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T he nicest time of the year – the summer holiday season – is upon us. Time for exploring, relaxing and
enjoying fine dining, to laze around on terraces, play sports or soak up some culture, and to enjoy
long days with one’s family. In short, it’s time to take a break from the daily grind.
According to the World Tourism Organisation, five per cent more Europeans went on holiday last year, and
a similar growth rate is expected this year. This is a clear indication that, after several lean years, the
economic climate is once again improving slightly. We saw the number of Brussels Airlines passengers rise
by as much as 10 per cent earlier this year. This summer, our destinations cater more than ever to
holidaymakers. Our new summer destinations of Seville, Sicily, Bari, Malta, Corsica, Krakow, Montpellier and
Athens were carefully selected for you, based on market research of holiday trends.
More than 3,000 motivated Brussels Airlines staff members will do everything they can to ensure your
holiday begins as soon as you arrive at the airport. We have also hired over 150 new employees in order to
handle the peak holiday season more efficiently. Service with a genuine smile, punctual and reliable flights,
legroom and comfort on board, quick check-in facilities online or at the airport, and true value-for-money
fares are just a few of the ingredients that we are using to give your holiday season the upgrade you more
than deserve.
Enjoy your Brussels Airlines flight today and I look forward to welcoming you back on board.
Bernard Gustin CEO
FR Cher passager La période la plus agréable de l’année – les vacances d’été – approche à grands pas. C’est le moment de voyager, de se détendre, de découvrir de nouvelles saveurs, de paresser en terrasse, de s’adonner au sport ou de se cultiver, de passer du temps en famille et de profiter de ces longues journées. En somme, c’est le moment de rompre le train-train quotidien.
Selon l’Organisation mondiale du tourisme, les Européens étaient 5 % plus nombreux à être partis en vacances l’année dernière, et on s’attend à une croissance similaire cette année. Après plusieurs années difficiles, donc, le climat économique s’améliore légèrement. Cette année, le nombre de passagers de Brussels Airlines a déjà augmenté de pas moins de 10 %. Les destinations proposées cet été intéresseront plus que jamais les vacanciers. Nos nouvelles destinations saisonnières – Séville, la Sicile, Bari, Malte, la Corse, Cracovie, Montpellier et Athènes – ont été sélectionnées avec soin sur la base d’une étude de marché portant sur les tendances pour les vacances.
Nos quelque 3000 collaborateurs plus motivés que jamais mettent tout en œuvre pour que vos vacances débutent dès votre arrivée à l’aéroport. Nous avons également engagé plus de 150 nouveaux collaborateurs pour faire face à cette période de grande affluence. Un service souriant, des vols ponctuels et fiables, des avions spacieux et confortables, un enregistrement rapide en ligne ou à l’aéroport et un excellent rapport qualité/prix ne sont que quelques-uns des avantages que nous vous proposons pour vous offrir les vacances que vous méritez.
Je vous souhaite un agréable vol avec Brussels Airlines et me réjouis de vous accueillir à nouveau à bord.
Bernard Gustin CEO
NL Geachte passagier De mooiste tijd van het jaar, de vakantietijd, is aangebroken. Tijd om te ontdekken, te relaxen of om culinair te genieten, tijd om langs terrasjes te slenteren, te sporten of cultuur op te snuiven, tijd om te genieten van de familie en de lange dagen. Kortom, even breken met het ritme van elke werkdag.
Volgens de World Tourism Organisation gingen er vorig jaar vijf procent méér Europeanen met vakantie. Ook dit jaar wordt een gelijkaardig groeiritme voorspeld. Een duidelijke indicatie dat het economische klimaat na enkele kille jaren opnieuw licht verbetert. Tijdens de eerste maanden van dit jaar zagen we het aantal passagiers dat voor Brussels Airlines koos zelfs toenemen met ongeveer 10 procent. We mikken met ons vluchtaanbod deze zomer meer dan ooit op de vakantieganger. Onze nieuwe zomerbestemmingen Sevilla, Sicilië, Bari, Malta, Corsica, Krakau, Montpellier en Athene hebben we zorgvuldig voor u geselecteerd op basis van marktonderzoek naar vakantietrends.
Onze meer dan 3.000 gemotiveerde collega’s doen alles wat ze kunnen om uw vakantie al te laten beginnen vanaf uw aankomst op de luchthaven. We hebben trouwens ruim 150 nieuwe werknemers aangeworven om de vakantiepiek nog vlotter op te vangen. Service met een echte glimlach, een stipt én betrouwbaar vluchtaanbod, beenruimte en comfort aan boord, vlotte check-in faciliteiten online of op de luchthaven en gunstige tarieven zijn maar enkele van de ingrediënten waarmee we uw vakantietijd net dat ietsje meer willen geven, zoals u het verdient.
Ik wens u vandaag een aangename vlucht met Brussels Airlines en hoop u weldra opnieuw aan boord te mogen verwelkomen.
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14 barrio: malaga
16 sleep 19 eat 21 design
22 style 24 eco
26 on the road: uganda
54 the business
98 extra time: SPORT
The minimalist breakfast room at Baudon-de-Mauny
SLEEP Hotel St Annen (Annenstrasse 5,
(0) 40 31 77 130, hotelstannen.de, rooms from
€88) is a 36-room hotel with a chic bar, quiet
garden terrace and original art by Felix Walner.
The modern, 219-room, four-star Lindner Hotel
Am Michael (Neanderstrasse 20, (0) 40 30 70
670, lindner.de, rooms from €99) has a wellness
area with a fitness room and sauna.EAT For a modern take on slow-cooked
regional cuisine, including Labskaus stew,
visit Restaurant Vlet (Grosser Grasbrook 9),
a stylish dining space with a vaulted ceiling
inside a former warehouse.CULTURE Hamburg Harley Days (4–6 July),
centred around the Grossmarkt, is a celebration
of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and biking. It
features a parade through the city’s streets and
stunt riding on Mönckebergstrasse.SHOP For edgy boutiques head to the city’s
Karoviertel district, where you’ll find stores
such as Herr von Eden (Markstrasse 33),
designer of fashionable menswear, and Shirtlab
(Marktstrasse 16) stocking designer T-shirts.
LATER Hamburg has a broad selection of
bars, including Klimperkiste (Esplanade 18),
a laid-back sort of place with booth seating
and live music.TIP Experience northern Germany’s biggest
festival by joining the crowds at the Heiligengeistfeld from 25 July – a funfair
featuring high-speed rides, carousels and snack
stands. Stuart Forster
SLEEP With its minimalist and at times bizarre
interiors, high ceilings and large windows
opening on to the cobbled streets of the old city,
it stands to reason that the eight-bedroom 18th
century boutique hotel Baudon-de-Mauny
(1 Rue de la Carbonnerie, (0)4 67 02 21 77,
baudondemauny.com, rooms from €177) should
be so popular with visitors. EAT Under new ownership, Le Montpel
(2 Rue Jules Latreilhe) is a cavernous stone
cellar known for its affordable tapas and cocktails. Perfect for escaping the summer heat.
CULTURE From renaissance to contemporary
art, the recently renovated Musée Fabra (39
Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle) has an impressive
collection that spans more than 500 years.
SHOP Those in search of the French boutique
experience should take a stroll down to Rue
Massene from Monday to Saturday. Come
Sunday morning, if shoppers still have the yen
for a bargain, they can always head down to the
flea market at Quartier Mosson.LATER As well as being a school for fledgling
jazz, soul and funk musicians, Jam (100 Rue
Ferdinand de Lesseps, lejam.com) is a popular
venue for concerts and impromptu jamthroughout the sumT
BUS A number of bus lines stop directly in front of the airport terminals. The journey to the city centre takes 43 minutes and costs €3. Night buses also serve the airport.TRAIN Local S-Bahn trains run to the city centre (Hauptbahnhof) every 10 minutes; the journey takes 25 minutes and costs €3. The train station is in front of the airport terminals.
TAXI A taxi to the centre will cost from €25 and takes about 25 minutes to reach the city centre on a good run. There are taxi ranks at the front of Terminals 1 and 2.TOURIST INFO hamburg-travel.com
BUS The Navette Aéroport Montpellier leaves for the city centre (Place de l’Europe) approximately every 50 minutes between 8.35am and 11.10pm, and the return journey runs from 5.30am to 8.30pm. The journey takes 15 minutes and costs €1.60. Children under six travel for free.TAXI A taxi to the city centre costs around €25.
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Christy Lee Rogers: ÉLAN The Outsiders, 8 Greek Street, Soho, London
until 19 July, theoutsiders.net, free
Tangled limbs, twisted fabric and passion gone
wrong: that’s the theme of photographer Christy
Lee Rogers’ first solo show – a wonderful mix of
fashion and art. Shot on location in Las Vegas,
Rogers dressed pole dancers, swimmers and actors
in circus costumes and torn silks, then plunged them,
gasping and flailing, under water.
“I was inspired by Paris, the performances of the
Moulin Rouge, the old circuses, wild abandonment
and that feeling of letting go that explodes out of you
like you’re drunk with love,” says Rogers. “I imagined
living in Paris during the 1920s as a performer, with
no possessions except for your talent and art, and
how free, yet desperate, that would be.”
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Roskilde FestivalFestivalpladsen, Darupvej 19 Denmark, until 6 July,
roskilde-festival.dk, eight-day pass from DKK1910/€255
The Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys, Stevie Wonder and
Outkast each bring their distinctive brands of music to
the Danish countryside for Roskilde. Set up in the 1970s,
it’s now one of the largest music festivals in Europe,
where everyone camps out under the stars for a good
cause: all profi ts go to charity.
Parlamentarium The European Parliament’s
Visitors’ Centre, Brussels,
europarl.europa.eu, free
There’s enough drama to fi ll an
Aaron Sorkin series in Brussels
this month. See where the EU’s
decision-making happens with
a guided tour, which includes
the Parliament’s plenary
chamber and a chat with an
MEP. Just been dumped? Head
to the Museum of Broken
Relationships in the visitors’
centre (till mid-October). Yes,
this is a slightly creepy exhibition,
where sadder people than you
send in weird mementos from
busted relationships. But an
afternoon staring at random
wigs, torn-up postcards and
wedding dresses could actually
be cathartic. Enjoy.
Malta Arts Festival 15 July-2 August,
maltaartsfestival.org
This dynamic and diverse arts
extravaganza is impressive
testament to this little island in
the Med’s historical reputation
for the convergence of cultures.
A host of artists from Malta and
overseas will be taking part in
an exciting programme offering
a range of free and ticketed
events and workshops. Visitors
can enjoy theatre, dance, music
and art, including a masterclass
on singing and meditation and a
demonstration of Indian dance.
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The Japanese and the Swiss are the best of chums,
if this exhibition is anything to go by. To celebrate
150 years of good diplomacy, Basel’s Toy Museum
has created a sparkling
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M y friends and I settle down at a restaurant table on the edge
of Saint Irene Square, where the sounds of a typical warm
Athenian Friday night fill the air. Dates canoodle on bar
stools, couples enjoy dinner by candlelight and lounge music provides
the soundtrack as families stroll down the pedestrianised streets. A flask
of clear tsiporo (Greek brandy) empties out into our glasses but instead
of saying the usual toast of geia mas, ‘to our health’, we wish each other
kalo kalokairi: ‘good summer’.
Verandas and outdoor spaces
are put to good use in Greece,
where a love of being outside is fed
by the love of summer. In fact, the
only other season worth greeting
someone over is winter. Greeks
tend to wish one another a ‘good
winter’ or kalo heimona around
October when the 35-to-40-degree days draw to an end.
There’s no need to mention autumn or spring. Winter, however short,
mild and Mediterranean, sums up the months that must pass to make it
to the warm days that bring us all outside again. Slowly but surely,
country and seaside cottages open up, ferries putter around the islands,
restaurants and cafés move their tables outdoors, and the sea sparkles
brighter than ever; a familiar time of change and rejuvenation.
Saint Irene Square is as fine an example as you could hope to find.
Until recently its buildings were boarded up and the Acropolis view
unnoticed as the city went through its first years of crisis. Words likes
‘troika’, ‘austerity’ and ‘bail-out’ littered conversations in cafés, leading to
discussions about unemployment, pay cuts and migration.
Around Athens, streets and squares became the scene of protest
as calls for change increased in volume. In time, fresh ideas,
entrepreneurship and a good old-fashioned leap of faith led to new
businesses opening up. The need for Athenians to do something more
than simply despair in the face of hardship resulted in inspiring pockets
of growth including Saint Irene Square, where new venues are now taking
their tables outside for the summer, attracting people with a yearning for
life to go back to the way it was pre-crisis.
As a neighbouring group happily clink their drinks to kalo kalokairi,
I realise the Greek saying also represents a feeling. It’s that first taste of
a sweet slice of a watermelon, or the shock of the cool, invigorating sea
against your skin on your first summer swim. It’s settling in at an ancient,
open-air theatre or cinema on a summer night. It’s sharing tsiporo with
friends in a pretty square. It’s the anticipation of good times.
In a time of crisis, those feelings are more important than ever, proof
that good weather brings good things to look forward to, no matter what.
Meanwhile, Athens is in transition. Change can happen but it takes time.
It can’t be any other way. Who doesn’t wish for a good summer? Perhaps
this tentative but growing sense of optimism will bloom in the sun.
Next month: Tel Aviv
The sun also risesMarissa Tejada celebrates summer in Athens and the growing optimism amongst her fellow Greeks as the economy starts to emerge from its crisis
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One of Malaga’s most celebrated
hang-outs is also its buzziest, with
walls covered in signed pictures of
celebrities and artists. Yet it’s not a
tourist spot, so pretty inexpensive.
Situated in a typical 18th-century
mansion, the cocktails and
seafood are extraordinary.
2 Museo Carmen ThyssenCalle Compañía 10, +34 902 303 131
An offshoot of the prestigious art
museum in Madrid, this gallery
displays the personal collection of
Carmen Cervera. Opened in 2011
in the 16th-century Palacio de
Villalón, it contains hundreds of
works, predominantly Andalusian.
3 El Tapeo de CervantesCalle de Carcer 8, +34 952 609 458
Named after the great Spanish
writer of Don Quixote, El Tapeo de
Cervantes serves the finest tapas
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Malaga
One of the world’s oldest cities, Malaga dates back to the time of
the Phoenicians 3,000 years ago. Surrounding the formidable
Moorish fort of Alcazaba and the Renaissance cathedral, the
winding lanes are as charming as any in southern Spain’s old towns.
Fittingly for the birthplace of Picasso, you’ll also find a number of art
stops including several new galleries. Meanwhile, Spain’s culinary
revolution means there’s plenty of superb seafood on the menu. So for
those looking to enjoy the city’s 300 days of sunshine a year somewhere
other than the beach, Malaga’s centro historico is a cultural delight.
There’s more to the Costa del Sol’s biggest city than the beach, finds Darren Loucaides
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in Malaga. Boasting only six
tables, it looks like any other
rustic establishment – but the
food is of the highest quality. Try
the cod-filled piquillo peppers and
fresh squid with sautéed spinach.
4 Viva La FeriaCalle Cisneros 4, +34 952 217 200
Flamenco is adored throughout
Spain, but particularly in the
southern Andalusian region
where it is intertwined with gitano
(gypsy) culture. Viva La Feria
(meaning ‘long live the party’)
is the place to go if you want
to take home a traditional
dress, or just admire the
beautiful outfits.
Try El Pimpi forseafood and cocktails
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in Malaga. Boasting only six
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food is of the highest quality. Try
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fresh squid with sautéed spinach.
4 Viva La FeriaCalle Cisneros 4, +34 952 217 200
Flamenco is adored throughout
Spain, but particularly in the
southern Andalusian region
where it is intertwined with gitano
(gypsy) culture. Viva La Feria
(meaning ‘long live the party’)
is the place to go if you want
to take home a traditional
dress, or just admire the
beautiful outfits.
Try El Pimpi forseafood and cocktails
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5 Mercado Central de AtarazanasCalle Atarazanas 19
This old food market was built
in the 19th century, but one thing
remains from the site’s previous
life as a shipyard: the 14th-century
Moorish gateway. Inside the
recently refurbished
Mercado you’ll find
cheeses,
Ibérico
ham,
freshly baked bread and just-
caught shellfish. It’s open 8am
to 2pm, Monday to Saturday.
6 Museo de PicassoCalle San Augustín 8, +34 902 443 377
Pablo Picasso famously never
returned to Malaga after
leaving in his youth.
However, it is fitting
that the artist’s
birthplace
should be
home to a
dedicated
museum.
Some 200 of his works can be
found in this museum in the grand
Palacio de Buenavista in the old
Jewish quarter, including oils,
sketches and sculpture.
7 Antigua Casa de Guardia Alameda Principal 18, +34 952 214 680
One of the oldest watering holes in
southern Spain, this 18th-century
tavern is like walking into the past.
Not only does it serve up a range
of regional and national wines, but
also its own produce, including
sweet Malaga wines such as the
famous Muscat, made from grapes
grown in the nearby mountains.
8 Museo de Artes y Costumbres PopularesPasillo de Santa Isabel 10, +34 952 217 137
Celebrating the common folk
as well as the bourgeoisie, the
museum documents Andalusia’s
rural and urban heritage. On
display are an ancient wine press
and period clothing, as well as a
recreated blacksmith’s workshop.
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A short stroll from the Cathedral and
Cappella Palatina, and equally bathed in
history, Palazzo Conte Federico is a truly
beguiling place. Stepping through its heavy doors,
guests are ushered into a world of lost grandeur
reminiscent of The Leopard, Giuseppe Lampedusa’s
memorable serenade to Sicilian aristocracy.
Above its double-arched Norman windows lies
the coat of arms of the imperial Hohenstaufen
family – a medieval German dynasty granted the
Kingdom of Sicily. The descendants of the original
owner still live in the Palazzo: Countess Alwine is a
champion swimmer, while a vintage red sports car
in the internal courtyard nods to the Count’s
passion for motor races like the Targa Florio.
Son Nicolò, meanwhile, is an impassioned
champion of the Palazzo’s history, whisking me
through an endless series of ornate interconnected
rooms from the Blue Salon to the Ballroom and
Armoury. During its days as a freemason’s house,
nationalist hero Garibaldi was once Grand Master
here, whilst a 12th century tower is one of the only
surviving parts of Palermo’s Punic-Roman city walls.
Passing sculptures and Baroque ceiling frescoes,
Nicolò ushers me into an eye-popping medieval
boudoir. The regal chamber can be rented out with
one of the palazzo’s wings, although most guests
are more than satisfied with an apartment off the
central courtyard.
The Marvuglia apartment comes replete with a
four-poster bed and kitchen thoughtfully stocked
with breakfast items. Rooms from €120.
