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Queen Beatrix by Anton Corbijn

Today is our Queen’s 70th birthday. The official celebration will be 30 April, the date of her mother’s birthday, so declared in deference to Juliana by Beatrix when she was crowned Queen of the Netherlands.
According to Elsevier the official photos for this milestone were commissioned to famous pop photographer Anton […]

Marriott and Schrager, (Boyscouts?)

In a meeting today in Beverly Hills Ian Schrager and J.W. Marriott, Jr. will introduce the name Edition for their earlier announced venture. They will announce signed development deals with the first properties being opened in 2010. They have reached agreements with developers for the first nine of what eventually could be […]

Well not really under, but more on the rocks with a lot of snow:
We spent our annual holiday on the slopes of the Swiss Alps. Skiing away with nice fresh snow and gorgeous weather. I must admit I was on the verge of posting here. However, I chose to have some more quality time with […]

The logo of a Scout or a Backpacker?

Another community of Travel Bloggers that I had spotted earlier but lost the url of is Travel Blogs Com “Handpicked tales from the road”. It says:
TravelBlogs.com brings the internet’s best narrative travel blogs together into one place.
The writers we feature may be well known travel writers; or they […]

The Travel Blog Carnival Week 2

Darren is struggling with the huge number of Travel Blog Posts that are being submitted. But Darren very cleverly asks various Bloggers to give their reviews and also provides for a backup in case a chosen reviewer is not able to post. So he invited me to give my choice […]

The Travel Blog Carnival is taking off

For week 2 Claude Benard of Les Explorers made the choice.
A Travel Blog Carnival Logo?
In the meantime Claude also made various proposals for a new logo in his post Travel Blog Carnival Logo: Please make your Choice.
My first reaction (and comment) was:
“Thinking Carnival is Thinking Rio. why not put […]

Pff
I have tried to make it more web 2.0 worthy, but to no avail.
At least I have now a reasonable complete list which fits again here in the Blog. I have also taken out some double entries. I have not taken out all double entries, because it is funny to see what happens when you […]

Karen Bryan of Europe A La Carte started the Carnival with the first post in this series which eventually will count 52 posts in 2008: Welcome to the First Travel Blog Carnival.
Karen’s selection:

Ely, MN - Pristine Wilderness, Without The Crowds posted by Nate on Your Daily Vacation;
Dusseldorf : Museum Kunst Palast on High […]

Travel Blog Carnival Logo Suggestion

Somewhere down the road in 2007 I suggested that the T-List members (a list of Travel related Blogs, see also my latest compiled T List counting over 250 Travel Blogs) should become more of a community and maybe post a weekly or monthly recap posts of posts they find interesting in […]

Georges Prêtre

For us 2008 started traditionally with viewing the Vienna New Year’s Concert.
This time the French conductor Georges Prêtre was invited by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct this concert.
The vital 83 year old conductor delivered an excellent job and gained a standing ovation from the the very critical Viennese public that seldom stands up […]