Philadelphia International Airport will soon be allowing non-flyers to go airside.
This week in travel news: a record-breaking temple has opened, one of Europe’s best cities is reinventing （重新改造）itself and a Japanese airplane encountered a weighty issue.
Like old times at the airport
Remember when you could escort （护送）a friend or relative to their airport gate and wave goodbye? That’s not typically been an option since security stepped up （加强）post 9/11.
On November 1, Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) will debut （初次登场）Wingmate, a program that allows some non-travelers to apply for passes that will let them access the post-security area of the domestic （本地的国内的）section of the airport.
And Philadelphia isn’t the only one bringing the practice back. Tulsa, Detroit, Seattle and New Orleans are among the other American airports running similar programs.
That’s good news for anyone who wants to surprise their loved one with an airport proposal.
Whether it’s paella, onigiri, arancini or jollof, one thing is clear: the world loves rice.
As a staple（钉住，分级） for more than half the people in the world, rice comes in a range of colors and textures, but many cultures interpret the grain in their own way.
This roundup （综述）reveals 20 of the best rice dishes from around the world. Whether it’s wrapped inside a bamboo leaf, mixed with coconut or rolled into a ball, there’s one thing we can guarantee – you’ll be really hungry after you read this.
These days, it’s one of Europe’s most popular cities for tourists, but postcard-pretty Budapest （布达佩斯）wasn’t always a happy place.
Following the collapse（崩溃） of communism and the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Hungarian capital has rebuilt and reimagined itself.
But the city also won’t gloss over （掩盖）its past. The fashionable Ruin Bar district, the House of Terror Museum and Memento Park, where Soviet statues go to “retire” from public view, have become some of Budapest’s major attractions.
As CNN’s Richard Quest and Joe Minihane put it（正如什么说的）, Budapest “is a city steadfast （坚定的）in raising up its traditions and culture in the face of adversity.”
The largest Hindu temple in the United States made a splashy （引人注目）debut in New Jersey earlier this month.
By the numbers: BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham spreads across more than 180 acres, is 191 feet tall, uses 2 million cubic feet of stone and features 10,000 statues.
It’s located in Robbinsville, New Jersey, about 62 miles southwest of New York City. Some call BAPS the largest Hindu temple outside of India, but that depends who you ask – the Angkor Wat （吴哥窑）complex in Cambodia is larger but not used for religious purposes these days.