Sleeping with the past
Palazzo Conte FedericoVia dei Biscottari 4, Palermo,+39 349 682 5754, contefederico.com
words Clodagh Kinsella
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Grand Hotel MussmannErnst-August-Platz 7, Hannover,+49 511 36560, grandhotel.de
words adrian mourby
Like most of Hannover, the Grand Hotel Mussmann was completely rebuilt at the end
of World War II. Conveniently opposite the train station it is clean and modern, and
guests are welcomed into a white marble lobby. But the 104 rooms and suites are
the real USP of this ever-so-slightly crazy hotel. Each is named after one of the ‘100
Heavens of Hannover’ and a photograph of a particular heaven (a lake/forest/park/
building, etc) sits next to your front door so as you head for your room you walk past
some of the tourist highlights of Hannover. And then when you get inside, the same
photo – blown up to massive proportions – hangs over your bed. It’s supposed to be
an idea inspired by the ceiling paintings in German castles, but it can prove a shock
in the night to wake up and find the Maschsee hovering overhead.
The rest of the room is very practical, opening up into a spacious wet-room
style bathroom and wardrobe area. And each bedroom has a comfortable leather
armchair, good free wi-fi and a big desk. This is a businessman’s hotel that has been
well thought out for maximum convenience, with just a little crazy on the ceiling,
which is never a bad thing. Rooms from €119.
In the heart of the Old Town, just a few
minutes’ walk from the Main Market
Square, the Orlowska Townhouse must
be Krakow’s most characterful place to
bed down. From the exquisite antique
furniture to the wooden staircase, every
aspect of the listed 17th-century building
whispers individuality, style and romance.
Each of the five guest apartments has
its own theme, and relates to the owner’s
family history: the Poet’s Apartment is
lined with aged paperbacks, beams and
Biedermeier furniture, while The Boudoir
Apartment offers rich drapes and a
wonderfully deep claw-footed bath. Two
apartments – The Boudoir and the early-
1930s Apartment above it – feature
balconies overlooking a magical courtyard. Impressively equipped kitchens in keeping
with the vintage décor ensure guests’ complete independence, but it would be a
shame not to amble down to the ground-floor art deco bar for an aperitif. Kitted out
with leather tub chairs, a Beckstein piano and drinks trolley, the deeply authentic
room transports you back to more graceful times.
The indulgence continues in the building’s vaulted medieval cellars, which are home
to Cyrano de Bergerac, one of the city’s best restaurants. With impeccable staff, and
delicately presented dishes – mostly French, but Polish delicacies like dumplings also
feature – it provides the perfect endnote to a memorable stay. Apartments from €90.
Orlowska Townhouse Sławkowska 26, Krakow,+48 12 429 54 45, orlowskatownhouse.com
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Heinz Reitbauer His radical confections may
have taken Vienna to the top
ten of the World’s Best
Restaurants chart, but Heinz Reitbauer,
chef-owner of Steirereck on the banks of the
River Wien, loves nothing more than
decamping from the city every weekend to
cook traditional dishes with a contemporary
twist at Pogusch Country Inn.
My city on a plate
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Heinz’s Vienna recommendations:
✒Breakfast Prückel (Stubenring 24) makes
great coffee and is a terrific place to start the day.
✒Market I like the Karmelitermarkt, a good
place to look at ingredients and get ideas.
✒Lunch Cafe Landtmann (Universitätsring 4)
serves traditional dishes like Tafelspitz (boiled beef).
✒Bakery Joseph (Landstrasser Hauptstrasse
4) is one of Vienna’s best artisan bakeries.
✒Dessert Xocolat (Freyung 2) is a terrific
chocolate shop. Their pralines are extraordinary.
✒Drinks Right in the centre of town, the Onyx
Bar at Do & Co (Stephansplatz 12) is a great
place to feel the city at night. It’s all about gin
and bitters right now. Anthea Gerrie
Craft-brewed beer, crisp whites
and full-bodied reds, yes – but
can great whisky really come
from a French island in the Med?
Apparently so, say Dominique
Sialelli and Jean-Claude Venturini
– the brains behind Domaine
Mavela, the first Corsican whisky
to be fully distilled and developed
on the island. Malts from Sialelli’s
Pietra beer company are aged in
Venturini’s 100-year-old oak
casks before being sweetened
with mountain spring water. The
result? A delicious fruity blend.
corsican-whisky.com
Poor bread. What did it ever do to
us? Somehow the spongy stuff’s
become the evil on our table, made
with bad things like wheat and
gluten. Nathan Myhrvold, author of
Modernist Cuisine, has come to its
rescue, penning a book about the
science of bread.
“There is a lot of tradition in
bread baking. When you start
asking questions about why we do
things certain ways, and learn
about each component in the
baking process, then you are able
to truly understand bread and
forge into new territory,” says Peter
Reinhart, a baker featured in the
book. modernistcuisine.com
Playful and colourful, these vintage serving spoons are perfect for picnics in the sun. Sourced from Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, they come in solid and slotted versions with red, blue and white-dipped stainless steel handles. €22, food52.com
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T2’s soaring SlipstreamBrussels Airlines passengers are in for an extra-special treat when they fly in and out of
London’s Heathrow Airport later this year, because the newly rebuilt Terminal 2 is a proper
work of art. Designed by Madrid-based architect Luis Vidal, the building features an
undulating steel-frame roof that floods the space with natural light. The centrepiece is a
soaring sculpture by British artist Richard Wilson, which pays homage to the world of
aviation. Measuring 78 metres from one end to the other, Slipstream is one of the longest
permanent public sculptures in Europe. Crafted from finished aluminium and weighing
77 tonnes, it traces the path of a stunt plane carving its way through the sky, and eloquently
captures the thrill of flight. T2, named the Queen’s Terminal, will handle 16 million passengers
by the end of this year, and is set to become the London base of Brussels Airlines from
15 October (until then the airline will continue to fly into Terminal 1). Now, Slipstream will
greet passengers as it arches across the Arrivals and Departures halls.
Poland is famed for embracing the
bright lights of neon in its 1950s
heyday, when artists explored the
tube-and-gas medium with
extraordinary gusto and vigour. For
more than 20 years, neon was widely
used to illuminate Polish shopfronts,
cinemas and theatres, in colourful
defiance of the prevailing grim Cold
War culture.
Gradually the lights went out,
though, and this iconic artform was
in danger of being lost until
enterprising photographer Ilona
Karwinska decided to preserve its
national history. Together with
partner Dave Hill, Ilona set about
chronicling Poland’s surviving neon,
and in 2005 they opened the Neon
Muzeum in Warsaw, which now holds
an extensive collection of signs
created by the best architects and
graphic designers of their day.
The Neon Muzeum, situated in the
Soho factory building in Warsaw’s
arty Praga district, is open from
Wednesday to Sunday. Special tours
can be arranged by appointment.
neonmuzeum.org
The mural of the storyArtist Jessica Darch is well known across Spain’s
Costa del Sol for her marvellous murals. With
work gracing many a poolside, rooftop terrace
and elegant interior, she can usually be found
halfway up some scaffolding, applying painterly
detail to her tailor-made designs.
Working closely with clients to explore and
reflect their personal styles, Darch creates flights
of fancy to fit their living spaces. Having trained as an architect in London helps. “I never fail to be thrilled by
the sheer scale of a blank wall,” she says. “It lends itself to infinite possibilities.”
Darch has created murals in the Bahamas, Germany, Italy and England as well as her native Spain. And
when she’s not painting walls, she can be found creating more portable pieces of art in her Estepona studio,
near Malaga, where she welcomes visitors by appointment. jessicadarch.com
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captured it perfectly with these Aqua Tort sunglasses. The retro-print grey, beige and black
frames contrast smartly with the pale blue legs, providing a playful opportunity to play
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Designed to boost the skin’s hydration,
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results in improved skin tone too.
Another impressive product from
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This is a seriously sexy summer
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packs down to the size of a
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International Tiger DayCelebrate this month’s
International Tiger Day on 29 July
while you still can. Habitat loss and
climate change are just two of the
factors that have led to an all-time
low in wild tiger numbers. In just
over a century, tiger populations
have dwindled from around
100,000 to 3,200, with some
species extinct. tigerday.org
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It’s still just a project-in-progress but that hasn’t stopped London’s proposed Garden Bridge
from garnering a level of public enthusiasm that looks set to eclipse the nursery rhymes,
urban myths and 1960s soundtracks inspired by the city’s other famous river crossings.
There hasn’t been this much bridge talk in London since the Millennium Bridge wobbled
on to the scene in the summer of 2000.
The idea for the proposed 367m planted pedestrian crossing designed by 2012 Olympic
cauldron creator Thomas Heatherwick has the support of the government, Transport for
London and numerous private donors. In March, Heatherwick announced that fundraising for
the bridge was within sight of its £150m (€188m) target, having hit £110m (€138m).
The bridge will link Temple with the South Bank,
providing Waterloo commuters with a verdant passage,
landscaped by renowned garden designer Dan Pearson, to
the City. It will give Londoners an innovative new green
space, while tourists will get a world-class green attraction.
Local support for the initiative is high: a recent survey
reveals that 88% of Londoners are in favour of the bridge,
with many enthusiasts likening the proposal to New York’s
successful disused-railroad-turned-linear-park, the High Line.
There’s still a long way to go, however, before Heatherwick’s vision can take its place in the
capital’s cityscape. The Garden Bridge Trust, a charity set up to promote and source funding
for the initiative, is seeking planning permission from both Westminster and Lambeth, along
with the rest of the funding required to ensure the project can open as planned in 2017 and
continue to be maintained for the future. gardenbridgetrust.org, heatherwick.com
Madrid’s smart metersDrivers of gas-guzzling vehicles
might think twice before heading
into central Madrid as of this
month. Smart parking meters in
the city centre will add a surcharge
to fees for cars with higher
emission levels by using a sliding
scale that gives users of electric
vehicles free parking. It’s hoped
the measures will improve the
city’s air quality. madrid.es
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The lions approach without a sound, edging stealthily towards me. The
first I know of their arrival is when I look up from my laptop to see seven
sets of amber eyes staring at me.
Perhaps the previous month spent camping in predator territory in the
heart of the Ugandan wilderness has desensitised me to the presence of
predators. Anyway, it would be melodramatic to panic now. If the lions
were hungry they would have swallowed me hours ago.
Some might say that it would be appropriate punishment for someone
who’d chosen to stare into a computer monitor
while Kidepo, one of the most stunning reserves in
all Africa, lay spread out across the savannah
before him. But as a volunteer for the MAPA
organisation (Mapping Africa’s Protected Areas)
I’m here with a mission to complete.
The MAPA project was started because very little
is actually known about Africa’s wildest areas. For
two years, teams of explorers in Land Rover
Defenders have been travelling up through Africa, charged collectively
with the ambitious task of mapping every single driveable road and dirt
track in every protected reserve on the continent.
With photographer Eric Nathan, it’s now my job to put Uganda’s
protected areas on the map. We land in Kigali, Rwanda and pick up the
Land Rover Defender, which is fully expedition-prepared. It has long-
range fuel tanks, buffalo-proof bull bars, a lion-proof roof tent and a
refrigerator stacked with steaks and slabs of local Bell beer. This is the
2000 model – a few years before it had a brand new 2.5-litre, five-
cylinder in-line turbo-diesel engine put in. Many safari aficionados count
the Defender as the best safari vehicle ever seen and the Landy’s Td5
engine can be counted on to power us over everything that the African
wilderness can throw at us.
Accustomed as I am to long-distance safaris, I’m well aware that Africa
has a habit of throwing the best-laid plans into turmoil. There is an edge
of uncertainty to this adventurous safari – a delightful tinge of
anticipation and trepidation absent from our workaday lives.
We drive from Kigali to the Ugandan border in a
single long day that effectively sets the pace for the
following weeks. We leave the vehicle parked at a
base camp while we map the walking trails through
the tangled gorilla country of Mgahinga National
Park and the appropriately named Bwindi
Impenetrable Forest.
Eric and I map countless uncharted trails, past
the predators of Ishasha Wilderness Camp and
through the immense herds of Queen Elizabeth National Park. The Land
Rover grips and growls its way through the bush, eating up the extreme
conditions with ease. Tanks of petrol are strapped to the back of the car,
rattling around as we dip and rise over the bumpy grounds.
Several nights in a row we hear lions and hyenas hunting around our
camp. We abandon the trusty Landy again to trek among chimpanzees in
the Kyambura Game Reserve. We map the remotest entry points to the
mysterious Mountains of the Moon and the parks along the hippo-
infested shores of Lake Albert. At Murchison Falls we find ourselves so
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deep in the wilderness that nightfall forces us
to set up camp amid the angry snorts of several
hundred restless buffalo.
We’ve mapped 14 national parks and driven
more than 5,000km (only about 250km of it on
tarmac) by the time we reach Kidepo Valley
National Park – the end point of our journey
and Uganda’s most remote reserve. The light is
fading fast as our Defender rumbles down
Morungole Ridge at Kidepo. It’s taken two days
of non-stop driving to get here from Murchison
Falls and we’re sweaty, hungry and exhausted.
The car is a different matter: although I’m at
the wheel, this mechanical beast is practically
driving itself, careening around corners and
raring to go, despite the fact we can barely
keep our eyes open.
With more accessible parks like Queen
Elizabeth and Murchison packed to capacity
with wildlife, few visitors ever make it this far.
Perhaps that’s why these lions are so intrigued
by me: a two-legged creature pecking away at a
laptop in the campsite on their territorial kopje.
As night falls we barbecue some sausages
on our campfire. While the big black-maned
male maintains his vigil on a high rock outcrop,
the seven lionesses amble closer and closer,
eventually flopping on to the grass for a snooze.
Later that night I zip myself into my tent to
the roars on the savannah. The plaintive bellow
of a buffalo fighting for its life in the African
night is a sound that stays with you long after
you have departed the continent for the
concrete jungle of home. mapaproject.org
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Fireworks, pulsating light shows, big-name DJs performing under
giant toadstools… This month the Belgian town of Boom goes down
the rabbit hole as larger-than-life dance music festival Tomorrowland
throws its mammoth 10th birthday bash. Clodagh Kinsella reports
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revellers – but by 2011, when it expanded
to three days, 180,000 visitors from
around the world were massing on Boom’s
scenic De Schorre recreation ground.
“Tomorrowland is a hugely big deal.
It manages to attract the crème de
la crème of mainstream EDM DJs and
also more underground names,” says
Marcus Barnes, author of Around the
World in 80 Raves.
Besides offering a killer line-up of EDM –
electronic dance music, the chart-topping
genre known for its insanely catchy vocals
and propulsive beats – Tomorrowland has
long hosted mega DJs from nearby Holland
like inaugural headliner Armin van Buuren,
and international superstars including
David Guetta and Moby. But impressive as
its roster always is, visually Tomorrowland
is in a league of its own: “The attention to
detail as far as production goes is truly
or two weekends this month, the aptly
named town of Boom will swell to 20
times its usual size, as it welcomes one of
the world’s most epic dance music events.
While 360,000 partygoers cheer the big-
name DJs rocking the main stage,
backdropped by gob-smackingly over-the-
top visuals, millions more will be browsing
the website, or watching the livestream at
home. For non-initiates, it’s hard to grasp
just how immense Tomorrowland is: last
year’s festival sold 180,000 tickets in one
second, and hosted visitors from more
countries than the 2012 Olympics.
The Belgian mega-festival began in
2005, when canny music-loving brothers
Manu and Michiel Beers got together
with Dutch entertainment company ID&T.
Their first one-day event attracted 10,000
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special,” says Barnes. “You can get lost
among those amazing fairytale stages.”
Each year the decorations for the main
stage – the largest and most extravagant
of its kind in the world – revolve around a
phantasmagorical theme. Past editions
have included Alice in Wonderland, with
giant toadstools, waterfalls and oak trees,
and the organic Arising of Life, with a huge
volcano. So much effort goes into creating
the décor that anyone caught tampering
with it is escorted off-site.
When all that gets too much, frazzled
attendees can relax by taking a paddleboat
on one of the site’s lakes, or heading to the
Chapelle Chartelle, equipped with a bed
and ‘nuns’ keeping watch outside. Brussels
Airlines will again be on site with the
spectacular Cloud Rider, a ferris wheel
offering breathtaking views over the
festival. Further luxuries include superior
chow from star Belgian chefs Wout Bru and
Bart De Pooter and an on-site bakery.
It’s touches like these that have helped
Tomorrowland hang on to its independent
spirit despite its soaring popularity. While
festivals like Coachella have devolved into
celebrity hangouts, Tomorrowland has
guarded its mystique – a fact recognised in
2012, when it won Best Music Event at the
International Dance Music Awards. That
same year Tomorrowland partnered with
Brussels Airlines to arrange exclusive travel
packages from more than 15 cities, while
a Tomorrowland After Movie capturing the
magic of the previous year’s event racked
up 110 million YouTube views – a staggering
reflection of the festival’s global appeal.
For its 10th birthday, Tomorrowland is
pulling out all the stops. Besides hosting
the second edition of its US sibling
TomorrowWorld – held in Chattahoochee
Hills, Atlanta, in September – it’s throwing
a one-off double edition at home on 18-20
and 25-27 July.
Tickets for both weekends, which
feature the same line-up, sold out in less
than an hour. Confirming Tomorrowland’s
status as the United Nations of festivals,
Armin van Buuren
The legendary
Dutch trance DJ –
a fi ve-time winner of
DJ Mag’s top 100
DJs poll – closed last
year’s festival hours
after his son was
born. He’s currently
touring to mark the
650th episode of his
radio show, which
attracts 20 million
listeners a week.
partygoers will be waving flags from more
than 220 different countries – thousands
having arrived on special Brussels Airlines
flights. MTV is producing two hour-long
specials (to be aired in August) and a
documentary about the festivities.
While the main stage itself will play host to
a bombastic who’s who of EDM –Afrojack,
Avicii, Skrillex and Tiësto – Tomorrowland’s
15-odd stages will also make room for
up-and-coming locals like Belgian drum
and bass DJ Netsky, who used to jump the
gate in his youth. “I’ve played the festival
several times and it’s always so much fun,”
he says. “The crowd cheers when they hear
their favourite tune but they’ll make the
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NL Let’s danceClodagh Kinsella viert de tiende editie van het reusachtige
Belgische dance festival Tomorrowland
Deze maand groeit het toepasselijk genaamde dorpje Boom twee weken lang aan tot liefst 20 keer zijn gewone inwonersaantal voor een van ‘s werelds meest epische dance events. Zo’n 360.000 feestgangers genieten er op de beats van de hipste DJ’s en indrukwekkende visuals, vele andere duizenden volgen het festival dan weer thuis via de website of via de livestream. Voor wie nog nooit naar het festival is geweest: het is moeilijk om te vatten hoe groot Tomorrowland wel is: vorig jaar vlogen de 180.000 festivalkaartjes in 1 seconde de deur uit en verwelkomde het meer nationaliteiten dan de Olympische Spelen van 2012.
De eerste editie van het Belgische megafestival vond plaats in 2005 toen sluwe muziekliefhebbers Manu en Michiel Beers de handen in elkaar sloegen met het Nederlandse entertainmentbedrijf ID&T. Het muziekgebeuren, dat toen slechts 1 dag duurde, trok zo’n 10.000 feestvierders. Tegen 2011 breidde het festival uit naar drie dagen en verwelkomde het liefst 180.000 bezoekers van overal ter wereld in De Schorre, het prachtige recreatiegebied van Boom.
