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NY<br />
FROM HARLEM TO BROOKLYN,<br />
AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO<br />
THE BIG APPLE<br />
brussels airlines’ inflight magazine issue 67 | <strong>june</strong> <strong>2012</strong>
welcome MAAKT<br />
a month of good news<br />
We are pleased to tell you that <strong>2012</strong> so far has seen us welcome an increasing number of passengers each month. In addition, we recently<br />
won the Network Development Short Haul Aviation Award given out by Brussels Airport, our base, in recognition of our efforts to grow our<br />
European traffic. In turn, we would like to applaud the airport and the Belgian rail network for the enormous infrastructure project that will<br />
offer passengers a direct connection between the airport and the historic port city of Antwerp, and beyond to the Netherlands.<br />
And of course, the big news this summer is that we now fly direct between Brussels Airport and New York JFK. In recent months, we have<br />
welcomed many reservations for this transatlantic flight and are delighted that our competitive fares and the introduction of a high-level, welcoming<br />
Belgian inflight experience are popular with so many of you.<br />
The second big news is the brand new cabin on our long-haul aircraft to New York and Africa. The response from both Business and Economy Class<br />
passengers who have experienced our new product on board the three refurbished aircraft has been most enthusiastic. We will continue to install the<br />
premium beds and ergonomic seats, the state-of-the-art inflight entertainment system and the magnificent 3D flight course technology on the rest of<br />
our long-haul fleet throughout the year.<br />
I would like to thank you for your loyalty and wish you a wonderful month ahead.<br />
Bernard Gustin CEO<br />
Un mois de bonnes nouvelles<br />
Chez Brussels Airlines, nous avons de nombreuses bonnes nouvelles à partager avec<br />
vous. Depuis le début de l’année <strong>2012</strong>, nous avons accueilli chaque mois un nombre<br />
croissant de passagers. Nous venons en outre d’être récompensés du Network<br />
Development Short Haul Aviation Award par Brussels Airport, notre base, pour les efforts de<br />
développement de notre trafic européen. A notre tour, nous tenons à féliciter l’aéroport et le<br />
réseau ferroviaire belge pour leur extraordinaire projet d’infrastructure, qui offrira aux passagers<br />
une connexion directe avec la ville portuaire d’Anvers, et au-delà avec les Pays-Bas.<br />
Mais revenons sur la grande nouveauté qui verra le jour cet été : nous relierons désormais<br />
directement Brussels Airport et New York JFK. Nous avons déjà enregistré un nombre conséquent<br />
de réservations pour ce vol transatlantique et nous sommes heureux de constater que nos<br />
tarifs compétitifs ainsi que la possibilité de choisir les meilleurs standards de confort d’une<br />
compagnie belge pour voler sur cette ligne aient reçu un si bon accueil de la part de nos passagers.<br />
La seconde grande nouvelle concerne la nouvelle cabine de nos avions long-courriers à<br />
destination de New York et de l’Afrique. Tant en classe Business qu’en classe Economy, les<br />
passagers qui ont d’ores et déjà testé notre nouvelle expérience à bord se sont montrés<br />
particulièrement enthousiastes et conquis. Tout au long de cette année, nous continuerons<br />
progressivement à installer ces nouvelles cabines sur notre flotte long-courrier, comprenant<br />
des lits parfaitement plats en classe Business et de nouveaux fauteuils au design<br />
ergonomique en classe Economy. Nos passagers pourront également bénéficier de notre<br />
système révolutionnaire de divertissement à bord et de notre programme d’informations<br />
cartographiques en vol en trois dimensions.<br />
Je tiens vivement à vous remercier de votre fidélité et vous souhaite un merveilleux<br />
mois de juin !<br />
Bernard Gustin CEO<br />
EENDRACHT<br />
MACHT<br />
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LA FORCE<br />
Een maand vol goed nieuws<br />
Het is met plezier dat we kunnen melden dat we tot dusver in <strong>2012</strong><br />
elke maand meer passagiers aan boord van onze vliegtuigen<br />
hebben verwelkomd. Onze thuishaven, Brussels Airport, zette ons<br />
onlangs voor de groei van ons Europaverkeer in de bloemetjes door ons de<br />
Network Development Short Haul Aviation Award toe te kennen. Graag<br />
prijzen we op onze beurt ook de luchthaven en de Belgische spoorwegen<br />
voor de gigantische infrastructuurwerken, die een directe verbinding zullen<br />
opleveren tussen de luchthaven en de historische havenstad Antwerpen, en<br />
verder naar Nederland.<br />
Uiteraard is het grote nieuws van deze zomer dat we vanaf nu Brussels<br />
Airport rechtstreeks met New York JFK verbinden. De voorbije maanden<br />
hebben we al heel wat reservaties voor deze trans-Atlantische<br />
vliegverbinding mogen verwelkomen. Onze scherpe prijzen en de introductie<br />
van een hoogstaande, gastvrije Belgische in-flight ervaring op de route zijn<br />
daar niet vreemd aan.<br />
Het tweede grote nieuws is de gloednieuwe cabine van onze langeafstandsvliegtuigen<br />
die koers zetten naar New York en Afrika. Ze werd bijzonder<br />
enthousiast onthaald door zowel onze passagiers die in Business als in<br />
Economy class reizen. De installatie van de nieuwe comfortabele bedden en<br />
ergonomische zetels, het fantastische in-flight entertainmentsysteem en de<br />
schitterende 3D vluchtinformatie-technologie in de rest van onze<br />
langeafstandsvloot zal het hele jaar doorgaan.<br />
Graag wil ik u bedanken voor uw trouw en wens ik u een prachtige maand!<br />
Bernard Gustin CEO<br />
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11 observation deck: new york 12 my city<br />
15 diary 18 barrio: antwerp 20 sleep<br />
22 design 25 style 26 eco 29 eat: NEW york<br />
31 on the road: tuscany 35 perfect 10<br />
63 business news 114 extra time: sport<br />
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new york: the inside track<br />
A native’s guide to the city’s five great boroughs – where to go, what to see, what to do, what to eat<br />
riff on raf<br />
A profile of the talented Belgian designer Raf Simons as he takes up the hot seat at Dior<br />
a walk in the clouds<br />
Venturing into the treetops of Rwanda’s rainforest<br />
fishy tales<br />
Joe Warwick visits Bilbao for some top pintxos and the finest tuna in the world<br />
business: stockholm<br />
Meet the bright young entrepreneurs making Sweden’s capital the tech start-up hub of Europe<br />
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observation deck: new york<br />
the heart and soul of NYC has always been about the people, says Michael Kaplan<br />
ew York City is a tough old place, the geographical equivalent of vintage Muhammad Ali:<br />
Roaming<br />
brash, strong, tactical and never on its back for very long. The city can be knocked down,<br />
the streets<br />
but it always gets back on its feet, full of sass and humour and courage, ramming forward<br />
of downtown<br />
with more power than before.<br />
Manhattan, you see<br />
These days, the restaurants are packed, nightclubs are rocking, and the hotels are second<br />
the up-and-comers who<br />
to none. Even our football team, the Giants, won the Super Bowl earlier this year (yes,<br />
function as the heart and<br />
strictly speaking they are the New Jersey Giants, playing one state over across the<br />
soul of New York; the never-<br />
Hudson River, but for true-blue New Yorkers, they will always be the<br />
say-die advocates who fuel<br />
New York Giants).<br />
themselves on dreams, strong<br />
Dining, dancing and sport – try to catch a Yankees game when you<br />
coffee, and ambition. And at<br />
are in town; the team has a new stadium in the Bronx and the buzz is<br />
the other end of the spectrum<br />
phenomenal – are all terrific indicators of a city’s vitality. But the real tell<br />
you can’t miss the Wall Street<br />
on where a city stands is its people. New Yorkers, of course, come in all<br />
guys, cruising along in stretch<br />
shapes and sizes. And whether they’re hedge-fund managers living on<br />
limos and town cars, swanning<br />
the Upper West Side or striving DJs/artists/waiters on the<br />
around in bespoke suits, making<br />
Lower East Side, they mostly retain the plucky qualities of<br />
things work and keeping the<br />
outsiders who arrived on a skinny island with<br />
economy pumping.<br />
intentions of scrambling up the pecking order.<br />
Look at almost any artist or<br />
Spend some time in New York and talk to the<br />
performer or chef or self-made mogul<br />
people who live here, and you will quickly<br />
who rose up the ranks in New York<br />
discover that very few were actually born in<br />
City and you will recognise the street-<br />
the city. They come to New York from all over<br />
smart qualities that got them to their<br />
the United States and the world, eager to<br />
lofty heights. People sometimes say<br />
make a mark, to live a special life, to do<br />
that New York City can be a lonely<br />
extraordinary things. Some make<br />
place. But its residents will tell you<br />
it and some don’t,<br />
that the city is lonely only if you want<br />
but often the<br />
it that way, if you’re hankering for<br />
accomplishments<br />
solitude, even in a public place.<br />
resonate regardless<br />
It’s why movie stars and sports<br />
of mainstream success.<br />
idols and high-profile businessmen can walk<br />
You see the strivers<br />
the streets unbothered by fans and why an<br />
bashing away on their<br />
anonymous writer in a corner café can linger for<br />
instruments in<br />
hours, sipping cappuccinos and tapping out a<br />
underground nightclubs,<br />
masterpiece (or not) on his laptop.<br />
creating art in bare-bones<br />
But the second you crave companionship, it’s<br />
studios and making inventive<br />
easy to find. Sip a beer in a bar and strike up a<br />
dishes in small restaurants<br />
conversation with the barman or person on<br />
that have yet to be<br />
either side of you. No doubt he’ll have something<br />
discovered. So-called<br />
interesting, or at least opinionated, to say.<br />
Silicon Alley, New York’s<br />
In a vertical city, where people live,<br />
neighbourhood of<br />
commute, stroll, and commune cheek-by-jowl,<br />
high-tech start-ups,<br />
friendliness is part of the unspoken compact.<br />
is loaded with bright<br />
Besides, most of the people you meet here first<br />
young entrepreneurs<br />
arrived in town alone. They came here to interact<br />
who are just one good<br />
with strangers. So pull up a chair, say something<br />
idea away from a<br />
ballsy, and you’ll fit right in.<br />
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12<br />
the Bronx museum of the arts’ Holly Block tells scott Berman of her love for new york<br />
H<br />
olly Block, executive director of the<br />
Bronx Museum of the Arts, says she’s<br />
had ” two lives in the Bronx” – one as<br />
a curator in the 1980s and another that began<br />
in 2006 when she returned to the borough to<br />
head up the museum as executive director. It’s<br />
a telling comment, because the Bronx itself has<br />
had many lives, including one in the 1970s as a<br />
moribund backdrop to urban decay – and quite<br />
another today: one of gathering regeneration.<br />
In a sense, it was a homecoming for Block,<br />
who grew up in Washington, DC – her father was<br />
born in the Bronx. Block initially came to the<br />
Bronx to serve as a curator, then spent almost<br />
two decades downtown as executive director of<br />
Arts in General, a non-profit organisation that<br />
promotes artists, before being drawn back to<br />
the area just north east of Manhattan.<br />
“But don’t expect Times Square or the Statue<br />
of Liberty here,” laughs Block. “The Bronx is a<br />
vibrant, transitioning place for visitors who are<br />
not interested in a homogenised, pre-packaged<br />
experience.” Indeed, in terms of its<br />
revitalisation, the Bronx is “still in its infancy on<br />
its way to adolescence”, Block quips, yet she<br />
has seen major changes since she first moved<br />
to New York City in the 1980s.<br />
She describes her borough with great relish.<br />
First, there’s the Grand Concourse, a wide<br />
thoroughfare originally modelled on the<br />
Champs-Élysées. The Concourse epitomises<br />
the Bronx of today. “In 2009, a major<br />
renovation project spruced up about 10 blocks,<br />
showcasing the luscious art deco facades of<br />
the grand residential buildings, architecture<br />
that you can also find on side streets,” Block<br />
points out. Many of those grand facades were<br />
intact since there was little development in the<br />
years of decline. Indeed, when Block’s museum<br />
underwent an expansion in 2006, it was the<br />
first major project in the immediate area in<br />
decades, she explains.<br />
<strong>june</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
my city<br />
Top: The magnifi cent facade of The Bronx Museum<br />
of the Arts where Block is executive director; Above:<br />
Manhattan’s Chinatown, the district where she lives<br />
Block leads a museum that, in its approach,<br />
exhibits and outreach, reflects and celebrates<br />
the rich diversity and neighbourhoods of the<br />
Bronx. You can spot it at 1040 Grand<br />
Concourse at 165th Street, by the distinctive<br />
accordion-like shape of its extension. “We’re<br />
very open to the community. The extension,<br />
by architects Arquitectonica, reveals that<br />
philosophy in the way you can see right into<br />
the gallery from the sidewalk through the big<br />
windows on the ground floor.”<br />
The museum has a permanent collection<br />
of 800 varied works and – to celebrate the<br />
museum’s 40th anniversary – admission is<br />
free. Block oversees a busy programme of<br />
exhibitions, music performances and film<br />
screenings, including a vibrant exhibition by<br />
artist Emilio Sanchez (26 June-1 July).<br />
There’s plenty going on nearby too. Block<br />
recommends Joyce Kilmer Park, New York<br />
Botanical Gardens, the Bronx Zoo, and a<br />
treasure chest usually undiscovered by out-oftowners:<br />
City Island, on the eastern end of the<br />
Bronx. “This is a lovely little seaport community<br />
where you can find great seafood and Italian<br />
cuisine,” says Block.<br />
Indeed, the Bronx has a world of tasty<br />
choices, each signalling the heritage of<br />
neighbourhood residents. Block mentions<br />
Jamaican, Ghanaian, Senegalese, Malian,<br />
and a number of interesting restaurants on<br />
Concourse side streets between 153rd and<br />
161st streets. “The stand-outs,” she recounts<br />
enthusiastically, “include The Feeding Tree<br />
(Jamaican) and Molino Rojo (Spanish), both on<br />
161st; Tiny’s (Italian) at Grant and East 166th;<br />
Roberto’s on Arthur Avenue near East 187th;<br />
and Giovanni’s and the G-Bar, which has live<br />
music, on the Concourse at East 150th Street.”<br />
Elsewhere in the city, Block loves<br />
Manhattan’s Lower East Side, near Chinatown,<br />
where she lives; Brooklyn’s buzzing Red Hook<br />
neighbourhood; and the High Line, an elevated<br />
former railway line in the Meatpacking District<br />
that’s been transformed into one of<br />
Manhattan’s most popular walkways. But Block<br />
reserves her missionary zeal for the Bronx.<br />
“What’s interesting about the Bronx is that<br />
people are from all over the world,” she says.<br />
“It’s a place of resurgence, revitalisation and<br />
the future – always with another neighbourhood<br />
to discover. And its diversity has inspired me to<br />
travel the world to experience the origins of its<br />
cultures and art traditions.”<br />
For more information visit bronxmuseum.org for<br />
listings or bronxarts.org for details of events and<br />
its Bronx Culture Trolley Tour<br />
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PETER SERLING<br />
The bronx is a place<br />
of resurgence and<br />
revitalisation. There<br />
is always another<br />
neighbourhood<br />
to discover<br />
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diary<br />
must-see arts, culture and events around the network this month<br />
Il Cinema Ritrovato<br />
Film Festival<br />
Bologna, 23-30 June,<br />
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Bologna’s 26th film festival includes<br />
screenings of rare, vintage and restored<br />
films at atmospheric locations.<br />
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Various locations, Belgium, until<br />
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Contemporary art spreads along the<br />
Belgian coast from De Panne to<br />
Zeebrugge. Installations range from<br />
the monumental – Marco Casagrande’s<br />
50m Sandworm, a curved tunnel of<br />
hand-woven willow, to the minuscule,<br />
such as Isaac Cordal’s tiny sculptures<br />
of people whose sombre appearance<br />
points to the artist’s concern about<br />
the environment.<br />
Norwegian Wood<br />
Oslo, 14-17 June, norwegianwood.no<br />
This year’s festival at Frognerbadet in Oslo<br />
welcomes veteran rock stars Bryan Ferry, Tom Petty<br />
& The Heartbreakers and Sting, so expect a fair few<br />
pairs of leather trousers and some ‘dad’ moves.<br />
James Morrison, Oslo Ess and Lenny Kravitz will<br />
also be appearing under Norway’s midnight sun.<br />
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The Middelheim Museum is back<br />
Antwerp, middelheimmuseum.be<br />
Antwerp’s open-air contemporary art gallery returns after a complete renovation. on.<br />
The updated museum will have a new semi-open pavilion and for its unveiling<br />
will be displaying a prestigious collection of works by Thomas Schutte. The<br />
grounds have been extended by five hectares and include the renovated castle<br />
which will house a visitor’s reception area, museum shop and café, adding to<br />
the allure of this fabulous revamp.<br />
The Horse:<br />
from Arabia to<br />
Royal Ascot<br />
London, until 30 September,<br />
Free entry, britishmuseum.org<br />
The history of the horse is the<br />
history of civilisation, and this<br />
exhibition explores the<br />
influence of horses in Middle<br />
Eastern history, from their<br />
domestication around 3,500 BC<br />
to the present day. Loans from<br />
the British Library, the Fitzwilliam<br />
Museum, the Royal Armouries<br />
and Saudi Arabia can be seen<br />
alongside famous pieces such<br />
as the Standard of Ur and<br />
Achaemenid Persian reliefs.<br />
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Long day in the office<br />
Gatz, Noël Coward theatre, London<br />
8 June-15 July<br />
We think nothing of spending eight hours in the<br />
office, but how about in a theatre? That’s the<br />
proposition of Gatz – a production by New<br />
York-based experimental theatre company,<br />
Elevator Repair Service.<br />
“It’s not the kind of show you should turn up<br />
for hungover!” laughs company member Ben<br />
Williams, who, as both actor and sound<br />
operator, spends nearly the entire show on<br />
stage. “It requires a lot of focus.”<br />
Gatz, which Williams describes as “unlike<br />
anything else you will see in a theatre,” begins<br />
with an employee arriving at work to a broken<br />
computer. He finds a battered copy of F Scott<br />
Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on his desk and<br />
starts reading it aloud. “Very slowly the book<br />
starts to echo things that are happening<br />
around him in the office,” explains Williams,<br />
“until eventually the world inside the book<br />
and the world outside the book become the<br />
same thing.”<br />
For the next eight hours director John Collins<br />
takes the audience on a journey through<br />
Fitzgerald’s seminal novel. Scott Shepherd, who<br />
plays the character who finds the novel and<br />
gradually becomes the novel’s narrator, has had<br />
diary<br />
to memorise all 49,000 words. Its length may<br />
sound daunting, but Gatz has two intervals, an<br />
extended dinner break, and plenty to keep<br />
audiences engaged.<br />
“There’s a lot of humour in the show, and that<br />
surprises people,” says Williams. “They come<br />
expecting this epic, serious affair, and right<br />
away it’s a joke-fest. Reading it out loud you<br />
experience how much humour is in the book.”<br />
Gatz proved hugely popular in New York in<br />
2010, and again this spring, with influential New<br />
Power (un)dressing<br />
Helmut Newton, Museum of Photography, Berlin<br />
2 June-18 November, helmut-newton.com<br />
York Times critic Ben Brantley calling it “one<br />
of the most exciting and improbable<br />
accomplishments in theatre in recent years”.<br />
Having completed an international run, it<br />
receives its London premiere this month as<br />
part of the London International Festival of<br />
Theatre (LIFT). Williams can’t wait to find<br />
out how UK audiences respond: “It’s been<br />
fascinating to see how different audiences<br />
around the world have reacted to the show.”<br />
Caroline Bishop<br />
According to legendary photographer Helmut Newton, “The perfect fashion photo should look like<br />
something out of a movie, a souvenir shot, a paparazzi shot – anything but a fashion photograph”. Newton’s<br />
first three books – White Women, Sleepless Nights and Big Nudes<br />
– sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and have now been turned<br />
into an exhibition. Bordering between fashion and nude photography,<br />
many of the images are considered iconic. Following their<br />
presentation at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2011, this<br />
exhibition will be the German premiere.<br />
The unapologetic ‘king of kink’ is acclaimed for producing<br />
beautiful, controversial images of women, tapping into the zeitgeist<br />
of a period when power and money dictated all. Consequently, there<br />
is nothing natural or soft about his portraits – on the contrary, they<br />
are strident, confrontational and provocative. Jenny McNeely<br />
16 <strong>june</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
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James Williams visits the vibrant docklands neighbourhood of Het Eilandje<br />
Antwerp is a city renowned for its fashion designers and diamonds,<br />
so it’s not surprising that Het Eilandje (‘Little Island’) has been<br />
polished into such a stylish gem. Sandwiched between the modernday<br />
port and the Schipperskwartier (the once seedy red-light<br />
district), this area is home to the city’s 19th-century docks –<br />
today attracting new museums, interesting shops, cool bars and<br />
buzzy restaurants to its revamped port buildings.<br />
1 Royal Ballet<br />
of Flanders<br />
Kattendijkdok-Westkaai 16,<br />
+32 (0)3 234 3438, koninklijk<br />
balletvanvlaanderen.be<br />
Book tickets for a classical or<br />
modern performance at the<br />
300-capacity Theater ’t Eilandje<br />
– the on-site site pperformance<br />
space<br />
of the renowned enowned ballet company.<br />
2 Flandria<br />
boat tours<br />
Londenbrug, +32 (0)3 231 3100,<br />
fl andria.nu<br />
Learn all about one of the world’s<br />
biggest ports on a special tour<br />
departing from the Kattendijkdok.<br />
The 2.5-hour trips cost €14.50,<br />
and are guided in English or Dutch.<br />
3 Alta Via<br />
Nassaustraat 29, +32 (0)3 293<br />
8733, altaviatravelbooks.be<br />
Loitering is positively encouraged<br />
at this trendy travel bookshop,<br />
which doubles as a bright and<br />
breezy br café. Great if you love the<br />
smell sm s of fresh coffee with a nice<br />
new n<br />
book.<br />
4 MAS<br />
Hanzestedenplaats 1,<br />
+32 (0)3 338 4400, mas.be<br />
Assembled like a stack of shipping<br />
containers some 60m high, the<br />
iconic Museum aan de Stroom<br />
opened its doors last May to great<br />
acclaim. Telling the story of Antwerp<br />
and its relationship with the world,<br />
it offers sensational views and fine<br />
dining at two-Michelin-starred<br />
‘t Zilte on the ninth floor.<br />
5 Lux<br />
Adriaan Brouwerstraat 13, +32<br />
(0)3 233 3030, luxantwerp.com<br />
After the Polish shipping<br />
merchants moved out the cool<br />
kids moved in. Kick back with a<br />
whisky sour at Lux’s seductively lit<br />
bar, or savour fine Belgian cuisine<br />
amid the wood panelling and<br />
marble columns of the restaurant.<br />
6 Red Star Café<br />
Van Schoonbekeplein 9,<br />
+32 476 53 61 61 redstarcafe.be<br />
One of the area’s clutch of stylish<br />
new bars, this gay-friendly hangout<br />
was named after the Red Star<br />
Line, which transported emigrants<br />
from Antwerp to North America<br />
between 1873 and 1935. Everyone<br />
from fashion designers to dock<br />
workers and their dogs come here.<br />
7 Marcel<br />
Van Schoonbekeplein 13,<br />
+32 (0)3 336 3302,<br />
restaurantmarcel.be<br />
A former seaman’s mission,<br />
Marcel is styled like a bustling<br />
1920s brasserie. Tear your eyes<br />
from the art nouveau decor and<br />
check out the menu of delicious<br />
steaks and fish dishes.<br />
8 Lait Russe<br />
Falconplein 16, +32 (0)3 226<br />
6045, laitrusse.be<br />
With its friendly, laid-back vibe, Lait<br />
Russe is certainly in keeping with<br />
the area. Take a seat outside to<br />
people-watch and enjoy a virtuous<br />
selection of sandwiches, wraps,<br />
smoothies and Fairtrade teas.<br />
18 <strong>june</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
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20<br />
The Conrad<br />
In Brussels, the Conrad is a name that<br />
Avenue Louise 71<br />
confers instant cachet and the reality<br />
+32 (0)5 42 4242<br />
doesn’t disappoint. From the chauffeurs and<br />
conradbrussels.com<br />
luxury cars on the forecourt to the grand<br />
marble lobby, there’s a definite sense that<br />
you’re at the heart of things. Not only is the<br />
hotel situated at the top of Avenue Louise,<br />
one of the city’s best shopping streets but<br />
words emma beddington<br />
it’s also the preferred destination for<br />
dignitaries and celebrities, from Bill Clinton to Mick Jagger.<br />
The hotel’s bar, the Loui, is one of Brussels’ best, with squashy<br />
armchairs, low lighting and an award-winning barman, Nicolas<br />
Evverard. There’s also a dedicated space for cigar aficionados. The<br />
Café Wiltcher famously offers Brussels’ best Sunday brunch, with a<br />
jazz pianist and a games room to keep children happy. The Aspria<br />
health club, within the hotel complex and available to guests, has a<br />
17m pool, a large gym and six spa treatment rooms.<br />
In contrast to the buzz of the hotel’s public spaces, bedrooms<br />
are a haven of peace. My room was decorated in subtle pale greys<br />
and violets, and the Conrad bed and marshmallow-soft goosedown<br />
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sleep<br />
From brussels to new york, Three stylish places to enjoy some luxury and romance<br />
Hotel du Vin<br />
Hotel du Vin is an epicurean UK chain that<br />
Allan House, City Road revamps old buildings rather than building<br />
Newcastle-upon-Tyne<br />
anew. For this reason you might find<br />
+44 (0)191 229 2200<br />
yourself sleeping in a former 19th-century<br />
hotelduvin.com<br />
prison or a Victorian eye hospital.<br />
In Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the hotel group<br />
has reworked an old shipping depot<br />
overlooking the river and the new Baltic<br />
Centre for Contemporary Art. The whole<br />
area is a triumph of boho-style<br />
words adrian mourby<br />
regeneration.<br />
The hotel itself has 42 ever-so-slightly idiosyncratic rooms with<br />
monsoon showers and roll-top baths. Leather armchairs and<br />
reclaimed fireplaces abound and each room is named after a wine.<br />
The best four – La Grande Dame, Mouton Rothschild, Domaine du<br />
Valdapusa and Dom Perignon – are built with mezzanine levels<br />
gazing out on to the Tyne. Dom Perignon has a massive plasma<br />
screen TV, twin his-and-hers roll-top baths and the best views of all.<br />
Amidst the public areas lined with stripped-back brick,<br />
contemporary art and shipping memorabilia, the bistro, the winetasting<br />
room and the cigar shack known as The Bothy Lodge can<br />
be found. There is also an attractive alfresco dining area for those<br />
few weeks in the year when Newcastle is warm enough to eat<br />
outside. Local produce is a byword in the bistro and the wine list is<br />
eclectic, bordering on the eccentric. There’s a sense of fun about<br />
the place with the staff invited to speak their mind – very much a<br />
Geordie trait. From €124/£99 inclusive of taxes and breakfast.<br />
quilt were indecently comfortable. There’s space for a properly<br />
sized desk and seating area, and a huge marble bathroom with<br />
heavy brass taps and all the toiletries you could possibly need.<br />
Service is impeccable and there’s a sense that everyone – not<br />
just presidents and CEOs – is welcome. That, surely, is the mark of<br />
a truly great hotel. Doubles from €198.<br />
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The Peninsula It’s all the fives at the Peninsula New<br />
555 5th Avenue & 55th Street York at the swanky end of 5th Avenue<br />
New York 10019<br />
(Central Park, The Plaza, Bergdorf<br />
peninsula.com<br />
Goodman, the Rockefeller Centre),<br />
a hotel in the grand, old-school style<br />
but minus the self-regarding<br />
stuffiness. Here, service, style and<br />
attention to detail are all artfully<br />
updated for a rather luxurious<br />
21st-century experience.<br />
words jane cunningham<br />
In this part of town, it’s all about<br />
the rooftop vibe, and at the Peninsula, you can swim,<br />
sunbathe, enjoy indulgent spa treatments, drink expertly<br />
mixed cocktails and of course swoon at the fabulous<br />
cityscape from the large terrace at Salon de Ning (described<br />
as ‘Manhattan meets 1930s Shanghai’). The Peninsula is<br />
fun, fashionable and feels like the place to be for a classic<br />
night on the town. It also possesses what is undoubtedly the<br />
best lobby in New York for a dramatic entrance, all chandeliers,<br />
outsize flowers and a beautifully symmetrical staircase.<br />
But in terms of comfort the Peninsula is the one to beat,<br />
with a range of attractively designed rooms and suites that<br />
are spacious with chic, low-key decor and furnishings. It also<br />
offers the most deliciously comfortable beds in New York<br />
(I asked where I could get one, but they wouldn’t tell). From<br />
€312/$395 per person including breakfast.<br />
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design<br />
melamine is back and it’s rather stylish. isabel lane selects the best for summer picnics<br />
design for life<br />
The finer things<br />
Calling all lovers of luxurious fashion and<br />
design. An exclusive little boutique has just<br />
opened, tucked away in a London mews, just<br />
a Manolo’s skip from the Lanesborough<br />
Hotel. It’s the first store from high-end<br />
e-commerce brand CoutureLab, which<br />
specialises in creative products by global<br />
Hot plates<br />
Clockwise Clockw from left: Ella Doran for Habitat;<br />
Emma Bridgewater; Anthropologie<br />
designers and artists. The store is a jewel box<br />
of handmade delights, from Olympia Le-Tann<br />
bags that resemble embroidered hardback<br />
books, to Talisman murano glass pieces. If<br />
you can’t make it to London,<br />
couturelab.com ships<br />
internationally. For some<br />
instant grandeur, we like<br />
Maison Martin Margiela’s<br />
trompe l’oeil wall sticker of<br />
If you want to embrace colour this summer there’s plenty of pretty, lightweight,<br />
melamine tableware that will add zing to your picnic blanket, camping set or<br />
garden table. Star buy has to be zany American designer Jonathan Adler’s<br />
(jonathanadler.com) new colour-popping Positano collection, featuring<br />
striking Mediterranean-inspired patterns in juicy shades. We want the entire<br />
range. Danish company Rice (rice.dk) are the go-to brand for melamine –<br />
you can find everything from cake-stands to cutlery. Its embossed dinner<br />
plates will lend an air of sophistication and come in gorgeous colours –<br />
mix and match for an eclectic look. For pretty, decorative, options the<br />
English designer Emma Bridgewater (emmabridgewater.com) has just<br />
launched the cutesy ‘Love’ emblazoned Sampler design in melamine.<br />
If it’s plates like artworks that you’re after, try Ella Doran’s kids<br />
Indiantale range for Habitat (habitat.fr), featuring photographic images<br />
of birds and tigers on a tapestry background. Meanwhile fab quirky store<br />
Anthropologie (anthropologie.eu) is always on trend. Check out their<br />
Kaleidobug plates in four colourways – who’d have thought bugs could<br />
loo look ok so chic? Now, ow, if only the ssun<br />
ssun<br />
would shine…<br />
Haussmanian Doors. 32 Grosvenor Crescent<br />
Mews, London, couturelab.com<br />
Thin Red Line<br />
If you’re travelling to Lyon, don’t miss the cool<br />
new Camper store by Rotterdam-based<br />
Studio Makkink & Bey. Illustration as a design<br />
feature is becoming a bit of a retail-interiors<br />
trend. 58 Rue de Republique, 69002, Lyon,<br />
camper.es<br />
22 <strong>june</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
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MIKE COPPOLA<br />
the<br />
test<br />
style<br />
jenny mcneely on New York fashion cool, miracle moisturisers and English tailoring<br />
Sleep On It<br />
sidewalk catwalk<br />
New York is one of the world’s most stylish cities and photographer Bill<br />
Cunningham has spent the last 50 years cycling around Manhattan<br />
capturing the eclectic fashion of its inhabitants. Cunningham caught his<br />
big break in 1978 when a woman hurrying down the street drew his eye,<br />
or rather the cut of her coat did. He started snapping, unaware until<br />
later that he had captured on fi lm the elusive Greta Garbo.<br />
Cunningham’s dedication to the catwalk of New York’s sidewalks is<br />
enshrined in his New York Times columns, On The Street and Evening<br />
Hours. But Cunningham is far from an establishment fi gure and has<br />
always resisted working in-house, believing “the best fashion is always<br />
on the street, always has been, always will be”. His distance from the<br />
world of glossy fashion pages remains staunch. “I’m not into celebrities<br />
with their free dresses, I’m into clothes.”<br />
Perhaps because he has never courted their attention, the fashion<br />
elite is more than happy to be snapped by Cunningham. Vogue editor<br />
An Anna Wintour once noted that the worst thing that can happen is to be<br />
spott spotted on the street by Cunningham but ignored.<br />
Bi Bill Cunningham New York, a documentary on the photographer’s<br />
fas fascinating life and work is now available to buy on Amazon.<br />
■ Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair,<br />
€77.60/50ml<br />
The little brown bottle with the apothecary<br />
dropper implies a product that takes itself<br />
rather seriously – and its unfailing<br />
popularity over the last 30 years suggests<br />
it might deserve to be treated seriously.<br />
The serum smells deliciously herbal rather<br />
than artifi cial and instantly soothes skin<br />
after a day of exposure to the elements.<br />
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■ Beauty Sleep Concentrate,<br />
€37/30ml, nealsyardremedies.com<br />
This organic product boldly promises to<br />
increase skin’s moisture levels by up to<br />
98% over 12 hours. The regenerative<br />
narcissus tazetta bulb extract and<br />
antioxidant-rich grape seed oil does<br />
leave the skin feeling very soft, despite<br />
the meagre amount recommended for<br />
use. The essential oils, particularly the<br />
lavender, are perfect for nighttime too.<br />
■ Crème de la Mer, €104/30ml<br />
This is a very thick cream, but the trick<br />
according to its makers, is to work it<br />
between the fi ngers before patting gently<br />
on to the skin. This much acclaimed<br />
‘miracle cream’ is a blend of sea kelp,<br />
vitamins and minerals plus citrus,<br />
eucalyptus, wheatgerm, alfalfa and<br />
sunfl ower oils. When used regularly the<br />
cream gives undeniably impressive<br />
results in terms of regulating skin tone<br />
and eliminating blemishes such as thread<br />
veins and minimising fi ne lines. May well<br />
be worth its intimidating price tag.<br />
store<br />
front<br />
Quintessentially British<br />
men’s outfi tter, Hackett<br />
London, is set on<br />
sharpening up European<br />
wardrobes with new stores<br />
opening in Milan, Italy and<br />
Hasselt, Belgium. The<br />
fl agship store in Milan fi lls<br />
two fl oors and is located on<br />
Via Manzoni; the third store<br />
to open in Belgium is located<br />
in Hasselt (51 Kapelstraat) in<br />
an elegant townhouse<br />
complete with Chesterfi eld<br />
sofas. Spiffi ng.<br />
Brussels’ ultra cool boutique<br />
Hunting and Collecting<br />
(17 Rue Des Chartreux) is<br />
living up to its promise of<br />
exhibiting contemporary<br />
culture alongside its<br />
carefully curated fashion<br />
with a photography<br />
exhibition by Thierry<br />
Cosson. Eighty Nine Days is<br />
a collection of black and<br />
