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By Norwegian July 2016 Issue 43 Giving you all the inside scoop on everything USA, with a cherry on top The American issue ‘In cod we trust.’ Was America founded on fish? Who supplies caviar to Vegas? Where did Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell and Mama Cass all live? What happens to NASA’s old launch pads? Who makes a museum of New York garbage?! Are Republicans cat people?
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By NorwegianJuly 2016Issue 43
Giving you all the inside scoop on everything USA, with a cherry on top
The American issue
‘In cod we trust.’
Was America
founded on fi sh?
Who supplies
caviar to Vegas?
Where did Frank
Zappa, Joni Mitchell
and Mama Cass all live?
What happens to
NASA’s old launch pads?
Who makes a museum
of New York garbage?!
Are Republicans
cat people?
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Made in the USA
“It’s more
Finnegans Wake than
Grand Theft Auto”
In San Francisco, we
meet Jonathan Blow,
who claims his new
video game is a piece
of high art, p29
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Grand Canyon
Zion
Canyonlands
Death Valley
Capitol
Reef
“We have
some incredible
tastings”
The Truffl e Kid, AKA
Brett Ottolenghi,
is the man bringing
luxury ingredients
to Vegas, p25
“There’s
something
magical about it”The world’s best
extreme athletes on
how the country’s
National Parks have
inspired them, p66
“It was the
centre of the
musical universe”
Take a pilgrimage to
Laurel Canyon, in
West Hollywood, once
home to the cream of
American folk-rock, p46
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“It’s an opportunity
for a more
sustainable future” So say the fi shermen
of Cape Cod, who are
coping with the loss
of the fi sh that made
their name, p36
We visit the Sato Project,
a charity that rehomes
the unwanted dogs of
Puerto Rico, p80
“‘Mongo’ means
objects salvaged
from the trash”
Nelson Molina - New
York’s king of Mongo -
gives us a tour of his
incredible museum of
found objects, p58
“People are going
to look back and
say it was crazy”
Insight into the
Space Race, from a
Florida photographer
who’s spent 20 years
shooting its ruins, p18
“We want
someone who will
love them forever”
“Wynwood has
become the hip
area of Miami”
All the top tips on
eating, beaching, and
theme-parking in our
Norwegian guide to the
Sunshine State, p88
How the driverless car
revolution could affect
our streets, according to
one MIT professor, p31
“It’s not
good news for
traffi c lights”
We roamed all over to bring you our special American issue
aating, beaching, and
eme-parking in our
orwegian guide to the
unshine State, p88
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The world’s most instagrammable city?The Big Apple, Gotham, City of Dreams… whatever you call it, it’s a pretty special
destination. Or at least, so I’d heard. For years I was being told about it by friends who’d
bang on about walking the Highline, boating in Central Park, and partying in Brooklyn,
while my only memories of the city stemmed from a 90s TV junk food diet of Friends, Sex
and the City and Seinfeld. Last month that fi nally changed when our team uprooted the
magazine to NYC to put together this very-special American issue of n. Aside from setting
up shop in a real-life New York offi ce, and getting to meet Nelson Molina, king of ‘Mongo’
(see our feature on p58), I fi nally got to visit the Highline, Central Park and Brooklyn. I also
took more photos in a week than I normally do in a year - it’s that kind of town. You can
check out more photos of our trip on Instagram, under the hashtag #nbynorwegian. In the
meantime, I hope you enjoy our special US issue, and your fl ight with Norwegian.
Sarah Warwick, editor
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This month’s essential info
The scene MANHATTANHENGE
Twice every summer, around the time of the solstice when the evenings are long, the streets of Manhattan fi ll with people clutching their cameras. On just these two evenings, the city grid becomes perfectly aligned with the path of the setting sun, creating a stunning phenomenon dubbed “Manhattanhenge”. The full circle of the sun is visible, sinking perfectly between the buildings of the famous New York City skyline. Named by American astrophysicist Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson (after the UK’s Neolithic Stonehenge), this urban wonder is perfect fodder for the intrepid Instagrammer. For the best view, Tyson recommends 34th and 42nd streets, where the striking east-west vista is framed by the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. The next Manhattanhenge will occur this summer at 8.20pm EDT on 11 July, with a similar, half-sunset the same time on 12 July. nychenge.com
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Purple rain, yellow guitar
Those still mourning the loss of Prince, earlier this year, should check out his
famous Yellow Cloud guitar at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
History in Washington DC. Custom-made by the Minneapolis fi rm Knut-Koupee
Enterprises in 1989 – during the star’s Diamonds and Pearls era – the guitar was
designed by Prince and features his distinctive personal symbol on the top and
the side of the fi ngerboard. It will be on display until 5 September in recognition
of the musician’s remarkable life. americanhistory.si.edu
nth degreeTHE SPARE CHANGE
Ever been in such a rush
through security at the airport
that you’ve left some spare
change behind? You’re not
alone. America’s Transportation
Security Administration (TSA)
has hit the jackpot after
collecting over US$760,000
(NOK6.2m) in unclaimed cash
from 114 airports in 2015. They
could have celebrated their win
with some champagne, but the
TSA will instead be using the
money on security operations.
We could think of much more
exciting things to do with it
(*googles yacht prices*).
The faceLUIS JORGE RIVERA HERRERA
Every visitor to Puerto Rico owes a debt of gratitude to environmental activist Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera, the man behind a decade-long, grass-roots campaign to protect the North-East Ecological Corridor. He and his colleagues have worked tirelessly to protect the area’s incredible beaches, one of the most important nesting areas for leatherback sea turtles in the Caribbean, and he’s just been honoured with the Goldman Environmental Prize. Good work! goldmanprize.org
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As the parties go head to head, what do the stats say about the subjects that really matter?
Remember ‘Derelicte’, the fake fashion collection in Zoolander, based on
the style of the homeless? Well, now it’s a real thing, sort of, after one-time
Parisian designer Gigi Freyeisen joined up with artists on Skid Row, the
notoriously down-at-heel part of downtown LA, to create the ‘Swagabonds’
label. “Walking Skid Row, I was amazed by people’s outfi ts,” Freyeisen says.
“Some were interested in launching their own fashion line, they just didn’t
have the means or anyone to believe in their talent.” theswagabonds.com
The artwork SEVEN MAGIC MOUNTAINS
The landscape on Interstate 15 between LA and Las Vegas has undergone a colourful transformation, thanks to Swiss-born New York artist Ugo Rondinone. Seven Magic Mountains is a US$3m (NOK25m) piece of land art that will grace the Nevada Desert for two years, with brightly painted boulders cut from the Apex quarry stacked up to 10m high.
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Over the past 35 years, Arizona-based photographer William W Fuller has driven across the States dozens of times, capturing the architectural landscapes of America’s major cities, including San Francisco, Washington DC, and Los Angeles, in dramatic black and white using a large-format, 4x5 camera and fi lm. Last year, he launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to bring his work together in coffee-table book The City. “The pictures are not portraits of particular cities,” says Fuller. “Rather, dynamic compositions of shape, line, form, negative space, light and shadow.”
williamwfullercity.com
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In 1976, NASA published just 40 copies of its Graphics Standards Manual, a 90-page
document that outlined how NASA should implement its iconic logo, known as “the worm”.
Since then, it’s become a cult item among graphic designers. In May this year, it became
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The exhibition PTEROSAURS: FLIGHT IN THE AGE OF DINOSAURS
Dinosaurs are taking over LA this summer, as the Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs exhibition wings its way from its current home in New York to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Visitors to the museum from 3 July can expect to encounter full-size models of the pterosaur, the fi rst backboned animal to fl y, along with a collection of fossils that show these airborne reptiles could have had a wingspan of up to 10m, and an interactive pterosaur fl ying experience. nhm.org
Return to the space age
The barBEETLEHOUSE
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,
Beetlejuice! Tim Burton fans
rejoice – there’s a new theme
bar in New York’s East Village
where it’s Halloween all year long.
Beetlehouse is a Beetlejuice-
themed bar with gothic decor, a
bouncer dressed in stripes, and
drinks and snacks that reference
Burton’s oeuvre – think the Tall
Skeleton cocktail, Edward Burger
Hands or the Cheshire Mac. It’s
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things. beetlehousenyc.com
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QnAThis month’skey questions
answered
What’s with all the abandoned
launch pads?
Why has this man predicted the end of the traffi c light?
Is Hawaiian poke the dish
of the year?
What do video games and literature have in common?
Who is the “Truffl e Kid”?
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That’s what we asked the photographer who’s spent 30 years documenting mementoes of the Space RaceW o r d s ⁄ S a r a h W a r w i c k � P h o t o g r a p h y ⁄ R o l a n d M i l l e r
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t all started with a chance
encounter. Roland Miller
was teaching photography
at a community college
near Cape Canaveral,
Florida, in 1988 when he got the call asking
him to help dismantle an old photo lab.
While there, he stumbled across Launch
Complex 19, which had been used in all of
the USA’s manned Gemini missions.
As a huge space fan, the sight was
exciting – “like science fiction come to
life” – but also concerning. Twenty years
after the pad’s last use, the degrading
impact of the harsh Florida sun and the
salty coastal air were taking their toll.
“I found it amazing that things that
had been so critical in world history
were basically now collapsing in upon
themselves,” Miller says. “I knew
immediately I wanted to photograph it.”
Thirty years on, his book Abandoned in
Place has just been published, featuring
his shots of defunct launch pads and
space centres from across the US.
Miller sees a strange beauty in all
the peeling paint and rusting metal. “It
reminds me of the temporal nature of
life and that we’re all ageing,” he says.
But while there is a certain pathos to
the pictures, as many of them are the
last ever taken of these structures – at
least half of which have now been taken
down – there’s also a sense of wonder.
His book underlines the fact that much
of the technology that was vital to the
Space Race was designed in the 1940s
and ’50s, and has a lot less computing
power than a modern smartphone.
“Not only did we go to the moon but
we went there with the technological
equivalent of stone knives and bearskins,”
he says. “I think 500 years from now
people are going to look back and say it
was crazy to do that with that technology.
And it was.” abandonedinplace.com Norwegian fl ies to Orlando from Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm. Book fl ights, a hotel and a rental car at norwegian.com
What’s so good about a bunch of old launch pads?
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Decaying fi ttings at Cap
Canaveral, including
Launch Complex 34 (main
picture); receivers and
recorders at Redstone
Complex 26; and an Atlas
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Is Hawaiian poke the dish of 2016?
Step aside sushi and ceviche – Hawaiian poke is the next big
raw-fi sh trend to sweep the world »W o r d s ⁄ T o b y S k i n n e r � P h o t o g r a p h y ⁄ R i v e r T h o m p s o n
Picked snow
crab with
Japanese kewpie
mayo and yuzu
Sprinkled with
chopped shiso leaf
Garnished with renkon
crisps - made from
dried lotus root
Topped with
ikura salmon roe
Served on a
bed of short-
grain rice
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“T
here was no doubt in our
mind. We just knew that
poke would be a huge
trend.” Jordan Sclare, the
executive chef of Black
Roe, is explaining the origins of his new
restaurant in Mayfair, London, which
revolves around a spectacular raw-fish
counter. On a menu inspired by Pacific
Rim cuisine, it counts poke (pronounced
poh-kay) as the star attraction
The marinated raw-fish dish, usually
tuna seasoned with soy and sesame,
served on a bed of rice, has long been
ubiquitous in Hawaii – but now it’s going
global, and fast. There are scores of poke
restaurants in Los Angeles, where it’s a
bona-fide phenomenon, and the trend has
spread across the US, from Brooklyn to
Boulder. Now it’s hit Europe, appearing in
a handful of London restaurants, and one
in Stockholm, called simply Hawaii Poke.
It should mean something that Sclare
and London restaurateur Kurt Zdesar have
backed the Hawaiian cuisine. Zdesar is the
brains behind Asian-fusion success stories
like Hakkasan, Nobu and Chotto Matte,
and Sclare was head chef at both Nobu
and Chotto Matte. Clearly, the pair are
onto something.
“We’d had the idea of a restaurant
revolving around a raw-fish counter, and
using Asian flavours, before we’d even
come across poke,” says Sclare. “It was
when we were researching that we came
across Pacific Rim cuisine and realised it
was exactly what we wanted to do.”
Black Roe’s eight poke dishes,
which took Sclare and his team weeks
of preparation, include a take on the
traditional ahi tuna with roasted sesame
soy, along with more adventurous
evolutions. There’s a sea bass poke with
wasabi salsa, a scallop poke with a sriracha
citrus salsa and a signature ahi and
yellowtail version with spicy yuzu. All are a
riot of textures and fresh flavours.
“Our dishes aren’t about being the
most authentic or about impressing
Michelin judges,” says Sclare, whose team
also cooks dishes like octopus aioli and
kalua pork belly on a grill using Hawaiian
kiawe wood. “It’s about flavour, and that
instant reaction to the food. We do a lot
of blind tastings and the rule is that the
person should say ‘yes’ within a second of
trying the mouthful. If so, it will usually be
a success.”
With poke, Sclare knew he was onto a
winner. “You’ve got great fresh fish and
then a whole world of Asian flavours to
play with for the sauces. It’s just a fantastic
dish.” You’ll likely be seeing a lot more of
it soon. blackroe.com
Norwegian fl ies to London from nearly 50 destinations. Book fl ights, a hotel and a rental car at norwegian.com
From top⁄
Jordan Sclare, executive
chef at Black Roe and
Chotto Matte; lobster on
display; Black Roe poke
with yellowfin tuna
MAINLAND POKE SHOP
LOS ANGELES
You can custom-build
your own poke from
different types of fi sh,
sauce and toppings at
this Beverly Hills shop.
While that might sound
a bit like a kind of fi shy
Subway, don’t knock it
till you try it.
mainlandpoke.com
HULA GIRL
WASHINGTON
Where true Hawaiian
food is brought
to Virginia by a
true Hawaiian girl.
Chef-owner Mikala
Brennan cooked up a
distinctive take on her
native cuisine on the
Food Network before
setting up her
Arlington eaterie.
hulagirlbarand
grill.com
SONS OF THUNDER
NEW YORK
SOT serves up a classic
version of poke just
a few minutes’ walk
from Times Square.
Raw, fresh, marinated
fi sh, with either rice or
tortilla chips: simple,
but effective.
sonsofthunder.com
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Who took a gamble on lobster?* That would be Brett Ottolenghi, the culinary upstart who brings the world’s fi nest foods to Las Vegas »W o r d s ⁄ M a n d i K e i g h r a n � P h o t o g r a p h y ⁄ J a c o b K e p l e r
(*and caviar, and saffron, and truffles and Iberico ham...)
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F
orget Joël Robuchon,
Pierre Gagnaire and Mario
Batali. It’s Brett Ottolenghi
– affectionately known as
the “Truffle Kid” – who’s
behind the best food in Las Vegas. He’s
not a chef, however. Rather, he runs
Artisanal Foods, the operation that
supplies the best ingredients in the city.
From foie gras, caviar, saffron and truffles
to exotic spices, salts and oils... You name
it, he can source it.
Ottolenghi has been in the fine-food
game for 20 years, since founding an
online truffle-importing business at
the tender age of 13. He once treated
the entire student body of his boarding
school to a meal of crocodile, and at 18,
he moved from Pennsylvania to Vegas and
started selling truffles door-to-door to
the best chefs. When he branched out
into caviar, he would wheel a live sturgeon
(above right) in a tank down the Strip to
educate his customers. “Often I’d get
kicked out the high-end restaurants,” he
says. “Other times, I’d make a friend and
ask for introductions to other chefs.”
All the hard work paid off, and today,
he supplies ingredients to many of the
fine-dining restaurants in Vegas. He
opened a retail space in 2010, and has
recently moved to larger premises near
the airport, where he stocks over 700
products – from olive oil to ice cream.
“The only unifying theme is research,”
says Ottolenghi, of his business model.
“If we want to introduce a new product
we put together a list of every celebrated
producer and then buy one of everything
they make and have incredible tastings.
We tasted over 1,200 different olive oils to
choose the eight we stock.”