Behalve een killer aanbod EDM, elektronische dance, een populair muziekgenre dat bekend staat om zijn catchy vocals en pompende beats, teerde Tomorroland lang op de sets van mega DJ’s uit buurland Nederland zoals headliner Armin Van Buuren, die het festival jaarlijks inluidt, en internationale supersterren zoals David Guetta en Moby. Festivals zoals Coachella zijn geëvolueerd naar ontmoetingsplekjes voor celebrities. Tomorrowland is er echter in geslaagd om zijn mystieke sfeertje te behouden, iets dat in 2012 werd beloond met de Best Music Event Award tijdens de Internationale Dance Music Awards.
De feestgangers uit meer dan 220 landen, waarvan duizenden een speciaal ingezette Brussels Airlines vlucht namen, bevestigen de status van Tomorrowland als de United Nations der festivals. MTV plant twee uur lange specials (die in augustus op het scherm zouden komen) en een documentaire over het fl amboyante festival.
Het hoofdpodium verwelkomt dit jaar toppers uit de EDM-wereld zoals Afrojack, Avicii, Skrillex en Tiësto. De andere 15 festivalpodia bieden een platform voor opkomende plaatselijke artiesten zoals de Belgische drum and bass artiest DJ Netsky, een veelbelovend jong talent. “Ik heb al een aantal keren op dit festival gespeeld en ik heb het altijd weer bijzonder naar mijn zin.” “De festivalgangers worden helemaal wild als ze hun favoriete nummer horen, maar ze zijn al even enthousiast als ze opeens een crazy visueel effect zien. Het is echt een totaalervaring.” tomorrowland.com
FR Tous dans la dance Clodagh Kinsella célèbre les 10 ans de Tomorrowland, l’événement
musical phare électro-dance en Belgique
Durant deux week-ends de ce mois estival, la ville de Boom, qui porte bien son nom, augmentera de 20 fois sa taille pour accueillir l’un des plus extraordinaires festivals de musique électronique du monde. Alors que 360.000 clubbers entreront en communion avec les plus grands DJ de la planète et des effets visuels délirants, des millions d’autres surferont sur le site web ou regarderont le streaming live de chez eux. Pour les non-initiés, il est diffi cile d’imaginer le gigantisme de Tomorrowland : l’année dernière, le festival a vendu 180.000 tickets en une seconde à des visiteurs venus d’un peu partout (on recense plus de destinations qu’aux Jeux Olympiques de 2012).
C’est en 2005 que ce méga-festival émerge en Belgique, sur une idée de deux frères organisateurs d’événements musicaux, Manu et Michiel Beers, en collaboration avec la société néerlandaise ID&T. La première édition d’une journée attire 10.000 festivaliers. En 2011, le festival se déroule pour la première fois durant trois jours et 180.000 visiteurs du monde entier convergent en masse au domaine récréatif De Schorre, à Boom.
Vitrine hallucinante du mouvement EDM – electronic dance music – un genre qui culmine dans les charts réputé pour ses paroles accrocheuses et ses rythmes puissants – Tomorrowland capitalise depuis longtemps sur les tops DJ de la galaxie. Il y a ceux originaires de Hollande, comme la tête d’affi che Armin van Buuren, et les superstars internationales telles que David Guetta ou Moby. Et tandis que des festivals comme Coachella sont devenus le rendez-vous des célébrités, Tomorrowland a su garder son côté mystique – une dimension reconnue en 2012, lorsqu’il fut couronné Meilleur événement musical aux International Dance Music Awards.
Confi rmant ce statut de « Nations Unies des festivals », les visiteurs de Tomorrowland y agiteront des drapeaux de plus de 220 pays – et des milliers d’entre eux arriveront via des vols spéciaux affrétés par Brussels Airlines. MTV produira également une émission spéciale de deux heures (diffusée en août) et un documentaire sur ces festivités intergalactiques.
La Main Stage de Tomorrowland sera occupée par le gratin du who’s who de l’EDM – Afrojack, Avicii, Skrillex et Tiesto. Les 15 scènes feront aussi de la place aux jeunes artistes locaux, avec notamment le drum & bass belge DJ Netsky, un performeur prodige et précoce. « J’ai joué à plusieurs reprises dans le festival et j’ai beaucoup de plaisir à y participer, » dit-il. « Le public s’enthousiasme lorsqu’il entend ses chansons préférées, mais il fait autant de bruit lorsqu’il assiste à des projections fabuleuses et démesurées… C’est réellement une expérience totale. » tomorrowland.com
same amount of noise when there’s
some crazy visual effect. It really is a
complete experience.”
This year’s event will showcase
Tomorrowland’s truly global
ambitions: besides the premiere of a
high-energy classical hymn created
especially by Oscar-winning German
film composer Hans Zimmer, visitors
can also admire a permanent crowd-
sourced public artwork by Belgian
artist Arne Quinze. His bridge
installation will feature 210,000
positive messages from Tomorrowland
fans across the world: a record-
breaking feat as well as an apt
reflection of the festival’s colossal
cultural currency. tomorrowland.com
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Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Known for their big room tracks and electrifying
MCing, the in-demand Belgian brothers recently scored a top Vegas residency. As
Tomorrowland ambassadors, they have hosted their own tent and penned several
chart-topping festival anthems.
Krewella The vocal-based EDM trio,
comprising sisters Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf
and producer Kris ‘Rain Man’ Trindl, have
gone from Chicago underground act to Sony
superstars – with a No.1 album (Get Wet) on
the Electronic Album chart and 2.5 million
followers on SoundCloud.
Sven Väth The techno pioneer
has lived many
lives, from pop
sensation in his
twenties to
legendary
underground DJ in
Germany and Ibiza.
Known as Papa
Sven to his fans, he
runs his own music
company Cocoon,
and famously only
DJs with vinyl – for
up to 30 hours.
Afrojack The Grammy Award-winning Dutch EDM DJ (real name Nick van de Wall) exploded with
2011’s Take Over Control, and has worked with Beyoncé and Madonna, and showcased his DJ skills at
US megaclubs for $150,000 (€110,000) a pop. His debut album Forget The World dropped in May.
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If you yearn for a close encounter with the wonders of the deep, an extraordinary new underwater park off the south coast of Portugal provides it in spectacular style, inds David Keys
U n d e r w o r l d
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t could be a scene from Finding Nemo: two-metre-
long conger eels, deep red sea scorpions, electric
rays, super-sized squid, octopuses, rainbow-striped
wrasse fish and a plethora of brightly coloured sea
anemones in red, yellow, pink and purple give this
magical underworld kingdom just off the Algarve a distinctly
Technicolor feel. Welcome to Ocean Revival, a remarkable new
sub-aqua wonderworld where hundreds of species of sea life have
made their home.
Here scuba divers have the chance not just to mingle with
a fascinating array of undersea creatures but to explore an underwater
graveyard of historic sunken warships. The largest venture of its kind
in the world, Ocean Revival acquired and sank four decommissioned
Portuguese Navy ships with the intention that the vessels would act
as a magnet for the marine fauna of the Atlantic.
The plan has worked perfectly, and the wrecks have now been
colonised by dozens of species of fish and hundreds of different types
of invertebrate marine animals. The facility – covering a square
kilometre, three kilometres off the Algarve coast – offers scuba divers
easy access to these fascinating wrecks. The seabed is just 30m down,
leaving the vessels’ bridges six to 17m below the ocean surface.
Because there is still abundant natural light at this depth, it is those
upper parts of the ships which attract the richest sea life. Perhaps the
most surprising aspect is the huge variety of colour. Some 30 to 40
species of ultra-colourful orange, yellow, red, blue and pink sea slugs,
multi-coloured trigger fish, red, orange and green blennies, neon-hued
This page: the submerged wheelhouse of the Oliveira e Carmo; Opposite:
undersea fauna are fl ourishing in the park, including sea slugs and anemones
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shrimps and yellow-spotted orange groupers provide magnificent
company for divers in these clear waters.
It’s also possible to watch some wildlife in action – hungry
octopuses closing in on a hapless crab, or shrimps cleaning the mouth
of a conger eel, or even two silver sea bass getting cosy. For the very
patient, the shrimps will think that your fingers are some sort of weird
fish – and will try to clean them. Other park residents worth seeing are
the lobsters, moray eels, sea horses, sea bream, sea cucumbers, sea
urchins, crabs and spectacular damselfish and sea perch that dance
like ballerinas.
Although the four ships were only sunk between late 2012 and
September 2013, they have already been colonised by large numbers
of marine fauna and huge quantities of ocean flora. A cheap and
easily accessible place to experience sea life and just 50km from
Faro, the park welcomed 3,000 scuba divers in 2013 in its first year
of operation, and double that number are likely to visit this year –
mostly from Spain, Portugal and Great Britain, but also increasingly
from Germany, Scandinavia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium,
France, Russia and Poland.
Quite apart from the marine life, the sunken ships are themselves
impressive and historically important. Scuba divers can swim around
the exteriors of the vessels and also explore their interiors, including
control rooms complete with radar screens, engine rooms, kitchens,
mess rooms and even the captains’ quarters. For safe exploration,
additional entrance and exit points have been created.
The oldest of the vessels is the Hermenegildo Capelo, built in the
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1950s for the French Navy but sold to the Portuguese in the 1960s. In
its day it was one of the Portuguese Navy’s most important military
assets, and carried out missions around Africa. The ship is said to have
crossed the equator at least 60 times.
Also involved in support work associated with Portugal’s business in
Africa, the Oliveira e Carmo is the second-largest sunken vessel in the
park. It was built in the early 1970s and was later used as an escort
vessel in NATO operations.
The third-largest wreck, the oceanographic survey vessel Almeida
de Carvalho was acquired from the US Navy by the Portuguese in 1972
and used for hydrographic survey work in remote parts of the world.
With a specially designed ultra-robust hull, it operated in the iceberg-
infested waters of the Arctic and Antarctic. The smallest wreck is that
of a Portuguese Navy patrol vessel the Zambeze, which was built in
1973 and operated in the Atlantic. While the ships, at the end of their
working lives, were donated by the Portuguese Navy, the park has cost
€2m to establish. The expensive part of the operation was to clean the
vessels and make them environmentally safe.
Hundreds of kilometres of electrical cabling had to be removed,
as did tonnes of asbestos. Fittings made of potentially harmful
materials like zinc and copper also had to be located and systematically
removed. Layers of grease had to be scrubbed off all the mechanical
equipment on board, and all remaining traces of oil had to be expunged.
All but one of the vessels’ nine giant guns were detached and disposed
Clockwise from above: the Almeida de Carvalho and Hermenegildo Capelo meet their explosive fate; sealife among the wrecks; a diver explores the Oliveira e Carmo
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NL OnderwaterwereldDavid Keys ontdekt de fantastische onderwaterwereld nabij Faro
en maakt kennis met de wonderen der oceaan
Welkom bij Ocean Revival waar twee meter lange zeepalingen, dieprode zeeschorpioenen, sidderroggen, gigantische inktvissen, octopussen, lipvissen met regenboogstrepen en tal van kleurrijke, rode, gele, roze en paarse zee-anemonen in dit magische onderwaterrijk vlakbij de Algarve voor dat extra beetje technicolor zorgen.
Duikers kunnen hier niet alleen zwemmen tussen de brede waaier aan onderwaterwezens; ze kunnen er ook talrijke gezonken oorlogsschepen verkennen. Nergens ter wereld vindt u meer schepen dan in Ocean Revival, dat vier gezonken Europese oorlogsschepen op de kop kon tikken die als magneet zouden dienen voor de marine fauna van de Atlantische Oceaan.
Het opzet werd een groot succes en vandaag vormen de scheepswrakken de thuisbasis van tientallen vissoorten en honderden verschillende types ongewervelde zeedieren.
De faciliteit, die een vierkante meter beslaat drie kilometer voor de kust van de Algarve, biedt duikers een gemakkelijke toegang tot deze fascinerende wrakken. De zeebodem bevindt zich slechts op 30m diepte, de scheepsdekken op zo’n 6 tot 17m onder de oceaanoppervlakte. Op deze diepte is er veel natuurlijk licht, waardoor het vooral de bovenste gedeeltes van deze schepen zijn die het meeste zeeleven aantrekken.
Behalve het vele mariene leven, zijn de schepen op zich – ze zonken stuk voor stuk tussen eind 2012 en september 2013 – indrukwekkend en historisch belangrijk. Duikers kunnen in en rond de wrakken zwemmen en zo de controlekamers met radarschermen, de machinekamers, de keukens, de hutten van de bemanningsleden en zelfs die van de kapiteins bewonderen. Om alles in alle veiligheid te laten verlopen, werden extra ingangs- en exitaanduidingen toegevoegd.
De schepen werden aan het einde van hun dienstjaren gedoneerd door de Portugese zeemacht. Het park zelf kostte €2 miljoen euro. Het duurste van het project was echter het reinigen van de schepen en het milieuvriendelijk maken ervan. Ocean Revival is ’s werelds nieuwste en grootste in zijn soort en wordt verwacht om ten minste (maar waarschijnlijk veel langer) een eeuw mee te gaan.
Duikexcursies €75, inclusief transport, uitrusting, een gids en twee aparte duiksessies. oceanrevival.org
FR Monde des profondeurs David Keys découvre un fantastique monde sous-marin près de
Faro, pour s’approcher au plus près des merveilles des profondeurs
Bienvenue chez Ocean Revival, peuplé de congres de deux mètres de long, de scorpions rouges des profondeurs, de raies électriques, de calamars géants, de pieuvres, de labres aux rayures arc-en-ciel ainsi que d’une pléthore d’anémones de mer de couleurs vives – rouge, jaune, rose et violet… Bienvenue dans un royaume sous-marin en « Technicolor » au large des côtes de l’Algarve.
Ici, les plongeurs ont la chance non seulement de se mêler à une population magique de créatures du fonds des mers mais également d’explorer des épaves de vaisseaux de guerre. Plus grand projet de ce genre au monde, Ocean Revival a acquis quatre anciens navires de la Marine portugaise et les a coulés afi n qu’ils deviennent des pôles d’attraction pour la faune marine de cette région de l’Atlantique.
Et le plan a fonctionné à merveille : ces épaves ont déjà été colonisées par des dizaines d’espèces de poissons et des centaines d’animaux marins invertébrés.
Le parc aquatique, couvrant une zone d’un kilomètre carré, à trois kilomètres de la côte d’Algarve, offre aux plongeurs un accès facile à ces épaves fascinantes : le fond marin est à seulement 30 m et les ponts des navires se situent tous entre 6 et 17 m sous la surface de l’océan. Vu la grande quantité de lumière naturelle à cette profondeur, ce sont les parties supérieures des bateaux qui attirent la vie marine la plus riche.
Mis à part la faune aquatique, les navires – tous coulés entre fi n 2012 et septembre 2013 – sont des bâtiments historiques impressionnants. Les plongeurs peuvent aller en exploration à l’intérieur des épaves et découvrir leurs salles de contrôle équipées d’écrans radars, leurs salles des machines, leurs cuisines, leurs salles à manger et même les cabines des capitaines. Des points d’entrée et de sortie supplémentaires ont été créés afi n de permettre une exploration en toute sécurité.
Arrivés en fi n de vie, ces navires furent donnés à l’organisation par la Marine portugaise, mais la création du parc a toutefois coûté 2 millions €. Le nettoyage des navires et leur décontamination pour la protection de l’environnement ont représenté un des investissements les plus importants. Ocean Revival, qui est le plus grand parc aquatique de ce genre au monde, prévoit de survivre au moins un siècle, et sans doute plus longtemps encore.
Circuits de plongée à 75 € comprenant le transport, tous les équipements, un guide et deux descentes en plongée. oceanrevival.org
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of. Finally, after two years’ worth of scrubbing, scraping and cleaning, the
vessels were be towed into position, ready for scuttling. Ultra-high
temperature explosive charges were used to blow holes in the hulls of the
four vessels to allow them to sink rapidly in an upright position to the
bottom of the Atlantic. Each sank in less than two minutes in a half-
kilometre line, like a phantom convoy of warships.
Ocean Revival is the newest and largest underwater park in the world
and is expected to survive for at least a century. A whole mini-fleet of
historic ships has been saved from the breaker’s yard and given a new
lease of life. No wonder it is a magnet for the world’s 10 million scuba divers.
Scuba diving trips are €75 including transport, all equipment, a guide and
two separate dives. oceanrevival.org
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Malta is like a bible of time. The ‘mainland’ of the three Maltese
Islands is where I was born and where I chose to make my home in a life spent
travelling around the world giving lectures and seminars. I have travelled so much
over the years; some years so many miles, I could have gone to the moon and
back. It is my privilege to call this little island – which does not exist on some maps
of the world or for TV stations that show the weather in Europe – my home, a place
I have an attachment to.
The modern name of Malta derives from ‘Malitah’, an Arabic corruption of
the classic Graeco-Roman ‘Melita’. Malta, with a population of more than 430,000
over only 132 km2 is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. So
what is it about this small, heavily populated island that draws me and thousands
of others not only to visit, but to stay?
On Malta there is a higher concentration of history than anywhere else in the
world, and this is probably its oldest civilisation. Interestingly, the island’s history
can be traced back to between 4,000 and 2,000 years BC. Because of its excellent
climate, the forces of erosion have not played havoc with ancient monuments
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in Malta as they have in so many other
ancient sites around the world.
Until recently, the pyramids in Egypt
were thought to be the oldest monuments
in existence. Archeological research
carried out over the past few years has
shown that the earliest neolithic temples
on Malta are 1,000 years older than the
pyramids. The oldest free-standing building
in the world is the Stone Age temple called
Gigantija on Gozo, Malta’s sister island.
Built in 3,600 BC, it is evidence that
a civilisation existed – and yet Gozo is
even smaller than Malta.
There are many places around the world
which offer sun and sand, but Malta is
different. The landscape is definitively
dramatic and the coastline echoes the
island’s colourful and violent history,
although the tranquility of the beaches
today belies their violent past.
The variety of food in Malta is wonderful
and, just like the language, it is a mixture
of influences: Italian, French, British and
Arabic collide in a cacophony of herbs and
spices. Still, it is the potency of Maltese
history I find most fascinating.
The island history speaks volumes.
There are more Stone Age works here
than anywhere in the world. We have
always been a source of fascination
to other cultures over the centuries.
Phoenicians and Romans made Malta
their home at the end of the Punic wars:
the Roman remains in the Roman Domus
in Rabat are quite marvellous.
The Arabs followed the Romans, after
which there was a Norman conquest from
Sicily. For a while the Normans, Angevins
and Aragonese were in control of the island
and there are some buildings said to be
Norman in the walled city of Mdina, the old
capital city of Malta and one of Europe’s
finest examples of an ancient walled city.
I have a special fondness for Mdina, ‘The RA
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Silent City’, home then and now to Malta’s noble families. Its history stretches back more
than 4,000 years. Known for its timeless atmosphere, its enchanting walls almost whisper
to each visitor and passer-by to be silent for a moment and listen. Legend has it that it was
here, in around 60 CE (Common Era) that the apostle St Paul lived after his historical
shipwreck on the island. Mdina was said to have been built by the Arabs and is a tiny city
with a cathedral and fewer than three hundred inhabitants completely enclosed by
bastions, most likely built by the Knights of Malta. Impressive palaces line the narrow
shady streets.