white images spanning the<br />
artist’s journey through NYC.<br />
<strong>june</strong> <strong>2012</strong> 25
Smart<br />
movers<br />
in Lyon<br />
eco<br />
roger east trumpets three encouraging projects in new york, Lyon and ketzin<br />
France’s second city is already the proud<br />
home of the Velo’V cycle scheme copied by<br />
Paris and London and now New York. But<br />
traffic congestion can be a transport<br />
nightmare, so now Lyon is aiming for a<br />
bigger European first, with the Optimod<br />
smart mobility system. Launched in April and intended to be<br />
fully working within three years, Optimod’s goal is to get<br />
people and goods moving from one part of Lyon to another<br />
by the quickest, cheapest and greenest means possible,<br />
whatever the time of day.<br />
Users will experience this small miracle in the form of a<br />
simple GPS-linked smartphone app. It will advise them not<br />
only which route to take, but when and how to find the best<br />
method of travel – be it train, bus, tram or metro, truck, car,<br />
bike or even foot.<br />
If it all works as envisaged, private vehicle use should fall<br />
by 8% and carbon dioxide emissions by 200,000 tonnes a<br />
year as more people (and freight) switch to public transport.<br />
carbon<br />
capture<br />
in Ketzin<br />
Branching<br />
out<br />
in New<br />
York<br />
This spring, the city has been giving<br />
out fig trees, ornamental Japanese<br />
maples, flowering cherries and the<br />
like to interested individuals and<br />
groups across New York’s five<br />
boroughs. Anyone is eligible for a<br />
free sapling if they’ve a suitable planting space.<br />
It’s all part of a 10-year campaign, now reaching its<br />
halfway mark, to plant a million trees by 2017. Backed<br />
by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, it’s designed to green the<br />
city and offset its greenhouse gas emissions. Already<br />
500,000 trees have been planted, the majority of them<br />
on public land, by the New York Restoration Project and<br />
the Department of Parks and Recreation. This year, by<br />
distributing 5,000 fruiting and ornamental varieties,<br />
they’re encouraging even more popular participation<br />
after freak snowstorms at Halloween last year<br />
destroyed 1,000 trees in Central Park alone.<br />
The value of urban trees in locking up emissions<br />
and quantifying carbon storage in cities was recently<br />
underlined by research at the UK’s Durrell Institute of<br />
Conservation which showed that in a densely populated<br />
city, vegetation creates a significant carbon pool –<br />
which can be boosted 12% by planting trees on just<br />
one tenth of publicly owned or managed grassland.<br />
Just west of Berlin, work is taking place on a key<br />
process to combat climate change. Some 600m<br />
beneath the town of Ketzin, carbon dioxide captured at<br />
a nearby hydrogen production plant is being injected<br />
into a saline aquifer below the limestone rock. By next<br />
summer, Europe’s first such CO2 storage project should<br />
have amassed five years of crucial data for evaluating the safety, stability<br />
and long-term viability of handling carbon emissions in this way.<br />
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is controversial and some see the<br />
technology as fatally flawed. If waved as a ‘get out of jail free card’, will it<br />
encourage the building of coal-burning power plants, by holding out a<br />
promise of eventually capturing and storing their emissions? Will CCS<br />
research swallow up funds that could support zero-carbon renewable<br />
energy alternatives? And will it, perversely, provide a big win for the oil<br />
and gas industry via ‘enhanced recovery’, a technique for driving out more<br />
oil and gas from semi-exhausted fields by pumping in pressurised CO2?<br />
Plans for EU-backed CCS projects at industrial scale are only just<br />
getting started. But at the rate the world is belching out carbon<br />
emissions, what Ketzin can tell us is likely to prove very relevant.<br />
26 <strong>june</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
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4CORNERS; MELISSA HOM; MEGAN EAGLES<br />
eat: brooklyn<br />
joe warwick finds a rather good ‘hipster redneck’ joint in the heart of williamsburg<br />
Punting a typically shabby<br />
but cool vibe, St Anselm,<br />
above, sits in the heart of<br />
Brooklyn’s über-cool<br />
Williamsburg, right<br />
appetiser<br />
This month, three delicious cookbooks<br />
for your kitchen table<br />
Don’t Sweat The Aubergine: What works in the<br />
kitchen and why Nicholas Clee, Transworld Books<br />
This little book takes us behind recipes to the basic<br />
cooking techniques that are actually what you need to<br />
be a decent cook. Clee deconstructs recipes with a bit<br />
of science and lot of common sense. Fascinating.<br />
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Food: Vegetarian Home Cooking ing Mary<br />
McCartney, Chatto & Windus<br />
Mary McCartney, being the<br />
daughter of Linda and Paul<br />
McCartney, is veggie royalty, and<br />
her dedication to a meatless life<br />
is on every page of this book.<br />
McCartney is a professional<br />
photographer and her simple recipes pes<br />
are illustrated with gorgeous photos. tos.<br />
St Anselm<br />
355 Metropolitan Ave (between North 4th Street and<br />
Havemeyer Street), Brooklyn, New York 11211<br />
+1 (718) 384 5054, no reservations<br />
Since it sits in the hipster heart of Brooklyn that is Williamsburg, I’m<br />
assuming that St Anselm 1.0, which closed after less than a year back<br />
in 2010, wasn’t clever or cool enough for the locals. With a menu that<br />
deep-fried everything from foie gras dumplings to hot dogs, diners<br />
stayed away in droves for fear they’d no longer be able fit their skinny<br />
jeans and climb back on their fixed-gear bikes. On a more serious note,<br />
not being able to get a liquor licence didn’t help.<br />
It was a first hiccup for Joe Carroll, the brains behind the acclaimed<br />
and Bourbon-soaked BBQ joint, Fette Sau, and craft beer-peddling bar,<br />
Spuyten Duyvil. The former sits<br />
just down the street in what was there’s a lot of<br />
an old auto-body repair shop, the meat, notably the<br />
latter beside St Anselm.<br />
‘axe-handle’ rib<br />
When St Anselm re-opened last<br />
autumn, the deep-fat fryers and eye of beef for two,<br />
the griddle were gone, replaced bone-trimmed too<br />
with a wood and gas-fired grill.<br />
The interior is much the same as it was before; a fine example of what I<br />
like to call ‘hipster-redneck’ – artfully distressed dark varnished wood,<br />
exposed brick, bar and stools. The iPod judders from Led Zeppelin to<br />
Belle & Sebastian and back via a bit of Dolly Parton.<br />
Naturally there’s a lot of meat on the grill, notably the ‘axe-handle’ rib<br />
eye of beef for two, bone-trimmed to give it that cave-man aesthetic.<br />
Elsewhere that grill is put to use on various cuts of lamb and pork and,<br />
just as successfully, on vegetables – from increasingly ubiquitous<br />
shishito peppers to aubergine and tomatoes. Fish meets grill in the form<br />
of whole mackerel and trout, salmon steaks and prawns.<br />
Although they’ve now got their booze licence, there’s no hard liquor<br />
here, just craft beers and a rather adventurous wine list that’s not afraid<br />
to be quirky in its selections from the Old and New World.<br />
St Anselm may be too cool to have a website but check out fettesaubbq.com,<br />
spuytenduyvilnyc.com or the comprehensive food section at nymag.com<br />
The Skinny Skinn French Kitchen<br />
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A cookbook cookbo with ‘skinny’ in the title is<br />
a little little off-putting of for the average<br />
gastronome ga<br />
but Harry Eastwood<br />
shows how to prepare lighter<br />
versions v of French classics<br />
that th facilitate, rather than limit,<br />
indulgence ind of dauphinois,<br />
macarons maca<br />
and chocolate souffle.<br />
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on the road: tuscany<br />
Cindy-Lou Dale takes a supercar-inspired culinary tour of bologna, florence and parma<br />
I<br />
taly is famous for its noble cities; always bustling with life but<br />
also home to quiet corners, cobbled alleyways and the piety of<br />
moss-softened stone. It draws you in so powerfully that it would<br />
be easy to be seduced into never leaving. But leave I must, by way of a<br />
souped-up supercar, on a mission to seek out exquisite boltholes in<br />
Tuscany: places to soothe the soul and tantalise the palate.<br />
In Bologna I collect the new Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder Performate,<br />
a mouthful to say and a handful to drive. It’s a stripped-down, low-cal<br />
version of the normal Spyder, making extensive use of carbon fibre to<br />
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deliver an improved power-to-weight ratio and a load of fun. My first<br />
destination is only a few kilometres down the road at Nonantola’s Osteria<br />
di Rubbiara, a rustic, centuries-old tavern that backs on to the Pedroni<br />
family’s vineyard – home, unquestionably, to the best pasta in the region.<br />
The hearty food is provided in festive quantities and arrives in degrees of<br />
excellence. Ask for a tour of their balsamic vinegar cellar – it’s an<br />
education for the mind and the palate.<br />
By the time I leave, a crowd of onlookers has formed around the car,<br />
silently captivated by its muscular looks, but they quickly scatter,<br />
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laughing, as the V10 engine roars into life. Avoiding the main A1, I choose<br />
instead the back roads across the flat, pastureland of Emilia Romagna, to<br />
test out my new steed. The car’s taut, precise steering and blistering pace<br />
make short work of the trip to Antica Corte<br />
Pallavicina – a grand 15th-century palace in Polesine.<br />
Once owned by Verdi, it’s now a boutique hotelcum-cook-school<br />
and one of Italy’s eight producers<br />
of the famed Culatello ham – required to hang for<br />
three years before earning its reputation – of which<br />
Prince Charles is a big fan.<br />
The hotel provides Ristorante Al Cavallino Bianco<br />
with the majority of chef Massimo Spigaroli’s raw produce, including<br />
Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses, bread, salamis and wine. The chef’s alltime<br />
classic tortelli, stuffed with creamy ricotta and bitter greens is a<br />
local favourite. So, too, is his semifreddo – a deliciously nutty ice-cream<br />
cake. This intimate restaurant is a gastronomic must-dine experience.<br />
Top to bottom:<br />
Parma Cathedral;<br />
Florence at dusk;<br />
cheeses hanging in<br />
the cellar of Antica<br />
Corte Pallavicina<br />
i keep praying for<br />
the next tunnel<br />
where the sound<br />
of the engine<br />
becomes explosive<br />
Again avoiding the highways, I drive through the hills heading west<br />
from Parma; at first following the course of the Stirone River then cross<br />
country, down into the Taro valley and my next stop Borgo Casale – an<br />
exquisitely restored, medieval mountain village. The<br />
quantities of luscious homemade pasta with wild<br />
mushrooms drizzled with extra virgin olive oil<br />
presented at Casimiro e voi Ristorante makes it<br />
worth finding.<br />
The next day starts with a 50km fun-run down<br />
towards the Ligurian sea. The Lamborghini’s six-speed<br />
e-gear transmission changes up and down<br />
effortlessly, leaving me to concentrate on the road. With the top down<br />
and the V10 in full voice, I just keep praying for the next tunnel where the<br />
sound of the engine will move from theatrical to explosive. Italians love<br />
this car and my entire drive to Artimino, just 27km west of Florence, sees<br />
camera phones thrust out of car windows, which at the speeds I am<br />
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travelling is both flattering and dangerous. As we near<br />
Artimino, we spot Pageria Medicea, a gracious Tuscan villa<br />
on a hill surrounded by olive groves and vineyards. Its<br />
restaurant, Biagio Pignatta, has an historic ambience and<br />
jaw-dropping views across the countryside. Quite simply, it’s<br />
a little temple to innovative Tuscan cuisine – try their risotto<br />
with turnip tops and spicy salami.<br />
The following day I head east and, after a quick drive<br />
through the chaotic Florentine rush hour, I come me to Borgo<br />
San Lorenzo, a rural village with a network of cobbled obbled<br />
alleyways and Ristorante Degli Artisti, a cosy eatery atery with an<br />
impressive wine selection and a small yet dynamic amic menu.<br />
The cauliflower and black truffle cappellotti alone one<br />
makes the trip worthwhile – while the<br />
mascarpone cheesecake is an excellent<br />
midnight snack.<br />
The moment I was dreading is upon me soon enough –<br />
handing back the Lamborghini. One last triumphant thrash<br />
through the Italian countryside is in order, and the glorious<br />
SP65 back road to Bologna delivers a memorable<br />
experience. Driving a supercar anywhere in the world gets<br />
you noticed, but in Italy so much more so. It’s hard to<br />
decide which is more rewarding: the unbelievable handling<br />
and performance of the car, or the attention you get<br />
through driving it.<br />
restaurant<br />
guide<br />
■ Osteria di<br />
Rubbiara, Via Risaia<br />
2, Frazione di<br />
Rubbiara, 41015<br />
Nonantola<br />
+39 0595 49019<br />
acetaiapedroni.it<br />
■ Antica Corte<br />
Pallavicina, Strada<br />
del Palazzo Due<br />
Torri, 3, 43010<br />
Polesine Parmense<br />
+39 0524 936 539<br />
acpallavicina.com<br />
■ Ristorante Al<br />
Cavallino Bianco,<br />
Via Sbrisi, 2, 43010<br />
Polesine Parmense<br />
+39 0524 96136<br />
acpallavicina.com<br />
■ Borgo Casale,<br />
Loc. Casale,<br />
43051, Albareto<br />
+39 0525 9290 3233<br />
borgocasale.com<br />
■ Paggeria Medicea<br />
Artimino SpA, Viale<br />
Papa, Giovanni XXIII<br />
1, 59015. Artimino<br />
Carmignano, Prato<br />
+39 055 875 141<br />
artimino.com<br />
■ Ristorante Degli<br />
Artisti, Pizza<br />
Romagnoli 1, Borgo<br />
San Lorenzo<br />
+39 055 845 7707<br />
ristorantedegliartisti.it<br />
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Lamborghini Gallardo<br />
Spyder LP570-4<br />
Performance<br />
The trimmed down,<br />
convertible version of<br />
the Gallardo Spyder<br />
(which is no slouch in<br />
its own right) offers<br />
brutal acceleration and<br />
nimble handling.<br />
Engine<br />
V10, 570 bhp<br />
Acceleration<br />
0-100 km/h in 3.9 sec<br />
Top speed<br />
324 km/h<br />
Price<br />
€182,900<br />
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perfect 10<br />
matthew lee discovers 10 brilliant independent bookshops across the network<br />
Reports of the death of the bookshop are greatly exaggerated. Kindles and iPads<br />
may be bad news for some stores, but businesses with character and charm<br />
that have faith in the timeless appeal of paper and ink continue to thrive.<br />
Here are 10 unmissable stores to enjoy a good leisurely browse.<br />
London Review<br />
Bookshop<br />
14 Bury Place, London<br />
+44 (0)20 7269 9030, lrbshop.co.uk<br />
The cardamom and white chocolate brownie is<br />
reason enough to visit this bookshop. Run by<br />
the famously intellectual brains behind the<br />
London Review of Books, you can be confident<br />
in staff recommendations.<br />
Livraria Lello<br />
Rua das Carmelitas 144, Porto +351<br />
22 200 2037, lelloprologoliveiro.com.sapo/pt<br />
Owned by the Lello family for over a century,<br />
this Porto bookshop offers an eclectic range of<br />
titles, a stunning stained-glass ceiling and the<br />
most spectacular stairway in the history of<br />
retail – spiralling up the neo-gothic interior with<br />
precise symmetry to the tiny coffee shop above.<br />
Altair<br />
Gran Via Corts Catalanes 616,<br />
Barcelona +34 93 342 71 71, altair.es<br />
Claimed as the largest<br />
travel bookshop in<br />
Europe, you’ll need a<br />
compass to navigate<br />
Altair’s shelves.<br />
Aside from the<br />
thousands of<br />
guides and maps<br />
there are also<br />
geography, nature<br />
and anthropology<br />
sections. A dose of<br />
wanderlust comes<br />
free with every<br />
purchase.<br />
Livraria<br />
Lello, Porto<br />
Another<br />
Country<br />
Riemannstrasse 7,<br />
Berlin +49 30 69<br />
40 1160, anothercountry.de<br />
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Calling itself a ‘bookshop-library-club’,<br />
Another Country must be Berlin’s most social<br />
place for picking up paperbacks. There are<br />
regular quiz nights, communal dinners, poetry<br />
recitals, film screenings, German classes and<br />
book groups.<br />
The Strand<br />
828 Broadway, New York<br />
+1 212 473 1452, strandbooks.com<br />
An East Village landmark, this vast bookshop’s<br />
motto is ‘18 Miles of Books’. Come for the thrill<br />
of the epic quest to bag bargains in the endless<br />
rooms of new, second-hand, rare and out-ofprint<br />
titles. Prices are competitive, and staff are<br />
(intimidatingly) knowledgeable.<br />
Travelling<br />
Man<br />
4-4A Dale Street,<br />
Manchester<br />
+44 (0)161 237 1877,<br />
travellingman.com<br />
This famously friendly<br />
comic emporium will<br />
delight your inner<br />
geek. Talks, signings<br />
and workshops<br />
happen here on most<br />
days, and there’s<br />
an emphasis on<br />
showcasing talented local<br />
artists and writers.<br />
Cook & Book,<br />
Brussels<br />
Cook<br />
& Book<br />
Place du Temps<br />
Libre 1, 1200<br />
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert,<br />
Brussels, +32 (0)2 761<br />
2600, cookandbook.be<br />
Enjoy a three-course meal while checking out<br />
the bestseller lists. In fact, you can spy an<br />
impressive range of titles in French, Dutch and<br />
English from the comfort of your dining table.<br />
Sweden Bookshop<br />
Slottsbacken 10, Stockholm<br />
+46 8 453 7800, swedenbookshop.com<br />
A wonderful shop offering 2,000 titles by<br />
Swedish writers translated into 47 languages.<br />
Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell dominate,<br />
but check out lesser known crime authors such<br />
as Camilla Lackberg and Johan Theorin.<br />
Bookabar<br />
Via Milano 15/17 (inside the Palazzo<br />
delle Esposizioni), Rome +39 06 4897 7288<br />
Residing within the splendid Palazzo delle<br />
Esposizioni, Bookabar – airy, light, spacious<br />
and impossibly cool – specialises in art, design<br />
and architecture.<br />
Red Bus Books<br />
Semmelweis utca 14, Budapest V<br />
+36 6 1 337 7453, redbusbooks.com<br />
Its name hints at anglophilia and sure enough<br />
Red Bus is loaded floor-to-ceiling with Englishlanguage<br />
titles. A gimmick-free, old-school<br />
bookshop, with thousands of titles in good<br />
condition and all priced between €3 and €5.<br />
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a special mention for Harlem too
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A<br />
fter being left for dead in the<br />
1970s, New York City has come<br />
back in a way few could have<br />
predicted. Today, even amid the soft<br />
economy, the city is flourishing. The Big<br />
Apple is a world away from its dirty,<br />
dangerous former self, but it remains a big,<br />
challenging, culturally rich, weird, wonderful<br />
and completely inspiring town. And one<br />
well worth exploring more widely (yes, that<br />
means leaving the Island of Manhattan).<br />
Before we commence our whirlwind<br />
tour, a brief word on the locals. Yes, they<br />
have a reputation for being pushy, curt,<br />
and even downright rude. And yes, many a<br />
traveller has returned feeling perhaps a bit<br />
bruised by the experience. But here’s the<br />
thing: New Yorkers are in fact, by nature,<br />
surprisingly gracious, giving, talkative and<br />
curious. And they will be all of those things<br />
to you on one condition: do not get in their<br />
way. So avoid stopping in the middle of the<br />
sidewalk or on stairwells, and don’t stand in<br />
the doors on the trains. That way you will<br />
find yourself welcomed, chatted up,<br />
helped, befriended and delighted. Most<br />
importantly, you’ll be clued in to some of<br />
the city’s less tourist-clogged attractions.<br />
That is the key to enjoying the city.<br />
Manhattan<br />
Even to those who live in New York City’s<br />
other four boroughs, Manhattan is known<br />
simply as ‘The City’. Initially populated by<br />
the Lenape tribe (the name roughly means<br />
‘land of many hills’), Manhattan was settled<br />
by the Dutch in the 17th century, conquered<br />
by the British shortly thereafter and, in<br />
time, grew to become America’s economic<br />
and cultural powerhouse. Over a million<br />
and a half people live on this slender island<br />
of less than 30 square miles, and a million<br />
more come here to work every day. It<br />
burns palpably with energy and ambition,<br />
light and speed – all of which can, in turn,<br />
burn out its visitors with astonishing rapidity.<br />
So here’s the trick: minimise time spent<br />
in Midtown. Yes, make a pass through to<br />
experience the spectacle of the island’s<br />
famous canyons, take a stroll in Central<br />
Park, check out the view from atop the<br />
Rockefeller Centre (especially if you are a<br />
30 Rock fan), and, just once, allow yourself<br />
to get swept up by the crowds during rush<br />
hour to feel that charge.<br />
But to really enjoy Manhattan, go<br />
downtown. Tour Greenwich Village, the<br />
gorgeous one-time bohemian stronghold<br />
turned monied urban oasis. Hang out at<br />
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Chinatown in<br />
lower Manhattan<br />
Washington Square Park and watch the<br />
buskers compete for spare dollars amid<br />
people from all walks of life. Sample exotic<br />
foods in the rapidly expanding Chinatown,<br />
and head next door to the Lower East Side,<br />
where generations of immigrants have<br />
passed through (the excellent Tenement<br />
Museum will bring you up to speed on the<br />
history), and sample the cool bars and<br />
world-class ethnic cuisine. Or just stroll<br />
aimlessly and let downtown surprise you.<br />
It will oblige.<br />
Must see/do: The High Line, on the edge<br />
of the West Village, a reclaimed, elevated<br />
railroad now converted into a stunning park<br />
that locals have completely fallen in love<br />
with. Also home to the über-cool Standard<br />
Hotel, reputed to be one of Madonna’s<br />
favourite hang-outs.<br />
Harlem<br />
Often assumed to be one of New York’s<br />
boroughs, Harlem is actually at the<br />
northern end of Manhattan and begins at<br />
the tip of Central Park at 110th Street, but<br />
it’s included here because it’s too good to<br />
miss and such a famous and influential<br />
place deserves a section of its own.<br />
staten<br />
island<br />
Long one of the city’s most vibrant<br />
and interesting neighbourhoods, Harlem<br />
(named for Haarlem, in Holland) attracted<br />
global attention in the 1920s, during the<br />
‘Harlem Renaissance’. For a spectacular few<br />
years, artists such as Duke Ellington and<br />
Langston Hughes kindled what became one<br />
of America’s greatest and most influential<br />
artistic booms. Back then, nightclubs and<br />
speakeasies thrummed all hours. The<br />
reverberations are still being felt.<br />
Manhattan<br />
harlem<br />
brooklyn<br />
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NEW YORK<br />
Clockwise from above: The Brooklyn Museum; PS1, the<br />
Queens outpost of Manhattan’s MOMA (Museum of<br />
Modern Art); Harlem’s world-famous Apollo Theatre<br />
For all its glitz and inspiration, Harlem was<br />
hit hard during the Great Depression, and<br />
deteriorated badly in the half century that<br />
followed, reaching its nadir, like so much of<br />
New York City, in the 1970s. But the<br />
neighbourhood never lost its soul, and it’s<br />
on the upswing today, gentrifying, and still<br />
predominantly African-American.<br />
Among the world-famous spots are<br />
Columbia University, the Apollo Theatre –<br />
the once-fearsome proving ground for acts<br />
like Smokey Robinson, James Brown and<br />
Aretha Franklin; and Sylvia’s Harlem<br />
Restaurant on Lenox Avenue (aka Malcolm<br />
X Boulevard), which has been dishing out<br />
legendary soul food for 50 years. These<br />
days the hot ticket is Red Rooster where<br />
President Obama has been known to hold<br />
fundraisers. After dinner you’ll need a walk,<br />
so head over to the Mount Morris historic<br />
district to check out some truly stunning<br />
residential architecture.<br />
Must see/do: The Apollo on Amateur<br />
Night. American music simply would not be<br />
what it is, were it not for the visibility – and<br />
ruthless vetting – the former burlesque<br />
theatre offers hungry young talent.<br />
Brooklyn<br />
New York City’s most populous borough,<br />
Brooklyn has undergone vast<br />
transformations since it was incorporated<br />
into the city in 1896 (when the eponymous<br />
bridge was built). Once a flourishing<br />
working-class area for immigrant<br />
populations, much of Brooklyn fell into<br />
blight and anomie in New York’s bad old<br />
days of the 1960s and 1970s. Today, it’s<br />
booming like never before. Rising rents in<br />
Manhattan pushed much of the creative<br />
community out and they settled here,<br />
establishing Brooklyn as a dominant force<br />
in art, music and artisanal goods.<br />
To see it in action, head out to<br />
Williamsburg, the former industrial zone<br />
where many such artists established a<br />
beachhead back in the 1990s, to stroll the<br />
shops and bars on Bedford Avenue. If you’re<br />
adventurous, take the L train to gritty<br />
Bushwick, which is where the artists went<br />
when they were priced out of Williamsburg.<br />
Next, get a taste of fabled ‘Brownstone<br />
Brooklyn’ by heading south to leafy, ‘tony’<br />
Brooklyn Heights, long a bastion of money,<br />
even when Brooklyn was in trouble. Next,<br />
tour Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens,<br />
beautiful neighbourhoods full of families,<br />
and independent stores and restaurants.<br />
Finally, catch a show at the Brooklyn<br />
Academy of Music, or an exhibit at the<br />
Brooklyn Museum, two long-running<br />
cultural institutions that can match nearly<br />
anything happening in Manhattan.<br />
Must see/do: The Brooklyn Heights<br />
Promenade – people will sit on those<br />
benches for hours, just taking in the city’s<br />
best view of Manhattan (quietly, and from a<br />
safe distance).<br />
Queens<br />
The city’s largest borough in terms of land<br />
mass, Queens is also the single most<br />
ethnically diverse place in the world, with<br />
immigrants from all corners of the globe<br />
speaking over 100 different languages.<br />
Even languages that have died in their<br />
native countries (like Vlashki – an Istro-<br />
Romanian dialect once spoken in Croatia)<br />
can be heard on the streets here.<br />
It comes as no surprise then, that the<br />
main draw for visitors is food. If it’s ethnic,<br />
you can get it in Queens’ restaurants and<br />
food trucks in its purest form, whether<br />
you’re craving Mexican, Croatian, Jewish,<br />
Guyanese, Chinese or any crazy fusion<br />
thereof. Want some helpful tips on where<br />
to go? Ask your cabbie. The odds are he<br />
lives in Queens.<br />
Once you’ve sated yourself on Queens’<br />
culinary delights, head to PS1 in Long<br />
Island City (a Queens neighbourhood,<br />
confusingly), just across the East River<br />
from Manhattan. It’s an excellent<br />
contemporary art museum affiliated with<br />
Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art,<br />
housed in a former public school building.<br />
Not far from that is the fascinating<br />
Museum of the Moving Image, where you<br />
can take a tour through the history of TV<br />
and cinema, and learn the finer points of<br />
editing, scoring and filming.<br />
Finally, for those of you who might<br />
blanch at the cost of a ticket to a Yankees<br />
game, take the train to Citi Field to catch a<br />
Mets game. Tickets are cheap and readily<br />
available, mainly because the Mets are so<br />
bad, but there’s no better way to pass a<br />
pleasant summer evening than settling in<br />
with a couple of beers and hotdogs.<br />
Must see/do: Jackson Heights: the<br />
epicentre of Queens’ wildly polyglot food<br />
culture, this is the place for a lively dinner.<br />
The Bronx<br />
Once a place few tourists dared to visit, the<br />
Bronx (named after Dutch explorer Jonas<br />
Bronck) became part of New York City in<br />
1898. It spent the first half-century of its<br />
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existence hosting European immigrants,<br />
and the second half, sadly, going somewhat<br />
to pieces. When New York hit hard times,<br />
the Bronx, which by then was populated<br />
mostly by African-Americans and<br />
Hispanics, was hit harder than most. Whole<br />
swathes of the South Bronx burned in the<br />
1960s and 1970s and have yet to recover.<br />
But from the ashes came America’s first<br />
original art form since jazz: hip-hop, which<br />
gives the Bronx its outsized cultural cachet.<br />
These days you can trace the history of the<br />
idiom at the Bronx Museum of the Arts<br />
(see our interview with its executive<br />
director, Holly Block, on page 12).<br />
After taking in the world famous Bronx<br />
beat, head to the lovely Bronx Botanical<br />
Gardens to see the world-class collection<br />
of orchids, then on to the Bronx Zoo – one<br />
of the best on earth – and finish your day<br />
with dinner on Arthur Avenue, the<br />
borough’s ‘Little Italy’, which is flourishing<br />
even as Manhattan’s increasingly<br />
overpriced tourist-trap version is fast<br />
swallowed up by an expanding Chinatown<br />
(the Bronx version is less touristy and has<br />
better food). Finally, if you can swing it,<br />
catch the Yankees, AKA ‘The Bronx<br />
Bombers’, at the brand new Yankee<br />
Stadium. But beware: it will cost you.<br />
Must see/do: The Congo Gorilla Forest<br />
at the wonderful Bronx Zoo. It’s an entirely<br />
mesmerising experience to watch the 20<br />
western lowland gorillas go about their<br />
daily business.<br />
Staten Island<br />
Staten Island, which joined New York City<br />
in 1898, is New York’s least populated and<br />
most suburban borough, which is why it’s<br />
often overlooked by tourists, diminished by<br />
dwellers of the Big Apple’s more urban<br />
Above: The world-famous Yankees baseball stadium<br />
in the Bronx; Below: The Staten Island ferry with the<br />
Verrazano Bridge just behind<br />
neighbourhoods and neglected by the city.<br />
Despite the local authorities’ efforts to<br />
brand the borough as more than just the<br />
home of the iconic, bright orange Staten<br />
Island Ferry, it still remains the best reason<br />
to come here.<br />
It can be picked up in Lower Manhattan<br />
for free, and the trip en route to the St<br />
George Ferry Terminal delivers some of the<br />
greatest low-angle views of the city you’ll<br />
find. Once you’re on the island, take a short<br />
bus ride to historic Richmond Town to get<br />
a glimpse of what 17th-century life was like<br />
here, or check out Fort Wadsworth, which<br />
played a pivotal role in protecting New York<br />
Harbour from the British during the War of<br />
1812, and which actively stood sentry over<br />
these waters for more than two centuries.<br />
Must see/do: The view of Manhattan from<br />
the ferry, or, if the timing is right, the<br />
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the eighthlongest<br />
in the world, when it plays host to<br />
the start of the New York City Marathon in<br />
November every year.<br />
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Au coeur des quartiers<br />
Le new-yorkais Joe Keohane nous emmène à<br />
travers les cinq « boroughs » de la ville<br />
Manhattan Ne vous attardez pas dans le Midtown.<br />
Faites plutôt un tour de Greenwich Village, autrefois<br />
haut lieu de la vie bohème. Savourez la cuisine<br />
exotique de Chinatown, en constante expansion, et<br />
rejoignez les bars trendy du Lower East Side, où vivent<br />
des générations d’immigrants – le Tenement Museum<br />
vous donnera un bon aperçu de cette histoire.<br />
Brooklyn Jadis la banlieue fl orissante des immigrants<br />
de la classe ouvrière, une grande partie de Brooklyn<br />
s’est détériorée dans les années 60 et 70. Aujourd’hui,<br />
ce quartier revit, grâce à la communauté artistique,<br />
chassée de Manhattan sous la pression des prix<br />
des loyers.<br />
Queens C’est dans le Queens que se concentre la<br />
plus grande diversité ethnique au monde. Rien de<br />
surprenant donc, à ce que la cuisine y soit le principal<br />
attrait pour les visiteurs. Mexicain, croate, juif,<br />
guyanais, chinois… Tous les goûts y sont représentés.<br />
Sautez dans le train vers Citi Field pour assister à<br />
un match des Mets. Les tickets sont bon marché et<br />
disponibles rapidement. Quel plaisir de passer une<br />
soirée d’été, autour d’une bière et d’un hotdog.<br />
The Bronx Au moment où New York traversait des<br />
moments diffi ciles, le Bronx fut le plus durement<br />
frappé. Des pans entiers du South Bronx ont brûlé<br />
dans les années 60 et 70, sans être restaurés.<br />
Mais de ses cendres est née la première forme d’art<br />
originale depuis le jazz : le hip-hop. Découvrez cette<br />
histoire au Bronx Museum of the Arts (voyez notre<br />
interview avec sa directrice Holly Block, p.14).<br />
Allez dîner sur Arthur Avenue, le « Little Italy » de<br />
l’endroit. Enfi n, assistez à un match des Yankees, alias<br />
« The Bronx Bombers ».<br />
Staten Island Malgré les efforts des autorités locales<br />
pour donner au quartier une autre image que celle de<br />
centre du Staten Island Ferry, la meilleure raison pour<br />
se rendre ici reste... le ferry.<br />
NL Wijkgeneugten<br />
New Yorker Joe Keohane evalueert New Yorks<br />
vijf beroemde buurten<br />
Manhattan Bezoek Greenwich Village, het Bohemer<br />
bolwerk. Proef van exotische gerechten in Chinatown<br />
en ga naar het trendy Lower East Side en het<br />
Tenement Museum.<br />
Brooklyn Brooklyn was ooit een succesvolle<br />
arbeiderswijk voor immigranten. Vandaag groeide<br />
Brooklyn uit tot hart van kunst en muziek. De stijgende<br />
huurprijzen in Manhattan zorgden voor de uittocht van<br />
een groot deel van de creatieve gemeenschap.<br />
Queens Nergens vind je meer etnische diversiteit dan in<br />
Queens. Niet verwonderlijk komen de meeste bezoekers<br />
hier voor het eten, of je nu houdt van Mexicaans,<br />
Kroaats, Joods, Guyaans, Chinees...<br />
Neem de trein naar Citi Field en ga naar een match<br />
van de Mets. De tickets zijn goedkoop.<br />
De Bronx Tijdens New Yorks moeilijke tijden, kregen<br />
de Bronx het bijzonder hard te verduren. Hele delen<br />
van de South Bronx stonden in de jaren ’60 en ’70<br />
in lichterlaaie.<br />
Maar hier groeide Amerika’s eerste originele<br />
kunstvorm sinds de jazz: hip-hop. Leer meer over de<br />
geschiedenis in het Bronx Museum of the Arts (zie ook<br />
interview met executive director Holly Block, p.14).<br />
Ga zeker ook eens eten op Arthur Avenue, het ‘Little<br />
Italy’ en pik een match mee van de Yankees, AKA ‘The<br />
Bronx Bombers’.<br />
Staten Island Ondanks de inspanningen van de<br />
plaatselijke autoriteiten om de buurt te positioneren<br />
als meer dan de thuisbasis van de iconische, knaloranje<br />
Staten Island Ferry, blijft de reden om hier te komen…<br />
de ferry, die je gratis kan nemen in Lower Manhattan.<br />
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Designer Raf Simons has ended his six-year tenure at Jil Sander to take up the hot seat at Dior after the<br />
controversial departure of John Galliano. As the world awaits the most hotly anticipated fashion<br />
collection of the year, Eva Arrighi looks at the trajectory of the talented Belgian’s career<br />
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O<br />
n 9 April this year, the intense year-long speculation over which designer<br />
would take over the helm at Dior, after the ignominious dismissal of creative<br />
director John Galliano, finally ended.<br />
“It is with tremendous excitement that the House of Dior is welcoming Raf Simons,<br />
one of today’s greatest talents,” read a statement from LVMH. “Monsieur Dior’s first<br />
collection radically changed the codes of elegance all over the world. Following the<br />
legacy of its founder, Raf Simons’ journey with the House of Dior will propel its iconic<br />
style into the 21st century.”<br />
The appointment of Belgian Raf Simons, 44, who will present his first couture<br />
collection for Dior in July, could mark a turn away from the flamboyance and<br />
theatricality that reigned at the house under Galliano’s creative direction. Although,<br />
in an interview with Women’s Wear Daily, Simons countered claims that he’d be<br />
bringing a strict sense of minimalism to the house, as exemplified by his acclaimed<br />
work at Jil Sander, the label he has departed for Dior.
