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Holland Herald<br />
JUNE <strong>2012</strong> YOUR COPY TO KEEP<br />
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Holland Herald<br />
JUNE <strong>2012</strong> YOUR COPY TO KEEP<br />
THE<br />
go!<br />
ISSUE<br />
15 The go! fi les<br />
Spinning dinners, city streets, and<br />
wrestling in dresses<br />
24 Facts & fi gures<br />
Go! by numbers, factoids and tiny<br />
nuggets of info<br />
38 Psychology<br />
How do some athletes always seem<br />
to win? A look behind the myths of<br />
sports psychology<br />
47 Travel tale<br />
A writer recalls his early 1990s<br />
journey to pen the fi rst guidebook<br />
to the newly reunifi ed Germany<br />
Zambia<br />
54<br />
A canoe safari down the Lower<br />
Zambezi brings you closer to the<br />
wildlife than you might imagine<br />
42<br />
Photo series<br />
A series of Dutch Olympic hopefuls in<br />
unusual settings by photographer<br />
Bastiaan Heus<br />
CONTENTS<br />
The go! issue<br />
This month’s go-getting cover image comes from reader Cody Thornton,<br />
winner of the Holland Herald photo competition (see p81), and was shot<br />
in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The photo (which can be seen in full in the July issue)<br />
captures the excitement of travel and the urge so many of us have to simply<br />
go — to explore and see what happens. The diver in this shot made<br />
a safe, if inelegant splashdown. Also on the go are the poppetjes (little<br />
dolls) pictured above from the miniature city Madurodam (see p65) in The<br />
Hague. To celebrate the park’s recent refurbishment, we have sent them on<br />
a trip, and they can be seen on their travels throughout the magazine.<br />
London<br />
30<br />
Hackney, host to the Olympics, is<br />
London’s wild east, full of hidden<br />
greenery and creative excess<br />
50<br />
Coral Triangle<br />
The work of World Wide Fund for<br />
Nature to protect south-east Asia’s<br />
Coral Triangle<br />
08<br />
65<br />
69<br />
81<br />
Frontlines<br />
Little bits of<br />
everything<br />
Updates<br />
What’s on in<br />
The Netherlands<br />
Touchdowns<br />
The best<br />
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Photo<br />
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Your chance<br />
to inspire us<br />
and win<br />
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KLM Travellers Check<br />
87 Hartman quarterly<br />
KLM CEO Peter Hartman<br />
88 Products & services<br />
Seat-mates and extra comfort<br />
91 Flying Blue news<br />
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93 Entertainment<br />
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95 KLM takes care<br />
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Volume 47 Number 6<br />
June <strong>2012</strong><br />
Published by Ink, London, UK<br />
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Frontlines<br />
Arts, design,<br />
culture, events<br />
and ideas from<br />
across the globe<br />
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Herbs are best when<br />
they’re super-fresh, so<br />
guarantee a steady<br />
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8 Holland Herald<br />
Words: Annemarie Hoeve<br />
Half-pint planter<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
DUTCH<br />
Cat vs canine<br />
Design n ■ Claw-tamer<br />
Dutch designer d i EikSt Erik Stehmann h i isn’t ’t afraid f id of f reversing i the<br />
natural order of things with his dog-shaped scratching post<br />
for cats. Originally a one-off creation for his own moggy,<br />
Gerrit (pictured here), it was such a hit with the feline in<br />
question that it’s now gone into production. “Gerrit loves it.<br />
At fi rst he was a little scared, but after a while he jumped<br />
on top and wouldn’t get off again,” Stehmann says. The<br />
designer claims to like dogs as much as cats.<br />
How original?<br />
Images ■ Flickr sunsets<br />
The scratching sc<br />
post is called<br />
Opposites Oppos Attract<br />
and can ca be ordered<br />
via th the website<br />
erikstehmann.nl.<br />
erikste<br />
Much of Penelope<br />
Umbrico’s work<br />
features collages<br />
of images found<br />
on the internet,<br />
ranging from<br />
universal remote<br />
controls to dogs on<br />
pillows, and people<br />
called Leonard. See<br />
penelopeumbrico.<br />
net.<br />
Photo courtesy Museum<br />
of Contemporary<br />
Photography Chicago<br />
Proving that we’re all suckers for a bit of summer romance is artist<br />
Penelope Umbrico. She collected thousands of portraits taken at<br />
sunset on photo-sharing website Flickr to create a series of collages.<br />
The title of each collage refl ects the total number of hits she gets for<br />
the search term ‘sunset’ on Flickr at any given time. This piece, for<br />
example, is called: Sunset Portraits from 9,807,121 Flickr Sunsets on<br />
9/24/11. It may not be catchy, but it is informative.
TREATS<br />
BOOKS<br />
Inspired by classic travel<br />
alarm clocks, the Geneva<br />
Sound d System t Model d l XS<br />
combines MP3 speakers, an<br />
amplifi er, radio and an alarm<br />
clock into a compact,<br />
travel-tough clamshell case.<br />
See nl.genevalab.ch.<br />
Merckx<br />
Half Man, Half Bike<br />
Nicknamed ‘The Cannibal’<br />
for his insatiable appetite for<br />
victory, Belgian cyclist Eddy<br />
Merckx is considered the<br />
best cyclist of all time, having<br />
won the Tour de France fi ve<br />
times and 445 events in<br />
total. Now leading<br />
UK cycle<br />
writer writer WWilliam<br />
Fotheringham<br />
Fotherin<br />
speaks to those<br />
surrounding surround<br />
Merckx aat<br />
the<br />
pinnacle of his<br />
career in<br />
an in-<br />
depth portrait po of<br />
this living legend.<br />
Published by Yellow<br />
Jersey Pr<br />
Press.<br />
Travel<br />
Old skateboards<br />
converted into<br />
new sunglasses by<br />
Barcelona’s Vuerich<br />
Brothers create<br />
a sunny brand of<br />
urban eco-chic. See<br />
vuerichb.com.<br />
The trendsetting<br />
performing arts festival<br />
With Witth<br />
h Metrobowl, Dutch<br />
designer dessig<br />
gner Frederik Frederik Roijé maps<br />
his hiss<br />
ffavourite<br />
avourite cities in cast<br />
aluminium, aluumminium,<br />
transforming them<br />
into o eye-catching bowls for<br />
lovers love of cosmopolitan design.<br />
See roije.com.<br />
Holland Festival<br />
FRONTLINES<br />
Culture<br />
The extraordinary performing arts festival,<br />
which takes place from 1-28 June, features a<br />
staggering number of international dance,<br />
drama, opera, visual arts, fi lm and music<br />
productions. Highlights of this year’s 65th<br />
edition include The Life and Death of Marina<br />
Abramovic featuring Antony (from Antony<br />
& The Johnsons); Alain Platel’s large-scale<br />
production C(H)OEURS; and the opera Waiting<br />
For Miss Monroe, inspired by the book Victim:<br />
The Secret Tapes of Marilyn Monroe. For more<br />
information see hollandfestival.nl.<br />
And for more events in Amsterdam and The<br />
Netherlands, turn to pages 65 and 67.<br />
Full Tilt in Marseille<br />
Accommodation ■ Art hotel<br />
Boutique art hotel Au Vieux<br />
Panier in Marseille recently asked<br />
French graffi ti artist known as<br />
‘Tilt’ to add his signature touch<br />
to one of the rooms. The result<br />
couldn’t be more schizophrenic,<br />
with exactly half the room<br />
a chaos of colour (including<br />
curtains and bed linen) and the<br />
other left white. The room’s split<br />
personality makes it feel like<br />
you’re getting two for the price<br />
of one. See auvieuxpanier.com.<br />
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NEW<br />
10 Holland Herald<br />
No-sweat tattoo<br />
Running ■ Pace yourself<br />
Take the en-route arithmetic out of<br />
running with the PaceTat ‘tattoo’. These<br />
removable body transfers help you<br />
pace yourself during marathons. With a<br />
breakdown of split time goals in a large<br />
font, it’s easy to read while on the move.<br />
Available in 20 different fi nish times and<br />
in miles as as well as kilometres.<br />
See pacetat.com.<br />
Outdoor hangouts<br />
Gear ■ Suspended tents<br />
Rough, uneven ground is a natural<br />
enemy to all campers. Avoid such<br />
earthly problems altogether by taking<br />
to the air in this suspended tent called<br />
Tentsile. This clever (not to mention<br />
highly comfortable-looking) design<br />
can be strung from surrounding trees,<br />
or in their absence, can be supported<br />
on a portable frame like a hammock,<br />
transforming any terrain into a personal<br />
outdoor playground. See tentsile.com.<br />
Photo: Photo@nognob2004<br />
Bikini Lines<br />
Eco-awareness ■ World’s largest painting<br />
The Cactus Dome on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands isn’t<br />
your average artist’s canvas. With a concrete surface area<br />
of almost 9,000 sq metres, it’s visible from outer space and<br />
encases radioactive debris from atomic test blasts conducted in<br />
Bikini and the surrounding atolls in the 1940s and 1950s. Painting<br />
the dome would make it the world’s largest painted artwork.<br />
And that’s just what Christian Forestell plans to do through<br />
crowd funding. Money raised will go to children affected by the<br />
2011 Tohoku tsunami in Japan and the Tepco nuclear reactor<br />
meltdown. See bikinilines.net.<br />
DUTCH<br />
Photo: Mauritshuis, The Hague<br />
Miss Pearl Earring<br />
Art ■ 17th-century beauty contest<br />
Art<br />
Also known as the ‘Mona Lisa of the North’, Dutch master<br />
Johannes Vermeer’s most famous painting must be Girl<br />
with a Pearl Earring. Over 300 years after its creation, a<br />
beauty pageant was held in its current hometown, The<br />
Hague, to fi nd a modern likeness of the enigmatic young<br />
girl. A photographed portrait of the winner will temporarily<br />
replace the original while the painting is on show abroad.<br />
The winner was 16-year-old Zonne Holtslag. Her prize? A<br />
set of pearl earrings of course.<br />
Photo: Joost van den Broek/ Hollandse Hoogte
Mountains of time<br />
Keen to foster long-term<br />
thinking, The Long Now<br />
Foundation is currently<br />
building a solar-powered<br />
clock to run for 10,000<br />
years, deep inside the<br />
base of a Texas mountain.<br />
It will tick once every year.<br />
The clock’s chimes have<br />
been programmed not to<br />
repeat themselves for its<br />
ten millennium lifespan.<br />
There’s no set completion<br />
date yet. With 10,000 years<br />
to go, what’s the rush?<br />
See longnow.org.<br />
24/7 cupcakes<br />
Fancy a midnight snack?<br />
Soon you can satisfy your<br />
sweet tooth at a local<br />
‘cupcake ATM’. This is<br />
already a reality in Beverly<br />
Hills, where Sprinkles<br />
bakery recently started<br />
selling cupcakes around<br />
the clock from a vending<br />
machine. The company<br />
has plans to expand the<br />
indulgent service to other<br />
cities, including New York,<br />
Chicago and London. The<br />
icing on the cake? Each<br />
machine stocks up to 600<br />
of the tiny treats.<br />
Illustration: Allan Grotjohann<br />
UPCYCLING<br />
Website<br />
Calling all bookworms!<br />
Urban architecture<br />
■ Phone booth libraries<br />
With the modern abundance of mobile<br />
phones, the trusty old phone booth<br />
has become redundant; an urban<br />
antique. Architect and artist John<br />
Locke is converting the New York<br />
species into mini-libraries by fi tting<br />
them with bright orange bookshelves<br />
fi lled with donated books. It’s part of<br />
his ongoing urban intervention project<br />
called the Department of Urban<br />
Betterment. With 13,659 pay phones<br />
on New York pavements (according<br />
to Locke), there is plenty of potential<br />
for free reads.<br />
See gracefulspoon.com.<br />
Reef view<br />
Nature ■ Underwater spy cam<br />
The Thetrustyoldphonebooth<br />
trusty old phone booth<br />
has become redundant<br />
FRONTLINES<br />
Leave bird’s-eye panoramas to the birds; if you want a new look at the natural<br />
world, go for a virtual dunk down under and take in life as seen by the local fi sh.<br />
In an aquatic version of StreetView, Catlin SeaView Survey will soon be capturing<br />
interactive 360-degree photos of ocean reefs, starting with the biggest and best:<br />
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Images will be available from September. Get a sneak<br />
peek at catlinseaviewsurvey.com.<br />
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THE FILES #01 GO!<br />
Disco frog<br />
The funky amphibian<br />
throwing disco moves here<br />
was captured by amateur<br />
snapper Shikhei Goh. Part of<br />
the growing 500px photo<br />
community, he has become<br />
a self-confessed macro<br />
photography addict since<br />
buying a DLSR camera<br />
in March last year.<br />
500PX.COM<br />
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Photo: Shikhei Goh/Catersnews
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THE FILES #02 GO!<br />
Urban trawl<br />
This hectic scene comes<br />
from Kolkata, India, courtesy<br />
of Dutch photographer Martin<br />
Roemers. Part of an ongoing<br />
series called Metropolis, it<br />
won fi rst prize in the Daily<br />
Life Stories category of the<br />
World Press Photo award in<br />
2011. Taking in Cairo, Mumbai,<br />
Manila, Jakarta, Istanbul and<br />
other giant conurbations,<br />
he explores how we live<br />
and commute in big,<br />
21st-century cities.<br />
MARTINROEMERS.COM<br />
Holland Herald 17<br />
Photo Martin Roemers/Hollandse Hoogte
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Snakes are central to the Fine Jewellery collection Forbidden Fruit by Bibi van<br />
der Velden. The collection consists of 18 carat yellow, red and white gold rings,<br />
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THE FILES #03 GO!<br />
Ready to go<br />
This image comes from a<br />
series on empty playgrounds,<br />
mostly in Hong Kong, by<br />
Australian photographer Ward<br />
Roberts. Tightly cropped, with<br />
an emphasis on the lines of<br />
the courts and surrounding<br />
buildings, they have a slightly<br />
claustrophobic feel and<br />
washed-out colour, but<br />
suggest the possiblity of<br />
games to come. The calmness<br />
of the images often contrasts<br />
with the shooting of them, as<br />
Roberts sometimes breaks in<br />
to the courts, just as he did<br />
as a child, although then it<br />
was to play games, rather<br />
than take photos.<br />
WARDROBERTSPHOTO.COM<br />
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Photo: Ward Roberts
THE FILES #04 GO!<br />
Andes slam<br />
In plaits, petticoats and<br />
bowler hats, these Bolivian<br />
women are not typical<br />
competitors in lucha libre, a<br />
sport normally associated<br />
with men. They are members<br />
of Mamachas del Ring, an allfemale<br />
troupe who<br />
supplement their income<br />
with a sideline in<br />
professional wrestling.<br />
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Photos: Juan Jose Gonzalez Galaz/Storee.se
ADVERTISEMENT<br />
ROTTERDAM<br />
SPORTS CITY<br />
CITY OF SPORTS<br />
Rotterdam is known nationally and internationally as a city<br />
that welcomes sports. The city offers a balanced range<br />
of world-class sports, amateur sports, top events and<br />
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Championships, the EuroGames and the Grand Départ of<br />
the Tour de France – prove that Rotterdam’s approach works<br />
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edition of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament was a<br />
great success. These annual events and more, such as the<br />
upcoming City Racing Rotterdam and the first edition of<br />
the two-day World Ports Classic cycle race to Antwerp and<br />
back, alternate with non-recurring top events such as the<br />
EC Baseball and the EC Handball. Who will win? The crowd<br />
certainly will, regardless of who takes home the medals.<br />
CITY RACING ROTTERDAM<br />
If fast cars, flaming tailpipes and the scent of burning rubber<br />
on the air make your heart beat faster, Rotterdam is the<br />
place to be on Sunday 26 August. The city where anything<br />
can happen will be taken over by Ferraris, Lamborghinis,<br />
Bugattis and Porsches, racing through the main roads of the<br />
city centre. For the 8th time running, the Formula 1 circus<br />
will test the perceptions of nearly half a million visitors in a<br />
spectacle as breathtaking as a Grand Prix. The daring drivers<br />
competing in the <strong>2012</strong> edition will include the Mercedes<br />
AMG Petronas Formula 1 team and their very talented driver<br />
Nico Rosberg, who won his first GP this year in China. Where<br />
else could it be but Rotterdam, known as the Dutch city of<br />
sports – and with good reason.<br />
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Supper club<br />
Stockholm-based snapper<br />
Philip Karlberg clearly likes<br />
to play with his food. For<br />
his personal series, 33rpm,<br />
he has taken old vinyls,<br />
added desserts, and set<br />
them spinning. This is<br />
Jolene, by Dolly Parton, and<br />
candied pear with a sweet<br />
red wine reduction.<br />
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Facts<br />
figures +<br />
Numbers, knowledge<br />
and nuggets of go! info<br />
Words: Anna Whitehouse<br />
Illustrations: Sam Vanallemeersch<br />
Man power<br />
1 super hero<br />
His utility belt might not be as nifty<br />
as the comic book version and he<br />
has not fought the Joker, but Zoltan<br />
Kohari is still a Batman of sorts. In the<br />
southern Slovak town of Dunajska<br />
Streda, the 26-year-old wears a DIY,<br />
leather Batman costume – complete<br />
with bat symbol on the chest and<br />
pointy ears. His mission? To clean<br />
the streets of his hometown, help<br />
the elderly with their shopping and<br />
generally keep an eye on suspicious<br />
activity. “I just go around helping, I<br />
suppose,” he said. “Like Batman.”<br />
Hairing off<br />
5 razor strokes<br />
A group of 2,150 Greeks set a new<br />
world record for most people<br />
shaving in one location. The hairy<br />
bunch, who were instructed to<br />
have at least 24 hours of growth,<br />
gathered in a supermarket in<br />
Thessaloniki for the shave-off.<br />
Allowed only five strokes with the<br />
razor, they beat the former record<br />
of 1,868 shavers (who used an<br />
excessive six strokes) that was set<br />
in Mumbai in 2009.<br />
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Cut to the chase<br />
75 zombies<br />
Feeling a little sluggish at the gym? A new iPhone<br />
app called Zombies, Run! offers a bit of an adrenalin<br />
boost. Created in Canada, this narrated game has<br />
75 flesh-eating zombies encouraging extra activity.<br />
“It’s hard to speed up your pace on your own,<br />
but not when there’s a zombie chomping at your<br />
heels,” said the app’s co-creator Adrian Hon.<br />
“ Don’t go around saying the<br />
world owes you a living. Th e world<br />
owes you nothing. It was here fi rst”<br />
Hands on<br />
12 cups<br />
Mark Twain<br />
More than 100 people gathered<br />
recently in Tokyo to vie for the title of<br />
Japan’s fastest hands. The competitors<br />
were competing to stack a set of<br />
plastic cups into a pyramid in the<br />
shortest time possible. The winner,<br />
for the fourth year running, was Sota<br />
Takamori, who came in at 1.93 seconds.<br />
Bog off<br />
1,489 peat bogs<br />
GO!<br />
The annual World<br />
Bog Snorkelling<br />
Championships in Wales<br />
requires competitors<br />
to don a snorkel and<br />
flippers and take to one<br />
of the country’s 1,489<br />
peat bogs. The main rule<br />
of the quirky event is to<br />
use a ‘unique’ swimming<br />
technique. In the past,<br />
techniques have included<br />
the ‘crocodile’, where the<br />
competitor used his fore<br />
arms to ‘snap’ his way up<br />
the bog.