This rich history is the reason I chose my main home in Malta to be in the town of
Rabat, just outside Mdina. Rabat means ‘suburb’ in Semitic, as indeed it was once
a suburb of Mdina. Outside on my terrace I can glimpse the magic of the Mdina bastions
and the cathedral, and this beautiful view helps me to think and write.
Malta has a history of bringing nations together. It is a place where East and West meet
and merge culturally, linguistically, geographically and politically. Perhaps it all began with
the Knights of Malta, probably the only truly international organisation in history. The
Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem were formed by members of noble families
throughout Europe and Russia. They started out in the Holy Lands running hospitals to
care for pilgrims, but were forced out of Jerusalem by the Ottomans into Rhodes. In time
the Ottomans drove them out of Rhodes too, and eventually the king of Spain gave them
Malta in return for one falcon a year (the famous ‘Maltese Falcon’).
I have many memories of my island. During World War II, I remember my father digging
an air-raid shelter in my grandmother’s garden in Rabat – he wanted us to be safe from
the bombings around the harbour areas. During the excavation we came across the tomb
of a noble Phoenician lady. The contents were placed in a museum and her tomb became
our air-raid shelter. There were as many as ten air raids every night. More bombs were
dropped on Malta in one month than during the entire Battle of Britain. The Axis Powers
wanted Malta because it stood between them and complete control of the Mediterranean.
But this stoic little island endured.
I attended school at St Edward’s College, which during the war was moved to what is
now the Cathedral Museum in Mdina. We moved around a lot because of my father’s work
– he was a professor of medicine – living in Attard, Rabat, Ta’ Xbiex, Sliema and St
Julian’s. At the age of 21 I moved to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
But I always came back, and now I divide my
time between Rabat and London. In April I set up
my newest initiative in Malta. The Palace of Thinking
is to be based at the Corinthia Palace Hotel in
Attard, which was for a time my family home when
I was seven.
The idea of this initiative is to be a source of new
ideas relating to world issues and problems. Human
thinking even at the most senior level has not moved
much beyond caveman thinking. This usually means
recognising a standard situation and then providing
the standard response, like a doctor in a clinic
diagnosing the standard disease and providing the
“The Axis Powers wanted Malta because it stood between themand control ofthe Mediterranean.But this stoic little island endured”
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FR Notes d’une petite île L’écrivain et penseur originaire de Malte, Edward de Bono,
nous explique son projet de pensée créative qu’il a lancé sur l’île, appelé à répondre aux enjeux d’un monde global
Je suis né sur « la plus continentale » des trois îles maltaises, c’est là aussi que j’ai posé mes valises au gré d’une vie passée en voyages autour du monde, donnant des conférences et des séminaires. Tout comme la langue, la cuisine maltaise est traversée par de nombreuses infl uences – un mélange d’italien, français, britannique et arabe, sur un lit d’herbes et d’épices. L’histoire de l’île remonte entre 4.000 et 2.000 ans av. J-C, ce qui en fait une des plus anciennes civilisations. Et grâce à son excellent climat, ses monuments anciens n’ont pas subi les dommages de l’érosion comme c’est le cas dans bon nombre de sites antiques autour du monde.
La recherche archéologique a montré que les premiers temples néolithiques de Malte furent construits mille ans avant les pyramides. À Gozo, une des îles de l’archipel, se trouve un des plus anciens bâtiments du monde, un temple de l’âge de pierre appelé Gigantija. Érigé en 3.600 av. J-C, il atteste de la présence d’une civilisation à Gozo, alors une île plus petite que Malte.
De nombreuses destinations dans le monde offrent le soleil et la plage – mais Malte est différente. Elle se démarque par un paysage vraiment spectaculaire et un littoral tourmenté par les confl its. Mais aujourd’hui le contraste est saisissant. En témoignent les plages tranquilles...
J’étais un jeune garçon durant la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale, et je me souviens avec précision des raids nocturnes aériens. On recensait pas moins de dix attaques chaque nuit ! L’Allemagne et l’Italie convoitaient Malte vu sa position et le contrôle qu’elle pouvait leur apporter sur la Méditerranée.
À l’heure actuelle, je partage mon temps entre Rabat et Londres. En avril, j’ai monté mon dernier projet à Malte, le Palace of Thinking. Une plateforme globale de réfl exion exempte de toute appartenance politique ou religieuse, et non guidée par des intérêts particuliers. Son objectif est de trouver de nouveaux modes de pensées et des solutions innovantes aux défi s de notre époque. Pour toutes ces raisons, ce projet devait être situé dans une zone neutre comme Malte – un lieu de croisement et de convergence des cultures ; une petite île qui a sa place dans le grand schéma de l’univers et où je suis fi er de résider ! thepalaceofthinking.org
NL Nieuws van een piepklein eiland De auteur, fi losoof en op Malta geboren Edward de Bono
vertelt ons alles over zijn nieuwste creatieve oplossingsinitiatief op het eiland
Ik werd geboren en vestigde me op het ‘vasteland’ van de drie Maltese eilanden tijdens een leven van reizen rond de wereld om lezingen en seminaries te geven. Net zoals de taal kent de Maltese keuken tal van invloeden en vormt het een mix van Italiaanse, Franse, Britse en Arabische gerechten op een bedje van kruiden en specerijen. De geschiedenis van het eiland gaat terug tot 4.000-2.000 jaar v.C. en is hoogstwaarschijnlijk ’s werelds oudste. Dankzij het uitstekende klimaat werden de geschiedkundige monumenten van Malta niet door erosie aangetast zoals dat wel het geval is bij zo vele andere historische gebouwen wereldwijd.
Uit archeologisch onderzoek is gebleken dat de vroegste neolithische tempels op Malta zo’n 1.000 jaar ouder zijn dan de piramiden. In Gozo, het zustereiland van Malta, bevindt zich ‘s werelds oudste, vrijstaande gebouw: een tempel uit de Steentijd genaamd Gigantija. Het dateert uit 3.600 v.C. en toont aan dat er toen reeds een beschaving bestond, hoewel Gozo nog kleiner is dan Malta.
Er zijn tal van plekjes ter wereld waar u kunt genieten van zon en zee maar Malta is anders: spectaculaire landschappen, een kustlijn die herinnert aan de kleurrijke en gewelddadige geschiedenis, hoewel de rustige stranden van vandaag in fel contrast staan met dit stormachtige verleden.
Ik was een jongen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en herinner me nog perfect de nachtelijke luchtaanvallen. Iedere nacht waren er wel 10. Duitsland en Italië aasden op Malta omdat het tussen hen in stond en omdat ze de volledige controle over het Middellandse zeegebied wilden verwerven.
Vandaag reis ik heen en weer tussen Rabat en Londen. In april lanceerde ik mijn recentse initiatief op Malta. The Palace of Thinking is een internationaal platform dat los staat van politieke, religieuze en gevestigde invloeden met oog op het vinden van nieuwe ideeën en vernieuwende oplossingen voor wereldwijde problemen. En om zoiets te bekomen heb je een neutraal plekje nodig zoals Malta. Tot op de dag van vandaag blijft Malta een ontmoetingsplaats voor culturen, een piepklein eiland dat internationaal meetelt en ik ben trots om het mijn thuis te noemen. thepalaceofthinking.org
standard treatment. Many years ago at the UN in New York I tried to set up a
similar group to develop new ideas about world issues. But this proved
impossible because the people I approached were not there to think, they said,
but to “represent their countries”. To them this seemed a conflict of interest.
If the brain works in patterns, and all the evidence indicates that it does,
there is a logical need for creativity. I developed the formal process of lateral
thinking using reasoning and ideas that eschew traditional patterns of logic.
With The Palace of Thinking, we must break out of the old self-perpetuating
patterns and generate new ways of looking at things if we are to solve the
world’s most complex problems.
The Palace of Thinking will be a dedicated space where new ideas
can be generated and received, where creative solutions can be developed
and international collaborations can take place. By creating a global
platform free from politics, religion and vested interests, new thinking
and innovative solutions to global issues can emerge that will benefit us
collectively. And to do that it must be centred in a small neutral place such
as Malta, otherwise it risks being seen as reflecting the thinking and interests
of one particular country.
To this day, Malta remains the place where cultures meet and merge, a tiny
island in the big scheme of things; somewhere I am proud to call home.
thepalaceofthinking.org
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Clockwise from above left: the ancient stone temple at Gigantija on Malta’s sister island Gozo is the oldest built structure in the world; Gozo’s magnifi cent limestone Azure Window is typical of Malta’s dramatic coastline; Mdina, a handsome, imposing example of an ancient walled city
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eedling a path through the patchwork of historic
lanes surrounding Spaccanapoli – the ancient
cobbled street bisecting Naples – is an eye-
opener. Dark porticoes shelter countless
pizzerias and crumbling churches. Hearts enflamed by
the World Cup, young boys lob footballs across tiny
piazzas. Stop for a moment at one of the many outdoor
shrines to the Virgin Mary, and a moped piled high with
mother, son and toddler all wearing yellow SSC Napoli
shirts will narrowly miss you.
While this trade-off between dishevelment and
vitality is part of Naples’ compelling personality, over
the years the city had fallen too far from grace to still
be considered charming. Known at home and abroad as
dangerous and crime-ridden, it was also rubbish-strewn
due to a long-running waste-collection crisis. Poor
infrastructure and investment left it congested and
run-down. Visitors came to the southern Italian city
expecting a venerable dame and left thinking her
a shabby strumpet.
Since his election as mayor in 2011, Luigi de
Magistris has battled to clean up the city, solving the
rubbish-disposal problems and reducing congestion
in the traffic-choked centre. Visitors to the waterfront
– five kilometres of ‘the most beautiful promenade
inthe world’, as Magistris describes it – will find it
pedestrianised and free of those noisy mopeds.
The brightest symbol of change here is the ambitious
MetroNapoli project, which has transformed the city’s
neglected subway system into a giant underground art
exhibition. Aside from encouraging some of the city’s
one million inhabitants to leave the moto at home and
access the network of tunnels and metro, it’s helping
to usher in a real Neapolitan cultural renaissance.
Naples has long languished under its reputation for being crime-ridden, dirty and shabby. Now, thanks to a visionary mayor and some extraordinary public works of art, Darren Loucaides inds the city is
rediscovering a sense of civic pride and ambition, drawing tourists to the very places they once avoided
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“This experiment is unprecedented in Italy and
is one of very few to be carried out worldwide,”
says Achille Bonito Oliva, one of the country’s
foremost art critics and former director of
the Venice Biennale. As curator of the
project, he has overseen the opening of 10
art stations. Six more are planned by the
time of the project’s completion in 2020.
“By definition, this is not simple decoration
or an architectural elaboration,” Bonito Oliva
adds, explaining that the 90 artists involved –
who include many big international names as
well as an impressive amount of local talent –
are interacting with pre-existing architecture
and transforming it.
The 180 or so artworks include installations,
photography, paintings and everything in
between. One of the highlights is Catalan
architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca’s incredible
escalator at Toledo station: it climbs through
glittering mosaics towards Robert Wilson’s
‘crater of light’, as if ascending to another
dimension. Then there’s Karim Rashid’s
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Previous page: Oscar Tusquets Blanca’s magnifi cent escalator at Toledo station and its interior (above). Clockwise from right: Renaldo Fasanaro (right) is the architect responsible for the execution of the MetroNapoli project; visionary Mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, the man driving the wholesale overhaul of Naples’ image; art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva masterminded the MetroNapoli project bringing together accomplished artists to reimagine the city’s underground stations
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d’art public, Naples est une destination en hausse, nous dit Darren Loucaides
Sur la Spaccanapoli – cette ancienne artère qui divise Naples en deux – des portiques abritent des églises en ruine. Lorsque vous vous y promenez soyez vigilant… Il se peut qu’une mobylette sur laquelle s’entassent trois personnes vous évite de justesse.
Autrefois désordonnée et pleine de charme, Naples s’est progressivement délabrée par manque d’infrastructures et d’investissements. En visite dans le sud de l’Italie, les voyageurs s’attendent à trouver une dame vénérable mais ils repartent avec l’image d’une pauvre mégère.
Le maire Luigi de Magistris mène un combat acharné pour faire de sa cité une ville propre. MetroNapoli, qui a contribué à transformer le métro urbain, alors sale et décrépit, en musée d’art géant, fait partie de ces projets qui stimulent la renaissance culturelle de Naples.
Ses quelque 180 œuvres comprennent des installations, de la photographie et des peintures. Parmi les pièces majeures, on recense l’incroyable escalator de l’architecte catalan Oscar Tusquets Blanca, à la station Toledo : entouré de carrés de mosaïques étincelants, il nous emmène jusqu’au « cratère de lumière » de Robert Wilson. Ensuite, il y a le royaume surréaliste de Karim Rashid à la station Université, avec ses formes brillantes rose fuchsia et vert citron ; son univers s’organise autour d’une sculpture en forme de synapse, en métal au fi ni satiné.
Étant donné que l’Italie est en pleine crise économique, d’aucuns ont tenté de comprendre la logique derrière cette dépense publique pour fi nancer un tel projet. Bien que les fonds proviennent de l’Union européenne, les fi nances de la ville sont dans une situation tellement critique que Magistris a dû œuvrer pour la sauver de justesse de la faillite.
Mais l’architecte offi ciel du projet, Renaldo Fasanaro, est persuadé que MetroNapoli est une partie de la solution. « C’est une réelle opportunité pour améliorer les zones dégradées de la ville, tant dans la banlieue que dans le centre, » dit-il.
« Nous donnons en outre à la ville un important héritage d’art public, » ajoute-t-il. « En cela, nous poursuivons une tradition qui renoue avec la période baroque, au moment où l’art abondait dans les rues et sur les places. »
NL De nieuwe Italiaanse renaissance
Dankzij een visionaire burgemeester en een indrukwekkend openbaar kunstproject rijst Napels op uit het stof, aldus Darren Loucaides
In Spaccanapoli – de oude straat die Napels in tweeën deelt– schuilen tal van vervallen kerken achter de zuilengangen. Let op wanneer u er doorheen wandelt...of u wordt ei zo na meegesleurd door een bromfi ets volgestouwd met drie passagiers.
Het ooit verfomfaaide en charmante Napels geraakte in verval door gebrekkige infrastructuur en investeringen. Bezoekers kwamen naar de Zuid-Italiaanse stad afgezakt met de verwachting er een eerbiedwaardige dame te ontdekken en ze verlieten haar met het beeld van een armoedig viswijf.
Burgemeester Luigi de Magistris deed er alles aan om de stad op te waarderen. Het MetroNapoli project, waarbij het vervallen metronetwerk van de stad werd omgebouwd tot een reusachtig ondergronds kunstmuseum, luidt het begin in van een culturele renaissance.
In totaal betreft het zo’n 180 kunstwerken waaronder structuren, foto’s en schilderijen. Een van de hoogtepunten: de adembenemende lift van de Catalaanse architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca in het station Toledo: de lift klimt langsheen schitterende mozaiëken naar boven naar de ‘lichtkrater’ van Robert Wilson. In het Universiteitsstation wordt u dan weer verwelkomd door de surreëele, symbologische wereld van Karim Rashid in fuchsia, roze en limoengroen met als centraal element een synapsissculptuur uit staal met satijnglans.
De economische crisis heeft Italië helemaal in haar greep. Sommigen vragen zich dan ook af of het wel zin heeft om overheidsgeld in dit project te pompen. Hoewel het project wordt gefi nancierd door de Europese Unie, bevinden de fi nanciën van de stad zich sinds het uitbreken van de crisis in nauwe schoentjes en Magistris redde Napels op de valreep van het failliet.
De offi ciële architect van het project, Renaldo Fasanaro, is er echter van overtuigd dat MetroNapoli bijdraagt aan de oplossing. “Het biedt een kans om de verwaarloosde plekjes in de stad, maar ook in de buitenwijken en het centrum te verbeteren.”
“We geven de stad een enorme erfenis openbare kunst en zetten de traditie verder waarbij we verwijzen naar de kunst uit de straten en pleinen van de Barrokperiode.”
National Museum of Capodimonte It should be ranked as one of the most important art museums in Italy, but Capodimonte has long been overlooked. Now Naples’ artistic revival is drawing attention to some of its older attractions, such as this lofty palace in a lush and verdant park. Its extraordinary collection includes works by Titian, Caravaggio and El Greco. polomusealenapoli.beniculturali.it
San Domenico Maggiore With origins in a much older 11th-century building, this blingy silver-and-gold masterpiece is Naples’ most interesting church, located on Spaccanapoli. Open Monday-Saturday.
Constantinopoli 104 Originally a 19th-century villa, with beautiful stained-glass windows and views over the historical centre, this homely boutique hotel is a haven from the traditional chaos of Naples. +39 081 557 1035, constantinopoli104.it
Don’t miss... connecting Museo station with the
Archaeological Museum is filled with ancient
artefacts discovered during the project, while
a Roman temple is set to be used as part of
the planned Duomo station.
Such discoveries are reminders of the
city’s rich history. It’s sad to see gorgeous
old churches containing precious frescoes
and opulent stone facades boarded up in one
of the oldest and largest historical centres in
the world. But Magistris has pledged €103m
for the restoration of buildings, and the art
stations are spearheading a cultural revival
in Italy’s third-biggest city.
Given that Naples and Italy as a whole are
in the grip of an economic crisis, some have
questioned the logic of public spending on
the project. Though funding has come from
the European Union, the city’s finances have
been in dire straits since the crisis and
Magistris narrowly saved it from bankruptcy.
But architect Fasanaro is certain that
MetroNapoli is part of the solution, not the
problem. “It is a chance to improve,
aesthetically and socially, run-down places
in the city, both in the suburbs and in the
centre,” he says, pointing to tourism initiatives
that have brought people and economic value
to under-privileged areas and opened them up.
“Local government understands the great
importance of the project,” he adds. “They
know the long-term economic benefits that a
functioning metro system and such public art
will bring for the city and its population.”
Fasanaro draws a parallel with Cosimo I dei
Medici opening the doors of his portrait gallery
to the Florentine public in 16th century. “We’re
giving the city an enormous legacy of public
art,” he says. “We’re continuing a tradition
that connects with the art in the streets and
squares of the Baroque period.”
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L’Eveil Des SensSince opening in 2001, this acclaimed restaurant has been graced by a Michelin star, and its reputation continues to grow. Chef Laury Zioui takes inspiration from Impressionist paintings in building dishes one taste at a time. Flavours, spices and scents are deployed in exciting combinations to create bold sensory experiences.
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years – Volvo has high hopes for its more powerful yet more
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Volvo’s game-changing technology does not end with a new
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The company recently embarked on far more ambitious project,
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$1,565,792,382 (€1,150,288,139)The Rolling Stones have grossed just over a billion and a half dollars from touring between 1990 and 2014, according to Billboard, putting them at the top of the paper’s revenue-earning chart of live acts.