Last year, he teamed up with local
chef Johnny Church, and created The
“When he branched
out into caviar, he’d
wheel a live sturgeon
around to educate
his customers ”
Café – nothing fancy, simply six plastic
chairs and three tables in Artisanal
Foods. It’s become a foodie hotspot,
where gourmands drop in to try some of
the best affordable dishes in the city. A
typical menu might cost US$12 (NOK98)
for seared foie gras, or ceviche made with
lionfish. The latter is an invasive species
that Ottolenghi is passionate about getting
on menus for sustainability reasons.
“The thing that makes us different is
that I’m not motivated by money,” he says.
“I want to educate people about food, and
the chefs recognise that.”
artisanalfoods.com
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Can video games be art?The latest by indie game-developer Jonathan Blow certainly comes close
T
o those who haven’t played The
Witness, the recent release from
San Francisco-based video-game
designer Jonathan Blow, the idea of
ranking it alongside Thomas
Pynchon’s epic, postmodern masterpiece Gravity’s
Rainbow might seem odd. While the former is a
3D-puzzle game set on an uninhabited island, the
latter is considered one of the most complex
literary works of the century.
So, was it egotistical of Blow to make the
comparison during interviews prior to the game’s
launch earlier this year? Not according to critics,
who are effusive in their praise of what might just
be the first great work of video-game culture. In
the UK, The Guardian, for example, called it “more
Finnegans Wake than Grand Theft Auto V”.
So what elevates a video game to high art?
According to Blow, the key lies in exploring themes
without worrying if the reader, or in this case
player, is following. “Gravity’s Rainbow isn’t holding
your hand the whole way through to make sure you
understood every paragraph,” he said. “If you can
keep up, great. If you can’t, come back to it in a
few years and see it from a different perspective.”
This attitude represents a departure for most
game designers, who focus on optimising user
experience. It’s typical of Blow, whose background
is in indie games, which are created by individuals or
small teams, generally without the financial support
of large publishers. However, while most of these
games have a niche following and take in less than
US$500, Blow’s 2008 hit Braid – a postmodern take
on Super Mario Bros that made his name – brought
in US$6million (NOK4.9m) by 2015.
Most of these profits were reportedly spent
developing The Witness. A team of 15 developers,
artists and even architects was hired to realise
Blow’s vision, while the soundtrack was provided
by Wabi Sabi Sound, who recorded ambient sounds
while walking around Angel Island in San Francisco
Bay. Eight years on, the game has finally been
released, selling over 100,000 copies in its first week
and grossing US$5million to date. Only time will tell if
the video-game industry has got its first real classic.
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More art you
can play
InsideThe story of a young boy
struggling against evil
forces, Inside features
the same minimal visual
style as Playdead’s 2010
black-and-white hit
Limbo – which sold over
one million copies – and
is one of IGN’s most
anticipated games of
the year.
playdead.com/inside
MountainThis “ambient procedural
mountain game” is more
meditative artwork than
entertainment. There
are no controls, just a
mountain spinning in
space on which things
grow and die, and into
which odd objects –
from fans to baseballs –
embed. Within 24 hours
of release, it became the
number one role-playing
game in 33 countries.
mountain-game.com
Monument ValleyFrom indie studio Ustwo
this puzzle game was
inspired by Japanese
prints and MC Escher.
Each frame is designed
to be worthy of a gallery.
In 2014, it won an Apple
Design Award and was
named Apple’s best iPad
game. By May 2016, it
had been downloaded
26 million times.
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game.com
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Very possibly, according to this MIT professor whose revolutionary concept might replace them sooner than you’d think »
Are traffic lights becoming extinct?
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Previous page⁄
Carlo Ratti says
traffi c lights’ days
are numbered
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Early plans for his
DriveWAVE system
E
ver wondered what the
world would be like without
traffi c lights? Probably not,
but then that’s Carlo Ratti’s
job. As head of MIT’s
SENSEable City Lab, which aims to
anticipate how digital technologies are
changing people’s lives, the Italian design
engineer is employed to think a decade
ahead of the rest of us.
Since 2004, he’s envisaged what every
given aspect of our future lives might
look like, from waste, to architecture to
transport, and even designed products that
we might use. Last year he curated a digital
supermarket for the Future of Food pavilion
at the Milan Expo. This year he’s dreamt up
sustainable offi ce space with personalised
“thermal bubbles” for each worker; a mile-
high park in New York City; and a digital
sofa, the Lift-Bit, which wouldn’t be out of
place in the Jetsons’ living room.
Now Ratti and his team have turned
their attention to the future of traffi c,
and how the advent of driverless cars will
change our cities. Turns out, it’s not good
news for traffi c lights.
“Traffi c systems date back to over 100
years ago and they’ve not evolved that
much since,” explains Ratti. “Our thought
was that, with the advent of autonomous
cars, we could imagine new systems that
would allow us to make better use of our
roads and our time.”
After many months of number crunching
and complex equations, they’ve come up
with a new scheme, known as DriveWAVE.
Instead of indicating to drivers when to
stop at intersections to allow for fl ow from
The dawn of
“driverless”
WEPODSIf you fi nd yourself in
the Dutch city of Ede,
keep a beady eye out for
“WURby” and “WElly”,
two robot minibuses
currently being tested
there. The fi rst driverless
vehicles to be allowed
on public roads, the two
pods seat six and have a
max speed of 25kph.
wepods.com
DRIVE MENext year Volvo’s
driverless programme,
‘Drive Me’, will become
reality, as 100 of its
IntelliSafe Autopilot-
equipped XC90s are let
loose on the streets of
Gothenberg, Sweden,
and London, UK.
volvocars.com
GOOGLE SELF-DRIVE These high-profile
bubble cars have been
hooning around Mountain
View, CA, for a while
now. Apart from one
unfortunate run-in with
a bus, they’ve racked up
one million safe miles and
counting. In five years, we
could all be riding one.
google.com
other directions, as traffi c lights do, this
new scheme would work by assigning each
car a “slot”, in a similar way to air-traffi c
control. An autonomous system,
it would communicate directly with
vehicles’ navigation systems, to “make sure
the vehicles get to the intersection exactly
when they have a slot, creating a system
that is much more effi cient”.
This evolution of traffi c management
is, says Ratti, just one of the outcomes of
“the looming driverless revolution” that
few people have considered.
“It’s not just the having an autopilot.
Driverless cars will allow us to use
commuting time for other activities:
reading, sleeping, relaxing, kissing,” he
says. Pollution will also drop dramatically,
as increased carpooling reduces the
number of cars on the roads by up to
80 per cent. There could be more green
public spaces as former car parks are
reclaimed as community gardens.
While the fi rst of these vehicles are
already on the road (see right), and there
could be 10 million of them by 2020
(according to businessinsider.com), it could
take a while for DriveWAVE to be fully
implemented. “Slot-based intersections
need a certain level of intelligence in every
car,” says Ratti.
Still, there’s every chance that for our
children’s children, living in a driverless
world, traffi c lights will have the same
relevance as the dodo. senseable.mit.edu
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Cape Cod’s fi shy businesses
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A short hop from Boston on the
Massachusetts coast, Cape Cod made its
name and fortune from the huge quantities
of the white fi sh that were once found here.
As stocks dwindle, those who once relied on
the industry are fi nding new ways to survive
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* But not for much longer?
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Chatham, on the tip of North America’s Cape Cod peninsular, is a classic coastal town of white clapboard houses
and neat lawns, rocking chairs on porches and tourist boutiques. A popular seaside destination, its population of just over 6,000 is set to swell in coming months as well-heeled Americans return to their New England summer homes, and holidaying families fi ll the pale, clean beaches, as they have done for generations.
Yet, away from the lobster shacks and T-shirt shops something unexpected is happening. In the boatyards and huts on the fringes of town, and along the coastline of Cape’s 100km spit, fi shermen are navigating their way through some choppy waters. Since 2012, for reasons scientists are still trying to determine and fi shermen can’t agree on, the cod stocks that gave the Cape its name and prosperity have all but disappeared, leaving the fi shing industry in the throes of a crisis.
By 2014, according to fi gures from the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, commercial fi shermen caught some four million pounds of cod (less than two million kg). Twenty years ago, it was more than six times
that – 26,998,742lbs. Whether one blames overfi shing, environmental changes or even – as some do – the growing inland seal population that feeds off cod before they can be landed, it’s a serious and growing issue.
In an attempt to tackle overfi shing and rebuild stock, cod-fi shing quotas have dropped drastically, but it seems to be a case of too little, too late. Cape fi shermen say they are are struggling to hit even these lower quotas and many have given up trying. Any cod that can be found now are far off shore and fi shing for them often involves a three-day trip with no guarantee of success.
So, while you’ll still fi nd cod on the menu in Chatham’s many seafood
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restaurants, these days it’s usually not from the nearest harbour but imported from Iceland.
On the Cape, this isn’t just about the death of an industry but of an entire way of life. As Mark Kurlansky explains in Cod: A History of the Fish that Changed the World, this humble groundfi sh was responsible for elevating New England from “a distant colony of starving settlers to an international commercial power”.
Its sheer abundance off the coast here meant it became a pillar of the economy for the early European settlers, making many colonial merchants wealthy. By the 1700s it had provided a young America with trade confi dence, and the country’s »
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Cape Cod was built on
its fi shing industry; John
Our has been fi shing these
waters for nearly 40 years
This page⁄
Rick Thompson works at
Chatham Pier, unloading
the fi shing boats; crates of
monkfi sh
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is overthrown [North American] fi sheries will continue to be fertile for centuries to come”.
Now the gift-shop T-shirts featuring the American dollar bill reworded as “In cod we trust” come across as poignant. It’s not that, as the saying goes, there aren’t plenty more fi sh in the Atlantic. “Diversifi cation” is the fi shing industry’s new buzzword, and former cod fi shermen are encouraged to branch out to the Cape’s many other species. Diff erent seasons bring striped bass, blue fi sh, tuna, haddock and halibut, while scallop and lobster fi sheries are booming (cod is one of lobster’s main predators).
Despite this, moving on isn’t as simple as it may appear. As cod has dropped off , people have started to hold on more tightly to their quotas for other species, making it tricky to switch fi sheries. In some cases, the drop in income has left cod fi shermen with outdated boats and little money to branch out in a new direction. For others, it’s a case of pride that makes them cling on to the past.
“Back in the 1970s and ’80s, the fi shermen owned this town,” says John Our, his level gaze trained on the parking lot of Shop Ahoy Liquors, on Chatham’s Main Street. “That place used to be fi lled with our pick-up trucks. Now every year there are fewer and fewer of us.”
Our, 54, has been fi shing off Chatham for 36 years, most of them for the cod that his father fi shed before him. In the early 1980s, the pair had to build a new boat because they were unable to carry the volumes they were catching. “We’d bring in 10,000lbs [4,500kg] every time we went out and we used to be fi shing most months of the year. Then we went down to eight or nine months of the year and catching 4,000-5,000lbs each trip. Then all of a sudden the bottom just fell out of cod altogether.”
He is now the oldest cod fi sherman in the Chatham fl eet and holds the »
determination for free trade in cod was a factor in its struggle for independence.
The fi sh was celebrated on offi cial crests, stamps, banknotes and in the buildings the industry funded – until it burned down in 1747, Boston Town Hall had a giant gilded cod hanging from its ceiling. The hallowed fi sh fed generations of families, provided countless jobs and appeared to be as reliable as the sunrise. Even as late as 1885 the Canadian Ministry of Agriculture confi dently stated that “unless the order of nature
Monkfi sh
Skate
Scup
Dogfi sh
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John Our’s boat
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Since the fall in
cod stocks, Our
fi shes for monkfi sh
(pictured), dogfi sh
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species (see right)
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second-largest cod quota, which is a fraction of what it was less than a decade before. “It’s not economically viable to spend more and more time looking for something that’s not there.”
Our doubts he will see cod return to the Cape, at least in the numbers they once knew, before he retires. Personally he blames the seals, but he’s aware that others disagree and that culling the sea mammals is a solution with few supporters. Like many of his colleagues, he has now started fi shing monkfi sh – also lucrative, currently plentiful – for the three or four months it’s available each year.
To make up the rest of his pay packet, he’s reluctantly become one of those who are staking a future on less-popular but more sustainable species, including dogfi sh, skate and scup. Often referred to as “trash”, these fi sh – types of ray and shark – were, for hundreds of years, just thought of as infuriating by-products of the cod catch. They’d be picked out of nets and thrown back in the sea while attention was lavished on the prized white fi sh.
Now, however, these fi sh are a growth industry, particularly in Europe. In the UK, dogfi sh goes by
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the name rock salmon or huss and, according to Richard Peirce, chairman of the Shark Trust, often masquerades as cod in fi sh ’n’ chip meals. As demand continues to grow and Asian markets have begun to develop, these fi sh may represent the best chance former cod fi shermen have of continuing to eke out a living.
For some of them, those who are happy to move with the times, this burgeoning industry even makes for quite a rosy picture. Down at the Chatham Boat Company, Doug Feeney puts the fi nishing touches on what he hopes will become his future. He’s two weeks away from launching his new boat, a revamped Stanley Greenwood Novi. The heavy-duty vessel will be used to bring in as much dogfi sh as limits allow, and is large enough to allow him to prepare the catch
onboard, bypassing the cost and control of the processors.
Instead of continuing to view it as trash, Feeney sees dogfi sh as an opportunity to carve out a more sustainable future. In partnership with Brett Tolley, community organiser for the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, he’s heading an ambitious crusade to build markets, increase profi ts and support the next generation of fi shermen.
“We’ve been researching ways to handle dogfi sh so I’ll brine them and I’ll fl ay them for certain markets. A lot of guys just throw them on deck then send them off for processing where you’ll be given a price you have no control over. We want to take back that control.”
Last year, Feeney travelled to China to sell it at the Qingdao Seafood Expo »
A small coastal shark that can
grow up to 1m in length, dogfi sh
was certifi ed by the Marine
Stewardship Council a few years
ago because of its expanding
population. In 2014, the Portland
Press Herald reported on an
estimated 230,000 tonnes of
spawning dogfi sh – females of
reproductive age – in the Gulf of
Maine, compared with only 10,000
tonnes of spawning cod. Chatham
catches about six million pounds
(2.7 million kg) of Massachusetts’
nine million pounds of annual
landings, and with the daily fi shing
boat limit set at 5,000lbs, it is
considered to be sustainable.
While it doesn’t command high
prices – John Our gets US$2
(NOK16) for a large dogfi sh
compared with $50 or $60 (up
to NOK490) for a large monkfi sh
– they are plentiful, and easy to
catch and prepare.
WHAT EXACTLY IS DOGFISH?
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Mac’s is a popular Cape Cod
chain of eat shops; local
fi sherman Doug Feeney
champions dogfi sh as a
sustainable alternative to cod
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and is now getting orders as a result. There is already a market in Asia for the dogfi sh’s fi ns and skin, but he aims to start selling the whole fi sh. He’ll shortly start fi lming his fi shing trips to familiarise Chinese consumers with the species.
A tougher challenge will be overcoming consumer resistance to dogfi sh on his own shores. Americans have been slow to embrace a fi sh that used to be thrown away, but Tolley is hopeful that will change as people wake up to what’s happening.
“Dogfi sh is an abundant species on the East Coast and if we want a more healthy ocean, we have to embrace what’s being caught in season and embrace family fi shermen like Doug,” he says. “There’s a big diff erence in the story of the fi sh he’s catching and the more industrial fi shing models you might see around the world. This is a step towards more transparency in our seafood chain and a more sustainable future.”
In addition to getting dogfi sh on the menu in hospitals, food banks and universities, the pair are working with Cape Cod restaurateurs, including Steve DeLeonardis, to try to boost local interest. DeLeonardis, who owns two restaurants, both called The Corner Store, in Orleans and Chatham, has been off ering his customers dogfi sh every Friday from the start of the season in June through to the end of September. Calling it by its newly rebranded title, Cape Shark, he has created the “SharkRito”, a hearty
burrito fi lled with beans, salad and pieces of dogfi sh that have fi rst been soaked in milk to add tenderness and then fried in a lemon-pepper batter.
“The goal for me is the home-grown local movement,” he explains. “It’s cleaner, fresher, has a smaller carbon footprint and if it’s opening people’s minds to something that’s here rather than increasing demand for something that isn’t, that’s good for everyone.” But what does it taste like? Well, to this inexperienced palate, it’s light, fl avoursome and juicy. Not all that dissimilar to cod, really.
