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Stuck at the Airport is out and about in the English countryside for a few days with Gary Gatwick, the mascot for London’s Gatwick Airport. Arundel, in West Sussex, is an easy one-hour train ride from Gatwick Airport. The town looks like one of those storybook English towns we sometimes see on TV travel shows, […]

If you’re a serious traveler, you likely love maps. And if you love maps, you’ll love the maps in a new book from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England that celebrates the art of atlases with a look inside the museum’s collection of maps, globes, and map-related ephemera. A is for Atlas: Wonders of […]

We’re setting off for Iceland in a few weeks to join Viking for one of their Welcome Back cruises. So we have been poking around the company’s website. One impressive resource there for the general public is Viking.TV. It was created in response to the pandemic and this channel is chock full of videos about […]

Our first post sharing examples of how airports are embracing the “How it Started Twitter meme got so long that we’ve started a new post. Please let us know if you find new responses that should be added. We’ll add them as we find them.

Statues are toppling and being taken down around the country because the historical figures they portray had a role in the oppression of others. Included in this movement is the removal of the iconic Texas Ranger statue from the main lobby at Dallas Love Field Airport. The 12-foot-tall bronze statue has been on display at […]

It’s been a tough few weeks for a lot of us. And there are more tough weeks on the way. We’re being told to stay home, keep our distance from others and stay away from airports and airplanes. Yet, we’re being encouraged to stay busy. So today we’re sharing two great “be chill” photos we […]

Stuck at the Airport is out and about in the English countryside for a few days with Gary Gatwick, the mascot for London’s Gatwick Airport. Arundel, in West Sussex, is an easy one-hour train ride from Gatwick Airport. The town looks like one of those storybook English towns we sometimes see on TV travel shows, […]

If you’re a serious traveler, you likely love maps. And if you love maps, you’ll love the maps in a new book from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England that celebrates the art of atlases with a look inside the museum’s collection of maps, globes, and map-related ephemera. A is for Atlas: Wonders of […]

We’re setting off for Iceland in a few weeks to join Viking for one of their Welcome Back cruises. So we have been poking around the company’s website. One impressive resource there for the general public is Viking.TV. It was created in response to the pandemic and this channel is chock full of videos about […]

Our first post sharing examples of how airports are embracing the “How it Started Twitter meme got so long that we’ve started a new post. Please let us know if you find new responses that should be added. We’ll add them as we find them.

Statues are toppling and being taken down around the country because the historical figures they portray had a role in the oppression of others. Included in this movement is the removal of the iconic Texas Ranger statue from the main lobby at Dallas Love Field Airport. The 12-foot-tall bronze statue has been on display at […]

It’s been a tough few weeks for a lot of us. And there are more tough weeks on the way. We’re being told to stay home, keep our distance from others and stay away from airports and airplanes. Yet, we’re being encouraged to stay busy. So today we’re sharing two great “be chill” photos we […]

Miami Internation Airport is celebrating its 90th birthday with a new exhibit.

A new exhibit celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, titled Magna Carta to Minnesota: the Rule of Law, is on view between Gate C6 to 11 in Concourse C at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. “Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the charter is important because its central to how we live our lives,” […]

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