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Living in a Lab New Ways Smarter to Makeourcities Turn P141 to Wifi? Onboard Our Access to Want Want to access our onboard WiFi? Turn to p141 The Seattle sound 30 years on, how grunge took over the world Motel California The retro stop-offs making a comeback Ear we go! Why podcasts are inspiring us to travel Living in a lab We check out the Amsterdam district that’s testing new ways to make our cities smarter 2019 MAY 001-Cover.indd 1 16/04/2019 09:00 Flying to... Route list Providence? Fly to/from destinations: D-L New routes Denver, USA Haugesund, Norway London/Gatwick, UK London/Gatwick, Paris/CDG Oslo Algarve/Faro, Alicante, Austin, Barcelona, Bergen, Boston, Dubai, UAE Helsinki, Finland Buenos Aires, Chicago, The Dean Hotel Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm Agadir, Alicante, Athens, Copenhagen, Corfu, Crete/ STAY Barcelona, Budapest, Burgas, Chania, Denver, Dubrovnik, Our favourite kind of hotel, the Dublin, Ireland Copenhagen, Corfu, Crete/ Gothenburg, Gran Canaria, Dean is a hang-out for locals as Copenhagen, Hamilton-Toronto, Chania, Cyprus/Larnaca, Helsinki, Ibiza, Kefalonia, Las well as tourists, thanks to its beer New York/Newburgh-Stewart, Dubrovnik, Gdansk, Gran Vegas, Los Angeles, Madrid, Oslo, Providence/Boston, Canaria, Kittilä, Krakòw, Málaga, Mallorca/Palma, hall, karaoke bar, cocktail den and Stockholm London/Gatwick, Málaga, Miami, New York/JFK, Orlando, coffee shop. The 50-odd rooms are Mallorca/Palma, Marrakech, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro, Rovaniemi, tastefully augmented with found Dubrovnik, Croatia Nice, Oslo, Oulu, Paris/Orly, San Francisco, Santorini, Seattle, objects, and the overall effect is cool, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Madrid, Pisa, Pristina, Pula, Rhodes, Sicily/Catania, Split, Stavanger, Oslo, Stockholm Rome/Fiumicino, Rovaniemi, Stockholm, Tampa, Tenerife, calm and cosy. thedeanhotel.com Salzburg, Split, Stockholm, Tel Tromsø, Trondheim Düsseldorf, Germany Aviv, Tenerife, Tivat, Varna, Alicante, Gran Canaria, Málaga, Venice Longyearbyen, Norway Mallorca/Palma, Tenerife Oslo Ibiza, Spain Edinburgh, UK Copenhagen, London/Gatwick, Los Angeles, USA Copenhagen, New York/ Oslo Barcelona, Copenhagen, Newburgh-Stewart, Oslo, London/Gatwick, Madrid, Providence/Boston, Stockholm Iguazú, Argentina Oslo, Paris/CDG, Rome/ Buenos Aires Fiumicino, Stockholm Florida-Ft Lauderdale/Miami, USA Karlstad, Sweden Luleå, Sweden Barcelona, Copenhagen, Oslo, Gran Canaria Stockholm Paris/CDG, Stockholm Kefalonia, Greece Fuerteventura, Spain London/Gatwick, Oslo Oslo, Stockholm EAT Durk’s Bar-B-Q Kirkenes, Norway This Texas-style barbecue Gdansk, Poland Oslo, Tromsø Helsinki, Oslo joint on College Hill may look Kiruna, Sweden unprepossessing, but the chow Geneva, Switzerland Stockholm speaks for itself – from low ’n’ slow Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm WORDS: TOM HOWELLS. PHOTOS: CHRISTIAN HARDER, ANGEL TUCKER, DESPINA DURAND DESPINA TUCKER, ANGEL HARDER, CHRISTIAN PHOTOS: HOWELLS. TOM WORDS: Kittilä, Finland smoked ribs and brisket to Rhode Gothenburg, Sweden Alicante, Helsinki Island’s best burger, all washed down Barcelona, Crete/Chania, Gran with the daily changing house punch. Canaria, London/Gatwick, Kos, Greece Málaga, Mallorca/Palma, Nice, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm durksbbq.com Pristina, Salzburg, Sarajevo, Split, Stockholm, Tenerife Krabi, Thailand Copenhagen, Oslo, Gran Canaria, Spain Stockholm Aalborg, Barcelona, Bergen, Bodø, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Krakòw, Poland Evenes, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Karlstad, London/ Helsinki, Oslo, Stavanger, Gatwick, Madrid, Málaga, Stockholm, Trondheim Munich, Oslo, Oulu, Sandefjord/ Torp, Stavanger, Stockholm, Kristiansand, Norway Tromsø, Trondheim Oslo Grenoble, France Lakselv, Norway Stockholm Oslo Hamburg, Germany Lanzarote, Spain DO Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Gran Canaria, Málaga, Oslo, Oslo Providence-born HP Lovecraft is now Tenerife a cult figure, and the early 20th- Las Vegas, USA Hamilton-Toronto, Canada London/Gatwick century horror writer inspires plenty Dublin of ghoulish pilgrimages to the city. Lefkada, Greece Fans should head to this dark, dinky Harstad/Narvik (Evenes), Copenhagen, Oslo Norway arcade emporium for their fill of Alicante, Bergen, Gran Canaria, Lisbon, Portugal weird literature and other eldritch Oslo, Trondheim Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm ephemera. weirdprovidence.org 126 122-130_Airline-maps.indd 126 16/04/2019 09:30.
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