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FASHION<br />
Simons’ last collection for Jil Sander, A/W <strong>2012</strong>,<br />
was gorgeously feminine and a little bit retro<br />
“I don’t think it’s wrong to call me a<br />
minimalist. It’s wrong to call me a minimalist<br />
only. I am also a romantic person. I wouldn’t<br />
go to Dior if I only had minimalism in mind.<br />
I’m very aware of what the environment is<br />
about; when I am married to a house, I will<br />
fully embrace its original intention, its<br />
original heritage and meaning.”<br />
This statement may have put paid to the<br />
rumours there will be a minimalist face-off<br />
in Paris at the Spring/Summer 2013<br />
presentations come September when<br />
Simons shows his first ready-to-wear<br />
collection for Dior. Hedi Slimane – his<br />
former menswear rival – will be showing<br />
his first womenswear collection for YSL<br />
and Phoebe Philo is back with a full show<br />
for Celine after a more low-key A/W12<br />
presentation in March following the birth<br />
of her third child.<br />
Indeed, Raf Simons joins his fellow<br />
Belgian designer Kris Van Assche at Dior<br />
where he has been in charge of Dior<br />
Homme since 2007, taking over the role<br />
vacated by Hedi Slimane.<br />
Simons’ journey to the most prestigious<br />
job in fashion at Dior has been anything but<br />
straightforward. He was born in 1968 in<br />
Neerpelt, in the province of Limburg, to a<br />
I don’t think it’s<br />
wrong to call me a<br />
minimalist. It’s wrong<br />
to call me a minimalist<br />
only. I am also a<br />
romantic person<br />
soldier father and house-cleaner mother.<br />
He spent his youth immersed in music<br />
culture, something that remains an integral<br />
part of his work, particularly in his<br />
menswear collections where he cites<br />
Plastikman, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, David<br />
Bowie and the artwork by Peter Saville for<br />
Factory Records as pivotal influences.<br />
Moving to Genk, he graduated with a<br />
degree in industrial and furniture design<br />
in 1991. While interning with Walter Van<br />
Beirendonck, one of the Antwerp Six, he<br />
attended his first fashion show – Maison<br />
Margiela’s all-white collection – and was<br />
increasingly drawn towards the work of<br />
Martin Margiela and Helmut Lang.<br />
Encouraged by Linda Loppa, then head<br />
of fashion at the Antwerp Royal Academy,<br />
in 1995 he embarked upon a career in<br />
menswear showing initially in Milan then<br />
in Paris.<br />
His collections, described by Hamish<br />
Bowles of American Vogue as “reimagined<br />
menswear, changing the fashionable male<br />
paradigm to embrace a skinny pubescent<br />
line and a strong early 1980s electro music<br />
aesthetic”, were also remarkable for their<br />
street casting and inventive avant-garde<br />
staging. The New York Times describes him<br />
as “probably the most influential menswear<br />
designer of the last decade”.<br />
Along with fellow Belgian designer<br />
Veronique Branquinho he designed the<br />
S/S and A/W 1999 collections for Ruffo<br />
Research, the Italian luxury leather label. A<br />
decade into his career he was named as<br />
the creative director of both the Jil Sander<br />
womenswear and menswear divisions.<br />
Although this was to be his first foray<br />
into womenswear design, his first<br />
collections for A/W 2006 were a critical<br />
and commercial success, embodying the<br />
core values of the brand – minimalism and<br />
luxurious use of fabric, namely doublefaced<br />
cashmere, crisp white shirts and<br />
modern, austere tailoring.<br />
Simons brought stability to the troubled<br />
house of Sander which has seen its<br />
eponymous designer leave twice due<br />
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Seven Belgian labels to watch<br />
a.KNACKFUSS »<br />
German, but based in Brussels, Alice<br />
Knackfuss’s latest collection is inspired by<br />
Japanese paper cranes and samurai armour<br />
and employs contrasting fabrics such as<br />
flannel and draped drap silk on a succession of<br />
timeless pi pieces. She has previously<br />
worked in Belgium with Simon-<br />
Pierre Toussaint To and at Diesel.<br />
Peter Pilotto Pi<br />
This label la comprises Peter Pilotto<br />
who wh is half-Austrian-half-Italian<br />
and an Christopher De Vos who is<br />
half ha Belgian-half Peruvian. The<br />
designer’s des designers met while<br />
stu studying at Antwerp’s Royal<br />
Aca Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. Now based and showing in<br />
London, Lon they have become renowned for their exquisite<br />
futuristic fut prints.<br />
« Haider H Ackermann<br />
No Not strictly Belgian – he was born in Colombia to French<br />
pare parents – but Antwerp trained and oh, how it shows, mostly in<br />
his<br />
monochrome palette, his emphasis on elegant<br />
deco deconstructed urbanism and a lean silhouette. Former intern<br />
with<br />
Galliano; the man Karl<br />
Lage Lagerfield said he would like<br />
to suc succeed him at Chanel;<br />
favour favourite of Tilda Swinton,<br />
Penelo Penelope Cruz and Lady Gaga.<br />
OMSK<br />
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Founded Founde in 2011 by Valeria<br />
Siniou Siniouchkina and Philippe<br />
Koeune Koeun from the Cambre Art<br />
and AArchitecture<br />
Schools in<br />
Brussels Bruss respectively, OMSK<br />
promotes promo a sense of urban<br />
elegance l with a twist. Playful and<br />
creative, this is Belgian/Russian fusion<br />
at its best.<br />
Olivier Theyskens<br />
Brussels-born and now at Theory.<br />
Theyskens, at only 35, has already<br />
designed at Rochas and Nina Ricci.<br />
Madonna wore a typically gothic<br />
Theyskens design to the 1998 Academy Awards and Nicole Kidman, Kirsten<br />
Dunst and Jennifer Lopez have also worn the designer’s collections.<br />
WOLF. WOL WOLF. F by y Sofie Claes<br />
Origin Originally g ally from Genk, Claes studied design and<br />
styling<br />
at Esmod Paris and at the Amsterdam Fashion<br />
Instit Institute. She currently runs her minimalist atelier<br />
in An Antwerp, describing her favourite era in fashion<br />
as tthe<br />
1940s: “I like the sobriety and simplicity<br />
of cclothing<br />
during war. It was a silent period<br />
in fa fashion. Uniforms and tailoring are my<br />
mai main inspirations.”<br />
« Kris K Van Assche<br />
After Afte graduation from the Antwerp Royal Academy<br />
of Fine F Arts, Van Assche moved to Paris to work at<br />
Yves<br />
Saint Laurent and became the artistic director<br />
at DDior<br />
Homme in April 2007. The Belgian is<br />
renown renowned for imbuing his collections with a sense<br />
of nonch nonchalance and effortless elegance.<br />
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Taking a bow at the end of his last show for<br />
Jil Sander; right, Simons’ designs were popular<br />
with Hollywood royalty such as Nicole Kidman<br />
to creative differences with Patrizio Bertelli,<br />
CEO of Prada, owners of the brand until<br />
2006. But Simons also brought a sense<br />
of rejuvenation, adding dresses and<br />
eveningwear to its oeuvre to much media<br />
and industry acclaim, garnering a cerebral<br />
band of Hollywood fashion-forward fans<br />
including Tilda Swinton, Kate Bosworth,<br />
Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker.<br />
Indeed, Simons’ last three shows for the<br />
brand in his six-year tenure could almost<br />
have acted as auditions for the new role he<br />
is about to play at Dior. They included more<br />
feminine shapes and a startlingly assured<br />
use of strong and delicate, sometimes<br />
unexpected colour palettes, based on midcentury<br />
modern couture, giving, perhaps,<br />
the strongest hint yet at the direction he<br />
will pursue in Paris.<br />
“For me the strongest impact is the first<br />
10 years of Dior and how to link that to the<br />
21st century. I find it very challenging to<br />
rethink couture,” he says.<br />
Raf Simons shares, as did Monsieur<br />
Dior, a passion for art, acting as curator<br />
of exhibitions at Chicago’s Museum of<br />
Contemporary Art and Transmission – a<br />
multi-discipline art project including new<br />
work by choreographer Michael Clark in<br />
Berlin. His private collection includes work<br />
by Stephen Gontarski, Don Brown, Dana<br />
Schutz and Daniel Sinsel.<br />
Christian Dior shunned the wishes of his<br />
family that he pursue a career in diplomat<br />
circles instead choosing to open Galerie<br />
Jacques Bonjean in 1928 selling avantgarde<br />
work of the day by Pablo Picasso,<br />
Georges Braque and Jean Cocteau, before<br />
becoming one of the epic forces in fashion<br />
and founding the House of Dior in 1947.<br />
Rather than the volte-face that Simons’<br />
appointment might initially seem after<br />
Galliano’s tenure at Dior, it may represent<br />
a circular dialogue with the founding of the<br />
house, underscoring his intelligent,<br />
questioning sense of design and keen<br />
interest in history but without any desire<br />
to slavishly ape its references.<br />
Simons’ unassuming nature and Belgian<br />
sense of pragmatism will serve him well as<br />
the eyes of the fashion world turn to Paris<br />
in July for his highly anticipated debut<br />
collection for Dior Couture.<br />
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Un Belge chez Dior<br />
Après six années sous contrat chez Jil Sander,<br />
Raf Simons a pris la succession de John Galliano<br />
chez Dior, après son départ controversé. Eva Arrighi<br />
retrace la trajectoire de ce jeune styliste belge<br />
de talent<br />
« C’est avec enthousiasme que la Maison Dior accueille<br />
Raf Simons, l’un des plus grands talents actuels, » lit-on<br />
dans un communiqué de LVMH du 9 avril. « Sur les<br />
traces de son fondateur, Raf Simons va propulser la<br />
Maison dans le 21e siècle. »<br />
L’entrée du belge Raf Simons, 44 ans, chez Dior,<br />
pourrait marquer une rupture face au côté fl amboyant<br />
et théâtral de John Galliano. Simons a toutefois réfuté<br />
l’argument selon lequel il apporterait un minimalisme<br />
strict à la Maison, comme chez Jil Sander.<br />
« Je suis un romantique. Je n’irais pas chez Dior avec<br />
une approche minimaliste. Je respecterai l’esprit<br />
d’origine de la collection. »<br />
Simons est né en 1968 à Neerpelt dans la province<br />
du Limbourg. Sa jeunesse fut imprégnée de culture<br />
musicale, ce qui reste d’ailleurs une partie intégrante<br />
de son travail.<br />
En 1991, il est diplômé en design industriel et<br />
mobilier. Bien qu’il fasse un stage auprès de Walter<br />
Van Beirendonck, l’un des Six d’Anvers, il se rapproche<br />
de l’univers de Martin Margiela et d’Helmut Lang. En<br />
1995, il se lance dans la mode masculine, d’abord à<br />
Milan, puis à Paris.<br />
Inventives et d’avant-garde, ses collections se<br />
démarquent par leur look « casting de rue ».<br />
Simons a insuffl é une nouvelle jeunesse à la Maison<br />
Sander, avec des robes et des tenues de soirée très<br />
appréciées du gratin des médias et de l’industrie.<br />
Parmi ses fans d’Hollywood, on recense Tilda Swinton,<br />
Nicole Kidman et Sarah Jessica Parker.<br />
Au lieu de voir l’arrivée de Simons chez Dior comme<br />
un volte-face après Galliano, on pourrait plutôt la<br />
représenter comme un dialogue continu avec la Maison<br />
fondatrice, questionnant avec intelligence le sens du<br />
design et sa place dans l’histoire, sans pour autant être<br />
inféodé aux références du passé.<br />
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Een Belg bij Dior<br />
Raf Simons zette zijn 6-jarige samenwerking<br />
met Jil Sander stop en nam de felbegeerde plaats in<br />
bij Dior van John Galliano, na diens vertrek.<br />
Eva Arrighi overloopt het loopbaantraject van de<br />
getalenteerde Belgische ontwerper<br />
“Het modehuis Dior is bijzonder verheugd met de<br />
komst van Raf Simons, een van de grootste talenten<br />
van vandaag, staat te lezen in een verklaring van LVMH<br />
van 9 april.”<br />
De aanstelling van de 44-jarige Belg Raf Simons kan<br />
een stap zijn, weg van het fl amboyante en theatrale dat<br />
zegevierde onder de artistieke leiding van John Galliano.<br />
Simons weerlegde beweringen dat hij uitsluitend<br />
minimalisme zal brengen binnen het modehuis, zoals bij<br />
zijn werk voor Jil Sander.<br />
“Ik ben romantisch. Ik zou niet naar Dior gaan<br />
mocht ik enkel aan minimalisme denken. Ik zal het<br />
oorspronkelijke gedachtengoed en de betekenis<br />
ervan omarmen.”<br />
Simons werd geboren in 1968 in Neerpelt, in de<br />
provincie Limburg. Hij bracht zijn jeugd door met muziek,<br />
iets wat integraal deel uit blijft maken van zijn werk.<br />
Na zijn verhuis naar Genk behaalde hij in 1991<br />
een diploma in industrieel- en meubeldesign.<br />
Tijdens zijn stage bij Walter Van Beirendonck, een van<br />
de Antwerp Six, werd hij steeds meer aangetrokken<br />
door het werk van Martin Margiela en Helmut Lang.<br />
Zijn collecties vielen op door hun streetcasting en<br />
inventieve avant-garde staging.<br />
Simons zorgde voor verjonging in modehuis<br />
Sander met het toevoegen van jurken en avondkleding.<br />
Met alle media- en industrieaandacht en fans als<br />
Tilda Swinton, Nicole Kidman en Sarah Jessica Parker<br />
tot gevolg.<br />
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LOOK,<br />
SKYWALKER<br />
Jenny Clover ventures 50 metres above the forest floor on a specially constructed jungle<br />
walkway for a breathtaking view of Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park, home to a vast<br />
array of unique bird, mammal and plant species
L<br />
ike something from a scene from<br />
Jurassic Park, perched high in the<br />
treetops of Rwanda’s Nyungwe<br />
rainforest, is a magical, mid-air walkway<br />
surrounded by a jungleful of exotic birds and<br />
monkeys that call to each other through the<br />
dripping leaves.<br />
Around 50 metres above ground-level,<br />
the Canopy Walk offers trekkers with strong<br />
stomachs and a love of heights a chance to see<br />
the rainforest from the point of view of its upperstorey<br />
inhabitants.<br />
Certainly, stepping on to the Canopy Walk isn’t<br />
for the fainthearted. A narrow bridge suspended<br />
from each side of the valley with cables, it sways<br />
gently in the breeze. But once you’ve adapted<br />
your centre of gravity and dragged your gaze<br />
up from your feet, the view is breathtaking.<br />
Beautiful, lush, undulating hills stretch as far as<br />
the eye can see, covered by a soft blanket of<br />
rolling mist. Exotic birds perch on branches<br />
looking at you quizzically and, if you’re lucky, you<br />
might even glimpse a monkey swinging through<br />
the treetops.<br />
It’s a strangely serene experience standing<br />
where humans rarely get a chance to venture,<br />
and the desire to holler out across the valley like<br />
Tarzan is quite overwhelming. As is the fantasy<br />
to swing on a trailing vine while doing so. This<br />
unique vantage point is made all the more special<br />
by the soft sounds of the rainforest far below and<br />
a cool breeze stirring the air.<br />
The walkway itself is around 150 metres long,<br />
divided in half by a solid viewing platform for<br />
those who need a break to gather their courage<br />
or take photographs. The hike to reach it takes<br />
around an hour from the park’s Uwinka Visitor<br />
Centre, where trekkers meet their park guide and<br />
pay the entrance fees. The hike continues on<br />
past the Canopy Walk for another hour or so<br />
before winding its way back to the starting point.<br />
Happily, the trek into the forest is all downhill,<br />
but be prepared for a steep climb back up to<br />
Uwinka. A supply of water and a waterproof<br />
jacket are wise additions to a backpack.<br />
Nyungwe was designated a national park by<br />
the government in 2005 to protect the unique<br />
animal and plant species that thrive there. The<br />
Canopy Walk, the first of its kind in East Africa<br />
and only the third in Africa after South Africa and<br />
Ghana, opened in late 2010. The launch of this<br />
jungle walkway is part of a concerted effort by<br />
Rwanda’s tourist board to encourage tourists<br />
AFRICA
AFRICA<br />
who come to see the gorillas to stay longer<br />
and sample some of Rwanda’s other<br />
attractions.<br />
The park is located in the furthest corner<br />
of south-west Rwanda, about a six-hour<br />
drive from the capital, Kigali. Africa’s<br />
largest protected mountain rainforest, it<br />
claims impressive biodiversity credentials:<br />
310 bird species, 26 of which are endemic<br />
to Nyungwe; 13 species of primate<br />
including chimpanzees and baboons; 1,068<br />
recorded plant species; 148 types of<br />
orchids and 200 different tree species.<br />
The Canopy Walk is one of more than a<br />
dozen hikes that can be taken around the<br />
rainforest starting at Uwinka, including<br />
specialist bird and monkey excursions, a<br />
waterfall trek and the 10-day Congo-Nile<br />
trail. Hikes vary in cost depending on the<br />
type, but prices start at €31 for a general<br />
hike and €47 for the canopy walk.<br />
For those who find trekking through the<br />
jungle too much like hard work, the nearby<br />
Nyungwe Forest Lodge, the area’s only<br />
five-star retreat, is a more relaxing option.<br />
Above: The fi ve-star Nyungwe Forest Lodge; Below:<br />
what the forest canopy looks like from beneath<br />
Located just outside the rainforest, the eco<br />
lodge has a striking view overlooking a<br />
working tea plantation and the outer edges<br />
of the jungle.<br />
You can watch the tea-pickers at work<br />
while enjoying a pot yourself, or walk<br />
around the lush grounds on the look out<br />
for monkeys. Built to blend in with its<br />
environment, the lodge offers luxury<br />
accommodation with all the trappings –<br />
heated outdoor infinity pool, treatment<br />
rooms and jacuzzi – in one of East Africa’s<br />
most dramatic locations.<br />
While Rwanda will always be best known<br />
for its gorillas and volcanoes, Nyungwe is<br />
a welcome addition to the tourist trail and<br />
a stroll along the Canopy Walk provides a<br />
thrilling viewpoint and an experience that<br />
undoubtedly leaves you on a bit of a high.<br />
For hike details visit rwandatourism.com;<br />
rooms at the five-star Nyungwe Forest Lodge<br />
from €172 per person, nyungweforestlodge.com<br />
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De branche en branche<br />
Jenny Clover s’aventure sur la canopée au<br />
cœur de la jungle rwandaise, dans la forêt<br />
de Nyungwe<br />
A l’instar d’une scène de Jurassic Park, haut perchée<br />
au sommet des arbres de la forêt de Nyungwe, au<br />
Rwanda, se trouve une passerelle suspendue entourée<br />
d’une kyrielle d’oiseaux exotiques et de singes qui<br />
s’apostrophent à travers le feuillage.<br />
A près de 50 mètres au dessus du sol, le couvert<br />
végétal offre aux randonneurs qui n’ont pas le vertige, la<br />
chance de voir la forêt depuis les étages supérieurs.<br />
Longue de 150 mètres, la passerelle contient en son<br />
milieu une plateforme d’où l’on peut prendre des<br />
photos. Pour rejoindre la canopée, il faut compter<br />
environ une heure de marche du Centre des Visiteurs du<br />
parc d’Uwinka, le lieu de ralliement.<br />
Située dans le coin le plus reculé du sud-ouest du<br />
Rwanda, la forêt se trouve à quelque six heures de route<br />
de la capitale Kigali. Une des plus grandes forêts<br />
tropicales de montagne protégées d’Afrique, elle héberge<br />
une impressionnante biodiversité : 310 espèces d’oiseaux,<br />
dont 26 endémiques de Nyungwe, 13 groupes de primates<br />
dont des chimpanzés, 1.068 variétés de plantes, 148<br />
types d’orchidées et 200 espèces différentes d’arbres.<br />
Si vous estimez qu’un trekking à travers la jungle est<br />
trop exigeant, l’éco-lodge de la Forêt de Nyungwe, à<br />
proximité, est une option plus relaxante. De cette unique<br />
retraite cinq étoiles de l’endroit, campée aux abords de<br />
la forêt, vous bénéfi cierez de vues surprenantes sur une<br />
plantation de thé et la jungle environnante.<br />
Vous y verrez des cueilleurs de thé à l’œuvre tout en<br />
savourant votre propre tasse. Ou encore promenez-vous<br />
dans les paysages luxuriants à la recherche des singes.<br />
Bâti pour se fondre dans son environnement, le lodge<br />
offre un confort luxueux avec piscine chauffée et jacuzzi.<br />
Même si le Rwanda sera toujours réputé pour ses<br />
gorilles et ses volcans, Nyungwe vient s’ajouter au circuit<br />
touristique comme une nouvelle destination de choix.<br />
rwandatourism.com; yungweforestlodge.com<br />
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Jenny Clover ervaart een magische tocht<br />
doorheen het bladerdak over een loopbrug in het<br />
Rwandese Nyungwe regenwoud<br />
Hoog in de boomtoppen van het Rwandese Nyungwe<br />
regenwoud hangt een magische loopbrug te midden van<br />
exotische vogels en apen.<br />
De loopbrug hangt op zo’n 50 meter hoogte en biedt<br />
wandelaars de kans het regenwoud te evenaren zoals zijn<br />
hoogste bewoners.<br />
De loopbrug is in twee verdeeld door een stevig<br />
uitkijkplatform. De wandeling naar de brug vanuit het<br />
Uwinka Bezoekerscentrum, waar wandelaars afspreken<br />
met hun gids, neemt zo’n uurtje in beslag.<br />
Het woud bevindt zich in de uiterste uithoek van<br />
Zuidwest Rwanda, op zo’n 6 uur rijden van de hoofdstad<br />
Kigali. Het is Afrika’s grootste beschermde<br />
bergregenwoud en beschikt over een impressionante<br />
biodiversiteit: 310 vogelsoorten, waarvan 26 inheemse<br />
van Nyungwe, 13 primatensoorten, 1.068 opgetekende<br />
platensoorten, 148 soorten orchideeën en 200<br />
verschillende boomsoorten.<br />
Wie een junglewandeling te zwaar vindt en op zoek is<br />
naar iets kalmer, kan terecht in de nabijgelegen Nyungwe<br />
Forest Lodge, het vijfsterrenoord van de streek. Deze eco<br />
lodge is net buiten het woud gelegen en biedt een<br />
verbluffend uitzicht over de theeplantage en de uiterste<br />
grenzen van het regenwoud.<br />
Hier ziet u de theeplukkers aan het werk, terwijl uzelf<br />
nipt van een potje thee of wandelt doorheen het<br />
weelderige oord, op zoek naar apen.<br />
De lodge werd gebouwd met het oog op integratie in<br />
het landschap en biedt luxueuze accommodatie.<br />
Hoewel Rwanda voor altijd bekend zal staan om zijn<br />
gorilla’s en vulkanen, is Nyungwe een welkom extraatje<br />
voor toeristen dat de moeite loont tijd voor uit te trekken.<br />
rwandatourism.com; nyungweforestlodge.com<br />
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56<br />
The Basques are so proud of their fine local tuna, they land it and conserve it in pretty<br />
coloured retro tins so we can all enjoy it at home. Joe Warwick visits the Ortiz canning<br />
factory near Bilbao and enjoys a few pintxos in this little-known foodie paradise<br />
N<br />
orthern Spain produces the best preserved seafood<br />
in the world. Here, it is seen as something to be<br />
savoured, a carefully graded delicacy that’s worth<br />
paying serious money for. Compare that with the prevailing<br />
attitude in United States and the UK, two countries I divided<br />
my formative years between, and, coincidentally, the firstand<br />
second-biggest consumers of canned tuna in the world.<br />
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I was brought up with the idea that fish in a can was a cheap<br />
store-cupboard staple, an emergency ration, sometimes<br />
mixed with sweetcorn and mayonnaise and put in a<br />
sandwich. Back then the idea that a can of fish could be an<br />
object of gastronomic desire had never occurred to me.<br />
“You could say that the reason why tinned seafood has<br />
such a bad image in places like the US and the UK, is that<br />
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they don’t put anything good in the tin in<br />
the first place,” says Monika Linton, whose<br />
company Brindisa specialises in importing<br />
Spanish food into the UK.<br />
“There’s this misguided idea that fresh is<br />
always best. But if you harvest anything in<br />
season, catching fish at its very best and<br />
preserving it the right way, you will have it<br />
to enjoy throughout the year. When it<br />
comes to something like sardines, the<br />
flavour actually improves in the tin.”<br />
The scales, so to speak, were first lifted<br />
from my eyes on a trip to Barcelona six<br />
years ago to visit a tapas bar called<br />
Inopia, then run by Albert Adria, younger<br />
brother of Ferran of el Bulli fame. On<br />
Inopia’s shelves there were various<br />
colourful cans of seafood, beautifully<br />
branded and priced upwards of most of<br />
the fresh fish on the menu.<br />
This year I was given the chance to visit<br />
the home of, arguably, the most famous of<br />
the colourful brands that caught my eye<br />
that day back in Barcelona – Ortiz – to<br />
better understand what goes into those<br />
distinctive yellow, red and blue cans.<br />
Ortiz, or Ortiz Conservas to give it its full<br />
name, was founded back in 1891 and today<br />
is run by the fifth generation of the same<br />
family. The distinctive design with the<br />
fishing boat on the cans remains, by and<br />
large, unchanged since it first appeared<br />
back in the 1930s.<br />
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Clockwise from above left: Trimming the famous<br />
anchovies at the Ortiz factory; tuna being line-caught<br />
in the Cantabrian Sea; packed in ice, ready for canning<br />
It’s no coincidence that Ortiz is based on<br />
the north coast of Spain in the Basque<br />
country. The Cantabrian Sea, the name<br />
given to the southern end of Bay of Biscay<br />
that extends along the coast of the Basque<br />
region, is a rich source of fish, the very best<br />
tuna and, in particular, anchovies, on which<br />
the business was originally built.<br />
The Italians had long prized the<br />
anchovies from the Cantabrian – better<br />
than their own Mediterranean variety, by<br />
virtue of the colder, rougher waters. When e<br />
they first arrived in the e area in the late 19th<br />
century they brought ught with them the<br />
technique, still used ed by Ortiz<br />
today, of layering the he fish in<br />
barrels with salt to cure<br />
them. Ortiz’s anchovies vies<br />
are still filleted by hand, and,<br />
with the average<br />
eat bilbao<br />
BILBAO<br />
Don’t call it tapas<br />
While San Sebastian tends<br />
to get all the attention for its<br />
pintxo bars (what the Basques<br />
call tapas), Bilbao can more<br />
than hold its own when it comes<br />
to a ‘txikiteo’ (what the Basques<br />
call a bar crawl). The cardinal<br />
rule, as elsewhere in Spain, is<br />
‘never drink without eating,<br />
never eat without drinking.’ As<br />
an excellent starting point the<br />
Bilbao council’s website has,<br />
under its Eat in Bilbao section,<br />
a comprehensive selection of<br />
recommended pintxo bars<br />
grouped under classic, modern<br />
and avant-garde to denote the<br />
style of the dishes on offer.<br />
bilbao.net<br />
Cider house rules<br />
No one should leave the Basque<br />
country without experiencing<br />
the atmosphere of a traditional<br />
cider house, typically country<br />
affairs with the best examples<br />
out in the sticks. Arriaga does a<br />
good job of bringing to the city<br />
the rustic charms of simply<br />
charred hunks of marbled beef,<br />
fish and salt cod omelettes<br />
combined with sampling (al<br />
txotx) cider, drawn by yourself<br />
straight from huge barrels.<br />
Arriaga, Santa María St 13,<br />
48005, Bilbao +34 944 165<br />
670, asadorarriaga.com<br />
Museum piece<br />
Naturally no visit to Bilbao is<br />
complete without a tour around<br />
the Guggenheim musuem.<br />
Assuming you want to do it<br />
in style and you like your<br />
restaurants haute and<br />
proffering elaborate tasting<br />
menus, there’s no better place<br />
to start – or finish – your visit<br />
to the gallery than at Nerua.<br />
Chef Josean Martínez Alija’s<br />
stylish, appropriately modern,<br />
dining room is located within<br />
Frank Gehry’s iconic building.<br />
Nerua, Avda Abandoibarra 2,<br />
48001, Bilbao + 34 944 000<br />
430, nerua.com<br />
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BILBAO<br />
One of Ortiz’s local fi shing boats used for catching<br />
the fi nest white tuna, all of which is line caught<br />
worker, amazingly, filleting over 3,000 of<br />
the tiny fish in a day.<br />
The only break with tradition came<br />
following the recent five-year ban on<br />
anchovy fishing in the Cantabrian Sea to<br />
allow stocks to recover, during which time<br />
Mediterranean fish was used. When the<br />
ban was lifted in 2010 they returned to the<br />
firmer, superior flesh of anchovies from the<br />
Cantabrian coastline.<br />
Ortiz has long since expanded into other<br />
preserved fish, including mackerel and<br />
sardines, but its star is white tuna or Bonito<br />
del Norte. Only fish caught with live bait<br />
during the coastal season make the cut. It’s<br />
religiously graded, the best of which is used<br />
in their Gama Roja range.<br />
Ortiz’s four factories now specialise in<br />
different products with San Vicente de la<br />
Barquera in Cantabria and Lekeitio in<br />
Vizcaya producing anchovies, Zumala<br />
(Gipuzkoa) brine-preserved tuna and<br />
mackerel, and Ondarroa (Vizcaya) focusing<br />
on top-of-the-line tuna preserved in olive oil.<br />
You can visit the latter two factories,<br />
which grant pre-booked tours to members<br />
of the public and have shops with the full<br />
Ortiz range.<br />
When I visited the 120-year old factory<br />
at Ondarroa, I was surprised at just how<br />
labour intensive and old-fashioned it<br />
remained. I watched as the belly tuna<br />
produced that day was tightly packed by<br />
hand into glass jars. The finest, tastiest and<br />
most expensive cut of the fish preserved<br />
at its peak in fine Spanish olive oil, would<br />
soon be on its way to be consumed by<br />
someone, somewhere, in the world who<br />
knew its worth.<br />
To enquire about a factory tour, contact<br />
Ortiz at least a day in advance: +34 943 862<br />
600 or informacion@ortiz.es; conservasortiz.<br />
com; brindisa.com<br />
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En direct du bateau<br />
Par Joe Warwick<br />
L’Espagne produit les meilleures conserves de<br />
poisson dans le monde. Les Espagnols les considèrent<br />
comme des mets savoureux, une délicatesse pour<br />