Facts<br />
figures +<br />
Cocky bull story<br />
400,000 calves<br />
Dairy cows across the world are<br />
mourning the loss of ‘Jocko’, one of<br />
the most virile bulls to walk this earth.<br />
Leaving behind more than 400,000<br />
offspring, the French bovine had an<br />
industrious 17-year career that saw<br />
him rake in a small fortune for his<br />
owners. “An international star from<br />
the Prim’Holstein breed, this bull<br />
rose to become an unquestionable<br />
reference and was ranked third<br />
globally in terms of use,” said a<br />
spokesperson for the virile stud.<br />
Just desserts<br />
€252.1 million win<br />
An 81-year-old Rhode<br />
Island woman, who<br />
used to sleep cuddled<br />
up with her weekly<br />
lottery ticket in a Bible,<br />
pocketed a whopping<br />
€252.1 million PowerBall<br />
prize in a recent draw.<br />
One of the highest<br />
jackpots ever in the US,<br />
the first thing Louise<br />
White wanted after<br />
collecting her cheque<br />
was some rainbow<br />
sherbet dessert. “I<br />
couldn’t just go out and<br />
spend all that money,”<br />
she said. “But I did want<br />
something sweet.”<br />
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“Spread love everywhere you go.<br />
Let no one ever come to you without<br />
leaving happier”<br />
Romance is dead<br />
€1.2 billion settlement<br />
Top cat<br />
29km per hour<br />
A four-legged robot, affectionately called<br />
‘Cheetah’, has set a new land speed record<br />
for robots by running at 29km per hour on a<br />
treadmill at a laboratory in Massachusetts.<br />
The former record was made by ‘Panther’, who<br />
ran 21km per hour in 1989.<br />
Mother Theresa<br />
Crowd<br />
surfing<br />
1 billion travellers<br />
GO!<br />
British media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s first divorce was the most<br />
expensive in history. For Anne Murdoch to go, he shelled out a<br />
reported €1.2 billion, far beyond Tiger Woods’ €74 million settlement<br />
with his former wife Elin.<br />
The annual Chunyun<br />
season (otherwise<br />
known as the Spring<br />
Festival Holiday) in China<br />
is the largest human<br />
migration on earth and<br />
usually lasts 40 days in<br />
April and May. Last year,<br />
more than one billion<br />
people migrated from<br />
the north to the south<br />
of the country.
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TRAVEL LONDON<br />
Regent’s Canal<br />
runs from<br />
Paddington<br />
in the west to<br />
Limehouse in<br />
the east<br />
The wild
east<br />
Goat races, sock<br />
wrestling and poetry<br />
slams; east London is<br />
the city’s creative hub<br />
and home to some<br />
glorious hidden nature.<br />
Ahead of next month’s<br />
Olympics, Matthew Lee<br />
goes exploring<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY: MARLEEN DANIELS<br />
TRAVEL LONDON<br />
It was once the case that<br />
tourists only visited Stratford if they had<br />
been aiming for the birthplace of<br />
William Shakespeare but got on the<br />
wrong train.<br />
Th is year, however, this once shabby<br />
corner of east London boasts a shiny new<br />
stadium, a gargantuan shopping centre<br />
and, of course, the biggest sporting event<br />
in the world.<br />
And while large-scale investment may<br />
have transformed one of the poorest<br />
parts of London, on the other side of the<br />
River Lea — a javelin throw from the<br />
stadium’s western wall — the<br />
atmosphere is very diff erent.<br />
It’s claimed that Hackney Wick is<br />
home to more artists per capita than<br />
anywhere else in the world. Around 700<br />
artists’ studios are hidden among the<br />
factories and warehouses of this old<br />
industrial zone. In their varying states of<br />
disrepair, these buildings initially appear<br />
imposing. But get up close to the brick<br />
and concrete and you’ll fi nd a restless<br />
cultural scene.<br />
Th e centre of activity is the Mother<br />
Studios, opened in 2001 by Joanna<br />
Hughes, whose fruitless search for<br />
aff ordable workspace ended when she<br />
chanced upon Hackney Wick.<br />
“It was rough round the edges then,<br />
and no developer would touch it,” she<br />
recalls. “Th e atmosphere was industrial<br />
and unforgiving but perfect for artists, so<br />
I opened my studios, put up adverts and<br />
held an open day — there was a mad<br />
rush for spaces. It’s been full ever since.”<br />
Th e pioneering Elevator Gallery,<br />
reached by entering a stark red lift ,<br />
occupies Mother’s attic while downstairs,<br />
43 functional studios are used by over 50<br />
creatives. Th eir number includes Dutch<br />
artist Eva Roovers, who specialises<br />
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in still-life photography and<br />
sculptures made from found objects.<br />
“I left Th e Netherlands for London<br />
because it’s a huge creative hub, and<br />
when I arrived everybody pointed me<br />
towards Hackney Wick,” she says,<br />
tinkering with work that will be<br />
exhibited in Amsterdam later this year.<br />
“I remember my fi rst visit, seeing<br />
nothing but warehouses everywhere, but<br />
eventually I found the amazing places<br />
and people behind their walls. It’s great<br />
to have the encouragement of<br />
professional artists all around me.”<br />
From the pathway behind the<br />
nearby Stour Space, a not-for-profi t art<br />
gallery that houses the excellent Counter<br />
Cafe, you can begin to explore east<br />
London’s web of waterways.<br />
Th e Hertford Union Canal forms the<br />
southern border of Victoria Park, one of<br />
east London’s biggest green spaces and<br />
home to splendid statues, memorials and<br />
even a stone alcove from the original<br />
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TOP<br />
Columbia Road<br />
Flower Market<br />
RIGHT<br />
Brick Lane<br />
OPPOSITE PAGE<br />
Liverpool Street<br />
Station is a gateway<br />
to Europe’s financial<br />
capital, and its<br />
most creative<br />
neighbourhoods<br />
London Bridge. Th e park’s western edge<br />
runs alongside the Regent’s Canal, which<br />
stretches from the Th ames through to<br />
Little Venice in the north-west of the city.<br />
Th is complex network can be confusing,<br />
but a day-long excursion with the<br />
London Bicycle Tour Company puts<br />
things into focus.<br />
Th eir ‘Olympics’ tour starts at<br />
Waterloo, crosses the river at Tower<br />
Bridge, and pedals eastwards onto the<br />
Th ames Path in Wapping.<br />
A century ago this district was a slum<br />
rife with disease and overcrowding.<br />
Suff ering terrible bomb damage during<br />
the Second World War, it was largely<br />
derelict until 20 years ago. Its startling<br />
recovery is echoed right across the tour,<br />
from the skyscraper-studded Docklands<br />
— once a no-go zone — up to the<br />
glittering Olympic Park.<br />
But this gentrifi cation isn’t allconsuming<br />
and shades of old east<br />
London add charm and colour to the<br />
waterways. Luxury property<br />
developments rub shoulders with<br />
crumbling factories; clapped-out<br />
houseboats are docked beside mini<br />
yachts; spray painting and stencilling<br />
jostle for wallspace with banners<br />
advertising high-rise riverside offi ces.<br />
At the Shadwell Basin, the tour passes<br />
Cable Street, where in 1936 a march by<br />
the British Union of Fascists descended<br />
into violence. A plaque marks the spot<br />
where “the people of east London forced<br />
back the march of the Blackshirts.”<br />
Th ere’s a long, proud history of<br />
activism and radicalism in east London<br />
that can still be felt in the anarchist<br />
bookshops of Whitechapel, the street art<br />
of Shoreditch and the vegan cooperatives<br />
of Hackney.<br />
It’s the same tradition of nonconformism<br />
that makes the east’s<br />
nightlife among the most exciting in<br />
Europe. Central London may have the<br />
theatres and cinemas, and west London<br />
has the museums, but the east is where<br />
new ideas begin.
“ Hackney<br />
Wick may have<br />
more artists<br />
per capita<br />
than anywhere<br />
on earth ”<br />
TRAVEL LONDON<br />
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In the early 1990s, the then-lifeless<br />
districts of Hoxton and Shoreditch<br />
became home to young, fashionable<br />
artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey<br />
Emin. Th is infl ux fuelled east London’s<br />
creative boom, a fl urry of activity that<br />
ultimately resulted in higher prices,<br />
pushing the creatives further out, now as<br />
far as the Olympic Stadium.<br />
Th is movement has seen Dalston, a<br />
district with large Turkish and<br />
Caribbean populations, overtake<br />
Shoreditch as London’s hub for hipsters:<br />
a subculture of young people into nonmainstream<br />
music, fi lm and fashion.<br />
Venues such as Power Lunches, where<br />
local bands rehearse, record and<br />
perform, and Cafe Oto, where eclectic<br />
and bizarre music from around the world<br />
is the norm, attract people who wouldn’t<br />
be seen dead in a Coldplay T-shirt.<br />
But for some, even live music is a<br />
tired concept. At Dalston’s Victoria pub<br />
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TOP<br />
Brick Lane street<br />
life<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
Allen Park<br />
LEFT<br />
The area around<br />
Spitalfields is<br />
awash with<br />
boutiques<br />
on a Monday evening, a group of<br />
performance poets are rhyming on<br />
subjects as diverse as feminism,<br />
astrophysics and toilet etiquette.<br />
“Poetry is defi nitely cool now,” says<br />
Hammer & Tongue’s host and<br />
co-organiser Michelle Madsen, moments<br />
aft er treating the audience to a piece<br />
about Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a Northern<br />
Irish astrophysicist.<br />
“Th e poets battle against each other to<br />
win over the audience,” she explains,<br />
insisting that spoken word is absolutely<br />
the next big thing.<br />
Th at’s just the tip of the alternative<br />
nightlife iceberg. At Th e Book Club in<br />
Shoreditch, there are nights themed<br />
around table tennis, while at the George<br />
Tavern in Whitechapel, a group called<br />
Die Freche Muse host a 1920s-style<br />
Berlin cabaret with burlesque and<br />
Dixieland jazz.<br />
For a totally immersive experience,<br />
Live Art Speed Dating at Stoke<br />
“ Central<br />
London has the<br />
theatres, west<br />
London the<br />
museums, but<br />
the east is<br />
where new<br />
ideas begin ”<br />
Newington International Airport sees<br />
brave audience members spending four<br />
minutes in the company of numerous<br />
‘dates’, local performance artists off ering<br />
unpredictable one-on-one experiences.<br />
And for the last word on<br />
unconventional fun, head to one of east<br />
London’s most traditional buildings.<br />
Bethnal Green is home to one of<br />
London’s few remaining working men’s<br />
clubs, private members’ bars that are<br />
part-owned by their working class and<br />
exclusively male clientele.<br />
Some members of Bethnal Green<br />
Working Men’s Club have been drinking<br />
here since the 1950s, but a few years ago<br />
the club almost closed permanently.
It was saved by Warren Dent, who<br />
discovered its inimitable retro-British<br />
stylings while scouting for a venue for a<br />
magazine photoshoot.<br />
“It’s still the same members’ club<br />
downstairs,” says Dent, sitting at a table<br />
in his half of the building, which hosts<br />
anything from sock wrestling and David<br />
Lynch-inspired cabaret to hot dog eating<br />
contests and a monthly book club where<br />
only novels by cult American author<br />
Richard Brautigan (like Trout Fishing in<br />
America) may be discussed.<br />
It’s a world away from the bingo and<br />
darts downstairs. “Sometimes the old<br />
guys wander upstairs and see some<br />
pretty unusual scenes,” he laughs.<br />
Th e venue feels like east London in<br />
microcosm — an unlikely fusion of the<br />
traditional and the contemporary that<br />
somehow works. Olympics organisers<br />
speak enthusiastically about regeneration<br />
and revitalisation, and in Stratford this<br />
may be the case, but it’s been happening<br />
across east London for 20 years, a<br />
development not so much driven by<br />
money as by an unquenchable creative<br />
urge. It’s a process that isn’t only<br />
transforming east London’s social and<br />
cultural scene; it’s also breathing new life<br />
into the green spaces — the parks, rivers,<br />
gardens and farms that make this side of<br />
town so rewarding.<br />
Literally reaping the benefi ts of<br />
exploration are Katherine Craughwell<br />
and George Livesey of the Bulrush<br />
Supper Club, a pop-up restaurant where<br />
every dish contains ingredients found in<br />
east London’s wild spaces.<br />
“In Hackney we’ve found elderberries,<br />
rosehips and edible pine that can be<br />
made into a syrup for cocktails,” explains<br />
Craughwell.<br />
“Along the Regent’s Canal we found<br />
crab apples, wild cherries and a few types<br />
of edible plum, and around Lea Valley,<br />
near the Olympics site, there’s wild garlic<br />
and hawthorn bushes. Th ere’s lots of<br />
food around Hackney Marshes, but be<br />
careful, there are poisonous plants<br />
around too.”<br />
For a unique introduction to foraging<br />
in east London, seek out Th e Amazings, a<br />
local social enterprise that encourages<br />
retired people to share their life skills.<br />
One popular course involves looking for<br />
food in the less-than-appetising setting<br />
of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park.<br />
For more unlikely urban nature,<br />
Spitalfi elds City Farm, a volunteer-run<br />
home for donkeys, pigs and goats a short<br />
hop from Brick Lane and its famous<br />
Bangladeshi restaurants, has recently<br />
raised funds in a typically atypical east<br />
London manner.<br />
On the same day Oxford and<br />
Cambridge universities race boats along<br />
the Th ames, two caprine contenders run<br />
a lap of the farm. It’s called the Oxford &<br />
Cambridge Goat Race and this year it<br />
took in almost £10,000.<br />
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TRAVEL LONDON<br />
“London’s city farms are such<br />
wonderful and unlikely spaces, a bit of<br />
the countryside in the big city,” says<br />
Simeon Rose, a goat race co-organiser.<br />
“We were blown away when 400 people<br />
turned up for the fi rst event four years<br />
ago and now we regularly attract around<br />
1,500 punters.”<br />
On 5 August, if all goes to plan, Usain<br />
Bolt will attempt to reclaim his 100metre<br />
sprint title at the Olympic<br />
Stadium. Th e eyes of the world will be on<br />
east London, but for a certain breed of<br />
local, the year’s big race ended when the<br />
goat marked ‘Cambridge’ crossed the<br />
line fi rst. v<br />
London fact fi le<br />
GETTING THERE<br />
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Airport Schiphol.<br />
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N<br />
Victoria Victo c<br />
Park<br />
Regent’s<br />
Park<br />
WHERE TO STAY<br />
Malmaison (malmaison.com)<br />
in cripplingly hip Clerkenwell is<br />
Hyde Park Big Ben<br />
a particularly sleek and wellpriced<br />
spot within striking<br />
distance of the banking district,<br />
London<br />
Heathrow<br />
Airport<br />
and a gateway to the east. Muse (diefrechemuse.<br />
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co.uk) does decadent 1920s<br />
cabaret. Stoke Newington<br />
Power Lunches<br />
International Airport<br />
(powerlunchesltd.co.uk) (stkinternational.co.uk)<br />
for Dalston’s coolest local for quirky events. Bethnal<br />
bands. Cafe Oto (cafeoto. Green Working Men’s Club<br />
co.uk) for experimental (workersplaytime.net) for<br />
music. Hammer and Tongue<br />
(hammerandtongue.co.uk)<br />
happenings in a retro setting.<br />
does regular spoken word ART<br />
slams. The Book Club Mother Studios<br />
(wearetbc.com) for wild and (motherstudios.co.uk),<br />
wonderful nights. Die Freche artists’ studios in Hackney<br />
UK<br />
London<br />
Europe<br />
London<br />
Hackney Wick<br />
Olympic O<br />
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Thames<br />
Wick. Elevator Gallery<br />
(elevatorgallery.co.uk) for<br />
cutting-edge London artists.<br />
Stour Space (stourspace.<br />
co.uk) has the excellent<br />
Counter Cafe. Eva Roovers<br />
(evaroovers.net) is a Dutch<br />
artist in Hackney Wick.<br />
GREEN SPACES<br />
Baja Bikes (bajabikes.<br />
eu) offers great day-long<br />
cycling and walking tours<br />
of east London and other<br />
areas, with English, French<br />
and Dutch spoken. Tower<br />
Hamlets foraging tours<br />
arranged through The<br />
Amazings (theamazings.<br />
org). Spitalfi elds City Farm<br />
(spitalfi eldscityfarm.org).<br />
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TRAVEL LONDON<br />
“London’s city farms are such<br />
wonderful and unlikely spaces, a bit of<br />
the countryside in the big city,” says<br />
Simeon Rose, a goat race co-organiser.<br />
“We were blown away when 400 people<br />
turned up for the fi rst event four years<br />
ago and now we regularly attract around<br />
1,500 punters.”<br />
On 5 August, if all goes to plan, Usain<br />
Bolt will attempt to reclaim his 100metre<br />
sprint title at the Olympic<br />
Stadium. Th e eyes of the world will be on<br />
east London, but for a certain breed of<br />
local, the year’s big race ended when the<br />
goat marked ‘Cambridge’ crossed the<br />
line fi rst. v<br />
London fact fi le<br />
GETTING THERE<br />
KLM operates several direct<br />
daily fl ights to London<br />
Heathrow from Amsterdam<br />
Airport Schiphol.<br />
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RIGHT<br />
A traditional ice<br />
cream van in<br />
Victoria Park<br />
N<br />
Victoria Victo c<br />
Park<br />
Regent’s<br />
Park<br />
WHERE TO STAY<br />
Malmaison (malmaison.com)<br />
in cripplingly hip Clerkenwell is<br />
Hyde Park Big Ben<br />
a particularly sleek and wellpriced<br />
spot within striking<br />
distance of the banking district,<br />
London<br />
Heathrow<br />
Airport<br />
and a gateway to the east. Muse (diefrechemuse.<br />
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Mind<br />
games<br />
Sports psychology has become a<br />
vast industry. But what does it actually do,<br />
wonders Jane Szita<br />
“The difference between a gold medal and fi nishing<br />
fourth comes down to the six inches between your ears,” says<br />
sports psychology professor Ian Maynard, of Sheffi eld Hallam<br />
University in the UK.<br />
“Th ese days, there’s little to choose between the top athletes<br />
of any sport in terms of preparation, skill or talent,” he says.<br />
“Meanwhile the pressures are enormous, and how they cope<br />
with them is key. It’s mentality that decides who wins.”<br />
This perception has driven the rapid development of sports<br />
psychology, a profession born in 1938 when psychologist<br />
Coleman Griffi th arrived at baseball team the Chicago Cubs.<br />
Hired by its forward-thinking owner, he was bitterly resented by<br />
the coaches, who constantly tried to obstruct the ‘headshrinker’.<br />
Times have changed since Griffi th’s day, helped by success<br />
stories like that of Tiger Woods, who early in his career worked<br />
with psychologist Jay Brunza, using hypnosis and subliminal<br />
messages. “My mind is my biggest asset,” Woods said at the<br />
height of his career. “I expect to win every tournament I play.”<br />
Today, Maynard estimates that 2,000 universities off er<br />
degrees in sports psychology, and there are 6,000 professionals<br />
worldwide. Th e methods they use vary, but typically include<br />
positive thinking, visualisation and relaxation techniques.<br />
British sports psychologist Martin Perry describes his role as<br />
“getting people to perform the best they can.” He talks of helping<br />
golfers conquer the dreaded ‘yips’ – involuntary jitters caused by<br />
“trying to control the club too much” – and supporting<br />
trampolinists, gymnasts and divers suff ering from ‘lost move<br />
syndrome’, in which sudden blackouts play havoc with a wellrehearsed<br />
routine.<br />
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“Oft en, athletes can be on the point of giving up their sport<br />
when they come to me,” says Perry. “You have to work hard to<br />
develop their confi dence so they can start again.”<br />
But sports psychologists say they can boost performance even<br />
where nothing is ostensibly wrong. “Athletes perform best when<br />
they are in ‘the zone’,” explains Slovenian tennis psychologist<br />
Tomaz Mencinger. “In the zone, the mind is clear and free of<br />
emotion, and the player has a relaxed intensity. If the level of<br />
arousal is too high, the body will tense up; if it’s too low,<br />
concentration will be lost.”<br />
According to Mencinger, “Th e ultimate goal of sport<br />
psychology is almost unattainable – the acceptance of<br />
everything that happens to achieve the calm, Zen-like state in<br />
which you play your best.” Success is not so much all in the<br />
mind, then, as in not letting the mind get in the way.<br />
Sports psychology, says the tennis psychologist, can be either<br />
“a short-term fi x, dealing with symptoms like anger or<br />
frustration,” or “a long-term treatment of the negative beliefs<br />
that are usually the underlying causes.”<br />
He cites the case of a leading young player who kept losing<br />
matches in the fi nal stages. It emerged that he felt sorry for his<br />
opponent. “We had to work on getting him to realise that he was<br />
not responsible for his opponent’s feelings,” Mencinger recalls.<br />
Behind the work of ‘applied’ sports psychologists like<br />
Mencinger, there is a raft of supporting research by academics<br />
like Gert-Jan Pepping of Groningen University, Th e Netherlands.<br />
“Negative emotions impair performance,” he says, explaining<br />
his research in football. “And emotions are contagious. So how<br />
do you induce positive ones?” One way is by celebrating
PSYCHOLOGY GO!