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factory fresh: Berlin’s tech hub opens
After four years of planning and construction – not to mention hype – Factory,
the 16,000-metre-square Berlin campus that hopes to attract start-ups and tech
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The official opening was held at the vast site mid-June, with a keynote speech
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moving in this month. These include 6Wunderkinder, the local hero behind the
popular time management app Wunderlist; SoundCloud, the successful audio
distribution platform that was founded in Stockholm; and Mozilla, the software
community best known for its Firefox browser. Smaller companies which have
taken space include cloud-based helpdesk company Zendesk; Toast and
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The Factory venture was spearheaded by local property developer and tech
investor Simon Schaefer, who says the idea was “to give start-ups the chance to
learn, fail and chill together as they grow. To enable entrepreneurs and innovators is our mission.” Berlin is ballooning as a start-up hub, with young
firms from Europe, Israel, the US and South America flocking to the city to take advantage of the cheap living costs and relaxed lifestyle.
Schaefer says Factory offers communal areas designed to foster collaboration, ranging from a single desk to 1,000-metre-square units. On site is
the Distillery, which he describes as an organic accelerator aimed at start-ups and founders at any stage, while help is available from experts in law,
finance, technology, design and branding. There is even the option of residency for designers, programmers and other contributors if they are
sponsored by one of Factory’s partners. Naturally, as this is Berlin, the campus includes a sauna and a beer garden.
Although Factory’s opening is a year later that expected, Schaefer’s enthusiasm for the project has not wavered. In addition to Berlin, he is looking
at other locations throughout Europe. Having participated in discussions with leaders of the European Commission’s Start-up Europe projects,
Schaefer says he is aware of a huge interest in this type of venture. “Factory would work well in many environments with high youth unemployment,”
he says. “I don’t want to name cities just yet, mainly because we really want to deliver on our first campus.”
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Michael Kors could never be accused of lacking
ambition. The colourful New Yorker, whose
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affordable luxury sector, is not letting a few Wall
Street jitters get in the way of his global expansion.
With more than 80% of his sales coming from
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momentum. The designer recently announced plans to
open 55 stores in Europe in the financial year to March 2015,
taking the total to 135. The eventual target is 200. Many think this
is smart – while Europe hardly lacks luxury labels, only Burberry
is regarded as accessible. In the UK, fashion writers have
practically campaigned for Kors to be knighted for delivering
this season’s ‘It’ bag for €370, a third of what these statement
accessories typically cost.
Kors believes his company can capitalise on a gap left by
several upmarket European brands whose recent flirtations with
Asia’s nouveau riche have cost them some local loyalty. The
American has just opened a mall-sized flagship in Shanghai and
10 stores in Japan as part of fresh transpacific lunge, even though
no upscale US brand has cracked Asia since Tiffany.
Few could deny that 54-year-old Kors – nine years younger
than Tommy Hilfiger and 20 years Ralph Lauren’s junior – is the
marketing genius of his generation. Unlike other
fashion designers who distance themselves from
their entry-level brands, Kors actually makes
consumer confusion work for him. In 2004, he
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has so far seemed infallible.
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From 4 July Bruxelles les Bains – Brussels ‘beach’ – will be back on the canal front
DE BROUCKÈREThe area around this historic square has been reinvigorated with a wave of new openings and the renovation of the excellent Muntpunt library
SLEEP Brussels’ grande dame, the
Métropole has welcomed all the greats
in its 120-year history and, while the
décor is slightly dated, the atmosphere
is second to none. The newly reopened
belle epoque Bar “Le 31” is perfect for
people-watching (Place De Brouckère
31, (0)2 217 2300, metropolehotel.com,
doubles from €100).
EAT With two Michelin stars, the Sea
Grill (Rue Fosse aux Loups 47) is
predictably pricey, but worth the
splurge: opt for the €65 lunch menu to
experience Yves Mattagne’s
extraordinary seafood cuisine without
(completely) breaking the bank.
SHOP Hello James (Rue de Laeken 86)
is a lovely boutique dedicated to
contemporary artisanship: there are lots
of luxe leather goods from local hero
Niyona, but also male grooming treats
from Izola, small imprint books,
jewellery, and much more.
CULTURE Tucked away in a back street
in a gorgeous Horta art nouveau former
warehouse, the Centre Belge de la
Bande Dessinée (Rue des Sables 20)
tells a vivid story of Belgium’s national
art. There’s plenty of Tintin, but also
thoughtful coverage of less well-known
authors and characters.
TIP Free wi-fi is now available in a
number of sites around Brussels city
centre: just log onto the “BRU-WIFI”
network for two hours of free browsing.
LOUISEUpmarket Avenue Louise is where
all of Brussels heads at the weekend: the area has a real buzz and the city’s best shopping
SLEEP The Vintage Hotel near busy
Place Stéphanie has 29 stylish rooms
furnished in cool mid-century style.
If the idea of urban glamping appeals,
you can book the beautifully restored
silver Airstream trailer parked in the
hotel courtyard (Rue Dejoncker 45,
(0)2 533 9980, vintagehotel.be,
doubles from €100).
EAT Laidback Italian La Gazzetta
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TAXI The journey to the city centre costs €45 and takes around 25 minutes.
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(Rue de la Longue Haie 12) is open all
day: drop in for a morning cappuccino
and pastry, a lunchtime plate of pasta
or an aperitif.
SHOP Dutch lifestyle store Dille &
Kamille (Rue Jean Stas 16) is full of
pretty, well-priced home and garden
treats, as well as nicely made wooden
toys and games for children.
LATER The Bloody Louis (Avenue
Louise 32) makes clubbing fun, with
a relaxed dress code, arcade games and
table football around the dancefloor.
TIP For a truly curious lunch venue,
head to L’Epicerie (Rue Keyenveld 56):
this very ordinary corner shop, stocked
with washing powder, packets of
pasta and chewing gum, doubles
as a delightful, authentic Thai café.
PLACE BRUGMANNThe streets around this pretty square are bursting with independent boutiques and relaxed cafés and restaurants
SLEEP Les Chambres de Franz (Rue
Franz Merjay 48, (0)2 325 7448,
leschambresdefranz.be, doubles from
€110) is a stylish, friendly B&B near the
boutiques and bars of Brugmann and
Châtelain. ‘La Terrasse’ has a gorgeous
garden view; for those wanting a longer
stay, the ‘Le Studio’ has its own kitchen.
EAT Cool Korean canteen Maru
(Chaussée de Waterloo 510) serves
vividly flavoured authentic specialities,
including delicious meats barbecued
at your table in an elegant pale
wood dining room.
CULTURE More Than A House (Rue
Franz Merjay 190) is an intriguing
proposition: a beautiful art deco home
transformed into a gallery space holding
exhibitions of contemporary painting,
photography and sculpture.
SHOP At L’Antichambre (Place
Brugmann 13) you can blend your own
bespoke fragrance with warmly
enthusiastic help from owner and
expert ‘nose’ Anne-Pascale.
LATER Chez Franz (Avenue du Haut
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The BoghossianFoundation
Creating a centre for art and dialogue in Brussels, between the culture of the East and the West inthe context of the famous Villa Empain, is one ofthe primary objectives of the Bohossian Foundation.This Centre is destined to enrich and facilitatereciprocal discoveries between East and Westand offers, throughout the year, art exhibitions,international meetings, conferences andworkshops, in relation with its purpose.
The Villa Empain
Built by Michel Polak in 1930, the Villa Empain isone of the most beautiful architectural masterpieces of Art Deco in Europe. Completely restored by the Boghossian Foundation, the Villa welcomes you to many cultural activities and private events.
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and wellness centre.
EAT Choose between French cuisine at
Citadelle (Place Reine Astrid 3-5) at the foot of
the cable car, or Belgian at A la Ville de Bruges
(Rue Adolphe Sax 39) – they serve up big,
warming bowls of mussels.
CULTURE This year marks the 200th
anniversary of the birth of Dinant’s most famous
son, Adolphe Sax. The inventor of the saxophone
is honoured at Les Vitrines de Monsieur
Sax – a new display of historic caricatures in Rue
de la Ville which is part of the Adolphe Sax trail
Sax & the City.
SHOP Dinanderie Clabots (Rue du Moulin 13)
makes and sells the town’s famous brassware,
including plates, decorations and weathervanes.
Fabrique de Couques de Dinant Thonon (Rue
Grande 130) is a good place to pick up couques
(honey-flavoured biscuits).
LATER Wine lovers will enjoy the Vinothek at La
Merveilleuse (lamerveilleuse.be), but for
beer head to Cafe Leffe (Rue Sax 2). Order
a radieuse and enjoy it overlooking the river.
TIP You can’t leave Dinant without trying
couques, which should be broken and dunked in
your coffee. They were invented in 1466 during
the Siege of Dinant when townsfolk only had
honey and flour as ingredients. Adrian Mourby
TRAIN The airport station is located below the terminal at basement level -1. There are four trains to Brussels Nord every hour where you can change to the Dinant train, which runs at 12 minutes past the hour. The trip takes two hours and tickets cost €19.20.
TAXI A taxi from the airport costs around €200 and takes about 90 minutes, with higher rates in the evening and on Sundays and public holidays.
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SLEEP Charming B&B Alphabed (Jan
Palfijnstraat 26, (0)497 689 108, alphabed.be,
rooms from €85) blends antique and modern
features – think old tile floors and epic
chandeliers alongside pops of fuchsia and lime
green. Choose from three pretty rooms with
crisp, white linens, designer wallpaper and
an optional champagne breakfast.
EAT Travelling as a pair? Seek out J.E.F. (Lange
Steenstraat 10), where all the dishes are made to
share because chef Jason and his wife Famke –
whose combined initials give the restaurant its
name – believe “sharing food is the best thing in
life”. Everything is organic here, including the
excellent wines.
CULTURE Pack your dancing shoes and join in
the Gentse Feesten (18-27 July, gentsefeesten.
be) – a two-week extravaganza of free music
shows, street entertainment, food stalls and
parties that draws revellers from all over Europe.
Book a bed well in advance.
SHOP Rustic interiors shop Comme un rêve
(Brabantdam 56b) sells a mixture of super flea-
market finds and new country-style knick-knacks
for the home.
LATER Sip inventive, delicious cocktails out of
glass balls and Mason jars at the futuristic
Limonada (Heilige-Geeststraat 7).
TIP Familiarise yourself with the cathedral city
during a free iTour (itours.be). They take place
at the weekend and there are several themes
to choose from. Emma Thomson
TRAIN Fast direct trains depart at 51 minutes past the hour every hour Monday-Friday and the journey time is 53 minutes. Direct trains depart at seven minutes past every hour Saturday and Sunday, and the journey time is 90 minutes. A single ticket costs €14.40.
TAXI A taxi from Brussels Airport costs roughly €130 and takes 50 minutes.
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CORSICA Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (AJA), 5km
Grande Albergo delle Nazioni has fabulous sea views
SLEEP An afternoon in the new Orlane
spa at 17th century masseria (farmhouse)
Il Melograno (Contrada Torricella 345,
080 690 9030, melograno.com, rooms
from €240) will have you feeling like a
shiny healthy person. The elegant
curved Grande Albergo delle Nazioni
(Lungomare Nazario Sauro 7, 080 592
0111, albergodellenazioni.com, rooms
from €140) has fabulous views over sea
and town, and despite its five-star status
is reasonably priced with deals available.
EAT If fancy’s your bag, Ai 2 Ghiottoni
(Via Putignani 11/B) serves some of
the best seafood in the city. The locals
tend to prefer their fish raw, so expect
scallops, mussels and sea urchins
al crudo on the menu. In the old town,
Vini e Cucina (Via Vallisa 23) is a small
but excellent family-run osteria with.
CULTURE The Pinacoteca Provinciale
di Bari (Via Spalato 19) is small and
well-curated, with plenty of Pugliese art.
SHOP Southerners love a bit of sparkle
on their duds, so visit Via Sparano and
Via Argiro for diamante-encrusted
jackets, Gucci T-shirts and gold
high-top sneakers. Classy.
SLEEP Built of chunky wood and white
stone, amid overflowing gardens,
nowhere in Ajaccio manages to be as
serene and central as the Villa Savane
(Rue des Menuisiers, (0)4 95 20 33 73,
rooms from €65 per night).
EAT Tucked away in the mountains,
A Merendella (Chemin de L’Eglise)
requires nerves of steel to reach,
but the food and views will soon
calm those trembling hands.
CULTURE Who could pass up a chance
to visit the birthplace of the world’s
most militant midget? The House of
Napoleon Bonaparte (Rue Saint-
Charles) is surprisingly light on
fisticuffs, preferring the story of
Bonaparte’s early life on the island.
SHOP Pass the throngs of cruise ship
tourists admiring the gaudily painted tat
BUS The Tempesta Autobus shuttle travels between the airport and Bari station every hour, takes 25-30 minutes and costs €4.15.
TAXI A taxi from the airport to the city takes about 25 minutes and costs around €20.
TOURIST INFO viaggiareinpuglia.it
BUS Buses from the airport run to the central train station, with multiple stops along the way. The journey takes 20 minutes and leaves every hour between 5am and midnight. Expect to pay €4.50.
TAXI A metered taxi from the rank outside arrivals costs around €15 into the city centre, depending on traffi c and time.
CAR Hertz have excellent deals and are based just outside the arrivals hall.
TOURIST INFO ajaccio-tourisme.com
LATER Nightclubs in Bari tend to
look like Jay Gatsby’s mansion:
think swimming pools, suited waiters
and, occasionally, DJs. Cromie
(SS 106 Uscita Castellaneta M/Laterza)
is one of the best.
TIP Pugliesi are sticklers about
mealtimes: lunch is between 12 and
3pm and dinner is from 7pm to
midnight. Most are are closed in
between. Maria Moneta
and you’ll happen upon U Tilaghju
(Rue Forcioli Conti 12) specialising in
tapestries, woodwork and (genuinely)
hand-painted silk.
LATER The Facebook page of
Discothèque Le Privilège (Rue Eugène
Macchini 7) lists its favourite band as
The Black Eyed Peas, its favourite film
as Braveheart and its favourite person
as Che Guevara. Somehow this all adds
up to a piano bar. Go figure.
TIP Ajaccio’s city beaches fill up
fast, so head to the ferry terminal
and catch a boat to the beach of Plage
de Porticcio. A return journey costs
€5 and takes 20 minutes each way,
but that’s 20 minutes you won’t
spend shoulder to shoulder with an
oiled-up octogenarian.
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july 2014 69 FLY TO bristol and budapest three times daily. brusselsairlines.com
SLEEP Indulgent breakfasts, crisp white linen
and a perfect location right on the edge of
Clifton Down secure Number 38’s position
(38 Upper Belgrave Road, (0)1179 466 905,
number38clifton.com, rooms from £110/€128)
as Bristol’s loveliest boutique hotel.
EAT California-inspired brunch spot Bakers and
Co (193 Gloucester Road) is the latest venture
from the team behind locally adored tapas
restaurant Bravas (7 Cotham Hill). Think huevos
rancheros, smoked salmon quinoa and juices
with serious zing.
CULTURE Live music, costumes and the smell
of jerk chicken wafting from Portland Square to
Montpelier: St Paul’s Carnival (5 July,
stpaulscarnival.co.uk) is a summer highlight.
SHOP You can’t visit the West Country without
indulging in an apple-based tipple or two.
Make your way to the Bristol Cider Shop
(7 Christmas Steps) to check out more than
100 varieties of traditionally brewed local cider.
LATER Prohibition-inspired newcomer The
Bootlegger (233 Cheltenham Road) does a
sterling line in cocktails, burgers and zero
attitude (no secret doorbells or hidden locations
here). Just up the road is another winner: The
Urban Standard (35 Gloucester Road) opened
this year with a focus on draught beer and steaks.
TIP Make Bristol’s endless hills work in your
favour with a trip to the top of Brandon Hill (just
off Park Street). Great views and superior soft-
serve from the Vee Double Moo camper make
this the finest suntrap in town. Emma Howarth
BUS The Airport Flyer Express Link bus operates 24 hours a day (exceptChristmas Day), connecting the airport, city centre, bus and train stations. Travel time to central Bristol is 30 minutes, and services depart every 10 minutes at peak times. An adult return costs £11/€12.80.
TAXI Checker Cars operates a 24-hour service from the airport. A taxi toBristol city centre costs £26/€32.50 and takes around 30 minutes.
TOURIST INFO visitbristol.co.uk
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Contemporary style rules at the Lánchíd 19 hotel
SLEEP Views of the glorious Chain Bridge,
award-winning contemporary design and a
perfect location beneath the castle: these are
just a few of the treats waiting for you at Lánchíd
19 (I.Lánchíd utca 19, 419 1900, lanchid19hotel.
hu, rooms from HUF20,355/€67).
EAT The Aranyszarvas (I.Szarvas tér 1) has
been a hostelry for more than 300 years. Known
as the ‘Golden Stag’, it was transformed a few
years back by chef Gábor Mogyorósi and is now
the destination restaurant for inventive takes on
Hungarian classics. There’s a pretty good local
wine selection, too.
CULTURE July is the last chance to see a
memorial retrospective of works by early
20th century Hungarian artist Gyula Derkovits.
Some 200 paintings, prints and drawings,
many showing Expressionist and Cubist
influences, are displayed at the Hungarian
National Gallery (I.Buda Palace).
SHOP Local contemporary fashion is on
sale at Retrock (VI.Anker köz 2). Labels
include cycle-centric Urban Legend, the
natural fabrics of Meikawa and the everyday
streetwear of Keleclothing.
LATER For a real feel of Budapest, the retro-
tinged Lánchíd Söröz (I.Fő utca 4) attracts
regulars and passing tourists with its Sputnik-
era décor and evergreen rock soundtrack.
TIP Escape the heat with a visit to Margaret
Island, an easy hop from either Buda or Pest.
With terrace bars, swimming pools and cycle
hire, it’s a lovely place to relax. Peterjon Cresswell
BUS City bus 200E runs from the airport to K bánya-Kispest, the last stop on the M3 blue metro line into the city. Buses leave every 10-15 minutes, take 25 minutes and cost HUF350/€1.15.
MINIBUS Point-to-point communal minibus service Airportshuttle runs from each airport terminal to any address in the city for HUF3,200/€10.50 per person.
TAXI A taxi into the city centre costs around HUF6,000/€20.
TOURIST INFO budapest.com
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SLEEP Napping in a lighthouse isn’t
usually recommended, but at
lighthouse-turned-luxury guesthouse
Faro Capo Spartivento (Viale
Spartivento, 070 513 489,
farocapospartivento.com, rooms from
€800), the sheets are crisp, the
furniture’s lovely and the views are fine.
A cheaper alternative is Cagliari
d’amare (Via San Saturnino 13c, 392
309 7800, bbcagliarimare.it, rooms
from €55), which has a spa, a sauna
and a beautiful garden.
EAT Have a meal at Paolo Perella
(Corso Repubblica 8, Villasalto). Paolo
runs the place from the kitchen, serving
bowls of ravioli stuffed with goat’s
cheese and wild asparagus, polpette
della sposa (fried balls of quince,
artichokes and ricotta) and homemade
pistachio gelato.
CULTURE Tucked away down a leafy
street, the City Gallery of Modern
Art (Viale San Vincenzo 2) has a
fascinating collection of work by
Sardinian artists.
SHOP Department store la Rinascente
(Via Roma 143) has a whole heap of
BUS Buses leave from outside arrivals every half-hour, from 8.40am until 11.30pm. The trip takes about 20 minutes and a one-way ticket costs €0.67. Tickets need to be purchased before boarding the bus – you can buy them at the newsstand outside arrivals.
