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Dressed in a reindeer costume, Prince George enjoys his first Christmas, surrounded by all four generations of the Royal Family.
As well as delighted parents William and Kate, there’s uncle Harry in the role of Santa Claus.
And the Queen, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall also make an appearance.
At first glance, you’d be forgiven for thinking you are privy to an advance sneak peek into the Royal family’s Christmas album.
But not is all as it seems. For this Sandringham scene has been created by spoof photographer Alison Jackson, using lookalikes.




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THIS could be the best thing you’ll see all week. It could even make you believe in Santa again.
Pl click the link below for video and story as appeared in news .com.au on 11.12.13 !!!
Instead of hitting passengers with flight delays, lost luggage dramas or other holiday horrors, an airline has provided a different kind of Christmas travel surprise.
Many are even calling it a Christmas “miracle”.
Canadian airline WestJet asked a group of 250 passengers at Toronto and Hamilton International Airports what they had on their Christmas wishlists via an interactive Santa Claus.
Requests ranged from underwear to a big-screen TV.
When the passenger boarded their flight, airline staff took off – but they didn’t join the passengers in the air, instead they dashed to the shopping centre.
More than 150 WestJet employees played the part of Santa’s elves by purchasing personalised gifts, wrapping them and getting them to the Calgary airport before the passenger landed.
The passengers were truly surprised when they made their way through baggage claim to find their dream gifts waiting for them.
The four-month-long project was turned into an ad for the airline.
WestJet announced they will also five away holiday flights to families in need if the video exceeded 200,000 views. It has achieved well over that, and is currently at over two million hits.
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natarajan …11.12.13
MASSIVE, beautiful, weird, wonderful, futuristic and fun.
Here are some of the world’s best – and the downright craziest – airport interiors, according to travel website Skyscanner.com.au .
1. Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok, Thailand
Ancient meets modern minimalism in the main concourse of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, designed by Helmut Jahn. Suvarnabhumi – “the airport of smiles” – has the proud claim to fame of the world’s tallest freestanding control tower (123 metres if you were wondering).

Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok
2. Beijing Capital International, China
Beijing’s Terminal 3, built in time to cope with the extra millions of passengers coming for the 2008 Olympic Games, is the second largest airport terminal in the world after Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 3 (more of that later).

Beijing Airport.
3. Chicago O’Hare, US
Moving walkways are cool, but colourful moving walkways, like this one in Chicago, are cooler. Along with going on the monorail back and forth between terminals, jumping off the end of “travelators”, as they’re sometimes called, is one of the most fun ways to spend your time at an airport.

Chicago O’Hare.
4. Singapore Changi
The departure lounge at Singapore’s Changi airport looks like it was modelled on an imaginary retro-futuristic fast food outlet. Or Universal Studios. Or maybe a flying saucer landed on the first floor food court? Check out the matching floor and ceiling too.

Changi Airport.

5. Dubai International, UAE
Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport is, you guessed it, the single largest building in the world by floor space. It’s Dubai, what do you expect, small and subtle?

Dubai Airport.
6. Lyon St. Exupery, France
If you arrive at Lyon’s St. Exupéry Airport by TGV or the Rhône Express from the city centre, it’s a long walk to check-in, especially if you’re laden down with bags and you’re leaving from Terminal 3. But do look up to appreciate the architecture


If you can get over the sensation that you are under attack from a swarm of alien jellyfish, and that you have landed in Madrid in 1968, appreciate the wonder of the arrival hall at Barajas, which looks like an unused set from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

8. Munich, Germany
Horizontalators don’t come much more D.I.S.C.O. than this example at Munich Airport. They really should pump out Stayin’ Alive. You’ll catch Saturday night fever even if it’s Monday morning.

9. Charles de Gaulle, Paris
If, like the author, you missed your flight home from Paris because you were toasting your engagement with a bottle of champers on a bench outside Charles de Gaulle, then spent five hours drinking gin, slumped staring at the ceiling, this view will be familiar.

10. Shanghai Pudong, China
Asia boasts some of the world’s most architecturally-exciting airports, and Shanghai Pudong International is no exception. The exterior of Terminal 1 is shaped like waves, while arrival by escalator feels like an ascent into a sci-fi flick version of heaven

11. Ronald Reagan Washington National, US
There’s no mistaking which country you’re in, however jet-lagged you’re feeling. The Reagan’s classical style, redolent of tearful goodbyes in a 1920s railway station, eschewts the futurism of most major international airports.

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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