We flew from Wichita to Minneapolis to Amsterdam to Rome, about 20 hours travel time in all. I always try to keep my eyes open for different/interesting sites. Here's what I noticed:
Minneapolis was the most wired airport I have ever seen. In the gate lounge, nearly every seat had an iPad station mounted at it. It was astounding! We arrived in Schipol airport in Amsterdam and things were a lot more utilitarian.
Minneapolis - ipad lounge (you can see the G4 gate sign)
Amsterdam - just row after row of plain hard seats with concrete floor. Not the most comfortable layover when you only got a few hours sleep on the transatlantic flight.
We saw A LOT of moving sidewalks today. Minneapolis and Amsterdam are huge airports! Quite a few people were rushing toward thei destinations. Our group was more leisurely since we had 4 hour layovers at each airport.
I'm always fascinated by what language signage appears in. At the Minneapolis airport, the signs on the moving walkway were in English and Chinese (I think)..."Walkway ends..." and foreign characters. Many of the advertisements in the Amsterdam airport were in English, but some were not.
I'm so curious what this was an ad for, I couldn't tell at all.
These little mini carts were all over the Amsterdam airport. They had a 'cart retrieval' vehicle that went by several times returning them to the airport entrances.
Yummy in-flight snack on KLM. The label described as 'wafer with carmel' - delicious! (Chocolate tasting for this trip is yet to begin...)
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