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While you’re
in Boston
STAY
Chatham Bars Inn
For centuries society
Bostonians have fl ed
the city to summer in
Cape Cod. Channel that
spirit with a trip to this
sprawling period hotel
and sip one of Aunt
Lydia’s Margaritas on the
wrap-around veranda,
before dinner in one
of the three in-house
restaurants. lhw.com/
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Anyone who doubts that
meat-free has gone
mainstream on the US
East Coast just needs to
look at Chloe Coscarelli.
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her fi rst meat-and-
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year, but now has four
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Blvd venue.
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dreamin’
StillFifty years since
its California
sound took over
the airwaves,
Laurel Canyon,
LA’s mythic
rock ’n’ roll
neighbourhood,
is inspiring a
whole new
generation
of musicians.
But, asks Mike
MacEacheran, is
it still the craziest
place in America?
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When singer-songwriter Glenn Frey came to Los Angeles from Detroit in the late 1960s, the fi rst person he met was a cherub-faced man sitting on the steps of the Canyon Country Store in
Laurel Canyon. The twenty-something was none other than David Crosby, of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fame, wearing the same cowboy hat and green leather bat cape as on the cover of the second Byrds album. It seemed, Frey later told Rolling Stone, like an omen. He remembers that moment, taken by the canyon’s laid-back, freewheeling vibe, as the inspiration for him to start his own band. We know them now as The Eagles.
In any other place, a chance encounter between two of the biggest names in music would seem out of the ordinary, but in the 1960s in Laurel Canyon this was an everyday occurrence. The magical hillside hang-out was home to most of LA’s new generation of rock stars. Jim Morrison, Jackson Browne, Mama Cass, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Carole King… practically every hippy to pick up a guitar could at one time be found up in the canyon, sporting bell-bottom denims and plaited headbands.
Even if you’ve never been there, Laurel Canyon has aff ected you. Magic-hour records by Canyoners, such as California Dreamin’, Mr Tambourine Man and Big Yellow Taxi, have soundtracked a million lazy summer afternoons. The fl oaty hairstyles, peek-a-boo lace dresses and printed fl oral shirts on show at Coachella or Glastonbury every summer are testament to its enduring infl uence on pop culture.
Fifty years on and the Canyon’s history has become especially relevant, thanks to a new wave of artists who have picked up its sound. Fleet Foxes, My
Clockwise from above⁄
The view over Laurel Canyon,
in LA’s Hollywood Hills region;
Lookout Mountain; Crosby, Stills
& Nash photographed for their
debut album in 1969 at Palm Ave,
West Hollywood; Joni Mitchell
poses in the window of her Laurel
Canyon home in 1970
Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and the Avett Brothers are among those rocking the alt-country stylings of its early days, while local LA heroes Dawes, Jenny Lewis and Jonathan Wilson are now putting the city’s folk-rock scene back on the music map.
Driving into the Canyon from West Hollywood, it’s hard to imagine these windy roads and woodsy houses were the backdrop for some of the most melodic, atmospheric, and subtly political American popular music ever made. Yet Michael Walker, author of the counterculture movement’s defi nitive history, Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-And-Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood, calls it the most energised place in American rock ’n’ roll. In the midst of one of America’s most urbanised, »
“Ask anyone in California where the craziest people live and they’ll say Los Angeles. Ask anyone in Los Angeles where the craziest people live... and they’ll tell you Laurel Canyon”- Joni Mitchell, 1968
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A whole mythology exists around number 8217 Lookout Mountain, one of the steepest winding streets in the Canyon. Joni Mitchell bought the house in 1968 with royalties from her fi rst album, Song to a Seagull. Her then lover, Graham Nash, wrote Our House about their life together for the 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album, Déjà Vu
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uncompromising environments, he explains, it was once an unlikely anomaly: cheap, secluded from the law, yet just off the Sunset Strip, with great places to play live and better recording studios nearby. All the elements were there for a creative revolution, and Laurel Canyon was the catalyst.
“For a little window of time – from 1966-69 – Laurel Canyon was the centre of the musical universe,” says Walker, as I join him on a tour of the area. “You had these creative, wilful people who were only 23 or 24, but they were living beyond the rules of the 1950s. It must have been incredibly liberating. San Francisco takes the credit for the Summer of Love, but it all started in Laurel Canyon.”
Today the Canyon seems like a regular LA suburb. Yucca palms with laden branches hang over the main boulevard and minor roads funnel upwards past prime real estate towards the even glitzier Mulholland Drive. On the way, there are dream-like houses on stilts overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Gardeners mow lawns in gardens buzzing with insect life, school
children race off to Wonderland Elementary and old-timers catch up on porches over coff ee.
With Walker’s help, however, its musical past comes to life once more. He takes me to the corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Lookout Mountain, where Frank Zappa once partied with groupies – as well as Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger – at his Wizard of Oz-like wood cabin. Today it’s a forlorn wonderland of forgotten caves, dried-up waterfalls and boarded windows, yet once it was the most happening place in America. Fans travelled from Europe to be invited to parties inside.
“You’d see Stephen Stills walking down the street, or Jackson Browne playing piano in his garden,” says Walker, listing off other famous residents who hung out in the neighbourhood. “They all lived in each other’s orbits.” Farther up the Canyon, on Woodrow Wilson Drive, Walker points to where Mama Cass Elliot from The Mamas & Papas bought a ramshackle house. As photos from the late-1960s show, she created the ultimate bohemian enclave »
“Frank Zappa once partied with groupies - as well as Jimi Hendrix and Mick Jagger - at his Wizard of Oz-like wood cabin”
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Frank Zappa lived in this Laurel
Canyon “tree house” in the late
1960s but moved out with his
family when the party lifestyle
became too much; Zappa
swinging in the yard in 1968
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here, decorating with robed curtains and exotic cushions, and instilling an open-door vibe that drew a constant stream of fl ower-power followers and neighbours.
That group included The Monkees’ Mickey Dolenz, who lived on Lookout Mountain, and Ridpath Drive residents The Eagles and Jackson Browne. In those days, David Crosby – yes, him again – was notorious after parties for cruising the Boulevard, his cape fl ying in the wind, riding a Triumph motorcycle given to him by Peter Fonda.
Now the rock stars have gone, and the mansions and villas have been taken over by business moguls and movie producers taking advantage of the Canyon’s proximity to Hollywood and Studio City. Only a few stragglers who come to drink coff ee, hang out, and smoke are left, according to Walker. Even for diehard pop pilgrims, there are few clues as to how the Canyon created such an incredible swathe of popular culture in the 1960s.
In fact, for those with an eye on rock history, the lack of landmarks is probably just as well. Around 1969, the rose-tinted sunglasses came off in a spectacular backlash. Canyon fi xture Neil Young was the fi rst to puncture the dream in his song »
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Gregory Siff’s Love Street
mural on the side of the
Pace restaurant; the Canyon
Country Store (over) is still the
neighbourhood’s social hub
Few places symbolise Laurel Canyon’s hedonistic vibe better than Rothdell Trail, more commonly known as Love Street. Immortalised after Jim Morrison – who moved into a bungalow on the street with long-term girlfriend Pamela Courson – penned a song of the same name, today the lane has been given over to art mural Love Street. This gigantic psychedelic splash of rainbow wash was created by modern LA art-hipster Gregory Siff
“Fifty years on and the Canyon’s history has become relevant again, as its musical baton has been picked up by a new wave of artists”
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Revolution Blues. “I hear that Laurel Canyon is full of famous stars,” he sings, “but I hate them worse than lepers, and I’ll kill them in their cars.” Eventually a wave of eclectic misfi ts and groupies arrived, the drugs dealers moved in and the notorious Manson Family carried out a series of grisly murders, killing the hippy ideal overnight. After that, people started to lock their doors.
Nowadays, there’s just one place where the spirit of ‘66 lives on. Canyon Country Store is the neighbourhood’s makeshift cultural centre, and a store Jim Morrison once described as the place “where the creatures meet”. Today, old hippies come to fi nd the 1960s they left behind, others intrigued by a weird nostalgia for a life they never lived.
One of the latter is Angélie Buddie Guilbaud, a wistful twenty-something who’s says that, »
Take a
day trip
A couple of hours’ drive
east from the Canyon is
Joshua Tree, where it’s
said the 60s have never
really gone away...
PAPPY & HARRIET’S
A little bit country, a
whole lot hipster, this
honky-tonk saloon
and live-music venue in
the desert has hosted
the likes of Arctic
Monkeys, Spiritualized,
Vampire Weekend
and Conor Oberst.
But like any spit-and-
sawdust bar it can get
rowdy: desert native
and Queens of the Stone
Age singer Josh Homme
has been thrown out
three times.
pappyandharriets.com
JOSHUA TREE INN
Opened in 1950, this
fabled hacienda motel
on the road to Joshua
Tree National Park
is a pilgrimage site
for alt-country fans.
Donovan and Emmylou
Harris stayed here to
zone-out in the desert,
while former Byrd and
Rolling Stones’ cohort
Gram Parsons died from
an opiate and tequila
overdose in room
number eight.
joshuatreeinn.com
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“Alot of people think
we carry that Neil Young,
Joni Mitchell, Warren
Zevon sound,” says
Taylor Goldsmith, frontman and
guitarist of Dawes, Los Angeles’
pre-eminent festival-friendly folk-
rock band.
Dawes have been labelled Laurel
Canyon’s second-generation torch
bearers, largely thanks to their 2009
debut album, North Hills, which was
recorded in the Canyon, produced by
Canyon native Jonathan Wilson and
is fi lled with old-fashioned acoustic
guitars and chiming melodies.
So far, so much typical Canyon
fodder, but, as Goldsmith says, they’re
reluctant to be pigeonholed into the
60s-revival box. “On our fi rst record,
the lyrics were about sunsets and
rivers, but once you’re into that real
estate it dries up fast. People don’t
write letters and ride trains anymore.”
Four albums in (soon to be fi ve,
when their as-yet-untitled record
comes out this autumn) and Dawes
have revealed a broader mix of modern
infl uences. “Our real heroes have
always been artists with extensive
catalogues like Bob Dylan, Elvis and
Stevie Wonder,” Goldsmith says.
“Every band needs certain
signposts,” adds the band’s drummer
(and Taylor’s brother) Griffi n Goldsmith.
“But even Kurt Cobain and Eddie
Taylor Goldsmith
Griffi n Goldsmith Wylie Gelber
Vedder of Pearl Jam rejected grunge.
It puts a sound in your head. We see
ourselves as a hard-working rock ’n’
roll band.”
Not sure what one of those sounds
like? Seek out last year’s best-selling
album All Your Favourite Bands, a
number one across the US that saw
them sell out auditoriums from LA to
Chicago and Nashville. Or catch them
on tour across the US this July and
August. Perhaps this is what Crosby,
Stills & Nash would sound like in 2016?
dawestheband.com
The new band
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despite growing up here and now working in the store, she’s still in awe of the 1960s’ pop ethos. “I grew up chasing fairies,” she says. “I lived up on Wonderland Avenue and all my friends’ parents were in bands.” Frank Zappa chose her middle name.
It’s said that as long as the Canyon Country Store stays open, the spirit of peace, love and understanding will survive in the Canyon, and this is the spot on our tour where it’s still possible to feel that this was once the epicentre of counterculture. We’re surrounded by girls wearing love-bead strings and Indian bracelets, while men sport fuzzy, woodsman beards, their faces framed by hairstyles that could easily have fi tted a Byrd or an Eagle 50 years ago.
This is where the old guard came to pay their respects when Glenn Frey sadly died earlier this year, bringing the good times back for many. But while the Canyon sound has been passed on to a new generation, there’s only an echo here in the Canyon of the creative powerhouse that once was.
“The new generation will never have what these young musicians had,” says Walker, looking across the misty hills. “There was once peace and liberation here – and Laurel Canyon had hope, at least for a while. It’s a place that could have lived forever.”
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Farmer’s Daughter Hotel
The name of this
boutique hotel might
suggest a roll in the
hay, but its comfort
levels certainly don’t. A
plaid facade and denim
bedspreads play on the
country vibe, while neon
signage and poolside
chic are pure LA.
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EAT
The Cannibal
New York’s favourite
meat-focused
restaurant now has
a West Coast home.
Opened in May, the
Culver City venue serves
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and sausages. There’s
an onsite butcher, too,
for quick takeaway bites
and special cuts.
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It’s a travel cliché but
there’s still something
oddly thrilling about
a Hollywood Homes
tour – squinting at Brad
Pitt’s security system in
the hope of a glimpse.
StarLine claims the most
celeb spots of any tour
so fi ngers crossed!
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works in the Canyon Country
Store and remembers her
parents hanging out with
Frank Zappa; the Store on
Laurel Canyon Blvd
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One
man’s
trash...
The NYC
Department
of Sanitation
garage in East
Harlem is home
to one of the
most intriguing
collections of
found objects in
the country. We
meet the worker
who’s made
garbage curation
his life’s work…
W o r d s ⁄ M a n d i K e i g h r a n
P h o t o g r a p h y ⁄ A x e l D u p e u x
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Molina’s
locker room,
where the
collection
fi rst started,
is now
overwhelmed
with ‘mongo’
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It’s always Christmas at Manhattan 11, the NYC Department of Sanitation garage in East Harlem. Even in July there are Christmas carols playing, dozens of trees, wreaths, stars, candles, nativity scenes, and a life-size illuminated Santa. A mite
confusingly, however, it might also be spring, and the start of the baseball season, if one is to judge from “baseball wall”, an enormous display of autographed balls, framed mitts, and rows of fi gurines, right next to “Christmas corner”.
These carefully curated objects are just a fraction of the tens of thousands that are jammed into this enormous garage. There’s a gallery-worth of artwork, an orchestra of guitars, corners overfl owing with greenery and sparkling fountains. A whole wall of Mona Lisa reproductions, a forest of chairs and lamps, carefully ordered towers of video games, libraries of books, and tables of every kind of tchotchke, curio, trinket, toy and bauble imaginable.
This is the mind-boggling Trash to Treasure collection of 63-year-old Nelson Molina, all rescued from the garbage over his 32 years as a worker with New York’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY). In sanitation-speak, the objects are “mongo”, slang for treasure salvaged from the garbage. While it’s against department regulations, most of the 59 garages across the city have some kind of small mongo collection on display. Molina, however, is the undisputed king.
“It’s just something I have a passion for,” he says. “I have two brothers and three sisters, and we didn’t get much for Christmas. So, as a kid, I used to go out two weeks before Christmas and look in the garbage. I might fi nd a toy car missing a wheel, so I’d go into my mother’s sewing kit and fi nd a button the same size and glue it on. She never threw anything out. If she had a toaster that didn’t work, she would repair it. If she couldn’t fi x it, no one could, not even the manufacturer. That’s how I learned.”
Molina’s passion didn’t lead him directly to the DSNY, however. He began his working life as an oxygen technician with a private ambulance company. In 1981, at the age of 29, applied for various city jobs – everything from the post offi ce to the railway. By chance, the fi rst he was called in for was as a sanitation worker, and he stayed with the department until his retirement in September last year.
He doesn’t remember the fi rst piece of mongo he picked up – probably a small fi gurine or a perfume bottle, he says – but, whatever it was, it’s still in the men’s locker room. It’s here »
Madison Ave
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One of the dozens
of fi gurines
displayed on Molina’s
“baseball wall”
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Piles of action
fi gures are
testament
to changing
toy trends
over the last
30 years
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Molina’s collection began, in a small room he built with two colleagues as a shared locker. As the collection grew, it overtook the tiny room – crowding it with everything from Star Wars fi gurines to corkscrews – and fl owed into the locker room itself, turning it into a cabinet of curiosities set to a soundtrack of birds singing (a found CD, playing on a found portable sound system) in which the sanitation workers go about their daily routine. From there, it spilled into the garage, completely taking over the second fl oor, which is no longer used for the storing of garbage trucks.
As Molina wanders through the collection, he picks up pieces, detailing exactly where he found them and how he knew to look for them – an unusually heavy bag, a telltale sound, an odd shape. It seems impossible that he would have a favourite piece among so many, but he does – a Star of David, which he found eight years ago, made of steel from the World Trade Center to commemorate 9/11.