laquelle ils sont prêts à payer le prix.<br />
J’ai été élevé dans l’idée que le poisson en boîte était<br />
un aliment basique bon marché, souvent consommé<br />
en sandwich avec du maïs et de la mayonnaise. Mais<br />
qu’un poisson en boîte puisse être un objet de désir<br />
gastronomique ne m’a jamais effl euré.<br />
« Il existe une fausse conception selon laquelle la<br />
fraîcheur prime avant tout, » explique Monika Linton,<br />
dont la société Brindisa est spécialisée en<br />
importation de produits alimentaires espagnols au<br />
Royaume-Uni. « Si vous pêchez à la bonne saison et<br />
préservez correctement le poisson, vous pouvez vous<br />
en régaler toute l’année. Et lorsqu’il s’agit de<br />
sardines, par exemple, même la saveur s’améliore<br />
en conserve. »<br />
Le plus célèbre producteur de poisson en conserve<br />
est Ortiz – Ortiz Conservas de son nom complet.<br />
Fondée en 1891, la société est gérée aujourd’hui par<br />
la cinquième génération de la même famille. Le<br />
design distinctif des produits, représentant un<br />
bateau de pêche sur l’emballage, n’a pas changé<br />
depuis leur lancement dans les années 30.<br />
Ce n’est pas un hasard si Ortiz est installé sur la<br />
côte nord espagnole, dans le pays Basque. La mer<br />
Cantabrique, le nom donné à la baie de Biscaye le<br />
long de la côte basque, est riche en poissons. Ici le<br />
thon abonde tout comme les anchois, les produits<br />
d’excellence à l’origine de l’entreprise.<br />
Depuis lors la gamme d’Ortiz s’est étendue avec<br />
des maquereaux et des sardines, mais leur denrée<br />
star reste le thon blanc ou Bonito del Norte. Seuls les<br />
poissons capturés avec des appâts vivants durant la<br />
saison de la pêche sont sélectionnés pour la coupe.<br />
Si vous êtes intéressé par un tour des usines,<br />
contactez Ortiz au moins un jour en avance : +34<br />
943 862600 ou informacion@ortiz.es ;<br />
conservasortiz.com ; brindisa.com<br />
NL<br />
Vers van de boot<br />
Door Joe Warwick<br />
Spanje produceert ‘s wereld best bewaarde vis. De<br />
Spanjaarden beschouwen het als iets waar veel geld<br />
kan voor worden neergeteld.<br />
Ik werd opgevoed met het idee dat vis in blik<br />
een goedkoop alternatief was uit de supermarkt<br />
en in noodgevallen tussen een boterham terecht<br />
kwam. Het idee dat ingeblikte vis gastronomische<br />
geneugten kon teweegbrengen kwam nooit bij me op.<br />
“Vers is altijd het beste is een misvatting”, aldus<br />
Monika Linton. Zij werkt voor Brindisa, een bedrijf<br />
gespecialiseerd in de import van Spaanse voeding<br />
in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. “Als je de vis op tijd, op<br />
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Boyd Farrow rounds up the latest in the business world across Europe<br />
Tyson helps Polish drinks<br />
company pack a punch<br />
In 2004 FoodCare, a company near Krakow, launched Tiger<br />
Energy Drink with Dariusz “Tiger” Michalczewski, a much-loved<br />
ex-boxer who licensed his nickname in return for a cut of the<br />
profits going to his charity.<br />
Although the drink became hugely popular, a row over a spinoff<br />
Tiger Black Energy Drink in 2010 saw Michaelczewski taking<br />
the Tiger name to a rival firm and FoodCare developing Black<br />
Energy Drink. Now Foodcare is relaunching this product, simply<br />
just called Black, with a huge marketing campaign in an attempt<br />
to make it the best-selling energy drink in Europe. And the new<br />
face? Step up Mike Tyson, who has just signed on to become the<br />
face of the campaign for three years.<br />
Tyson was the youngest man ever to win the world heavyweight<br />
boxing championship at the age of just 20. However, despite<br />
becoming undisputed champion a year later in 1987, the majority<br />
of the Brooklyn-born boxer’s career was marred by spells in prison<br />
and disqualifications in the ring further tarnished his reputation. tion.<br />
Tyson will certainly make an upbeat ambassador for Black ck<br />
though. When asked by journalists in Warsaw what he would d<br />
have done differently if he had his time again, he said: “There re is<br />
nothing in my life I would erase – I would not change anything, ng,<br />
even if I could.” Tiger may have been able to, but, it seems a<br />
leopard cannot change its spots.<br />
Italy wins chocolate battle<br />
Brussels has decided to let Italy continue selling chocolate labelled<br />
as ‘pure chocolate’. In 2010 the European Court of Justice<br />
condemned Italy for using ‘pure chocolate’ labels on products<br />
made solely from cocoa butter as they might mislead consumers.<br />
Italy has been fighting to preserve a distinction between its<br />
chocolate products and those from other European countries<br />
which use vegetable oils as well as cocoa butter. Ironically, the<br />
news emerged just as Turin-based confectionery giant Ferrero<br />
agreed to set aside $3m (€2.3m) to settle a class-action lawsuit<br />
by a Californian mother after she discovered the group’s Nutella<br />
chocolate spread had more calories than jam. Notices of class<br />
action settlements said Ferrero USA Inc. would pay up to $4 (€3)<br />
for every jar of Nutella bought in California since August 2009, or<br />
eelsewhere<br />
in the US since January 2008.<br />
It also agreed to “modify certain marketing<br />
statements sta about Nutella”. Two years ago, Ferrero<br />
led It Italy’s charge against Brussels when it complained<br />
abo about stricter labelling on confectionery. Ferrero is<br />
on one of Italy’s most successful family companies,<br />
an and reported pre-tax earnings of €856m (€665m)<br />
fo for year ending August 2011.<br />
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Industrial espionage on<br />
the rise in Germany<br />
Nearly half of all German companies have been victims of<br />
industrial spies, according to a study by Munich security<br />
specialist Corporate Trust, with one in five having lost information<br />
directly to competitors. The study, involving around 600<br />
companies, found that medium-sized German firms – considered<br />
the country’s innovative backbone – were most badly affected,<br />
enduring 23.5% of the attacks. The country’s major corporations<br />
experienced 18.5% of all espionage attempts, while small<br />
companies were the victims of 15.6% of them.<br />
The report said that attacks came from many places including<br />
China, the former Soviet countries and the US. The latter,<br />
apparently, “kept itself well in the picture with the help of special<br />
listening devices”. Corporate Trust claims that corporate<br />
espionage would cost Germany €4.2bn this year.<br />
Employees are a large security risk, with 58% of the damage<br />
inflicted traced back to a company’s own staff, the study said.<br />
Attacks from outside the office can take the form of hacking but<br />
also from competitors posing as market researchers in order to<br />
gather information.<br />
eu Alcohol marketing tightened to protect teens<br />
Eight of the world’s biggest alcoholic drinks producers have<br />
linked up to toughen up self-imposed rules on drinks marketing<br />
across the EU – with the aim of protecting young teenagers.<br />
The Responsible Marketing Pact, which includes Belgium’s AB<br />
InBev, Denmark’s Carlsberg, Britain’s Diageo and Heineken, for<br />
the first time provide a guide that’s consistent not just across so<br />
many markets, but also across beer, wine and spirits.<br />
The pact sets common standards on drinks brands’<br />
involvement in social media and user-generated content to limit<br />
young eyes falling on it, primarily by ensuring content is likely to<br />
be of interest only to over-18s.<br />
Apparently, however, it is Carlsberg employees who need<br />
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in<br />
digits<br />
1204<br />
The number of people<br />
waiting for a table at<br />
Noma, Copenhagen,<br />
after it was again<br />
crowned the world’s<br />
best restaurant<br />
last month<br />
58<br />
The percentage<br />
of internet users<br />
in Russia<br />
6.34%<br />
The foreign<br />
population of Italy,<br />
which has tripled in<br />
the last decade to<br />
3,769, 518 people<br />
€94m<br />
The amount architect<br />
Santiago Calatrava<br />
was paid for Valencia’s<br />
famed City of Arts &<br />
Sciences in the early<br />
1990s, according to<br />
documents released<br />
last month<br />
Gambling habit<br />
growing in Italy<br />
Gambling is Italy’s third-largest industry, according<br />
to a new report. A study by Italian social service<br />
group CeIS, reveals that Italy’s betting industry<br />
earned €47.5bn in revenue in 2008, €10bn behind<br />
automaker Fiat and half the revenue of energy giant<br />
Eni. The study showed that 47% of Italy’s poor and<br />
66% of the unemployed are known to gamble. It<br />
also showed that 47% of youth aged 15-24 have<br />
played video poker and slot machines. Health<br />
Minister Renato Balduzzi said last month that Italy’s<br />
growing gambling industry risks claiming half a<br />
million young addicts.<br />
Online betting, which tripled in 2011, is growing<br />
the fastest, as gamblers spent €1.5bn on the<br />
internet last year. Gambling revenue in Italy was up<br />
28.8% to €23.2bn in the first quarter of <strong>2012</strong>. It<br />
may be of no comfort to the Catholic group, but<br />
thanks to recent legislation, Italian authorities are<br />
getting tax revenues from gambling.<br />
In Italy tax evasion is an even bigger pastime than<br />
gambling, with Italian finance police recovering<br />
€6bn in unpaid taxes in the first four months of the<br />
year. “The biggest peaks in evasion were in the<br />
wholesale and retail sectors [almost 25% of the<br />
total], construction, manufacturing, housing and<br />
catering industries,” a police statement noted.<br />
protection – from the brewer. It has just come to light that last year<br />
the company was cited for 12 major safety violations in its Fredericia<br />
plant, a Danish record for the highest number of<br />
possibly dangerous conditions found in a single<br />
workplace at one time.<br />
The Fredericia shipping terminal was cited for<br />
seven violations while the brewery itself received<br />
five, mainly for plant machinery that presented a<br />
great risk of bodily harm. Denmark’s national<br />
workplace monitor, Arbejdstilsynet, said one of the<br />
most serious violations involved gas bottles that<br />
were not secured against falling over and exploding.<br />
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Moscow’s authorities have committed to a revolutionary scheme to restore the<br />
city’s architectural heritage. Investors are to be offered a 49-year lease on<br />
buildings in poor condition and will pay market-rate rent until the restoration<br />
work on the building is complete. Once the work is complete, Moscow’s<br />
Heritage Commission will reduce the rent to a symbolic one ruble per m2 which<br />
will be in place for the remainder of the lease. Investors must complete the<br />
restoration within five years of signing the contract or face a fine. Moscow’s<br />
Heritage Commission has indicated that there are a total of 244 historical<br />
buildings in a precarious state that it would like to have renovated through this<br />
scheme, and has said they have 50 applications from potential investors.<br />
One developer, MR Group, says that restoration costs could range from<br />
€2,500 to €10,000 per m2 , depending on the building’s condition. Based on the<br />
yearly market rate, the restorations would cost the same as four to 15 years of<br />
rent. Unveiling the scheme, one of the Heritage Commission’s directors<br />
specified that all buildings are expected to look as they did in the 19th century.<br />
Universal Studios comes<br />
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According to reports in the Russian media, Universal<br />
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entrepreneur Sait-Salam Gutseriev, the €2.5bn Galactic Park will<br />
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The Moscow attraction will be more affordable for visitors<br />
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Stockholm: Start-up city<br />
In the last five years, €2.6bn has been generated annually from<br />
Nordic tech companies, with more than half of this coming<br />
from Sweden alone. Barry Mansfield meets the entrepreneurs<br />
playing a starring role in Stockholm’s boom<br />
I<br />
n a nice twist for the consumer,<br />
Klarna is a service that allows its<br />
users to pay for products<br />
purchased online after they’ve been<br />
delivered. All you need to do is enter your<br />
name, date of birth and address and Klarna<br />
fronts the payment. It ploughs through<br />
huge amounts of information on user<br />
behaviour to assess whether the individual<br />
can repay: “Who’s trustworthy and who’s<br />
not,” is how Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the<br />
CEO, likes to put it. And Klarna has found a<br />
lot of reliable customers – it is available in<br />
14,000 affiliated online shops in Europe,<br />
with more than six million users so far.<br />
The company was formed in 2005 by<br />
current COO Niklas Adalberth and two<br />
friends from the Stockholm School of<br />
Economics, Siemiatkowski and Victor<br />
Jacobsson. With help from angel investor<br />
Jane Walerud, the group raised €80,000 in<br />
the first round.<br />
Klarna won over €115m in funding from<br />
General Atlantic and DST Global in its<br />
Series C round last year and is now valued<br />
at around €600 million. It is thought to<br />
have made revenues of €80 million for<br />
2011, with a profit of around €7m.<br />
According to Siemiatkowski, the confidence<br />
of Stockholm’s entrepreneurs is improving<br />
because “every company that makes it acts<br />
as a catalyst for new ideas, new start-ups<br />
and new investments. It’s a ripple effect.”<br />
The start-up now operates with 600<br />
employees in Germany, the Netherlands,<br />
Finland, Norway and Israel. Thankfully<br />
talent, Stockholm’s key commodity –<br />
mainly due to its world-class education<br />
system and history of high-tech<br />
engineering – allows the city to satisfy that<br />
high demand. Siemiatkowski says he is also<br />
grateful for mentoring he received from<br />
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people in companies like Tradedoubler,<br />
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The Swedish capital is also home to<br />
some experienced serial entrepreneurs,<br />
such as Hjalmar Winbladh, who is bestknown<br />
as the co-founder and CEO of free<br />
VoIP service Rebtel. In 1994 Winbladh<br />
co-founded Sendit, which Microsoft<br />
acquired for €100m in 1999. He’s now<br />
proving that gift cards are still in fashion<br />
after securing €4m for Wrapp in a first<br />
round of funding in November 2011.<br />
Wrapp, which lets you easily send gift<br />
cards to friends through Facebook,<br />
announced again in January this year that<br />
it had secured an additional €3.8m, led by<br />
Atomico and Greylock Partners.<br />
The funding will help Wrapp accelerate its<br />
Above: Wrapp’s Hjalmar Winbladh believes<br />
Stockholm succeeds because of “its high<br />
appreciation for the latest technology”<br />
expansion into the US and UK. The company<br />
says that in Sweden it sent over 250,000<br />
gift cards in December, with the number<br />
growing at about 30% every week. Wrapp<br />
now has 30 major retailers in Sweden alone<br />
and hundreds of smaller retailers.<br />
After angel investments in iZettle<br />
(Europe’s answer to mobile-payment<br />
company Square, iZettle last year raised<br />
€8.2m) and EpidemicSound, Wrapp is<br />
Winbladh’s fifth start-up. So why choose<br />
Stockholm as a base, again?<br />
“Because Sweden has an extremely high<br />
appreciation for the latest technology, it<br />
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Right: Klarna<br />
founders Niklas<br />
Adalberth, Sebastian<br />
Siemiatkowski and<br />
Victor Jacobsson<br />
has become the perfect test-market for<br />
real innovation before exposing it to the<br />
rest of the world,” he says. There is now a<br />
mature community and ecosystem of old<br />
and young entrepreneurs and VCs in<br />
Stockholm, who know one another, meet<br />
regularly, share ideas and actively<br />
encourage and fund the next generation<br />
global companies.<br />
The gaming industry is another focus for<br />
the city, and a highly lucrative market.<br />
Stockholm is the birthplace of Minecraft –<br />
probably the best-selling videogame not to<br />
have been officially released at the height<br />
of its popularity. It first appeared in May<br />
2009 as a developmental alpha; since then,<br />
it has attracted 25 million registered users<br />
and shifted five million copies, earning at<br />
least €60 million. A further €750,000 has<br />
been generated through merchandising,<br />
including clothing such as T-shirts and<br />
socks, and a partnership with Danish<br />
toymaker Lego.<br />
“We’ve been approached by a number<br />
of high-profile Hollywood producers and<br />
asked to do TV shows,” says Carl Manneh,<br />
managing director of Mojang (Swedish for<br />
‘gadget’), the holding company set up with<br />
Jakob Porsér in September 2010 with<br />
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Minecraft revenues. Developer Markus<br />
‘Notch’ Persson is credited with dreaming<br />
up the idea, which has players building a<br />
world from cubic blocks.<br />
Mojang wants to retain the start-up vibe<br />
– “tons of fun,” according to Manneh – at<br />
its new headquarters in the south of the<br />
city; for example, it holds ‘gaming Fridays’<br />
every week, from noon onwards. An<br />
exuberant Persson is famous for handing<br />
over his €2.8m share of last December’s<br />
dividend to dumbstruck employees.<br />
Persson is thought to have received a<br />
total of about €45m in licensing revenue<br />
from Mojang, and Manneh stresses that<br />
the company will not need help from<br />
venture capitalists. He has already turned<br />
down an offer from Sean Parker, the<br />
former Facebook president and co-founder<br />
of Napster.<br />
As Wrapp’s Hjalmar Winbladh’s asserts,<br />
“Stockholm has been a world-class centre<br />
of gravity for tech start-ups for some time<br />
– it has just taken the rest of the world a bit<br />
longer to recognise what’s going on up<br />
here. I believe the tech advancements and<br />
creativity over the next 10 years in<br />
Stockholm will be truly game changing and<br />
I’m thrilled to be a part of it.”<br />
FR Stockholm : ville start-up<br />
Ces cinq dernières années, les entreprises<br />
nordiques high-tech – dont plus de la moitié<br />
suédoises – ont généré plus de 2,6 milliards d’euros<br />
annuellement. Barry Mansfi eld rencontre ces<br />
entrepreneurs majeurs<br />
Klarna permet aux consommateurs de payer des<br />
marchandises achetées en ligne après la livraison. Sur base<br />
d’informations sur le profi l de l’usager et son niveau de<br />
fi abilité, Klarna couvre le payement. Ce service est<br />
disponible aujourd’hui dans 14.000 boutiques en ligne<br />
en Europe, et il compte six millions d’utilisateurs.<br />
L’année dernière, la fi rme a levé des fonds de General<br />
Atlantic et DST Global pour plus de 115 millions d’euros,<br />
portant la valorisation de la compagnie à quelque 600<br />
millions d’euros. Selon son PDG, Sebastien<br />
Siemiatkowski, les entrepreneurs stockholmois gagnent<br />
de plus en plus la confi ance parce que « chaque société<br />
qui réussit, agit comme un catalyseur pour de nouvelles<br />
start-ups et de nouveaux investissements. »<br />
L’industrie des jeux vidéos – marché hautement lucratif<br />
– est un autre secteur de pointe à Stockholm, berceau<br />
de Minecraft. Ce best-seller lancé en mai 2009, a depuis<br />
attiré 25 millions d’utilisateurs et généré cinq millions<br />
d’exemplaires, pour une valeur d’au moins 60 millions<br />
d’euros. A cela viennent s’ajouter le merchandising et un<br />
partenariat avec le fabricant de jouets danois Lego.<br />
La capitale suédoise abrite également quelques<br />
« serial entrepreneurs », tels Hjalmar Winbladh, PDG de<br />
Rebtel, services gratuits de VoIP. En 1994, Winbladh a<br />
co-fondé Sendit, racheté par Microsoft pour 100<br />
millions d’euros en 1999. Il prouve aujourd’hui que les<br />
cartes cadeaux sont toujours en vogue, après avoir<br />
récolté 4 millions d’euros pour Wrapp lors d’une<br />
première levée de fonds en novembre 2011.<br />
Wrapp, qui permet d’envoyer facilement des cartes<br />
cadeaux à ses amis via Facebook, a annoncé en janvier<br />
de cette année avoir engrangé 3,8 millions d’euros<br />
additionnels, fi nancés par Atomico and Greylock<br />
Partners. Mais pourquoi Stockholm comme ville de<br />
lancement ? D’après Winbladh, « la Suède apprécie<br />
tellement les dernières technologies qu’elle est<br />
devenue un marché test ».<br />
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Stockholm: stad der<br />
start-ups<br />
De voorbije 5 jaar geneerden Scandinavische<br />
technologiebedrijven jaarlijks meer dan 2,6 miljard<br />
euro, waarvan Zweden alleen meer dan de helft voor<br />
zijn rekening neemt. Barry Mansfi eld ontmoet de<br />
ondernemers met een glansrol<br />
Met Klarna kunnen gebruikers hun online aangekochte<br />
producten na levering betalen. Bij het controleren of<br />
iemand een aankoop kan terugbetalen, vond Klarna<br />
betrouwbare klanten. Momenteel telt Klarna meer dan<br />
6 miljoen gebruikers.<br />
Klarna’s waarde wordt rond de 600 miljoen euro<br />
geschat. Volgens CEO Sebastien Siemiatkowsk groeit het<br />
vertrouwen van de Stockholmse ondernemers: “Iedere<br />
succesvolle onderneming werkt als katalysator voor<br />
nieuwe start-ups en investeringen.”<br />
Gaming is een andere, lucratieve industriële kernactiviteit<br />
in Stockholm. Het populaire videospel Minecraft, met 25<br />
miljoen gebruikers en 5 miljoen verkochte exemplaren, is<br />
goed voor een opbrengst van minstens 60 miljoen euro.<br />
Daarnaast werd € 750,000 gegenereerd via<br />
merchandising en een samenwerking met Lego.<br />
Stockholm is eveneens de thuisbasis van een aantal<br />
ervaren serie-ondernemers, waaronder Hjalmar<br />
Winbladh, CEO van de gratis VoIP-dienst Rebtel. In 2004<br />
stichtte Windblah Sendit, dat in 2009 voor 10 miljoen<br />
euro werd verkocht aan Microsoft. Vandaag bewijst hij<br />
dat geschenkkaarten nog trendy zijn.<br />
Wrapp, waarmee je geschenkkaarten kan verzenden<br />
via Facebook, kondigde in januari dit jaar een bijkomende<br />
3,8 miljoen euro aan, gefi nancierd door Atomico en<br />
Greylock Partners. Dus waarom Stockholm als<br />
uitvalsbasis kiezen?<br />
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de perfecte testmarkt is geworden voor innovatie”.<br />
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this month sees the mind-boggling restaurant<br />
‘Dinner in the Sky’ hovering above the city<br />
ST GÉRY<br />
When the weather warms up, the<br />
streets and pavement cafés around<br />
St Gery are packed with locals and<br />
tourists enjoying the atmosphere.<br />
SLEEP Concept Hotel is a superior<br />
B&B located in a 17th-century guild<br />
house right on the Grand Place. It’s<br />
elegantly decorated, with high ceilings,<br />
antique furniture and Grand Place<br />
views. (39 Grand-Place, (0)474 03 24<br />
70, concepthotel.be, rooms from €135).<br />
SHOP Toit showcases thoughtfully<br />
curated homewares over two rickety<br />
floors. Many pieces are recycled or<br />
repurposed – like the furniture made<br />
from old, painted sash window frames<br />
(46 Rue des Chartreux, users.skynet.<br />
be/toit-bruxelles). Hunting &<br />
Collecting (17 Rue des Chartreux,<br />
huntingandcollecting.com) is Brussels’<br />
hippest fashion retailer for men and<br />
women, featuring hard-to-find brands.<br />
EAT Fin de Siècle (9 Rue des<br />
Chartreux, (0)2 513 512 3) doesn’t take<br />
reservations which means you’ll queue,<br />
but the noisy, cheerful atmosphere and<br />
fabulous value for money make it well<br />
worth the wait. Portions of Belgian<br />
staples are gigantic and around €8-€10.<br />
39,50<br />
as from per person<br />
INFO<br />
Brussels Airport is<br />
15km north-east<br />
of the city in<br />
Zaventem.<br />
Train<br />
Trains depart every<br />
15 minutes at peak<br />
times for Brussels’<br />
three main stations.<br />
The journey takes<br />
25 minutes and<br />
costs €5.40.<br />
Bus<br />
The bus station is<br />
one level below the<br />
arrivals hall. The no.<br />
12 (weekdays) and<br />
no. 21 (weekends) to<br />
the city centre<br />
depart every 30<br />
minutes; one-way<br />
tickets cost €3.<br />
Taxi<br />
The journey to the<br />
centre costs €45<br />
and takes around<br />
25 minutes.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The main offi ce<br />
is at 2 Rue Royale,<br />
(0)2 513 89 40,<br />
(visitbrussels.be).<br />
Spectacular views with<br />
Dinner in the Sky<br />
Dinner in the Sky (dinnerinthesky.be)<br />
arrives this month as part of the<br />
Brusselicious food festival, moving<br />
from the Cinquantenaire Arch, to the<br />
Atomium, to the Bois de la Cambre with<br />
seven Michelin starred chefs alternating<br />
at the high-altitude helm.<br />
CULTURE Ancienne Belgique is a<br />
music venue (110 Boulevard Anspach,<br />
abconcerts.be) that has hosted all the<br />
greats. Look out for Macy Gray, Paul<br />
Weller and Lou Reed this month.<br />
LATER Chez Maman Behind an<br />
unmarked door in the Rue des Grands<br />
Carmes, tiny drag cabaret Chez Maman<br />
(7 Rue des Grands Carmes) is a<br />
Brussels institution. Free entry from<br />
midnight to dawn for disco classics.<br />
One of the calmer of St Géry’s many<br />
watering holes, the Roi des Belges<br />
(35-37 Rue Jules Van Praet) has a<br />
kitsch cocktail lounge on the first floor,<br />
and a more traditional bar vibe<br />
downstairs. DJ sets at weekends.<br />
TIP The Friday night Roller Bike Parade<br />
restarts on 8 June and it’s a whole new<br />
way to see the city. The first hour from<br />
8-9pm is for beginners; after that, the<br />
pace accelerates. Parades are<br />
confirmed on the day. Meet at Place<br />
Poelaart (Louise Metro), if you dare.<br />
On Holiday?<br />
Park, Sleep & Fly<br />
PLACE BRUGMANN<br />
On the boundary between hip<br />
Ixelles and leafy Uccle, Place<br />
Brugmann has it all: great food,<br />
superior shopping and glorious<br />
architecture to admire.<br />
EAT Bustling foodie paradise Gaudron<br />
(3 Place Brugmann, (0)2 343 9790) is<br />
open all day for anything from<br />
breakfast, to ice-cream sundaes, to a<br />
full three-course meal. La Canne en<br />
Ville (22 Rue de la Réforme, (0)2 347<br />
2926) is a local treasure of a restaurant<br />
that serves high-quality, seasonal<br />
French bourgeois cooking in a tiled<br />
former butcher’s shop. The<br />
chateaubriand for two, served with<br />
gratin dauphinois is a fine homage to<br />
the site’s former vocation.<br />
CULTURE Musée Van Buren (41 Ave.<br />
Léo Errera) is a 1930s villa in vast,<br />
beautifully maintained gardens: with a<br />
world-class art collection, from the<br />
Renaissance to surrealism.<br />
SHOP Claude Hontoir (14 Place<br />
Brugmann) An acid bright and playful<br />
boutique of stylish children’s clothes,<br />
homewares and brilliantly chosen toys<br />
starting at pocket money prices. At<br />
La Feuille (199 Rue Berkendael, (0)2<br />
Information or reservations?<br />
reservations@brussels.valk.com<br />
+32-(0)2 277 2000<br />
www.hotelbrusselsairport.com<br />
VAN DER VALK HOTEL BRUSSELS AIRPORT
Traditional Lebanese cuisine<br />
in ‘La Bascule’, Brussels. We<br />
offer a wide range of delicious,<br />
gourmet and snack food in a<br />
warm and friendly environment.<br />
At the weekend we offer<br />
entertainment in the form of our<br />
resident belly dancer. We also<br />
offer a catering service for events,<br />
or just to be enjoyed at home.<br />
So come and join us for a<br />
complete Lebanese experience!<br />
Welcome to O Liban<br />
Chaussée de Vleurgat 324, 1050 Bruxelles | T: +32 (0) 2 640 0707 | www.o-liban.com<br />
TUE - SAT 07:00 - 23:30<br />
SUN & MON FROM 07:00 - 16:00<br />
Fermé samedi midi et dimanche,<br />
sauf réservation d’au moins 30 personnes<br />
Boulevard de La Cambre 12<br />
1000 Bruxelles<br />
Tel : 02 640 44 22<br />
www.truffenoire.com<br />
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343 9600) owner Laurent and a team<br />
of testers trial everything at this 100%<br />
organic beauty boutique and treatment<br />
room for 28 days: only the products<br />
they genuinely rate (including Ren,<br />
Iroisie and Jo Wood fragrances) get<br />
shelf space. Impressive.<br />
TIP The tiny swimming pool on Rue<br />
Darwin is pretty special: it’s housed in<br />
an exquisite 1902 art nouveau town<br />
house with glorious views. The pool is<br />
open to the public daily: check times on<br />
the website or by phone (15 Rue Darwin,<br />
darwinaquaclub.be, (0)2 347 1151).<br />
WATERMAEL-BOITSFORT<br />
Relaxed, green and gourmet,<br />
Watermael-Boitsfort is a village<br />
within the city, bordering the<br />
beautiful Soignes forest.<br />
EAT Chez Josy (15 Place Keym, (0)2<br />
679 0153) is where to go if you favour<br />
‘Slow Food’ and organic produce.<br />
Healthy lunchtime plates of local<br />
vegetables, cheese and charcuterie,<br />
fresh juices and cakes. There’s also a<br />
small selection of organic groceries on<br />
sale. Brussels has more than its fair<br />
share of good gelateria, but Capoue<br />
(52 Place Keym, (0)2 675 5530) is one<br />
of the best: flavours like salted caramel,<br />
four spice, and pear and pink pepper<br />
explain the permanent queues. The<br />
Boitsfort branch has a sunny terrace.<br />
CULTURE Cultural centre La Vénerie<br />
(3 Rue Gratès, (0)2 663 8550) is a<br />
cinema, exhibition space and concert<br />
venue in one. In June it hosts a festival<br />
of street arts, the ‘Fête des Fleurs’.<br />
TIP The Sunday morning market at<br />
Place Wiener is one of Brussels’ finest,<br />
with organic produce, clothes and crafts<br />
and plenty of pre-lunch aperitifs such as<br />
oysters washed down with champagne.<br />
MAROLLES<br />
Vintage and antiques fans could<br />
spend a blissful weekend in<br />
Brussels without ever emerging<br />
from the passageways and deep,<br />
dark Aladdin’s caves of bric-a-brac<br />
that line the two parallel streets,<br />
Rue Haute and Rue Blaes.<br />
SLEEP Villa Sablon (26 Rue Sainte<br />
Anne, villasablon.com, (0)477 813781,<br />