PSYCHOLOGY GO!<br />
success. Pepping studied 151 penalty shoot-outs to discover<br />
that teams who celebrated raucously aft er a goal were more likely<br />
to win than those who didn’t.<br />
“Not many dare, because of the stress of the situation, but<br />
those who punch the air ensure that 80% of their next<br />
opponent’s shot will miss,” he says.<br />
His colleague Jan Norel works with local football team<br />
Heerenveen, passing on fi ndings about ‘group cohesion’. “Th e<br />
footballers were confused to start off with, because they didn’t<br />
see what we could off er,” says Norel. “But now they understand<br />
how an individual can improve the team, and vice versa.”<br />
One factor in successful teams recently identifi ed at the<br />
University of Califonia, Berkeley, is touch. In a study of the NBA<br />
championship, researchers Michael Kraus and Dacher Keltner<br />
found that the teams who touched the most, won the most.<br />
Th e psychological benefi ts of team sports are behind the work<br />
of the Positive Coaching Alliance, a movement established in the<br />
USA by Jim Th ompson to ensure that sport teaches young<br />
athletes life lessons beyond ruthless competition.<br />
“Th e prevailing model of coaching today is what I would call<br />
a win-at-all-cost mentality,” says Th ompson. In contrast, his<br />
method is based on individual improvement, emotional<br />
fulfi lment, respect for rules, teammates, opponents and offi cials.<br />
Th omson insists that teams so trained are more likely to be<br />
winners. “When coaches focus primarily on winning, rather<br />
than mastery, they instill anxiety in their players and undercut<br />
their confi dence,” he says. “Getting the psychology right is<br />
crucial for coaches who want to succeed both on the scoreboard<br />
and at life lessons.”<br />
“ Success is about<br />
not letting the mind<br />
get in the way ”<br />
For some, current models don’t go far enough. Sports<br />
scientist Wolfgang Schöllhorn believes that cognitive techniques<br />
like visualization interfere with physical abilities.<br />
His own methods utilise the unconscious mind, by focussing<br />
on variety and diff erence rather than the repetition and<br />
correction of traditional training.<br />
His techniques have gained some acceptance. “In 2001, I<br />
visited Barcelona FC to discuss my method,” says Schöllhorn.<br />
“Actually, they were already doing it, but I encouraged them to<br />
go further.”<br />
Th e Mainz University professor is now researching<br />
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meditation and other practices as performance enhancers in<br />
sport. Th e results are encouraging. “Aft er four weeks, athletes<br />
improve by between 30 and 100%,” says Schöllhorn.<br />
Once again, Barcelona is apparently ahead of the pack: “I<br />
recently heard that Pep Guardiola meditates before every game,”<br />
he adds. “You have to realise that lots of teams use these<br />
strategies already, but they won’t talk about them. It’s a secret of<br />
their success that they don’t want to share.”<br />
But nowhere is the success of sports psychology more<br />
apparent than in its crossover to the mainstream. Companies<br />
such as the UK’s Lane4 consultancy, which works with Deutsche<br />
Bank, Honda and 3M and was founded in 1995 by sports<br />
psychologist Professor Graham Jones and Olympic gold medalwinning<br />
swimmer Adrian Moorhouse, have popularised the<br />
idea that business leaders can learn from elite athletes.<br />
Th ey too need to perform consistently, and so can benefi t<br />
from athletic qualities such as the kind of resilience that sports<br />
psychologists call ‘mental toughness’.<br />
“Th e lessons of sport can be easily translated into business,”<br />
says Martin Perry, who believes sport’s importance in society<br />
makes it a natural source of learning: “Sport engages us more<br />
than any other spectator event.”<br />
Ian Maynard agrees that sports psychology, far from being<br />
just the preserve of top athletes, can benefi t us all. “It can teach us<br />
how to lead, how to be a team player, how to motivate ourselves<br />
and others, and how to deal with anxiety, pressure and defeat,” he<br />
says. “Th ese are vital life skills that are just as relevant to a sixyear-old<br />
kid in school as to an Olympic gold medallist.” v
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With the London Olympics beginning next<br />
month and Euro <strong>2012</strong> running throughout June,<br />
we profile the work of renowned Dutch sports<br />
photographer Bastiaan Heus<br />
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Carlijn Welten,<br />
hockey<br />
This was shot on<br />
Utrechtsestraat, Amsterdam,<br />
near Welten’s home. “She<br />
was fun, making jokes and<br />
being spontaneous,” says<br />
Heus. “The only thing I miss<br />
now is the shoes. Maybe<br />
if she had worn heels it<br />
would’ve been even funnier.”
“We make a photo<br />
together. It’s not just me<br />
telling them what to do ”<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY GO!<br />
Jessey Voorn, basketball<br />
This image was taken on a public<br />
basketball court in Amsterdam. Heus<br />
explains that “I asked Jessey to wear his<br />
normal clothes, because it looks stranger.<br />
He’s in a kind of suit.’’ Heus involves<br />
his subjects in the shooting process as<br />
much as possible, often asking them<br />
to suggest poses. “They are all sports<br />
people, so proud of their bodies.”
PHOTOGRAPHY GO!<br />
Marichelle de Jong,<br />
boxing<br />
“I was crossing this bridge<br />
on the way to the interview,<br />
and thought it looked like<br />
the ropes on a ring. It was<br />
a litle risky, because she<br />
could have fallen in.’’<br />
Roy Curvers, cycling<br />
This image was taken in<br />
Limburg, with the scene<br />
a little limited by the<br />
surroundings. “There was<br />
nothing else in the area,<br />
so we had no choice.<br />
We had to be quick in case<br />
a farmer came along and<br />
was not so happy.’’
Rea Lenders, trampoline<br />
For this image, Heus had a small trampoline set up outside,<br />
the size of which made jumping diffi cult. “I wanted to have her<br />
above the trees,” he says. “If people look at the camera and<br />
smile, then everything looks much easier.”<br />
For more of Bastiaan’s work, see bastiaanheus.nl.<br />
Photos: Bastiaan Heus/Beeldagent<br />
Irene Schouten,<br />
skating<br />
Heus tends to scout the<br />
local area before a shoot,<br />
and he spotted these horses<br />
near Heerenveen on his<br />
way to see Schouten.<br />
“I had to pray they would<br />
still be there in 15 minutes,”<br />
he says. They were, but<br />
Schouten had to make<br />
various peculiar noises<br />
to get them all to stare<br />
at her at once. ‘‘It took a<br />
lot of shots.’’<br />
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On the road<br />
with Rula<br />
Novelist and travel<br />
writer Rodney Bolt recalls<br />
writing the fi rst guide to a<br />
newly reunifi ed Germany,<br />
in this exclusive story<br />
“Just go!”<br />
I wasn’t so sure.<br />
My fl atmate Juanito was daring me to take up an off er to write a guidebook to Germany. It was 1991, and a<br />
few months earlier, the country had doubled in size. My book would be one of the fi rst guides. If f I did it.<br />
Not only was the new Germany huge, but because it was once a collection of (mostly rich) principalities,<br />
even the smallest towns seemed to have something to write about – churches or palaces, famous paintings, a<br />
historic centre. Everywhere seemed important. And expensive. I knew that guidebook writing was no allexpenses<br />
paid glee trip. But if I signed on the dotted line, I would be setting off with a tiny advance to pay my<br />
own way through one of the costliest countries in Europe. I still don’t have the faintest idea what possessed<br />
me to say ‘yes’.<br />
First step was to bundle transport and accommodation together, spending a sizeable chunk of the advance<br />
on a Volkswagen camper van – a gracefully aging 1978 model, whose registration (RUL 871 T) inspired the<br />
nickname ‘Rula’.<br />
A yacht builder had done the conversion to camper van, so instead of the usual Formica and plastic, Rula<br />
was resplendent in mahogany and equipped with all sorts of intelligently placed cupboards.<br />
But if this was to be my home, I reasoned, then it needed a more personal touch. Out went foam cushions,<br />
and in came a futon with a fi ne olive-green Egyptian cotton cover. Th en came Liberty’s off -cut curtains,<br />
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and (carefully wrapped in dishcloths) my favourite china – hand-painted<br />
Japanese teacups, and chunky 19th-century plates. “It’s more campest van than<br />
camper van,” said Juanito dryly.<br />
But he gave Rula a fi ne goodbye gift – a No. 8 at the local car wash (the works,<br />
including wheel buff ) and a full tank of petrol. Friends brought bottles of bubbly and –<br />
crowded into the van and spilling out across the pavement – we had a farewell party. Th en I locked<br />
up and went indoors for my last night for some time in a proper bed.<br />
The next few months were lived at a frantic pace. In order to fi t everything in, I had a rough rule: two<br />
to four days for a city; a day and a night for a largish town. Small towns and villages had to be whisked<br />
through in a couple of hours. I had to make quick decisions as to how much I’d end up writing about a place,<br />
and allot time accordingly.<br />
Minor museums – those collections of post coaches, porcelain, antique dolls or bakers’ implements with<br />
which Germany abounds – warranted minutes and three lines of text. Even larger collections had to be taken<br />
in at speed. In one museum in Frankfurt, I caught myself jogging. It took me years to learn once again how to<br />
visit a museum for pleasure.<br />
Castles were a particular problem. Th ere were hundreds of them, and most could only be seen by joining a<br />
two-hour tour. Luckily, they were oft en very busy. I became expert at slipping away from the group that was<br />
entering a room, and joining the one that was leaving it, quickly gleaning information along the way, and<br />
group-hopping my way to freedom within ten or 20 minutes.<br />
Work began at 8am, and fi nished late at night – once I’d sorted out cafes, restaurants and nightlife – seven<br />
days a week. At times I felt like a singer on tour who forgets what town he’s performing in. More than once, I<br />
started off at a tourist offi ce with: “Good morning. I’m writing a guidebook to Germany and I was wondering<br />
if there was any information you could give me on…on…on your beautiful town.”<br />
Restaurants were reviewed by spotting likely looking places during the day, then cycling around at night<br />
on Rula’s sidekick (a white folding bicycle with basket, dubbed ‘Th e Nun’s Bike’ by Juanito), and pressing my<br />
nose to windows. Th ere’d be two rounds, one at starter time, another for the main course and pudding –<br />
checking on whether diners were local, what they were eating and if they were<br />
enjoying their meal.<br />
Around 10pm, made ravenous by the aromas and cycling, I’d head back to Rula to<br />
“It’s more<br />
campest<br />
van than<br />
camper van ”<br />
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cook up a budget meal of brown rice and beans. It wasn’t long before I started telling<br />
her about the day’s mishaps.<br />
And then the money ran out. I’d seen it coming. Th ere’d been many a grumble with<br />
Rula (“It’s all very well for you”) when I’d used all my grocery money making sure she<br />
had enough petrol. Soon, even campsites became prohibitively expensive. We slept at<br />
the side of the road. But Rula was pretty self-suffi cient. All we really needed was water<br />
for the storage tank under the fl oor. Graveyards were a boon: there’s always a tap so<br />
that people can top up water for their Loved One’s fl owers, and there’s usually good<br />
parking for the night.<br />
Every couple of days, I’d go into a local swimming baths for a shower – until I hit on the Great Hotel<br />
Scam. Back in the days when hotel rooms still had door keys (rather than electronic cards), people who were<br />
checking out would leave their doors open to let the maid know they had left . Around nine in the morning,<br />
I’d sail through the lobby of a big, commercial three- or four-star hotel – the sort that would have lots of<br />
business guests checking out at the same time – go up a few fl oors, and take my pick. Th ere is many a hotelier<br />
in Germany to whom I owe the price of a hot shower.