“There’s a sad and happy story to this piece – that’s why it’s so precious to me,” he says. “9/11 happened on a Tuesday, and on Sunday, the DSNY were sending guys over there to help clean up. I was one of the guys who volunteered to go. While I was there, my wife called and told me my father had been rushed to hospital in critical condition. I went to the hospital, and he passed away two days later. I couldn’t go back to the World Trade Center. That’s the sad story. The happy story is that if I had been there eight or nine months, I probably wouldn’t be here today because of the diseases people got. Every time I pick it up, it reminds me of my father.”
However precious it is to him, the star looks set to leave the collection soon. Following a CBS interview in which Molina made sure the cameras captured the name on the plaque, its owner – who works for the sprinkler system company at the Freedom Tower – got in touch. Reportedly, the star was accidentally disposed of with the contents of a storage locker, and there are now plans to move it to the 9/11 Memorial Museum in Lower Manhattan. »
Molina with his most
treasured found
object, a plaque
made of steel from
the World Trade
Center that he
found on 98th Street
and 5th Avenue
While you’re
in New York
STAY
Roger Smith Hotel
This quirky Midtown
hotel, just fi ve blocks
from Grand Central
Station, makes an
excellent base for
exploring. It’s got
comfortable apartment-
style rooms; a 24-hour
granola and yoghurt
station, and a rooftop
bar too (above).
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EAT
The Spotted Pig
Nothing says NYC grub
like a burger, and one of
the best in town is found
at Greenwich Village
gastro pub, The Spotted
Pig. The chargrilled-beef
burger is topped with
Roquefort cheese and
served on a brioche bun
with a side of rosemary
shoestring fries.
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DO
The High Line
There’s plenty to do
this month at NYC’s
park built on a disused
railway line – from
stargazing and tai chi
to the magical Up Late
experience on 21 July,
when performers in
illuminated costumes
light up the night. Find
more events online.
thehighline.org
“In sanitation-speak, the objects are ‘mongo’, slang for treasure salvaged from the trash”
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CBS isn’t the only one interested in Molina’s collection. Dr Robin Nagle is an anthropologist who has been working with the DSNY since 2002. She began researching waste for her 2013 book Picking Up – part of which involved time as a sanitation worker – but has since narrowed her focus to the collection. She even ran an NYU course last year on how it could be catalogued. “I’m primarily interested in Nelson’s curatorial and artistic sensibility,” says Nagle. “The beauty of it is the unexpected way in which he has shaped it.”
As much as the garage is a refl ection of the collector’s curatorial eye, it is also a snapshot of the ephemera of American life on Molina’s route, bordered by 96th St to 110th St and 1st Ave to 5th Ave. These objects stand testament to what people value and what they choose to throw out, the lost and forgotten, and the comings and goings of trends – from Tamagotchis, the plastic digital pets that gripped a generation in the ’90s, to Furbys, the bug-eyed robotic toys that followed. There’s a poetry in the objects that Molina chooses to pull out of the trash. Wandering the labyrinthine aisles between his carefully curated tables, it can be diffi cult to imagine just why something has been thrown out – here a collection of Native American beaded necklaces, there a book signed by former First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
As tentative plans are being made to relocate the collection to a permanent, publicly accessible space in coming years (something Nagle acknowledges would be hugely expensive), the NYC Department of Sanitation is hoping to capitalise on that sentiment to help realise its goal of zero waste to landfi lls by 2030. “This is not trash – it can all be reused,” says Nagle. “Nelson’s collection makes you think about what you throw out.”
None of this, however, is what inspired Molina. He simply collects, and doesn’t need to understand why. “I just couldn’t see this stuff going back into the garbage and being broken up. So, I just put it all together and it became this,” he says. “Robin told me I was an artist, but I didn’t see it like that. I’d been doing this for 30 years before it hit me: I’m an artist. I sit down and I don’t know how I put it together. It turned out really good.”Tours of the Trash to Treasure collection are available by appointment only by emailing [email protected]
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This summer, the USA’s
National Parks Service (NPS)
will celebrate its 100th
birthday. Since the service
was founded in 1916, its
parks – 59 and counting –
have played host to hikers,
climbers, skiers and some
of the world’s most hard-
core adventurers who
train and race across their
rugged and varied terrain.
We asked some of these
extreme sportsmen and
women to talk about the
parks that inspire them...
best idea”W o r d s ⁄ G r a e m e G r e e n
Death Valley, California
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“Death Valley is about as far away from Earth as you can get while still being tethered to it. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was here: a skin-searing 56.7oC. The road gets so hot during summer it can melt the soles of your sneakers. Places have names like Dante’s View, Furnace Creek, Devil’s Hole and Stovepipe Wells. It’s not the most inviting place for a run, but a small group of runners take it on every year during the annual Badwater Ultramarathon, a 217km continuous foot race through Death Valley that pits the world’s most extreme athletes against the world’s most extreme elements. From the fi rst time I did it two decades ago, I’ve been captivated by this majestic land. There’s something magical about it, something entirely otherworldly.”
Dean Karnazes is an
American ultramarathon
runner and one of the Top
100 Most Infl uential People
in the World, according to
Time magazine. The bestselling author of
Ultramarathon Man, his feats include
running for 350 continuous miles, and 50
marathons in all 50 US states in 50
consecutive days.
ultramarathonman.com
Stovepipe Wells
Badlands
Death Valley, California
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“As an adventure swimmer, I always look for new places to explore and challenge myself. Canyonlands National Park, with both the Colorado and Green rivers, off ers an incredible landscape of canyons, mesas and buttes. Before the Colorado joins the Green river and goes into Cataract Canyon, there are some wonderful parts to swim. The water is incredibly clean and it off ers a fantastic open-water river-training venue. Quite often, I end up drinking the river as well and I’ve never had any health problems. The Colorado river has been my training venue for the last 10 years and I always fi nd it very inspirational and challenging. I hope other people get inspired by it as well.”
Martin Strel is a Slovenian long-distance swimmer and star of the fi lm Big River Man. He holds Guinness World Records for swimming the entire lengths of the Amazon, Mississippi, Yangtze and Danube rivers. In 2011, he completed his Colorado River Swim challenge for documentary series Stan Lee’s Superhumans. strel-swimming.com
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“Shenandoah National Park is for me often a space of refl ective suff ering, as I’m usually up there grinding out a massive training day, but I’m always glad I made the trip. Part of the charm of its mysterious landscape is that it’s always diff erent. Some days, I climb up through the fog to sapphire blue skies and peaks emerging like green islands in a white sea. Other days, it’s autumn’s splendour, with crimson and gold leaves fl ying. On winter days, the trees are somber and the ripples of the mountains show their true shape with a light dusting of snow. It’s no wonder singer-songwriter John Denver wrote about Shenandoah’s legendary ‘country roads’ in 1971 in his most popular song, Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
Jeremiah Bishop is a
professional bike racer in
cross-country, short-track
and marathon-distance
endurance events. A 14-time
member of the US national cycling team,
he’s represented the country at world
championships and the Pan-American
Games, where he won gold in 2003. He’s
also a member of the Topeak-Ergon
Racing Team, which takes on endurance
races around the world.
jeremiahbishop.com
Shenandoah, Virginia
National Park ranger
Roy Sullivan was hit by
lightning seven times
between 1942 and
1977, earning him the
nickname “human
lightning rod”.
PARK FACT #2
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“Within this park is an ultrarunner’s rite of passage. The Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim is a 77km trek that exposes runners to incredible changes in elevation (6,100m), temperature (up to 47oC) and exposure. My fi rst night inside the National Park, on the eve of my 28th birthday, I stared into the depths and realised our goal of double-crossing the canyon was an intimidating endeavour. We faced intense heat, blew out our quads on the descents, and ran a reverse mountain, climbing to the safety of
the Bright Angel Lodge as our fi nish. Marking my birthday with 28 candles and hundreds of dramatic photos remains a highlight in my career. I’ve run the R2R2R at least four times since that initial visit. I’ve set a Fastest Known Time, as well as hauled out a struggling friend. Each experience puts me in my place, shows me what I’m capable of and, most importantly, increases my respect for what great, wide open spaces off er our personal growth.”
Krissy Moehl is an Amerian
ultramarathon runner, coach, author,
public speaker and race director. In her
16-year career, she’s run more than 100
races, winning at least half, including the
165km Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, and the 160km Ultra
Trail Mont Fuji and Hardrock 100. krissymoehl.com
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PARK FACT #3
The National Parks cover 33.4
million hectares of the USA –
3.6 per cent of its total area.
3.6%
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The deepest lake in the USA
is Crater Lake, Oregon. At
589m, that’s fi ve times the
height of the Statue of Liberty.
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“I fi rst came across Capitol Reef National Park during my 13-year human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. My expectations weren’t high, but the further I got into this little-known 980km2 wilderness ride of twisting canyons, cathedral domes and natural bridges, the more I could feel the prehistoric landscape winding its way
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into my heart. Early visitors clearly felt the same way. Fremont Indians settled along the Fremont river 700 years ago, happily planting fruit trees and leaving intricate petroglyphs on the surrounding cliff s, followed by 19th-century Mormon pioneers.”
Jason Lewis is a British explorer and the fi rst person in history to circle the Earth using only human power: kayaking, biking, pedalling a tiny boat and rollerblading. The 74,842km journey took 13 years to
complete, with a crocodile attack, pirates, two broken legs and four Guinness World Records along the way. He’s also an author and motivational speaker.
jasonexplorer.com
PARK FACT #4
Cathedral Valley
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In 1914, a millionaire
industrialist by the
name of Stephen
Mather was disturbed
by the state of
America’s few National
Parks. Despite the fact
that Yellowstone had
been designated as
the fi rst National Park
in 1872, there was no
organisation devoted
to caring for them.
Mather experienced
manic depression and
often looked for solace
in the great outdoors,
but found the ill-kempt
state of the parks
upsetting. He wrote a
letter to the Secretary
of the Interior, to
complain about their
neglect. It’s said he
received the reply,
“If you don’t like what
we’re doing, come and
do it better yourself.”
He made his way to
Washington and spent
his own money on
hiring staff and buying
new land for the parks.
In 1916, he helped to
create the bill that
mandated the National
Parks Service.
Under his stewardship,
the number of parks
grew from 14 to 20,
and when he died, the
Parks Service erected
plaques in every one of
them with the words:
“There will never come
an end to the good
that he has done.”
“Yosemite is unique in the world. From the towering sequoia trees through the tranquil backcountry to the impressive size of El Capitán in Yosemite Valley, there’s something spectacular for anyone who goes there. As a climber, the sweeping granite walls are my favourite thing here. The cracks soar to the sky,
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a small weakness that allows passage. When I’m there, I discover the intricacies of the rock and, in doing so, I learn a bit more about myself. There isn’t a climber in the world that hasn’t heard about Half Dome. If gravity is your calling, then Yosemite is a ‘must do’ on the bucket list of life.”
Conrad Anker is an American rock
climber, mountaineer and author. He’s
famous for his ascents in the High
Himalayas and Antarctica, as well as climbs
across the US. He’s also team leader of the
North Face climbing team. conradanker.com
The birth of
a great idea
Half Dome Stephen Mather
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“Yellowstone has dramatic, epic scenery and incredible numbers of animals in abundance, including wolves, bison, elk and bears. What’s more, the whole place has the fragility that comes from being placed right over the top of one of the largest volcanic zones in the world. Yellowstone represents everything about nature in the modern world: stunningly beautiful, yet teetering on the edge of existence. It always reminds me we have to make the most of the now because you never know how long everything sticks around for – before you know, it might all be too late.”
Ed Farrelly is a British mountaineer and
adventurer who has climbed some of the
biggest mountains in the world, including
Baruntse (7,129m) in Nepal, Aconcagua
(6,961m) in Argentina and Khan Tengri
(7,010m), Kyrgyzstan, as well as rafting the Grand Canyon
and completing the Mongol Rally. In 2012, Farrelly ranked
sixth in a list of the 20 most-seasoned adventurers,
explorers and expedition leaders in Men’s Fitness. edfarrelly.com
Yellowstone, Wyoming, Montana & Idaho
Death Valley is two hours’ drive from Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon one hour from Las Vegas; Shenandoah is two hours from Baltimore/ Washington; and Yosemite three hours from Oakland-San Francisco. Book Norwegian fl ights, a hotel and a rental car at norwegian.com
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The beating art of the bayOakland has been touted as the new creative hub of the Bay Area, but in fact there’s been an exciting art scene in the city for decades
O n the corner of Alice Street and
14th Street in downtown
Oakland, a once grey and
unassuming carpark has been
given a new lease of life. Thanks
to a two-year effort by the Community
Rejuvenation Project (CRP), vibrant murals now
cover the walls, overwhelming them with colour.
Some of the city’s most signifi cant cultural
fi gures, such as percussionist CK Ledzepko and
actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, are depicted
larger than life, with the words ‘love arts music’
emblazoned proudly above them.
These murals are a concrete example of what
has been happening to Oakland of late. The
Californian city is experiencing something of a
renaissance, while still holding on tightly to its
rich and diverse roots. After all, it has for a long
time been one of the most ethnically diverse
cities in the US, and it’s this huge mix of cultures
that gives it its edge.
It’s little wonder, then, that this waterside
metropolis has long had a thriving arts scene,
which has continued to grow and evolve. Today
Oakland is arguably the creative hub of the Bay
Area, dubbed one of America’s ‘most creative
cities’ by Forbes. And that doesn’t just mean
painters – there’s an abundance of dancers,
sculptors, glass-blowers, actors and musicians
of every kind.
Clockwise from
above⁄ Bandaloop at
the Oakland Art and Soul
Festival; Movers and
shakers of the Oakland
Ballet; Visitors enjoy an art
exhibition during the Art
Murmur; part of the Alice
Street Mural
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PICTURE THIS
Oakland’s galleries span the genres from
industrial to modern art. The Oakland Art Murmur
(oaklandartmurmur.org) is an organisation that
works to connect and sustain the city’s visual-
arts culture. During its free monthly gallery walk,
member galleries and mixed-use venues are open
to the public. Many hold artists’ receptions – a great
way to get a fl avour for what each has to offer.
If looking at art isn’t your thing, you can try
your hand at making some at The Crucible
(thecrucible.org), an artist collective known for
one-of-a-kind industrial arts education and
performances. There are classes on glassblowing,
ceramics and blacksmithing, among a whole host
of other things you never thought you’d try. The
American Steel Studios, where industrial artists
can rent affordable work spaces, can be equally
bizarre. Some weird and wonderful works have
been produced here, including art cars created
for the Burning Man festival.
LET THE MUSIC PLAY
Oakland is full of top-notch music venues
too – only to be expected in the hometown of
legendary 90s hip-hop artist MC Hammer. The
Fox Theater (thefoxoakland.com) gets big-name
performers like Bob Dylan, Kendrick Lamar,
and Sam Smith, while the Paramount Theatre
(paramounttheatre.com) hosts both well-known
and up-and-coming entertainers. The beautiful
Art Deco building also plays host to the Oakland
Ballet and Symphony. Like your music a bit
rougher? Despite what its name might have
you believe, the Oakland Metro Operahouse
(oaklandmetro.org) puts on raucous hardcore,
punk and metal shows.
DANCE, DANCE
Naturally, where there’s music, people will dance,
and Oaklanders have been grooving on down for
years. Turfi ng, for example, is a style of dance that
originated in the city in the late 90s, and has made
its way from inner-city Oakland into the public eye.
Bandaloop is another popular dance company
based in Oakland. While Turfi ng mixes mime,
contortion and general popping and locking,
Bandaloop (bandaloop.org) performs an aerial
dance that explores the relationship between
movement and gravity. If you fancy giving it a try,
Bandaloop offers workshops for all levels.
New dance styles and groups continue to pop
up across Oakland, and the city’s many venues
and festivals give ample opportunity for them
to show their stuff. One such group is Mix’d
Ingrdnts, an all-female, multi-genre, multi-
ethnic dance crew, set up with an aim of female
empowerment in the dance world – yet another
sign that Oakland’s creative spirit is still alive
and well.
