Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport
By definition, airports are transit spaces. One arrives, one leaves. That is: in nobody's plans –or rather, almost nobody's; the paths and filiations of the human being are inscrutable – is to stay in them. Moreover, when one is forced to spend more time than he had in mind, he usually feels a suffocating sensation motivated by surprise, disappointment, anguish, the desire to go home, the desire to reach another destination , the classic 'please, but how late is this flight?', etc. It is something similar to what happens in the asphalt island , that terrifying novel by J.G. Ballard in which a man accidentally gets stuck on a portion of the road where no cars pass and cannot get out...
An hour of flight delay can be equivalent to a year of life for the most impatient human beings, so it is best to face this situation with different eyes. It all depends on the glass you look through, right? That is why we have compiled a list of 10 details/curiosities/divine oddities that they are worthy of spending more time in an airport than the two hours in advance that it is recommended to arrive at an airport before flying. A) Yes, If you are panicking at the time of the delay/cancellation/waiting list and you find yourself in one of them, you will know how to redirect the situation and enjoy that extra time . And if you are from that superior and evolved race of human beings who do not mind waiting, then you will enjoy it twice as much.
Prepare to hear strange sounds at London Heathrow Airport
What's more, we propose a variant of that bizarre and famous pastime called trainspotting – which consists of standing at train stations, signing every train that passes by and writing down the serial number of its engine – and turning it into airportspotting. What would the airportspotter do? Purposefully choose the airport where your flight is going to land/take off to find and try what makes it special and worthy of spending more hours on it . And so, the good airportspotter would cross off his list...
1. The visit to Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport , on the Caribbean island of Saba, or the smallest airport in the world. Isn't it a bit paradoxical to start with an airfield... tiny ( measures just over 400 meters long , the equivalent of 1,299 feet) ? Not at all, if you are here it is because you have express permission to land and because, probably, you have arrived in a private jet.
two. The vision of ' the weed amnesty box '(and where you read grass it means marijuana or the like; pot amnesty box in English is called the invention) that invites the traveler passing through the Colorado Springs airport who has not finished smoking everything he had planned to smoke to leave it in that magic box.
Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport and its tiny runway
3. The amazing and astonished walk along the nature trail that forms the backbone of the Changi Airport , from Singapore, and which bears the very correct and appropriate name of Butterfly Garden because, in addition to being poetic, there are more than 1,000 specimens of this species.
Four. Hearing the strange and very high sounds emitted by the cars that circulate through certain parts of Heathrow Airport, in London, to keep birds away from runways . Let no one be alarmed because there is no intention of treating them badly, quite the opposite, because that there are birds on the slopes can be a reason for an accident.
Butterfly in an airport? Oh yeah
5. The hallucination produced by seeing the tallest control tower in the world in the New Bangkok International Airport , in Thailand. It measures 434 feet, which is equivalent to just over 132 meters high , which is equivalent to a 40-storey skyscraper.
6. The feeling of being something very small lost in something very big. And this time it is not the universe, but the King Fahd International Airport , in Saudi Arabia, which has an extension of 192,000 acres of land or almost 78,000 hectares . To give you an idea: it is bigger than some countries (Bahrain, for example) .
7. The experience of having played golf in Hong Kong . But not on a golf course in some privileged area and not on a mini golf course in a hotel... No, no. have played golf in the Hong Kong International Airport ; more specifically, in the nine-hole course in Terminal 2, which is completely open to travellers.
New Bangkok International Airport
8. Getting on the plane in the most relaxed and elastic and peaceful way possible after having done yoga in the San Francisco International Airport and at the Midway in Chicago. In order to enter, there is only one requirement: that your flight has a long delay. They put the mats and you want to do your best greeting to the Sun.
9. The certainty of having the best hygiene and dental health possible. No, we've gone crazy... Attention: in the Sao Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport , in Brazil, travelers who are in Terminal 2 they can go to the dentist and have their teeth cleaned or whitened (among other things) .
10. The joy of living in a situation outside the law, in the Nashville International Airport . Here they have an alcoholic license with quite a wide sleeve (so much so that it looks like that of a Japanese kimono) that allows its travelers to go with their cocktails in hand wherever they want . What is that about drinking the beer or the drink in a hurry because they are calling to board when you can have it very calmly at the door?
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Practice yoga in conditioned rooms at the San Francisco International Airport and at the Midway, in Chicago