Playing The Fields

Playing the FieldsThe Jet-stream ease of modern travel has played havoc with the voyager who would impress by the classic gambit of geographical namedropping. Gone are the days when one could incite envy among one's friends by casual mention of Paris, Tokyo or Bombay; try it today and--comes the yawn. Familiarity has bred, if not contempt, at least a modicum of ennui.Happily, the practitioners of travel one-upmanship have recently devised a new ploy: the delightful discovery that airport names a...