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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 […]

Museum Monday: Elvis’s airplanes at Graceland

08/15/10

There are more than 700 aviation and space museums around the country. Each Monday we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. Today, to mark the anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on August 16th, 1977, we’ll make a stop at Graceland, where two of Elvis’s jets are on display. This Lockheed JetStar was […]

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, […]

National Parks: Offbeat, unusual – and free

08/14/10

Some people have enough money to go everywhere they want. The rest of us enter our names in sweepstakes and contests in hopes that one day we’ll be the lucky dog whose name is picked. In honor of National Park Service’s fee-free weekend – today and tomorrow, August 14 -15, 2010, here’s a contest you […]

Polar Bears and Musk Ox at Anchorage Airport

08/13/10

Ted Stevens, the former senator from Alaska who died in a plane crash earlier this week, had the pleasure of seeing a lot of things named for him while he was alive. The Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is one of them. The terminal offers free wireless Internet access and is home to the Alaska […]

Runways to fairways: where to play golf at the airport

08/12/10

The National Golf Foundation estimates that are more than 27 million golfers in the United States. A lot of those golfers are also frequent travelers. So having a golf course at or near an airport is a nice convenience. It also makes economic sense: airports are usually ringed by plenty of intentionally-open land and golf […]

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