marche aux<br />
poissons/vismet<br />
ste-catherine<br />
st-katelijne<br />
dansaert<br />
RUE A. DANSAERT / A. DANSAERTSTRAAT<br />
halles st-gery<br />
st-gorikshallen<br />
R. VAN ARTEVELDE / ARTEVELDESTRAAT<br />
E<br />
BLVD ANSPACH / ANSPACHLAAN<br />
RUE DU MIDI / ZUIDSTRAAT<br />
marolles<br />
marollen<br />
p. du jeu de balle<br />
vossenplein<br />
INFO<br />
For more<br />
information about<br />
places to stay,<br />
things to do and<br />
much more, go to<br />
visitbrussels.be<br />
Belgium extra...<br />
See pages 76 & 78<br />
for a special double<br />
Belgian city focus.<br />
This issue: Liège<br />
and Ostend<br />
de brouckère<br />
place ste-catherine<br />
st-katelijneplein<br />
RUE BLAES / BLAESSTRAAT<br />
RUE HAUTE / HOOGSTRAAT<br />
place du beguinage<br />
begijnhof<br />
RUE DE LAEKEN / LAKENSESTRAAT<br />
place de<br />
la bourse<br />
beursplein<br />
RUE DU LOMBARD / LOMBARDSTRAAT<br />
manneken<br />
pis<br />
place de la chapelle<br />
kapellemarkt<br />
BLVD A.MAX / A.MAXLAAN<br />
rooms from €100) is a stylish<br />
guesthouse in an ancient brick building<br />
off the beautiful Place du Grand Sablon.<br />
Breakfast is provided at Wittamer,<br />
superlative patissier to the Belgian royal<br />
family, just around the corner.<br />
SHOP Brussels vintage queen,<br />
Jacqueline Ezma, has just opened Idiz<br />
Bogam (180-182 Rue Haute), a vast<br />
new 20th-century design and<br />
fashion shop replacing her previous<br />
Dansaert premises. Anything but<br />
understated, the shop has a snakeskin<br />
counter and leopard print carpet.<br />
EAT Organic fusion restaurant Soul<br />
(20 Rue de la Samaritaine, (0)2 513<br />
gare centrale<br />
centraal station<br />
5213, is hidden away in a back street.<br />
The food is delicious and good for you<br />
with tailor-made ‘Beauty’, ‘Energy’ and<br />
‘Detox’ menus (from €26).<br />
CULTURE Porte de Hal (150 Boulevard<br />
du Midi), the last trace of the city’s<br />
medieval fortifications, is a well-known<br />
Brussels’ landmark, but few people<br />
know it’s also a museum telling<br />
the fascinating story of the city’s<br />
medieval defences.<br />
TIP The morning (7am-2pm) flea<br />
market on Place du Jeu de Balle is an<br />
unmissable treasure hunt – there’s<br />
plenty of junk to trawl through, but<br />
also the odd gem.<br />
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BLVD É.JACQMAIN / É.JACQMAINLAAN<br />
RUE GRÉTRY / GRÉTRYSTRAAT<br />
RUE NEUVE / NIEUWSTRAAT<br />
R. DE L'ÉCUYER SCHILDKNAAPS / BISS CHOPSSTRAAT<br />
grand-place<br />
grote markt<br />
place st-jean<br />
st-jansplein<br />
B. DE L'EMPEREREUR / KEIZERSLAAN<br />
RUE DES MINIMES / MINIENENSTRAAT<br />
mont des arts<br />
kunstberg<br />
grand sablon<br />
grote zavel<br />
RUE E.ALLARD / E.ALLARDSTRAAT<br />
palais de justice<br />
justitiepaleis<br />
BLVD DE L'IMPÉRATRICE / KEIZERINLAAN<br />
RUE AUX LAINES / WOLSTRAAT<br />
rue neuve<br />
nieuwstraat<br />
place des martyrs<br />
martelaarsplein<br />
opera<br />
louise<br />
louiza<br />
B<br />
square<br />
m. magritte<br />
sablon<br />
zavel<br />
RUE DU MARAIS / BROEKSTRAAT<br />
B. DE BERLAIMONT / BERLAIMONTLAAN<br />
museés des beaux-arts<br />
m. voor schone kunsten<br />
B. DU JARDIN BOTANIQUE / KRUIDTUINLAAN B. BISCHOFFSHEIM / BISCHOFFSHEIMLAAN<br />
cathédrale<br />
kathedraal<br />
bozar<br />
parc<br />
park<br />
BLVD PACHÉCO / PACHECOLAAN<br />
BOULEVARD DE WATERLOO / WATERLOOLAAN<br />
RUE DE LA LOI / WETSTRAAT<br />
RUE ROYALE / KONINGSTRAAT<br />
congres<br />
place du congres<br />
congresplein<br />
parc de<br />
bruxelles<br />
m. des instruments de musique<br />
muziekinstrumenten museum<br />
place royale<br />
koningsplein<br />
palais royal<br />
koninklijk paleis<br />
porte de namur<br />
naamsepoort<br />
jardin botanique<br />
kruidtuin<br />
RUE DUCALE / HERTOGSTRAAT<br />
botanique<br />
kruidtuin<br />
palais de la nation<br />
paleis der natie<br />
arts-loi<br />
kunst-wet<br />
BLVD DU RÉGENT / REGENTLAAN<br />
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BOUTIQUE<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
Fermé dimanche et lundi soir<br />
Avenue Louise 300<br />
1050 Bruxelles<br />
Tél.: 02 640 54 55<br />
www.atelier.truffenoire.com<br />
« Inspiré par La Truffe Noire, sa maison mère, L’Atelier de La Truffe Noire ouvre sa carte à<br />
la nouvelle saison de la truffe du Périgord. Particulièrement parfumée, riche et odorante<br />
cette année, elle nous enivre déjà les sens. Et si elle se décline chez nous à la façon « de<br />
tous les jours », elle n’en est pas moins la perle de cet hiver. Un délice au quotidien, à<br />
répéter tout au long d’une année que je vous souhaite succulente. »<br />
Gil Van Haut<br />
Gérant de L’Atelier La Truffe Noire
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Known as La Cité Ardente – The Passionate<br />
City – Liège is steeped in folkloric romance<br />
QUARTIER<br />
HORS-CHÂTEAU<br />
Nestled beneath Liège’s wooded<br />
hillside, this quiet eastern quarter<br />
of the historic centre is a charming<br />
jumble of pedestrianised streets<br />
and intriguing narrow alleyways.<br />
SLEEP Occupying a renovated<br />
18th-century house, the Hôtel Hors-<br />
Château (Rue Hors Château 62,<br />
(0)4 250 60 68, hors-chateau.be,<br />
rooms from €78) is an intimate threestar<br />
with modern rooms decorated in<br />
shades of black and aubergine. It also<br />
offers free Wi-Fi and a shuttle service<br />
from Brussels airport.<br />
EAT Locals love the romantic Le Thème<br />
(Impasse de la Couronne 9, (0)4 222 02<br />
02). It has become one of Liège’s best<br />
restaurants because of its innovative,<br />
seasonal fixed-price menus and everchanging<br />
décor. Its popularity means<br />
reservations are essential. Hidden away<br />
and equally charming, is Nun’s<br />
(Impasse des Ursulines 18, (0)4 222 10<br />
69) where the interior is decorated with<br />
lively graphic wall-art while outside<br />
there’s a small terrace overlooking a<br />
pond. Serves pricey but interesting<br />
French-fusion cuisine.<br />
CULTURE The imposing Grand Curtis<br />
(Quai de Maastricht 13) museum has<br />
only been open a few years and displays<br />
the city’s staggering 5,200 strong<br />
collection of historic artefacts, from<br />
weaponry to art.<br />
INFO<br />
Brussels Airport<br />
is 93km north-west<br />
of Liège.<br />
Train<br />
There are trains<br />
every 30 minutes<br />
from the airport to<br />
Liège-Guillemins<br />
station, taking one<br />
hour and 10 minutes<br />
with a change at<br />
Bruxelles-Nord.<br />
Tickets cost €18.90<br />
one-way.<br />
Taxi<br />
A taxi from Brussels<br />
Airport will cost<br />
around €150 and<br />
take about an hour.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The main tourist<br />
offi ce is at<br />
Féronstrée 92,<br />
(0)4 221 92 21,<br />
(liege-tourisme.be),<br />
with a smaller<br />
Maison du Tourisme<br />
on Place St<br />
Lambert.<br />
SHOP Don’t miss the mile-long La Batte<br />
– which is one of Europe’s largest<br />
markets – held every Sunday from 8am<br />
to 2.30pm along the waterfront. You<br />
can buy anything from fruit and veg to<br />
clothes and plants.<br />
TIP Climb the 406 steps of the<br />
Montagne de Bueren – near to Église<br />
Saint-Gérard – for wonderful views of<br />
the city. This might be a good place to<br />
see some of the 99th Tour de France<br />
which departs from the city at the end<br />
of the month (30 June).<br />
SAINT-PAUL<br />
Just south of the popular and<br />
student-filled Le Carré district, the<br />
skyward-pointing spire of the city<br />
cathedral is an important landmark<br />
that will help you orientate while<br />
you sightsee.<br />
SLEEP Moored on the banks of the<br />
River Meuse, L’Embrun (Au Port de<br />
Yachts, (0) 476 05 20 05, penichehotel.<br />
com, rooms from €61) is a converted<br />
barge with nine simple rooms. If you<br />
want to really splash out, book the<br />
Capitainerie suite. Sailing trips are<br />
also available.<br />
EAT Upmarket diners should make a<br />
booking at Le Septime (Rue St-Paul<br />
12, (0)4 221 03 06). This family-run<br />
restaurant has a great menu which<br />
features just a handful of carefully<br />
selected seasonal fish and meat dishes.<br />
For something more relaxed, try the<br />
Liège is an intriguing<br />
mix of the historic<br />
and the modern<br />
long-established Café Lequet (Quai sur<br />
Meuse 17, (0)4 222 21 34) which dishes<br />
up local specialities such as bouletsfrites<br />
(meatballs soused in sweet local<br />
syrup) and salad liégeoise (potatoes,<br />
bacon and green beans).<br />
CULTURE Work on the Cathédrale<br />
Saint-Paul (Place St-Paul) started in<br />
the 13th century and took over 600<br />
years to complete, just in time for the<br />
church’s promotion following the<br />
destruction of the cathedral that once<br />
stood on Place St-Lambert. The ceiling<br />
bears splendid 16th-century paintings,<br />
but it’s the treasury (Rue Bonne-<br />
Fortune 6) in the cloister that’s of<br />
most interest. It houses an enormous<br />
16th-century golden bust, which<br />
conceals the skull of St Lambert – a<br />
bishop from Tongeren who brought<br />
Christianity to the region in the<br />
8th century.<br />
SHOP Chic Irina Khä (Rue de Pot d’Or<br />
12) is a multi-floor boutique selling top<br />
designer labels such as Prada and Dior.<br />
It also stocks fashion from Antwerp<br />
designers Dries Van Noten and Ann<br />
Demeulemeester.<br />
LATER Try and catch a show at<br />
Le Forum (Rue Pont d’Avroy 14,<br />
leforum.be), a wonderful theatre with<br />
red velvet seating and old-world<br />
glamour. There are events most nights<br />
and tickets can be bought online.<br />
TIP Look out for local tipple pèkèt – a<br />
type of gin, but go easy if you have<br />
sightseeing plans the next day!<br />
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Brussels City Museum?<br />
Magnificent neo-Gothic building in<br />
the Grand-Place, opposite the Town Hall.<br />
The museum is devoted to the history of Brussels:<br />
fine and applied arts, the origin and development<br />
of the city, the history of the people of Brussels<br />
and the dressing room of that<br />
quintessentially Brussels symbol, Manneken-Pis!<br />
Brussels City Museum<br />
Grand-Place, 1000 Brussels<br />
Every Thursday till 8 pm!<br />
www.brusselscitymuseum.be<br />
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(Saint-Aubin Cathedral, Namur)<br />
01 / 07, 7pm<br />
Musiq3 Festival<br />
(Flagey, Brussels)<br />
03 / 08, 8pm<br />
Stavelot Festival<br />
(Church of St Sebastian)<br />
special<br />
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21 / 09, 8.30pm<br />
September Nights<br />
Church of St Jacques, Liège)<br />
22 / 09, 8.30pm<br />
Brabant Walloon Festival<br />
(Biereau Farm, Louvain la Neuve)<br />
23 / 09, 8pm<br />
Wallonia-Hainaut Festival<br />
(St Waudru Cathedral, Mons)
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Ostend is a quirky, coastal city that knows<br />
how to enjoy the arrival of summer<br />
PROMENADE<br />
There’s a touch of faded Victorian<br />
seaside grandeur about the Albert I<br />
Promenade and some very good<br />
restaurants too.<br />
SLEEP Thermae Palace (Koningin<br />
Astridlaan 7, (0)59 80 66 44,<br />
thermaepalace.be, rooms from €150)<br />
was where wealthy travellers once<br />
came to ‘take the waters’. It’s right on<br />
the beach, just by the old Royal Villa.<br />
EAT Savarin (Albert I-promenade 75,<br />
(0) 59 51 31 71) is the best place in town<br />
for a slap-up meal. Great sunset sea<br />
views and a seven-course degustation<br />
menu that is well worth €84 (or €120<br />
when paired with excellent wines).<br />
CULTURE !Dansand! (along Albert<br />
I-promenade) is a free festival of<br />
modern dance on the beach that runs<br />
from 28 June-1 July. If you prefer<br />
something less intense you can hire a<br />
Marvin Gaye audio tour from the<br />
Tourist Board (Monacoplein 2) for €5<br />
and discover the Ostend that was the<br />
Motown legend’s home for two years.<br />
SHOP Vitrine Lulu Store (Van<br />
Iseghemlaan 75) claims they can sell<br />
you anything Jean-Paul Gautier has<br />
created. For something cheaper go to<br />
Pompoen (Van Iseghemlaan 80) for<br />
vintage clothing.<br />
LATER La Fayette (Langestraat 12) is<br />
part of a strip of wonderfully seedy<br />
music bars along Langestraat.<br />
TIP Get a free taste of Marvin Gaye<br />
INFO<br />
Brussels Airport is<br />
about 120 km<br />
south-east of<br />
Ostend.<br />
Train<br />
Trains depart from<br />
airport level, every<br />
15 minutes at peak<br />
time, to Brussels’<br />
three main stations.<br />
The journey takes<br />
25 minutes and<br />
costs €5.40. The<br />
Brussels-Ostende<br />
train costs €16<br />
(one way) and the<br />
journey time is<br />
from one hour<br />
20 minutes.<br />
Taxi<br />
The journey is<br />
always in excess of<br />
€200. Journey time<br />
is around one hour<br />
and 15minutes if the<br />
traffi c is good. There<br />
is a €200 fi xed fare<br />
when returning<br />
from Ostend to<br />
Brussels Airport.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The main tourist<br />
offi ce is at<br />
Monacoplein 2,<br />
(0)59 25 53 16,<br />
(visitoostende.be).<br />
outside Residence Jane (Albert I<br />
Promenade 77) which is where he lived<br />
in a fourth-floor flat. Villa Maritza next<br />
door is a classic Ostend holiday home<br />
from the Victorian era.<br />
MARINA<br />
The Jachthaven and Mercator<br />
marinas are located near the<br />
station – an area that used to be<br />
part of the city moat.<br />
SLEEP Hotel du Bassin (Visserskaai 1,<br />
(0) 59 70 33 83, hoteldubassin.be<br />
rooms from €89 ) is run by Tom and<br />
Elsie Vanhaecke-Bruynoghe who have<br />
gone for a nautical theme throughout.<br />
EAT De Bistronoom (Vindictivelaan 22,<br />
(0)473 73 48 01) is a brilliant<br />
development of the gastro-pub. Each<br />
course is served with a specially<br />
selected beer, usually Belgian.<br />
CULTURE Church of St Peter and St<br />
Paul (Sint-Petrus-en-Paulusplein 8) is<br />
Ostend’s main church, a grandiose<br />
Victorian neo-Gothic creation much<br />
beloved by King Leopold II. Note the<br />
striking similarity to Cologne Cathedral<br />
on which it was based.<br />
LATER ‘t Kroegske (Sint Paulusstraat<br />
80) is the home of the annual Paulus<br />
Festival, a festival with free music and<br />
street entertainment, and the most<br />
photographed exterior of any bar in<br />
Ostend. You don’t have to be drunk to<br />
see why. The landlord adds to the<br />
colourful scene.<br />
Popular hang-out<br />
‘t Kroegske<br />
WAPENPLEIN<br />
The historic marketplace of<br />
Ostend now has a bandstand<br />
where you can catch a concert<br />
during the summer.<br />
SLEEP Hotel Polaris (Groentemarkt<br />
19, (0)59 27 90 06, restopolaris.be,<br />
rooms from €99) is an old<br />
greengrocer’s shop refurbished in<br />
stylish black and white. It’s a good base,<br />
friendly and very central.<br />
EAT Die Mosselbeurs (Dwarsstraat 10,<br />
0)59 80 73 10) serves fish and mussels<br />
in a slightly zany but stylish restaurant<br />
with a huge, theatrical spiral staircase.<br />
The chef’s bouillabaisse is well worth €28.<br />
CULTURE The former Capuchin<br />
Monastery Church (Kapucijnenstraat)<br />
with its delicate baroque scrollwork is<br />
one of the oldest buildings in Ostend.<br />
SHOP Oil & Vinegar (Kapellestraat<br />
95b) specialises in Tuscan produce –<br />
lots of olive oil and fancy bowls to keep<br />
it in. Leonidas (Kapellestraat) is the<br />
local branch of the Belgian chocolate<br />
store founded 100 years ago by<br />
Leonidas Kestekides.<br />
LATER La Habana de Ché<br />
(Vissersplein 5) is a cocktail bar and<br />
Spanish restaurant near Montgomery<br />
Bar that proves Belgium is not just<br />
about beer. Café Fats Domino<br />
(Kerkstraat 6) is an Irish-style bar<br />
adorned with pictures of Fats that<br />
serves Keyte, a beer brewed to mark<br />
the Siege of Ostend (1603).<br />
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Bologna is a city of crimson colonnades, fine<br />
galleries and some of the best food in Italy<br />
CITY CENTRE<br />
The historic heart of Bologna<br />
brims with celebrated restaurants,<br />
cafés, shops, museums and<br />
grand palazzos, centred on the<br />
monumental space of Piazza<br />
Maggiore and its elegant Neptune<br />
Fountain.<br />
SLEEP Art Hotel Novecento (Piazza<br />
Galileo 4/3, 051 745 7311, art-hotelnovecento.it,<br />
rooms from €158) is<br />
wonderfully located close to the main<br />
piazza, with a range of stylish art deco<br />
themed rooms and a huge continental<br />
buffet breakfast. Albergo delle<br />
Drapperie (Via della Drapperie 5, 051<br />
223955, albergodrapperie.com, rooms<br />
from €75) offers equally central, if no<br />
frills, rooms for travellers on a budget.<br />
EAT Vicolo Colombina (Vicolo<br />
Colombina 5/B, 051 233919) is a<br />
superb contemporary restaurant<br />
specializing in modern versions of<br />
traditional Bolognese dishes such as<br />
tagliatelle al ragù. Enoteca Italiana<br />
(Via Marsala 2/b, 051 235989) is a<br />
more casual affair, an aromatic shop/<br />
wine bar where you can sip a local rosso<br />
while enjoying a sandwich.<br />
CULTURE Basilica di San Petronio<br />
(Piazza Maggiore), a huge Gothic<br />
church containing the mural-smothered<br />
Cappella Bolognini honours the patron<br />
saint of Bologna. Le due Torri (Piazza<br />
di Porta Ravegnana), two soaring<br />
medieval towers, are symbols of the<br />
INFO<br />
Bologna Airport is<br />
6km north-west of<br />
the city centre.<br />
Bus<br />
The Aerobus-BLQ<br />
shuttle service<br />
departs just outside<br />
the terminal<br />
building for Bologna<br />
train station<br />
(Stazione Centrale),<br />
via Ugo Bassi and<br />
Indipendenza in<br />
the centre, every<br />
15 minutes<br />
(6am-12.15pm) and<br />
takes around 20<br />
minutes; one-way<br />
tickets cost €6.<br />
Taxi<br />
A taxi to the city<br />
centre will cost<br />
approximately €15<br />
and take 15 minutes.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The main tourist<br />
offi ce is at Piazza<br />
Maggiore 1 in the<br />
Palazzo del Podestà,<br />
open daily 9am-7pm,<br />
051 239660,<br />
(bolognawelcome.<br />
com).<br />
city. Climb the Asinelli (97metres, a<br />
walk up 498 steps), for panoramic views.<br />
SHOP Majani (Via de’ Carbonesi 5), is<br />
Italy’s oldest sweet shop (founded<br />
1796) and is best known for its<br />
wonderful chocolates. Bruno Magli<br />
(Galleria Cavour, Via Farini) opened in<br />
Bologna in 1936, and the posh boutique<br />
continues to sell Magli’s latest range of<br />
bags, jackets and shoes.<br />
LATER Bar Giuseppe (Piazza Maggiore<br />
1) has been a classic spot to relax over<br />
espresso, gelato and vino since 1804.<br />
TIP When planning your sightseeing<br />
bear in mind that most museums in<br />
Bologna are closed on Mondays.<br />
Churches generally close for a long<br />
lunch between noon and 3.30pm every<br />
day; many shops do the same.<br />
Restaurants usually close all day on<br />
Sundays or Mondays.<br />
THE UNIVERSITY<br />
DISTRICT<br />
The ancient schools, chapels,<br />
quirky museums and students of<br />
Bologna University, founded back in<br />
1088, enliven the eastern half of the<br />
city’s historic core.<br />
EAT Osteria dell’Orsa (Via Mentana<br />
1F, 051 231576) is a student favourite,<br />
with communal wood tables and some<br />
of the best ragù alla bolognese in town.<br />
Gelatauro (Via San Vitale 98/b, 051<br />
230049) is a gourmet gelato shop, with<br />
organic flavours ranging from chocolate<br />
Camera a Sud<br />
orange and ‘cheese and pears’ to<br />
jasmine and bergamot.<br />
CULTURE Pinacoteca Nazionale di<br />
Bologna (Via delle Belle Arti 56)<br />
displays Bolognese painting from the<br />
14th century to Guido Reni; though<br />
works by Giotto, El Greco and Raphael<br />
also feature.<br />
LATER Camera a Sud (Via Valdonica<br />
5) is a hugely popular student hang-out,<br />
with a great selection of wines, coffee<br />
and snacks. Cantina Bentivoglio (Via<br />
Mascarella 4B) hosts the best live jazz<br />
in the city from 8pm most nights.<br />
LA MANIFATTURA<br />
DELLE ARTI<br />
Wander the streets of the up-andcoming<br />
Factory of the Arts district,<br />
where old tobacco factories and<br />
slaughterhouses have been<br />
transformed into art galleries,<br />
boutiques, restaurants and cafés.<br />
EAT L’Ex Forno (Museo d’Arte<br />
Moderna, Don Minzoni 14, 051 649<br />
3896) is strategically located for a light<br />
lunch. Aperitivo (wine with small buffet)<br />
served from 7pm.<br />
CULTURE Museo d’Arte Moderna di<br />
Bologna (Via Don Minzoni 14)<br />
showcases modern Italian art and<br />
visiting exhibitions. The gallery is at the<br />
heart of Sonde – New Media Art <strong>2012</strong><br />
(19-22 June, sondefestival.it), a<br />
celebration of dance, video and digital<br />
art in the centre of the city.<br />
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Enjoy the sunshine of the Algarve before the<br />
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CENTRAL &<br />
EASTERN ALGARVE<br />
For golf and a bit of glitz, the<br />
Golden Triangle is one of the<br />
Algarve’s busiest and most popular<br />
areas. For a little more peace and<br />
quiet, head east.<br />
SLEEP Designer seclusion arrives this<br />
month in the shape of the new Fazenda<br />
Nova (Santo Estevao, Moncarapacho,<br />
910 629 595, fazendanova.eu, rooms<br />
from €150), a country estate converted<br />
into a stylish 10-bedroom retreat by the<br />
owners, complete with restaurant, pool,<br />
gardens and orchards.<br />
EAT Gourmet private catering company<br />
Fine Dining In Style now has a swish<br />
restaurant, Gisela’s (Praça, Vale do<br />
Lobo, 289 353 421). The restaurant<br />
serves high-quality Portuguese and<br />
international cuisine in an enviable<br />
location with ocean views.<br />
CULTURE Fashion and fitness shows,<br />
beauty makeovers, photo shoots, food<br />
and wine tastings, and trips on a private<br />
yacht are all on the agenda at Glamour,<br />
a taste of the high life which is taking<br />
place at Vila Vita Parc (Alporchinos,<br />
Porches) on 21 June.<br />
SHOP For great ideas for outside living,<br />
home accessories, flowers and gifts,<br />
head for the newly opened Dunas<br />
Home (Rua Sacadura Cabral, Almancil),<br />
a perfect complement to the existing<br />
Dunas fashion boutique in nearby<br />
Quinta Shopping.<br />
INFO<br />
Faro International<br />
Airport is 7km from<br />
Faro city centre.<br />
Taxi<br />
The fare to Faro is<br />
approx €10. Other<br />
destinations – Olhão<br />
€18, Vilamoura €25,<br />
Albufeira and<br />
Tavira €40.<br />
Bus<br />
Airport buses go<br />
to Faro and shared<br />
shuttle buses serve<br />
selected resorts. Eva<br />
buses (eva-bus.<br />
com) go to various<br />
Algarve destinations.<br />
Train<br />
The nearest train<br />
station is Faro.<br />
Trains go to various<br />
Algarve destinations<br />
and Lisbon.<br />
Car<br />
Car hire is the best<br />
way to explore the<br />
interior. All the<br />
major companies<br />
have desks at the<br />
airport but<br />
pre-booking is<br />
recommended.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The Faro Tourist<br />
Information Centre<br />
(visitalgarve.pt)<br />
is at 8-12 Rua da<br />
Misericordia. 289<br />
803 604. Open<br />
9.30am-5.30pm<br />
daily.<br />
LATER Johnny Hooper’s (Rua Almeida<br />
Garrett, Albufeira) is a relaxed barrestaurant<br />
featuring the sax-playing<br />
owner on stage every Tuesday and<br />
Friday night, plus Latino and blues<br />
bands every Sunday afternoon.<br />
TIP Wine lovers are starting to<br />
discover the Algarve. Find out for<br />
yourself if this growing reputation is<br />
deserved with a wine tour at Adega do<br />
Cantor in Guia or Quinta dos Vales in<br />
Estombar, or a taste-and-buy session at<br />
Veneza in Paderne.<br />
FURTHER AFIELD:<br />
WESTERN ALGARVE<br />
Long-established resorts like<br />
Carvoeiro and Praia da Rocha mix<br />
tourist attractions with a touch of<br />
the real Algarve.<br />
SLEEP A luxury villa-style boutique<br />
hotel close to Caneiros beach, Casa Rei<br />
das Praias (Vale da Azinhaga, Ferragudo,<br />
282 491 416, casareidaspraias.com,<br />
rooms from €130) is ideal for a romantic<br />
stay, and has both indoor and outdoor<br />
pools and a mini-spa. Vale d’Oliveiras<br />
(Gramacho, Carvoeiro, 282 380 560,<br />
valedoliveirasresort.com, rooms from<br />
€189) offers two separate units – the<br />
hotel for couples and the residences for<br />
families, plus a comprehensive range of<br />
excellent facilities.<br />
EAT Contemporary Portuguese cuisine<br />
and an extensive wine list are on the<br />
menu at Pimenta Preta (Palm<br />
Luxury boutique hotel<br />
Casa Rei das Praias<br />
Gardens, Carvoeiro, 282 350 281), with<br />
live music by the pool on Friday<br />
evenings in summer.<br />
CULTURE The Algarve International<br />
Fair (Lagoa Showground, 2-3 June,<br />
algarvefair.com) combines a lifestyle<br />
exhibition with family fun, including car<br />
displays, arts and crafts, a dog show,<br />
and plenty to eat and drink. Expect<br />
special events for the Queen’s Jubilee.<br />
SHOP There’s a ‘secret garden’ feel to<br />
Studio Bongard (Rua Infante Dom<br />
Henrique, Ferragudo), where you will<br />
find sculptures, paintings and tiled<br />
pieces hidden among the plants and<br />
indoor ponds as you wander through<br />
the various courtyards and rooms. For<br />
souvenirs with a difference, the quaint<br />
Cantinho da São (Rua do Casino,<br />
Carvoeiro) offers hand-made Portuguese<br />
lace, purses, bags, cushions and<br />
children’s toys.<br />
LATER The award-winning cocktails are<br />
reason enough to seek out InnSide Caffé<br />
(Rua do Barranco, Carvoeiro) – not to<br />
mention the 4am closing time. If you<br />
fancy a dance go to Katedral (Avenida<br />
Tomaz Cabreira, Praia da Rocha), with<br />
separate areas playing house, 80s,<br />
R&B, Latin and pop. There is also a<br />
balcony with wonderful sea views.<br />
TIP For an online guide to facilities and<br />
services in the Algarve which are geared<br />
towards the requirements of visitors<br />
with disabilities, special needs or<br />
medical conditions, go to<br />
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CENTRE VILLE<br />
You can’t visit Geneva without<br />
crossing the very centre of town –<br />
the Place du Molard. This busy,<br />
cobbled, pedestrian square offers a<br />
variety of food and drinks and a<br />
plethora of tempting shops.<br />
EAT Café du Centre (Place du Molard<br />
5, (0)22 311 8586) has a window full of<br />
fresh seafood and a variety of seasonal<br />
dishes, with summer salads and wines<br />
to match. Brasserie de Molard (Place<br />
du Molard 9, (0)22 311 11 00) serves<br />
beers and cheap, delicious snacks such<br />
as crispy flammenkuchen (hot pizzastyle<br />
pastries).<br />
SHOP Globus (Rue du Rhone 48) has<br />
an entrance on Place du Molard and is<br />
one of Geneva’s most iconic shopping<br />
destinations. You can find everything<br />
from toothpaste to toys as well as<br />
designer clothes and Geneva’s best<br />
delicatessen.<br />
LATER Quirinale (Rue de la Rotisserie<br />
6, (0)22 748 48 48), just a street above<br />
the Place du Molard, is open late for<br />
cocktails served in a glamorous and<br />
boisterous modern bar. Tour de<br />
Molard (2 Place du Molard) is housed in<br />
the steep clocktower that overlooks the<br />
INFO<br />
Geneva Cointrin<br />
International Airport<br />
is 4km from the<br />
city centre.<br />
Train<br />
From the airport to<br />
the city centre takes<br />
six minutes. A Tout<br />
Genève pass, which<br />
you can also use on<br />
buses, is available<br />
free from dispensing<br />
machines before<br />
customs in the<br />
baggage claim area.<br />
Bus<br />
The no.10 or the<br />
no.5 bus will get you<br />
to Cornavin Station<br />
in 10 minutes and<br />
across the river in<br />
about 15 minutes.<br />
Taxi<br />
The journey into the<br />
city centre takes<br />
about 15 minutes<br />
and costs €19.25/<br />
CHF 30.40.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The offi ce is at Rue<br />
du Mont Blanc 18,<br />
(0)22 909 70 00,<br />
(geneve-tourisme.ch).<br />
square. Have a glass of Swiss wine<br />
while admiring the view.<br />
CAROUGE<br />
Artisanal shops and sidewalk cafés<br />
characterise this area of Geneva.<br />
Technically its own state, it is only<br />
a 10-minute tram ride from the<br />
centre of town.<br />
SLEEP Hotel Comedie (Rue de<br />
Carouge 12, (0)22 322 23 24, hotelcomedie.chrooms<br />
from €120/CHF144)<br />
is a convivial place where you can stay<br />
for a night or a month (suites with<br />
kitchenettes are available).<br />
EAT Café des Negociants (Rue de la<br />
Filature, (0)22 300 31 30) is considered<br />
one of Geneva’s top restaurants yet is<br />
not prohibitively expensive. It has an<br />
excellent wine cellar that can be booked<br />
for parties or discreet dining. Café du<br />
Marché (Place du Marché 4, (0)22 827<br />
16 96) has a sunny terrace perfect for<br />
coffee time, lunchtime or cocktail hour.<br />
Wolfisberg (Place du Temple 5, (0)22<br />
342 32 19) is a popular bakery with a<br />
spacious interior.<br />
LATER Club Chat Noir (Rue Vautier<br />
13) rocks with live music until 4am.<br />
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QUARTIER DES BAINS<br />
Visit this area every time you visit<br />
Geneva if only to see the remarkable<br />
changes that are happening – new<br />
galleries and restaurants spring up<br />
on a weekly basis.<br />
EAT Curiositas (Rue des Vieux<br />
Grenadiers 8, (0)22 321 30 37) is<br />
practically a museum in its own right.<br />
Try its sophisticated menu of<br />
interesting dishes served in a superbly<br />
converted industrial space.<br />
CULTURE MAMCO (Geneva’s Museum<br />
of Modern and Contemporary Art), the<br />
Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve<br />
and the Centre de la Photographie<br />
can all be found under one roof – in a<br />
building known as the BAC (Batiment<br />
d’Art Contemporain). Open from<br />
11am-6pm with a modest entry fee.<br />
Closed on Monday. The Patek Philippe<br />
Museum (Rue des Vieux Grenadiers 7)<br />
caters to a different aesthetic taste with<br />
a display of watches, musical automata<br />
and portrait miniatures. Open Tuesday-<br />
Friday, 2pm-6pm, and Saturday<br />
10am-6pm.<br />
TIP The Ville de Geneve provides free<br />
WiFi in most public spaces such as<br />
parks and squares.