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HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO SAVE A DOG’S LIFE? According to Chrissy Beckles (right), who runs Puerto Rico’s The Sato Project, the magic number is US$1,000 (NOK8,220). That’s the price of taking an animal from the island’s notorious Dead Dog Beach, getting it vetted, vaccinated, neutered, microchipped, and then transporting it to a loving family in the mainland USA. Over the last ten years, Beckles has helped to save more than 1,500 animals here. Now she’s set her sights on an even more diffi cult task: educating the next generation …W o r d s ⁄ S a r a h W a r w i c k � P h o t o g r a p h y ⁄ R a l p h Q u i n o n e z
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MARBELLA PROPERTY: AN INFORMED CHOICE
Swedish-owned firm WASA Real Estate, established in 1982, specialises in both new
and re-sale properties in the Nueva Andalucia, Puerto Banús, Marbella and San Pedro
area.The company offers a professional, personal service in numerous languages to help
clients make a well-informed choice of property. Wasa Real Estate also provides a helpful
after-sales service. The large number of client referrals the company receives, even years
down the line, is testament to its great advice and professional service. Welcome!
+34 952 818 000 | [email protected] | www.wasa.es
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No one can agree on how many beaches Puerto Rico has, but some say it’s as many as 1,200. There are sunbathing
beaches, city beaches, deserted island beaches, watersport beaches…
But of all the island’s white-sanded, palm-fringed stretches, there’s one you’ll fi nd in few guidebooks. Playa Lucía, in the poor, south-eastern province of Yabucoa, is known to locals as Playa de los Perros Muerto – or Dead Dog Beach – for the hundreds of ill-treated dogs that end up here. Some are dumped; some wander in. Most will end their days here in hunger and disease.
Or at least, that was the picture 10 years ago, when Chrissy Beckles fi rst came here to visit her husband, who was a stuntman on location.
“He called me before I got there and said, ‘You’re going to freak out when you see the dogs here,’” she remembers. She was indeed shocked by the conditions of those she encountered. “They were emaciated, mangey, and just looking for the tiniest amount of love and attention.”
While it would have been easy to look away, Beckles spent the week
1500dogs saved
feeding, watering and petting these dogs, and she was determined not to forget what she’d seen. “When I got back to New York I spent three hours planning.” Over the next few years she went back and forth to the island many times, during holidays from her job as a marketing consultant.
Between trips she lobbied friends to raise funds to pay for vet servicesand adoption. As an amateur »
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Scrappy, one of The
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Scrappy and Beckles;
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16boxer, she even used her bouts to raise money, under posters proclaiming: “We fi ght, so dogs don’t have to.”
In 2009 she returned to the island with her husband, who was fi lming The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp, and spent a week out on Dead Dog Beach. “When Johnny and the crew found out, they helped me raise the money to rescue 16 dogs in a week.” It was a turning point for the New Yorker. “I sat at the bar at the end of the week and said to my husband, ‘I think I want to quit my job and do this full time.’ He said, ‘OK. Just don’t mess it up.’”
Fast forward to today and her charity The Sato Project, named after the local term for street dogs, has so far rescued more than 1,500 animals, at a cost of around US$1,000 (NOK8,220) each. Each one that is taken from Dead Dog Beach is put through what Beckles describes as an “exceptional vetting programme”, including neutering, vaccination and microchipping. They are then fl own up to adoptive families in the States, who are vetted almost as thoroughly as the dogs. “We won’t give them to just anyone,” says Beckles. “We want someone who will love them forever.”
Down on Playa Lucia today, the results are impressive. While when she
fi rst came here there were 100s of strays, on most days now, “you won’t see a single dog”. She puts this down to her concerted plan to focus the charity’s eff orts entirely on this one beach.
Now, however, she’s widening its scope with new community-based projects in the Yabacoa region. Joining with a local vet who has a neuter van, and with the approval of the area’s mayor, Rafael Surillo, The Sato Project is going out into the wider community to vaccinate, spay-neuter and microchip local dogs. The charity will also issue vouchers underwriting the costs of the same services to local villagers, and fi t special collars on street
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dogs they have treated but cannot aff ord to rescue. “The mayor is very hopeful that a lot of these dogs will then be adopted by members of the community, as they will know they’re healthy,” she explains.
Although these projects should reach an additional 900 dogs a year, on an island like Puerto Rico, where there are an estimated 250,000-300,000 satos, it’s just a drop in the ocean. Beckles’ biggest priority is “changing the perception and the cultural issues”. She’s actively involved in community outreach, particularly in schools.
The aim is to teach kids, who “grow up seeing dogs on the street and no one doing anything”, the importance
of humane animal treatment, ownership, and responsibility. Some of the high-school students she’s spoken to now even volunteer for the project, giving hope that the next generation will have a new attitude.
It is, as she says, a “huge undertaking for such a tiny organisation”, but Beckles is determined to carry on fi ghting for the dogs of Puerto Rico. “With the greatest will in the world, I’m never going to be able to rescue them all,” she says. But that’s not going to stop her trying.
thesatoproject.org
Norwegian fl ies to Puerto Rico from four destinations. Book fl ights, a hotel and a rental car at norwegian.com
Norwegian
in the
Caribbean
St Croix
One of the US Virgin
Islands, St Croix has also
been Spanish, Dutch,
British, French, Danish
and Maltese. A melting
pot of cultures, it’s
got plenty of historical
places of interest and is
excellent for diving, too.
Martinique
As if the sun, sea, sand
and spirits (usually rum)
aren’t enough, the
island’s French heritage
has gifted a delicious
fusion cuisine, with
dishes such as fricassée
de chatrou (octopus
stew) and lambi (grilled
conch).
Guadeloupe
Known to its native
people as Karukera – the
place of beautiful waters
– this archipelago of
fi ve tropical islands is a
paradise for all kinds of
watery adventures, from
climbing inland waterfalls
to jet-skiing.
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A Puerto Rican beach; the
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Here are some once-in-a-lifetime adventures to add to your bucket list
bucket listThe ultimate
Live like royaltyKOKKEDAL CASTLE COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
We’ve all looked at the kings and queens of the world and thought ‘I’d like to give that a go’. A stay at Kokkedal Castle Copenhagen gives you the opportunity. Housed in an 18th-century castle in Copenhagen’s countryside (30 minutes from the city), this hotel invites guests to enjoy its expansive grounds with activities such as yoga and biking. For those looking to be totally pampered, the Kokkedal Castle Spa by Sodashi is unrivalled – it was awarded Spa of the Year at the Danish Beauty Awards 2016. � +45 44 22 80 00 � kokkedalslotcopenhagen.dk
Solve the ultimate puzzleAMAZED GAMES, FINLAND
There’s a new craze taking over Finland and all you need to get involved is your imagination. At aMazed Games, which is rated number one in TripAdvisor’s Fun & Games in Helsinki list, you and your team are challenged to escape a room full of puzzles and locks in just 60 minutes. No prior experience or knowledge is required, but it helps to keep your wits about you and not lose track of time (easier said than done). Games are available in Finnish and English. � +358 44 977 41 55 � amazed.fi
Save the world ESCAPE ROOM, FINLAND
Grab three friends and put your minds to the test at Escape Room Helsinki. Seven challenges await you, each with unique stories and mysteries to solve. One to cross off your bucket list is Cosmos, the world’s fi rst virtual-reality escape room.
Strap on a pair of Oculus Rift VR glasses and dive into a deep-space adventure, where you and your team have 60 minutes to
work together and save planet Earth from destruction.Alhough you’ll be seated during the challenge, through the
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Become a twitcher LOFOTEN RAFTING, NORWAY
The Lofoten Islands are famous for their huge eagle population, and there’s no better place to observe our feathered friends than from the sea. Lofoten Rafting is an unforgettable journey through the Islands’ nature and culture. Package and custom-made tours are available, with guides so knowledgeable they’re able to fi nd birds on almost every trip – tours will even bring along a treat to tempt any shy eagles as close to the boat as possible. The rafting trips are available all year round, so it’s never too late to go on an adventure. � +47 921 15 700 � lofoten-rafting.no
Express yourself DESIGN MUSEUM, FINLAND
The spirit of expression is alive and well at Finland’s Design Museum, where the works of design innovator Eerio Aarnio are on display. Delve into the history of Aarnio’s work, from the stylish furniture and lamps of the 1950s to his unique, modern one-off s, and explore the underlying process of the design industry.
In a Post-modern twist, the museum itself shows off an experimental streak, launching a new type of mobile architecture. Robotic stands constantly move the exhibits around the museum, creating a continuously moving exhibition space. � +358 9 6220 540 � designmuseum.fi
Spend time in a Sámi goahtiTROMSØ UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, NORWAY
Make sure to step inside a goahti turf hut at least once in your life. The traditional homesteads of the indigenous inhabitants of northern Scandinavia, these huts are full of Sámi history. That’s why Tromsø University Museum has opened a goahti to the public from 15 June to 15 August. Venture inside, where you can sit on reindeer hides and enjoy a free cup of coff ee and reindeer meat, while the museum host talks about Sámi life past and present. You’ll also get the opportunity to practice your lasso, a skill formerly used in reindeer herding. � +47 77 64 50 01 � uit.no/tmu
Visit the home of a famous painterMUNCH’S HOUSE, NORWAY
You’ve got to be pretty special for your house to be turned into a museum. It’s a select group that includes Charles Dickens, Monet and also the famous painter Edvard Munch. The latter kept this property, fi rst bought in 1898, until his death in 1944. Three years later, it was opened as a museum in honour of his life and work. The house was an inspiration to him, and its tranquil surroundings gave him peace of mind. Make sure you visit and fi nd out why. � vestfoldmuseene.no � munchshus.no
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Finding mastodons in sinkholes? Playing shuffleboard with grannies? Eating like a cowboy? You must be in the Sunshine State
By Norwegian
Florida
The souvenir VINTAGE POSTER
Visitors have been coming to Florida for sun, sea and sand for more than 100 years, leaving behind them a rich vein of travel adverts
and promotional posters. Choose your favourite Art Nouveau-style lithograph or 1960s airline map at one of the shops along Florida
Antique Trail for the ultimate in kitsch mementoes. Or find replicas, like this one, at WhiteOneSugar’s Etsy shop (from 100NOK).
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� Florida is known as the USA’s Sunshine State
� With 20 million people, it’s the third most-populous
US state after California and Texas
� Visitors are never more than 100km from the beach
� Norwegian fl ies to Orlando from three destinations,
and to Fort Lauderdale-Florida, next to Miami, from fi ve
The basics
The postcard THE EVERGLADES
This area of wetlands, spread over a massive, swampy 6,100km2, is a unique habitat for unusual, endangered flora and fauna, as well as manatees, river otters and flamingoes. Explore its many waterways by airboat or, for total immersion, take an eight-day paddle along the 160km Wilderness Waterway. florida-everglades.com
The key areas
Florida
The Panhandle
At almost a right angle to the
rest of the state, this north-
west portion is home to the
state capital, Tallahassee, and
the so-called Emerald Coast
along the Gulf of Mexico, which
is popular with Spring Breakers
and golfers. Panama City Beach
is the biggest resort.
Central Florida
Known for “thrills ’n’ spills”,
central Florida doesn’t just
have the Disney World, Epcot
and SeaWorld theme parks, but
Legoland, Busch Gardens and
Universal Studios, too. The two
main resports, Orlando and
Kissimmee, have plenty more
to offer families too.
Gulf Coast
If one thinks of Florida’s shape
as a foot en pointe, then
the Gulf Coast – 340km of
white-sand, palm-tree fringed
beaches – stretches all the
way from the heel (Tampa) to
the pointed toe (Naples). This
area’s more relaxed, castaway
feel makes it particularly
popular for “fl op ’n’ drop”
holidays and weddings.
Miami
In a game of poker, this city
would see the rest of the
state’s beaches, food and
entertainment, and raise them
Art Deco architecture,
grade-A nightlife at club LIV
and a hip-swinging Cuban vibe.
So much fun, Will Smith
wrote a song about it.
The Keys
Down to the far south,
this string of sun-drenched
islands might well be in the
Caribbean. From Key Largo to
Key West, the archipelago is
united by the unlikely Overseas
Highway (a motorway that
seems at points to be fl oating),
Hemingway-era drinking dens
and deep-sea fi shing.
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Florida is the world’s number one place for sinkholes, especially around
Tampa, where one tri-county area is known as “Sinkhole Alley”. Until
recently this was seen as an entirely bad thing – particularly for the houses,
cars and occasional people who got sucked into them – but it’s also helped
clear up a prehistoric mystery. This April, an archaeologist discovered
evidence in one that man had lived here, owned dogs and hunted mastodon
up to 14,500 years ago – 1,500 years earlier than was originally thought.
Mastodons in “Sinkhole Alley”
The face THE FASHION POET
Born-and-bred Miamian Annie Vazquez is on a mission to spread positivity in her plastic-surgery loving hometown: “Miami can be a challenge for women who are insecure,” she says, explaining her motivation to set up lifestyle blog The Fashion Poet. “It’s about supporting women, embracing the body and being natural.” She took time out from the crusade to share her favourite Miami must-dos.
thefashionpoet.com
EAT“Joe’s Stone Crab is
legendary down here. The crabs are so delicious that people get them fl own to
other states, and everything else is delicious too.”
joesstonecrab.com
SHOP“Thanks to Art Basel,
Wynwood has become the really hip area, with cool bars, street art and great
boutiques.” wynwoodmiami.com
RELAX“I love the spa at the
Eden Roc Hotel. That place has the best massages – you come out a whole
new person.” edenrocmiami.com
SEE THE SUNSET“Miami’s so flat that you
can see great sunsets pretty much everywhere, but I really love the view
from Dinner Quay Marina in Coconut Grove.” coconutgrove.com
The idea EDIBLE SIX-PACK RING
Plastic rings from six-packs are said to kill more than one million ocean birds, marine mammals and sea turtles each year, as the animals accidentally swallow them or get tangled up. So it’s great news that Saltwater Brewery in Florida has produced a biodegradable, edible six-pack ring, made from the by-products of the brewing process. We’re not sure we’re up for eating one though. saltwaterbrewery.com
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Although the University of Bergen was only founded in 1946, the University
Museum of Bergen has been around for more than a century longer. Situated
on campus, it houses some of the largest cultural exhibitions in Norway,
including displays on Norwegian traditional costumes, the Viking Age
and religious art. Surrounding the museum are beautiful grounds, formerly
a botanical garden used for research, teaching, and the development of new species. Today it’s a great place to sit with a coffee from the museum café.
+47 555 893 60, uib.no
The University Museum of Bergen
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Celebrating its 450th birthday last September, San Augustine is the
longest continuously occupied, European-established settlement in
America. Its most famous building, Flagler College, was once the Hotel
Ponce de León, one of the earliest buildings in the US to have electricity.
Dedicated staff were hired to turn lights on for nervous guests, who
included Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt and Somerset Maugham. staugustinegovernment.com
The USA’s oldest city
The stayEAST MIAMI
A fi rst US opening for Hong Kong’s Swire chain, East is a new multiplatform, downtown hotel that’s clearly done its market research. Business types will love conference rooms with 270o views; foodies are guaranteed to swoon for on-trend Uruguayan restaurant, Parador La Huella; and the chain’s 24-hour gym, “Beast” (Body at East), will keep Muscle Marys happy, too. east-miami.com
2. MAKO
A 70m drop and 117kph top
speed mean this shark-
themed ride at SeaWorld
is now the fastest, longest
roller coaster in Orlando.
Just when you thought
it was safe...
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3. FROZEN EVER AFTER
Opened last month
at Epcot’s Norwegian
Pavilion, this water
ride and accompanying
Elsa-and-Anna Meet
and Greet will thrill
Frozen fans.
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4. SKULL ISLAND
Everything about this King
Kong-themed adventure is
on a giant scale, from the
25m safari vehicles to its
stars - dinosaurs as well
as the famous ape. Not for
those who scare easily.
universalorlando.com
1. COBRA’S CURSE
The latest coaster from
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
sends riders forwards,
backwards and then
spinning, all under the
watchful metre-wide eyes
of a giant serpent.
