My office is close to the main airport in the Netherlands, Schiphol. I took this picture on my lunch break. The landing strip is just about 500 meters from my office. If I look through the windows on the east side of the building I see planes taking off and landing all the time from this landing strip. Through the north looking windows we see the traffic control tower and planes landing, taking off and taxiing.

I love airports. The buildings are often interesting structures and outside these buildings these magnificent titanium and aluminium planes take off and land. Inside the airport you find a mix of people coming from all over the world. There are interesting luxurious shops and supermarkets. Schiphol is one of the few places where I can get the cooled Japanese tea that I like so much. The same supermarket also sells one of my favourite Japanese beers and so far it’s the only place where I can find maple syrup. Bookstores sell newspapers and magazines you can’t find easily find elsewhere.

In the lobby of our hotel there’s an aquarium, the aquadome. The largest cylindrical aquarium in the world. Hilarious.