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Once a poor working-class area,<br />
this part of town is now a mellow<br />
middle-class bohemia, thanks to<br />
the distinctively Swedish-looking<br />
three-storey brick and wood<br />
Landshövdinge houses.<br />
SLEEP Overlooking the harbour, in an<br />
old brick building that was once a porter<br />
brewery, Novotel (Klippan 1, (0)31 720<br />
22 00, novotel.se, rooms from €115/<br />
SEK855) is a comfortable and relatively<br />
inexpensive choice.<br />
EAT Tapasbaren (Mariagatan 17, (0)31<br />
42 42 11) serves simple, but tasty tapas<br />
dishes in a slightly cramped but cute<br />
space. You’ll find no surprises on the<br />
menu, but the dates wrapped in paperthin<br />
pancetta are heavenly. Dine outside<br />
if the weather allows. Cum Pane<br />
(Mariagatan 17, (0)31 12 15 41) is an<br />
organic bakery next door offering both<br />
sweet and savoury treats. The<br />
sourdough bread is perfection.<br />
CULTURE Kulturreservatet Klippan<br />
is an historic area by the harbour where<br />
many of the buildings date back to the<br />
days of the East India Company.<br />
SHOP Fabriken (Ekedalsgatan 16) sells<br />
a mix of quality furniture and<br />
collectibles, all from 1900 onwards.<br />
LATER Kontiki (Storängsgatan 2) is a<br />
kitsch Tiki-style bar with a few tables for<br />
snacking/drinking (make sure you<br />
reserve well in advance) styled<br />
according to various themes, such as<br />
INFO<br />
The city’s<br />
main airport is<br />
Landvetter, located<br />
20km east of the<br />
city centre.<br />
Bus<br />
The airport is<br />
serviced by<br />
Flygbussarna<br />
airport buses, which<br />
stop at Nils Ericsson<br />
Terminalen (the<br />
main bus station),<br />
Park Aveny (on<br />
Avenyn) and<br />
Korsvägen (for<br />
Liseberg). The<br />
journey costs €21/<br />
SEK189 return and<br />
takes about half<br />
an hour, with<br />
departures every<br />
20 minutes at<br />
peak times.<br />
Taxi<br />
Licensed cabs are<br />
available outside the<br />
terminal building<br />
and offer a fi xed<br />
price for the<br />
half-hour journey<br />
in to town (about<br />
€39/SEK350).<br />
Tourist info<br />
Kungsportsplatsen<br />
2, (0)31 368 42 00,<br />
(goteborg.com).<br />
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the ‘stable’ and the ‘mountain cabin’.<br />
A rotating cast of DJs spin indie and<br />
electro sounds.<br />
HAGA<br />
This area is a mix of postcardpretty<br />
cobblestone streets lined<br />
with pastel-coloured fairytale<br />
houses, and slightly neglected main<br />
drags. There are also plenty of<br />
boutiques, cafés and people whose<br />
main occupation seems to be<br />
frequenting them.<br />
EAT In the evening Proviant<br />
(Sprängkullsgatan 10A, (0)706 35 17<br />
56) serves a wide variety of creative<br />
pintxos, a sort of miniature sandwich<br />
hailing from the Basque region. Prices<br />
range from €2.25/SEK20 and up.<br />
Earlier in the day come for the great<br />
breakfast and brunch menus.<br />
Sjöbaren (Haga Nygata 25, (0)31 711<br />
97 80) is a local favourite, furnished in<br />
dark wood and lit by candles. The menu<br />
consists of today’s catch and you can<br />
dine alfresco in the backyard.<br />
CULTURE Pusterviksbaren<br />
(Järntorgsgatan 12) has recently<br />
undergone a facelift and is now bigger<br />
and better than ever. There is live music<br />
almost every night.<br />
SHOP Karltex (Haga Nygata 14)<br />
stocks a mix of fashion for the urban<br />
gentleman. How about a stylish cloth<br />
backpack with vegan leather detail from<br />
Swedish label Sandqvist?<br />
Magnus&Magnus<br />
INOM VALLGRAVEN<br />
It’s just a speck on the city map but<br />
this part of town, confined by<br />
canals on all sides, is chock-full of<br />
trendy shopping and lively nightlife.<br />
SLEEP Clarion Hotel Post<br />
(Drottningtorget 10, (0)31 61 90 00,<br />
clarionpost.com, rooms from €132/<br />
SEK982) is Gothenburg’s latest<br />
boutique hotel. In what was once the<br />
city’s main post office, it features an<br />
impressive 500 rooms, a roof-top<br />
terrace and pool, and a spa styled as a<br />
1950s beauty salon.<br />
EAT Magnus&Magnus (Magasinsgatan<br />
8, (0)31 13 30 00) has been praised by<br />
many critics as one of the best places<br />
to enjoy innovative cuisine firmly rooted<br />
in Scandinavian, particularly west-coast,<br />
culinary traditions. Splurge on a bottle<br />
of something special from Gothenburg’s<br />
most impressive wine cellar.<br />
SHOP Miss Ragtime (Magasinsgatan<br />
15) sells fine vintage, as well as<br />
secondhand, pieces by fashion<br />
heavyweights like Acne, Missoni and<br />
Mulberry. For a selection of menswear<br />
head next door to Ragtime Herr<br />
(Magasinsgatan 15).<br />
LATER Ritz (Bastionsplatsen 2) is a<br />
swanky sprawl of high-ceilinged rooms<br />
where crystal chandeliers dangle and<br />
stylish people mingle.<br />
TIP On Fridays many bars offer an<br />
after-work buffet. Fill up on finger foods<br />
for the price of a drink.<br />
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lyon<br />
france<br />
62,814,223 +33 18°C<br />
Euro (EUR)<br />
four times daily<br />
heidi fuller-love<br />
A laid-back old town and a lively clubbing<br />
scene: lyon has something for everyone<br />
PRESQU’ÎLE<br />
Lyon’s trendy peninsula, Presqu’ile,<br />
is studded with stunning ornate<br />
architecture, restaurants, stylish<br />
hotels and more than 3000 shops.<br />
CULTURE Musée des Beaux Arts<br />
(20 Place des Terreaux) is one of<br />
France’s finest art museums. Housed in<br />
a renovated 17th-century convent, the<br />
museum contains works by celebrated<br />
artists including Picasso, Matisse,<br />
Degas and van Gogh.<br />
EAT Chez Francis (53 Quai Rambaud,<br />
(0)4 72 41 78 15) is a real insiders’<br />
address. This simple, shanty-style,<br />
quay-side restaurant serves homely<br />
cuisine that attracts an interesting mix<br />
of office workers and builders who<br />
come here for the garlicky moules<br />
marinières, and French-style fish and<br />
chips. From €15, wine and coffee<br />
included.<br />
SHOP Mi (32 Rue Auguste Comte).<br />
At the heart of the antique quarter,<br />
Mathieu Iquel’s gallery displays the<br />
artist’s tiny tableaux depicting scenes<br />
of local life, painted on plywood.<br />
TIP Lyon Tourist office (Place<br />
Bellecour) is packed with leaflets,<br />
guidebooks and bang-up-to-date info.<br />
<br />
<br />
www.mougins-school.com<br />
INFO<br />
Saint Exupéry<br />
Airport is 25km east<br />
of the centre.<br />
Tram<br />
The Rhônexpress<br />
Express Tram links<br />
the airport and Lyon<br />
Part Dieu train<br />
station in less<br />
than 30 minutes.<br />
Located in the TGV<br />
station, tickets<br />
costing €13 single/<br />
€23 return can be<br />
bought on board, by<br />
ticket machine or<br />
online (rhonexpress.<br />
fr). Allow 10 minutes<br />
from terminal 3.<br />
Taxi<br />
A taxi to the centre<br />
of Lyon from the<br />
airport costs about<br />
€55 during the day<br />
and €70 at night.<br />
The journey takes<br />
around 30 minutes.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The main tourist<br />
offi ce is located at<br />
Place Bellecour,<br />
(0)4 72 77 69 69,<br />
(lyon-france.com).<br />
The glitzy Opera<br />
de Lyon building<br />
VIEUX LYON<br />
Jumbled along a narrow strip of<br />
land hedging the right bank of the<br />
Saône, UNESCO heritage-classed<br />
old Lyon, with its narrow corridor<br />
traboules and medieval<br />
architecture, is full of charm.<br />
SLEEP Hotel des Artistes (8 Rue<br />
Gaspard-André, (0)4 78 42 04 88,<br />
hotel-des-artistes.fr, rooms from €92)<br />
On the old town side of Lyon’s trendy<br />
peninsula, this hip hotel is just opposite<br />
the Théâtre des Célestins. Its breakfast<br />
room was inspired by the work of<br />
legendary poet-playwright Jean<br />
Cocteau, and it remains popular with<br />
artists from both stage and screen,<br />
many of whose photos hang on the<br />
lobby walls.<br />
EAT Café-Épicerie (6 Rue du Bœuf)<br />
Hidden behind the façade of a former<br />
Jesuit college, the menu of this<br />
atmospheric gourmet bistro decked out<br />
with silk tapestries and crystal<br />
chandeliers, changes daily according to<br />
the whim of award-winning chef<br />
Anthony Bonnet. Lunch from €15.<br />
LATER Bar à cocktails Le Florian<br />
(4 Place de la Baleine) is a smaller-scale<br />
replica of Venice’s renowned Caffè<br />
Florian. It serves some of the best<br />
cocktails in town, including Le<br />
Romantique – a stirring blend of tequila,<br />
basil, lemon and agave nectar.<br />
CROIX ROUSSE<br />
To understand the history of the<br />
city explore the atmospheric silkworkers’<br />
Croix-Rousse quarter. The<br />
high-ceilinged canut houses and<br />
narrow, covered traboule passages<br />
are now home to many of the area’s<br />
cool, arty crowd.<br />
CULTURE L’Amphi, Opéra de Lyon<br />
(Place de la Comédie). Soak up some<br />
culture without the bother of dressing<br />
up, at l’Amphi, the opera’s free, midday<br />
showcase of up-and-coming artistes.<br />
EAT Le Cotie Rotie (4 bis rue de<br />
Belfort, (0)4 78 30 10 20). Favoured by<br />
the art set, this cosy bistro serves<br />
everything from andouillette sausage, to<br />
eggs on toast.<br />
TIP The Nuits de Fourviere festival<br />
(5 June-31 July) a huge cultural<br />
celebration, will include eight French<br />
premieres and two world premieres.<br />
From Don Giovanni to Bob Dylan, events<br />
take place in the Fourvière Roman<br />
Theatres – built by Auguste in 15BC.<br />
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46,754,784 +34 20°C<br />
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Photo-España and Edward Hopper are two of<br />
Madrid’s big-draw exhibitions this month<br />
PLAZA SANTA ANA<br />
This is one of Madrid’s most vibrant<br />
and fashionable areas and popular<br />
for a late-night dinner.<br />
SLEEP The Westin Palace (Plaza<br />
de las Cortes 7, 913 608 000,<br />
palacemadrid.com, rooms from €245)<br />
is much more than a hotel; there is a<br />
photography exhibition in the bar and<br />
the Sunday brunch comes with a live<br />
performance of hits from musicals.<br />
EAT Perfect for a quick lunch, Huerta<br />
Uno (Calle Huertas 1, 914 292 067)<br />
serves up summery salads and<br />
delicious tapas.<br />
CULTURE Photo-España (phe.es) is a<br />
huge festival that brings together the<br />
work of 280 photographic and visual<br />
artists from 44 countries. The festival is<br />
comprised of 74 different exhibitions in<br />
venues across Madrid. Visitors can tour<br />
the city and, on the way, see the talent<br />
exhibited. Also on display this month is<br />
20th-century America as portrayed by<br />
realist painter Edward Hopper at the<br />
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (8 Paseo<br />
de Prado, 12 June-16 September,<br />
museothyssen.org).<br />
LATER Madrid’s trendiest rooftop bar,<br />
The Roof (7th floor, ME Hotel, Plaza<br />
Santa Ana 14), attracts an achingly hip<br />
and well-dressed crowd who come for<br />
the cocktails, music and mingling.<br />
TIP Explore Madrid on two wheels.<br />
Bicycles can be hired from Trixi<br />
(Calle Jardines 12).<br />
INFO<br />
Madrid’s Barajas<br />
Airport is about<br />
20km from the city<br />
centre.<br />
Metro<br />
Terminal 2 is<br />
covered by line 8 of<br />
the metro system<br />
which connects to<br />
various other lines.<br />
Travel time to the<br />
centre is about 40<br />
mins. A single ticket<br />
to the airport costs<br />
€2.50, otherwise<br />
tickets cost €1.50.<br />
Taxi<br />
Use only the<br />
registered white<br />
taxis with a red<br />
stripe on the door.<br />
Travel time to the<br />
centre off-peak is<br />
around 20 mins and<br />
the cost about €30,<br />
which includes the<br />
airport charge of<br />
€5.25.<br />
Bus<br />
Catch bus 200 to<br />
Avenida de America,<br />
which connects with<br />
Metro lines 4, 6, 7<br />
and 9, or the Airport<br />
Express to Atocha<br />
Train Station, €5.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The airport has an<br />
information stand,<br />
or visit the offi ce in<br />
27 Plaza Mayor,<br />
915 88 16 36,<br />
(esmadrid.com).<br />
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PLAZA DE ORIENTE<br />
Surrounded by the royal palace and<br />
other important monuments, this<br />
is the place to sample Madrid’s<br />
rich history.<br />
SLEEP Chic and bright, Hotel Mario<br />
(Calle Campomanes 4, 915 488 548,<br />
room-matehotels.com, rooms from<br />
€149) is just 50m from the Opera<br />
Theatre and Royal Palace and offers<br />
comfortable rooms with standard Wi-Fi<br />
and air-conditioning.<br />
CULTURE Claudio Monteverdi’s opera,<br />
Poppea e Nerone, comes to the stage of<br />
Teatro Real (Plaza de Oriente, teatroreal.com)<br />
this month. The original score<br />
of the opera hasn’t survived, so this<br />
production enlisted one of the leading<br />
experts in Baroque and Renaissance<br />
music, Philippe Boesmans, to adapt the<br />
opera for chamber orchestra.<br />
EAT Get a table on the outdoor terrace<br />
and enjoy the wide range of tapas,<br />
including battered cod and baked red<br />
peppers at Anciano Rey de los Vinos<br />
(Calle Bailen 19, 915 595 332).<br />
TIP It is possible to view the wellpreserved<br />
remains of medieval Madrid<br />
inside the Opera Metro station.<br />
GLORIETA BILBAO<br />
Perfect for younger travellers, this<br />
area has quirky shops, great food<br />
and after-dark fun.<br />
EAT Refuel in style after a shopping<br />
Pre-dinner drinks<br />
at Plaza Santa Ana<br />
trip. Mérimée (Calle Fuencarral 61, 911<br />
166 702) serves up quick, tasty dishes,<br />
such as Galician-style octopus. Cocktail<br />
fans can choose from a long list.<br />
SHOP Cruise the entire length of Calle<br />
Fuencarral, which is full of chi-chi<br />
boutiques. Fornarina at No. 41 is one of<br />
the most notable.<br />
LATER From 10pm jazz lovers cram<br />
into Junco (Plaza Santa Barbara 10) to<br />
enjoy local and international groups<br />
plus high-energy jam sessions.<br />
BARRIO SALAMANCA<br />
The wide, tree-lined streets of this<br />
upmarket area are filled with<br />
boutiques, restaurants and bars.<br />
SLEEP With its chic, contemporary<br />
interior, Hotel Unico (Calle<br />
Claudio Coello 67, 917 810 173,<br />
unicohotelmadrid.com, rooms from<br />
€189) has a sense of calm throughout.<br />
Enjoy a drink in the garden bar or dine<br />
in Ramon Freixa’s award-winning<br />
restaurant.<br />
EAT Oysters, seafood and perfectly<br />
cooked fish are served at Cien Llaves<br />
(Paseo Recoletos 2, 915 775 955). Dine<br />
in the elegant interior or under the<br />
magnolia trees on the garden terrace.<br />
SHOP For designer shops visit Calle<br />
Serrano: Adolfo Dominguez at No.5,<br />
or Purificacion Garcia at No. 28.<br />
LATER Sit on the terrace under the<br />
stars as you enjoy a cocktail and cool<br />
music at Loft 39 (39 Calle Velázquez).<br />
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united kingdom<br />
62,698,362 +44 12°C<br />
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Three times daily<br />
paul smith<br />
Take a summer break in Newcastle for culture,<br />
lively restaurants and legendary nightlife<br />
QUAYSIDE<br />
Beneath the city’s iconic bridges,<br />
the Quayside is the perfect<br />
introduction to Newcastle’s culture<br />
and cuisine.<br />
SLEEP Malmaison (104 Quayside,<br />
(0)191 245 5000, malmaison.com,<br />
rooms from €121/£99) offers views<br />
across the River Tyne and Millennium<br />
Bridge. The resident’s bar is ideal for<br />
star-spotting as big-name acts playing<br />
at Newcastle Arena will often check in.<br />
EAT The Broad Chare (25 Broad<br />
Chare, (0)191 211 2144) is a recent<br />
addition to the Quayside and provides a<br />
hearty take on traditional British dishes.<br />
For classic and contemporary<br />
Cantonese menu, try the standout Hei<br />
Hei (46 Dean Street, (0)191 222 1882).<br />
CULTURE A former flour mill turned<br />
contemporary art gallery, BALTIC<br />
(South Shore Road, Gateshead) was<br />
the venue for the 2011 Turner Prize. The<br />
glass and steel spectacle that is The<br />
Sage (also South Shore Road,<br />
Gateshead) is both a conference venue<br />
and stage for world-renowned<br />
musicians. Open-air music festival<br />
Evolution (evolutionfestival.co.uk)<br />
takes place between the two landmarks<br />
on 3-4 June. This year’s headline acts<br />
include Dizzee Rascal and Maximo Park.<br />
Music is also in the air on the north side<br />
of the Quay at Flow – a floating tidemill<br />
filled with music instruments powered<br />
by the River Tyne (flowmill.org).<br />
INFO<br />
Newcastle<br />
International Airport<br />
is 12km north-west<br />
of the city centre.<br />
Train<br />
Metro trains depart<br />
the airport every 12<br />
minutes at peak<br />
times. The journey<br />
to Newcastle takes<br />
25 minutes and<br />
costs €3.80/£3.10.<br />
Taxi<br />
The journey to the<br />
city centre takes 15<br />
to 20 minutes and<br />
costs between<br />
€18/£15 and<br />
€22/£18.<br />
Tourist info<br />
The main tourist<br />
offi ce is at 26-30<br />
Central Arcade,<br />
(0)191 277 8000,<br />
(newcastle<br />
gateshead.com).<br />
LATER Brewdog (16 Dean Street) is a<br />
great place to visit, even if ale isn’t to<br />
your taste. Bar staff will talk you<br />
through their selection of draft beer<br />
(the selection changes daily) and<br />
encourage you to try a free sample or<br />
four. Traditionalists will prefer the more<br />
old-school selection of handpumps at<br />
nearby Crown Posada (31 Side).<br />
TIP Don’t miss the sight of the<br />
Millennium Bridge tilting over to let river<br />
traffic pass underneath. You’ll find tilt<br />
times at gateshead.gov.uk.<br />
GRAINGER MARKET<br />
Built in the early 19th century and<br />
once the largest indoor market in<br />
Europe; come hungry and graze the<br />
great produce while you shop.<br />
EAT Hole-in-the-wall Slice is owned by<br />
Italian chefs and popular with locals –<br />
its pizza slices sell as soon as they leave<br />
the oven. Take time out for the perfect<br />
cup of coffee and a chat at Piccolo and<br />
pick up a batch of fresh macaroons<br />
from French Oven.<br />
SHOP The Marks & Spencer Penny<br />
Bazaar is the oldest and smallest store<br />
operated by the famous UK shopping<br />
brand. Oasis front man Liam<br />
Gallagher’s boutique Pretty Green<br />
(Grainger Street) is opposite the<br />
market’s east entrance.<br />
LATER No. 28 (27-29 Nelson Street) is<br />
a bright spot in Newcastle’s somewhat<br />
lacklustre cocktail scene, and also the<br />
Brewdog offers the<br />
best in craft drafts<br />
starting point for club nights at<br />
Chinatown’s Cosmic Ballroom<br />
(20 Stowell Street).<br />
PINK LANE<br />
Stretching from the city’s railway<br />
station to the medieval town wall,<br />
the Pink Lane area is a favourite<br />
destination for locals looking for a<br />
lunchtime bite or after-work drinks.<br />
SLEEP A Grade II listed Victorian Hotel,<br />
the County Hotel (Neville Street,<br />
(0)871 376 9029, thistle.com, rooms<br />
from €97/£79) is opposite Central<br />
Station and perfectly placed to take<br />
advantage of the region’s local rail<br />
network, the Metro.<br />
EAT Order a cherry-topped milkshake<br />
at the 1950s-themed Stateside Diner<br />
(37 Pink Lane, (0)191 261 7370) or sink<br />
into an antique cinema chair for tapas<br />
at Salsa Cafe (89 Westgate Road,<br />
(0)191 221 1022). Nearby Blackfriars<br />
(Low Friar Street, (0)191 261 9432) is a<br />
popular restaurant and banquet hall in a<br />
13th century Dominican friary.<br />
CULTURE For beat-up charm and a<br />
relaxed crowd, try Jazz Cafe (23-25<br />
Pink Lane). Their lazy Sunday music<br />
jams welcome everyone along, musician<br />
and spectators alike.<br />
LATER Local favourites The Forth<br />
(17 Pink Lane) and The Town Wall<br />
(Pink Lane at Thomas Bewick Square)<br />
satisfy most thirsts and both offer<br />
wholesome pub lunches.<br />
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italy<br />
61,016,804 +39 20°C<br />
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four times daily<br />
Solveig Steinhardt<br />
The Roman Summer festival makes the eternal<br />
city hotter than ever this month<br />
MONTI<br />
The cobblestone alleys provide<br />
respite from the surrounding chaos<br />
and are lined with small shops and<br />
artists’ workshops.<br />
SLEEP Family-run Hotel Artorius<br />
(Via del Boschetto 13, 06 48 21 196,<br />
hotelartorius.com, rooms from €100)<br />
provides a quiet and elegant stay at<br />
reasonable prices.<br />
EAT Aromaticus (Via Urbana 134, 06<br />
48 81 355) is a plant nursery for herbs<br />
and spices with 10 small tables where<br />
they serve suitably healthy, herby food.<br />
SHOP Mencucci (Via Cavour 98) sells<br />
slightly alternative garments. Check out<br />
their shoe outlet, just a few doors down<br />
(Via Cavour 92).<br />
LATER Sweeping views over the<br />
Esquiline and Termini station and a<br />
rooftop swimming pool make Zest<br />
(Via Filippo Turati 171, inside Es Hotel) a<br />
fabulous spot for evening cocktails.<br />
TRIDENTE<br />
The trident of streets departing<br />
from Piazza del Popolo.<br />
SLEEP You’ll get your own set of keys<br />
at Crossing Condotti (Via Mario de’<br />
INFO<br />
The closest airport<br />
is Leonardo Da Vinci<br />
Airport in Fiumicino,<br />
32km from the<br />
city centre.<br />
Train<br />
The Leonardo<br />
Express train to and<br />
from Termini leaves<br />
every 30 minutes<br />
between 6am and<br />
11pm. A single<br />
journey costs<br />
€14 and lasts<br />
30 minutes.<br />
Taxi<br />
There is a fi xed fare<br />
to the airport from<br />
the city. A cab ride<br />
for four passengers<br />
from inside the city<br />
walls to Fiumicino<br />
airport (or vice<br />
versa) costs €40<br />
and takes about 45<br />
minutes. Beware of<br />
unoffi cial minicabs,<br />
and only take the<br />
white taxis.<br />
Tourist info<br />
Call the number 06<br />
06 08 for all tourist<br />
information in six<br />
languages. Tourist<br />
information kiosks<br />
are scattered<br />
around the city<br />
(including one on<br />
track 24 inside<br />
Termini station) and<br />
provide free maps.<br />
Fiori 28, 06 69 92 06 33,<br />
crossingcondotti.com, rooms from<br />
€230), and all the comforts and privacy<br />
of an elegant downtown house –<br />
kitchenette included.<br />
EAT Antica Focacceria San<br />
Francesco (Piazza della Torretta 38,<br />
06 68 30 82 97) recalls an old Sicilian<br />
bar with wrought iron chairs, religious<br />
icons and baskets of oranges, but is<br />
just a few months old. The traditional<br />
Sicilian food incudes fresh pastas and<br />
sweet ricotta-filled treats.<br />
SHOP Cashmirino (Via Belsiana 92/a)<br />
sells kids’ clothing for parents willing<br />
to spend. If it’s your home you want to<br />
dress, Home Textile Emporium (Via<br />
di Pallacorda 14) carries ethnic-inspired<br />
fabrics and textiles.<br />
ANCIENT ROME<br />
Take a leisurely stroll through the<br />
foundations of the city, and a<br />
journey through time.<br />
EAT One of the few restaurants in<br />
Rome to sell food until 2am, 0.75 (Via<br />
dei Cerchi 65, 06 68 75 706) is also<br />
a wine bar. The cuisine is pan-Italian,<br />
and the staff very friendly. For a sweet<br />
snack, try the famous mini pastries<br />
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(or ‘Wedding Cake’) monument<br />
from Cristalli di Zucchero (Via San<br />
Teodoro 88).<br />
LATER Music means outdoor festivals<br />
this month: Terme di Caracalla<br />
presents Puccini and Verdi before the<br />
enchanting backdrop of Rome’s ancient<br />
public baths (operaroma.it). Villa<br />
Celimontana stages nightly jazz gigs<br />
(Piazza della Navicella, villacelimontana<br />
jazz.it).<br />
TIP Spy through the keyhole of the Seat<br />
of the Knights of Malta for an<br />
unexpected view of St Peter’s dome<br />
(Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta).<br />
TRASTEVERE<br />
Quiet by day and buzzing by night<br />
this is one of Rome’s most<br />
authentic neighbourhoods.<br />
DRINK B>Gallery Café (Piazza<br />
Santa Cecilia 16) is a bright modern<br />
bar, bookstore and cultural centre<br />
hidden away in the less visited part<br />
of Trastevere.<br />
EAT Rome meets Naples at simple<br />
trattoria Alle Fratte di Trastevere<br />
(Via delle Fratte di Trastevere 49, 06 58<br />
35 775) serving up the best of both<br />
worlds, from pasta cacio e pepe to<br />
oven-roast sea bream.