In the East, I could camp in city centres. Towns were still pocked with bomb sites and derelict lots which,<br />
as western prosperity began to seep in, were used as ad hoc car parks. In Dresden, I found a vast empty plot<br />
behind the station. In the far corner stood a single tree and a huge, white American car. I pulled Rula in close<br />
alongside it and went off to work.<br />
Late that night I was woken up by torchlight outside the window. “Th ieves,” I thought, realising how far<br />
away I was from any other apparent habitation. I was just about to turn the radio on, and talk to myself in a<br />
variety of loud voices to give the impression that Rula contained a posse of burly men, when something made<br />
me peek outside. All four doors of the white Chevvie were open, their inside panels had been removed,<br />
and – not one metre away – a man was stuffi ng the hollows with little plastic<br />
packages. Two others waited.<br />
Every movie I had ever seen about innocent witnesses to murder and<br />
mayhem replayed itself for me. I went from planning to be six burly men to<br />
wishing I was invisible. Dreadfully aware of misting-up windows, and that<br />
every movement seemed to make Rula creak, I crept out from under the<br />
duvet so that the bed looked empty, and pushed myself as close as I could<br />
against the wall. I stayed there, naked and terrifi ed, for more than two hours<br />
before the doors slammed and the Chevvie roared away.<br />
Of course, life wasn’t all brown rice and beans. Here and there across the<br />
country, the publishers had arranged a few free nights in luxurious hotels. I<br />
still remember those beds, every one of them. But the problem with really<br />
posh hotels is that breakfast is oft en not included in the overnight rate. And<br />
it costs – sometimes more than my weekly grocery allowance – so I’d slip<br />
out for a roll and coff ee at a cheap café nearby. Until I got to the Frankfurt<br />
Kempinski. A former country manor, the hotel is surrounded by a vast park,<br />
way out of town. Th ere was only one solution. Each morning, dressed in my<br />
jogging togs, I’d stride energetically through the lobby as if setting off on a<br />
run around the lake. Th en I’d sneak off to Rula at the farthest end of the car<br />
park, and boil myself an egg.<br />
“Graveyards<br />
were a boon:<br />
there is<br />
always a<br />
water tap,<br />
and usually<br />
good<br />
parking ”<br />
I spent winter in Bremen, writing up what I’d covered so far and teaching English to top up the<br />
coff ers. Next spring Rula and I set off again, but it took months more travelling and a second dark Bremen<br />
winter before the book was fi nished. Finally, almost two years to the day since we had set out, with Rula<br />
stuff ed to bursting with brochures, fi les and booklets, we aimed for the German border.<br />
By this time, she was beginning seriously and frequently to conk out. I made one last bargain with her:<br />
“Just get me home, and you can retire forever.” Rula kept her side of the deal. Just. Two blocks away from<br />
home, she suddenly stopped. Aft er a lot of coaxing, she spluttered on a bit, getting me to the front door. Next<br />
morning she wouldn’t start. And she never went again. At least, not to my knowledge. dge. Two months later, she<br />
was stolen – an act which at the very least must have involved towing her, or loading ng her up on to a lorry. But<br />
then Rula was worth that sort of eff ort.<br />
Rula had class. v<br />
Rodney Bolt’s guide to Germany is now out of print. He now writes biography and historical storical fi ction and has<br />
written travel articles for Th e Daily Telegraph, Vogue and Condé Nast Traveller. His s fi ctional life of Christopher<br />
Marlowe, History Play, was published by HarperCollins, and Lorenzo Da Ponte (a biography iography of Mozart’s<br />
librettist) is published by Bloomsbury. See rodneybolt.com.<br />
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Underwater<br />
THIS PAGE<br />
A star puffer fish in<br />
the Coral Triangle<br />
off West Papua,<br />
Indonesia<br />
INSET, FACING PAGE<br />
Pet-Soede in<br />
her natural<br />
environment
PROFILE GO!<br />
wonder<br />
WWF’s Lida Pet-Soede on the fi ght to<br />
protect the Coral Triangle, an area<br />
of sparkling and rare marine diversity<br />
When a middle-aged<br />
mum off ers to do an underwater rap in<br />
front of thousands, two things are<br />
certain. One: her pre-teen daughters will<br />
‘totally’ disown her. Two: she must have a<br />
very good reason.<br />
Step forward, or perhaps wade this<br />
way, Netherlands-born Lida Pet-Soede.<br />
As head of the World Wide Fund for<br />
Nature (WWF) Coral Triangle Initiative,<br />
Pet-Soede is on a mission to get us to<br />
“stick our heads in the water” to<br />
appreciate what lies under the sea’s<br />
surface.<br />
In the Coral Triangle, that’s iridescent<br />
corals, psychedelically-hued fi sh, magical<br />
mollusks, turtles, sharks, mantas and<br />
countless plants. Spanning Malaysia,<br />
Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New<br />
Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-<br />
Leste, the Coral Triangle generates an<br />
estimated $12 billion a year from naturebased<br />
tourism, much of which comes to<br />
the region’s coral-encrusted 132,800km<br />
of tropical coastline.<br />
WORDS: ANGELA TWEEDIE<br />
Th is six million sq kilometre area<br />
holds one third of the world’s coral reefs<br />
and reef fi sh. It covers just 1% of the<br />
earth’s surface but contains more species<br />
in two football pitches-worth of its waters<br />
than the entire Caribbean.<br />
But researchers warn that overfi<br />
shing, climate change, pollution and<br />
coastal development will so seriously<br />
deplete the reefs (which provide coral fi sh<br />
with food and breeding grounds) that by<br />
2050, they will provide half the fi sh<br />
protein they do today.<br />
With 125 million people relying on<br />
these reefs for their food and income, the<br />
threat to human health and wellbeing, as<br />
well as marine species, is very real.<br />
Pet-Soede says the plight of the area is<br />
overlooked because of its ‘invisibility’.<br />
“My tree-hugger friends have it a bit<br />
easier in that respect. Within the last 20<br />
years, the deforestation on the island of<br />
Sumatra has been shocking – you can see<br />
that. But when the problem is under the<br />
surface of the ocean, it’s not so visible.”<br />
Over the past 16 years, this 44 year-old<br />
fi shery biologist has worked with WWF<br />
to fi nd solutions that protect marine life<br />
but also work for local communities.<br />
“I’ve always been intrigued by the<br />
balance between using natural resources<br />
sustainably, so that basically you can<br />
fi sh forever, while retaining the<br />
ecosystem for the long-term,” she says.<br />
While completing research in<br />
Indonesia for her doctorate in tropical<br />
fi sheries management, she was<br />
approached by WWF. “And, basically, I<br />
never left ,” she says. “WWF was<br />
interested in how we could solve the<br />
tension between poverty, or people who<br />
think they have no alternatives, and this<br />
very delicate ecosystem. I managed to<br />
help bring the topics of sustainable<br />
fi sheries, responsible trade and economic<br />
issues into their programme,” she says.<br />
Though progress is being made,<br />
Pet-Soede argues: “Th ere are just too<br />
many people taking too many fi sh. It’s<br />
pretty straightforward. We cannot keep<br />
meeting the demand for tuna and shrimp<br />
from the USA, China and Japan.<br />
“Th e Indonesian government and<br />
others in the Triangle have agreed to<br />
protect at least 10% of their oceans by<br />
setting up Marine Protected Areas,<br />
[MPAs]. We are on the way to achieving<br />
that,” she explains, “but it has been a<br />
hard slog to secure the current 2% made<br />
up of MPAs.”<br />
Another WWF goal is to reduce the<br />
number of sea turtles that die as ‘bycatch’<br />
of fi shing. Six of the world’s seven sea<br />
turtle species are either endangered or<br />
critically endangered, while the status of<br />
the seventh is unknown.<br />
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PROFILE GO!<br />
Says Pet-Soede: “Th e fi shermen don’t<br />
want to catch turtles! Th eir operational<br />
expenses are high and they just want to<br />
fi ll up their boats with big tuna, but the<br />
turtles and sharks go aft er the same bait<br />
as tuna and wind up in the fi shing gear.<br />
So one of the things we have started<br />
doing is introducing circular hooks.<br />
Th ese are a slightly wider hook,<br />
developed in Latin America, which<br />
enable the turtles to work themselves free<br />
but are still eff ective with tuna.<br />
“People oft en don’t realise that many<br />
of the small- and medium-scale<br />
fi shermen love the ocean; they respect it<br />
and everything in it, and they will<br />
enchant you with stories of whales and<br />
other marine life. If they have a viable<br />
alternative for more sustainable fi shing,<br />
they will take it, and we’re working on<br />
that,” she says.<br />
WWF is working with major buyers,<br />
large supermarkets, hotel and restaurant<br />
chains in Asia, the USA and Europe, to<br />
persuade them to buy fi sh that have been<br />
caught sustainably.<br />
“To date, we have mainly been doing<br />
this kind of industry work with the<br />
‘friendlies’, but we are moving to the big<br />
local and regional traders, who are<br />
sometimes not so enlightened.<br />
“Th at said, people do want to fi nd<br />
smarter ways to do business and we want<br />
to fi nd solutions to the problem rather<br />
Intercontinental<br />
passengers who would like<br />
to know more about the<br />
Coral Triangle can fi nd the<br />
documentary Fish Wars on<br />
their infl ight entertainment<br />
system. For more on KLM’s<br />
partnership with WWF-The<br />
Netherlands, see page 95.<br />
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Indonesia<br />
Australia<br />
Coral triangle<br />
than yelling at them. We also have the<br />
opportunity with the media now in<br />
Indonesia, to increase pressure on the<br />
political will through blogging on online<br />
news. And there are now many stories<br />
about the environment, so politicians are<br />
putting it higher on their agenda.”<br />
Tourists have a role to play too, she<br />
believes, and are generally becoming<br />
more enlightened. “What is encouraging<br />
is the use of economic power by tourists<br />
to support credible dive centres. We see<br />
a huge rise in the number of people who<br />
are interested in diving, and that can<br />
only increase the visibility of the Coral<br />
Triangle and the desire to protect it,” she<br />
explains.<br />
“Everybody should come and see how<br />
amazing this place is, and that defi nitely<br />
includes sticking your head into the<br />
water. What it doesn’t mean is that you<br />
need to dive in extreme places. One of<br />
my favourite places to dive is Komodo,<br />
which is rich in underwater life but is<br />
dry and desolate above the surface. You<br />
need to be an accomplished diver to dive<br />
some of the Komodo sites, but it isn’t the<br />
Limestone<br />
rocks of Raja<br />
Ampat islands<br />
off West Papua,<br />
Indonesia<br />
“ When the problem is<br />
under the surface of the ocean, it’s<br />
not so visible ”<br />
only type of experience you can have. I<br />
would encourage everyone to try to dive<br />
in the Coral Triangle; this is a<br />
remarkable place.”<br />
KLM has a long-running partnership<br />
with the Dutch chapter of WWF,<br />
working to make aviation more<br />
sustainable, to develop sustainable biofuel<br />
and also to help protect nature.<br />
And what of the underwater rap? “I<br />
am trying to get a former Miss Indonesia<br />
to do that with me. If 5,000 people buy a<br />
$5 spot in the Coral Triangle through<br />
WWF website, I have committed to<br />
attempt the challenge. It’s a bit of fun,<br />
and hopefully my kids will not be<br />
completely mortifi ed, but I’m also doing<br />
it to get the message out there, and for<br />
people to take notice. Th ese issues are not<br />
so far removed from your daily life, even<br />
if you do not dive or ever expect to. You<br />
don’t have to be a conservationist to make<br />
the right choices,” says Pet-Soede.<br />
“I personally think you should eat<br />
seafood, I think you should eat it and<br />
enjoy it, but just don’t waste it and when<br />
you buy it, make the right choice.” v<br />
Photos: Lida Pet-Soede; Main image: Jurgen Freund/Bluegreen Pictures/Hollandse Hoogte
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TRAVEL ZAMBIA<br />
the riverbank<br />
Lower Zambezi by canoe is an unforgettable<br />
alternative to land safaris. Just brush up on your<br />
hippo etiquette before you go, says Andy Round<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY: FREDERIC COURBET/GETTY IMAGES<br />
Chongwe River<br />
Camp, where the<br />
Chongwe River<br />
meets the Zambezi<br />
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There’s nothing like paddling a canoe down the<br />
crocodile-infested Lower Zambezi to clarify your position in<br />
the food chain. Especially if you’re under close surveillance by<br />
dozens of bug-eyed, territorial hippos who are spreading out<br />
into a semi-submerged pincher formation just metres away.<br />
Fortunately, guide and guru Ant Elton has a plan. “Over<br />
there, paddle through the gap between that big bull and the<br />
shore,” he whispers. “See those two crocodiles on the far sand<br />
bank? Head towards them.”<br />
Towards those fi ve-metre-long, prehistoric killing<br />
machines?<br />
“Yes. No. Stop!”<br />
On the bank to our right, a hippo the size of a van barrels<br />
out of the high grass and explodes into the water in front of<br />
our canoe.<br />
And disappears.<br />
What’s he doing? Sharpening his tusks under the fragile<br />
frame of our canoe? Planning a two-tonne highjack followed<br />
by a tourist takeaway? Has he gone?<br />
Guide Tanya Blake smiles from the other canoe. “He’s long<br />
gone. You do know that hippos are herbivores.”<br />
“It gets the adrenalin fl owing though, eh?” grins her<br />
colleague Danielle Stewart.<br />
Indeed. More nerve-wracking than a novice bungee jump.<br />
So you learn hippo etiquette quickly in a Zambezi River<br />
canoe: show lots of respect; keep your distance; don’t come<br />
between a mother and her baby; watch out for high-diving<br />
macho bulls…<br />
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Musician in<br />
one of Lusaka’s<br />
many markets<br />
Lusaka is a thriving<br />
African capital that<br />
doesn’t make concessions<br />
for tourists. That’s a good<br />
thing, but to understand<br />
the city, you need<br />
someone like Tobia<br />
Tembo, a former street<br />
child who has reinvented<br />
himself as a guide.<br />
Tembe can provide fi rstperson<br />
insight into<br />
townships where children<br />
play in muddy streets,<br />
charcoal markets thrive,<br />
and the witch doctor is<br />
always busy.<br />
Dusty football pitches<br />
provide fi elds of dreams;<br />
murals celebrate the time<br />
Oprah Winfrey came to<br />
visit, and local artist<br />
Misheck shows children<br />
how to make trinkets from<br />
discarded plastic.<br />
But it’s the city’s markets<br />
that blaze their way into<br />
your memory. Thousands<br />
jostle in and out of<br />
hangar-sized buildings<br />
bulging with second-hand<br />
shoes, football shirts,<br />
reconditioned mobiles,<br />
books and baby clothes.<br />
Outside, hot caterpillar<br />
snacks roast in pans;, the<br />
noise is deafening, the<br />
sights bewildering, but it’s<br />
undiluted Africa.<br />
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TRAVEL ZAMBIA<br />
“A hippo<br />
the size of a<br />
van barrels<br />
out of the<br />
high grass and<br />
explodes into<br />
the water<br />
in front of<br />
our canoe ”<br />
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RIGHT<br />
A bush road<br />
by the river<br />
FAR RIGHT<br />
A hippo<br />
says hello<br />
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Hoge Veluwe<br />
National Park is<br />
known for its<br />
free white bikes —<br />
1,700 of which are<br />
available for visitors<br />
LEFT<br />
Ranger Henk<br />
Ruseler surveys<br />
open grassland
FAR LEFT<br />
An elephant<br />
crosses from<br />
Zimbabwe to<br />
Zambia<br />
LEFT<br />
Sam<br />
Mukankaulwa<br />
tries to hook a<br />
tiger fish<br />
TRAVEL ZAMBIA<br />
Of course, this is all very well and good, but there is a<br />
more powerful natural force at play here than hippo<br />
acrobatics. It’s the Zambezi itself. Th e river dictates the ebb<br />
and fl ow of wildlife. It draws the thirsty out of the bush, cools<br />
hot-tempered herbivores and feeds patient predators. And a<br />
canoe is the perfect front-row seat to enjoy all the action.<br />
“A canoe is less intrusive to wildlife than a bunch of safari<br />
trucks chasing an animal on land,” says Chris Fenner, owner<br />
of the River Safari Company. “Here the bush extends for<br />
thousands of square kilometres and there are only a handful<br />
of camps and lodges. Th ere’s a lot of wildlife and not many<br />
people. It’s not on the mass tourism trail and you can get very<br />
close to the animals, particularly in a canoe.”<br />
He’s not wrong. Within an hour of being on the water, a<br />
bull elephant decides our arrival is the perfect opportunity to<br />
audition for a starring role on the Discovery Channel.<br />
With big ears fl apping, enormous head shaking and a sideto-side<br />
swagger powered by teenage testosterone, he plunges<br />
into the river and crashes through the shallows towards us.<br />
Unfortunately, the shallows are not shallow for long, and<br />
suddenly all we can see is an indignant trunk and a couple of<br />
semi-submerged tusks. Within minutes, the youngster is<br />
hauling his glistening black body onto a sandbank. “He was<br />
really enjoying himself until he got into deep water,” says<br />
Fenner. “Did you see that glint in his eye?”<br />
To be just a short drive from Lusaka and this close to<br />
wildlife feels like an extraordinary privilege, but for those<br />
living by the river, the daily roll-call of all creatures great and<br />
small is just part of Zambezi life.<br />
“Th ere are always elephants here,” says Jane Keogh of the<br />
Kasaka River Lodge. “Th ey like to walk through the lounge<br />
area, down the steps, past the library, to the river to drink.”<br />
Th at night I’m safe under a luxury camp duvet, but outside<br />
the room, in the African darkness, something is grunting and<br />
groaning. “Hippos are like giant gardeners,” laughs Jane’s<br />
husband Sean the next morning. “See how he mowed the<br />
grass on the lawn outside your room.”<br />
Th e next evening at Chongwe River Camp, a short boat<br />
ride downstream, the deep baritone of two lions booms<br />
through the night chorus somewhere across the river. It’s a<br />
real Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer roar that shakes the ice in your<br />
gin and tonic and reaches deep inside to rattle something in<br />
your primeval DNA.<br />
Lions are not the only beasts designed by nature to freeze<br />
the blood. Halfway through a morning game drive with<br />
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guide Prince Kapunga, we stop for tea and cake by an<br />
innocent-looking pool.<br />
“Th e crocodile that lives here must be about 80 years old<br />
