora Avenue).

There’s communal Ethiopian fare

Flights continue on to Dar Es

More conventional sightseeing

of curried meat and vegetables

Salaam International Airport

options include the National

on a base of spongy bread at

and return direct to Amsterdam.

Museum & House of Culture

Addis in Dar (Ursino 35; +255 741

(houseofculture.or.tz).

266299). Indian restaurants

Tourist information

in Upanga serve vegetarian

tanzaniatouristboard.com

WHERE TO SHOP

DON’T MISS

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ROTTERDAM CITY OF YOUTH FRESH TALENTS At a time when many large cities are facing ageing populations, the average age in Rotterdam is dropping.

This rejuvenation was an important factor in Rotterdam’s selection as the first European Youth Capital in 2009.

Young people are good for a city. They generate a refreshingly lively atmosphere and the sum total of all their talents and energy leads to new, creative initiatives.

In Rotterdam, this influence can be seen most strongly in a highly varied youth culture dominated by music, dance and various aspects of street culture. Besides established successes like DJs Ferry Corsten and Speedy J, upcoming talents like singer Sabrina Startke, DJ/producer/filmmaker Mike Redman, dancer Timor Steffens, free runner Henk Strijdhaftig and skater Nassim Guammaz were also ‘made in Rotterdam’.

YOUTH FESTIVALS The most powerful place to sample our youth culture is the city’s many festivals. Musica Republica, for instance, one of the larger dance festivals in the Netherlands. Or the Metropolis Festival, featuring a line-up that’s so in touch with the latest trends that the unknown acts you see here often go on to achieve global fame. Another streetwise event offering music and more is Streetmasters, where young people show off their skills in skating, BMX racing, free running and breakdance. Hip-hop and R&B set the tone at State of Mind and New Skool Rules. And anyone who feels young at heart will be more than welcome to take part in an organic mix of music, theatre, visual arts and film at Motel Mozaique.

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TOUCHDOWN LIMA

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The pride of Peru

DON’T MISS

Inca marvels, local charm and zesty Peruvian cuisine make Lima a perfect getaway destination. From the remains of its ancient civilisations, to the architectural influence of colonialism, the city is a goldmine of fascinating cultural experiences.

The Plaza Mayor is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Located in Lima’s historic centre, it is the perfect place to start exploring the city’s colonial architecture, from beautiful wooden balconies, to landmark buildings, such as the cathedral and presidential palace.

WHAT TO SEE

Site specific

(larosanautica.com) use the

head for De Rompe y Raja

Rocks of ages

best local ingredients in their

(derompeyraja.pe) and its

The National Museum

mouth-watering dishes. Meat

traditional dance shows.

(2465, Av. Javier Prado Oeste)

lovers should head for La

showcases Peru’s rich cultural

Carreta (+511 442 2690), fish

heritage, while pre-Inca

enthusiasts to Pescados

KLM operates one daily direct

HOW TO GET THERE

Pachacámac’s (Antigua

Capitales (+511 421 8808), while

flight to Jorge Chávez

Panamericana Sur, Lurín)

vegetarians will find contentment

International Airport from

beautiful pyramids, temples

at El Paraiso Bio-Leben (416

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

and fresco paintings are an

Alcanfores, Miraflores).

intriguing archaeological excavation. Couples will enjoy

Tourist information

WHERE TO BOOGIE

peru.info

the Park of Love’s romantic

Latin fever

sculptures and setting.

Antigua Taberna Queirolo

Looking for handy, up-to-date

(1090, Av. San Martin, Pueblo

travel information? Check out

Libre) is one of Lima’s oldest

KLM’s Destination Guide

Food for thought

and most charming bars. Salsa

pages – and book your flight –

Astrid y Gastón (+511 242

aficionados will enjoy Kimbara’s

on klm.com. Content provided

5387) and beautifully located

(+511 265 5831) Latin vibe. If you

by Frommer’s Unlimited © 2011,

La Rosa Naútica

prefer to sit out and watch,

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WHERE TO EAT

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TOUCHDOWN ARUBA

ARUBA’S ORNATE COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE

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Sun, sea and salsa

DON’T MISS

The Caribbean island of Aruba offers year-round sunbathing on palm-fringed beaches, world-class shopping and cocktail-drenched nightlife in the playgrounds of Oranjestad, Eagle Beach and Palm Beach.

