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Yesterday the Kiwis lost a spinnaker (it literally blew up) and subsequently formed a Bra when hoisting the replacing spinnaker. So they lost their race. Today the Swiss won another race and are one win from winning the 32nd America’s Cup. Alinghi-Emirates 4-2. I am glad, because I definitely would like to attend the 33rd […]

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Amstelveen is a suburb of Amsterdam. It has the Cobra Museum, the only museum devoted to the Cobra Group of artists. Actually it should be spelled CoBrA, because its participants came from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.
Corneille (Guillaume Corneille van Beverloo) is the only Cobra member still alive. Soon he’ll […]

After yesterday’s loss today, the Swiss managed to square the Kiwis with a win: 2-2 now and give us the closest America’s Cup match in many years!

Oops, I have changed my 404 template today.
At the bottom of my pages you can see that I am a member of Blogflux.
Blogflux is a combination of several things: A Blog directory that has organized and cataloged about 82,000 blogs by country and by topic (or tag if you whish). They have some Blog tools, […]

As usual, I have many items in mind to post about here. Frequently those subjects land on the back burner when a certain item asks for immediate attention. Today’s find is the Happines Project.
You will probably ask: “What is that about and why are you interested?”
To start with the last question:
My wife and I are […]

Valencia, 24 06 2007
America’s Cup Match by Louis Vuitton
Emirates Team New Zealand.
©ACM 2007/Photo:Guido Trombetta

Day 2 of the best of nine Sailing Match over the 32nd America’s Cup by Louis Vuiton brought a win of the Kiwis Emirates Team New Zealand, over the Swiss Team Alinghi.
Now we are talking! Luckily no walk over from either side […]

In Groningen, one of the smaller Dutch cities up north in the Netherlands, the Dutch Junior (under 21) soccer team beat the Serbian team and won the European Junior Soccer Championship.
In Valencia The Swiss beat the Kiwis in the first best of nine Sailing Match over the America’s Cup with 35 seconds Delta.

Today someone told me that yesterday, June 20, 2007, A Small Hotel, 6 rooms only, opened its doors.
More to follow.

The Hague has a new initiative: “Winkelnach” which means so much as the title of this post indicates. Tonight, June 21st, most shops in the City Center will stay open until midnight. The idea is that it has to become a same sort of happening as “Koninginnenach”, or Queen’s Night, the night before Queens Day […]

I am glad that due to the previous post I am able to copy and paste You Tube videos here. Some interesting thoughts, apparently by an Italian Media company Casaleggio with the unavoidable Italian accent.
I found this presentation on Voysage Blog, by a group of Aussies. Voysage seems to be on the verge of launching […]

I do not particularly like this item. Especially because it enhances the view of foreigners that the Netherlands is full of sex. I don’t like that view. It is not true and there is much more to The Netherlands (or Holland) than over permissiveness. Furthermore I believe the clip is tasteless. So I was hesitant […]

Monet painted his Waterloo Bridge paintings during a stay in the London Savoy Hotel. This painting fetched a record at Christie’s of UK pnd 18 mio which is more than double the pre sale estimate.
From the Lot notes of Christie’s :
‘I adore London, it is a mass, an ensemble, and it is so simple. What […]

Thanks to Gothamist we know that there ar plans for a playground designed by Frank Gehry for the NYC Battery Park, the “Birthplace of NYC”. An excellent example of city marketing I would say.

Recently VibeAgent launched its beta testing … finally…it was supposed to launch half April: As my DW says every day: “I hate those computers, there is always something!”
Eons ago, actually in March 2007, Adam Healy, co founder of VibeAgent, very kindly noted my T-List and L-List page in a post Most Comprehensive List of Travel […]

Just a quick post.
I have a vague plan to re design my own hotel website Haagsche Suites and make it as much W3 compliant and as much based on CSS and Web 2.0 as possible. So from time to time I browse sites as CSS Collections and the other sites listed in the sidebar under […]