and four to fi ve metres long,” he says. “Th e old crocs are the<br />
worst because they have to become more cunning to<br />
compensate for their age. Th is one likes to use water<br />
vegetation to camoufl age himself… and these guys only need<br />
to eat once a year.”<br />
Back in the safety of the Land Rover, we enjoy a crash<br />
course on the 760 diff erent species of bird that inhabit<br />
Zambia. Th e eagles have all the best stories.<br />
Earlier, an American tourist earlier had shown us a<br />
photograph of a giant Fish Eagle with a baby ‘crocodile’<br />
dangling from its beak.<br />
“Crocodile! It might have been a water monitor,” laughs<br />
Kapunga. “But you can’t take anything for granted with<br />
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RIGHT<br />
Taking tea in<br />
a channel off<br />
the Zambezi<br />
ABOVE<br />
Sea eagles are<br />
a big attraction for<br />
bird watchers<br />
LEFT<br />
Kasaka Camp at night<br />
FACING PAGE<br />
Luxurious Chongwe<br />
River House<br />
eagles. Th e Marshall Eagle can carry off a baby impala.”<br />
Zambia is an ornithological heaven for serious bird<br />
watchers, who migrate to the bush in search of rarity.<br />
“Usually, they ask to see just one specifi c species, let’s say a<br />
rare Purple-crested Turaco. We then spend hours looking<br />
for one; the birders spend 40 minutes watching it, and that’s<br />
it. We go back to the camp. Mission accomplished,” says a<br />
smiling Kapunga.<br />
Such passionate levels of patience also infuse visitors<br />
who come to fi sh in Zambia. Up the Chongwe River, past<br />
the convergence point with the Zambezi where the hippos<br />
bob their giant heads and socialise every morning, near an<br />
area where explorer David Livingstone took a break on the<br />
way to Victoria Falls, we’re sitting on a boat loaded with<br />
fi shing tackle and a cooler box of fresh sausage rolls.<br />
“Tiger Fish are very popular,” says guide Sam<br />
Mukankaulwa. “Th ey really put up a fi ght, so once you feel
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“Old crocs become more cunning to<br />
compensate for their age ”<br />
one, pull quickly to strike and reel him in slowly to tire him<br />
out. Th e biggest one I’ve ever caught? About 24 pounds. But<br />
whatever the weight, you have to be very careful when you<br />
remove the hook, they have big curved teeth.”<br />
Th e stripy-scaled Tiger is not the only fi sh in the Zambezi.<br />
For those who like monster-sized challenges, the terminally<br />
ugly Vundu catfi sh is a real catch. “Th ey can grow as big as a<br />
man,” grins Sammy. “You need a big net.”<br />
We don’t catch a thing. And a few hours later on a night<br />
safari, we don’t see the big cats we’d been hoping for. But<br />
that’s Africa. Not everything’s guaranteed. Except the<br />
accommodation. Whether you choose to camp on an island<br />
or check into a fi ve-star lodge, the experience is unforgettable.<br />
“During the rainy season we dismantle the camp and<br />
nature just takes over,” says the manager of Chongwe River<br />
Camp, Flossie Shawa. “Th en we come back, cut the high<br />
grass, take the camp out of storage and the wildlife trims<br />
the lawn.”<br />
Th e rustic ambience of Chongwe is pure Out of Africa<br />
luxury, but for true romance an expedition beneath the<br />
endless African night sky is an essential Zambian experience.<br />
After a day dodging hippos on the channels and<br />
sandbanks that criss-cross the Zambezi, we set up camp<br />
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TRAVEL ZAMBIA<br />
A trader in<br />
another of<br />
Lusaka’s bustling<br />
markets<br />
on a nearby island. While fl apping tents are anchored<br />
and a pot of Bolognese bubbles, a fellow canoeist is warned<br />
against washing her smalls in the crocodile-black river. “Not<br />
the wisest thing to do here,” says Elton drily.<br />
Ant Elton is exactly the sort of person you need when<br />
you’re surrounded by hippos or fi nd a lion leaning against<br />
your tent. He accessorises his vast experience with Marlboros<br />
and great stories.<br />
“When I started running canoes in 1987, there were no<br />
lodges, no other canoes, and this place felt a long way from<br />
anything; you wouldn’t want to get into trouble then.”<br />
In 1952, when Size Kapululia was born, it was another<br />
planet. “Long before this area was designated the Lower<br />
Zambezi National Park we were moved from our village<br />
which was by the river,” he remembers. “Was that a good<br />
thing? Yes, when I was a boy there were too many bush<br />
animals and the air was always thick with tsetse fl ies. Too<br />
many people were dying from sleeping sickness.”<br />
Fast forward to the 21st century and we fi nd ourselves<br />
speeding up the Zambezi on the sleek deck of a sonarequipped<br />
speedboat driven by Dimitri, one of the owners of<br />
Lusaka’s Great Wall of China Casino. “Hippo watching in<br />
canoes! I think I’ll stick with speed boats,” he shouts through<br />
the Zambezi spray.<br />
Th at night in the Zambian capital, Dimitri hosts a table at<br />
new nightclub Liv. By 11pm, the multi-level fl oors are fi lling<br />
up with men in short sleeves and high hopes tracking<br />
beautiful girls with long legs and high heels.<br />
Th e wildlife is more sophisticated here, but the spinning<br />
lights and Lusaka remixes can’t compare to the star-spangled<br />
sky and lion duets of the Lower Zambezi at midnight. v<br />
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Lower Zambezi fact fi le<br />
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GETTING THERE<br />
Democratic<br />
Republic<br />
of the Congo<br />
Zambia<br />
KLM operates three direct<br />
weekly fl ights to Lusaka<br />
International Airport from<br />
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.<br />
Lusaka<br />
Victoria Falls<br />
CANOE SAFARIS<br />
River Horse Safaris is<br />
operated by Ant Elton, a<br />
canoe guide with more than<br />
25 years experience (visit<br />
zambezicanoeing.com), while<br />
the River Safari Company<br />
(riversafaricompany.com)<br />
can organise everything<br />
from canoe trips to lodge<br />
accommodation. Prices for<br />
canoe trips start from $450<br />
per person for three days.<br />
Africa<br />
Zambia<br />
Lower Zambezi<br />
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LODGES<br />
At the point where the<br />
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Camp boasts great views,<br />
classic tents and luxurious<br />
four-guest suites with a<br />
private dining room, butler,<br />
lounge area, plunge pool and<br />
fi re pit. Prices are from $550<br />
per person. See chongwe.com.<br />
Just minutes from Lower<br />
Zambezi National Park, Kasaka<br />
River Lodge offers luxury<br />
tents and chalets as well as<br />
frequent visits from elephants<br />
and hippos. Prices from $450.<br />
See kasakariverlodge.com.<br />
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Stephen Marley & Guests, and<br />
The Kyteman Orchestra.<br />
Leijpark, Tilburg; festivalmundial.nl<br />
DE PARADE 21 June-26 August<br />
This carnivalesque open-air<br />
theatre festival opens at<br />
Rotterdam’s Museumpark (21<br />
June-1 July), before heading to<br />
The Hague (6-15 July), Utrecht<br />
(20 July-5 Aug) and Amsterdam<br />
(10-26 Aug).<br />
deparade.nl<br />
OPEN GARDEN DAYS<br />
23-25 June<br />
Jars of jam and chutney<br />
abound as the picturesque<br />
Vollenhoven Country Estate<br />
opens to the public for<br />
the weekend.<br />
Landgoed Vollenhoven,<br />
Utrechtseweg 59, De Bilt; +31 30<br />
2200032; landgoedvollenhoven.nl<br />
PARKPOP 24 June<br />
Europe’s largest free-entry pop<br />
festival features Amy<br />
Macdonald and Boyce Avenue,<br />
and impressive homegrown<br />
acts, Blaudzun and Splendid.<br />
Zuiderpark, The Hague; parkpop.nl<br />
TT ASSEN MOTO GRAND PRIX<br />
28-30 June<br />
Some of the world’s best<br />
motorcycle riders race around<br />
Assen’s famous circuit.<br />
tt-assen.com<br />
ROCKIN’ PARK 30 June<br />
Snow Patrol, Elbow and dEUS<br />
are in the line-up for this<br />
annual music fest.<br />
Goffertpark, Nijmegen;<br />
rockinpark.nl<br />
EXHIBITIONS<br />
MADURODAM Ongoing<br />
After extensive renovations,<br />
the mini-version of this minicountry<br />
is back, with new<br />
interactive features and a few<br />
intrepid residents who’ve been<br />
travelling the world (see p5).<br />
George Maduroplein 1, The Hague;<br />
madurodam.nl<br />
DAVID BATCHELOR: MAGIC<br />
HOUR Until 9 September<br />
Sculptures, drawings and<br />
paintings by Scottish artist<br />
HOLLAND UPDATE<br />
A colourful past<br />
Around 50 contemporary sculptures<br />
created by leading South African artists<br />
over the last 60 years – refl ecting<br />
the political and social turmoil in ‘the<br />
Rainbow Nation’ – line the Lange<br />
Voorhout avenue (until 9 Sept) and spill<br />
into Museum Beelden aan Zee.<br />
THE RAINBOW NATION; Until 30<br />
September; Museum Beelden aan<br />
Zee; Harteveltstraat 1; +31 70 3585857;<br />
beeldenaanzee.nl<br />
Batchelor (born 1955),<br />
renowned for his colourful<br />
oeuvre consisting of found<br />
light-industrial objects and<br />
domestic utensils.<br />
GEM, Stadhouderslaan 43, The<br />
Hague; +31 70 3381133; gem-online.nl<br />
‘MAGIC HOUR’, 2004-05<br />
Photo: David Batchelor<br />
GIGS<br />
Guns N’ Roses 4 June<br />
Ahoy (Rotterdam)<br />
Elvis Costello (solo) 7 June<br />
Muziekgebouw Frits Philips<br />
(Eindhoven)<br />
Shiela E 10 June Boerderij<br />
(Zoetermeer)<br />
UB40 11 June 013 (Tilburg)<br />
Jay-Z + Kanye West 15 June<br />
GelreDome (Arnhem)<br />
Red Hot Chili Peppers<br />
28 June Goffertpark (Nijmegen)<br />
Info and tickets: livenation.nl<br />
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)<br />
EVENTS<br />
OPEN GARDEN DAYS<br />
15-17 June<br />
The charming gardens and<br />
coach houses hidden behind<br />
17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century<br />
canal houses open to the<br />
public for one weekend.<br />
Amsterdam’s canal ‘belt’;<br />
opengardendays.nl<br />
HET BALLET PERFORMS FORSYTHE<br />
Photo: Angela Sterling<br />
BILL & MRS B<br />
23 June-1 July<br />
Het Nationale Ballet<br />
performs four works by<br />
the groundbreaking<br />
choreographer, William<br />
Forsythe: One Flat Thing<br />
Reproduced, In the Middle,<br />
Somewhat Elevated<br />
and Steptext.<br />
Muziektheater, Amstel 3;<br />
+31 20 6255455; het-muziektheater.nl<br />
EXHIBITIONS<br />
RON GALELLA: PAPARAZZO<br />
EXTRAORDINAIRE!<br />
8 June-23 August<br />
Photos of Mick Jagger, Greta<br />
Garbo, Marlon Brando, Andy<br />
Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank<br />
Sinatra and many more<br />
comprise this exhibition of<br />
work by the pioneer of<br />
paparazzi photography.<br />
Foam, Keizersgracht 609;<br />
+31 20 5516500; foam.nl<br />
IMPRESSIONISM:<br />
SENSATION & INSPIRATION<br />
16 June-13 January 2013<br />
Highlights of the world-famous<br />
Impressionist paintings from<br />
the vast collection of the<br />
Hermitage Museum in<br />
St Petersburg.<br />
Hermitage, Amstel 51;<br />
+31 20 5307488; hermitage.nl<br />
MONET’S ‘WOMAN IN THE GARDEN’<br />
Photo: State Hermitage Museum<br />
WORLD PRESS PHOTO<br />
Until 17 June<br />
Last chance to see this<br />
prestigious exhibition of<br />
photojournalism here.<br />
Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein 23; +31<br />
20 6766096; worldpressphoto.org<br />
EMMY ANDRIESSE<br />
Until 30 September<br />
Photos by Andriesse (1914-<br />
1953), depicting Jewish life in<br />
Amsterdam in the first half of<br />
the 20th century.<br />
Joods Historisch Museum;<br />
Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1;<br />
+31 20 5310310; jhm.nl<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
STORK<br />
A high-ceilinged industrial<br />
building houses this stylish<br />
but unpretentious fi sh<br />
restaurant with a bar area,<br />
open kitchen and waterfront<br />
terrace. It has an impressive<br />
menu which includes the<br />
catch of the day as well as<br />
non-fi sh options (though few<br />
offerings for vegetarians). Get<br />
the free ferry from Amsterdam<br />
Central Station and cycle there<br />
in fi ve minutes or phone<br />
Stork’s taxi (+31 20 6312727).<br />
Opposite Gedempt Hamerkanaal<br />
96 (Amsterdam-Noord);<br />
+31 20 6344000; restaurantstork.nl<br />
AMSTERDAM UPDATE<br />
Stan the man<br />
This exhibition on Stanley Kubrick<br />
explores all aspects of his fi lmmaking<br />
genius: from screenplays to storyboards,<br />
set models to props, and costumes to<br />
clips of his fi lms and documentaries.<br />
Running parallel is a retrospective of<br />
Kubrick’s oeuvre, from The Killer’s Kiss<br />
(1955) to Eyes Wide Shut (1999).<br />
EYE; 21 June–9 September <strong>2012</strong>;<br />
IJpromenade 1; +31 20 5891400;<br />
eyefi lm.nl<br />
GIGS<br />
Elvis Costello & The<br />
Imposters 5 June Melkweg<br />
The Stone Roses 12 June<br />
Heineken Music Hall<br />
Lou Reed 14 June<br />
Heineken Music Hall<br />
Paul Weller 15 June<br />
Heineken Music Hall<br />
Garbage 19 June Melkweg<br />
Limp Bizkit 20 June Melkweg<br />
Tom Petty & The<br />
Heartbreakers 24 June<br />
Heineken Music Hall<br />
Jack White 25 June Heineken<br />
Music Hall<br />
Pearl Jam 26-27 June<br />
Ziggo Dome<br />
WEBSITES<br />
iamsterdam.com<br />
Comprehensive city portal<br />
specialbite.com<br />
Cool restaurant reviews<br />
eat-amsterdam.com<br />
Food news and dining deals<br />
dutchnews.nl<br />
Daily Dutch news in English<br />
hollandtrade.com<br />
For business opportunities<br />
amsterdam.info<br />
Useful tourist information<br />
lastminuteticketshop.nl<br />
museumtickets.nl<br />
REMEMBER! This copy of Holland<br />
Herald is yours to take off the plane.<br />
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NATIONAAL AUTOMOBIEL MUSEUM<br />
Bord’Eau Restaurant Gastronomique<br />
at De L’Europe Amsterdam<br />
Nieuwe Doelenstraat 2-14, 1012 CP<br />
Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br />
The first automobile in the Louwman Automobile Museum’s<br />
collection was a 1914 Dodge purchased in 1934. Since that<br />
time, it has grown to 250 different automobiles, and they come<br />
from all over the world.<br />
The collection is laid out in a beautiful airy building designed,<br />
in large part, by American architect Michael Graves, which<br />
allows for ample space to show each car in its best light. All of<br />
the cars in the collection are notable for one reason or another:<br />
innovation, design, uniqueness. Visitors will find cars used in<br />
films (James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5) or owned by the famous<br />
(Elvis Presley’s Cadillac Fleetwood and Prince Bernard’s<br />
Ferrari 500 Superfast Speziale). What is believed to be the oldest<br />
automobile in the world is in the collection as well as some<br />
experiments that were never mass-produced.<br />
Of course the museum isn’t just about automobiles. It’s about<br />
culture and how different cultures have influenced the design of<br />
the automobile. It’s about how values and tastes have changed<br />
over time. Each car has a story to tell and these stories have<br />
been brought together into one cohesive narrative to give the<br />
visitor an overview of how the automobile we know today came<br />
about and the many forces and personalities that influenced it.<br />
Included alongside the cars is an impressive collection of<br />
artwork with an automobile theme. The Louwman Museum’s<br />
collection is the largest privately owned collection of automobiles<br />
in the world, and while it is certainly enjoyable for car enthusiasts,<br />
it is also interesting for history buffs and for anyone<br />
who enjoys beautiful things.<br />
LEIDSESTRAATWEG 57 | 2594 BB DEN HAAG | TEL.: + 31 (0)70 - 304 73 73 | WWW.LOUWMANMUSEUM.NL<br />
Choose your sublime restaurant centrally located on<br />
the banks of the Amstel River in Amsterdam.<br />
Bord’Eau will exceed all your expectations.<br />
Ask for the special ‘All In Lunch’ from € 68 per person<br />
Bord’Eau is open for lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. For reservations<br />
and/or more information please call +31 (0)20 531 16 19 or email bordeau@leurope.nl
ROLAND, THE CITY'S PROTECTOR<br />
Hansa heritage<br />
Once a member of the Hanseatic League, Germany’s smallest city-state boasts more<br />
than 1500 years of history. A medieval centre and riverfront parks and dining make<br />
Bremen a sensational summer destination.<br />
WHAT TO SEE<br />
Medieval meander<br />
Wander the medieval lanes in<br />
Schnoor, with its many shops<br />
and the Kunsthalle Bremen<br />
(kunsthalle-bremen.de). A climb<br />
up the tower at Cathedral of<br />
St Peter (stpetridom.de) in the<br />
Old Town offers a bird’s-eye<br />
view of the city. Next to the<br />
former defensive moat, Am<br />
Wall park is a charming place to<br />
relax on a summer’s evening.<br />
WHERE TO EAT<br />
Beer in the garden<br />
Cafes and restaurants line the<br />
Schlachte along the Weser<br />
river. Summer means beer<br />
gardens on the water:<br />
Feldmann’s Bierhaus<br />
(feldmanns-bierhaus.de) serves<br />
genuine Bremen cooking, while<br />
Paulaner’s (Schlachte 30; +49<br />
421 1690691) specializes in<br />
Bavarian. Im Viertel (Sielwall 2A;<br />
+49 421 79432688) offers<br />
traditional German dishes and<br />
homemade cakes.<br />
WHERE TO SHOP<br />
Craving Kluten<br />
Schnoor is a tangle of tight<br />
lanes full of boutiques.<br />
Böttcherstrasse (see Don't<br />
miss) caters to upscale<br />
shoppers. Markets are out on<br />
most of the squares around the<br />
Town Hall. Hachez (hachez.de),<br />
a chocolatier near the Town<br />
SUNNING ON THE SCHLACHTE<br />
Hall, is well worth a visit to buy<br />
Bremen's traditional Kluten,<br />
cubes of peppermint, partly<br />
covered in chocolate.<br />
HOW TO GET THERE<br />
KLM operates four direct daily<br />
fl ights to Bremen Airport from<br />
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.<br />
Tourist information<br />
bremen-tourism.de<br />
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travel information? Check out<br />
KLM’s Destination Guide pages<br />
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klm.com. Content provided by<br />
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Whatsonwhen Limited.<br />
TOUCHDOWN BREMEN<br />
A SEAFARING HISTORY<br />
DON’T MISS<br />
Architectural<br />
gem<br />
Between Marktplatz and the<br />
river, the Böttcherstrasse is<br />
crowded with an impressive<br />
collection of Gothic and Art<br />
Nouveau architecture. Once<br />
the home of barrel makers,<br />
the street was transformed<br />
between 1922 and 1931 by<br />
coffee magnate Ludwig<br />
Roselius and is now home to<br />
several art museums,<br />
workshops, bars, restaurants,<br />
shops and an historic<br />
Glockenspiel that chimes at<br />
regular intervals.<br />
boettcherstrasse.de<br />
MIX OF OLD AND NOUVEAU<br />
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Visit Saint Barbara‘s Cathedral in Kutná Hora – late-Gothic<br />
architectural gem and UNESCO World Heritage site<br />
www.middleczech.cz<br />
is unique example of late Gothic<br />
architecture was started in 1388 and it was<br />
completed 500 years later.<br />
e Central Bohemia Gallery (GASK), opened in 2010, not only displays modern art. Its most valuable item is the Kutná Hora<br />
Illumination, a rare 15th-century miniature acquired at an auction at Sotheby’s in London for over half a million pounds.
