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Traveling Art exhibition at Schiphol Airport

09/08/10
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has a new Traveling Art exhibition space devoted to the work of Dutch artists and designers.  The work displayed will change every three months, but right now the exhibit cases include “Flexible Volume” bags designed Gonnie Janssen. For example, the Harmonica Bag has a flexible bottom that can be adjusted to its →

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 →

Schiphol getting world’s first airport library

05/22/10
(Strahov Monastery library, Prague. Photos courtesy Curious Expeditions , via Flickr) Over the years I’ve heard from one or two US airports that were toying with the idea of letting their local library have a cart somewhere in the terminal where travelers could check out and return library books. But so far, it seems nothing →

Souvenir Sunday: treats from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

05/16/10
Until my most recent visit, I’d spent much more time at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport than I had in the city itself. That was fine with me.  Schiphol, with its wide array of art, entertainment, services and amenities, is a great place to spend a few hours.  In addition to hundreds of lounge chairs, there’s a →

Landmarks, hotels & airports turning off lights for Earth Hour

03/26/10
(courtesy: Jorge Sierra / WWF-Spain) Attention travelers and aliens assigned to monitor our planet from outer space: you may notice major landmarks, tourist attractions, and large areas of many cities and towns around the world going dark for an hour on March 27. Do not be alarmed. It’s just Earth Hour, a rolling, global black-out →

Tidbits for travelers: art & massages at Schiphol, more music in Austin

03/18/10
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport has more than 100 shops, an equal number of cafes, pubs and restaurants, casinos, a Yotel, a great art collection and a branch of the Rijksmuseum that’s currently showing the Sunny Skies exhibition, featuring nine works by Dutch 17th century landscape artists inspired by the Italian landscape. Speaking of inspiration, Schiphol’s Cone →
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