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when the airline of your choice plays Christmas songs during boarding. And the girl in the row behind you hums along to “Do they know it’s Christmas”.

So cool.

And another update, on location: Dubai airport has both a Starbucks (Terminal 3 at least) and free WiFi. The connection could be faster, but it’s much better than nothing!

Edit: Vienna also has a Starbucks & WiFi. Although it seems like they do not support SSL connections, and the Starbucks is playing christmas music… But they ARE serving free trials of gingerbread coffee. Tastes odd.

Both offer nice seating and provide a good place to stay for a while.

Starbucks & WiFi

Ah, another publication of sorts, but this time in a field I never expected to have any…

In July, I received a mail from Schmap regarding one of my pictures on Flickr. They wanted to include it in their upcoming edition of their guide to Cologne, and placed me on their shortlist. I played around with HDR at that time, and, frankly, I find my other pictures of the Cologne cathedral more appealing. But the colorful window looks natural, while the other images seem a bit artificial. Which is (at least for me) one of the charms of HDR.

Anyway, I accepted their offer. No payment, but hey, I don’t photograph for a living and had nothing to loose… I was shortlisted, and that tickled my pride.

Now it’s official: the Schmap guide for Colone DOES include my picture. And I think the entire idea behind Schmap is pretty good. You can have maps, guides, tips, images - even on the iPhone/iPod. Very neat, check it out.

Oh, and here are the links to the Cologne cathedral, for the PC, and the iPhone version.

Mh, this will be a really useless post. I have been traveling a bit lately, and a colleague of mine is always asking me how the Starbucks at various airports is like (and if they have free WiFi - although I think the free-WiFi-at-Starbucks is a myth). So, here we go, the first entries in this list are:

Berlin Tegel (TXL): no free WiFi, nice seating, could be cleaner; relatively quiet, but you can not hear the announcements well. Power for laptops in the rear section.

Munich FJS (MUC): no free WiFi, no seating - just a counter, and then you can sit on one of the waiting benches. Yuck.

Dusseldorf (DUS): no free WiFi, very nice seating, very clean, quiet; my favourite so far. Too few power plugs.

…and here is room for more Starbucks information. Or any other coffee branch (McCafe, if need be).