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TRAVELLER A MAGAZINE FOR THE GET-UP-AND-GO GENERATION Want to reach over 7,000,000 European travellers every month ? Advertise in one of Europe's most read magazines WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER WINNER CUSTOMER DESIGN TEAM OF THE FEATURES JOURNALIST EDITOR CUSTOMER MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR 2017 OF THE YEAR 2017 OF THE YEAR MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR 2017 BUSINESS TRAVEL BUSINESS TRAVEL BRANDED CONTENT YEAR 2015 TRAVEL MEDIA JOURNALISM JOURNALISM 2015 TRAVEL MEDIA AWARDS AWARDS AWARDS BSME AWARDS AWARDS Why travel media? Did you know? As more people take more journeys so travel media is growing stronger and more Airline passenger numbers are growing by influential. easyJet Traveller is unique in today’s advertising environment, not only 3-5% every year (IATA) because of its increasing audience, but also because we have a deep understanding of who is travelling, as well as where and when. Passengers love us for always being Passenger numbers will double in the positive, aspirational and inspiring. next 20 years (IATA) 74% of passengers read inflight magazines (Kantar TGI) Travel media has the most affluent readership of any of the world’s media (Gfk MRI) Travellers are 50% more engaged reading inflight than when on the ground (Ink: A Flight to Remember) Inflight media isalways inspiring and positive Travel media reaches real people without being a digital distraction All travel media is targeted Ink is the largest travel media company in the world. We make unrivalled award-winning content Contact Phil Castle [email protected] +44 20 7625 0922 Why easyJet? easyJet expects to fly 100m passengers this year on 1,055 routes across 37 countries, In numbers 100m making it officially the UK’s largest airline and the second largest in the world by passengers a year international passengers. 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But it’s portraits hanging on the walls, then tuck in to some C GEORGINA LUCK wholesome cooking with fi ne-dining fl air down in the not just sizeable face fuzz that’s needed to carve aromatic old perfumers’ studio. out a new venture on this tough patch – you need ORDER THIS The banana cheesecake, served as an 14.14 Find foodie uncannily real-looking pot plant. The soil is Oreos. Yay. some pretty big cojones, too. Home for the last 15 years to one of the most A) La Gatta Mangiona B) Pro Loco Pinciano C) Sforno D) Tonda E) Panificio Bonci game-changing restaurants of the noughties, the Via Federico Ozanam Via Bergamo Via Statilio Ottato Via Valle Corteno Via Trionfale ILLUSTRATION hheave n famous canalside building fell empty when ‘new A cat-themed pizzeria? Thin, crispy and mega Persevere in this less- The one for more ‘out This buy-by-the-slice / Nordic’ pioneer Noma packed up its smears, Go on then. Locals rave delicious, pizzas here than-pretty suburban there’ flavours. Try the spot is perfect if you about the dough at this are made with organic district to tuck into the broccoli and sausage, want to try loads of PULLPULL ON SOME ELASTICATED SLACKS foams and Tupperware boxes full of ants and Th e List inFOFORR A STROLL Porto DOWN RUA DAS FLORAS, Trastevere bolthole.There flour, which helps with famous cacio e pepe Stilton cheese and port different toppings. Just DON’T GET TOO COMFY. HERE ARE 17 THINGS TO DO ASAP moved into new, bigger quarters. But it’s not a A FOOFOOD LOVER’S FANTASY are daily specials, but if digestion, and served a pizza at this joint. It’s reduction or hummus, point and they’ll be property that every chef would want to inhabit. SARAH NEISH the one with zucchini little charred. Prepare for covered in olive oil, baba ganoush, sesame, cut and weighed for “I didn’t think it was that big a deal,” says flowers is on the menu, gooey puddles of fresh pecorino cheese and and mint. It’s a party in payment. Prepare to Barr’s head chef, Thorsten Schmidt, eyes go for it. buffalo mozzarella. black pepper – heaven. your mouth. beast out on carbs. WORDS twinkling, “until a friend said it was like taking over the Vatican.” An explosion of laughter rumbles through his white chef’s jacket. even know we had one”) to eat up in space, or the have scoffed (with a sprinkle of 21st-century NOMA NO MORE GET DRUNK ON CHOCOLATE TART YOURSELF UP AT CHOCOLATARIA DAS FLORES “I love modern AT NATA LISBOA Food critics have been inking up their poison ambitious wedding breakfast he rustled up for pizazz), and is nothing like running the kind of Clockwise from top left, bone marrow with 121 Rua das Flores industrial design, 291 Rua das Flores pens to compare Barr to its four-times World’s the Danish royal family nuptials. gourmet gauntlet where you dine in fear of berries, stems and Think you know good chocolate? accented with little Custard tarts are 10 a cent in Best Restaurant predecessor, but two months Tempting as it might have been to play it safe splatting a €70 drop of Marsala sauce down your Think again. Matriarch Isabelle, the TIM E WHITE Portugal, so what makes the parsley; head chef genius behind this bijou café, used to be a designer, hints of old Portugal” gooey cups of joy here better than into service Schmidt insists he hasn’t yet felt “the in this altar of gastronomy, Schmidt has already front. Mains here start from just 145DKK (€19), Thorsten Schmidt knows but after losing her job she pursued her dream of anywhere else? Maybe it’s because they’re always “It’s like becoming a master chocolatier. She deftly blends Port / PHOTO Inês Mendonça, co-owner, Cantina 32 piping hot – 48 baked every half-hour. Even holidaying how to warm you up; with Belgian cocoa, then studs it with fresh fruit and Lisbonites confess that these Porto pastries are king. fear”. This may have something to do with the rocked the boat by throwing fine dining out the so you can splat away to your heart’s content. nut garnishes to make the richest, sweetest, tipsy- If you aren’t impressed by the pastel de nata you scoff staff prepare for dinner making treats you ever did try. here, you eat for free. fact that long-time pal and Noma chieftain René window in favour of cooking with beer and… Unsurprisingly, given the origins of the ANDY HILL service; vanilla ice cream SAVOUR THIS The ultimate Port-wine hot chocolate.