IMPOSING ARCHITECTURE<br />
Pole position<br />
Enjoy hearty food, boutique shopping and historic strolls. Poland’s capital is a<br />
forward-looking metropolis, where historic palaces meet modern architecture, cosy<br />
cafes compete with fashionable clubs and thousands will visit for Euro <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
WHAT TO SEE<br />
Art and parks<br />
Dubbed ‘The Polish Versailles’,<br />
the 17th-century Wilanów<br />
Palace Museum (wilanowpalac.art.pl)<br />
houses a priceless<br />
collection of masterpieces. The<br />
Warsaw Rising Museum<br />
(1944.pl) details the doomed<br />
1944 rebellion against Nazi<br />
occupation. In the Old Town,<br />
you’ll fi nd the Royal Castle<br />
(zamek-krolewski.pl).<br />
The city's National Stadium<br />
will host fi ve Euro <strong>2012</strong> matches<br />
(uefa.com).<br />
WHERE TO EAT<br />
Taste of tradition<br />
Sushi and fusion are all the<br />
fashion, though game<br />
features heavily on local<br />
menus, as do dumplings and<br />
sausage, as is served at central<br />
Chlopskie Jadlo<br />
(chlopskiejadlo.pl). Attractive<br />
Rózana Restauracja Polska<br />
(restauracjatradycja.pl) is<br />
candlelit and elegant, with all<br />
the gilt and antique trappings<br />
of a Polish stately home.<br />
WHERE TO SHOP<br />
Malls and markets<br />
Encased within a huge glass<br />
bubble, Złote Tarasy mall<br />
(zlotetarasy.pl) is exceptional,<br />
with a mix of western shops<br />
and local goods. Those looking<br />
for designer fashion should<br />
investigate the boutiques on<br />
Trzech Krzyzy square. Bargain<br />
SQUARES AND CRESCENTS<br />
hunters have a few outdoor<br />
markets to visit, the most<br />
notable being the Bazar na<br />
Kole (99 Obozowa St).<br />
HOW TO GET THERE<br />
KLM operates three direct<br />
daily fl ights to Warsaw Frederic<br />
Chopin Airport from Amsterdam<br />
Airport Schiphol.<br />
Tourist information<br />
warsawtour.pl<br />
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travel information? Check out<br />
KLM’s Destination Guide pages<br />
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klm.com. Content provided by<br />
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TOUCHDOWN WARSAW<br />
DON’T MISS<br />
Chopin in<br />
the park<br />
From mid-May to the end of<br />
September, the Fryderyk<br />
Chopin Society presents<br />
concerts in Warsaw's Royal<br />
Łazienki Park. Celebrated<br />
pianists from around the<br />
world perform at noon and<br />
4pm at the foot of Waclaw<br />
Szymanowski’s imposing<br />
Chopin Memorial in honour of<br />
Poland’s most famous musical<br />
son. Admission is free.<br />
tifc.chopin.pl<br />
SZYMANOWSKI’S CHOPIN<br />
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METROPOLIS BUILDING ON THE GRAN VIA<br />
Spain reigns<br />
With world-class art collections, tasty tapas, Sunday markets and a great street<br />
buzz, Spain’s capital encapsulates the country’s colour and culture. There’s<br />
something for everyone, from designer fashion to foodie haunts, from Old Masters<br />
to serious clubbing.<br />
WHAT TO SEE<br />
On the museum trail<br />
The ‘Golden Triangle’ of the<br />
Prado (see Don’t miss), Reina<br />
Sofi a (museoreinasofi a.es) and<br />
Thyssen-Bornemisza<br />
(museothyssen.org) museums<br />
warrants several days’<br />
exploration. Lesser-known<br />
Lázaro Galdiano Museum (fl g.<br />
es) and Museum of the San<br />
Fernando Royal Academy of<br />
Arts (rabasf.insde.es) offer<br />
similar quality, but fewer crowds.<br />
WHERE TO SHOP<br />
High street and<br />
handicrafts<br />
Chueca boutiques around Calle<br />
Almirante offer alternative<br />
designers to the ultra-chic shops<br />
in the Salamanca area, while<br />
Calle Fuencarral is packed with<br />
fashionable international brands.<br />
The best place for handicrafts is<br />
around Plaza Major.<br />
WHERE TO BOOGIE<br />
Feel the nightlife<br />
From the seven-level Kapital club<br />
(grupo-kapital.com) to the disco<br />
bars of trendy Chueca,<br />
alternative Malasaña, stylish La<br />
Latina and multicultural Lavapiés<br />
areas, Madrid’s nightlife is vast<br />
and varied. Café Comercial (7<br />
Glorieta de Bilbao) and Café del<br />
Círculo de Bellas Artes<br />
(circulobellasartes.com) and<br />
Vinoteca Barbechera (27 Calle<br />
CAFE CULTURE<br />
Príncipe) are great places to<br />
warm up before the serious<br />
clubbing begins.<br />
HOW TO GET THERE<br />
KLM operates fi ve direct<br />
daily fl ights to Madrid Barajas<br />
Airport from Amsterdam<br />
Airport Schiphol.<br />
Tourist information<br />
turismomadrid.es<br />
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travel information? Check out<br />
KLM’s Destination Guide pages<br />
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TOUCHDOWN MADRID<br />
SPANISH-STYLE FAST FOOD<br />
DON’T MISS<br />
Perfect Prado<br />
The Prado Museum in the<br />
Paseo del Arte is one of the<br />
world’s fi nest repositories for<br />
fi ne arts. It contains an<br />
unrivalled Spanish collection,<br />
including Goya’s The Third of<br />
May and Velázquez’<br />
Las Meninas. It also has<br />
several Italian and Flemish<br />
paintings, such as Bosch’s<br />
The Garden of Earthly Delights.<br />
museodelprado.es<br />
GARDENS AT THE PRADO<br />
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THE MYTHICAL FOUNDERS OF KIEV<br />
BOLD BUILDING<br />
Ancient city, bright future<br />
One of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, Ukraine's energetic capital boasts a rich<br />
cultural history. But this ancient city is anything but sleepy, with its chic cafes and<br />
bars that love to spill out into parks and terraces on warm summer nights.<br />
WHAT TO SEE<br />
Saintly sights<br />
Gold-domed St Michael's<br />
Monastery (6<br />
Tr'okhsvyatytel's'ka St) crowns<br />
the Old Town, from which<br />
cobbled Andriivs'kyi Descent<br />
leads to picturesque Podil.<br />
Main street Khreshchatyk<br />
leads south to Lypky where<br />
the Art Nouveau gem House<br />
with Chimeras – the<br />
Gorodetsky House (10<br />
Bankova St) – nestles among<br />
other architectural gems.<br />
WHERE TO EAT<br />
Best borscht<br />
The elegant Old Town offers<br />
high-end options, while<br />
central Khreshchatyk Street<br />
has everything from cheap<br />
and tasty stolovaya (canteens),<br />
such as Domashnya kuxnya<br />
(16-22 Khmelnytskoho St; +380<br />
44 2342918), to elegant Euro-<br />
Asian fusion at Concord (42<br />
Pushkins'ka St; +380 44 2347788).<br />
Reasonably priced beer tents<br />
line the riverside parks of Lypky<br />
and Pechersk in summer.<br />
WHERE TO BOOGIE<br />
Upbeat Ukraine<br />
Kiev's bars span the city, with<br />
smoky clubs and bars lining<br />
Khreshchatyk – spilling out<br />
onto leafy terraces in summer.<br />
Cool upmarket places like<br />
Bar on 8, on the eighth fl oor of<br />
the Hyatt Regency (5 Ally<br />
Tarasovoi St; +380 44 5811234),<br />
cluster around the Old Town<br />
and increasingly hip Lypky.<br />
Summer sees live dance<br />
venues and casual beer tents<br />
in the parks of Pechersk.<br />
HOW TO GET THERE<br />
KLM operates two direct daily<br />
fl ights and has twelve weekly<br />
code-share fl ights operated<br />
by Ukraine International to<br />
Kiev Borispol Airport from<br />
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.<br />
Tourist information<br />
traveltoukraine.org<br />
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travel information? Check out<br />
KLM’s Destination Guide pages<br />
— and book your fl ight — on<br />
klm.com. Content provided by<br />
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TOUCHDOWN KIEV<br />
DON’T MISS<br />
Football fever<br />
The Ukraine and Poland play<br />
host to the UEFA European<br />
Football Championship this<br />
year. The tournament begins<br />
in Warsaw on 8 June, with the<br />
fi rst games on Ukrainian soil<br />
the next day. On 11 June, play<br />
moves to Kiev’s Olympic<br />
Stadium, which also hosts the<br />
fi nal on 1 July.<br />
uefa.com<br />
FAN-TASTIC FOOTBALL<br />
Photo: Katatonia82/Shutterstock<br />
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privately-run four star deluxe lifestyle hotel, is<br />
superbly situated in the heart of Stockholm’s<br />
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International atmosphere filled with art, music<br />
and our Scandinavian Brasserie T/BAR.<br />
DIPLOMATHOTEL.COM +46 8 459 68 00
SHOWING BRAZIL'S COLOURS IN VILA ISABEL<br />
Carnival and cariocas<br />
With everything from chic beaches to boho back alleys and the world’s largest urban<br />
rainforest, Brazil’s second largest city is famous for its laid back atmosphere,<br />
breathtaking natural beauty and carnival – one of the biggest parties in the world.<br />
WHAT TO SEE<br />
Natural beauty<br />
Riding the cable car (bondinho.<br />
com.br) to the top of<br />
Sugarloaf Mountain reveals<br />
blissful views of the city and<br />
Guanabara Bay. The<br />
downtown Museu de Arte<br />
Moderna (mamrio.com.br)<br />
showcases contemporary<br />
Brazilian painters. Outdoor<br />
enthusiasts can hike the trails<br />
of the Floresta da Tijuca, the<br />
world’s largest urban rainforest.<br />
WHERE TO SHOP<br />
Beach boutiques<br />
Trendy urban shoppers head<br />
to Ipanema’s boutique-lined<br />
streets to browse for elegant<br />
shoes, stylish beachwear and<br />
tropical fashions. Less expensive<br />
stores cluster in Copacabana’s<br />
main street. For more original gifts<br />
and keepsakes, visit the outdoor<br />
Feira Hippie Ipanema<br />
(feirahippieipanema.com) market<br />
on Sunday.<br />
WHERE TO BOOGIE<br />
Brazilian beats<br />
Music lovers fl ock to antiquestudded<br />
Rio Scenarium<br />
(rioscenarium.com.br) or cosy<br />
Carioca da Gema<br />
(barcariocadagema.com.br) for<br />
outstanding samba parties. The<br />
young and beautiful meet at<br />
upscale dance clubs in Ipanema<br />
like Baronneti (baronneti.com.br)<br />
and Nuth (nuth.com.br). Sample<br />
spicy, neat cachaças spirit at<br />
Photo: Celso Pupo/Shutterstock<br />
GONDOLA TO SUGARLOAF<br />
Academia da Cachaça<br />
(academiadacachaca.com.br).<br />
HOW TO GET THERE<br />
KLM operates three direct<br />
fl ights a week to Rio de Janeiro<br />
International Airport from<br />
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.<br />
Tourist information<br />
rioguiaofi cial.com.br<br />
Looking for travel information?<br />
Check out Discover the Life of<br />
the Cariocas on the iFly TV<br />
channel on YouTube or head to<br />
KLM’s Destination Guide pages<br />
— and book your fl ight — on<br />
klm.com. Content provided by<br />
Frommer’s Unlimited © <strong>2012</strong>,<br />
Whatsonwhen Limited.<br />
TOUCHDOWN RIO<br />
STREET SWEETS<br />
DON’T MISS<br />
Iconic view<br />
Atop Mount Corcovado<br />
stands Christ the Redeemer<br />
(Cristo Redentor), arms<br />
outstretched, protecting the<br />
thriving metropolis. The<br />
30-metre-high landmark has<br />
come to symbolize the city.<br />
Visitors no longer need climb<br />
the 220 steps to the top;<br />
three panoramic elevators<br />
and four escalators now<br />
provide leisurely access to<br />
the monument and the<br />
views beyond.<br />
RIO'S PROTECTOR<br />
Holland Herald 77
Find the cosiest holiday cottages<br />
along the Dutch coast at www.aanzee.com
NATURE'S BRIDGE<br />
Sun, sea and salsa<br />
The Caribbean island of Aruba dances to salsa, dines on red snapper and sunbathes<br />
year-round. Its charming capital, Oranjestad, combines pastel-coloured, Dutch colonial<br />
houses with bustling shops and trendy eateries.<br />
WHAT TO SEE<br />
Natural charm<br />
Aruba's ancient indigenous<br />
cultural and colonial heritage<br />
have been beautifully<br />
captured at the National<br />
Archaeological Museum<br />
Aruba (namaruba.org).<br />
Discover exotic cacti, aloe<br />
plants and rare tropical<br />
fl owers on the hiking trails at<br />
Arikok National Park<br />
(arubanationalpark.org), or<br />
catch sunset views from the<br />
California Lighthouse on the<br />
island's north-western tip.<br />
WHERE TO EAT<br />
Island fusion<br />
European culinary traditions<br />
fuse with feisty Caribbean<br />
fl avours making use of the<br />
island’s bountiful tropical<br />
produce. Savour fi sh dishes at<br />
Ventanas del Mar (tierradelsol.<br />
com), lobster with lemon-garlic<br />
butter at The Flying Fishbone<br />
(fl yingfi shbone.com) and<br />
Aruba’s famous half-moon<br />
pastries at The Pastechi<br />
House (42, Caya GF<br />
Betico Croes).<br />
WHERE TO BOOGIE<br />
Latin beats<br />
Aruba's nightlife is<br />
concentrated around the Palm<br />
Beach and Eagle Beach<br />
resorts, with a choice of<br />
ramshackle bars, beer joints<br />
and fl ashy dance clubs. Salsalovers<br />
will enjoy Latin beats at<br />
Cuba's Cookin' (cubascookin.<br />
com) while MooMba Beach<br />
Bar (moombabeach.com)<br />
pumps out calypso.<br />
HOW TO GET THERE<br />
KLM operates four direct<br />
fl ights a week to Aruba Queen<br />
Beatrix Airport from Amsterdam<br />
Airport Schiphol.<br />
Tourist information<br />
aruba.com<br />
Looking for handy, up-to-date<br />
travel information? Check out<br />
KLM’s Destination Guide pages<br />
— and book your fl ight — on<br />
klm.com. Content provided by<br />
Frommer’s Unlimited © <strong>2012</strong>,<br />
Whatsonwhen Limited.<br />
TOUCHDOWN ARUBA<br />
IGUANA VACATION<br />
DON’T MISS<br />
Pre-Columbian<br />
craft<br />
Unique to the island are<br />
intricate masks and pots<br />
made from resin from the<br />
mopa mopa tree, dyed and<br />
processed according to<br />
traditions of Aruba's<br />
indigenous Quillasinga tribe.<br />
INTI in Oranjestad and sister<br />
store The Mask on the north<br />
side of the island offer<br />
dazzling selections.<br />
mopamopa.com<br />
MOPA MOPA MASKS<br />
Photo: courtesy mopamopa.com<br />
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Foto: CH/www.visitnorway.com<br />
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OSLO REGION AND CAN EASILY VISIT ALL PARTS OF THE REGION.<br />
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JUST AFTER SUNRISE AT THE GUNUNG BROMO VOLCANO ON JAVA, INDONESIA. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ERIK KIEVIT<br />
Inspire us with<br />
your world<br />
Travelling is a great source of inspiration,<br />
and photography is a great way of<br />
capturing those special moments.<br />
Whether it’s landscapes, architecture,<br />
portraits or close-ups, creativity can be<br />
drawn from many sources.<br />
Show us your ‘Journeys of Inspiration’<br />
photos, and you could win two<br />
return tickets to a KLM destination of<br />
your choice!<br />
A goody bag every<br />
three months!<br />
Exact goody bag may differ from those shown<br />
How does it work?<br />
Every three months, there’s a new<br />
theme. At the end of each quarter, we’ll<br />
give away a KLM ‘goody bag’ to three<br />
photographers who, in our opinion, have<br />
sent in the most inspiring photographs<br />
within the theme.<br />
At the end of the year, we’ll choose an<br />
overall winner and two runners-up (see<br />
‘What you can win’ for details) from the<br />
quarterly winners.<br />
The theme<br />
For April, May and June <strong>2012</strong>, the theme<br />
is Landscapes.<br />
Don’t be late…<br />
Entries for Landscapes this quarter must<br />
be received by 1 July <strong>2012</strong>. See the<br />
holland-herald.com website for details.<br />
Get inspired<br />
Visit holland-herald.com for a selection<br />
of beautiful entries from previous years.<br />
PHOTO CONTEST<br />
What you can win<br />
THE GRAND PRIZE<br />
Two intercontinental Economy<br />
Class return tickets on KLM flights.<br />
FIRST RUNNER-UP<br />
A KLM voucher*, value €500, to<br />
be used towards the purchase of<br />
a KLM ticket.<br />
SECOND RUNNER-UP<br />
A KLM voucher*, value €250, to<br />
be used towards the purchase of<br />
a KLM ticket.<br />
*Vouchers can be redeemed at most IATA-accredited travel<br />
agents worldwide. Tickets issued in exchange for vouchers<br />
must bear the same name as that on the voucher.<br />
CONTEST RULES • Photographs can be submitted digitally<br />
(high-res is recommended) or printed (up to 10x15cm) • Photos will<br />
not be returned • Holland Herald, KLM, MediaPartners Group and<br />
the publishers, Ink Publishing, accept no responsibility for lost<br />
material • Copyright clearance and permission of subjects are the<br />
responsibility of the photographers. KLM and Ink Publishing<br />
acquire the rights for future use of the images • The competition is<br />
open to readers of Holland Herald who are 18 years of age or older<br />
on the date of entry and who have flown with KLM during the<br />
entry period • Entrants for the Grand Prize will be notified as soon<br />
as possible after the relevant quarter • Employees of KLM, Ink<br />
Publishing and MediaPartners Group, participating promotional<br />
agencies, contributors to Holland Herald, and the families of any<br />
of the above are not eligible to enter this competition • The<br />
judges’ decisions are final • No prizes can be exchanged for cash.<br />
Holland Herald 81
JUST AFTER SUNRISE AT THE GUNUNG BROMO VOLCANO ON JAVA, INDONESIA. PHOTOGRAPHED BY ERIK KIEVIT<br />
Inspire us with<br />
your world<br />
Travelling is a great source of inspiration,<br />
and photography is a great way of<br />
capturing those special moments.<br />
Whether it’s landscapes, architecture,<br />
portraits or close-ups, creativity can be<br />
drawn from many sources.<br />
Show us your ‘Journeys of Inspiration’<br />
photos, and you could win two<br />
return tickets to a KLM destination of<br />
your choice!<br />
A goody bag every<br />
three months!<br />
Exact goody bag may differ from those shown<br />
How does it work?<br />
Every three months, there’s a new<br />
theme. At the end of each quarter, we’ll<br />
give away a KLM ‘goody bag’ to three<br />
photographers who, in our opinion, have<br />
sent in the most inspiring photographs<br />
within the theme.<br />
At the end of the year, we’ll choose an<br />
overall winner and two runners-up (see<br />
‘What you can win’ for details) from the<br />
quarterly winners.<br />
The theme<br />
For April, May and June <strong>2012</strong>, the theme<br />
is Landscapes.<br />
Don’t be late…<br />
Entries for Landscapes this quarter must<br />
be received by 1 July <strong>2012</strong>. See the<br />
holland-herald.com website for details.<br />
Get inspired<br />
Visit holland-herald.com for a selection<br />
