Happy Hotelier

I have been busy to start a new photo blog about chairs and chair design: Chair Blog.

After publishing part 1 of this story, I asked my friend the frequently traveling CEO, for suggestions, but alas he had no other suggestions than only Istanbul’s most expensive and luxury top hotels. So there I go with my conclusion in part 1.
My lady friend who organizes the trip for “Art en Route” came up […]

I follow Architecture and Design with keen interest on the web, especially because many Dutchman have become known to stand out in the world of design and architecture.
With what I recently learned from using linkroll scripts from Deli.icio.us, I can easily reproduce a list I found via Archinet on Eikonographia of 25 […]

Today I discovered the nicely written Shortcut, A European City Blog with a nice lay out. It writes about 17 European cities.
It used to write about upcoming events, but nowadays in true web 2.0 style it links through to Yahoo’s Upcoming.
A pity Shortcut don’t feature The Hague.
Go enjoy yourself!
Added July 1, 2007
I changed the […]

Through Trendhunter I became aware of this. Again, as we are getting used to from US source Blogs there is the usual glee about the seediness of the city, also in Second Life, which way of writing about Amsterdam is a popular way of attracting more traffic. I think it is a very narrow minded […]

I have reported earlier about the making of this exceptional 2 suites Bed and Breakfast in Stavoren here and here. It has a honeymoon suite with a view that is probably the most beautiful view of The Netherlands.
Saturday 7th April Stadeshuys was officially opened by the Lady of Stavoren, a mythical person in The Netherlands.

Host […]

Via the Core 77 Design Blog I found:

Ane Lykke, a Danish designer with a textile design background who designed the entrance doors for the Exhibition Hall in Copenhagen.
I will disclose the main reason for this post later, maybe much later.

180 !
Why 180? Well this is the 180th post published since inception of Happy Hotelier and whenever I see the number I connect it with the triumphant referee in a major Darts Match screaming: “One Hundred and Eieieieietheeeeee!” when one of the competitors hits the top score of three triple twenties. Then I also think […]

Picture Adrère Amellal Oasis
Darren Cronian is the guy behind the Travel Rants Blog. Earlier I posted already about his two Blogs.
I have a weak spot for him, because, in comments to a post about The Happy Hotelier he urged me to go on with this Blog and work hard on it, which I did since.
In […]

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