TAXI A metered taxi from the airport to the city takes about 15 minutes and should cost around €15-€20.
TOURIST INFO.cagliariturismo.it/en
fabulous Italian fashion brands under
one roof. The Sardinia Outlet Village
(La Corte del Sole, Località More
Corraxe, ex S.S. 131) has all the big
names at good discounts.
LATER Il birrificio di Cagliari (Via
Newton 24) is Cagliari’s first brewery
and pub. The food’s pretty great, too.
TIP Hike up to the Sella del Diavolo
for the best views over Poetto beach.
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SLEEP Hotel Flora (Grönsakstorget 2,
(0)31 13 86 16, hotelflora.se, doubles
from SEK880/€98) is a family-run
boutique hotel, not far from the city’s
best bars and shops. If it’s a special
occasion, book the Royal Swedish
Room – painted in blue and yellow, it
comes with an iPod and a SMEG fridge
filled with champagne and other
delicious goodies.
EAT Dubbel Dubbel (Kastellgatan 14)
serves delicious dim sum. Decked
out entirely in pine, it looks more
Alpine cabin than Asian, but the tasting
menus are as good as anything you’d
find in Shanghai.
CULTURE On 30 July watch American
legend Patti Smith play at Liseberg
amusement park (Örgrytevägen 5)
as the rollercoasters whoosh by.
BUS Flygbussarna airport buses take you from the airport to the city, stopping at Nils Ericsson Terminalen (the main bus station), Park Aveny (on Avenyn) and Korsvägen (for Liseberg). A return journey costs SEK178 /€20 and takes about half an hour, with departures every 20 minutes at peak times.
TAXI Licensed cabs leave from outside the terminal building and offer a fi xed price of about SEK400/ €45 for the half-hour journey into town.
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SHOP Department store NK (Östra
Hamngatan 42) epitomises
Scandinavian understated luxury and
is a great place to get acquainted with
creative, quirky Swedish design.
LATER The bistro of a popular indie
cinema, Hagabions Café (Linnégatan
21) fills up every night. High ceilings,
a big round bar and various random
knick-knacks set the friendly vibe. The
garden outside is a perfect summer
spot. If you fancy a night of fabulous
tunes, head to the city’s best place
for live music: Nefertiti jazzclub
(Hvitfeldtsplatsen 6).
TIP Get around town on a bicycle with
Styr och Ställ (en.goteborgbikes.se),
a self-service bike rental system.
A three-day pass costs SEK25/€2.70.
Victoria Larsson
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The restaurant is already fifteen years old, which is not surprising: the charming
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SLEEP Hotel St Annen (Annenstrasse 5,
(0)40 31 77 130, hotelstannen.de, rooms from
€88) is a 36-room hotel with a chic bar, quiet
garden terrace and original art by Felix Walner.
The modern, 219-room, four-star Lindner Hotel
Am Michael (Neanderstrasse 20, (0)40 30 70
670, lindner.de, rooms from €99) has a wellness
area with a fitness room and sauna.
EAT For a modern take on slow-cooked
regional cuisine, including Labskaus stew,
visit Restaurant Vlet (Grosser Grasbrook 9),
a stylish dining space with a vaulted ceiling
inside a former warehouse.
CULTURE Hamburg Harley Days (4-6 July),
centred around the Grossmarkt, is a celebration
of Harley-Davidson motorcycles and biking. It
features a parade through the city’s streets and
stunt riding on Mönckebergstrasse.
SHOP For edgy boutiques head to the city’s
Karoviertel district, where you’ll find stores
such as Herr von Eden (Markstrasse 33),
designer of fashionable menswear, and Shirtlab
(Marktstrasse 16) stocking designer T-shirts.
LATER Hamburg has a broad selection of
bars, including Klimperkiste (Esplanade 18),
a laid-back sort of place with booth seating
and live music.
TIP Experience northern Germany’s biggest
festival by joining the crowds at the
Heiligengeistfeld from 25 July – a funfair
featuring high-speed rides, carousels and snack
stands. Stuart Forster
SLEEP With its minimalist and at times bizarre
interiors, high ceilings and large windows
opening on to the cobbled streets of the old city,
it stands to reason that the eight-bedroom 18th
century boutique hotel Baudon-de-Mauny
(1 Rue de la Carbonnerie, (0)4 67 02 21 77,
baudondemauny.com, rooms from €177) should
be so popular with visitors.
EAT Under new ownership, Le Montpel
(2 Rue Jules Latreilhe) is a cavernous stone
cellar known for its affordable tapas and
cocktails. Perfect for escaping the summer heat.
CULTURE From renaissance to contemporary
art, the recently renovated Musée Fabra (39
Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle) has an impressive
collection that spans more than 500 years.
SHOP Those in search of the French boutique
experience should take a stroll down to Rue
Massene from Monday to Saturday. Come
Sunday morning, if shoppers still have the yen
for a bargain, they can always head down to the
flea market at Quartier Mosson.
LATER As well as being a school for fledgling
jazz, soul and funk musicians, Jam (100 Rue
Ferdinand de Lesseps, lejam.com) is a popular
venue for concerts and impromptu jams
throughout the summer.
TIP The city’s new tram system offers
a cheap alternative to taxis: a 10-ticket carnet will
cost you €10.50. The city also subsidises a very
affordable rent-a-bike service at just €6 per day
with its TaM Vélo service (27 Rue Maguelone).
Luke Tarrant
BUS A number of bus lines stop directly in front of the airport terminals. The journey to the city centre takes 43 minutes and costs €3. Night buses also serve the airport.
TRAIN Local S-Bahn trains run to the city centre (Hauptbahnhof) every 10 minutes; the journey takes 25 minutes and costs €3. The train station is in front of the airport terminals.
TAXI A taxi to the centre will cost from €25 and takes about 25 minutes to reach the city centre on a good run. There are taxi ranks at the front of Terminals 1 and 2.
TOURIST INFO hamburg-travel.com
BUS The Navette Aéroport Montpellier leaves for the city centre (Place de l’Europe) approximately every 50 minutes between 8.35am and 11.10pm, and the return journey runs from 5.30am to 8.30pm. The journey takes 15 minutes and costs €1.60. Children under six travel for free.
TAXI A taxi to the city centre costs around €25.
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barrio Santa Cruz
SLEEP Located in the heart of the
picturesque Santa Cruz barrio, Hotel
Casa 1800 (Calle Rodrigo Caro 6,
954 56 1800, hotelcasa1800sevilla.
com, rooms from €165) has fabulous
penthouse garden suites with views of
La Giralda. Otherwise, economise with
the straightforward rooms at San
Francisco (Calle Álvarez Quintero 38,
954 501 541, sanfranciscoh.com,
rooms from €65), located within
confessing distance of the cathedral.
EAT Sit in the traditional flower-
festooned courtyard at Corral del Agua
(Callejón del Agua 6, 954 224 841) and
enjoy traditional dishes like fritura
sevillana (crispy fried seafood) or oxtail.
CULTURE Escape the summer heat
at the Museo Arqueológico (Plaza de
América), displaying Roman statues,
mosaics, sculpture and artefacts,
discovered at nearby Italica. From
21-26 July the Feria de Santa Ana
takes place in Triana, with plenty
of castanet-clicking, skirt-swirling
flamenco, ice-cold fino (sherry),
dancing in the streets and an overall
fun-filled fiesta spirit.
SLEEP There are plenty of intimate
boutique guesthouses in design-
conscious Porto. In historic downtown,
Miss’ Opo (Rua dos Caldeireiros 100,
missopo.com, rooms from €85) offers
apartment living for one to six people,
alongside an excellent restaurant. For
high-end pampering, book a suite at
Rosa et Al (Rua do Rosário 233,
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EAT Hidden among old Porto’s
winding streets, Cometa (Rua
Tomás Gonzaga 87), serves modern
takes on Portuguese cuisine.
CULTURE In coastal Vila do Conde at
the end of Porto’s metro line, Curtas
(festival.curtas.pt) is a terrific short film
festival taking place from from 5-13
July. Expect live music soundtracks,
a World Cup-themed film programme
BUS Buses leave the airport for the city centre roughly every 15 minutes throughout the day (every half-hour on Sundays) from 12.45pm to 12.15am. A single ticket will cost you €4.
TAXI A taxi costs around €24 from the airport to the city centre. There’s an additional charge of €1 per bag and a surcharge of around €4 late at night and on weekends and holidays.
TOURIST INFO turismosevilla.org
METRO Line E runs from the airport to the city between 6am and 1am. The station is located just outside the terminal; the journey takes 30 minutes and costs €1.85.
TAXI A taxi to the city centre costs around €20-€25.
TOURIST INFO portoturismo.pt
SHOP Stock up on gourmet goodies
at Baco (Calle Arfe 20), a superb deli
selling everything from great wheels of
crumbly Manchego cheese to glistening
green olives and local olive oil.
LATER The most authentic
flamenco show is at Tablao El Arenal
(Calle Rodo 7), which has a more
intimate atmosphere than some of the
larger pack-in-the-punters venues.
Josephine Quintero
and an exhibition dedicated to Italian
director Michelangelo Antonioni.
SHOP A stone’s throw from the city’s
iconic Casa da Musica, the BLOOM
Concept Store (Peninsula Boutique
Center, Praça do Bom Sucesso,
peninsula.pt) is a pop-up featuring
stylish lines from Portugal’s best
young fashion designers.
LATER This month, Porto’s Rua da
Galeria de Paris turns into a veritable
street festival. Dance till late at Café
au Lait (Rua Galeria de Paris 46), grab
a drink and mingle with the crowds.
TIP Take the number 1 tram from
Infante at the edge of Porto’s Ribeira
dockside. Hop off at bourgeois
Foz for Atlantic coastline strolls and
beaches (portotramcitytour.pt).
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O n 10 June, the Belgian Red Devils took off to Brazil on a specially
wrapped Airbus A330 aircraft. Brussels Airlines flight SN2014
departed Brussels for São Paulo with the Belgian Red Devils,
150 supporters and press members on board. The aircraft stopped in
Dakar for refuelling and a crew change.
Koen Van Pottelbergh, founder of Eyes for the World, who was on board
flight SN2014 said, “This unique experience has given me goose bumps!”
If you would like to support the Belgian Red Devils at their upcoming away games, book your fan flight package on brusselsairlines.com/fanflight
NL Rode Duivels aan boord!Het Belgische voetbalelftal op vlucht SN2014 naar Brazilië
Op 10 juni vertrokken de Rode Duivels richting Brazilië in een voor de gelegenheid speciaal versierd Airbus A330-toestel. Brussels Airlines vlucht SN2014 zette koers vanuit Brussel naar São Paulo met aan boord de Rode Duivels, 150 supporters en journalisten. Het vliegtuig maakte een tussenlanding in Dakar om bij te tanken en de crew af te lossen.
“Op SN2014 heb ik echt kippenvel gekregen, zo’n unieke ervaring!” zei Koen Van Pottelbergh, oprichter van Eyes for the World.
Kom mee supporteren voor de Rode Duivels tijdens een van hun
komende uitwedstrijden en boek een Fan Flight-pakket op
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Red Devils on board!Belgian national football team on fl ight SN2014 to Brazil
FR Diables Rouges à bord ! L’équipe nationale belge de football a embarqué à bord du vol SN2014 à destination du Brésil Le 10 juin, les Diables Rouges se sont envolés vers le Brésil à bord d’un Airbus A330 décoré aux couleurs de la Belgique. Le vol Brussels Airlines SN2014 a quitté Bruxelles à destination de São Paulo avec à son bord les Diables Rouges, 150 supporters et des membres de la presse. L’appareil a fait escale à Dakar pour procéder au ravitaillement et à une rotation d’équipage.
Koen Van Pottelbergh, fondateur d’Eyes for the World, passager du vol SN2014, a déclaré ‘Cette expérience unique m’a donné la chair de poule !’.
Si vous souhaitez partir supporter les Diables Rouges lors de
leurs prochains matchs à l’étranger, réservez votre package sur
brusselsairlines.com/fanflight
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FR Le nouveau « Belgian star chef »Les menus de Thomas Locus, chef étoilé au guide Michelin, seront servis à bord des vols intercontinentaux
En tant qu’ambassadeur de la Belgique, Brussels Airlines est heureuse de mettre en avant la gastronomie belge qui rayonne sur la scène internationale. Chaque saison voit défiler un chef belge étoilé au guide Michelin qui crée un menu réalisé à base de produits locaux pour le plus grand plaisir des passagers.
D’août à décembre, nous aurons le plaisir de vous proposer les créations de Thomas Locus, Chef du restaurant étoilé le Bistro Margaux, à Sint-Martens-Bodegem. Après avoir reçu sa première étoile au guide Michelin en 2010, le Chef Locus s’est vu décerner le titre de meilleur jeune Chef de Bruxelles en 2011.
Thomas Locus a imaginé le menu Belgian Star Chefs servi en Business Class à bord de nos vols intercontinentaux vers l’Afrique et les États-Unis. Thomas Locus a revisité des plats d’inspiration classique belge à partir de produits régionaux de la province du Brabant flamand.
NL Nieuwe Belgian star chef De met een Michelinster bekroonde chef Thomas Locus werkt gerechten uit voor intercontinentale vluchten
Als ambassadeur van België is Brussels Airlines blij u in Business Class te kunnen laten proeven van de internationaal bejubelde Belgische keuken. Elk seizoen zal een met een Michelinster bekroonde Belgische chef speciale gerechten met producten uit zijn streek uitwerken om aan boord te serveren.
Dit najaar, van augustus tot september, stellen we trots de creaties voor van Thomas Locus, chef van het bekroonde restaurant Bistro Margaux in Sint-Martens-Bodegem. Het restaurant won in 2010 een Michelinster en een jaar later kreeg chef Locus de titel van Jonge Topchef van het jaar voor Brussel en omstreken.
Chef Locus werkte zijn “Belgian Star Chefs”-menu uit voor Business Class-reizigers aan boord van onze intercontinentale vluchten naar Afrika en de Verenigde Staten met streekproducten uit Vlaams-Brabant en creëerde zo klassieke Belgische gerechten met een innovatieve touch.
New Belgian star chefMichelin-starred chef Thomas Locus designs menu on board our intercontinental fl ights
As a Belgian ambassador, Brussels
Airlines is pleased to offer you a taste
of Belgium’s internationally acclaimed
cuisine. Every season, a Michelin-starred
Belgian chef will create a menu using local
products to be served on board.
From August to November this year, we are
proud to present the creations of Chef Thomas
Locus from the award-winning restaurant
Bistro Margaux in Sint-Martens-Bodegem. In
2010, the restaurant was
awarded a Michelin Star,
and the following year Chef
Locus received the title of
Young Top Chef of Brussels.
Chef Locus designed the
Belgian Star Chefs
Business Class
menu on our
intercontinental
flights to Africa
and the US using
regional products
from the Flemish
Brabant province
to create classic
Belgian dishes with
innovative touches.
The creations of Chef Thomas Locus will be available in Business Class on board our intercontinental fl ights as from August
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FR Étudier à l’étranger en toute simpliciteBrussels Airlines présente b.student, son programme pour les étudiants en échange universitaire
Les étudiants partant pour un programme d’échange à l’intérieur de l’Europe peuvent désormais bénéficier d’une nouvelle offre de Brussels Airlines. Qu’ils veuillent décoller de Bruxelles, se rendre à Bruxelles ou transiter par Bruxelles, tous les étudiants pourront bénéficier de cette offre.
Les étudiants en programme d’échange voyageant depuis ou vers Bruxelles peuvent acheter un pass b.student à €199, taxes comprises, en b.light economy. Pour les étudiants volant à l’intérieur de l’Europe, via Bruxelles, une remise de 15% sur le tarif publié est disponible.
Quelle que soit la destination en Europe, chaque pass b.student offre 52 kg de bagages (y compris 6 kg de bagages à main) et une date de retour flexible. La durée minimum de séjour est de trois mois, la durée maximum d’un an.
Qui plus est, la famille et les amis bénéficieront d’une remise de 20% pour rendre visite à l’étudiant. Cette remise est valable sur un maximum de cinq vols aller-retour en b.light economy à prendre dans la même période que le séjour de l’étudiant à l’étranger.
NL Nog gemakkelijker studeren in het buitenlandBrussels Airlines presenteert b.student, het nieuwe vluchtpakket voor uitwisselingsstudenten
Studenten die aan een uitwisselingsprogramma binnen Europa deelnemen, kunnen voortaan genieten van een nieuw aanbod van Brussels Airlines. Het aanbod geldt voor alle studenten, of ze nu vanuit Brussel vertrekken, naar Brussel komen of via Brussel willen vliegen.
Uitwisselingsstudenten die rechtstreeks naar of vanuit Brussel vliegen, kunnen een b.student vluchtpakket in b.light economy aanschaffen voor 199 euro, taksen inbegrepen. Studenten die binnen Europa vliegen via Brussel, hebben recht op een korting van 15% op de gepubliceerde prijs.
Ongeacht de bestemming in Europa biedt elk vluchtpakket 52 kg aan bagage (6 kg handbagage inbegrepen) en een flexibele terugkeerdatum. Het minimumverblijf bedraagt drie maanden en het maximumverblijf een jaar.
Maar dat is niet alles! Familie en vrienden krijgen een korting van 20% om de student te bezoeken. Die korting geldt voor maximaal vijf retourvluchten in b.light economy, in de periode dat de student in het buitenland verblijft.
S tudents going on an exchange programme
within Europe can now benefit from a new
Brussels Airlines offer. Whether they wish to
fly from Brussels, to Brussels, or via Brussels, all
students will benefit from this package.
Exchange students flying directly to or from
Brussels can purchase a b.student flight package at
€199, taxes included, in b.light economy. For those
flying within Europe, via Brussels, a 15% discount on
the published fare is available.
Wherever they are flying to in Europe, every flight
package offers 52kg of baggage (including 6kg of
hand baggage) and a flexible return date. The
minimum stay is for three months, while the
maximum stay is one year.
What’s more, family and friends will receive a 20%
discount to visit the student. This discount is valid on up
to five return flights in b.light economy to be completed
within the same period as the student’s stay abroad.
Scan this code with your smartphone to find out more about the flight package and conditions, or visit brusselsairlines.com/erasmus
Scannez ce code avec votre smartphone pour en savoir plus sur le forfait vol et les conditions ou visitez brusselsairlines.com/erasmus
Scan deze code met uw smartphone om meer te ontdekken over het vluchtpakket en de voorwaarden, of ga naar brusselsairlines.com/erasmus
Study abroad with easeBrussels Airlines presents b.student, the new fl ight package for exchange students
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FR C’est l’heure des festivals d’été !Le Brussels Summer Festival, c’est « 10 days of music … & Much More » !
Organisé en plein cœur de la ville, le Brussels Summer Festival fait partie des événements culturels les plus importants organisés dans la capitale de l’Europe. Le festival s’impose désormais comme un rendez-vous multiculturel, festif et populaire jouissant d’une renommée grandissante en Belgique et à l’étranger.