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The kids NEW THEME PARKS
This summer there’s more for little ones as four new rides open for the first time…
The nicknameSUNSHINE STATE
Despite the name, Florida isn’t actually the sunniest place in the States. That prize goes to Yuma in Arizona, followed by Redding, CA, and then Las Vegas. The top Floridan spot – Key West - comes all the way down in 12th. Given that the state does come top for beaches, perhaps a better name might be ‘Beachiest State’?
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Identified by their pastel tracksuits, neatly set hair and fanny packs, the
over-seventies are in the majority here, as Florida is the number one
retirement destination in the US. This demographic quirk has its upsides:
early-bird dinner offers; shuffleboard (practically the state sport: try it
at the well-lit courts at North Shore Park in Miami Beach); and plenty of
after-lunch naps. Oh, and pick up a copy of Early Bird, the story of one
twenty-something’s holiday in a Boca Raton retirement village.
Retirement holiday?
The cuisine AUTHENTIC CRACKER FOOD
After self-confessed “history geek” Greg Baker became fascinated with Florida’s early cattle-ranching settlers (known as “crackers” due to the sound of their whips), he wanted to set up a restaurant that faithfully recreated their cuisine. “Modern convenience foods mean people in Florida have lost touch with what they used to eat,” says the chef, who established Fodder & Shine in Tampa late last year. He now spends his days hunting out authentic heritage strains of oranges, tomatoes and beef – “there’s a large amount of fact checking” – and introducing diners to forgotten dishes such as pulu, “like a paella”, and sour orange pie, a precursor to the more familiar key lime. Not just a meal but a history lesson, too. fodderandshine.com
Florida has earned the nickname Hollywood East, thanks to the number of fi lms and TV shows that are fi lmed here, so make a pilgrimage to your favourite...
MIAMI VICE
Shot on location in Miami’s South Beach area, the show turned the lounge suit into an unlikely style icon and inspired the restoration of the area’s delapidated Art Deco buildings. Find the original cop shop on the corner of SW 7th St and SW 2nd Ave. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
The house featured in Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s best collaboration can still be found in Lutz, a small suburb north of Tampa. As in the movie, snow here is rare, thanks to a subtropical climate.
BLOODLINE
Those enjoying series two of the Florida Keys-set thriller on Netfl ix will no doubt be equally thrilled to visit real-life, bungalow-style Rayburn house at The Moorings Village & Spa, Islamorada.
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CSI: MIAMI
Eager to sink a few cold ones in Horatio Caine’s favourite bar? Well you’re out of luck. Despite the crime series’ name, except for a few establishing shots, the whole production was put together in California. Booooo!
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Education section
The call of hospitalityHeadhunters are looking out for those with interpersonal skills and a talent for business
The tourism industry is a
thriving concern around
the world – it currently
accounts for 9% of global
GDP. It’s generating more
and more job opportunities each year
around the world.
Spain has produced industry leaders
for more than 20 years, and Les Roches
Marbella University is one of the best
places you can study. Located in Marbella,
the university focuses on the human
aspect of hotel management, reminding
its students that the hospitality industry
is, at its core, all about serving people. Les
Roches Marbella is truly an international
institution, with a student body of 74
nationalities fi lling the halls – ranked
number one in Spain and the third highest
in the world for an international career.
An average of 1,000 students attend Les
Roches Marbella each year. They have
the option to study for Bachelor’s
degrees with four specialisations to
choose from: entrepreneurship, human
resources, events and resorts, or to take
postgraduate courses in international
hotel management or marketing
management for luxury tourism. Aside
from classrooms that are equipped with
the latest technology, the campus has lush
gardens, several restaurants and sports
facilities. Les Roches Marbella prides itself
on having a unique focus on practical
learning; thanks to the reputation it
has built in its 65-year history within
the industry, undergraduates receive
on-the-job training as well as academic
lessons. Students may fi nd themselves
on internships at some of the most
recognised hotels worldwide, including
the Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons Hotel,
Sheraton, Hilton and many more.
Le Roches Marbella’s reputation also
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headhunters. On average, each Les
Roches Marbella graduate receives 4.7 job
offers to join the world’s best hotel chains.
It could be the perfect starting point to
kickstart your career in one of the world’s
biggest industries.
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The American dream Studying in the US is a dream for many, but getting there can seem out of reach. ACN gives a helping hand
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The number of fi lms and TV shows
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when you live halfway across the world.
Enter the American College of Norway (ACN).
Based in the coastal town of Moss, it’s a private
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Students can choose to go to any university,
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These will accept any ACN student upon successful
completion of the one-year programme.
ACN takes just 100 students each year. “Our goal
is not to be a big school,” says Lauritzen. “It means
we can give each student the help they need.”
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WATCH OUT FOR TRIWA
TRIWA was founded in 2007 by four friends who wanted to change the perception of watches from status symbols to style symbols. All of TRIWA’s products are designed at the brand’s creative studio in Stockholm. Blue is one of the themes for its AW16 collection, used to provide stand-out details, like this bold sub dial on the Blue Eye Falken. Its organic brown leather strap from Tärnsjö serves to enhance the Klein blue colour. Buy online at triwa.com or at the fl agship store in Stockholm (Grev Turegatan 13).
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STYLE AND SUBSTANCE
Oppermann London creates luxury leather goods, inspired by Swedish minimalism with a twist of London style.
Each product is built to last, handmade in Italy using Swedish and Italian natural leathers. The company is infl uenced by architecture, utilising clean lines and geometric shapes to make items with a focus on function, simplicity and style. Selling exclusively through its own webshop, Oppermann London’s products are also surprisingly aff ordable.
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FIND YOUR FEMININITY WITH EMMY
High-waisted trousers, full skirts, quirky knits – Swedish fashion brand Emmy is all about femininity and retro-style clothing, inspired by past eras from the 1930s to the 1960s. Despite the vintage feel of her collections, owner and designer Emmy Nilsson strives to ensure garments can be combined with more modern pieces too. “My designs are for everyone. You don’t need to have victory rolls and red lipstick, although this works well too,” she says.
The feminine silhouettes and a focus on making well-fi tting garments means the clothes fl atter any shape and are extremely comfortable too. Emmy even makes its clothes in 10 diff erent
sizes, ensuring a great fi t for all. What’s the point of looking good if you don’t feel it?
Emmy has designed a stunning new collection for the summer season. This time it’s 40s inspired and based on themes such as tennis and travel. The lighter fabrics are ideal for the warmer months.
Online, you can fi nd a list of Emmy stockists, as well as peruse and purchase current and previous collections.
+46 70 286 95 37, emmydesign.se
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SCAN SAT
Scan Sat is a network for phone, TV and internet, with coverage from Benidorm to La Manga del Mar Menor, including Torrevieja. It off ers packages that cater to personal needs. Popular possibilities are mobile plans with national and international calls; Total Package British TV, which includes a 5Mb Internet connection, a phone with international calls and 21 HD British TV channels; and Total Package Scandinavian + British TV, comprising the same as the latter but with 58 HD Scandinavian and British TV channels.
+34 865 66 18 18, scansat-network.net, [email protected]
DEN NORSKE SKOLE GRAN CANARIA The approved Norwegian private school in Gran Canaria prides itself on a healthy environment, safe learning facilities and educational excellence. Its students range across school years 1-13, incorporating primary and secondary learning in one place. The glowing student recommendations are testament to the school’s welcoming nature. Staff even help arrange contact with host families for foreign students. As a dyslexia-friendly school, classes are small, with highly qualifi ed teachers, and it provides a great opportunity to learn Spanish.
colegio.no
KEMPINSKI HOTEL BAHÍA
If you’re looking to escape the crowds and fi nd a little piece of paradise, the Kempinski Hotel Bahía has everything you need. Located close to Estepona and just a 15-minute drive from Marbella and Puerto Banus, this is pure relaxation at its best. Sub-tropical gardens, a superb choice of dining venues, three swimming pools and a luxury treatment spa will leave you feeling refreshed, with the state-of-the-art-gym and a dedicated golf concierge completing the package for any fi tness fanatics in the family.
Carretera de Cádiz, 29680 Estepona, kempinski.com/estepona
LES CUBES
This chic restaurant is situated on the Milla de Oro stretch of Marbella. It’s renowned for its spectacular sea views and consists of three rooms, one cocktail bar and a cellar stocked with more than 275 types of wine. The restaurant off ers high quality local and international cuisine. Parking is free, and you can show your boarding card to receive a 10% discount. Make sure you don’t miss out on Les Cubes’ live jazz experience, every Friday night.
Urb.Oasis Club CN340, KM183, Marbella, +34 952 868 396
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FROM STEREOSCOPES TO SELFIES Preus Museum, Norway’s national museum of photography, is the place for fascinating exhibitions and events. This summer, ‘The Edvard Munch/Experiments’ joins the line up, showcasing Munch’s creative way of working and how he formed his ideas for both painting and photography.
You can also check out ‘A History Of Photography’, an exhibition detailing how developments in the photographic process have shaped how we take pictures and what we take pictures of.
+47 33 03 16 30, preusmuseum.no
NOW THAT’S ART
The Nordenfj eldske Kunstindustrimuseum’s extensive collection of works features Baroque silverworks, two custom-designed offi ce interiors by Henry van de Velde and Finn Juhl, and Norwegian contemporary craft. This summer you can see the tapestries of Hannah Ryggen, returned to the museum’s permanent collection after a year on loan to large retrospective exhibitions, as well as True Blue, an exhibition that celebrates the visual language of blue and white (pictured).
+47 738 089 50, nkim.no
MUSICAL HISTORY TOUR Formally the home of composer Edvard Grieg, Troldhaugen in Bergen is now a living museum, comprised of an exhibition centre and concert hall. Music-history fans will want to check out Grieg’s villa, which dates back to 1885, where Grieg composed many of his best-known works. Every day at 1pm the museum hosts a concert, with Norway’s best pianists playing a number of his most famous compositions, a unique experience which combines the beauty of Grieg’s music and the environment outside.
troldhaugen.com
UNDER THE NORTHERN LIGHTS While most modern conference centres are stylish, this one really stands out. Located above the Arctic Circle, under the aurora borealis, the Sámi Cultural Centre is a testament to the creativity of the Sámi, and is the largest events venue in northern Lapland. The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art tech, features activities such as husky safaris, and you can visit the Sámi Parliament hall too. It can be found in the heart of Sápmi, surrounded by a beautiful natural landscape, ideal for enjoying some peace and quiet.
sajos.fi
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SCANDINAVIAN BUTIK
No need to fi ll the suitcase with all your favourite food, candy and design after a trip to Norway, Sweden or Denmark – US-based food service, scandinavian butik, is here to lighten the load. It’s the most convenient way to stock up on a huge range of cheeses, meats, breads and condiments, as well as local favourites such as Anthon Berg chocolate and Haribo, both in-store and online. It also carries gifts from some of Scandinavia’s best design brands, including Stelton, Normann Copenhagen, Ekelund and more.
349 Main Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851, scandinavianbutik.com
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Everybody wants to get fi t and healthy, but lets face it – cutting out our favourite foods is absolutely rubbish. So thank goodness for Meal My Day, a new way of dieting brought to you by Sini and Tuukka Linjala, who have realised the key to successful weight loss is to continue to eat the food that you like.
Meal My Day isn’t about starving yourself, it’s about adding some vegetables and a bit of open-mindedness to your plate. The Linjalas’ aim is to show that it’s possible to eat healthily and still love every bite. Meal My Day shows how easy that is. Its 30 ready-made diet plans, all created by personal trainers, are available to subscribers.
More than 800 healthy homemade recipes are featured on the website, along with a shopping list for every week, so the whole family can enjoy healthy (and, more importantly, delicious) meals.
Getting to grips with Meal My Day is easy. Step one, create your profi le. Step two, plan your perfect diet and see the nutritional value of your food. Step three, tuck in and enjoy your meal.
It’s the perfect recipe for feeling good – eat your favourite meals and feel no regrets afterwards.
+358 40 645 4033, mealmyday.com
FLORIDA MAGIC When it comes to holiday homes, Orlando reigns supreme, as thousands of people from Norway and wider Europe hunt for places in the Sunshine State. The Jerry Barker Group has an excellent reputation, helping hundreds of clients purchase a new or resale vacation home in the area. Holiday homes are supposed to help you unwind, so Jerry Barker takes care of all the stressful work, helping you to fi nd the best locations, negotiate the best price and sort all aspects of buying and ownership.
+1 407 286 8170, jerrybarker.com
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GET READY FOR YOUR HOLIDAY
For many of us, holiday preparation means choosing which museums to visit and deciding whether we need to pack that tenth pair of shoes. According to the Ministry for Foreign Aff airs in Sweden, however, it ought to involve a lot more than that.Patric Nilsson at the Ministry explains why it’s important to organise insurance, buy return tickets and fi nd out what’s happening in your destination before getting on the plane.
“People have to be aware that everything that happens at home can happen when you travel, but the circumstances can be very diff erent when you’re on a trip,” says Nilsson. “When
Swedish citizens are at home in Sweden, for example, they’re entitled to medical care, but abroad it can be very expensive.”
In an eff ort to reach young travellers, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Aff airs released UD Resklar in 2011, an app that provides easily accessible travel information (in Swedish) for Swedish citizens going abroad. Users can input their passport, visa and insurance details for safekeeping, as well as those of their emergency contact.
ud.se/resklar
CURE YOUR SHYNESS Anxiety can often result in the avoidance of social situations, aff ecting your ability to develop relationships and progress at work. Though it can seem like a problem for life, social phobia can be treated with Sympatix’s endoscopic sympathetic block – a drug-free day surgical procedure. Academic studies have demonstrated the procedure’s eff ectiveness in combating the psychological feeling of anxiety. The block can also help address stuttering, trembling and blushing.
+358 50 67222, con sympatix.fi , [email protected]
BECOME YOUR OWN DERMATOLOGIST
Do you have a rash, bumps or a strange spot but never really have the time to get it checked out by a dermatologist? With the First Derm app, you can get advice remotely. Just take two pictures and describe your problem, and within hours you’ll receive advice from a board-certifi ed dermatologist. If needed, First Derm can get you a quick face-to-face appointment, but in 70% of cases all that’s needed is prescription-free medication from a pharmacy. The service is available in six languages and is compatible with iOS and Android. fi rstderm.com
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Promotion
TvåSmåSvin (Two Small Pigs)
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
This tavern, in the Årsta district,
specialises in open sandwiches, Czech beer and the Scandinavian
spirit, Aquavit. Its interior is heavily infl uenced by Danish and
Czech design – think patterned tiles, leather sofas and high stools,
all accompanied by marble and glass lamps, as well as a well-
stocked bar. The tavern was opened in 2014 by Jimmy Nygren
and Kalle Olofsson, who both found inspiration in the traditional
Danish open sandwich, smørrebrød. On these you’ll fi nd everything
from pickled herring to pork; from raw beef to fresh beets.
� Årstavägen 49, 12054 Årsta � +46 08 722 75 20
� tvasmasvin.se � [email protected]
PaleetOSLO, NORWAY
The only bad thing
about eating at Paleet,
Oslo’s newest destination
for fashion, food and lifestyle
is that there’s too much choice.
Visit Sabaki if you fancy sushi,
sashimi and maki – or if you
feel like trying Robbatayaki or
Teppanyaki. There’s also Public
Matpub, a gastropub offering
a selection of micro-brewed
beer, while Pizza Crudo offers
authentic Neapolitan pizza
cooked from a wood-fi red
oven. Continental café The
Room serves a range of hand-
brewed coffee, and spice fans
can visit Taqueria, home of
delicious Mexican cuisine.
� +47 238 986 86
� restaurantpaleet.no
Restaurant Zaff eranoPLATANIAS, GREECE
Located on the beautiful island of
Crete, Restaurant Zafferano offers
creative cuisine that captures
the fl avour of the Mediterranean.
On the menu are succulent fi llet
steaks, fresh Italian pasta, Cretan
seafood, sushi and to-die-for
desserts. A selection of fi ne wines
and champagnes are also available.
Zafferano places an emphasis
on elegance, a philosophy
it shares with its sister
restaurant, Kariatis,
found in the Venetian
harbour of Chania.
