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Since The Hague took over an Alderman from Amsterdam who introduced the successful slogan/city logo:

I Amsterdam
which slogan/city logo made The Hague envious, it is not so strange that The Hague gave the same Alderman a free hand in launching a new logo for the city The Hague - also known as “’s-Gravenhage” or “Den […]

Guillaume Thevenot, a 31 yr French male and former Parisian living in London for about 5 years and working in the online hospitality industry, writes the interesting Blog »Hotel Blogs and noted my post on Herbert Ypma’s site »Hip Hotels.

Darren Cronian, a 33 yr old male of Leeds, UK, devoted a very kind post to Happy Hotelier, trying to induce me to write more posts….I answered I didn’t need more incentives, but simply more time….Thank you for this referral, Darren!
Darren answered he works full time for a large organisation, runs a travel accommodation […]

Recently »Hotel Maximilian opened after a renovation led by »Eva Jiricna Architects who is based in London.
Its building goes back to the roaring twenties and was redone in the early days after the transition from communism and now again in 2006 to make it more of a design hotel.
70 standard / superior rooms, 1 suite […]

Usually a glossy starts a blog or weblog. Now The Cool Hunter has a few exciting projects in the works, which will be announced in the next few weeks.
One upcoming project is the release of a series of Cool Hunter branded lifestyle books, together with Harper Collins Publishing, with content from the pages;of The Cool […]

Recently, I stayed a couple of days in »Propeller Island City Lodge in Berlin with a bunch (about 20) of babyboomers.
It was a lot of fun having some members of the group remembering their backpacking and youth hostel (youthstel?) days (waaay back!) as the down to earth design of the rooms forced some of us […]

Frequently Vienna is our travel destination: Be it to visit family or to show Dutch friends around this charming city. Hence my more than average attention for Vienna and now some attention for Andreas Augustin who was born in Vienna in 1956 and recently paid some attention to one of my favourite grand old ladies […]

I have come to translating posts from the other (Dutch) »Weblog from June, 2004 up to June, 2006 and will continue translating, but so much is happening that I have to continue posting in real time and slow down the translating.

No better restart than with this Spanish »Luxury Collection Hotel Marqués De Riscal in […]