WHAT TO SEE

the 130-outlet Renaissance

and Aruba’s famous half-moon

Natural charm

Mall & Marketplace

pastries at The Pastechi House

Aruba’s ancient indigenous

(shoprenaissancearuba.com)

(42, Caya GF Betico Croes).

cultural and colonial heritage

and the bustling shops at the

has been beautifully captured at

Certified Mega Mall

the Archaeological Museum

(megamallaruba.com). There are

KLM operates two direct weekly

of Aruba (Schelpstraat 42;

handmade traditional Aruban

flights, and one direct weekly

+297 582 8979). Discover exotic

crafts at Mopa Mopa (82, LG

flight in cooperation with

cacti, aloe plants and rare

Smith Boulevard) and fine hand-

Martinair, to Aruba Queen Beatrix

tropical blooms on the leafy

rolled Cubans at International

International Airport from

hiking trails at Arikok National

Cigars (17, LG Smith Boulevard).

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

HOW TO GET THERE

On a wing Several hundred species of butterfly are housed at Aruba Butterfly Farm near Oranjestad, set amid colourful blooms and palms.

Qualified lepidopterists give educational tours in the beautiful gardens. Learn all about the butterfly’s evolution, from caterpillar to chrysalis to winged wonder, and, if you’re lucky, catch a new butterfly being ‘born’. thebutterflyfarm.com

Park (arubanationalpark.org), or catch fine sunset views from

WHERE TO EAT

the California Lighthouse on

Fusion cuisine

the island’s north-western tip.

European culinary traditions fuse

WHERE TO SHOP

Tourist information aruba.com

with feisty Caribbean flavours

Looking for handy, up-to-date

using the island’s bountiful tropical

travel information? Check out

The mall the merrier

produce. Savour elaborate fish

KLM’s Destination Guide pages

Snap up great tax-free bargains

dishes at Ventanas del Mar

– and book your flight – on

and discounted designer brands

(tierradelsol.com), lobster with

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The Subsea Future is All Electric The drive to convert hydraulic subsea applications to electricity, with all the benefits this would mean for many oil and gas fields, has gone on for many years. Oceaneering Subsea All Electric is at the forefront of this progress with cutting edge products and solutions.

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Terje Riis-Johansen Minister of Petroleum and Energy

Come to the 16th European Gas Conference in Oslo and be enlightened by stimulating debates and round table discussions with energy industry experts, politicians and environmentalists – all trying to tackle the issues below.

Gerhard Schröder Former German Chancellor

Charles Hendry

Session 1 : Bringing Norwegian gas to Europe Will Norway be a key supplier in the future gas supply mix in Europe?

2011 marks the 10th anniversary of Gassco.

Minister of State, UK

Patrice de Viviès

Session 2 : Natural Gas in a low carbon Europe Some say it is part of the solution, some say it is part of the problem - can it be both at the same time?

Organizer

The Norwegian Gas Associat ion

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Session 3 : Gas sources – origin and use Can new sources of gas be unlocked? What is the potential in the European transportation sector?

Senior Vice President, Northern Europe, Total Exploration & Production

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TOUCHDOWN ABU DHABI

THE SKY’S THE LIMIT IN AMBITIOUS ABU DHABI

SPICE OF LIFE

DON’T MISS

Birds of a feather

Desert beauty Glass-covered skyscrapers glimmer like mirages in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. But the frenzy of a thoroughly modern city is tempered by lush gardens and public parks, a criss-cross of palm-lined boulevards, and the languid waters of the Persian Gulf.

WHAT TO SEE

+971 2 6818300), and Abu Dhabi

6907999) on the Corniche.

Arabian sights

Mall (abhudhabi-mall.com). Pick

At the other end of the price

Step back in maritime history at

up a traditional coffee pot or

range is Lebanese finger food

the ancient Bateen Shipyard

Bedouin jewellery at the souks in

on Khalifa Street, and cheap

(Port Zayed) where skilled

Hamdan Street and Khalifa, or

Indian eats by Port Zayed.

craftsmen carve traditional

bargain for a handmade carpet at

wooden dhows from huge

Oriental Carpet House &

planks of teak. Enjoy lazy days

Antiques (Al Hamli Building, Al

KLM operates five direct weekly

on the soft sands of Al Raha

Nasr St).

flights to Abu Dhabi

Beach, and at sunset wander along the handsome Corniche.

Birdwatchers flock to the Al Wathba Wetland Reserve in the hope of spotting some of the region’s rarest birds. This well-irrigated grassland attracts local species like the red-billed tropic bird, the masked booby and the lappet-faced vulture. ead.ae

HOW TO GET THERE

International Airport from

WHERE TO EAT

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Fresh flavours WHERE TO SHOP

Discover a world of international,

Tourist information

Souks you

top-table dining at seafood

visitabudhabi.ae

Fancy fashions, cosmetics,

restaurants The Fishmarket

perfumes and electronics fill

(Bainunah Street; +971 2 6666888)

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and the extravagant Sayad

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Marina Mall (Corniche Road;

(Emirates Palace Hotel; +971 2

Whatsonwhen Limited.