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SAN MARCO & AROUND<br />
In 1902, the ancient Campanile in<br />
Piazza San Marco collapsed. Its<br />
replacement took a decade to build<br />
and this year it celebrates its<br />
centenary.<br />
EAT Antonio’s Acquapazza (San<br />
Marco 3808, 041 277 0688) has a<br />
great position with tables on the<br />
square and offers superior pizzas and<br />
specialities from the chef’s native Amalfi.<br />
CULTURE Klimt, Hoffmann and the<br />
Secession at the Correr Museum<br />
(Piazza San Marco) marks the 150th<br />
anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birth and<br />
the artist’s fruitful collaboration with the<br />
architect and designer Josef Hoffmann.<br />
It also highlights Klimt’s ‘Gold Period’<br />
inspired by a visit to the San Marco<br />
Basilica in 1899.<br />
SHOP The leading makers of<br />
contemporary Murano glass have<br />
showrooms in and around the Piazza:<br />
Venini is next door to the San Marco<br />
Basilica (Piazzetta Leonicini 314), and<br />
Cenedese (Piazza San Marco 40/41)<br />
and Pauly (Piazza San Marco 77A) are<br />
in the arcades of the square itself. You’ll<br />
find displays of Carlo Moretti colourful<br />
designs off the Piazza at L’isola<br />
(Campo San Moisè 1468) and, at the<br />
boutique of Marina and Susanna Sent<br />
(Ponte San Moisè 2090), an enticing<br />
line-up of classy modern glass jewellery<br />
made on Murano by these talented<br />
sisters. Just around the corner at<br />
INFO<br />
Venice Marco Polo<br />
airport is located<br />
on the northern<br />
edge of the lagoon.<br />
Taxi<br />
A taxi to Piazzale<br />
Roma costs about<br />
€40. A water taxi<br />
costs around €100.<br />
Bus<br />
ACTV no.5 to<br />
Piazzale Roma,<br />
takes about 20<br />
minutes and costs<br />
€5. The ATVO<br />
shuttle takes<br />
15-20 minutes<br />
and costs €7.<br />
Boat<br />
The Alilaguna<br />
shuttle launches run<br />
from the dock 500m<br />
from Arrivals,<br />
6.10am-12.10am to<br />
San Marco; and 8.45<br />
am-6.45pm as far as<br />
Zattere. Tickets cost<br />
€15 (alilaguna.it).<br />
Tourist info<br />
Piazza San Marco<br />
71/F, 041 529 8711<br />
(turismovenezia.it).<br />
Palazzo Corner Spinelli by the<br />
Sant’Angelo vaporetto stop is the<br />
Rubelli showroom (Campiello del<br />
Teatro 3877), a treasure-trove of<br />
gorgeous textiles, from silks and<br />
velvets to linens and cottons.<br />
TIP At €6.50 per trip the vaporetto<br />
(waterbus) can be pricey. More<br />
economical are the tickets for periods<br />
ranging from 12 hours to seven days.<br />
DORSODURO<br />
The name of this district means<br />
literally ‘hard back’ since this<br />
narrow spit of land provided an<br />
unusually firm place to build in the<br />
lagoon’s sandy environment.<br />
SLEEP The tranquil, canal-side<br />
Locanda San Barnaba (Calle del<br />
Tragheto 2785, 041 241 1233, locandasanbarnaba.com,<br />
rooms from €120)<br />
is one of Venice’s most charming and<br />
welcoming hotels.<br />
EAT Close to the Zattere vaporetto<br />
landing is the trattoria Terrazza Casin<br />
dei Nobili (Zattere 924, 041 520 6895),<br />
with a breezy terrace that juts out over<br />
the water. The menu is relatively short,<br />
but includes well-prepared fish and<br />
meat dishes as well as classic pizzas at<br />
reasonable prices.<br />
CULTURE With its rococo décor the<br />
Ca’ Rezzonico (3136 Fondamenta<br />
Rezzonico), Venice’s museum of the<br />
18th century, is one of the city’s more<br />
entertaining cultural spots. It contains<br />
The San Marco bell<br />
tower celebrates its<br />
centenary this year<br />
paintings and frescoes by father and<br />
son painters Giambattista and<br />
Giandomenico Tiepolo.<br />
RIALTO<br />
Venetians descend on Rialto’s<br />
bustling fish, fruit and vegetable<br />
market stalls throughout the week,<br />
repeating a ritual that has been<br />
going on for over a 1000 years.<br />
EAT The freshest produce certainly<br />
doesn’t have far to travel to Vecio<br />
Fritolin (Calle della Regina 2262, 041<br />
522 2881). This atmospheric and<br />
historic locale is where Irina Freguia<br />
makes sure that Venice’s gastronomic<br />
traditions continue. There’s no better<br />
place to sample the succulent delights<br />
of an old-style fritto misto.<br />
GIUDECCA<br />
This long, slender island, only a few<br />
minutes ride away by vaporetto, is<br />
a haven of peace.<br />
EAT The island has some of the<br />
friendliest family trattorias you’ll find.<br />
On the waterfront try Al Redentor<br />
(Campo San Giacomo 205/B, 041 520<br />
6096) and Bar La Palanca<br />
(Fondamenta del Ponte Piccolo 448,<br />
041 528 7719, lunchtimes only).<br />
LATER The Skyline (810 Molino<br />
Stucky, Giudecca), at the Molino Stucky<br />
Hilton Hotel, has superb views over the<br />
city and lagoon.<br />
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Vienna is about art this year. so tour the<br />
museums then relax with fine wine and food<br />
MUSEUMSQUARTIER<br />
The converted Imperial Stables<br />
have become one of the city’s<br />
cultural hubs.<br />
SLEEP Hotel Das Tyrol (Mariahilfer<br />
Strasse 15, (0)1 587 5415, das-tyrol.at,<br />
rooms from €149) is the best located<br />
boutique-lodging in the city, just three<br />
minutes’ stroll from the museums.<br />
EAT Glacis Beisl (Museumplatz 1, (0)1<br />
526 5660) This contemporary take on<br />
a traditional Viennese bistro is tucked<br />
into a garden behind the museums.<br />
CULTURE Not to miss is Klimt: Up<br />
Close and Personal at the Leopold<br />
(Museumplatz) which displays the rare<br />
landscapes and postcards that<br />
Austria’s most famous artist sent to his<br />
muse, Emilie Floge.<br />
INNERE STADT<br />
Within the Ringstrasse lie the city’s<br />
most iconic streets and landmarks.<br />
SLEEP Kaiserin Elisabeth<br />
(Weihburrgasse 3, (0)1 515 260,<br />
kaiserinelisabeth.at, singles from €95,<br />
doubles €166), offers simple elegance,<br />
a very central location and the best<br />
breakfast buffet in town.<br />
INFO<br />
Vienna International<br />
Airport is about<br />
18km south-east<br />
of the city centre.<br />
Bus<br />
Every half hour to<br />
the city centre from<br />
5am to midnight,<br />
€6 for a single, €11<br />
return. The journey<br />
takes around<br />
20 minutes.<br />
Train<br />
The City Airport<br />
Train (CAT) zips into<br />
town in 16 minutes.<br />
Departures are<br />
every 30 minutes<br />
and return tickets<br />
cost €18.<br />
Taxi<br />
A taxi to the centre<br />
costs around €30.<br />
Tourist info<br />
Vienna Tourist Offi ce<br />
is at Albertinaplatz,<br />
just behind the<br />
State Opera House,<br />
(0)1 24 555,<br />
(wien.info).<br />
Tip<br />
Buy train tickets<br />
online and get<br />
a discount.<br />
EAT Albertina Passage (Opernring at<br />
Operngasse, (0)1 512 08 13) is a fancy<br />
new subterranean supper club from the<br />
people who created Vienna’s hottest<br />
underground nightclubs.<br />
CULTURE Art and Wine at the<br />
Kunsthistorichesmuseum (Burgring 5),<br />
from 5 June, is an exhibition that traces<br />
the connection between wine and art.<br />
LATER Passage (Burgring 3) is a<br />
fabulous nightclub in a disused subway,<br />
beneath the Ring, that remains as hot<br />
now as when it opened in 2003.<br />
2ND DISTRICT<br />
The area which epitomises the<br />
Vienna of The Third Man is now<br />
home to some of the city’s hippest<br />
new addresses.<br />
SLEEP Sofitel Vienna Stephensdom<br />
(Praterstrasse 1, (0)1 906 162 000,<br />
sofitel.com, rooms from about €250),<br />
has brought design luxury to a<br />
neighbourhood which has taken its<br />
time re-gentrifying.<br />
CULTURE Ride on the Riesenrad<br />
(Prater 90) in the Prater Park and note,<br />
like Harry Lime, “how little the ordinary<br />
people look down there.” The Danube<br />
Island Festival (Donauinsel, between<br />
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The Belvedere is home<br />
to Klimt’s The Kiss<br />
Nordbrucke and Reichsbruke bridges,<br />
22-24 June) is one of Europe’s largest<br />
open-air music festivals.<br />
LATER Le Loft Bar and Lounge at the<br />
Sofitel Stephensdom (Praterstrasse 1)<br />
has become the place for cocktails with<br />
a panoramic view of Vienna.<br />
WIEDEN<br />
With Naschmarkt at its centre this<br />
neighbourhood is home to many of<br />
Vienna’s quirkiest shops and<br />
buzziest bars.<br />
SLEEP Das Triest (Wiedner<br />
Hauptstraße 12, (0)1 589 180, dastriest.<br />
at, rooms from €225) is Vienna’s first<br />
boutique hotel. Stylishly designed in<br />
1996 by Terence Conran, its cachet<br />
remains undisputed.<br />
EAT Cafe Museum (Operngasse 7,<br />
(0)1 24 100 620) is a famous old haunt<br />
beautifully restored – a great place for<br />
lunch with the locals.<br />
CULTURE The Upper Belvedere<br />
(Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27) houses worldfamous<br />
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.<br />
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Upper Belvedere, then walk back<br />
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A new way to fly<br />
Brussels Airlines’ long haul fl eet undergoes a premium makeover in <strong>2012</strong><br />
Flying to Brussels Airlines’ long-haul destinations is now more<br />
comfortable than ever, with new cabins that offer the highest<br />
levels of quality and relaxation. We already have three long-haul<br />
aircraft offering this new cabin, and are gradually refurbishing the<br />
entire long-haul fleet.<br />
Business Class Passengers will enjoy a premium fully horizontal<br />
flatbed of nearly 2m. Equipped with a pneumatic cushion allowing<br />
passengers to choose a ‘firm’ or a ‘soft’ setting, the flatbed also offers<br />
relaxing massage options and LED mood lighting, as well as plenty of<br />
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Economy Class Passengers will each have a personal TV with an 8.9”<br />
touchscreen monitor equipped with a USB port, and will travel in a stylish,<br />
ergonomic seat offering generous leg-room (83cm) and seat comfort.<br />
Revolutionary inflight entertainment system The new RAVE inflight<br />
entertainment technology will be available in six languages in both<br />
Business and Economy class. The on-demand system contains over<br />
100 hours of entertainment including 40 movies, 32 TV programmes,<br />
useful information and games. Each Business Class screen is 15.3” and<br />
offers modern tablet-style ‘touch and scroll’ navigation. Passengers<br />
can also connect personal devices such as iPods to the screen. An<br />
additional feature is the ‘Niceview’ flight information programme with<br />
an animated world map displaying the flight course from various<br />
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Une nouvelle expérience de vol<br />
En <strong>2012</strong>, la fl otte long-courrier de Brussels Airlines se métamorphose<br />
Les vols long-courriers de Brussels Airlines sont plus confortables que<br />
jamais, avec de nouvelles cabines prêtes à vous offrir les standards les plus<br />
élevés de qualité et de bien-être. Trois de nos appareils qui assurent ces<br />
liaisons en sont déjà équipés et l’ensemble de notre flotte long-courrier sera<br />
progressivement modernisée.<br />
Classe Business Les passagers bénéficieront dorénavant d’un nouveau et luxueux<br />
siège convertible en lit tout à fait plat, de presque 2 m de long. Ce siège est en<br />
outre équipé d’un système de coussins pneumatiques permettant aux passagers<br />
de régler la fermeté de leur couchage, ainsi que d’une fonction de massage. Un<br />
système individuel d’éclairage d’ambiance LED complète un sentiment de confort<br />
exceptionnel. Une ingénieuse configuration de la cabine permet en outre à 24 des<br />
30 sièges d’avoir un accès direct au couloir. De plus, 10 passagers peuvent dès à<br />
présent voyager dans des sièges « single », sans voisin à côté d’eux.<br />
Classe Economy Pour un vol encore plus agréable, chaque personne disposera<br />
désormais d’une TV individuelle avec un écran tactile de 22,6 cm et un port USB.<br />
Gageons que les passagers apprécieront également les nouveaux sièges au design<br />
premium et au confort ergonomique, offrant plus d’espace pour les jambes (83<br />
cm), qui leur permettront une détente maximale pendant le vol.<br />
Système révolutionnaire de divertissement en vol La nouvelle technologie de<br />
divertissement individuel RAVE sera disponible en 6 langues, tant en Classe<br />
Business qu’en Classe Economy. Ce système proposant les programmes audiovidéo<br />
à la demande contient plus de 100 heures de divertissement, dont 40 films,<br />
32 programmes télé, des jeux, ainsi que des informations utiles pour votre voyage.<br />
L’impressionnant écran individuel des sièges en Classe Business ne mesure pas<br />
moins de 38,9 cm, et à l’instar d’une tablette électronique, s’actionne du bout des<br />
doigts à l’aide d’une application déroulante, ou via la commande à distance<br />
intégrée dans le siège. Ceux qui le souhaitent peuvent même brancher leur propre<br />
équipement, tel un iPod, et visionner leurs propres films sur l’écran du siège. Enfin,<br />
« Niceview », permet aux passagers de suivre la progression de leur vol, et propose<br />
des vues en trois dimensions des zones survolées. Des informations sur les vols en<br />
connexion sont également disponibles.<br />
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Passengers in Economy<br />
Class will each have a<br />
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Vliegen in nieuwe stijl<br />
Langeafstandsvloot van Brussels Airlines krijgt<br />
hoogstaande make-over in <strong>2012</strong><br />
Langeafstandsvluchten met Brussels Airlines worden<br />
nu nog aangenamer. Daar zorgen de nieuwe cabines<br />
voor, die garant staan voor hoogstaande kwaliteit en<br />
ontspanning. Er zijn al drie nieuw ingerichte toestellen, en de<br />
gehele langeafstandsvloot wordt geleidelijk aan vernieuwd.<br />
Business class Businesspassagiers kunnen genieten van<br />
volledig horizontale flatbeds van bijna 2 m. De flat-beds zijn<br />
voorzien van een luchtkussen dat op “stevig” of “zacht”<br />
kan worden ingesteld. Ze bieden ook mogelijkheden voor<br />
een rustgevende massage en led-sfeerverlichting, én er<br />
is heel wat opbergruimte. Dankzij de unieke indeling van<br />
de cabine hebben 24 van de 30 zetels directe toegang tot<br />
het gangpad. Er zijn ook 10 “single seats”, of plaatsen zonder<br />
zetel ernaast.<br />
Economy class Elke economypassagier beschikt over een<br />
persoonlijke tv met een aanraakscherm van 8,9” en een<br />
USB-poort. De zetels zijn het summum van stijl en<br />
ergonomie, voor meer beenruimte (83 cm) en zitcomfort.<br />
Baanbrekend entertainmentsysteem De nieuwe RAVE<br />
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met 40 films, 32 tv-programma’s, nuttige informatie en<br />
games. In Business class meet het individuele beeldscherm<br />
15,3”. De navigatie gebeurt via “touch and scroll”, zoals bij<br />
een laptop. Passagiers kunnen zelfs hun eigen toestellen<br />
zoals een iPod erop aansluiten. Een leuke optie is het<br />
“Niceview”-programma met vluchtinformatie, dat<br />
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Tomorrowland, élu « meilleur événement musical du monde »<br />
en 2011, revient en Belgique<br />
De retour sur la scène belge pour sa 8ème édition, Tomorrowland<br />
plongera les visiteurs durant trois jours entiers dans un monde<br />
extraordinaire et fantastique. Un décor féérique, une gigantesque<br />
vallée de danse, des chefs étoilés, de conviviales zones de repas, des<br />
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Plus de 350 artistes sont programmés à l’affiche de ce festival dont<br />
David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Swedish House Mafia, Dimitri Vegas & Like<br />
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Tomorrowland <strong>2012</strong> aurai lieu du 27 au 29 juillet à Boom, Belgique. Pour de<br />
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Music and magic<br />
Voted Best Music Event Worldwide<br />
in 2011, Tomorrowland returns<br />
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Celebrating its eighth year in Belgium,<br />
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in an outlandish world of magical<br />
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acts, the best DJs, a gigantic ‘dance valley’,<br />
celebrity chefs, fresh cocktails, fairytale<br />
décor, cosy chill-out areas and stunning<br />
fireworks will all combine to ensure a<br />
fantastic event.<br />
The impressive festival programme will be<br />
lining up more than 350 artists including:<br />
David Guetta, Fatboy Slim, Calvin Harris,<br />
Steve Aoki, Swedish House Mafia, Dimitri<br />
Vegas & Like Mike, Avicii, Skrillex, Martin<br />
Solveig, Yves V and John Digweed.<br />
Every detail has been designed to fire the<br />
imagination, and no effort has been spared<br />
in the fantastical design process. The result<br />
is a magical transformation of the recreation<br />
area into a magnificently surreal<br />
environment where 180,000 dance music<br />
lovers will experience the summer’s most<br />
exciting weekend in Belgium.<br />
Tomorrowland <strong>2012</strong> will take place from<br />
27-29 July in Boom, Belgium. For more info,<br />
please visit tomorrowland.be or dreamville.be<br />
Muziek en magie<br />
Tomorrowland, in 2011 uitgeroepen tot ‘Best Music Event<br />
Worldwide’, komt opnieuw naar België<br />
T<br />
omorrowland, dat voor het achtste jaar naar België komt,<br />
dompelt zijn bezoekers drie dagen lang onder in een vreemde,<br />
magische fantasiewereld. Een sprookjesdecor, een<br />
gigantische dansvallei, beroemde chef-koks, gezellige chill-outruimtes,<br />
verse cocktails, spectaculaire acts, schitterend vuurwerk en de<br />
beste podia en dj’s ter wereld zorgen samen voor een betoverende<br />
ervaring zonder weerga.<br />
Op het programma van het festival staan meer dan 350 artiesten,<br />
onder wie David Guetta, Steve Aoki, Swedish House Mafia, Dimitri<br />
Vegas & Like Mike, Avicii, Skrillex, Fatboy Slim, Calvin Harris, Martin<br />
Solveig, Yves V en John Digweed. Elk detail is ontworpen om de<br />
verbeelding van de bezoekers te prikkelen en tijdens het ontwerpproces<br />
werden kosten noch moeite gespaard. Het resultaat is een complete<br />
transformatie van het recreatiegebied in een surrealistische omgeving,<br />
waar 180.000 mensen het mooiste weekend van de zomer zullen beleven.<br />
Tomorrowland <strong>2012</strong> vindt plaats van 27 t/m 29 juli in Boom (België).<br />
Kijk voor meer informatie op tomorrowland.be of dreamville.be<br />
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Around the world in three days<br />
Couleur Café, Brussels’ most eclectic festival, offers a cultural mix that’s hard to resist<br />
Couleur Café is a music festival<br />
dedicated to all types of urban music<br />
across the world including R&B, hiphop,<br />
dub-step, afro, soul, and reggae. Partygoers<br />
can expect performances from the likes<br />
of Stephen Marley, Sean Paul, Erykah Badu,<br />
Tinariwen and Buena Vista Social Club, among<br />
many others. Held at Tour & Taxis over three<br />
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summer nights, there will be four musical stages<br />
as well as a high-brow art exhibition, 50 worldkitchen<br />
stands and other festive activities.<br />
Over 75,000 visitors are expected to gather<br />
at what has become Brussels’ key summer<br />
music festival. The event’s cultural mix is an<br />
apt reflection of the city it calls home, and<br />
promises to transport you around the world.<br />
Erykah Badu<br />
Un tour du monde en 3 jours<br />
Couleur Café, le festival le plus éclectique de Bruxelles, offre un métissage<br />
culturel auquel il est diffi cile de résister<br />
Couleur Café est un festival de musiques urbaines du monde, programmant de<br />
grands noms de la scène R&B, hip-hop, dub-step, afro, soul et reggae. Au<br />
rythme des concerts de cette saison, les festivaliers pourront découvrir des<br />
stars comme Stephen Marley, Sean Paul, Erykah Badu, Tinariwen ou Buena Vista<br />
Social Club, pour ne citer que ceux-là. Durant trois soirées estivales, quatre podiums<br />
seront implantés sur le site de Tour & Taxis ainsi qu’une superbe exposition d’art, 50<br />
stands de cuisine du monde et d’autres activités festives.<br />
Plus de 75.000 visiteurs sont attendus à l’occasion de ce rassemblement devenu<br />
au fil du temps un rendez-vous incontournable des festivals bruxellois. La mixité<br />
culturelle de cet événement reflète en outre parfaitement l’esprit de la ville qui<br />
l’héberge. Et réellement, il promet de vous transporter aux quatre coins de la planète.<br />
Couleur Café offre également une option camping sur le site du festival, en plein cœur<br />
de Bruxelles. Le Camping Zen, qui affiche complet depuis son ouverture il y a quatre<br />
ans, est une oasis de calme où l’on retrouve les mêmes valeurs qui règnent au festival.<br />
Couleur Café se déroule du 29 juin au 1er juillet à Tour & Taxis. Pour des tickets en<br />
prévente et plus d’information, veuillez vous rendre sur couleurcafe.be<br />
Couleur Café also offers the option of<br />
staying on-site at the festival at Camping Zen.<br />
Taking on the same spirit as the festival,<br />
Camping Zen has sold out quickly each year<br />
since it began four years ago.<br />
Couleur Café will take place from 29 June-1 July<br />
at Tour & Taxis. For presale tickets and further<br />
information, please visit couleurcafe.be<br />
De wereld rond in<br />
drie dagen<br />
Couleur Café, Brussels meest eclectische festival,<br />
biedt een culturele mix die moeilijk te weerstaan is<br />
Couleur Café is een muziekfestival dat gericht is<br />
op alle vormen van urban music uit de hele<br />
wereld, zoals R&B, hiphop, dubstep, afro, soul en<br />
reggae. Feestgangers kunnen een heleboel optredens<br />
verwachten van onder anderen Stephen Marley, Sean Paul,<br />
Erykah Badu, Tinariwen en Buena Vista Social Club. Het<br />
festival, dat gedurende drie zomeravonden in Tour & Taxis<br />
wordt gehouden, omvat vier muziekpodia, een interessante<br />
kunsttentoonstelling, vijftig kraampjes met gerechten uit<br />
de hele wereld en andere feestelijke activiteiten.<br />
Naar verwachting zal Couleur Café, dat is uitgegroeid<br />
tot Brussels belangrijkste muziekfestival in de zomer,<br />
meer dan 75.000 bezoekers trekken. De culturele mix<br />
van het festival is een treffende afspiegeling van de stad<br />
waar het plaatsvindt en houdt de belofte in van een<br />
muzikale wereldreis.<br />
Couleur Café biedt bezoekers ook de unieke<br />
mogelijkheid om te kamperen op het festivalterrein in<br />
het hartje van de stad. Op Camping Zen heerst dezelfde<br />
stemming als op het festival en sinds de start vier jaar<br />
geleden was hij steeds uitverkocht.<br />
Couleur Café vindt plaats van 29 juni t/m 1 juli in Tour &<br />
Taxis. Kijk voor tickets in de voorverkoop en meer informatie<br />
op couleurcafe.be<br />
BENJAMIN STRUELENS
Course à pied<br />
Participez au Marathon de Bruxelles et profi tez d’un circuit<br />
touristique à travers la ville<br />
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oici une occasion unique de visiter la capitale de la Belgique<br />
tout en maintenant la forme. Enfilez vos chaussures de<br />
course et inscrivez-vous au Brussels Marathon <strong>2012</strong> !<br />
Les marathoniens sont invités à suivre un parcours d’un grand<br />
intérêt touristique, au départ du Parc du Cinquantenaire. Ils<br />
passeront par des lieux emblématiques comme la Place Schuman,<br />
le Palais Royal et le Palais de Justice. Le circuit traversera également<br />
des espaces verts, avec une boucle dans le Bois de la Cambre, la<br />
Forêt de Soignes et le Parc de Tervuren, avant de revenir au Parc<br />
du Cinquantenaire, d’où la course s’effectuera en droite ligne<br />
jusqu’à l’arrivée prévue sur la somptueuse Grand-Place.<br />
Si l’idée de courir un marathon vous paraît insurmontable,<br />
rabattez-vous alors sur le Brussels Half Marathon ou le walkathon<br />
de 4km pour hommes et pour femmes (Mini-Marathon & Knack<br />
Weekend Ladies Run). Et avec la Chiquita Kids Run, même les<br />
enfants pourront partir du bon pied !<br />
Ces dernières années, plus de 10.000 personnes ont pris<br />
part annuellement à cet événement, dont environ un quart<br />
venues de l’étranger.<br />
Le Brussels Marathon se déroule le 7 octobre <strong>2012</strong>. Pour de plus<br />
amples informations et pour toute inscription, veuillez aller sur<br />
brusselsmarathon.be<br />
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A running tour<br />
Join the Brussels Marathon on its route through the city’s tourist hot spots<br />
Here’s a unique way to visit the<br />
Belgian capital city and stay healthy<br />
at the same time: pull on your<br />
running shoes and sign up for the <strong>2012</strong><br />
Brussels Marathon!<br />
Runners will follow a popular tourist<br />
route through the city, starting at<br />
Cinquantenaire Park. They will then run past<br />
landmarks such as the Schuman Square,<br />
the Royal Palace and the Palace ofJustice.<br />
The route will also wind through the city’s<br />
green spaces, with a loop through the Bois<br />
de la Cambre, Forêt de Soignes and the<br />
Tervuren Park, before returning to the<br />
Cinquantenaire Park from where it is a<br />
Sightseeing voor<br />
hardlopers<br />
straight run to the finish line at the<br />
atmospheric Grand Place.<br />
If the thought of running a marathon is<br />
overwhelming, there’s also the Brussels<br />
Half Marathon or the 4km Walkathon for<br />
men and women (Mini-Marathon & Knack<br />
Weekend Ladies Run). Children can put their<br />
best foot forward in the Chiquita Kids Run.<br />
Over the last few years, more than<br />
10,000 people have taken part annually,<br />
with about a quarter of the participants<br />
coming from abroad.<br />
Brussels Marathon will take place on 7<br />
October <strong>2012</strong>. For further information and to<br />
register, please visit brusselsmarathon.be<br />
Het parcours van de Brussels Marathon leidt je langs de<br />
toeristische trekpleisters van de stad<br />
T<br />
rek je hardloopschoenen aan en schrijf je in voor de Brussels<br />
Marathon <strong>2012</strong>. Dat is een unieke manier om de Belgische hoofdstad<br />
te bezoeken en tegelijkertijd aan je conditie te werken!<br />
De lopers volgen een populaire toeristische route door de stad die in het<br />
Jubelpark begint. Vervolgens komen ze langs markante plekken als het<br />
Schumanplein, het Koninklijk Paleis en het Justitiepaleis. Het parcours doet<br />
ook de groene longen van de stad aan door een bocht te maken door het<br />
Terkamerenbos, het Zoniënwoud en het Park van Tervuren. Daarna wordt<br />
weer koers gezet naar het Jubelpark, vanwaar in een rechte lijn naar de<br />
eindstreep op de sfeervolle Grote Markt wordt afgestevend.<br />
Als je het een afschrikwekkende gedachte vindt om een marathon te<br />
moeten lopen, kun je ook de Brussels Half Marathon of de 4 km lange<br />
wandeltocht voor mannen en vrouwen (Mini-Marathon en Knack Weekend<br />
Ladies Run) overwegen. Zelfs de kleintjes kunnen hun beste beentje<br />
voorzetten in de Chiquita Kids Run.<br />
De laatste jaren hebben telkens meer dan 10.000 mensen aan het<br />
evenement deelgenomen. Ongeveer een kwart van de deelnemers was<br />
afkomstig uit het buitenland.<br />
De Brussels Marathon wordt gehouden op 7 oktober <strong>2012</strong>. Meer informatie en<br />
het inschrijvingsformulier zijn te vinden op brusselsmarathon.be<br />
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b.foundation<br />
Improving access to cancer treatment<br />
A special spotlight on a Brussels Airlines b.foundation partner, INCTR<br />
Cancer is a leading cause of death<br />
worldwide; it is predicted that by 2030,<br />
11 million deaths will be cancer-related,<br />
with 70% of them occurring in low- and middleincome<br />
countries.<br />
In 1998, the non-governmental organisation<br />
International Network for Cancer Treatment<br />
and Research (INCTR) was created to address<br />
this increasing burden in developing countries.<br />
Working together with local colleagues, the<br />
Belgium-based NGO aims to build capacity for<br />
cancer prevention, early detection, diagnosis,<br />
treatment and palliative care. To improve<br />
access to care, INCTR has developed protocols<br />
to standardise treatment approaches that are<br />
Améliorer l’accès aux<br />
traitements du cancer<br />
Coup de projecteur sur l’INCTR, partenaire de b.foundation<br />
de Brussels Airlines<br />
Le cancer est la première cause de mortalité dans le monde ; on<br />
prévoit que d’ici 2030, 11 millions de décès seront liés au cancer,<br />
et de ce nombre, 70% surviendront dans les pays à faibles et<br />
moyens revenus.<br />
En 1998, l’organisation non gouvernementale International Network<br />
for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) fut créée pour contrer ce<br />
fardeau croissant dans les pays en développement. En collaboration<br />
avec des collègues locaux, l’ONG basée en Belgique aide au<br />
renforcement des capacités de prévention du cancer, de détection<br />
précoce, de diagnostic, de traitement et de mise en place de soins<br />
palliatifs. En vue d’améliorer l’accès aux soins, l’INCTR a développé des<br />
protocoles visant à normaliser des méthodes de traitements,<br />
réalisables et abordables dans les régions concernées.<br />
Et ce projet fonctionne : le traitement de plus de 500 enfants souffrant<br />
du Lymphome de Burkitt, dans sept pays africains, en est un exemple<br />
récent. Avant le démarrage du programme, le taux de survie était<br />
estimé à moins de 10% ; un chiffre qui aujourd’hui se monte à 68%.<br />
Le Dr. Martin Ogwang, du St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor en Ouganda, loue<br />
l’action de l’ONG : « Dans le nord de l’Ouganda, la majorité de la population<br />
vit avec moins d’un dollar par jour et ne peut se permettre le déplacement<br />
jusqu’aux centres d’oncologie, lointains et coûteux. Grâce à l’initiative<br />
de l’INCTR, nous sommes en mesure de fournir gratuitement des soins<br />
de qualité à tous nos patients atteints du Lymphome de Burkitt. »<br />
Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez aller sur inctr.org<br />
Scan this code with your smartphone to find<br />
out more about b.foundation, or visit<br />
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feasible and affordable in local settings. A<br />
recent success is the treatment of over 500<br />
children with Burkitt lymphoma in seven African<br />
countries. Prior to the start of this project, the<br />
survival rate was estimated to be less than<br />
10%; now, that figure has climbed to 68%.<br />
Dr Martin Ogwang, of St Mary’s hospital<br />
Lacor in Uganda, praises the NGO’s work: “In<br />
northern Uganda, the majority of the people live<br />
on less than a dollar a day and cannot afford to<br />
travel to faraway and costly oncology centres.<br />
Thanks to the INCTR project, we are able to<br />
provide a high-quality standard of care for free<br />
to all our Burkitt lymphoma patients.”<br />
For more information, please visit inctr.org<br />
Pour en savoir plus sur b.foundation, scannez ce<br />
code avec votre smartphone ou surfez sur<br />
brusselsairlines.com/CSR<br />
De behandeling van kanker<br />
beter toegankelijk maken<br />
In de kijker: INCTR, een van de b.foundation-partners van<br />
Brussels Airlines<br />
Kanker is wereldwijd een belangrijke doodsoorzaak: in 2030<br />
zullen naar schatting 11 miljoen sterfgevallen, waarvan 70%<br />
in landen met lage en gemiddelde inkomens, verband<br />
houden met kanker.<br />
In 1998 werd de non-gouvernementele organisatie International<br />
Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR) opgericht om<br />
deze toenemende last in ontwikkelingslanden aan te pakken. In<br />
samenwerking met lokale collega’s wil deze ngo, die in België is<br />
gevestigd, mogelijkheden voor preventie, vroege detectie, diagnose,<br />
behandeling en palliatieve zorg in geval van kanker ontwikkelen. Om de<br />
toegankelijkheid van de zorg te verbeteren, heeft INCTR protocollen<br />
opgesteld om te komen tot standaardbehandelmethoden die haalbaar<br />
en betaalbaar zijn in lokale situaties.<br />
Een recent succes is de behandeling van meer dan vijfhonderd<br />
kinderen met Burkittlymfoom in zeven Afrikaanse landen. Vóór de start<br />
van dit project werd het overlevingspercentage op minder dan 10%<br />
geraamd. Nu is dat cijfer gestegen tot 68%.<br />
Dr. Martin Ogwang van het St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor in Oeganda<br />
prijst het werk van de ngo: “In Noord-Oeganda moeten de meeste<br />
mensen rondkomen van minder dan één dollar per dag. Zij kunnen het<br />
zich niet veroorloven om naar verafgelegen en dure oncologiecentra te<br />
reizen. Dankzij het INCTR-project kunnen we gratis zorg van een hoge<br />
kwaliteitsstandaard bieden aan al onze patiënten met Burkittlymfoom.”<br />
Ga voor meer informatie naar inctr.org<br />
Scan deze code met uw smartphone om meer te<br />
vernemen over b.foundation, of surf naar<br />
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check-in<br />
Checking in for your Brussels Airlines<br />
flight is simple and hassle-free<br />
S’enregistrer sur son vol<br />
Brussels Airlines n’a jamais été<br />
aussi simple, sûr et efficace<br />
Enregistrement en ligne Gagnez du temps à l’aéroport<br />
■ Enregistrez-vous depuis Internet sur checkin.brusselsairlines.com. N’oubliez pas<br />
d’imprimer votre carte d’embarquement au format pdf.<br />
■ Une fois à l’aéroport, rendez-vous à l’un des points Bagages Drop Off de Brussels Airlines<br />
pour y déposer vos bagages. Dirigez-vous ensuite directement vers la porte d’embarquement.<br />
■ Disponible entre 24 heures et 1 heure avant le départ de votre vol.<br />
Enregistrement Mobile<br />
Idéal pour les personnes toujours en mouvement<br />
■ En surfant sur m.brusselsairlines.com depuis votre appareil mobile, vous pouvez<br />
recevoir directement votre carte d’embarquement sous forme d’un code barre 2D qui sera<br />
scanné à l’aéroport.<br />
■ Rendez-vous alors à l’aéroport à l’un des points Bagages Drop Off de<br />
Brussels Airlines pour y déposer vos bagages. Dirigez-vous ensuite directement<br />
vers la porte d’embarquement.<br />
■ Disponible entre 24 heures et 1 heure avant le départ de votre vol.<br />
Check-in Express Simple et rapide<br />
■ Evitez les files d’attente et enregistrez-vous via nos bornes Express.<br />
■ Ce service est disponible à Brussels Airport ainsi que dans une sélection<br />
d’aéroports européens.<br />
Enregistrement de votre vol retour Un service pratique<br />
■ Si votre vol retour est prévu dans les prochaines 24 heures et que votre réservation est<br />
confirmée, alors vous pouvez vous enregistrer en même temps sur les vols aller et retour.<br />
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Online check-in<br />
Saves time at the airport<br />
■ Visit checkin.brusselsairlines.com to<br />
check-in. Remember to print the pdf<br />
version of your boarding card.<br />
■ Once at the airport, drop baggage off at<br />
Brussels Airlines Baggage Drop Off<br />
points, and proceed to the gate.<br />
■ Available from 24 hours to one hour<br />
before your flight.<br />
Mobile check-in<br />
Ideal for busy people on the move<br />
■ Visit m.brusselsairlines.com from<br />
your web-enabled mobile device.<br />
The boarding pass will be sent to your<br />
mobile device as a 2D barcode, which<br />
can then be scanned at many locations<br />
in airports.<br />
■ Once at the airport, drop baggage off at<br />
Brussels Airlines Baggage Drop Off<br />
points, and proceed to the gate.<br />
■ Available from 24 hours to one hour<br />
before your flight.<br />
Express check-in<br />
Fast and simple<br />
■ Speed through check-in with our<br />
Express check-in kiosks.<br />
■ This service is available at Brussels<br />
Airport and selected European airports.<br />
Return check-in<br />
Added convenience<br />
■ If you’re returning within 24 hours and<br />
have a confirmed booking, you can<br />
check in for your outbound and return<br />
flights at the same time.<br />
Inchecken voor uw vlucht<br />
met Brussels Airlines kan<br />
eenvoudig en zonder zorgen<br />
Online check-in Bespaart tijd op de luchthaven<br />
■ Check in via checkin.brusselsairlines.com. Denk erom de pdf-versie<br />
van uw instapkaart af te printen.<br />
■ Op de luchthaven zet u uw bagage af aan één van de drop-off points van<br />
Brussels Airlines en loopt u meteen door naar de gate.<br />
■ Beschikbaar vanaf 24 uur tot 1 uur voor het vertrek van uw vlucht.<br />
Mobile check-in Ideaal voor druk bezette mensen die<br />
steeds onderweg zijn<br />
■ Ga naar m.brusselsairlines.com via uw mobiele toestel met<br />
internetverbinding. De instapkaart zal als een streepjescode in 2D naar<br />
uw mobiele toestel verzonden worden. Deze code kan vervolgens<br />
gescand worden op vele plaatsen in luchthavens.<br />
■ Op de luchthaven zet u uw bagage af aan één van de drop-off points van<br />
Brussels Airlines en loopt u meteen door naar de gate.<br />
■ Beschikbaar vanaf 24 uur tot 1 uur voor het vertrek van uw vlucht.<br />
Express Check-in Snel en eenvoudig<br />
■ Snel door de check-in met onze machines voor Express Check-in.<br />
■ Deze dienst is beschikbaar op Brussels Airport en geselecteerde<br />
Europese luchthavens.<br />
Return Check-in Extra comfort<br />
■ Indien u binnen de 24 uur terugkeert en uw boeking reeds bevestigd is,<br />
kunt u tegelijkertijd inchecken voor uw heen- en terugvlucht.