Depuis sa création en 2002, plus de mille artistes y ont déjà participé. Et cette année encore, la programmation s’annonce alléchante : à l’affiche, des artistes comme Texas, Suede, Patti Smith, Arsenal, Front 242, M, IAM, James Arthur, Milky Chance, Emiliana Torrini, Dr Lektroluv, Channel Zero, Patrice, Axel Red, Ayo, Dub Inc et bien d’autres !
Comme chaque année, le festival sera ancré dans le quartier royal à Bruxelles (Place des Palais, Place du Musée et Mont des Arts).
Le Brussels Summer Festival se tiendra du 8 au 17
août 2014. Pour en savoir plus : bsf.be
NL Summer festival funHet Brussels Summer Festival: “10 days of music & much more!”
Het Brussels Summer Festival, een festival dat plaatsvindt in hartje Brussel, is tegenwoordig een van de belangrijkste culturele evenementen in de hoofdstad van Europa. Het festival geniet een groeiende reputatie als multicultureel, feestelijk en populair evenement bij uitstek, zowel in als buiten België.
Sinds haar ontstaan in 2002 hebben al meer dan 1000 artiesten aan het festival deelgenomen. Ook dit jaar prijken enkele opvallende namen op de affiche zoals Texas, Suede, Patti Smith, Arsenal, Front 242, M, IAM, James Arthur, Milky Chance, Emiliana Torrini, Dr Lektroluv, Channel Zero, Patrice, Axel Red, Ayo, Dub Inc, en nog vele anderen!
Zoals elk jaar zal het festival plaatsvinden in de koninklijke wijk van Brussel (op het Paleizenplein, het
Museumplein en de Kunstberg).
Het Brussels Summer Festival loopt van 8 tot 17
augustus 2014. Voor meer informatie, surf naar bsf.be
Afestival you can enjoy right in the heart of the city, the Brussels Summer Festival is
one of the most important cultural events in the capital of Europe. It has firmly
established itself as a multicultural, festive and popular event, not only in Belgium
but also abroad.
Since its launch in 2002, more than 1,000 artistes have taken part in the festival. This
year’s amazing line-up includes Texas, Suede, Patti Smith, Arsenal, Front 242, M, IAM, James
Arthur, Milky Chance, Emiliana Torrini, Dr Lektroluv, Channel Zero, Patrice, Axel Red, Ayo, Dub
Inc, and so many more!
As every year, the festival will take place in the heart of the Royal Quarter in Brussels
(Place des Palais/Paleizenplein, Place du Musee/Museumplein and Mont des Arts/Kunstberg).
The Brussels Summer Festival is from 8-17 August 2014. For more information, visit bsf.be
Summer festival fun The Brussels Summer Festival promises 10 days of music and much more
Make your way to the Royal Quarter in Brussels to enjoy
the Brussels Summer Festival
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FR Faites votre shopping à Brussels Airport Et profi tez-en pour faire de bonnes affaires chez Sky Shop Duty-Free
La prochaine fois que vous décollerez de Brussels Airport, n’oubliez pas que Sky Shop Duty-Free vous garantit des prix super intéressants. Quelle que soit votre destination, vous ne payez pas l’équivalent de la TVA de 21%. De plus, chaque mois, un vaste éventail de produits vous est proposé à des prix promotionnels.
Vous y trouverez des marques renommées comme Tommy Hilfiger, Boss, Delvaux, Armani, Façonnable, Lacoste, Essentiel et Catimini, entre autres, toutes vendues 17 % moins cher par rapport aux prix pratiqués sur le marché local. Il vous suffit de consulter l’étiquette de chaque produit pour découvrir le montant de l’économie réalisée ! Il en va de même pour les montres et les bijoux.
Les parfums et cosmétiques sont proposés aux prix les plus bas. Sans oublier les Travel Exclusives que vous ne trouverez pas en ville. L’alcool est souvent présenté en bouteilles d’un litre au lieu des habituelles bouteilles de 75cl, ceci vous garantit un prix avantageux. Sans oublier la spécialité belge, les pralines de Neuhaus, Godiva et Corné Port-Royal, proposées aux prix les plus bas au monde.
Pour en savoir sur les boutiques et services à Brussels Airport, visitez
le site brusselsairport.be
NL Winkelen op Brussels Airport En doe bij Sky Shop Duty-Free een goede zaak
Wanneer u nog eens via Brussels Airport reist, ga dan zeker even langs bij Sky Shop Duty-Free, want hier garanderen ze u zeer interessante prijzen. Bij Sky Shop Duty-Free geniet u van een korting ter waarde van de 21% BTW, ongeacht uw bestemming. Sterker nog, u kunt zich verheugen op een veelheid van producten die elke maand voor u in de aanbieding staan.
U vindt er bekende merken zoals Tommy Hilfiger, Boss, Delvaux, Armani, Façonnable, Lacoste, Essentiel en Catimini tegen prijzen die 17% lager zijn dan op de lokale markt. Ontdek dus zeker op de prijskaartjes hoeveel u kan besparen. Dezelfde voorwaarden gelden voor horloges en juwelen.
Ook parfums en cosmetica worden u tegen de laagste prijzen aangeboden. En vergeet zeker het exclusieve travel assortiment niet dat u in de stad niet terug vindt. U vindt er alcohol in voordelige 1-literflessen in plaats van de traditionele flessen van 75 cl. En ook de echte Belgische pralines van Neuhaus, Godiva en Corné Port-Royal zijn te vinden op de luchthaven en dit tegen de laagste prijzen ter wereld.
Surf voor meer informatie over de winkels en diensten in
Brussels Airport naar brusselsairport.be
T he next time you travel via Brussels Airport,
be sure to visit the Sky Shop Duty-Free
shops, which offer great value for money.
Wherever your final destination, you’ll enjoy a
discount of the local consumption tax (VAT). What’s
more, you can look forward to a large selection of
products on promotion monthly.
Well-known brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Boss,
Delvaux, Armani, Façonnable, Lacoste, Essentiel,
and Catimini, among others, are offered at a 17%
discount compared to the local market. Simply
check the price tags to discover how much you’ll
be saving! The same conditions apply to watches
and jewellery.
Perfumes and cosmetics are offered at the lowest
prices. You can also find travel exclusives which are
not available on the local market. Alcohol comes
packaged in a one-litre bottle instead of the usual
75cl bottles, offering you better value for money.
And of course, you’ll find exclusive Belgian pralines
like Neuhaus, Godiva and Corné Port-Royal at the
lowest prices in the world.
To find out more about shops
and services at Brussels Airport,
visit brusselsairport.be
Shopping at Brussels AirportSky Shop Duty-Free offers great deals
Time for good buys
Enjoy great discounts when you shop at Sky Shop
Duty-Free shops
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Share your expertiseVoluntary experts needed for Ex-Change projects
Ex-Change, a Belgium-based not-for-profit
organisation, is helping African businesses reach
the next level by matching experts from Europe
with entrepreneurs in Africa. Be it in the field of
organisation development, logistics and supply chain
management or production planning, among others,
volunteers with Ex-Change will offer short-term
professional support to help guide their African
counterparts.
Annually, Ex-Change matches more than 200 voluntary
experts with small and medium enterprises in more than
15 developing nations. These companies have a direct
impact on the local population, with more than 13,000
employees and their families benefitting from these
knowledge exchange projects.
An ideal Ex-Change volunteer would have a proven track
record of more than 10 years in a professional field, a good
command of French or English, an open mind as well as an
interest in other cultures and the ability to adapt to a new
environment quickly. Volunteers should also be willing to
work with the entrepreneur in a respectful manner.
For more information on how to become an Ex-Change
volunteer, visit ex-change.be
Scan this code with your smartphone to find out more about b.foundation, or visit brusselsairlines.com/CSR
Scannez ce code à l’aide de votre smartphone pour en savoir plus sur b.foundation, ou rendez-vous brusselsairlines.com/CSR
Scan deze code met uw smartphone om meer te vernemen over b.foundation, of surf naar brusselsairlines.com/CSR
FR Partagez vos connaissancesEx-Change recherche des experts bénévoles pour ses projets
Ex-Change, une association belge à but non lucratif, contribue au développement des entreprises en Afrique en mettant en rapport des experts venus d’Europe avec des entrepreneurs africains. Que ce soit dans le domaine, entre autres, du développement de l’organisation, de la logistique et de la gestion de la chaîne d’approvisionnement ou de la planification de la production, les bénévoles qui collaborent avec Ex-Change offrent un appui professionnel à court terme pour venir en aide à leurs homologues africains.
Chaque année, Ex-Change met ainsi en rapport plus de 200 experts bénévoles avec des petites et moyennes entreprises dans plus de quinze pays en développement. Ces entreprises ont un impact direct sur la population locale, puisque ces projets d’échange de connaissances profitent à plus de 13 000 travailleurs ainsi qu’à leurs familles.
Le bénévole Ex-Change idéal dispose d’une expérience attestée de plus de dix ans dans sa spécialité, d’une bonne connaissance du français et de l’anglais ; il a l’esprit curieux et éveillé, s’intéresse aux autres cultures et est capable de s’adapter rapidement à un nouvel environnement. Les bénévoles sont également disposés à travailler avec l’entrepreneur dans le respect de l’autre.
Pour de plus amples informations sur la manière de devenir bénévole pour Ex-Change, visitez le site ex-change.be
NL Deel uw expertiseVrijwillige experts gezocht voor Ex-Change-projecten
Ex-Change, een in België gevestigde non-profitorganisatie, helpt bedrijven in Afrika naar een hoger niveau te tillen door experts uit Europa ter beschikking te stellen van ondernemers in Afrika. Ex-Change-vrijwilligers begeleiden hun Afrikaanse beroepsgenoten door op korte termijn professionele ondersteuning te bieden in onder meer organisatieontwikkeling, logistiek en supply chain management of productieplanning.
Ex-Change stelt jaarlijks meer dan 200 vrijwillige experts ter beschikking van kleine en middelgrote ondernemingen in meer dan 15 ontwikkelingslanden. Dankzij de rechtstreekse impact van deze ondernemingen op de plaatselijke bevolking, ondervinden ruim 13.000 werknemers en hun families voordeel van deze projecten voor het uitwisselen van kennis en ervaring.
De ideale Ex-Changevrijwilliger beschikt over minstens 10 jaar relevante ervaring in een vakgebied, heeft een goede beheersing van het Frans of Engels, heeft een open geest en interesse voor andere culturen en kan zich snel aanpassen aan een nieuwe omgeving. Vrijwilligers moeten ook bereid zijn om op een respectvolle manier samen te werken met de ondernemer.
Wilt u Ex-Changevrijwilliger worden? Surf dan naar ex-change.be voor meer informatie
Volunteers with Ex-Change share
their expertise and offer short-term
professional support
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Whether you want premium Business Class service, time-saving and total fl exibility, or the lowest fare guarantee† to our European destinations, Brussels Airlines has just the ticket for you. Check out which option suits you best...
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■ From €99* return, taxes included
■ No refund possible
■ Yes, for check-in online
■ 60 minutes before departure 1
■ 1 piece of 23kgs checked + 6kgs hand luggage (1 piece), ski equipment for free 2/3
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■ For sale on board (see menu card)
■ No lounge access 6
■ 125 or 750 status miles per flight depending on fare level
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■ Subject to availability, €60 change fee + difference between old and new fare
Fares
Cancellation possibility
Pre-flight seat selection
Latest check-in
Luggage allowance
Access through security via Fast Lane 4
Priority check-in
Premium seating
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Footnotes (1) Check-in times can vary depending on destination (2) Miles & More Frequent Traveller members are entitled to one extra piece of 23kgs checked luggage in Economy Class when travelling on a Miles & More carrier (3) Miles & More HON Circle and Senator as well as Star Alliance Gold members are entitled to one extra piece of 23kgs checked luggage and 1 golf bag (4) For Business Class, b.business and b.flex economy+ passengers; Miles & More HON Circle and Senator members
(irrespective of class flown); Star Alliance Gold members (4a) Excluding Star Alliance Gold members (5) Business Class passengers (incl. b.business), Miles & More HON Circle and Star Alliance Gold members only (6) Free for Miles & More Frequent Traveller in Lufthansa Group lounges, and for Star Alliance Gold members in Star Alliance lounges (7) Change to an earlier flight only permitted at the airport on the day of departure (8) If same fare category or lower is no longer available, then a fare differential is charged. Fully flexible fare category available.
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ECONOMY CLASS
■ Flexible premium economy fares
■ Fully refundable if cancelled prior to departure
■ Yes
■ 40 minutes before departure 1
■ 1 piece of 23kgs checked + 12kgs hand luggage (1 piece), ski equipment for free 2/3
■ Basel, Birmingham, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Geneva, Hamburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan Linate/Malpensa 4a, Moscow, Oslo, Paris CDG 5, Porto, Prague, Rome, Turin, Venice, Vienna and Vilnius
■ Yes
■ Middle seat free if possible
■ Free
■ Free snacks and drinks
■ €15 (access only available at Brussels) 6
■ Up to 1,250 status miles per flight
■ Free if seats available upon departure
■ Free subject to availability within the same fare category 8
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Dedicated product for corporate travellers, offering best value for money (flexibility, time saving and onboard service)
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■ Business Class return fares
■ Fully refundable if cancelled prior to departure
■ Yes
■ 40 minutes before departure 1
■ 2 pieces of 32kgs each checked + total 16kgs hand luggage (max 2 pieces), ski equipment for free 3
■ Basel, Birmingham, Bologna, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Geneva, Hamburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan Linate/ Malpensa 4a, Moscow, Oslo, Paris CDG 5, Porto, Prague, Rome, Turin, Venice, Vienna and Vilnius
■ Dedicated b.business check-in at Brussels
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■ Free
■ Gourmet dining service, champagne
■ Free
■ 2,000 status miles per flight
■ Free
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check-in
Online check-inSaves time at the airport■ Visit checkin.brusselsairlines.com to check-in.
Remember to print the pdf version of your
boarding card.
■ Once at the airport, drop baggage off at Brussels Airlines
Baggage Drop Off points, and proceed to the gate.
■ Available from 24 hours to one hour before
your flight.
Mobile check-inIdeal for busy people on the move■ Visit m.brusselsairlines.com from your web-
enabled mobile device. The boarding pass will be
sent to your mobile device as a 2D barcode, which
can then be scanned at many locations in airports.
■ Once at the airport, drop baggage off at
Brussels Airlines Baggage Drop Off points,
and proceed to the gate.
■ Available from 24 hours to one hour before
your flight.
Express check-in Fast and simple ■ Speed through check-in by using the check-in
kiosks at the airport.
■ This service is available at Brussels Airport and
selected European airports.
Self-service baggage drop-off ■ Have your printed or mobile boarding pass ready.
■ Weigh and label your baggage in less than
one minute.
■ Available at Brussels Airport Departures Hall,
near check-in row 5.
Return check-inAdded convenience ■ If you’re returning within 24 hours and have a
confirmed booking, you can check in for your
outbound and return flights at the same time.
Simple, sûr et efficaceEnregistrement en ligne Gagnez du temps à l’aéroport ■ Enregistrez-vous depuis Internet sur checkin.brusselsairlines.com. N’oubliez pas
d’imprimer votre carte d’embarquement au format pdf.
■ Une fois à l’aéroport, rendez-vous à l’un des points Bagages Drop Off de Brussels Airlines pour
y déposer vos bagages. Dirigez-vous ensuite directement vers la porte d’embarquement.
■ Disponible entre 24 heures et 1 heure avant le départ de votre vol.
Enregistrement Mobile Idéal pour les personnes toujours en mouvement ■ En surfant sur m.brusselsairlines.com depuis votre appareil
mobile, vous pouvez recevoir directement votre carte
d’embarquement sous forme d’un code barre 2D qui sera
scanné à l’aéroport.
■ Rendez-vous alors à l’aéroport à l’un des points Bagages Drop Off de
Brussels Airlines pour y déposer vos bagages. Dirigez-vous ensuite
directement vers la porte d’embarquement.
■ Disponible entre 24 heures et 1 heure avant le départ de votre vol.
Express Check-in Simple et rapide■ Evitez les files d’attente en utilisant les bornes d’enregistrement à l’aéroport.
■ Ce service est disponible à Brussels Airport ainsi que dans une sélection
d’aéroports européens.
Système d’enregistrement des bagages en self-service ■ Préparez votre carte d’embarquement imprimée ou mobile.
■ Pesez et étiquetez vos bagages en moins d’une minute.
■ Disponible dans le Hall des départs de Brussels Airport, à proximité de la rangée
d’enregistrement 5.
Enregistrement de votre vol retour Un service pratique■ Si votre vol retour est prévu dans les prochaines 24 heures et que votre réservation est
confirmée, alors vous pouvez vous enregistrer en même temps sur les vols aller et retour.
Eenvoudig en zonder zorgenOnline check-in Bespaar tijd op de luchthaven ■ Check in via checkin.brusselsairlines.com en print uw
instapkaart af.
■ Op de luchthaven zet u uw bagage af aan één van de drop-off points
van Brussels Airlines en loopt u meteen door naar de gate.
■ Beschikbaar vanaf 24 uur tot 1 uur voor het vertrek van uw vlucht.
Mobile check-in Ideaal voor drukbezette mensen die vaak onderweg zijn ■ Surf met uw smartphone naar m.brusselsairlines.com en check in.
De instapkaart zal als een streepjescode in 2D naar uw telefoon
verzonden worden. Deze code kan vervolgens gescand worden op
vele plaatsen in luchthavens.
■ Op de luchthaven zet u uw bagage af aan één van de drop-off points
van Brussels Airlines en loopt u meteen door naar de gate.
■ Beschikbaar vanaf 24 uur tot 1 uur voor het vertrek van uw vlucht.
Express Check-in Snel en eenvoudig ■ Snel door de check-in dankzij de check-in automaten op de luchthaven.
■ Deze dienst is beschikbaar op Brussels Airport en verscheidene
Europese luchthavens.
Self check-in van uw bagage ■ Scan uw afgedrukte of mobiele instapkaart aan de
Scan & Fly machines.
■ Weeg en label uw bagage in minder dan een minuut.
■ Beschikbaar in de vertrekhal van Brussels Airport, aan check-in rij 5.
Return Check-in Extra comfort ■ Indien u binnen de 24 uur terugkeert en uw boeking reeds
bevestigd is, kunt u tegelijkertijd inchecken voor uw heen-
en terugvlucht.
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For your safety and comfortWelcome on board our fl ight today and thank you for choosing Brussels Airlines. Please read the information below regarding smoking and safety regulations on board. Should you have any questions, please ask your cabin attendant.
Electronic devices updated Handheld electronic devices can be used in flight safe mode during all phases of the flight, unless advised otherwise by the crew. Laptops may remain in flight safe mode throughout the flight but must be stowed for take-off and landing. Mobile phones and other transmitting electronic devices (for example GPS locators, radios, remote control toys, etc.) that cannot be put into the flight safe mode must be switched off for the duration of the flight.
SmokingIn accordance with government regulations, smoking is not permitted on any Brussels Airlines flight. Passengers should be aware that there are smoke detectors in the aircraft’s toilets and that any breach of this rule may incur penalties. Additionally, please note that electronic cigarettes are prohibited on board all our flights.