VULTURE CULTURE

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TOUCHDOWN DALL AS

BOOT CAMP

SADDLE UP IN THE LONE STAR STATE

Cowboy cool A city filled with big dreamers, big doers, and occasionally big hair, Dallas is part cowboy, part haute couture. A rich, diverse cultural oasis with a trail-blazing attitude, ‘Big D’, as it is commonly known, exemplifies the pioneering spirit of Texas.

WHAT TO SEE

Cool (cowboycool.com), where

American Airlines Center

Park and ride

edgy rock ’n’ roll meets Texan

(americanairlinescenter.com)

Founders Square marks

chic. Downtown is home to the

hosts headliner concerts.

Dallas’ beginnings by the

Dallas Farmers Market

banks of the Trinity River. In

(dallasfarmersmarket.org) and the

Arlington, Six Flags Over

flagship Neiman Marcus

KLM operates four direct flights

Texas (sixflags.com) offers

department store (neimanmarcus.

a week to Dallas/Fort Worth

around 50 thrilling rides, while

com) that put Texas on the

International Airport from

the Dallas Museum of Art

fashion map.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

HOW TO GET THERE

(dallasmuseumofart.org) holds impressive European and

WHERE TO BOOGIE

A place to remember Located in the former Texas School Book Depository in downtown Dallas, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza chronicles the life, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy, assassinated from this location in 1963. A block away is the moving Kennedy Memorial. jfk.org

Tourist information

African collections. Turtle

Bulls and beer

Creek traverses the lawns of

A visit to Big D isn’t complete

Lee Park, a natural respite in

without a trip to Gilley’s Dallas

Looking for handy, up-to-date

Dallas’ uptown district.

(gilleysdallas.com), the city’s

travel information? Check out

largest honky-tonk, with

KLM’s Destination Guide

mechanical bulls, beer and lots of

pages – and book your flight –

Texan chic

country music. The South Side is

on klm.com. Content provided

Uptown has boutique

also home to the Brooklyn Jazz

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shopping, including Cowboy

Cafe (brooklynjazzcafe.com).

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WHERE TO SHOP

DON’T MISS

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PHOTO CONTEST

EMPEROR PENGUIN WITH CHICK, SNOW HILL ISLAND, ANTARCTICA, PHOTOGRAPHED BY SYLVAIN CORDIER

Inspire us with your world

What can you win?

THE GRAND PRIZE Two intercontinental Economy Class return tickets on KLM flights.

Travelling is a great source of

How does it work?

inspiration, and photography is a

Every three months, we’ll be giving

great way of capturing those special

away a KLM ‘goody bag’ to three

FIRST RUNNER-UP

moments. Whether it’s landscapes,

photographers who, in our opinion,

people, nature or architecture, creativity

have sent in the most inspiring travel

can be drawn from many sources.

photographs for that quarter.

A KLM voucher*, value €500, to be used in (part) payment for a KLM flight.

Show us your ‘Journeys of Inspiration’

At the end of the year, we will make

photos, and you could win two

a further selection from these entries

return tickets to a KLM destination of

to choose an overall winner and two

your choice!

runners-up (see ‘What can you win?’).

A goody bag every three months!

Don’t be late…

Send in your ‘Journeys of Inspiration’

SECOND RUNNER-UP A KLM voucher*, value €250, to be used in (part) payment for a KLM flight. *Vouchers redeemable at any AIR FRANCE KLM, Delta or Kenya Airways office. Tickets issued in exchange for vouchers must bear the same name as that on the voucher.

photograph for the next quarter by 10 April 2011. See our website holland-herald.com for submission details.

CONTEST RULES • Photographs larger than 10x15cm cannot be accepted • Photographs will not be returned • Holland Herald, KLM, MediaPartners Group and the publishers, Ink Publishing, accept no responsibility for lost material • Copyright clearance and permission of subjects are the responsibility of

Feeling inspired?

the photographers. KLM and Ink Publishing acquire the rights for future use of the images • The competition is open to readers of

Check out other beautiful shots from

Holland Herald who are 18 years of age or older on the date of

previous entrants at holland-herald.com

Entrants for the Grand Prize will be notified as soon as possible

entry, and who have flown with KLM during the entry period • after the relevant quarter • Employees of KLM, Ink Publishing 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 • No prizes can be exchanged for cash.