of beautiful entries from previous years.<br />
PHOTO CONTEST<br />
What you can win<br />
THE GRAND PRIZE<br />
Two intercontinental Economy<br />
Class return tickets on KLM flights.<br />
FIRST RUNNER-UP<br />
A KLM voucher*, value €500, to<br />
be used towards the purchase of<br />
a KLM ticket.<br />
SECOND RUNNER-UP<br />
A KLM voucher*, value €250, to<br />
be used towards the purchase of<br />
a KLM ticket.<br />
*Vouchers can be redeemed at most IATA-accredited travel<br />
agents worldwide. Tickets issued in exchange for vouchers<br />
must bear the same name as that on the voucher.<br />
CONTEST RULES • Photographs can be submitted digitally<br />
(high-res is recommended) or printed (up to 10x15cm) • Photos will<br />
not be returned • Holland Herald, KLM, MediaPartners Group and<br />
the publishers, Ink Publishing, accept no responsibility for lost<br />
material • Copyright clearance and permission of subjects are the<br />
responsibility of the photographers. KLM and Ink Publishing<br />
acquire the rights for future use of the images • The competition is<br />
open to readers of Holland Herald who are 18 years of age or older<br />
on the date of entry and who have flown with KLM during the<br />
entry period • Entrants for the Grand Prize will be notified as soon<br />
as possible after the relevant quarter • Employees of KLM, Ink<br />
Publishing and MediaPartners Group, participating promotional<br />
agencies, contributors to Holland Herald, and the families of any<br />
of the above are not eligible to enter this competition • The<br />
judges’ decisions are final • No prizes can be exchanged for cash.<br />
Holland Herald 81
ADVERTORIAL<br />
Off the beaten track<br />
Rare species – and rarer visitors – are the big drawcards for Tanzania’s southern parks<br />
TEEMING WITH WILDLIFE yet light on visitors,<br />
the pristine wilderness of Tanzania’s southern<br />
parks offer adventurous safaris off the beaten<br />
track. The major southern parks comprise<br />
Mikumi, Ruaha and Udzungwa Mountains, and<br />
afford an exciting mix of different habitats and<br />
wildlife. The best time to visit is during the dry<br />
season – June to November – when the roads are<br />
more hospitable. The dry season also fi nds the<br />
animals concentrated around the rivers, making it<br />
much easier to see everything.<br />
Mikumi National Park is easily accessed<br />
from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city. The<br />
park borders the Selous Game Reserve and is<br />
home to abundant wildlife including buffaloes,<br />
elephants, hippos, lions, leopards, giraffes, zebras<br />
and more. It is also famous for 6m-long pythons<br />
and is the ideal good stop-over point on the way<br />
to Udzungwa and Ruaha.<br />
Not a conventional game-viewing destination,<br />
Udzungwa Mountains National Park is famous for<br />
its bio-diversity and the unique plant life found in<br />
its rainforests. Iringa red colobus and Sanje crested<br />
mangabey are among its rare primates, while<br />
numerous species of birds can be found. Activities<br />
include hiking to the Sanje waterfalls or a climb to<br />
the top of Luhombereo, Udzungwa’s highest peak.<br />
Ruaha National Park, a scenic, fi ve-hour drive<br />
from Mikumi, is now both Tanzania’s largest park<br />
and its largest elephant sanctuary, and is also<br />
home to a number of animals which are rarely<br />
found further north. These include wild dogs,<br />
roan and sable antelopes, and the greater kudu.<br />
There are also lions, leopards, cheetahs and<br />
hyenas, as well as vast numbers of hippos and<br />
crocodiles around the Great Ruaha River.<br />
With yet more parks to choose from – such as<br />
Katavi and Saadani – Tanzania’s southern parks<br />
promise unforgettable sights and experiences.<br />
For further information contact:<br />
The Director General, Tanzania National Parks<br />
PO Box 3134, Arusha, Tanzania<br />
Tel: +255 27 250 3471, fax: +255 27 250 8216<br />
E-mail: info@tanzaniaparks.com<br />
www.tanzaniaparks.com
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Travellers Check<br />
KLM PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND INFORMATION FOR PASSENGERS<br />
Photo: KLM/MAI<br />
1952<br />
An aircraft marshaller<br />
giving two thumbs up to<br />
Convair CV-240 PH-TEE,<br />
'Jan Steen' on the apron<br />
at Schiphol Airport.<br />
contents<br />
Hartman quarterly 87<br />
Products & services 88<br />
Flying Blue news 91<br />
Jac Goderie column 91<br />
KLM entertainment 93<br />
KLM takes care 95<br />
KLM partners 97<br />
The fleet 98<br />
KLM route maps 101<br />
Schiphol, hub gates 108<br />
Amsterdam map 109<br />
Fit for flying 110
BE MY GUEST<br />
ON A TRIP TO<br />
NEW YORK<br />
YFKE STURM<br />
Dutch fashion model<br />
Convince me at<br />
klm.com/bemyguest<br />
Journeys of Inspiration
Cooperate<br />
and connect<br />
TEAMWORK IS THE WAY FORWARD<br />
Next month, the Olympics<br />
begin in London. Athletes<br />
from around the world<br />
will gather in the British<br />
capital to show off their<br />
skills and compete with<br />
one another before a<br />
worldwide audience.<br />
Sport unites the world; sport brings<br />
people together. KLM has something in<br />
common with sport; we have been bringing<br />
people together for more than 92 years. In<br />
the beginning, we did this from our home<br />
base in The Netherlands, but a network<br />
quickly developed which still forms the<br />
basis for the destinations we fl y to today.<br />
Of course, we don’t operate our<br />
network on our own; we have partners.<br />
KLM has partners across the globe<br />
with whom we maintain a wide variety<br />
of cooperative relationships. Growth<br />
‘Building better<br />
connections means<br />
better service’<br />
opportunities for business are naturally<br />
a consideration, but our fi rst priority is to<br />
provide our customers with the maximum<br />
number of options, both in destinations<br />
and fl ight frequency. In recent months,<br />
KLM has strengthened and expanded<br />
partnerships in a number of areas. In<br />
Eastern Europe, for example, agreements<br />
with Ukraine International allow us to<br />
offer more frequent fl ights to Kiev – just<br />
in time for this month’s European Football<br />
Championship in Ukraine, but continuing<br />
well after Euro <strong>2012</strong> ends. In Africa, we<br />
are strengthening our Joint Venture with<br />
Kenya Airways, improving connections<br />
between the Amsterdam and Nairobi hubs.<br />
Building better connections between<br />
the two airlines’ networks ensures that<br />
our customers have more choice and<br />
better service.<br />
Within the KLM Group ties are being<br />
strengthened as well. KLM and transavia.<br />
com now have codeshare agreements<br />
which allow the two networks to work<br />
together seamlessly. Customers from<br />
around the world can fl y more easily to<br />
transavia.com destinations via Schiphol,<br />
giving them more choice and more comfort.<br />
KLM HARTMAN QUARTERLY<br />
Bringing people together isn’t just<br />
something we do on a network level.<br />
Starting this month, Meet & Seat is<br />
available on fl ights from Amsterdam to all<br />
intercontinental destinations. Via LinkedIn<br />
and Facebook, you can choose who you<br />
sit next to during your fl ight. You could<br />
even choose to meet each other before<br />
your fl ight if you like.<br />
Corporate social responsibility is<br />
also a primary concern for KLM, and we<br />
want to do our part to safeguard the<br />
environment. That’s why KLM actively<br />
supports the World Wide Fund for Nature<br />
in their efforts to protect the Coral<br />
Triangle. You can read more about this<br />
project in this issue of Holland Herald<br />
(page 50). On intercontinental fl ights,<br />
Infl ight Entertainment also features a fi lm<br />
about this unique wildlife area in Asia (see<br />
page 93).<br />
PETER F. HARTMAN,<br />
PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER,<br />
KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES<br />
Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 87
KLM to go<br />
Five smartphone apps bring KLM’s<br />
products and services to your<br />
fi ngertips, no matter where you are.<br />
KLM App<br />
With the KLM App, you can book<br />
a fl ight, check in, select a seat,<br />
store your boarding pass, follow<br />
the status of your fl ight, view your Flying<br />
Blue Miles balance or ask KLM a question<br />
via Facebook or Twitter. Available in<br />
English, Dutch, German, Italian, French,<br />
Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese<br />
(traditional and simplifi ed).<br />
KLM Tripshake<br />
Looking for travel inspiration?<br />
Select a continent and travel<br />
dates – or leave it all up to<br />
chance – and shake your phone. You can<br />
book a fl ight directly via the app. Available<br />
in Dutch, English and German.<br />
KLM Passport<br />
Share your travel memories<br />
in a fun and inspiring way.<br />
Pick a theme and add your<br />
travel photos; the app creates a unique,<br />
personal holiday movie for you. The app<br />
adds a stamp in your digital passport for<br />
every movie you make.<br />
KLM Movies & More<br />
Provides a complete listing of all<br />
the programming on board KLM’s<br />
intercontinental fl ights. Movies,<br />
TV, Music and Kids listings are included,<br />
with full synopses and trailers for features<br />
in Latest Movies.<br />
KLM Houses<br />
Images and descriptions of all<br />
92 KLM Delft Blue Houses are<br />
included in this handy app.<br />
Locate the original houses on Google<br />
Maps and keep track of the ones you<br />
have with the built-in checklist.<br />
88 Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK<br />
Meet your seat-mate<br />
Expanded to include all KLM<br />
intercontinental routes, KLM Meet<br />
& Seat is a service that connects<br />
passengers with each other.<br />
Passengers can link their Facebook<br />
or LinkedIn profi les to the next KLM<br />
fl ight they will be on. Passengers on<br />
intercontinental fl ights who have signed<br />
up can see each other’s profi les and – if<br />
they see a connection – get in touch.<br />
For a demo video, visit youtube.com/<br />
klm and search ‘Meet & Seat’.<br />
Tweet KLM for your fare<br />
Priority services<br />
worldwide<br />
KLM and SkyTeam partners expand<br />
availability of SkyPriority, a collection<br />
of priority services for First/Business<br />
Class passengers and SkyTeam Elite Plus<br />
members, including Flying Blue Platinum<br />
and Gold members. The SkyPriority label<br />
appears on the boarding passes of<br />
eligible passengers, and signs bearing<br />
the red label make priority services easy<br />
to fi nd at airports around the world.<br />
SkyPriority includes priority checkin,<br />
baggage drop-off, boarding and<br />
baggage fi rst-on-belt, as well as priority<br />
at immigration and security and at ticket<br />
offi ces and transfer desks. SkyPriority is<br />
now available in all airports served by<br />
KLM and AIR FRANCE and will be visible in<br />
more than 1,000 airports by 2013.<br />
Finding a KLM ticket price couldn’t be easier. Send a tweet to @KLMfares with a<br />
departure city and a destination – for example Amsterdam to Singapore – and we’ll<br />
tweet you back within one minute with the best fare available for a return ticket.<br />
You can also narrow the scope of your request by adding the month you want to<br />
fl y or specifi c fl ight dates (in dd-mm format) in your tweet.
Travel together<br />
Planning to take a trip with a group<br />
of friends? KLM Trip Planner makes it<br />
easy. Set up a travel group and invite your<br />
Facebook friends. The app helps you<br />
organize and decide on a destination,<br />
dates and fl ights – and can even suggest<br />
a destination to match your group’s<br />
interests. To get started, head to<br />
tripplanner.klm.com.<br />
PLAN A GET-AWAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS<br />
KLM PRODUCTS & SERVICES<br />
Manage<br />
your KLM account<br />
À la carte options<br />
In addition to standard in-fl ight meals,<br />
KLM Economy Class passengers can<br />
choose from fi ve à la carte menus –<br />
Japanese Delight, Bella Italia, Indonesian<br />
Rice Dish, Nature’s Favourite and an<br />
alternating, theme-based meal. The menus<br />
are available on most intercontinental<br />
fl ights departing from Amsterdam and cost<br />
between €10 and €15. They can be ordered<br />
from 90 days to 48 hours prior to departure<br />
on klm.com when booking online or<br />
afterwards via ‘Manage my Booking’.<br />
Take advantage of the convenience<br />
of your own account on klm.com.<br />
With a personal KLM or Flying Blue<br />
account, you can manage your profi le<br />
and personal preferences, and access<br />
a wide range of online products and<br />
services. Your personal details and<br />
preferences – and those of your<br />
travelling companions – will be at your<br />
fi ngertips every time you book a fl ight.<br />
Visit klm.com to set up your account.<br />
Extra ccomfort<br />
last minute<br />
Seats in the Economy Comfort zone, in<br />
the front of the Economy cabin, have more<br />
legroom (10cm more) than standard seats<br />
and recline twice as far. Economy Comfort<br />
seats can now be purchased on board –<br />
depending on availability. To be sure of an<br />
Economy Comfort seat, you can book a<br />
seat in advance at the kiosk in the airport<br />
or – up to 90 days before fl ying – when<br />
buying a ticket online or via ‘Manage my<br />
Booking’ on klm.com.<br />
MORE CHOICE IN IN-FLIGHT MEALS<br />
Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 89
An impulse fl ight<br />
Two nights’ sweet dreams<br />
Simple to join, so much to experience.<br />
Enrol at klm.com or airfrance.com<br />
A scenic drive<br />
An escape<br />
for two<br />
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How to join Flying Blue<br />
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KLM ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Frenchly fantastic<br />
It’s a given that most French fi lms will be<br />
successful in France – and certainly in<br />
Paris. But does that always mean<br />
international success? Not necessarily,<br />
but Intouchables has been a<br />
resounding success at home and abroad.<br />
In France alone, more than 20 million<br />
people saw the fi lm, and it has earned<br />
more than $350 million internationally.<br />
But why? Simply put, the story strikes<br />
a universal chord and the chemistry<br />
between the two main characters is<br />
undeniable. Phillipe, a severely<br />
handicapped aristocrat, cannot live<br />
without 24/7 assistance. The assistant<br />
he hires is Driss – Senegalese born,<br />
street tough, just out of prison and with<br />
a chequered past. But opposites attract<br />
and the two men have an instant click.<br />
The story made me laugh and cry.<br />
Somehow it manages to be both a<br />
realistic slice-of-life story and a fairy tale.<br />
It could have taken place anywhere –<br />
from Washington DC to Beijing – but the<br />
fact that the backdrop is Paris is, of<br />
course, an added bonus.<br />
JAC GODERIE<br />
Renowned Dutch movie reviewer and<br />
programmer of KLM Infl ight Entertainment.<br />
UNLIKELY MATES IN ‘INTOUCHABLES’<br />
For more information on KLM entertainment,<br />
see page 93.<br />
Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 91
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‘JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND’ FULL OF STRANGE AND WONDERFUL SURPRISES<br />
LATEST MOVIES<br />
21 Jump Street (Comedy, Action)<br />
Intouchables (Comedy, Drama)<br />
John Carter (Action, Fantasy)<br />
Journey 2 (Action, Comedy)<br />
Man On A Ledge (Crime, Thriller)<br />
TELEVISION<br />
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Fish Wars<br />
This documentary provides amazing<br />
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ocean in Southeast Asia known as the<br />
Coral Triangle. But how long will its beauty<br />
last? The area faces threats on many<br />
fronts, and WWF is striving to preserve this<br />
endangered natural resource for future<br />
generations. For a feature on the Coral<br />
Triangle, see page 50 of this issue of<br />
Holland Herald.<br />
MOBILE APP<br />
Safe House (Crime, Mystery)<br />
Shame (Drama)<br />
The Vow (Romance, Drama)<br />
This Means War (Action, Romance)<br />
W.E. (History, Romance)<br />
ASIA’S AWESOME CORAL TRIANGLE<br />
KLM K Movies & More app<br />
Now N available on an iPhone near you…<br />
KLM K Movies & More. With so much<br />
entertainment e to choose from on board,<br />
why w not check out the options before you<br />
fl y? The KLM Movies & More app will give<br />
you y a sneak peek at all the movies, TV,<br />
music m and stuff for kids available on your<br />
next n fl ight. The app is available for iPhones<br />
and a will be released for Android and iPads<br />
this t summer.<br />
*All content is offered on wide-body aircraft fl ying intercontinental routes and is updated<br />
around the fi rst of each month.<br />
Photo: © Jürgen Freund / WWF-Canon<br />
KLM ENTERTAINMENT*<br />
KLM FM – Spotlight<br />
Candy Dulfer<br />
By the time her debut album Saxuality had<br />
notched up a million sales, Candy Dulfer<br />
had become a real Dutch jazz diva – at<br />
the age of 19. Just a couple of months<br />
earlier, she’d topped the charts across<br />
Europe with her recording of Lily Was<br />
Here, a fi lm theme she’d recorded with<br />
Dave Stewart of Eurythmics in a single<br />
take at the end of a studio session. Since<br />
then, the alto saxophonist has worked all<br />
over the world, performing with big names<br />
including Prince, Lionel Richie, Van<br />
Morrison, Beyoncé and Angie Stone.<br />
JAZZ SENSATION CANDY DULFER<br />
Getting started<br />
For a complete listing of the more<br />
than 1,000 hours of entertainment<br />
available, check your personal<br />
interactive screen. You can also<br />
check listings on klm.com before<br />
your next fl ight.<br />
CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE<br />
Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 93
Papagayo Beachclub staat bekend als de hotspot van<br />
het eiland, geliefd vanwege de internationale stijl en<br />
Caribische Please takesfeer. your Detime. internationale Today thekeuken sun isenshining, het ademjust<br />
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Enjoy the new<br />
Caribbean lifestyle!
