The atmosphere at airports has always thrilled me – all those people coming and going, for all sorts of reasons. I try to imagine what it was like in ancient times: the same hustle and bustle must have been noticeable then at places where horses and carts came and went, and at the harbours where… read more »
Nowadays, when a patient must undergo an extensive examination, it is less common to immediately cut open the body. Endoscopy is a technique that allows the specialist to look inside the body using a flexible snakelike instrument with a camera on the end. A similar technique is used to examine the inside of an aircraft… read more »
Over the centuries, the Czech nation has been overrun by Swedes, Turks, Hungarians, Tatars, Prussians, Austrians, Germans, Russians, and now the Dutch, myself included, seeking cheap winter sports resorts. The Czech response to these uninvited guests was perhaps best encapsulated by Reinhardt Heydrich, Reichs Protector of Bohemia in the Second World War. In his first report… read more »
It seems like yesterday, but it’s been a year now since KLM introduced a new uniform for their female staff. I’m pretty sure that I will be referring to it as our ‘new uniform’ until the next one comes along. Which might be for quite a while: the previous one lasted over 20 years! I… read more »
I was going to write about Sao Paulo, but big cities are like cool kids in the playground, making life hard for the underdogs, the modest kids who often go unnoticed. The Ecuadorian sisters Quito and Guayaquil, for example, whose names are usually uttered in a single breath by my wife, the professional traveller: “Ah… read more »
The only things I’ve ever collected in my life are marbles. There was a very practical reason for that: without them I couldn’t play marbles with my friends. And that would have made me an outsider – the greatest fear of almost every child. That’s where my short life as a collector ended. I don’t… read more »
As a member of the KLM family, you have– depending on availability of course – the opportunity to fly for cheap. It goes without saying that, after having flown across half the globe, lots of colleagues end up becoming a bit blasé about travelling, along the lines of ‘been there, done that’. Luckily, I still… read more »
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