Exact goody bag may differ from those shown

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Marinus Boezem, De Groene Kathedraal (1978-1996)

(c) Antony Gormley Photograph by Allard Bovenberg, Amsterdam

Antony Gormley, EXPOSURE (2010)

Guided tours every Sunday May – June www. depaviljoens.nl

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contents KLM news Behind the scenes People & planet Flying Blue news KLM entertainment

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klm.com 91 KLM partners 93 The fleet 94 KLM route maps 96 Schiphol, hub gates 103 Amsterdam map 105 Fit for flying 106

A KLM stewardess poses with a bunch of fresh tulips in front of a Convair 240.

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Enjoy your personal space

New. Europe Business Class It’s in our nature. When given the choice, people will always sit next to an empty seat.

Just to feel more comfortable.

In Europe Business Class we offer you that personal space.

And with our enhanced catering, priority service, full flexibility and attentive staff, it’s the most comfortable and efficient way of flying within Europe.

Find out more at KLM.com

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“More space and exquisite inflight meals“

Spring flavours

A class of its own KLM is proud to present its new ‘Europe Business Class’. The Business Class offering, which has replaced ‘Europe Select’, has greater comfort and more personal space for an optimal travel experience. A dedicated section at the front of the aircraft provides extra legroom and, where applicable, blocked seats guarantee you will always be seated by a window or aisle, never in the middle.

What’s more, every business class seat in our 737 fleet will shortly be fitted with a socket to charge electrical appliances.

Good taste After listening carefully to customer feedback, KLM has refined its Business Class inflight catering, with quality ingredients and more choice. Start the day with a luxurious breakfast, savour

a fresh sandwich or tuck into a delicious two-course meal, depending on the time of day and length of your flight. Catering presentation has also been enhanced. Meals will now be served on tableware designed

by Dutchman Marcel Wanders in his elegantly ornate style.

Enjoy the benefits Europe Business Class passengers will continue to enjoy the same benefits at the airport previously offered in Europe Select, such as extra baggage allowance, priority check-in and lounge access.

Fares also remain fully flexible, which means bookings can be changed free of charge. In addition, a full refund will be provided in the event of cancellation.

Tickets can be booked on klm.com

Since December, World Business Class (WBC) passengers have been able to enjoy a sumptuous onboard menu specially created by Jonnie Boer, the chef at De Librije, one of only two restaurants in The Netherlands with three Michelin stars. With the arrival of spring, he has selected another exquisite seasonal menu for KLM. The starter features sliced smoked lamb, marinated white asparagus and pearl pasta, garnished with cheese and tarragon dressing. A choice of main courses includes slow-cooked chicken with mustard, cod with coconut sauce, and hash of beef.

Finish the meal with a cheese plate and seasonal fruit, a typical Dutch chocolate-liquorice dessert, or ‘Gin & Jonnie’, an original De Librije creation of lemon mousse with sweet and sour cucumber.

The meals will be served on tableware designed exclusively for KLM by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders. Read more about Wanders on pages 17 and 87.

The new Shop@KLM service gives passengers the option to order tax-free products from the comfort of their homes. Pre-order and pay for articles and gifts online at shop.klm.com before your next KLM flight, and have them delivered right to your seat on board.

This exciting service, which is available to all passengers on intercontinental flights from Amsterdam, offers a wider selection than the inflight assortment — with no risk of items being sold out. Enter promotional code ‘KLM’ when you pay and receive a 10% discount on your order!

A MEAL TO REMEMBER

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Comfortable living in Puglia Luxurious villas and apartments in Residenza Parco di Mileto

A truly unique location in Italy In one of the loveliest spots in Puglia, near Ostuni and Fasano, lies Parco di Mileto. Like an island, the park lies between the hilly green landscape of the Murge and the Adriatic, and is unique in all its aspects. Even by Italian standards. The beautiful sandy beaches of Torre Canne are just 3 kilometres away.

The International airports of Bari and Brindisi are only a 40 minute drive from the park.

Exclusive properties The luxurious 25 villas and 28 apartments in only two-storey apartment buildings have been individually designed in traditional classical and modern styles with characteristic Pulgian details.

The park is surrounded by sloping Mediterranean Gardens and fascinating Puglian olive groves.

Carefree & Comfortable living Residential services and the recreational, sports and even medical facilities in Parco di Mileto leave nothing to be desired.

A wellness centre is located in one of the stunning historical caves of the park. There are two golf courses, including San Domenico Golf, one of the most prestigious golf courses in Italy and both within 10 kilometres of the park.