� +30 28210 38180
� zafferano.gr
� +30 28210 55600
� kariatis-restaurant.gr
Hungry?You’re on holiday. It’s time to treat yourself. We’ve picked out some of our favourite restaurants from around the network
OsushiREYKJAVÍK, ICELAND
Osushi is a unique dining experience. Instead of traditional
serving methods, you snatch your sushi off of plates brought
to you via conveyor belt. But don’t worry about accidently
ordering the most expensive thing on the menu – prices are
distinguished by the colour and pattern of the plate, with
most meals ranging between 230-440 ISK.
If you’re not in the mood for sushi, there are plenty of
other meals also available, including teriyaki chicken, noodle
salad, tempura and desserts.
� +354 561 0562 � osushi.is
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Route network Europe
Norwegian fl ies to almost 140 destinations around the world. There are nearly 450 direct routes, but you can book more combinations at norwegian.com
Here are fi ve route highlights this month – turn the page for our full list of destinations from every hub, and more »
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Fly to Mallorca/Palma
from 11 destinations
Fly to Copenhagen from
nearly 70 destinations
Fly to London
from nearly 50
destinations
Pisa/
Tusc
any
Dubai
4Fly to Oslo from more
than 100 destinations
Fly to Rome from
Oslo, Bergen,
Copenhagen,
Stockholm, Helsinki
and London
Malta
Ibiza
Mallorca/Palm
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Copenhagen
Rome/Fium
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Sardinia/
Olbia
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Málaga
Marrakech
Reykjavík
Agadir
Lanza
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Fuerteventura
Gran C
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Crete/C
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Crete/H
eraklion
Rhodes
Tel Aviv
Cyprus/Larnaca
Antalya
Dal
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Santo
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Varna
Prist
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Belgr
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Sara
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Split
Pula
Szcz
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Budapest
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Stavanger
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Rijeka
Tener
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Madeira
Bordeaux
Edinburgh
Dublin
Manchester
Amsterdam
Cologne/Bonn
Geneva
Salzburg
Corfu
Longyear
byen
Grenoble
Birmin
gham
Paris/CDG
Mad
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Trondheim
Marseille
Montpellier
Zagre
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Paris/Orly
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The USA & the Caribbean Asia
1O’Keeffe blooms
Known for her
“expressive” fl owers
and landscapes, US
artist Georgia O’Keeffe
is the subject of a
major exhibition at
London’s Tate Modern
from 6 July. tate.org.uk
2Great Danes in sand
Copenhagen’s Sand
Sculpture Festival
(to 18 September)
features massive works
by global artists at
Hundested Harbour,
plus a children’s play
area. sandfestival.dk
3Roman holiday
Until 15 August,
musicians from around
the world play evening
gigs at the lakeside
stage at Rome’s Villa
Ada, alongside bars
and stalls selling food
and more. villaada.org
4Cruise Oslo’s fjords
Take to the water this
summer in Oslo for
musical, theatrical and
even pirate cruises
with Norway Yacht
Charter, who also
provide bus tours.
nyc.no
5Summer in Mallorca
As well as increasing
capacity to Palma
from Scandinavia,
Norwegian has added
domestic routes from
Barcelona and Madrid
to its services. Book
now. norwegian.com
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From Norway
From Alta
� Oslo, Tromsø
From Bergen
� Alicante, Antalya,
Barcelona, Berlin/
Schönefeld,
Crete/Chania,
Copenhagen, Corfu,
Dubrovnik, Gran
Canaria, Harstad/
Narvik (Evenes),
Kraków, London/
Gatwick, Málaga,
Mallorca/Palma,
Murcia, New
York/JFK, Nice,
Oslo, Paris/Orly,
Prague, Reykjavík,
Riga, Rome/
Fiumicino, Salzburg,
Split, Stavanger,
Stockholm,
Trondheim
From Bodø
� Gran Canaria, Oslo
From Harstad/Narvik
� Alicante, Bergen,
Gran Canaria, Oslo,
Trondheim
From Kirkenes
� Oslo, Tromsø
From Molde
� Alicante, Oslo
From Oslo
� Agadir, Algarve/
Faro, Alicante, Alta,
Amsterdam,
Andenes, Antalya,
Athens, Bangkok,
Barcelona,
Bardufoss, Belgrade,
Bergen, Berlin/
Schönefeld, Bilbao,
Billund, Bodø,
Bordeaux, NEW Boston,
Budapest, Burgas,
Corfu, Corsica/
Ajaccio,
Copenhagen, Crete/
Chania, Crete/
Heraklion, Cyprus/
Larnaca, Dalaman,
Dublin, Dubrovnik,
Edinburgh, Ft
Lauderdale-
Florida,
Fuerteventura,
Gdańsk, Geneva,
Gran Canaria,
Hamburg, Harstad/
Narvik (Evenes),
Haugesund, Helsinki,
Kefalonia, Kirkenes,
Kos, Krakòw,
Kristiansand,
Lakselv, Lanzarote, NEW Las Vegas,
Lefkada, Lisbon,
London/Gatwick,
Longyearbyen, Los
Angeles, Madeira,
Madrid, Málaga,
Mallorca/Palma,
Malta, Manchester,
Marrakech,
Menorca, Milan/
Malpensa, Molde,
Munich, Murcia, New
York/JFK, Nice,
Oakland-San
Francisco, Orlando,
Palanga/Klaipeda,
Paris/Orly, Pisa/
Tuscany, Prague,
Pristina, Pula,
Reykjavík, Rhodes,
Riga, Rijeka, Rome/
Fiumicino, Salzburg,
San Juan – Puerto
Rico, Santorini,
Sarajevo, Sardinia/
Olbia, Sicily/Catania,
Split, Stavanger,
Stockholm, Szczecin,
Tallinn, Tenerife,
Tivat, Tromsø,
Trondheim, Varna,
Venice, NEW Verona,
Vienna, Vilnius,
Visby, Warsaw,
Ålesund
From Oslo/Rygge
� Alicante, Gran
Canaria, Málaga
From Sandefjord/
Torp
� Alicante, Gran
Canaria, Málaga
From Stavanger
� Alicante,
Barcelona, Bergen,
Berlin/Schönefeld,
Copenhagen,
Dubrovnik, Gran
Canaria, Kraków,
London/Gatwick,
Málaga, Mallorca/
Palma, Manchester,
Murcia, Nice, Oslo,
Prague, Salzburg,
Split, Warsaw
From Tromsø
� Alicante, Alta,
Gran Canaria,
Kirkenes, London/
Gatwick, Oslo,
Trondheim
From Trondheim
� Alicante, Antalya,
Barcelona, Bergen,
Berlin/Schönefeld,
Copenhagen, Corfu,
Dubrovnik, Gran
Canaria, Harstad/
Narvik (Evenes),
Kraków, London/
Gatwick, Málaga,
Murcia, Nice, Oslo,
Riga, Split, Tromsø
From Ålesund
� Alicante, London/
Gatwick, Oslo
Turn the page for all
routes from the rest
of Scandinavia >>
What to do around the networkthis monthScandinavia
Where to go from…
Wine-tasting in CreteThe Minoans were making wine
on Crete 4,000 years ago but it’s
taken some time for wine buffs
to take notice. Most of the wine
comes from lush, sunny valleys
in the Heraklion region, south of
Knossos or west of Dafnes – the
local winemakers’ association
produces a good map of the
vineyards. winesofcrete.gr
Berlin sound & visionBerlin’s Renaissance Spandau
Citadel, to the city’s west, is the
setting for a series of outdoor
summer concerts, including this
month Massive Attack (4 July),
Beirut (9 July) and The Pixies (18
July). The 9th Berlin Biennale for
Contemporary Art is also in town
until 18 September, including art
on a sightseeing boat. citadel-
music-festival.de, bb9.berlinbiennale.de
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From Denmark
From Aalborg
� Alicante,
Copenhagen,
London/Gatwick,
Málaga, Mallorca/
Palma
From Billund
� Alicante,
Barcelona, Oslo
From Copenhagen
� Aalborg, Agadir,
Algarve/Faro,
Alicante,
Amsterdam, Athens,
Bangkok, Barcelona,
Bergen, Berlin/
Schönefeld, NEW Boston,
Budapest, Burgas,
Corfu, Crete/
Chania, Crete/
Heraklion, Cyprus/
Larnaca, Dubai,
Dublin, Dubrovnik,
Edinburgh, Ft
Lauderdale-Florida,
Geneva, Gran
Canaria, Helsinki,
Ibiza, Kos, Kraków,
Las Vegas, Lisbon,
London/Gatwick,
Los Angeles,
Madeira, Madrid,
Málaga, Mallorca/
Palma, Malta,
Marrakech,
Marseille,
Montpellier, New
York/JFK, Nice,
Orlando, Oslo, Paris/
Orly, Pisa/Tuscany,
Prague, Rhodes,
Riga, Rome/
Fiumicino, St Croix
– US Virgin Islands,
Salzburg, San Juan
– Puerto Rico,
Santorini, Sarajevo,
Sardinia/Olbia,
Sicily/Catania, Split, NEW Stavanger,
Stockholm, Tel Aviv,
Tenerife, Trondheim, NEW Varna, Venice,
Zagreb
From Finland
From Helsinki
� Alicante, Athens,
Barcelona,
Budapest, Burgas,
Copenhagen,
Corfu, Crete/
Chania, Cyprus/
Larnaca, Dubai,
Dublin, Dubrovnik,
Gran Canaria, Ivalo,
Kittilä, London/
Gatwick, Madrid,
Málaga, Mallorca/
Palma, Nice,
Oslo, Oulu, Paris/
Orly, Prague,
Pula, Rhodes,
Rome/Fiumicino,
Rovaniemi, Salzburg,
Split, Stockholm,
Tenerife, Venice
From Oulu
� Gran Canaria,
Helsinki, Tenerife
From Sweden
From Gothenburg
� Alicante,
Barcelona, Crete/
Chania, Gran
Canaria, London/
Gatwick, NEW Madrid,
Málaga, Mallorca/
Palma, Nice,
Pristina, Rome/
Fiumicino, Salzburg,
Stockholm, Tenerife
From Karlstad
� Alicante, Gran
Canaria
From Stockholm
� Agadir, Algarve/
Faro, Alicante,
Amsterdam, Athens,
Bangkok, Barcelona,
Belgrade, Bergen,
Berlin/Schönefeld,
Bordeaux,
Budapest, Burgas,
Copenhagen, Corfu,
Corsica/Bastia,
Crete/Chania,
Crete/Heraklion,
Cyprus/Larnaca,
Dubai, Dubrovnik,
Edinburgh, Ft
Lauderdale-Florida,
Geneva, Gran
Canaria, Grenoble,
Gothenburg,
Helsinki, Kiruna, Kos,
Kraków, Las Vegas,
London/Gatwick,
Los Angeles, Luleå,
Madrid, Málaga,
Mallorca/Palma,
Malmö, Manchester,
Marrakech, Munich,
New York/JFK,
Nice, Oakland-San
Francisco, Oslo,
Paris/Orly, Pisa/
Tuscany, Prague,
Pula, Rhodes, Riga,
Rome/Fiumicino,
Salzburg, San Juan
– Puerto Rico,
Santorini, Sarajevo,
Sardinia/Olbia,
Sicily/Catania,
Sicily/Palermo, Split,
Tel Aviv, Tenerife,
Umeå, Venice,
Vilnius, Visby
From Umeå
� Gran Canaria,
Stockholm
From Visby
� Oslo, Stockholm
Turn the page for
routes from all
other countries >>
ScandinaviaWhere to go from…
Art in BergenFans of Edvard Munch should
head for Bergen this month. The
KODE Art Museums are home
to the largest collection of the
Norwegian artist’s works outside
Oslo, including a version of The
Scream. A new exhibition focuses
on Nikolai Astrup’s early work,
while KODE Contemporary has a
fantastic collection of modern art.
kodebergen.no
Tour StockholmSee different sides of Sweden’s
capital on a variety of city
tours. The brave will love the
popular Ghost Walk; fans of
Stieg Larsson’s books can take
a Millennium Tour. There’s even
the Run with Me running tour, for
fi tness fanatics. Don’t forget
your trainers!
visitstockholm.com
What to do around the network this month
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Promotion
From someone who knows“Throughout the
training, I learned
to change the way I
look at things, and
then things started to
change. Now, I dare
to dream about the
future and plan for it”
Kim-Erik Pedersen,
former participant
The impact of trustSocial enterprise company lyk-z & døtre supports youth at risk, creating remarkable results through emotional innovation
M ore and more children and young
people are being put in psychiatric
care and given medication. Normal
human emotions like sadness and
loneliness are being diagnosed as
anxiety and serious psychological disorders.
Ingeborg Lykseth, founder of the company
lyk-z & døtre, believes that their problems should
be dealt with in a completely different way. She
thinks that everyone has what it takes to make the
changes they need for a happier future. It’s this
belief that inspired her to develop an innovative
leadership programme for youth at risk, called
FROG Online Identity.
“It’s based on neurophysiology and cognitive
training,” she says. “It’s a powerful methodology
that causes a positive emotional and mental
change in each participant.”
While the aim for some participants is to get back
into school or work, for others, the goal is simply
to feel happy again. In most cases, the programme
has a proven and lasting impact. They gain self-
confi dence and trust in who they are, and become
able to take charge of their own future.
Once the programme ends, Lykseth and her
team can keep track of participants through an
online platform. This ensures the positive effects
of the programme continue long after the actual
course is over.
Lykseth’s passion and dedication has
been rewarded with several awards. She was
named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by
FERD Social Entrepreneurs in 2012, and
awarded the 2015 National Award for Social
Entrepreneurship in Education and Technology
by Fundación Ship2B. However, this wasn’t
always the case.
“It took eight years to get my programme
approved. There was a lot of failure, a lot of
mistakes, and a lot of money lost,” she says.
But, thanks to the same skills and trust she
teaches her students, Lykseth never gave up.
If you want to participate in FROG Online
Identity, or support youths at risk, contact lyk-z &
døtre – you can make a difference.
+47 915 94 080, +47 906 59 990
lyk-z.no, [email protected]
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Rest of the world
From the Caribbean
From Guadeloupe
� Baltimore/
Washington, Boston,
New York/JFK
From Martinique
� Baltimore/
Washington, Boston,
New York/JFK
From San Juan -
Puerto Rico
� Copenhagen,
London/Gatwick,
Oslo, Stockholm
From St Croix -
US Virgin Islands
� Copenhagen
From France
From Paris/Charles
de Gaulle
� NEW Ft Lauderdale-
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Everyone wants to return home from
holiday with an attractive tan, but
getting sunburned is not a healthy sign.
Even though sunburn’s reddening effect
disappears from the skin after a short
while, in the long term it can cause permanent damage
to skin cells’ genetic material, which may even lead to
skin cancer.
Using suncream incorrectly is one of the most
common mistakes people make on holiday. It doesn’t
matter if you apply a high factor of sunscreen if
you apply too little of it. The recommendation of
Kreftforeningen/the Norwegian Cancer Society is
that your body needs a big handful of sunscreen to
effectively protect itself against the sun’s rays.
It’s also important to remember that although
sunscreen is helpful in the battle against sunburn, it’s
not an invincible shield. Remember to take regular
breaks away from the sun, and avoid it around midday.
Most people from Nordic countries have light skin and
will easily get sunburned. Take a lesson from the locals
– many people in hot climates take a siesta about
midday. Chilling out in the shade around this time feels
pleasant, and is good for you too.
Another mistake people make is to forget about the
sun. It’s quite common to get sunburned when you’re
doing something other than sunbathing: doing sports,
sitting in a cafe or walking around on excursions.
Be aware that the sun is most intense between the
hours of 11am and 3pm, and its rays can be twice as
strong in countries close to the equator as they are in
Nordic countries. Shade can reduce UV radiation by
more than 50% – and you can still get a tan when
sitting away from the sun too.
It’s important to remember sunscreen
and protective clothes, even if we’re
not lounging on the beach. Even
on a cloudy day, 10 to 90% of UV
radiation can still break through.
Keeping these protective measures
in mind will let you enjoy your
holidays and stay safe.