KLM & WWF-NL<br />
PROTECTING NATURAL RESOURCES AROUND THE WORLD<br />
Announcing<br />
KLM Takes Care<br />
This month KLM launches KLM Takes<br />
Care. With this new initiative, we bring<br />
together all our Corporate Social<br />
Responsibility (CSR) activities under a<br />
common brand – making it easier for our<br />
customers to identify them. In the coming<br />
months, wherever you see the Takes Care<br />
logo, you’ll recognize KLM’s CSR initiatives.<br />
The introduction of Takes Care<br />
coincides with the launch of a new<br />
website klmtakescare.com. On the<br />
website you can ask KLM questions<br />
regarding CSR projects and fi nd additional<br />
information on KLM CSR activities as well<br />
as details regarding KLM’s partnership<br />
with WWF-The Netherlands.<br />
RESPONSIBLE COFFEE<br />
KLM TAKES CARE<br />
“Helping to make the world a better place”<br />
KLM has long been a pioneer in making<br />
aviation more sustainable and, with this in<br />
mind, KLM and the Dutch chapter of the<br />
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-NL)<br />
entered into a unique partnership in 2007.<br />
At the end of 2011, this partnership was<br />
renewed for a period of four years. The<br />
three main goals of this cooperation are<br />
to decrease CO 2 emissions on all levels, to<br />
develop sustainable biofuels and an<br />
international market for them, and to<br />
protect natural resources at home and<br />
around the world. With these activities<br />
and with existing and new initiatives<br />
throughout the business, we are showing<br />
that the aviation industry as a whole can<br />
be made more sustainable. For more<br />
information, check out the new<br />
klmtakescare.com website or the People<br />
& Planet channel on your personal screen<br />
(on intercontinental fl ights).<br />
Coming soon:<br />
UTZ Certifi ed coffee<br />
Making aviation sustainable on all<br />
levels is an important ambition for<br />
KLM. Starting next month, all coffee<br />
served on board KLM fl ights worldwide<br />
will be UTZ Certifi ed. UTZ is a programme<br />
and label for sustainable farming<br />
worldwide. Sustainable farming supports<br />
farmers, farm workers and their families<br />
and communities while safeguarding the<br />
earth’s natural resources, now and in the<br />
future. The UTZ Certifi ed programme has<br />
been working towards these goals for<br />
nearly ten years and is one of the largest<br />
sustainability programmes in the world for<br />
coffee, cocoa and tea. For more<br />
information, visit utzcertifi ed.org.<br />
Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 95
WITH SKYTEAM’S GLOBAL NETWORK ACROSS ALL<br />
CONTINENTS, TRAVELING HAS NEVER BEEN SO SEAMLESS.<br />
Our 16 member airlines connect you to the world seamlessly. SkyTeam offers more than<br />
14,700 daily flights to over 950 destinations across all continents. We make it convenient for<br />
you to get wherever you need to go. Mileage earned can be redeemed on all member airline<br />
flights. Visit skyteam.com
Our partners, your benefi ts<br />
AIR FRANCE KLM, Europe’s largest airline group, is a<br />
member of SkyTeam, an alliance of 16 airlines.<br />
This offers you a variety of benefi ts such as: 926 global<br />
destinations, access to 490 lounges worldwide, a coordinated<br />
timetable for improved connections, and more opportunities to<br />
earn Flying Blue Level and Award Miles. Award Miles can be<br />
Code-share partners<br />
KLM and its main partners<br />
Other KLM partners<br />
Combined code-share and<br />
Flying Blue partners<br />
KLM PARTNERS<br />
spent on fl ights, or with over 100 non-airline partners, such as<br />
Marriott and Hertz. Level Miles count towards a higher membership<br />
tier, each offering different benefi ts such as access to airport<br />
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Flying Blue partners<br />
You can earn and/or spend Miles with all SkyTeam alliance members and KLM’s Flying Blue partners; Flying Blue is AIR FRANCE KLM’s loyalty programme. For detailed information, visit klm.com or<br />
airfrance.com. A code-share partner means that even though you have booked a KLM fl ight number, you may fi nd yourself travelling on a service operated by that partner.<br />
Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 97
Artwork KLM fl eet: Hans Murris, KLM Engineering & Maintenance, SPL/WM<br />
KLM PLANE FACTS HOW BIG, HOW SMALL, HOW FAR…?<br />
1920 17 May: the fi rst KLM fl ight<br />
from London to Amsterdam.<br />
1933 The Fokker F-XVIII Pelican<br />
sets a new record for the fl ight<br />
Amsterdam-Jakarta of four days, four<br />
hours and 35 minutes.<br />
1934 October: the McDonnell<br />
Douglas DC-2 Uiver wins fi rst prize<br />
in the handicap section, and<br />
second prize overall in the<br />
London-Melbourne Air Race.<br />
1946 KLM launches its<br />
scheduled service between<br />
Amsterdam and New York.<br />
1960<br />
KLM introduces the<br />
McDonnell Douglas DC-8 into its<br />
fl eet, marking the beginning of the<br />
‘jet age’.<br />
1971 KLM’s fi rst Boeing<br />
747B heralds the start of the<br />
‘wide-body’ age.<br />
1989 KLM is the fi rst European<br />
airline to introduce the new<br />
generation 747-400s.<br />
2003 KLM introduces the fi rst of<br />
its Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, followed<br />
in 2008 with the 300ER variant.<br />
2005 KLM starts adding the<br />
fi rst of 12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft to<br />
its fl eet.<br />
2008 KLM begins a gradual<br />
introduction of the EMBRAER 190 to its<br />
Cityhopper fl eet, replacing some of its<br />
Fokker 100 aircraft.<br />
2011 KLM becomes the fi rst<br />
airline in the world to operate<br />
commercial fl ights using biofuel.<br />
KLM’s fuel effi ciency performance is one<br />
of the best in Europe thanks, in part, to<br />
its effi cient network and modern fl eet.<br />
The klm.com/csr website provides<br />
more detailed information on KLM’s<br />
corporate social responsibility and<br />
sustainable air transport activities.<br />
98 Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK<br />
Boeing 747-400<br />
22 920 11,500 64.44 35,000<br />
(Combi 16) (Combi)<br />
390,100 415 70.67 yes!<br />
(Combi 396,900) (Combi 275)<br />
Boeing 747-400ER Freighter<br />
4 920 11,500 64.44<br />
412,800 112,000 70.67<br />
Boeing 777-300ER<br />
5 900 12,000 64.80<br />
351,543 425 73.86 yes!<br />
Boeing 777-200ER<br />
15 900 11,800 60.90<br />
297,500 318 63.70 yes!
McDonnell Douglas MD-11<br />
Airbus A330-200/300<br />
Fleet data information valid at magazine publication date<br />
KLM PLANE FACTS<br />
10 880 11,000 51.96<br />
280,300 285 61.21 yes!<br />
11 880 8,800 60.30<br />
3 880 8,200 60.30<br />
230,000 243 58.37 yes!<br />
233,000 292 63.69 yes!<br />
Boeing 737-900 Boeing 737-800<br />
5 850 4,300 35.80<br />
76,900 189 42.12<br />
Boeing 737-700<br />
18 850 3,500 35.80<br />
64,000 129 33.62<br />
Fokker 70/100<br />
26 743 2,400 28.08<br />
4 740 2,400 28.08<br />
38,000 80 30.91<br />
44,400 100 35.53<br />
23 850 4,100 35.80<br />
73,700 171 39.47<br />
KEY<br />
NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT<br />
MAX. TAKE-OFF WEIGHT (KG)<br />
WINGSPAN (M)<br />
EMBRAER 190<br />
22 850 3,300 28.72<br />
45,600 100 36.25<br />
CRUISING SPEED (KM/H)<br />
MAXIMUM PASSENGERS<br />
SCALE: 1CM = APPR. 6.3M<br />
TELEPHONE ON BOARD<br />
RANGE (KM)<br />
TOTAL LENGTH (M)<br />
MAX. FREIGHT (KG)<br />
Holland Herald TRAVELLERS CHECK 99
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• Situated immediately outside the<br />
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• All major credit cards accepted.<br />
• The cars are also available<br />
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Website | www.connexxion.nl<br />
E-mail | schipholtaxi@connexxion.nl<br />
Telephone | +31 (0)88 339 47 66<br />
Schiphol Hotel Shuttle<br />
• Direct connection to 110 hotels in Amsterdam.<br />
• Situated immediately outside the Arrivals hall<br />
at platform A7.<br />
• Tickets are available at platform A7 or at the<br />
Connexxion Desk in Arrivals 4 opposite the<br />
Starbucks. Follow the signing ‘Amsterdam<br />
Shuttle Desk’.<br />
free<br />
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onboard<br />
Telephone | +31 (0) 88 339 47 41<br />
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E7<br />
Gates M M4 H5 Gates H<br />
M3 4 H4<br />
M2 H3<br />
M1 H2<br />
H1<br />
G11-16<br />
Lounge 6<br />
3<br />
G3<br />
4 T9<br />
G5<br />
1 3<br />
G2 G7<br />
2<br />
3<br />
G4 G9<br />
Lounge<br />
G6<br />
3<br />
G8<br />
F3<br />
F4<br />
F5<br />
Gates G<br />
3<br />
F7<br />
F6<br />
F9<br />
Gates F F8<br />
Gates C<br />
Gates C<br />
T Transfer desk<br />
T Transfer desk<br />
Self-service transfer<br />
Self-service transfer<br />
KLM Crown Lounge<br />
KLM Crown Lounge<br />
Paris / Charles De Gaulle Airport Terminal 2, France<br />
B34 B30 B26 B22 B18<br />
B36 B32 B28 B24 B20 B16 B14 to B1 - B8<br />
Gates B 4<br />
B35 B31 B27 B23 B17 B15 B13<br />
TERMINAL 2E<br />
C88-C89<br />
A48-A49<br />
A46-A47<br />
A44-A45<br />
C90-C91 A50-A51 A42-A43<br />
A40-A41<br />
D74<br />
D53-D54<br />
D76<br />
B33-34<br />
D55-D56 D72-D73 B21-B22 B31-B32<br />
D57-D58 D64-D65 B23-B24 B26-B27-B28B29-B30<br />
D60-D61<br />
D61-D62 D70-D71 B25<br />
C86-C87 C84-C85 TERMINAL 2C<br />
TERMINAL 2A<br />
C14<br />
C16<br />
C12<br />
C10<br />
C8 C6 C4<br />
C82-C83<br />
C80-C81<br />
C7 C5<br />
T<br />
T<br />
T<br />
E51<br />
-<br />
E76<br />
4 4 3<br />
5<br />
TERMINAL 2E<br />
D14 D12<br />
D4<br />
D16<br />
5<br />
1 1<br />
D68 D10 D8 D62 3<br />
GATES E51 TO E76 D18<br />
D66 D64<br />
D22<br />
D24<br />
D26 T<br />
D3<br />
D28<br />
D5 D59<br />
D7 D61<br />
5<br />
1 1<br />
D63 1<br />
5<br />
4<br />
4 4<br />
D31 D41<br />
3<br />
D71<br />
T<br />
D42 D43<br />
E2<br />
D44D72<br />
D73<br />
Thalys/RER/TGV<br />
T<br />
T<br />
D46D74<br />
F41-F43 D48D76<br />
F21-F25<br />
D52D78<br />
T<br />
E4 E3 Railway station<br />
D54D82<br />
F56 T F44-F45 F36 T F26<br />
D56D84<br />
D47<br />
D86<br />
D49 D77<br />
F54-F55 F46 F35 E6 E5<br />
D51 D79<br />
F27<br />
F2<br />
F1<br />
D53 D81<br />
TERMINAL 2G<br />
D55 D83<br />
F34<br />
F53<br />
F47 F28<br />
D57D85<br />
E8<br />
GATES G21 TO G40<br />
D87 F48 F33<br />
F52<br />
F29<br />
TERMINAL 2F<br />
TERMINAL 2D<br />
TERMINAL 2B<br />
F32<br />
F49<br />
F51<br />
Schengen F30<br />
F31<br />
F50<br />
D29D27D25D23D21<br />
M5 H6<br />
Gates M M4 H5 Gates H<br />
to C21 - C26<br />
4 M3 4 H4<br />
Gates C C15 - C18<br />
4<br />
M2 H3<br />
C13<br />
C9<br />
T3<br />
M1 H2<br />
C11<br />
T2<br />
Schiphol Plaza<br />
H1<br />
3<br />
G11-16<br />
8<br />
Lounge<br />
Lounge 6<br />
3<br />
G3<br />
1<br />
4 T9<br />
D2<br />
G5<br />
D60<br />
1<br />
12<br />
3<br />
G2 G7<br />
3 2<br />
3<br />
5<br />
T5 T4<br />
2<br />
G4 G9<br />
1<br />
3<br />
Lounge<br />
G6<br />
Lounge<br />
3<br />
F2<br />
2<br />
Holland Boulevard<br />
G8<br />
F3<br />
T6<br />
F4<br />
F5<br />
Gates D<br />
Gates G<br />
3<br />
F7<br />
5<br />
F6<br />
Schengen<br />
F9<br />
Gates B-C, D 59-87, M<br />
Gates F F8<br />
7<br />
E7<br />
E15 E9<br />
T Transfer desk<br />
E18 E17<br />
E20 E19<br />
Self-service transfer<br />
Gates E E22<br />
KLM Crown Lounge<br />
E24<br />
KEY<br />
Check-in<br />
Self-Service Check-in<br />
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Gates E<br />
Gates E<br />
E15 E9<br />
E18 E17<br />
E18 E17<br />
E20 E19<br />
E22 E20<br />
E24 E22<br />
E24<br />
E19<br />
KLM<br />
Crown<br />
KLM<br />
KLM<br />
Crown<br />
Lounge<br />
25<br />
Gates D<br />
Passport control /<br />
Security check<br />
A1 Gate Numbers<br />
Baggage Claim<br />
4 Walking distance from point to<br />
point (average time in minutes)<br />
25 Gates D<br />
Gates D<br />
Gates M<br />
Top Level<br />
Second Top Level floor<br />
Second floor<br />
M7<br />
M6 M7<br />
KLM and Alitalia flights arrive at and<br />
depart from Terminal 2F, Gates F21 to F36.<br />
Air France flights arrive at and depart from<br />
Terminals 2C, 2D, 2E and 2F.<br />
KLM Crown Lounge<br />
KLM Crown 52 Lounge<br />
52<br />
H7<br />
M5 M6 H6 H7<br />
Top Level<br />
Second floor<br />
M7<br />
M6<br />
H7<br />
Gates H<br />
KLM Crown Lounge<br />
52<br />
KLM flights arrive at and<br />
depart from gates B, C, D, E, F.<br />
Air France and Alitalia<br />
flights arrive at and depart<br />
from gates B and C.<br />
Korean Air flights arrive at<br />
and depart from gate G.<br />
Delta flights arrive at and<br />
depart from gate E.<br />
Czech Airlines flights arrive<br />
at and depart from gate D.<br />
Aeroflot flights arrive at and<br />
depart from gates B and G.<br />
KLM passengers travelling to<br />
Antwerp (Thalys) and<br />
Rotterdam (NS): Please<br />
collect your luggage in<br />
Amsterdam and exchange<br />
your KLM (e-)ticket for a<br />
Thalys or NS ticket at the<br />
Netherlands Railways<br />
(NS ) desk at Schiphol<br />
Plaza (just past immigration).<br />
Passengers with access<br />
to KLM’s Crown Lounges<br />
who are arriving on<br />
intercontinental flights and<br />
transferring to European<br />
(Schengen) flights are<br />
kindly advised to use Crown<br />
Lounge 25, located near the<br />
Schengen gates and behind<br />
passport control.<br />
Delta, AeroMexico, Korean Air and Aeroflot<br />
flights arrive at and depart from Terminal 2E.<br />
Czech Airlines flights arrive at and depart<br />
from Terminal 2D.<br />
Self-service transfer<br />
Landside connection shuttle<br />
to/from Terminal 2G<br />
T Transfer desk 1 Transfer by shuttle 1 outside Customs Area<br />
Air France Lounge<br />
Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area<br />
Transfer by train<br />
Transfer by shuttle bus inside Customs Area,<br />
only between 7:30am and 4:15pm
Hand baggage rules at EU airports<br />
To increase passenger safety, security rules for hand luggage are in place for all fl ights, in accordance with<br />
European Union regulations. When passing through security control, you will be required to present liquids, gels,<br />
pastes, lotions and aerosols separately, in individual containers of not more than 100ml, packaged in a resealable,<br />
transparent plastic bag (maximum volume 1 litre, 1 bag per person).<br />
Airport shopping<br />
in the EU<br />
Within the European Union, liquids<br />
and gels that you purchase after<br />
passing through passport control<br />
or on board the aircraft will be<br />
packaged and sealed for you,<br />
together with the receipt. The<br />
unbroken seal is valid for 24 hours.<br />
Airport shopping<br />
outside the EU<br />
If you buy liquids or gels at a<br />
non-EU airport and change planes at<br />
an EU airport, your purchases will be<br />
confi scated at the EU airport security<br />
check. This can also happen for<br />
purchases you make on board an<br />
aircraft operated by an airline from<br />
a non-EU country. For further<br />
information, visit klm.com.<br />
KLM AMSTERDAM MAP<br />
Animal products<br />
To prevent the spread of animal<br />
diseases, you are prohibited from<br />
entering the EU with meat, meat<br />
products, milk and milk products. Small<br />
quantities for personal use are<br />
permitted on arrival from Andorra, the<br />
Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland,<br />
Liechtenstein, Norway, San Marino and<br />
Switzerland. For further information,<br />
visit europa.eu.<br />
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KLM FIT FOR FLYING<br />
Our handy hints can help you to stay feeling great both during and after the<br />
fl ight. Exercises should be performed slowly with steady, even breathing<br />
10 TIMES 15 TIMES 30 TIMES 5 TIMES 10 TIMES 15 TIMES<br />
Feet<br />
With your heels on<br />
the fl oor, stretch your<br />
toes upwards. Then,<br />
keeping your toes on<br />
the fl oor, stretch your<br />
heel upwards.<br />
Relax whilst fl ying<br />
Statistics show that fl ying is much safer<br />
than many situations in our daily lives<br />
The crew in control of the plane are<br />
highly trained and experienced<br />
KLM aircraft are maintained and designed<br />
to withstand all sorts of turbulence<br />
Try to relax — breathe in deeply through<br />
your nose, hold for three seconds and<br />
exhale slowly<br />
KLM partner, VALK Foundation, can<br />
offer support to people with a fear<br />
of fl ying. Visit valk.org or<br />
call +31 71 5273733<br />
HOUSE RULES<br />
Rotate your foot fi rst<br />
in one direction and<br />
then the other.<br />
All electronic devices must<br />
be turned off completely whilst<br />
walking to/from the aircraft, and<br />
during take-off, approach<br />
and landing.<br />
The only electronic devices<br />
which may be used during<br />
the fl ight and ground<br />
stop are:<br />
• Mobile phones, PDAs or<br />
other devices with a ’fl ight’<br />
mode or ‘fl ight safe’ setting.<br />
This must be activated<br />
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Ankles Knees Shoulders Legs Back and arms<br />
Raise your leg,<br />
tensing the muscles<br />
of your thigh.<br />
During the fl ight<br />
With your hands<br />
on your thighs, rotate<br />
your shoulders in a<br />
circular motion.<br />
Ear pain? Pinch your nose shut,<br />
close your mouth and swallow or<br />
blow out against your closed mouth.<br />
Alternatively, chew gum<br />
Stimulate your circulation by<br />
walking around in the cabin<br />
and stretching<br />
Avoid sitting with your legs crossed<br />
as this restricts circulation<br />
Taking your shoes off might be<br />
more comfortable<br />
Drink plenty of water and not too<br />
much alcohol<br />
before the aircraft<br />
doors are closed.<br />
• Laptops, if the<br />
WLAN/WiFi is<br />
turned off.<br />
• Electronic games,<br />
MP3, DVD and<br />
CD players.<br />
Cabin crew can request all<br />
electronic devices to be switched<br />
off completely if circumstances<br />
so dictate.<br />
Bend forward slightly.<br />
Wrap your hands<br />
around your knee<br />
and raise it to your<br />
chest. Hold for 15<br />
seconds.<br />
Reducing jetlag<br />
Place both feet<br />
fl at on the ground<br />
and hold in your<br />
stomach. Bend<br />
forward, moving<br />
your hands down<br />
your legs.<br />
Start adjusting your body clock<br />
to the time zone of your<br />
destination the night before departure<br />
by going to bed earlier or later<br />
Don’t eat too heavily the night<br />
before you leave, or drink too<br />
much alcohol<br />
Eat protein-rich meals at times<br />
that are normal for your new<br />
time zone<br />
At your destination, take light<br />
exercise, such as a walk<br />
Spend at least 30 minutes in daylight<br />
Drinks are served one<br />
at a time to passengers<br />
occupying their assigned<br />
seats. For safety reasons,<br />
the purser may close the bar.<br />
Passengers are not permitted to<br />
drink alcoholic beverages brought<br />
on board with them or<br />
purchased on board.<br />
Smoking, including<br />
artifi cial cigarettes, such as<br />
‘SuperSmokers’, is strictly forbidden<br />
at all times on KLM fl ights.
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