Apartments from € 219.000 Semi-detached villas from € 290.000 Detached villas from € 322.000

Parco di Mileto International Sales office T: +39 080 2148607 welcome@parcodimileto.com

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KLM BEHIND THE SCE SCENES

Space invaders Travellers llers to Amsterdam recently found themselves in close se proximity to a very clingy American.

American Most looked uncomfortable and moved away, unaware that they were part of a KLM experiment into personal space.

The test, which has been turned into a YouTube video (youtube.com/klm), is just one of the innovative ways KLM is using social media to connect with and serve its customers.

Communications and Corporate Identity Director, Frank Houben, explains: “We sent US comic Matt Chapman to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with a candid camera to find out how people react when their personal space is invaded. Everyone can relate to that feeling of discomfort when someone gets too close, which is what makes the video so compelling. But there

KLM PUSHES BOUNDARIES AT SCHIPHOL

is a serious side to the experiment as well.”

KLM understands the need for personal space, and the YouTube video is part of the airline’s wider campaign to promote its new Europe Business Class. Unlike Matt Chapman’s cramped test subjects, business travellers can now enjoy the comfort of never being seated in the middle of a row.

Social services KLM isn’t only reaching its customers through YouTube. At last count, the airline had more than 100,000 Facebook fans and 85,000 followers on Twitter. And these channels are as much about service as fun, says Social Media Manager Anna Ketting. “We want to make sure that we offer the same level of customer service as we do through our other touch points, like our call centres. The aim of our social media service team is to answer or solve problems within 24 hours. That doesn’t mean redirecting customers to the KLM website or a telephone number, but actually carrying out requests or finding answers to questions and reporting back on the outcome, all via social media.”

During the ash cloud last year, which caused major flight disruptions, most of these requests involved rebooking flights.

Since then, the team has handled an increasing number of servicing quest questions, including changing seats, locating lost luggage and ordering specific meals.

The power of social media as a two-way tool was underlined when KLM announced it would start flying from Amsterdam to Miami from 27 March. “We received a lot of tweets from the dance music community in The Netherlands saying that was just a few days too late for one of the most important dance music festivals in the world,” says Anna. Based on those tweets, KLM entered

“An inspiring new campaign will soon be launched on Facebook” into a bet with the dance fans: if they could get 150 people to register for a flight to Miami within a week, KLM would charter a plane on 21 March. Within two days, 426 people had signed up and KLM gracefully admitted defeat. “You could say the whole flight was ‘Twittered’ full,” says Anna.

“It’s a great example of listening to your customers and acting on what they say.”

Inspiring the world To underline the growing importance of social media in its overall communications strategy, KLM will soon launch a major new campaign on Facebook. “I can’t reveal too much about it,” says Frank, “but it’s going to be inspiring.” Keep an eye on facebook.com/klm for the details.

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KLM PEOPLE & PLANET

Investing in the future

CHILDREN LEARN SOCIAL...

Every year, millions of passengers board KLM flights with a burning desire to discover new lands. Unfortunately, these countries can also be home to children in need – a need outlined in the UN Millennium Development Goals. KLM AirCares offers promotional, logistical and financial support to NGOs to help them achieve these goals.

Aflatoun is a global organisation that provides social and financial education to children and teenagers from six to 18

...AND FINANCIAL SKILLS

years old. By teaching its young participants how to save their resources and start micro-enterprises, Aflatoun empowers them to be agents of change in their communities and eventually break the cycle of poverty in which many find themselves.

Training the trainers With KLM’s assistance, Aflatoun will shortly initiate a Regional Master Training Course in Asia. By training 25 Regional Master

Trainers, who in turn train 250 local trainers who train 10,000 teachers, the programme will eventually reach 250,000 children.

Donate now To donate money and/or Flying Blue Miles to this or any other AirCares charity, please visit aircares.nl or make a donation during this flight (see the last page of our shopping section where applicable). For more information on Aflatoun, visit aflatoun.org

Wonder of Wanders KLM invests heavily in ways to minimise its impact on the environment. One way of doing this is to reduce the load on board its aircraft, which decreases fuel usage and lowers carbon dioxide emissions. With this in mind, KLM presented Dutch designer Marcel Wanders with the challenge of designing new tableware for World Business Class (WBC) that was lighter but still stylish.

KLM requested that plates, cups and cutlery be made of luxury materials, in keeping with WBC’s concept, but the salad bowl did not fall under this restriction. In response, Wanders came

up with a salad bowl made from polystyrene.