Safety proceduresYou will find an information sheet on safety procedures in your seat pocket. Please read it carefully and please listen attentively to all safety announcements and instructions from the crew.
AlcoholPassengers are not allowed to consume alcohol they have brought with them or bought on board. Alcohol may be served on board, but our cabin crew will not serve any passenger who they feel has already had too much to drink.
Pour votre sécurité et votre confortNous vous souhaitons la bienvenue à bord de notre vol, et vous remercions d’avoir choisi Brussels Airlines. Veuillez lire les informations suivantes concernant les consignes de sécurité et l’interdiction de fumer à bord. Pour toute question, n’hésitez pas à vous adresser à notre personnel navigant.
Appareils électroniques mise à jour Les appareils électroniques portatifs peuvent être utilisés en mode avion durant toutes les phases du vol, sauf ordre contraire de l’équipage. Le mode avion doit également être activé pour les ordinateurs portables, mais ceux-ci doivent être rangés durant le décollage et l’atterrissage. Les téléphones mobiles et autres dispositifs de transmission (GPS, radios, jouets télécommandés, etc…) qui ne peuvent être utilisés en mode avion doivent être éteints pour la durée du vol.
Interdiction de fumerConformément aux réglementations gouvernementales, tous les vols Brussels Airlines sont entièrement non-fumeurs. Nous rappelons aux passagers que les toilettes de l’avion sont équipées de détecteurs de fumée, et que toute infraction à ce règlement peut entraîner une amende. Veuillez également noter que les cigarettes électroniques ne sont pas autorisées sur nos vols.
Procédures de sécuritéVous trouverez dans la poche de votre siège une fiche d’information concernant les procédures de sécurité. Veuillez lire cette fiche et écouter attentivement toutes les annonces et instructions de l’équipage en matière de sécurité.
AlcoolLes passagers ne sont pas autorisés à consommer l’alcool qu’ils ont emporté ou acheté à bord. De l’alcool peut être servi dans l’avion, mais notre équipage refusera de servir tout passager qu’il soupçonne d’avoir déjà trop bu.
Voor uw veiligheid en comfortWe verwelkomen u graag aan boord van deze vlucht en danken u om te vliegen met Brussels Airlines. Lees aandachtig onderstaande informatie over roken en veiligheid aan boord. Als u vragen heeft, kunt u die stellen aan het cabinepersoneel.
Elektronische apparaten Aangepast Draagbare elektronische apparaten kunnen aan boord tijdens alle fasen van de vlucht worden gebruikt op voorwaarde dat de “vliegtuigmodus” is ingeschakeld, tenzij anders geadviseerd door de bemanning. Laptops mogen in “vliegtuigmodus” blijven gedurende de vlucht, maar moeten voor het opstijgen en de landing worden opgeborgen. Mobiele telefoons en andere elektronische apparaten die radiogolven uitzenden (bijvoorbeeld GPS, radio, speelgoed met afstandsbediening, enz.) en die niet de mogelijkheid hebben om de “vliegtuigmodus” in te schakelen, moeten voor de volledige duur van de vlucht worden uitgeschakeld.
RokenIn overeenstemming met de Belgische wetgeving is roken verboden op alle vluchten van Brussels Airlines. Wij wijzen u erop dat de toiletten aan boord zijn uitgerust met rookdetectoren. Een inbreuk op het rookverbod kan bestraft worden. Tevens wijzen wij u erop dat het gebruik van elektronische sigaretten verboden is aan boord van al onze vluchten.
VeiligheidsproceduresU vindt een informatieblad over de veiligheidsprocedures in het opbergzakje voor u. Lees het zorgvuldig en luister aandachtig naar alle veiligheidsmededelingen en instructies van het cabinepersoneel.
AlcoholPassagiers mogen geen alcohol gebruiken die ze hebben meegebracht of aan boord hebben gekocht. Alcohol kan aan boord worden geserveerd, maar ons cabinepersoneel zal geen alcohol schenken aan passagiers die volgens hen al voldoende hebben gedronken.
Useful telephone numbers in Europe112 (emergency services requiring an ambulance, fire brigade or police); Child Focus 116 000 (missing children hotline)
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Better than the real thingDiscover the best in comfort
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Your personal wellbeing on boardNowadays, for many passengers, fl ying regularly is part of life. However, the body is sensitive to change and fl ying still isn’t part of a normal daily rhythm. Brussels Airlines cares about your comfort, so here are a couple of hints on how to keep your body happy and healthy in the air.
Before■ Drink plenty of water and avoid excessive intake of
alcohol, coffee and tea
■ Take time to have a stroll around the terminal after
check-in
■ A light snack is fine, but avoid heavy meals
before flying
■ Dress in loose, comfortable clothing
■ Apply moisturiser to keep your skin feeling fresh
During■ Drink plenty of water and avoid excessive intake of
alcohol, coffee and tea
■ Exercise helps you avoid cramps and is good for
circulation, even on short flights (see below)
■ Don’t eat too much
ExercisesStretch and flex your leg muscles, as well as your
arms, shoulders and neck, from time to time. This
will improve your general level of comfort and
stimulate your circulation. Stretch and rotate
your ankles and legs while sitting in your seat.
Votre bien-être à bordDe nos jours, il est de plus en plus courant de prendre l’avion régulièrement. Cependant, le corps est sensible aux changements, et voler implique toujours une modifi cation du rythme normal. Pour Brussels Airlines, la question de votre confort est une priorité. Voici donc quelques conseils pour garder un corps léger et équilibré jusque dans les airs.
Avant■ Buvez beaucoup d’eau, évitez une consommation
excessive d’alcool, de café et de thé
■ Prenez le temps de vous balader un peu dans
l’aérogare après l’enregistrement
■ N’hésitez pas à prendre un en-cas léger, mais évitez
les repas trop lourds avant d’embarquer
■ Portez des vêtements amples et confortables
■ Appliquez une crème hydratante pour garder une
peau fraîche
Pendant■ Buvez beaucoup d’eau, évitez une consommation
excessive d’alcool, de café et de thé
■ Faire de l’exercice permet d’éviter les crampes et est
excellent pour la circulation. Essayez les exercices
décrits ci-dessous
■ Ne mangez pas trop
ExercicesEtirez et fléchissez de temps à autre les muscles
de vos jambes, vos bras, vos épaules et votre
nuque. Cela améliorera votre confort général tout
en stimulant votre circulation. Etirez et dessinez de
petits cercles avec vos chevilles et vos jambes
lorsque vous êtes assis.
Uw persoonlijk comfort aan boardVandaag maakt vliegen voor heel wat passagiers deel uit van het dagelijkse leven. Ons lichaam is echter gevoelig voor verandering en vliegen kan ons dagritme danig in de war brengen. Uw welzijn ligt Brussels Airlines nauw aan het hart. Daarom geven we u enkele tips om ook in de lucht uw lichaam fi t en gezond te houden.
Vooraf■ Drink veel water en vermijd overmatig gebruik van
alcohol, koffie en thee
■ Neem de tijd om na het inchecken even door de
terminal te wandelen
■ Een lichte snack mag, maar eet niet te zwaar vóór u
het vliegtuig neemt
■ Draag losse, comfortabele kleding
■ Gebruik een vochtinbrengende crème zodat
uw huid fris aanvoelt
Tijdens■ Drink veel water en vermijd overmatig gebruik van
alcohol, koffie en thee
■ Oefeningen voorkomen krampen en zijn goed voor de
bloedsomloop. Probeer onderstaande oefeningen
■ Eet niet te veel
OefeningenStrek en buig nu en dan uw benen, armen,
schouders en nek. U zult er zich beter door
voelen en het stimuleert de bloedsomloop.
Strek en draai uw enkels en benen terwijl u in
uw stoel zit.
Stretch and rotate your ankles and legs while seated . Flex and stretch your calf muscles , as well as your arms , shoulders and neck periodically. This will improve your general level of comfort and stimulate your circulation.
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in the air
Airbus A319short haul flights
Number 16Seats 141Wingspan 34.10 m
Length 33.84 mHeight 11.76 mCruising speed 850 km/h
Number 6Seats 168Wingspan 34.10 m
Length 37.57 mHeight 11 mCruising speed 850 km/h
Airbus A320short haul flights
Number 5Seats 284Wingspan 60.30 m
Length 63.66 mHeight 16.91 mCruising speed 870 km/h
Airbus A330-300long haul flights
Number 12Seats 97Wingspan 26.30 m
Length 31.00 mHeight 8.50 mCruising speed 755 km/h
Avro RJ100short haul flights
brusselsairlines.com
Number 3Seats 268Wingspan 60.30 m
Length 58.40 mHeight 17.80 mCruising speed 870 km/h
Airbus A330-200long haul flights
Brussels Airlines aircraft are a regular sight taking off and landing at Brussels Airport as well as at the 70 destinations we serve across Europe, Africa and the United States. Check our fl eet line-up to fi nd out more about the aircraft you’re fl ying on
Number 1Seats 82Wingspan 26.30 m
Length 28.30 mHeight 8.50 mCruising speed 755 km/h
Avro RJ85short haul flights
Number 3Seats 76-78Wingspan 28.42 m
Length 32.84 mHeight 8.34 mMax speed 667 km/h
Bombardier DH8-Q400short haul flights
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Until 29.09.2014 you can book your Brussels Airlines award
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Jusqu’au 29.09.2014 vous pouvez réserver votre billet Prime
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Tot 29.09.2014 kunt u uw Brussels Airlines award ticket
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Book your Brussels Airlines flight award to/from
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Réservez votre billet Prime avec Brussels Airlines de/vers
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Connect more smoothlyThe Star Alliance network ensures you a convenient, smooth and effi cient worldwide travel experience
■ The Star Alliance network is a group of 26 airlines
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BolognaVenice
Milan
Toulouse Marseille
Rome Bari
Malta
Porto
Lisbon
Faro Malaga
Madrid Barcelona
LondonHeathrow
Krakow
Riga
Ljubljana
EdinburghVilnius
Naples
Hannover
Zagreb
Tallinn
Kiev
Wroclaw
Gdansk
Poznan
Helsinki
Florence
Catania
PalermoAlicante
BastiaAjaccio
Figari
Montpellier
Cagliari
Seville
Newcastle
Umea
Sweden
CHINA
Beijing
Abu Dhabi
united arab emirates
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1 destination in China Beijingin codeshare with Hainan Airlines
2 destinations
in the Middle East
Abu Dhabi in codeshare with
Etihad Airways
Tel Avivfl own by Brussels Airlines
and also in codeshare with Lufthansa 2Brussels Airlines
destinations in the USDaily fl ight to New York JFK; up to fi ve times weekly to Washington Dulles
connections to more than destinations in the us and canada in codeshare with Star Alliance partners
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Codeshare partners
Mbuji-Mayi
Nairobi
Luanda
Kinshasa
AbidjanMonrovia
Freetown
Banjul
Conakry
Dakar
Casablanca
YaoundéDouala
Kigali
Entebbe
Bujumbura
Accra
Marrakech
Agadir
NIGERIA
ALGERIA
LIBYA EGYPT
SUDAN
KENYA
TANZANIA
ZAMBIAANGOLA
ZIMBABWENAMIBIA
BOTSWANA
SOUTH AFRICA
DEMOCRATICREPUBLIC OFTHE CONGO
CENTRALAFRICAN REPUBLIC
UGANDA
M
OZAMBIQU
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CONGO
CAMEROON
CHAD
GHANA
MALI
GUINEA
LIBERIA
SENEGAL
MAURITANIA
IVORYCOAST
SIERRALEONE
GAMBIA
GABON
NIGER
EQUAT.GUINEA
GUINEABISSAU
DJIBOUTI
TUNISIA
SOMALIA
MOROCCO
TOG
OB
EN
IN
MALAWI
ERITREA
RWANDA
BURUNDI
ETHIOPIA
BURKINA FASO
Johannesburg
Cairo
Abuja
LagosPort Harcourt
LoméCotonou
Ouagadougou
SOUTHSUDAN
Lubumbashi
INDIA
Mumbai
Delhi
2 destinations in IndiaDelhi & Mumbaiin codeshare with Jet Airways
THAILAND
MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE
Bangkok
2 destinations in Southeast Asia Bangkokin codeshare with Thai Airways
Singaporein codeshare with Lufthansa
19 Brussels Airlines destinations in AfricaAbidjan, Agadir, Banjul, Bujumbura, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Entebbe, Freetown, Kigali, Kinshasa, Lomé, Luanda, Marrakech, Monrovia, Nairobi, Ouagadougou & Yaoundé
3 Korongo Airlines destinations (operated by Brussels Airlines)
Johannesburg, Lubumbashi & Mbuji-Mayi
9 codeshare destinations in africaCasablanca (with Royal Air Maroc); Abuja, Accra, Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda & Port Harcourt (with Lufthansa); Cairo (with Egyptair); Nairobi (with SWISS)
LegendBrussels Airlines destinationBrussels Airlines destination (as from end October)Korongo AirlinesdestinationCodesharedestination
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Located mid-way between Amsterdam and Paris, 1.5 hours from Brussels, and 1 hour from Reims and Luxembourg city, Moulin Hideux is the perfect spot for complete relaxation.
Julien and Yolande Lahire welcome you to their elegant 17th century mill, the oldest member of the Relais & Chateaux chain.
After an invigorating walk in the forest, take a swim in the indoor pool, then enjoy
smoking lounge.
cuisine inspired by this beautiful region, with a special focus on game meat.
Enjoy your stay in one of the 12 cosy rooms available.
Auberge du Moulin HideuxB-6831 Noirefontaine - T +32 (0)61 46 70 15
[email protected] - www.moulinhideux.be
Julien Lahire presents
Business Class meals on board Brussels Airlines’
long-haul network
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at the airport
Transport to/from Brussels AirportCar rental The car rental companies are located in the arrivals hall
on level 2. To return your car, follow the signage at Brussels Airport for Front
Park 1. Returning your car is simple and should take no longer than 10 minutes.
Taxis Taxis are continuously available outside the arrivals hall on level 2. We
advise you to use official taxis carrying a yellow/blue licence emblem. Wheelchair
users can reserve a taxi with Taxi Hendricks via tel. +32 (0)2 752 9800 or hendriks.be
Buses The bus station is located on level 0 and provides bus services to
many cities around Brussels Airport. For more information you can contact:
■ De Lijn: tel. +32 (0)70 220 200 or delijn.be
■ MIVB/STIB: tel. +32 (0)7 023 2000 or stib.be
■ Airport Express: Antwerp–Brussels Airport–Antwerp: tel. +32 (0)52 334 000
or airportexpress.be
■ Royal Dutch Coaches: Brussels Airport–Rotterdam –The Hague:
royaldutchcoach.nl
Trains The train station is located on level -1. The Brussels Airport
Express takes you up to four times an hour to the centre of Brussels
in 15 minutes. From there you can connect to the Belgian and international
rail networks. For more information please contact NMBS/SNCB via
tel. +32 (0)2 753 2440 or b-rail.be
Lost, found and refused objects■ In the terminal: go to the information desk in the arrivals hall on level 2
(open: 6am-midnight). For more information, tel. 0900-70 000 daily 7am-10pm
■ Left on board: go to the Brussels Airlines desk in the baggage reclaim area or
email [email protected]; Lost baggage: go to the Brussels Airlines
desk in the baggage reclaim area
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BESIDE GATE B16
BRUSSELS AIRLINESSALES & TICKETING
BRUSSELS AIRLINESCHECK-IN
BRUSSELS AIRLINESBAGGAGE SERVICES
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GATES B01-B40
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wifi
Brussels Airlines
Services
Restaurants & bars
Shops
Tickets & airline services
Airline lounges
Relaxation Zone
Wi-Fi is available in all areas of thepassenger terminal and the piers
Check-in rows
Baggage reclaim area
Brussels Airport, the home base of Brussels Airlines, is tailored to suit the needs of all passengers whether they require a full-service product or are low-fare seekers. International surveys and ratings have shown that Brussels Airport is one of the most welcoming and effi cient in the world
Discover the new Java Coffee House in the Arrivals hall
TransfersAll flights from non-Schengen countries arrive at B-Gates; all flights from Schengen countries depart from A-Gates
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Helena CostaA football manager with a very good track record, as varied and cosmopolitan as
the modern era demands: youth development work, scouting, coaching at
international level, all the boxes are ticked on this CV. This particular job applicant,
however, made history when French Ligue 2 side Clermont Foot appointed Helena Costa
as their new head in May.
It’s the highest level of professional football at which a woman has ever been given the job of running a men’s
senior first team. Portuguese-born Costa holds a Masters in Sports Science and a UEFA ‘A’ coaching licence. She
began her career coaching youth teams at
one of Lisbon’s great clubs, Benfica.
Later, the women’s game gave her the
chance to work with both Qatar and Iran
while, at the same time, scouting European
talent for Scottish giants Celtic.
Costa now faces her biggest challenge,
one that will inevitably play out in a glare of
publicity. It’s a challenge her journey thus far
suggests she – and her new club – are ready to
meet. For now, history can wait. There’s a new
football season to prepare for, after all: the job
Helena Costa has come to Clermont to do.
clermontfoot.com
the athlete
The Commonwealth GamesThe hottest ticket of the month is the one that gets you
into the World Cup Final on 13 July. But right now those are rarer than gold dust. Yet
just a week after the biggest tournament of them all closes in Rio, the sporting world’s
attention switches to Glasgow (a 45-minute hop from Edinburgh Airport) and a global
event altogether more accessible in every respect.
The Commonwealth Games open on
23 July with a grand ceremony at the
place the locals call Paradise: Celtic Park,
home of Celtic FC. The Games run until
3 August, and 17 sporting disciplines will
be contested at 24 venues across the
city and in the immediate countryside.
While many of the Olympic and
World Championship big guns won’t
be involved, the level of competition
remains incredibly high. And the slightly
parochial Commonwealth dimension gives the Games a significantly more relaxed
feel. Some events will be accessible without tickets; others – like the track cycling at
the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome – will see tickets in great demand. The good news is that
the Games are an event that takes over the host city for the duration: just being in
Glasgow this month will mean you’ll become a part of them and made to feel welcome
in this exceptionally friendly city. glasgow2014.com
Swim BrusselsThere may not be tours of the
loveliest swimming pools in
Brussels, but there should be,
as the experience would offer an
opportunity to travel back through a century of the city’s history.
There are few cities with as many pools as the Belgian capital:
19 in the city itself and a dozen more in the suburbs. Several are worth
visiting just to get a feel for times past: the oldest, built in 1904, is the
Piscine Communale d’Ixelles and still open to the public.
The art deco Piscine Victor Boin in St-Gilles is a decadent place
in which to take a dip, and the modernist masterpiece that is the
Neptunium in Schaerbeek will have swimmers back-stroking just to
take in its cathedral-like proportions. There’s also the very 1950s Bains
du Centre where you can swim three storeys up, overlooking the city.
Brussels has 50-metre pools too, of course, including the Piscine
Woluwe St Pierre, and a water park, the Océade, to the north of town.
The city lays claim to the world’s deepest indoor pool, although the
Nemo 33 has been designed for divers, not swimmers. Swim shorts
and bare heads are outlawed so men will need trunks and everyone a
swim cap. swimmersguide.com
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