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Thanks to the huge roof-to-floor windows all around the perimeter, Beijing airport is the best airport for plane watching. Thanks to Norman Foster)

#airport #airplane #architecture #planewatching #beijing

A Travel Guide in Your Wallet

Whether we go for a long weekend to Rome or half-year backpacking to India, we use travel guides. Although most of them are having tough times to sell today, there is still plenty to choose from: Blue Guides, Rough Guides, Frommer’s, Fodor’s, Lonely Planet, and National Geographic among many others. The choice on the internet is even greater.

Yet, both print and screen travel guides limit us in our experiences: they instruct us where to go, what to do, and what to learn about a country. They tend to impose the vision of travel journalists. As a result, a traveller’s experience is reduced to standardised actions without adventure and refined knowledge without wonder. Isn’t it more interesting to see a foreign country through the eyes of those who run it? Why don’t we have a look at how nations themselves choose to portray their countries?

Continue reading my essay that I just published on Medium: https://medium.com/@stasaki/a-travel-guide-in-your-wallet-342a3d020b7#.cq0898dyg

#travel #guide #travel guide #banknotes #design #medium

River and lake names are nicely wave-underlined on the Lithuanian road signs .

#road sign #waves #design #underline

There are many brick buildings in Baltimore, Maryland, US. And many of them are painted. It gives the city special DIY feel.

#baltimore #bricks #color #usa #architecture #painted

Copenhagen is famous for its biking culture. Hundreds of people ride bikes daily, even in winter. Hundreds of bikes are parked everywhere, often in messy piles. This disorderly parking make the city look less organised than it actually is.

#bike #bycicle #copenhagen #transportation #sustainable #parking #urban planning #denmark

The open air sculptures at the Greek island of Lesvos are not less masterfully done than sculptures which we usually see in museums.

#sculpture #greek #lesvos #art #statue

The pressed cars at Mytilene port, Lesvos, Greece

#pressed #cars #old #metal #auto #bundle #aluminum #loaded #utilized #megane #double_size

The sharp colour line divides this building into two parts: one is renovated, another one is abandoned and, apparently, uninhabited. Mytilene, Lesbos island, Greece.