The delicate design was well received, but KLM had concerns about the bowl’s one-use-only material.

However, analysis carried out for KLM by independent research organisation TNO showed that the polystyrene bowl was less damaging to the environment than a porcelain equivalent, over the entire life cycle from production to disposal. In addition, the lightweight bowl will result in a total load reduction of 900,000kg per year, or 700 tonnes fewer CO2 emissions. See also page 17.

BOWLED OVER: WANDERS’ DELICATE DESIGN

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Two nights’ sweet dreams

A scenic drive

An impulse flight

An escape

- Magnus Winter/Bransch

for two

Because travelling continues beyond the airport, the frequent traveller programme Flying Blue accompanies you at each step of your journey and throughout your stay. The more you fly with KLM, AIR FRANCE and our SkyTeam airline partners, the more Miles you’ll earn and benefits you’ll enjoy. And when it comes to spending your Miles, our network of airline and non-airline partners offers you the opportunity to create experiences to suit your taste and your mood. Let Flying Blue take you further.

Simple to join, so much to experience.

Enrol at klm.com or airfrance.com

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KLM FLYING BLUE NEWS KLM ENTERTAINMENT

Look at this!

State-of-the-art entertainment is available on all intercontinental KLM flights. Just a few clicks will bring you to a virtual world of...

Watching and listening Instantly access over 85 movies, available in various languages.

Compile your own audio playlist or select a specific CD. Channels specifically devoted to Dutch movies, TV and music are also available.

Meals and more Discover what meals and drinks (and other tasty treats!) are being served on flights out of Amsterdam.

Stimulation Games and information galore - or learn a language.

‘THE FIGHTER’

THE LATEST INFLIGHT MOVIES Baciami Ancora (Drama/Romance) The Fighter (Drama) Gulliver’s Travels (Adventure/Fantasy) The Killing Room (Drama/Thriller) New Kids Turbo (Action/Comedy) The Next Three Days (Drama/Romance) The Tourist (Drama/Thriller) Tron: Legacy (Action/Sci-Fi) True Grit (Drama/Western) Yogi Bear (Animation/Family)

Too much choice?

Check out our revamped online programme guide before your next flight at klm.com (select: Prepare for travel; On board; Entertainment on board).

Dream team Flying Blue partner NH Hoteles recently added Hesperia Hotels to its portfolio. NH Hoteles now offers even more opportunities to earn Award Miles with every stay at its comfortable, fully equipped properties across the United Kingdom, Spain and Andorra.

Destinations include hot spots such as London, Barcelona, Madrid, Majorca and Seville.

For more on Flying Blue partners, visit klm.com or airfrance.com

How to join Flying Blue

Celebration time

Earn both Level and Award Miles with AIR FRANCE KLM’s loyalty programme, Flying Blue. Award Miles can be redeemed for flights and products from over 100 partners worldwide. Level Miles count towards a higher membership tier, each offering benefits such as access to airport lounges and extra baggage allowance.

For further details or to enrol, simply visit klm.com

Available exclusively online, Promo Awards@ save you 50% on the Flying Blue Award Miles usually required for award tickets with AIR FRANCE KLM. Promo Awards@ are frequently updated, and 50 destinations are currently on offer as part of the Flying Blue fifth-anniversary celebrations. Please be advised that Promo Awards@ are subject to availability. For details of this and other promotions, visit the Flying Blue News pages on klm.com or airfrance.com

Miles more bonuses KLM introduces the Flying Blue and Avis Accumulator. Rent a car with Avis from two to six times between 1 April and 30 September 2011, and drive away with up to 50,000 Bonus Miles. That’s enough for a return award ticket from Europe to New York!

Even if you don’t think you will rent six times, Avis is offering extra Bonus Miles for the duration of the promotion. So the more you rent, the faster your Miles will accumulate.

To qualify, reservations must be made on avis-flyingblue.com or klm.com, using a Flying Blue/Avis Worldwide Discount (AWD)

number or a KLM Flying Blue AWD number.

The promotion applies to rentals of three days or longer. For details of the AWD numbers and to learn more about how the Bonus Miles are awarded, please visit the Flying Blue pages on klm.com Holland Herald

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Exclusive interior design www.janfrantzen.nl

With our new and extensive range of Art Deco Furniture, you can see a revival of the creative power of the twenties and thirties.

“Sit, store and so much more�

Class speaks for itself!

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KLM.COM

“Convenience on the ground, comfort on board”

Comfort choice KLM has some great choices to make your journey in Economy Class even more comfortable. The Economy Comfort zone, in the front of the Economy Class cabin, offers seats with substantially more (10cm more, in fact) legroom than standard seating, and which recline twice as far!

