Happy Hotelier

When you have named your Blog Happy Hotelier and you encounter a Blogger, K (Karen?) Cooper, an artist and writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY, and who named her Blog Hoping for Happy Accidents you have to acknowledge it. Common elements/interests? A lot of design, she dreams of living on a houseboat and has something […]

Amrâth Exterior

On June 8, 2007, only a couple of months later than planned, the new five star Grand Hotel Amrâth Amsterdam opened in the beautiful historic Art Deco building, the “Scheepvaarthuis” (The Shipping Companies’ Building) once belonging to the rich Amsterdam shipping companies.
The shipping companies have long disappeared, and their ships no longer proudly […]

Lobby of Design Hotel Bergere in Maastricht

Recently Dutch privately owned Eden Hotel Group (E.H.G.), established in 1977, acquired four hotels:

March 5, 2007 the Eden Crown Hotel in Eindhoven, 130 rooms.
March 27, 2007 the Sofitel in The Hague which has been renamed into Hotel Eden Babylon, 143 rooms.
June 1, 2007 the Holiday Inn in […]

Sad! This will be my last post about the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. We are now 1/2 hour in the fifth race. The Kiwis have won 4 races already. They only need one more win. They are approximately 100m in the lead in the second leg of this fifth race. I think it highly unlikely […]

Grijs Logo

I discovered Grijs, a nice Blog with a nice style about Dutch Design and more important in the English language. Started in January, 2007 by a Dutch lady and mainly about European design.

A few minutes ago Emirates team New Zealand has won the first of the best of 9 match races in the Louis Vuitton Cup Finale with a 45 m lead (only 8 seconds delta) over Italian Luna Rossa Team.