British comedian Tony Hawks once hitchhiked around Ireland with a fridge to win a hundred-pound bet he had been lured into by his friends at the local pub. Hawks’s epic, 1,650-kilometre journey earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. His absurd journey was also the topic of a bestselling book and an… read more »
KLM and partners have been offering its passengers a finely woven, international network for 92 years. In 2011, we flew 35 million passengers to and from their destinations with our modern fleet. From the outset, KLM has always had an international orientation with the Netherlands as a small home base. KLM’s extensive network connects our… read more »
There are times I wish I had a regular job – leaving in the morning to return home at the end of the day and, most of all, being at a convenient distance from my loved ones. That’s what I wished last week, after I found out my dad had fallen ill. His condition was… read more »
I recently spent a couple of magical hours in New York. Being a seasoned traveller, I avoided the busier gateways – JFK, La Guardia, Grand Central Station, Ellis Island – opting instead to access The Big Apple via a place called Jisp, just north of Amsterdam, using the most comfortable mode of transport in the… read more »
Some time ago, I was wondering where to go in the summer. Exotic tropical resorts flitted through my imagination. Pearl-white beaches and brilliant sunshine seemed the ideal combination for a perfect holiday. Unfortunately, my bank account had a different opinion. As a student, you simply can’t afford to do as you like. So I decided… read more »
Obviously, a lot of famous people tend to travel by air, some of them more often than most of us. Consequently, every now and then, there’s a VIP on my flight. Unfortunately, I hardly ever recognise one. First of all I don’t watch TV and movies very often, so I don’t know most of the… read more »
Samoa skipped Friday 30 December 2011, going straight from Thursday the 29th to Saturday the 31st, thereby leaping across the dateline to become the first country to celebrate the start of 2012. A nice change for these Pacific islands, which had been last to ring in the new year since 1892, when an American trader… read more »
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