With over 45 million people passing through its concourses in 2010, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is such a major hub that it’s actually self-classified as an “airport city.” But if that sounds like a crowded, oppressive super-plex right out of Blade Runner, think again. The Dutch have long been getting it right when it comes to […]
Transportation
Natural Methods to Combat Jet Lag
Traveling in the age of commercial airliners is a true miracle, transporting you across continents and time zones at a rate that would astound our ancestors. But with the dream of flight comes the reality of jet lag. Jet lag disrupts your circadian rhythms, the internal body clock that tells you when you’re supposed to […]
Local Flavor: VW Bus = rolling coffee shop
[adsenseyu2] You gotta love the Thai ingenuity. I happened upon this mobile coffee unit while strolling near the moat that surrounds Chiang Mai’s old city. While I’d seen the VW bus employed in this way as a cocktail bar in Thailand before, coffee seems to be the more popular beverage-on-white-walls these days. Using a high-end […]