Don’t wait until you get to the airport: Economy Comfort and all other preferred seats can easily be arranged from 90 days before departure via ‘Manage my booking’ on klm.com

Check this out…

BEAT THE AIRPORT QUEUES

Save time and beat the queues at KLM’s self-service check-in machines, available at most airports worldwide.

Check in for your departing and return flights, and print your boarding pass. You can also use the machines to print your boarding pass if you checked in online but did not have access to a printer. Do you have a favourite seat, or are you thinking of treating yourself to an upgrade? Simply make your selections from the options onscreen.

KLM is social networking Join us on facebook.com/klm and twitter.com/klm and be the first to know about all the latest news and promotions. We will also inform you of any flight disruptions and answer your questions about our services. We can handle requests, such as rebooking a flight or arranging excess baggage, too.

Want to know even more about KLM? Visit our new blog, blog.klm. com. In addition to background information on products and services, you will get a weekly peek into the life of a KLM purser, and a traveller will share his destination tips and travel experiences.

Arrange your trip on the go The KLM website for mobile devices, and an application for iPhones, BlackBerrys and now Android phones, offer you the freedom to shape your journey – wherever, whenever you want.

Besides booking tickets, you can check in, select your favourite seat and much more, all on the move.

Visit klm.com with your mobile, or download the mobile app from the Apple App Store, BlackBerry App World and Android Market.

KLM e-services make your travel planning faster, easier and more rewarding than ever.

For example, you can tell us your travel experiences with the direct, easy-to-use ‘Contact us’ link via the ‘Customer support’ tab on the website home page.

Your communication can usually be handled within five days. KLM offers a full range of services via its website klm.com

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Webster University in Leiden, The Netherlands You do not need to travel to the USA to get a fully American accredited BA, BS, MA or MBA. Webster University offers high quality education all over the world. Come and study at Webster University in Leiden for example. Webster University in Leiden is part of Webster’s international network of more than 22,000 students, studying at one of the 100 campuses.

We offer small classes with students from all over the globe.

Enjoy the benefits of an American education and boost your international career. Webster University: opening a world of opportunities!

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KLM PARTNERS

Our partners, your benefits AIR FRANCE KLM, Europe’s largest airline group, is a member of SkyTeam, an alliance of 13 airlines.

This offers you a variety of benefits such as: 898 global destinations; access to more lounges worldwide; a coordinated timetable for improved connections; and more opportunities to earn Flying Blue Level and Award Miles.

Award Miles can be spent on flights, or with over 100 non-airline partners, such as Marriott and Hertz. Level Miles count

our US joint venture partner, Delta Air Lines, we guarantee you a perfectly integrated network and superior customer service.

towards a higher membership tier, each offering different benefits such as access to airport lounges and extra baggage allowance. Together with

KLM and its main partners Founded: 1933 / Home base: Paris Fleet size: 427** / Passengers: 52 million AIRFRANCE.COM ** including Régional, Britair, Cityjet and VLM Airlines

Founded: 1928 / Home base: Atlanta Fleet size: 1,015 / Passengers: 170 million DELTA.COM Founded: 1919 / Home base: Amsterdam Fleet size: 210* / Passengers: 22 million KLM.COM * including KLM Cityhopper, Martinair and transavia.com

Other KLM partners Code-share partners

Combined code-share and Flying Blue partners

Flying Blue partners

You can earn and/or spend Miles with all SkyTeam alliance members and KLM’s Flying Blue partners in Flying Blue, AIR FRANCE KLM’s loyalty programme. For detailed information visit klm.com or airfrance.com. A code-share partner means that even though you have booked a KLM flight number, you may find yourself travelling on a service operated by that partner.

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KLM PLANE FACTS

HOW BIG, HOW SMALL, HOW FAR…?

Boeing 747-400

1920 17 May: 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 the handicap section, and second prize overall in the London-Melbourne Air Race.

22

920

11,500

64.44

390,100

415

70.67

yes!

(Combi 396,900)

(Combi 275)

(Combi 16)

1946 KLM launches its

35,000 (Combi)

Boeing 747-400ER Freighter

scheduled 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.

1989 KLM is the first European airline to introduce the new generation 747-400s.

4

920

11,500

412,800

112,000

70.67

64.44

Boeing 777-300ER

2001 KLM is the first European airline to introduce the next generation of 737-900s.

2005 KLM starts adding the first of 12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft to its fleet.

Artwork KLM fleet: Hans Murris, KLM Engineering & Maintenance, SPL/WM

2008 KLM’s first two (out of a total of five) Boeing 777-300ERs are put into operation.

5

900

12,000

64.80

351,543

425

73.86

yes!