safety<br />
For your safety<br />
and comfort<br />
Welcome on board our fl ight today and<br />
thank you for choosing Brussels Airlines.<br />
Please read the information below<br />
regarding smoking and safety regulations<br />
on board. Should you have any questions,<br />
please ask your cabin attendant.<br />
Electronic devices<br />
No personal communications or radio emitting<br />
devices, such as portable telephones, radios,<br />
GPS locators, games or remote-control toys,<br />
may be used on board*. Please ensure that<br />
your telephone is switched off before and<br />
during the flight. Items such as personal<br />
computers and electronic games may be used<br />
during the flight, but must be switched off<br />
during take-off and landing.<br />
Smoking<br />
In accordance with government regulations,<br />
smoking is not permitted on any Brussels<br />
Airlines flight. Passengers should be aware that<br />
there are smoke detectors in the aircraft’s<br />
toilets and that any breach of this rule may<br />
incur penalties. Additionally, please note that<br />
electronic cigarettes are prohibited on board<br />
all our flights.<br />
Safety procedures<br />
You will find an information sheet on safety<br />
procedures in your seat pocket. Please read it<br />
carefully and please listen attentively to all<br />
safety announcements and instructions<br />
from the crew.<br />
Alcohol<br />
Passengers are not allowed to consume alcohol<br />
they have brought with them or bought on<br />
board. Alcohol may be served on board, but our<br />
cabin crew will not serve any passenger who<br />
they feel has already had too much to drink.<br />
*For the complete list of items whose use is<br />
restricted, please see your safety card located in<br />
the seat pocket in front of you.<br />
Pour votre sécurité<br />
et votre confort<br />
Nous vous souhaitons la bienvenue à<br />
bord de notre vol, et vous remercions<br />
d’avoir choisi Brussels Airlines.<br />
Veuillez lire les informations suivantes<br />
concernant les consignes de sécurité<br />
et l’interdiction de fumer à bord. Pour<br />
toute question, n’hésitez pas à vous<br />
adresser à notre personnel navigant.<br />
Appareils électroniques<br />
Aucun appareil de communication ou émetteur<br />
radio personnel, tel que téléphone portable,<br />
radio, système GPS, jeu ou jouet<br />
télécommandé ne peut être utilisé à bord*.<br />
Veuillez vous assurer que votre téléphone est<br />
bien éteint avant et pendant le vol. L’utilisation<br />
des ordinateurs et jeux électroniques est<br />
autorisée pendant le vol, mais ces appareils<br />
doivent être éteints lors du décollage et de<br />
l’atterrissage.<br />
Interdiction de fumer<br />
Conformément aux réglementations<br />
gouvernementales, tous les vols Brussels<br />
Airlines sont entièrement non-fumeurs. Nous<br />
rappelons aux passagers que les toilettes de<br />
l’avion sont équipées de détecteurs de fumée,<br />
et que toute infraction à ce règlement peut<br />
entraîner une amende. Veuillez également<br />
noter que les cigarettes électroniques ne sont<br />
pas autorisées sur nos vols.<br />
Procédures de sécurité<br />
Vous trouverez dans la poche de votre siège<br />
une fiche d’information concernant les<br />
procédures de sécurité. Veuillez lire cette<br />
fiche et écouter attentivement toutes les<br />
annonces et instructions de l’équipage en<br />
matière de sécurité.<br />
Alcool<br />
Les passagers ne sont pas autorisés à<br />
consommer l’alcool qu’ils ont emporté ou<br />
acheté à bord. De l’alcool peut être servi<br />
dans l’avion, mais notre équipage refusera de<br />
servir tout passager qu’il soupçonne d’avoir<br />
déjà trop bu.<br />
*Pour la liste complète des appareils dont l’utilisation<br />
à bord est interdite, veuillez consulter la fiche de<br />
sécurité rangée dans la poche du siège devant vous.<br />
AIRLINE<br />
Voor uw veiligheid<br />
en comfort<br />
We verwelkomen u graag aan boord van<br />
deze vlucht en danken u om te vliegen<br />
met Brussels Airlines. Lees aandachtig<br />
onderstaande informatie over roken en<br />
veiligheid aan boord. Als u vragen heeft,<br />
kunt u die stellen aan het<br />
cabinepersoneel.<br />
Elektronische apparaten<br />
U mag aan boord geen (communicatie)<br />
apparaten gebruiken die radiogolven uitzenden,<br />
zoals draagbare telefoons, radio’s, GPSapparaten,<br />
spelletjes of speelgoed met een<br />
afstandsbediening*. Zorg ervoor dat uw<br />
telefoon is uitgeschakeld voor en tijdens de<br />
vlucht. Elektronische toestellen zoals personal<br />
computers en spelletjes mag u tijdens de<br />
vlucht gebruiken, maar moet u uitschakelen<br />
bij het opstijgen en landen.<br />
Roken<br />
In overeenstemming met de Belgische<br />
wetgeving is roken verboden op alle vluchten<br />
van Brussels Airlines. Wij wijzen u erop dat de<br />
toiletten aan boord zijn uitgerust met<br />
rookdetectoren. Een inbreuk op het rookverbod<br />
kan bestraft worden. Tevens wijzen wij u erop<br />
dat het gebruik van elektronische sigaretten<br />
verboden is aan boord van al onze vluchten.<br />
Veiligheidsprocedures<br />
U vindt een informatieblad over<br />
de veiligheidsprocedures in het opbergzakje<br />
voor u. Lees het zorgvuldig en luister<br />
aandachtig naar alle veiligheidsmededelingen<br />
en instructies van het cabinepersoneel.<br />
Alcohol<br />
Passagiers mogen geen alcohol gebruiken die<br />
ze hebben meegebracht of aan boord hebben<br />
gekocht. Alcohol kan aan boord worden<br />
geserveerd, maar ons cabinepersoneel zal geen<br />
alcohol schenken aan passagiers die volgens<br />
hen al voldoende hebben gedronken.<br />
*In het opbergzakje voor u vindt u uw<br />
veiligheidskaart met daarop de volledige lijst van<br />
apparaten met gebruiksbeperkingen.<br />
Useful telephone numbers in Europe<br />
112 (emergency services requiring an ambulance, fire brigade or police); Child Focus 116 000 (missing children hotline)<br />
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comfort<br />
Your personal<br />
wellbeing on board<br />
Nowadays, for many passengers, fl ying<br />
regularly is part of life. However, the body is<br />
sensitive to change and fl ying still isn’t part<br />
of a normal daily rhythm. Brussels Airlines<br />
cares about your comfort, so here are a<br />
couple of hints on how to keep your body<br />
happy and healthy in the air.<br />
Before<br />
■ Drink plenty of water and avoid excessive<br />
intake of alcohol, coffee and tea<br />
■ Take time to have a stroll around the terminal<br />
after check-in<br />
■ A light snack is fine, but avoid heavy meals<br />
before flying<br />
■ Dress in loose, comfortable clothing<br />
■ Apply moisturiser to keep your skin<br />
feeling fresh<br />
During<br />
■ Drink plenty of water and avoid excessive<br />
intake of alcohol, coffee and tea<br />
■ Exercise helps you avoid cramps and is<br />
good for circulation, even on short flights<br />
(see below)<br />
■ Don’t eat too much<br />
Exercises<br />
Stretch and flex your leg muscles, as well as your<br />
arms, shoulders and neck, from time to time. This<br />
will improve your general level of comfort and<br />
stimulate your circulation. Stretch and rotate your<br />
ankles and legs while sitting in your seat.<br />
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Votre bien-être à bord<br />
De nos jours, il est de plus en plus courant de<br />
prendre l’avion régulièrement. Cependant, le<br />
corps est sensible aux changements, et voler<br />
implique toujours une modifi cation du rythme<br />
normal. Pour Brussels Airlines, la question<br />
de votre confort est une priorité. Voici donc<br />
quelques conseils pour garder un corps léger et<br />
équilibré jusque dans les airs.<br />
Avant<br />
■ Buvez beaucoup d’eau, évitez une<br />
consommation excessive d’alcool, de<br />
café et de thé<br />
■ Prenez le temps de vous balader un peu dans<br />
l’aérogare après l’enregistrement<br />
■ N’hésitez pas à prendre un en-cas léger, mais<br />
évitez les repas trop lourds avant d’embarquer<br />
■ Portez des vêtements amples et confortables<br />
■ Appliquez une crème hydratante pour garder<br />
une peau fraîche<br />
Pendant<br />
■ Buvez beaucoup d’eau, évitez une<br />
consommation excessive d’alcool, de<br />
café et de thé<br />
■ Faire de l’exercice permet d’éviter les<br />
crampes et est excellent pour la circulation.<br />
Essayez les exercices décrits ci-dessous<br />
■ Ne mangez pas trop<br />
Exercises<br />
Etirez et fléchissez de temps à autre les muscles<br />
de vos jambes, vos bras, vos épaules et votre<br />
nuque. Cela améliorera votre confort général tout<br />
en stimulant votre circulation. Etirez et dessinez de<br />
petits cercles avec vos chevilles et vos jambes<br />
lorsque vous êtes assis.<br />
Uw persoonlijk<br />
comfort aan board<br />
Vandaag maakt vliegen voor heel wat passagiers<br />
deel uit van het dagelijkse leven. Ons lichaam is<br />
echter gevoelig voor verandering en vliegen kan<br />
ons dagritme danig in de war brengen. Uw welzijn<br />
ligt Brussels Airlines nauw aan het hart. Daarom<br />
geven we u enkele tips om ook in de lucht uw<br />
lichaam fi t en gezond te houden.<br />
Vooraf<br />
■ Drink veel water en vermijd overmatig<br />
gebruik van alcohol, koffie en thee<br />
■ Neem de tijd om na het inchecken even door<br />
de terminal te wandelen<br />
■ Een lichte snack mag, maar eet niet te zwaar<br />
vóór u het vliegtuig neemt<br />
■ Draag losse, comfortabele kleding<br />
■ Gebruik een vochtinbrengende crème zodat<br />
uw huid fris aanvoelt<br />
Tijdens<br />
■ Drink veel water en vermijd overmatig<br />
gebruik van alcohol, koffie en thee<br />
■ Oefeningen voorkomen krampen en zijn<br />
goed voor de bloedsomloop. Probeer<br />
onderstaande oefeningen<br />
■ Eet niet te veel<br />
Oefeningen<br />
Strek en buig nu en dan uw benen, armen,<br />
schouders en nek. U zult er zich beter door voelen<br />
en het stimuleert de bloedsomloop. Strek en draai<br />
uw enkels en benen terwijl u in uw stoel zit.<br />
Stretch and rotate your ankles and legs while seated . Flex and stretch your calf muscles , as well as your arms , shoulders and neck periodically.<br />
This will improve your general level of comfort and stimulate your circulation.<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS: JULIE JOHNSON
in the air<br />
Brussels Airlines aircraft are a regular sight taking off and<br />
landing at Brussels Airport as well as at the 70 destinations<br />
we serve across Europe and Africa. Check our fl eet line-up to<br />
fi nd out more about the aircraft you’re fl ying on<br />
Airbus A330-200<br />
long haul flights<br />
Number 2<br />
Seats 230<br />
Wingspan 60.30 m<br />
Airbus A330-300<br />
long haul flights<br />
Number 5<br />
Seats 284<br />
Wingspan 60.30 m<br />
Airbus A319<br />
short haul flights<br />
Number 11<br />
Seats 141<br />
Wingspan 34.09 m<br />
Airbus A320<br />
short haul flights<br />
Number 4<br />
Seats 168<br />
Wingspan 34.10 m<br />
brusselsairlines.com<br />
Length 58.40 m<br />
Height 17.80 m<br />
Cruising speed 870 km/h<br />
Length 63.66 m<br />
Height 16.91 m<br />
Cruising speed 870 km/h<br />
Length 33.84 m<br />
Height 11.76 m<br />
Cruising speed 850 km/h<br />
Length 37.57 m<br />
Height 11 m<br />
Cruising speed 850 km/h<br />
Boeing 737-300<br />
short haul flights<br />
Number 1<br />
Seats 142<br />
Wingspan 29.90 m<br />
Boeing 737-400<br />
short haul flights<br />
Number 3<br />
Seats 164<br />
Wingspan 29.90 m<br />
AVRO RJ85<br />
short haul flights<br />
Number 4<br />
Seats 82<br />
Wingspan 26.30 m<br />
AVRO RJ100<br />
short haul flights<br />
Number 12<br />
Seats 97<br />
Wingspan 26.30 m<br />
Number 3<br />
Seats 76-78<br />
Wingspan 28.42 m<br />
Length 33.40 m<br />
Height 11.13 m<br />
Cruising speed 795 km/h<br />
Length 36.45 m<br />
Height 11.13 m<br />
Cruising speed 795 km/h<br />
Length 28.30 m<br />
Height 08.50 m<br />
Cruising speed 755 km/h<br />
Length 31.00 m<br />
Height 08.50 m<br />
Cruising speed 755 km/h<br />
Bombardier DH8-Q400<br />
short haul flights<br />
Length 32.84 m<br />
Height 8.34 m<br />
Max speed 667 km/h<br />
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loyalty programme<br />
PROMO 1 PROMO 2<br />
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Célébrez le lancement de la nouvelle liaison directe de<br />
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Vier de lancering van de nieuwe directe vliegroute van<br />
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Spend fewer miles between<br />
Brussels and the Uk<br />
Until 30 July <strong>2012</strong> you can secure your Brussels Airlines award<br />
ticket between Brussels and Birmingham, Bristol, London,<br />
Manchester or Newcastle for only 14,000 miles in Economy<br />
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<strong>2012</strong> and 31 July <strong>2012</strong>. Visit miles-and-more.be/spendmiles<br />
Dépensez moins de Miles entre<br />
Bruxelles et le Royaume-Uni<br />
Réservez votre billet Prime avec Brussels Airlines entre<br />
Bruxelles et Birmingham, Bristol, Londres, Manchester<br />
ou Newcastle jusqu’au 30 juillet <strong>2012</strong> pour seulement<br />
14 000 Miles en Economy Class et 24 000 Miles en Business<br />
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Visitez miles-and-more.be/echangerdesmiles<br />
Besteed minder mijlen<br />
tussen Brussel en het<br />
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Boek uw Brussels Airlines award ticket tussen Brussel en<br />
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PROMO 3<br />
Destination: Africa!<br />
Earn double miles or book your flight award for only 34,000 miles on<br />
any Brussels Airlines flight between Brussels and Abidjan, Bujumbura,<br />
Douala, Entebbe, Kinshasa, Nairobi or Yaoundé until 30 June <strong>2012</strong>.<br />
For bookings and conditions, please visit miles-and-more.be/earnmiles<br />
or miles-and-more.be/spendmiles<br />
Destination: l’Afrique !<br />
Cumulez le double de Miles ou réservez votre billet Prime pour seulement<br />
34,000 Miles sur tous les vols Brussels Airlines entre Bruxelles et Abidjan,<br />
Bujumbura, Douala, Entebbe, Kinshasa, Nairobi ou Yaoundé jusqu’au<br />
30 juin <strong>2012</strong>. Pour effectuer vos réservations et voir les conditions,<br />
rendez-vous sur miles-and-more.be/cumulerdesmiles ou<br />
miles-and-more.be/echangerdesmiles<br />
Bestemming: Afrika!<br />
Verdien dubbele mijlen of boek uw vluchtaward voor slechts 34.000 mijlen<br />
op elke Brussels Airlines vlucht tussen Brussel en Abidjan, Bujumbura,<br />
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network<br />
80<br />
premium<br />
European<br />
destinations<br />
Perfect for<br />
one-day,<br />
weekend and<br />
leisure trips<br />
MADEIRA<br />
Funchal<br />
Portland<br />
Vancouver<br />
Seattle<br />
Porto<br />
Lisbon<br />
Faro<br />
Belfast<br />
Calgary<br />
Denver<br />
San Francisco<br />
Las Vegas<br />
Los Angeles<br />
Phoenix<br />
San Diego<br />
Austin<br />
1 Brussels Airlines<br />
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Manchester<br />
Birmingham<br />
Bristol<br />
Bilbao<br />
Edinburgh<br />
Newcastle<br />
Madrid Barcelona<br />
Malaga<br />
Winnipeg<br />
Minneapolis<br />
UNITED<br />
STATES<br />
destination in US<br />
Daily direct fl ight to New York JFK<br />
connections to nearly<br />
Leeds Bradford<br />
East Midlands<br />
London<br />
Heathrow<br />
Paris<br />
Strasbourg Stuttgart<br />
Munich<br />
Basel<br />
Vienna<br />
Zurich<br />
Geneva<br />
Ljubljana<br />
Budapest<br />
Lyon<br />
Milan<br />
Venice<br />
Turin<br />
Bologna<br />
Zagreb<br />
Toulouse<br />
Marseille<br />
Nice Florence<br />
Chicago<br />
Dallas Atlanta<br />
New Orleans<br />
Houston<br />
Tampa<br />
60<br />
Bergen<br />
Stavanger<br />
Oslo<br />
Hannover<br />
BRUSSELS<br />
Frankfurt<br />
CANADA<br />
Philadelphia<br />
CUBA<br />
JAMAICA<br />
Hamburg<br />
Rome<br />
Olbia<br />
Québec City<br />
Ottawa<br />
Moncton<br />
Toronto<br />
Montreal<br />
Boston<br />
Halifax<br />
Washington<br />
Orlando<br />
Gothenburg<br />
Copenhagen<br />
Malta<br />
Fort Lauderdale<br />
HAITI<br />
Stockholm<br />
Poznan<br />
Berlin<br />
Wroclaw<br />
Prague<br />
Naples<br />
Lamezia Terme<br />
New York<br />
BAHAMAS<br />
Catania<br />
DOMINICAN REP.<br />
San Juan<br />
US destinations with Direct<br />
flights to Chicago, Philadelphia,<br />
Washington and New York in codeshare with Star Alliance partners<br />
9 destinations in Canada<br />
Calgary, Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, Ottawa, Québec City, Toronto,<br />
Vancouver & Winnipeg in codeshare with Jet Airways and Air Canada<br />
Gdansk<br />
SAINT KITTS<br />
AND NEVIS<br />
Warsaw<br />
Krakow<br />
Corfu<br />
Vilnius<br />
Athens<br />
Tallinn<br />
Riga<br />
Thessaloniki<br />
Helsinki<br />
Bucharest<br />
Heraklion<br />
Rhodes<br />
Beijing<br />
CHINA<br />
Kiev<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
Moscow<br />
2<br />
destinations<br />
in the<br />
Middle East<br />
Abu Dhabi<br />
in codeshare with<br />
Etihad Airways<br />
Tel Aviv<br />
fl own by Brussels Airlines<br />
and also in codeshare<br />
with Lufthansa<br />
Abu<br />
Dhabi<br />
Umea<br />
1<br />
destination<br />
in China<br />
Beijing<br />
in codeshare with<br />
Hainan Airlines
20<br />
Brussels Airlines<br />
destinations in Africa<br />
Abidjan, Agadir, Bamako,<br />
Banjul, Bujumbura,<br />
Conakry, Cotonou,<br />
Dakar, Douala,<br />
Entebbe, Freetown,<br />
Kigali, Kinshasa, Lomé,<br />
Luanda, Marrakech,<br />
SENEGAL<br />
Monrovia, Nairobi,<br />
Ouagadougou &<br />
Yaoundé<br />
2 Korongo<br />
Airlines destinations<br />
Accra<br />
(operated by Brussels Airlines)<br />
EQUAT.<br />
GUINEA<br />
Lubumbashi & Johannesburg<br />
12 codeshare destinations<br />
Casablanca (with Royal Air Maroc); Addis Ababa (with Ethiopian Airlines);<br />
Abuja, Accra, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Libreville, Luanda &<br />
Port Harcourt (with Lufthansa); Cairo (with Egyptair); Nairobi (with Swiss)<br />
Mumbai<br />
Delhi<br />
INDIA<br />
Chennai<br />
Codeshare partners<br />
Casablanca<br />
MOROCCO<br />
Marrakech<br />
Agadir<br />
ALGERIA<br />
TUNISIA<br />
Luanda<br />
LIBYA EGYPT<br />
MAURITANIA<br />
MALI<br />
NIGER<br />
SUDAN<br />
Dakar<br />
Banjul GAMBIA<br />
BURKINA<br />
FASO<br />
CHAD<br />
Khartoum<br />
ERITREA<br />
GUINEA<br />
DJIBOUTI<br />
BISSAU GUINEA<br />
NIGERIA<br />
Conakry<br />
SIERRA IVORY GHANA<br />
Abuja<br />
Freetown LEONE COAST<br />
Monrovia Abidjan Lomé Lagos<br />
LIBERIA<br />
Port Harcourt<br />
Douala<br />
CENTRAL<br />
AFRICAN REPUBLIC<br />
Addis Ababa<br />
ETHIOPIA<br />
Yaoundé<br />
CAMEROON<br />
Libreville CONGO<br />
GABON<br />
DEMOCRATIC<br />
REPUBLIC OF<br />
THE CONGO<br />
RWANDA<br />
UGANDA<br />
KENYA<br />
Entebbe Nairobi<br />
Kigali<br />
SOMALIA<br />
Bujumbura<br />
Kinshasa<br />
BURUNDI<br />
TANZANIA<br />
Cotonou<br />
Bamako<br />
Ouagadougou<br />
SOUTH<br />
SUDAN<br />
3 destinations<br />
in India<br />
Delhi, Mumbai & Chennai<br />
in codeshare with Jet Airways<br />
2 destinations<br />
in Southeast Asia<br />
Bangkok<br />
in codeshare with Thai Airways<br />
Singapore<br />
in codeshare with Lufthansa<br />
TOGO<br />
BENIN<br />
Bangkok<br />
THAILAND<br />
MALAYSIA<br />
SINGAPORE<br />
ANGOLA<br />
NAMIBIA<br />
ZAMBIA<br />
BOTSWANA<br />
SOUTH AFRICA<br />
ZIMBABWE<br />
Johannesburg<br />
Cairo<br />
Lubumbashi<br />
MALAWI<br />
MOZAMBIQUE<br />
Legend<br />
Brussels Airlines fl ights<br />
Korongo Airlines fl ights<br />
Codeshare operated<br />
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LEVEL 2<br />
LEVEL 1<br />
GATES A28-A39<br />
LEVEL 0<br />
LEVEL -2<br />
at the airport<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
LOUNGE<br />
Transport to/from<br />
Brussels Airport<br />
Car rental<br />
The car rental companies are located in the<br />
arrivals hall level 2. To return your car, follow the signage<br />
at Brussels Airport for Front Park 1. Returning your car is<br />
simple and should take no longer than 10 minutes. Avis is<br />
the preferred partner of Brussels Airlines, for preferential<br />
rates, see the Avis link on brusselsairlines.com<br />
Fast<br />
Lane<br />
Discover the brand<br />
new Samsonite store in<br />
the departure hall<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
TRANSFER & SERVICES<br />
GATES A40-A72<br />
GATES T61-T72<br />
Taxis<br />
Taxis are continuously available outside the<br />
arrivals hall, level 2. We advise you to use official taxis<br />
carrying a yellow/blue licence emblem. Wheelchair<br />
users can reserve a taxi with Taxi Hendricks via<br />
tel. +32 (0)2 752 9800 or hendriks.be<br />
A57<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
TRANSFER & SERVICES<br />
OPPOSITE GATE A40<br />
T-ZONE<br />
PLAY AREA<br />
LEVEL 4<br />
LEVEL 3<br />
LEVEL 2<br />
LEVEL 0<br />
LEVEL -1<br />
DEPARTURES<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
SALES & TICKETING<br />
ARRIVALS<br />
BUSES<br />
RAILWAY STATION<br />
TO GATES A/T<br />
Buses<br />
The bus station is located at level 0<br />
and provides bus services to many cities around<br />
Brussels Airport. For more information you can contact:<br />
■ De Lijn: tel. +32 (0)70 220 200 or delijn.be<br />
■ MIVB/STIB: tel. +32 (0)7 023 2000 or stib.be<br />
■ Airport Express: Antwerp–Brussels Airport–<br />
Antwerp: tel. +32 (0)52 334 000 or<br />
airportexpress.be<br />
The Netherlands–Brussels Airport–<br />
The Netherlands: airportxpress.nl<br />
(stops at Amsterdam and Rotterdam)<br />
Trains<br />
The train station is located at<br />
Brussels Airport at level -1.<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
SUNRISE LOUNGE<br />
BUS TRANSFER TO B-GATES<br />
57<br />
TO GATES B<br />
Fast<br />
Lane<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
TRANSFER & SERVICES<br />
BESIDE GATE B16<br />
PLAY AREA<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
CHECK-IN<br />
BRUSSELS AIRLINES<br />
BAGGAGE SERVICES<br />
PREMIUM<br />
GATES B01-B40<br />
GATES B80-B98<br />
BUS TRANSFER TO A/T-GATES<br />
PLAY AREA<br />
DEPARTURES<br />
LEVEL 3<br />
ARRIVALS<br />
LEVEL 2<br />
LEVEL 0<br />
Brussels Airlines Services<br />
Services Restaurants & bars<br />
Restaurants & Shops bars<br />
Shops Tickets & airline services<br />
Tickets & airline<br />
Airline<br />
services<br />
lounges<br />
Airline lounges<br />
Relaxation Zone<br />
Relaxation Zone<br />
wi Wi-Fi is available in all areas of the<br />
wi Wi-Fi is available fi passenger in all areas terminal of theand<br />
the piers<br />
fi passenger terminal and the piers<br />
Check-in rows<br />
Check-in rows<br />
Baggage reclaim area<br />
Baggage reclaim area<br />
Brussels Airport, the home base of Brussels Airlines, is tailored to suit the needs of all passengers whether they<br />
require a full-service product or are low-fare seekers. International surveys and ratings have shown that Brussels<br />
Airport is one of the most welcoming and effi cient in the world<br />
AIRLINES<br />
SERVICES<br />
M<br />
Brussels Airlines<br />
Transfers<br />
All flights from non-Schengen countries arrive at B-Gates<br />
All flights from Schengen countries depart from A-Gates<br />
The Brussels Airport Express takes you up to four times<br />
an hour to the centre of Brussels in 15 minutes. From<br />
there you can connect to the Belgian and international<br />
rail networks. For more information please contact<br />
NMBS/SNCB via tel. +32 (0)2 753 2440 or b-rail.be<br />
Lost, found and<br />
refused objects<br />
■ In the terminal: go to the information desk<br />
in the arrivals hall – level 2 (opening hours<br />
6am-9pm). For more information, tel. 0900-70 000<br />
daily 7am-10pm<br />
■ Left on board: go to the Brussels Airlines desk in<br />
the baggage reclaim area; Lost baggage: go to the<br />
Brussels Airlines desk in the baggage reclaim area,<br />
tel. +32 (0)2 723 3052.<br />
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delicious<br />
Food<br />
MENU DEALS<br />
SWEET MENU €4.00<br />
(2 items) Muffi n (vanilla/chocolate) or<br />
Waffl e with hot* or soft drink<br />
*Hot drinks not available on our shortest fl ights after 10am<br />
LUNCH MENU** €6.00<br />
(2 items) Sandwich or Aïki snack with<br />
soft or hot drink or soup<br />
**Not available on our shortest fl ights<br />
SANDWICHES **<br />
Cheese €4.00<br />
Tasty double deck sandwich with cheese<br />
Bacon €4.00<br />
Delicious sandwich with bacon, lettuce and tomato<br />
**Not available on our shortest fl ights<br />
HOT SNACKS<br />
Aïki Pasta<br />
Spirelli with creamy cheese<br />
€4.00<br />
Aïki Noodles chicken €4.00<br />
Royco Minute Soup €2.50<br />
SWEET SNACKS<br />
M&M’s 250g €4.00<br />
Celebrations Chocolate assortment 240g €4.00<br />
Muffi n (vanilla/chocolate) €2.00<br />
Lotus waffl e XL €2.00<br />
Twix XL €2.00<br />
SAVOURY SNACKS<br />
Pringles (hot & spicy) €2.00<br />
Pringles (salt) €2.00<br />
Pringles (paprika) €2.00<br />
Bifi XXL 40g €2.00<br />
PAYMENT METHODS<br />
All products are sold onboard at stated sizes and subject<br />
to availability. Actual items may vary slightly from what<br />
is shown. Prices are subject to change without notice.<br />
Passengers may not consume alcoholic beverages which<br />
they have supplied themselves, have purchased as duty<br />
free goods, or have been supplied by third parties. Customs<br />
regulations require passengers to declare all items purchased. Returned goods and enquiries should be<br />
made to: LSG Sky Chefs, Luchthavengebouw 53, 1930 B-Zaventem. PRICES INCLUDE ALL RELEVANT VAT.<br />
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CREDIT<br />
CARD<br />
MIN<br />
€5.00<br />
b.light economy menu available on European network<br />
(except Agadir, Athens, Bristol, Hannover, Marrakech, Moscow, Newcastle, Paris and Tel Aviv)<br />
CREDIT<br />
CARD<br />
MAX<br />
€200<br />
CASH<br />
In €<br />
ONLY<br />
SOFT<br />
Spa still water 50cl €2.50<br />
Spa sparkling water 50cl €2.50<br />
Coca-cola 33cl €2.50<br />
Coca-cola zero 33cl €2.50<br />
Fanta 33cl €2.50<br />
Schweppes tonic 33cl €2.50<br />
Lipton ice tea 33cl €2.50<br />
Minute Maid orange juice 25cl €2.50<br />
SPECIAL<br />
Red Bull 25cl €3.00<br />
•Energy drink<br />
mySmoothie 25cl<br />
•<br />
€3.50<br />
100% fruit inside •No preservatives •No additives<br />
HOT<br />
Drinks<br />
Nescafé coffee €2.50<br />
Nescafé decaf €2.50<br />
Nescafé cappucino €2.50<br />
Lipton tea (yellow label) €2.50<br />
Hotcémel hot chocolate €2.50<br />
BEERS<br />
Maes beer 33cl €3.50<br />
Carlsberg (New can) 33cl €3.50<br />
Grimbergen blonde 33cl €3.50<br />
ALCOHOL<br />
Gordon’s gin 5cl* €4.00<br />
Johnnie Walker red label whisky 5cl* €4.00<br />
* + soft drink €6.00<br />
WINE<br />
White – Domaine BLOMAC Chardonnay 18.7cl €4.00<br />
Red – Domaine BLOMAC Merlot 18.7cl €4.00<br />
SPARKLING WINE<br />
Not available on our shortest fl ights after 10am<br />
Martini – Vino spumante brut 20cl €6.00<br />
Gifts<br />
Fun Plane Keyring with sound and lights €4.00<br />
Finest Belgian chocolates Duc d’O 115g €4.00
JULY 3 & 5 <strong>2012</strong><br />
9PM ON BRUSSELS GRAND PLACE<br />
BRUSSELS TRADITIONS<br />
Produced by Ommegang Brussels Events directed by Giles Daoust - With : Dominique Corbiau<br />
Sebastien Romignon - Jo Lemaire - Johan Verminnen - Musical Composer : Ernst Wolfgang Meinrath
114<br />
extra time: sport<br />
tom watt on the european championships, ultimate frisbee and the red bulls’ thierry henry<br />
theathlete<br />
Plenty of sporting greats have been proud to say they were born and bred on the mean streets of New<br />
York. Many more have come to the city, been inspired and made the Big Apple their adopted home.<br />
Thierry Henry won every piece of silverware imaginable during an astonishing career in Europe:<br />
domestic titles, a European Champions League, a European Championship and a World Cup.<br />
While the French striker was scoring goals for clubs in Monaco, Turin, London and Barcelona, though, he<br />
kept his eye on the chance of a late-career move to the US. He makes no secret of the fact that New York<br />
was always his chosen destination. He’d been visiting the city – and making friends there – since 1996.<br />
So, while his MLS (major league soccer) club the Red Bulls play across the Hudson River in Harrison,<br />
New Jersey, Henry has made himself at home amidst the buzz of the fashionable Tribeca District. As he<br />
says, “A show? A party? The park? You want to eat? You want to shop? It’s your choice. New York is the<br />
city where you can do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it.”<br />
theticket<br />
Warsaw is the place to be this month when the <strong>2012</strong> European Championships ampionships kick off on 8 June with<br />
co-hosts Poland taking on Greece. The setting promises to be a spectacular ectacular one: the new National<br />
Stadium has been re-built from scratch on the banks of the Vistula, a, its red and white<br />
outer skin designed to look like a Polish fl ag fl uttering in the wind.<br />
Opening fi xtures at major tournaments tend to be cagey affairs, but the sense<br />
of occasion will more than make up for that. The home fans will be hoping that<br />
un-fancied Greece can’t pull off the kind of surprise they did on their eir way to<br />
winning Euro 2004 in Portugal. If you haven’t already got tickets, you ou should have<br />
a good chance for Russia versus Greece on 16 June. But you won’t need to be<br />
inside the stadium to get swept up in tournament fever. Warsaw is a city that loves<br />
its football; you can be sure that every restaurant, bar and hotel will ll be packed,<br />
decked out in red and white, and showing the match on big-screen TVs. uefa.com<br />
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theknowledge<br />
The capital of Rwanda is dotted<br />
with green open spaces, so if<br />
you’re in Kigali and in the mood<br />
for something more energetic<br />
than a walk, head for Cercle<br />
Sportif. It’s the city’s leading<br />
private sports club and offers<br />
members swimming, tennis and<br />
squash facilities. Visitors who<br />
aren’t planning to sign up might<br />
still want to fi nd their way to Ave<br />
du Rugunga because the club is<br />
also home to – of all things – a<br />
well-established and welcoming<br />
Ultimate Frisbee community.<br />
Ultimate frisbee is frisbee<br />
turned into a team sport. Still<br />
just a simple plastic disc with<br />
absolutely nothing else required,<br />
in Kigali it’s about sociability as<br />
well as the work-out.<br />
Played on a football pitch, there<br />
are scratch games that you can<br />
join for a small fee. The sessions<br />
at Cercle Sportif are held in the<br />
cool of early weekday mornings<br />
and on Sunday afternoons and<br />
are open to everybody from<br />
absolute beginners to budding<br />
Ultimate champions.<br />
cerclesportifdekigali.com<br />
FLY TO new york jfk and warsaw daily;<br />
kigali five times weekly. brusselsairlines.com<br />
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