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Trying to Find Sleep in Difficult Places

Thanks to Allison for sending in these photos of her and a friend “trying” to sleep in Barcelona El Prat. You can read about her interesting adventure here.

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Self airportraits

Self airportraits

Its been a while since I’ve added some of the self airportraits that you’ve generously sent into the site.  My Bamboo pen had been missing since December, but I found it in the junk drawer and I’m all fired up to start scribbling on your photos again.  If you have any photos that you would [...]

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Rule # 12: dress for airport temperatures

Rule # 12: dress for airport temperatures

Whether it is summer or winter, you have to dress in layers and be sure to pack warm clothing in your carry-on.  Some airports use air-conditioning when it is not necessary, don’t use air-conditioning when it is necessary or they don’t use heating when it is needed.  This could result in some discomfort if you [...]

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Self airportraits: London Heathrow

Thanks to these sisters for sending in this pic!  Here they are catching some rays as they slept at London’s Heathrow airport en-route to Copenhagen.  Note to Heathrow sleepers, bring your shades and some SPF if you can fit it into your liquids and gels allowance. READ MORE ABOUT SLEEPING AND TANNING AT LONDON’S HEATHROW [...]

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Jetlagged

Davey, a long time friend of sleepinginairports.com and writer of a few memorable stories around here, sent me this photo and accompanying story last night.  I wish he would sleep in more airports as his stories are always so funny.  As promised, I’ve given him the black box of shame to disguise his identity.  ) [...]

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Self airportraits: Toronto

I figure since I have been begging all of you for your airport pics, I might as well add a few of my own.  This is me at Toronto Terminal 3 (US Departures) in September 2008.  I found an empty gate and set up my camera.  I wasn’t alone though as there were several security [...]

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Self airportraits: Helsinki

Special thanks to Ben for sending in a few super cool looking photos of London Gatwick airport (sorry for the delay in getting them up). When you are bored in the airport with nothing to do, we run a little feature here called “Self air-portraits“.  Boredom brings out the self-portrait artists in a lot of [...]

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