2008 KLM begins a gradual

Boeing 777-200ER

introduction of the EMBRAER 190 to its Cityhopper fleet, replacing some of its Fokker 100 aircraft.

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 klm.com/csr gives full information on KLM’s corporate social responsibilty and sustainable air transport activities.

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900

11,800

60.90

297,500

318

63.70

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KLM PLANE FACTS McDonnell Douglas MD-11

10

880

11,000

51.96

280,300

285

61.21

yes!

11

880

8,800

60.30

230,000

243

58.37

yes!

Airbus A330-200

Boeing 737-900/800

Boeing 737-700

5

850

4,300

35.80

22

850

4,100

35.80

76,900

189

41.91

73,700

171

39.47

11

850

3,500

64,000

129

33.60

EMBRAER 190

Boeing 737-400/300

8 3

800 800

3,500 3,000

62,800

147

36.45

56,900

127

33.40

35.80

28.88 28.88

17

850

3,300

45,600

100

36.25

KEY

Fokker 70/100

28.72

SCALE: 1CM = 6.3M

NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT

26

743

2,400

28.08

5

740

2,400

28.08

38,000

80

30.91

44,400

100

35.53

MAX. TAKE-OFF WEIGHT (KG)

TELEPHONE ON BOARD

WINGSPAN (M)

RANGE (KM)

CRUISING SPEED (KM/H)

LENGTH (M)

MAXIMUM PASSENGERS

MAX. FREIGHT (KG)

Fleet data information valid at magazine publication date

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B26 B28

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ROYAL PALACE

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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. When passing through security control, you will be required to present liquids, gels, pastes, lotions and aerosols separately, in individual containers of not more than 100ml, packaged in a re-sealable, transparent plastic bag (maximum volume 1 litre, 1 bag per person).

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Within the European Union, liquids and gels that you purchase after passing through passport control, or on board the aircraft will be packaged and sealed for you, together with the receipt.

The unbroken seal is valid for 24 hours.

If you buy liquids or gels at a 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 klm.com

Animal products To prevent the spread of animal diseases, you are prohibited from entering the EU with meat, meat products, milk and milk products. Small quantities for personal use are permitted on arrival from Andorra, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino and Switzerland. For further information visit europa.eu

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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

Feet

15 TIMES

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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.

Relax whilst flying Statistics show that flying is much safer than many situations in our daily lives The crew in control of the plane are highly trained and experienced KLM aircraft are maintained and designed to withstand all sorts of turbulence Try to relax – breathe in deeply through your nose, hold for three seconds and exhale slowly KLM partner, VALK Foundation, can offer support to people with a fear of flying. Visit valk.org or call +31 71 5273733

30 TIMES

Knees Raise your leg, tensing the muscles of your thigh.

5 TIMES

10 TIMES

Shoulders

Legs

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.

During the flight Ear pain? Pinch your nose shut, close your mouth and swallow or blow out against your closed mouth.

Alternatively, chew gum Stimulate your circulation by walking around in the cabin and stretching Avoid sitting with your legs crossed as this restricts circulation Taking your shoes off might be more comfortable Drink plenty of water and not too much alcohol

15 TIMES

Back and arms Place both feet flat on the ground and hold in your stomach. Bend forward, moving your hands down your legs.

Reducing jetlag Start adjusting your body clock to the time zone of your destination the night before departure by going to bed earlier or later Don’t eat too heavily the night before you leave, or drink too much alcohol Eat protein-rich meals at times that are normal for your new time zone At your destination, take light exercise, such as a walk Spend at least 30 minutes in daylight

HOUSE RULES All electronic devices must be turned off completely whilst walking to/from the aircraft, and during take-off, approach and landing.

The only electronic devices which may be used during the flight and ground stop are: • Mobile phones, PDAs or other devices with a ’flight’ mode or ‘flight safe’ setting.

This must be activated

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before the aircraft doors are closed.

• Laptops, if the WLAN/WiFi is turned off.

• Electronic games, MP3, DVD and CD players.

Cabin crew can request all electronic devices to be switched off completely if circumstances so dictate.

Drinks are served one at to passengers occupying their assigned seats. For safety reasons, the purser may close the bar. Passengers are not permitted to drink alcoholic beverages brought on board with them.

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Smoking, including artificial cigarettes, such as ‘SuperSmokers’, is strictly forbidden at all times on KLM flights.

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