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Souvenir Sunday: Lovin’ the lobsters at Boston Logan International Airport

08/29/10
Each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com is Souvenir Sunday;  the day we give thanks for the fun, inexpensive souvenirs you can find when you’re stuck at the airport. This week’s treats come to us from Boston Logan International Airport’s Boston Tops shop, where the clerk on duty was kind enough (after a bit of cajoling..) to →

Snack Saturday: Ice-cream-making-machine at Boston Logan

08/27/10
Our occasional Snack Saturday feature highlights food treats you can find at airports. This week we take a look at a MooBella ice-cream-making machine at Boston Logan International Airport. One of two such machines at the airport (there’s one by the United Airlines gates in Terminal C), the make-your-own-ice-cream machine by the Air Tran gates →

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has world’s first airport library

08/26/10
Here’s a brilliant idea: Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has partnered with the Dutch Public Libraries to open the world’s first airport library.  The library is just past passport control, on Holland Boulevard, and offers passengers waiting for a flight a place to read books in 29 different languages, listen to music, watch films and download material →

Fresh – flying – art at Spokane International Airport

08/24/10
There’s a fresh piece of art at Spokane International Airport in eastern Washington. But you’ll have to look up to see it. Louise Kodis’ new textile sculpture “Conversations Between Clouds” in now installed in the rotunda of the airport. The sculpture is a flock of three dimensional floating shapes suspended under the ceiling and is →

Souvenir Sunday: Free rides on Singapore Airport’s Giant Slide

08/22/10
Each Sunday we take a look at some offbeat, inexpensive souvenirs you can find when you’re stuck at the airport. This week, the airport souvenir is an experience: A ride on Singapore’s Tallest Slide and the World’s Tallest Slide in an Airport. The Slide @T3 is actually two slides: one is a free-to-ride“preview” slide one →

More cute airport pet parks

08/21/10
Earlier this week I posted a picture of the cute sculpture in one of the pet relief areas at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) And the smart park at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) Both are pretty doggone cute. But the folks at Reno-Tahoe International Airport felt left out – so they sent me →

Souvenir Sunday: emergency underpants at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co.

08/15/10
What would the souvenir stand look like at the airport where flights took off for outer space? No doubt just like the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. in Seattle, where there’s an Atomic Teleporter on-site and shelves full of useful and just plain fun and bizarre things for that out-of-this-world trip. Unfortunately – or maybe, →
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