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A Week at the Airport We all spend longer than we would like waiting around in airports, but we rarely discover anything about our fellow travellers or those who work there. In the summer of 2009, however, Alain de Botton was given unprecedented, unrestricted access to wander around Heathrow, one of the world’s biggest airports, having been appointed its Writer-in-Residence. … Read morehttp://alaindebotton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/a-week-at-the-airport1.jpg