Schiphol roof

I'm spending more and more time and Schiphol airport and I'm liking it more and more.

This time I found my way up to the roof, which is marvelous. The viewing area at most airpots seems to have disappeared due to security concerns.

They've got these fantastic telescopes, one looking like a space rocket, one looking like a stop sign (Stop N Watch). I love this attention to detail - most of these telescopes look boring, why not make them look interesting?

This is great too. A bunch of stickers (I presume) from the various graduating classes of the KLM Flight Acadamy - a good way to create some team feeling that more businesses could think about. Everyone knows that the best thing about starting a band is designing the logo and stuff, that's the fun bit; maybe businesses could do more to transfer that sort of solidarity to work stuff.

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[Ellen Wallace]

You have to walk carefully through Schiphol to catch this bit of advertising, and it helps not to be British, and to be getting older, rapidly: "microsoft, microsoft, microsoft..." over and over on the softspeaker as you move along those electronic carpets. I thought that kind of advertising was banned years ago, but not in Holland! It's only when you get to the end of the people-mover and the softspeaker becomes a loudspeaker (or maybe I stopped chewing gum just at that point?) that you realize a Dutch-educated-in-England voice is gently coaxing you along with "Watch your step, watch your step, watch your step..." Hmm, which do we really believe?