+47 815 70477, kreftforeningen.no/solvett
Avoid costly errors in the sun
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Use a high SPF and apply plenty of sunscreen
Staying safe in the sun
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The airline Norwegian’s green fl eet
Boeing 787-8 DreamlinerServes Norwegian long-haul network
Number of aircraft: 8 ⁄ Seats: 291 ⁄ Crew:
Two pilots and eight cabin crew ⁄ Engines:
Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 ⁄ Max start weight:
227,930kg ⁄ Length: 57m ⁄ Height: 17m ⁄
Wingspan: 60.17m ⁄ Engine thrust: 67,000lbs
per engine ⁄ Cruise speed: 913kph
Boeing 737-800Serves most routes in Norwegian’s network
Number of aircraft: 99 ⁄ Seats: 186/189
⁄ Crew: Two pilots and four cabin crew ⁄
Engines: CFM 56-7B26 ⁄ Max start weight:
78,999kg ⁄ Length: 39.5m ⁄ Height: 12.5m ⁄
Wingspan: 35.8m ⁄ Engine thrust: 26,400lbs
per engine ⁄ Cruise speed: 858kph
Norwegian’s long-haul fl eet is signifi cantly more fuel-effi cient than any of the top 20 transatlantic airlines, a report revealed late last year. The International Council on Clean Transportation reported that Norwegian’s Boeing 787-8 fl eet burned 14 per cent less fuel per passenger kilometre than its closest rival on the list, and around 50 per cent less than the three lowest-placed, big-name airlines. And Norwegian has one of the newest and greenest fl eets in Europe: in addition to the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which is one of the greenest planes in the world, our 737-800s are the most environmentally friendly mid-sized planes, reducing per-seat CO2 emissions by 23 per cent compared to the 737-300 and by as much as 33 per cent compared to the MD80. Extra fuel effi ciency and reliability is also good news for your wallet and your time. norwegian.com
Our new
Dreamliner
787-9 joins
Norwegian’s
green fleet
Boeing 787-9 DreamlinerAlso serves Norwegian’s long-haul fl ights
Number of aircraft: 1 ⁄ Seats: 344 ⁄ Crew:
Two pilots and eight cabin crew ⁄ Engines:
Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 ⁄ Max start weight:
252,650kg ⁄ Length: 63m ⁄ Height: 17m ⁄
Wingspan: 60.17m ⁄ Engine thrust: 74,000lbs
per engine ⁄ Cruise speed: 913kph
Norwegian has some of
the greenest aircraft
in the world
The world’s greenest transatlantic fl ights
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TM
Our story�1993-2002 Norwegian established on
the west coast of Norway
fl ying Fokker F-50s with
Braathens SAFE.
�2002 Domestic routes
launched in Norway with
Boeing 737-300 aircraft.
�2003 Norwegian listed
on the Oslo Stock
Exchange.
�2005 First year in profi t.
�2007 Stockholm
becomes Norwegian’s
Swedish base.
� Bank Norwegian
and frequent fl yer
programme Norwegian
Reward launched.
�2008 Delivery of fi rst
Boeing 737-800 Next-
Generation aircraft.
� Norwegian enters the
Danish market and opens
Copenhagen base.
�2009 Norwegian
receives the Market
Leadership Award from
Air Transport World
magazine – seen as the
Oscars of the industry.
�2011 Becomes the
fi rst airline to offer free
infl ight WiFi on
European routes.
� Opens new base at
Helsinki airport, Finland.
�2012 Norwegian
signs the largest-ever
European agreement
for 122 Boeing and 100
Airbus aircraft.
�2013 Norwegian is the
fi rst airline in Europe to
offer infl ight movie and
TV rental on all our WiFi-
enabled aircraft.
� Launches long-haul
routes to Bangkok, New
York, Ft Lauderdale-
Florida, Los Angeles,
Oakland-San Francisco
and Orlando from
Scandinavia and the UK.
� Named Best European
Low-Cost Airline by
AirlineRatings.com and
Best European Low-Cost
Carrier by Skytrax World
Airline Awards.
� Opens new base at
London Gatwick plus
new bases in Spain, and
expands in Germany.
�2014 Voted Best Low-
Cost Airline in the World
by the 2014 Air Transport
News Awards.
� Norwegian is again
voted Best European
Low-Cost Airline by
AirlineRatings.com and
Best European Low-Cost
Carrier by Skytrax World
Airline Awards.
� At the Apex Passenger
Choice Awards we win
Best in Europe, Best
Single Achievement for
our moving map on
the 787 Dreamliners,
and Best Infl ight
Connectivity and
Communications.
�2015 Starts fl ights
to Las Vegas and the
Caribbean.
� Voted Best European
Low-Cost Airline for the
third time running, and
the World’s Best
Low-Cost Long-
Haul Carrier
at the Skytrax
awards.
� We win
Airlinerating.com’s
Best Low-Cost Airline
– Europe award for the
third year in a row.
� Wins Best in Region –
Europe and Best Infl ight
Publication at the Apex
Passenger Choice Awards.
�2016 Starts fl ights to
Boston from London,
Oslo and Copenhagen.
� At the Grand Travel
Awards, Norwegian is
named Best European
Airline and Best Domestic
Airline, and CEO Bjørn
Kjos (pictured below)
the year’s top executive.
� Launches new routes
from Paris to New York,
Los Angeles and Fort
Lauderdale-Florida.
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Long-haul captain Claes Söderberg from Sweden and American cabin chief Trista Helene Pettersen fi rst met at work two years ago on a fl ight between Stockholm and Los Angeles. “He stood out from everyone and I remember feeling I wanted to get to know him better,” Trista says. They spent their time off together in LA and this year the couple were married in New York’s Swedish Church. Claes is now based in London, while Trista is in Fort Lauderdale, so they continue to have to travel to see each other, though they manage to work together at least once a month, as our picture shows. norwegian.com
16Get nlineFIVE YEARS OF NORWEGIAN’S ONBOARD WIFI
Since we became the fi rst airline to offer free
WiFi on European routes in 2011, more than
19 million passengers have logged on. One
third of our passengers log into a social media
site within fi ve minutes – and Germans are the
most keen to get online. To join them, select
the wireless network “Norwegian Internet
Access”, open your browser and connect via
the homepage. Happy browsing!
Meet the crew
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Living the dreamBoeing’s 787 Dreamliner has been hailed as a revolution in passenger fl ight. But just what is it that elevates these aircraft?
SENSITIVE LIGHTINGThe hue of the cabin changes up to six times during the flight, to provide an ambient background. Dimmed lights simulate changing time zones, while relaxing lavender or warm orange lights signal sleep or meal times
BIGGER VIEWSAt 48cm by 28cm, the windows are the largest of any passenger airplane, meaning more natural light and better views. The colour and tint of the glass changes during the flight, and the plastic shade has been eschewed in favour of a button that allows a complete fade
LOWEST EMISSIONSOver their longest journeys, 787 Dreamliners consume 14 per cent less fuel than comparable aircraft, and emit 20 per cent fewer emissions. This translates into faster journeys and cheaper travel
LONGER DISTANCES 787 Dreamliners fly further, with a range of 15,200km, making them the only mid-size planes that can fly long-range routes
MORE ENTERTAINMENTThe all-singing, all-dancing onboard entertainment system includes movies and games; USB charging, snackbar; and our award-winning moving maps. For even more comfort, Premium has extra legroom and reclining seats too
I l l u s t r a t i o n ⁄ N u r i a M a d r i d
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GREENER MATERIAL...The 787 Dreamliner is the first airplane to be made with 50 per cent composite material: its fuselage and wings are made from carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer. This gives it a higher strength-to-weight ratio than other comparable aircraft, making it lighter, and therefore more eco-friendly
... MEANING LESS JET LAGThis polymer material is stronger than metal, meaning the cabin can be more highly pressurised. The pressure is set to 1,800m rather than the conventional 2,400m, which enables passengers’ bodies to absorb more oxygen, so passengers are more refreshed when arriving at their destination
HEALTHIER AIRThe planes’ “fresh-air system” uses high-efficiency particulate air filters, which treat the air onboard to make it cleaner and healthier, while gas filters reduce strong odours – even perfume particles – to make air more palatable for noses
QUIETER CABINSThanks to two Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines in noise-reducing nacelles (casings), the 787 Dreamliner is 60 per cent quieter for take-off and landing than other comparable models. A quieter air-conditioning system, vibration isolation in sidewalls and elimination of squeaky interior materials add to a more ear-friendly experience
MORE ROOM FOR BAGS…No more battling to fit your bag. The overhead bins are designed to be 30 per cent larger than other comparable aircraft, so each passenger can easily fit their bag right above their head, rather than five rows behind
…AND FOR YOUR HEADEven better: the bins’ shape and the way they fold into the ceiling, means more headroom for everyone – even at its lowest point, the cabin is more than 1.8m high
LESS TURBULENCEAs they are made from polymer rather than metal, 787 Dreamliner wings adjust on take-off and during turbulence. This flexibility, combined with a system that detects turbulence and balances for it, makes journeys less bumpy
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I
n their green school
uniforms, Bokoï and
Babouï look so alike that
people often believe the
two boys are twins. The
brothers, who are also best friends,
used to live with their father in Boularagi
village, near Lake Chad in Central Africa,
where they spent their days farming and
chasing animals to prevent them from
destroying the family’s crop.
“We chased all kind of birds, goats,
cows, even monkeys. Once, we were
sleeping at night, and I heard a hippo
outside,” says Bokoï, aged eight. “I woke
up my brother, but he didn’t believe me.”
The next morning they saw the huge
footprints of the hippo right outside
the house. For the brothers, the hippo
was a sign of upcoming danger. Two
months later their lives were turned
upside down.
“We were sleeping in the house when
three men came knocking at our door,
asking where our father was,” 10-year-
old Babouï says. “They wore pants with
many pockets and black turbans. I told
them he was not there, but they forced
the door open, grabbed him and killed
him. We tried to run, but they caught us.”
In the hands of Boko Haram, the boys
suffered many hardships, but in the
end they managed to escape. When
none of the soldiers was watching, the
boys crawled away through the grass.
Because it was harvest season, it was
high enough to hide them. It probably
saved the boys’ lives.
A new UNICEF report shows that
more than 1.3 million children have
been uprooted by the increased Boko
Haram violence in Nigeria, Niger,
Unicef Breaking free from confl ict
Norwegian and UNICEF have been working together for children since 2007. As a
Signature Partner to UNICEF, Norwegian supports the organisation’s work, giving
children the best possible start in life, and a safe and happy childhood.WO
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The plight of two brothers highlights the dangers posed by Boko Haram
Brothers Bokoï and
Babouï managed to
escape Boko Haram after
their father was killed by
the armed group
Cameroon and Chad – the countries
around Lake Chad. Thousands of
children have been separated from
their families and subjected to
exploitation, abuse and recruitment by
armed groups. Not everyone survives.
There has been a tenfold increase in
the number of children used in suicide
attacks in the region.
If they hadn’t been found and
rescued, Bokoï and Babouï would most
likely have faced a future as soldiers.
“They told us that we will fi ght with
them. I was sure they were going to kill
us if we tried to escape,” Babouï says.
After their escape, the brothers spent
days walking through the bush, hungry,
thirsty and exhausted, before a man
on a motorbike found them. He took
them to a camp for internally displaced
people. Their mother is now in Nigeria,
and they haven’t heard from her for a
long time, but after a few days in the
camp, thanks to the work of UNICEF and
a social-welfare regional delegation,
they were reunited with their uncle.
They now live with him, and go to
school every day. The brothers have fun
practising their French, and the younger
one is happy to show off his counting,
although he mixes up the numbers.
His brother laughs. Finally, the smile
is back on the two small faces. There’s
an old saying in their regional language,
Kanembu: “Gomay waya dounadoum
do wadji.” This means: “The struggle
you are in today will be your strength
tomorrow.” Let’s hope so.
Please help UNICEF’s work in Central
Africa unicef.no, unicef.org
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Naturally giftedYou can’t beat a bit of nature, and Iceland shows that when it comes to your holiday you don’t need anything artifi cial
“Skagafjörður is one of the best regions in Iceland to experience the world famous phenomenon, the Northern Lights”
Relaxing in a hotel hot tub is
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The waters that fl ow
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Iceland has plenty to offer nature
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the best new albums, games and movies – including Brooklyn
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Niels Henrik Abel
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mathematician
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scientist
Georg Brandes
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Aril Edvardsen
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Explorer of the
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Helmer Hanssen
Norwegian
polar explorer
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aviation pioneer
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Ole Bull
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meteorologist
Erik Bye
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entrepreneur
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Sonja Henie
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figure skater
Søren Kierkegaard
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Peter Christen
Asbjørnsen
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Bjørnstjerne
Bjørnson
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Ivo Caprino
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director
Kirsten Flagstad
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opera singer
Ludvig Holberg
Danish-Norwegian
writer
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Anders Celsius
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playwright
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Swedish author
Victor Borge
Danish comedian
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Camilla Collett
Norwegian writer
Minna Canth
Finnish writer
and activist
Edvard Grieg
Norwegian romantic
composer
Helge Ingstad
Norwegian explorer
Wenche Foss
Norwegian actress
Norwegian’s tail fin heroes are iconic figures from across the network who have pushed the boundaries, challenged established norms and inspired others
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Carl Larsson
Swedish artist
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian explorer
Edvard Munch
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Asta Nielsen
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Carl Nielsen
Danish composer
Christina Nilsson
Swedish soprano
Evert Taube
Swedish poet
Gunnar Sønsteby
Norwegian
resistance hero
Jenny Lind
Swedish opera singer
Povel Ramel
Swedish entertainer
Harry S Pettersen
Norwegian
resistance hero
Fredrikke
Marie Qvam
Norwegian activist
Geirr Tveitt
Norwegian
composer
Frederik “Frits”
Thaulow
Norwegian painter
Theodor Kittelsen
Norwegian artist
Carl von Linné
Swedish natural
scientist
Knud Rasmussen
Danish Arctic
explorer
Christian Krohg
Norwegian painter
Max Manus
Norwegian
resistance hero
Johan Ludvig
Runeberg
Finnish poet
Aksel Sandemose
Norwegian author
Oda Krohg
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Jørgen Moe
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Henrik Wergeland
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Selma Lagerlöf
Swedish author
Otto Sverdrup
Norwegian polar
explorer
Georg Sverdrup
Norwegian
philologist
Aasmund
Olavsson Vinje
Norwegian writer
Regine Normann
Norwegian author
HC Ørsted
Danish physicist
Anders Zorn
Swedish artist
Jørn Utzon
Danish architect
Sigrid Undset
Norwegian writer
Roald Amundsen Norwegian explorer
Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian ethnographer
Grete Waitz Norwegian athlete
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1 Christina Nilsson was born in 1843 on
Snugge farm, near Växjö, southern Sweden.
The youngest of seven children, by the age of
eight she was helping to support her family by
singing and playing the violin.
2 She made her operatic début in 1864 as
Violetta in La Traviata at Paris’s Théâtre
Lyrique. After performing in London, Saint
Petersburg and Vienna, in 1870 she embarked
on her fi rst tour of the USA, which took in 173
performances in 30 cities over two years.
3 Nilsson was particularly noted for her
Margherita in Gounod’s Faust: on the fi nal
night of performances in St Petersburg in 1873,
she opened a prop jewel box onstage to fi nd it
was fi lled with gifts from the tsar. She reprised
the role for the inaugural performance of New
York’s Metropolitan Opera House in 1883.
4 In 1885 she appeared on a balcony of
Stockholm’s Grand Hôtel. Up to 50,000 fans
gathered to hear her sing – but panic broke out
and 18 people were trampled to death.
5 In 1872 Nilsson married French banker
Auguste Rouzaud in London’s Westminster
Abbey. He died in 1882 and fi ve years later she
married Count Angel de Casa Miranda, who died
in 1902. Nilsson retired in 1891 and died in 1921 in
Växjö; her embalmed body lies in a specially built
mausoleum in Tegnér cemetery. snugge.se
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Hero in focus Christina Nilsson
Chasing phantomsNilsson is said to be the inspiration for character Christine Daaé in Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera, so how close are they?
Born on a farm in Sweden
Discovered singing
at a fair
Trains for four
years in Paris
Falls in love with
an aristocrat
Performs Gounod’s
Faust
Kidnapped by a
masked mentor
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