Rose Cantine

Patrick Smith, an airline pilot who writes Salon’s excellent “Ask the Pilot” column says that in the US, airline pilots and flight attendants are now required to take off their shoes at the security checkpoint, but thousands of airport employees are not subject to the same strict security screening. The stupid liquids rules, which the [...]

I’ve been looking for an online guide to modern architecture when I travel around Europe. If I’m in Paris, I’d like to know where are the modern architectural gems, find them on a map and go. This is what MIMOA helps me accomplish.
Set up by two Dutch women, Mieke and Naomi, MIMOA is a user-generated [...]

A frustrated Belgian citizen has posted, for sale on eBay, the state of Belgium. As you all know, Belgium has not been able to put together a government because the Flemish and Walloon politicians have not managed to reach a deal, many months after the elections. Calls for the independence of Flanders are getting louder. [...]

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For a year now, air travelers have been burdened by the stupidest rules on earth that do not improve safety and lead only to delays and waste. The no-liquids rule adopted by the European Union last year has finally come under fire from members of the European Parliament. According to the Financial Times:
“European legislators called [...]