I’m a bit sad: I remembered a nice Blog writing about cultural traveling in Europe. I had to dig deep in my memory and remembered my friend Karen had referred to the blog in one of her Travel Carnival posts. It appeared to be in her First Travel Carnival:She had pointed me to High Culture on a low Budget. I’m sad because Olivia apparently ceased writing for the Blog Since June 2008. Curious what’s happening.

Katharina Fritsch: Mouse

I have written on other occasions about our little cultural travel group of friends that we have coined “Art en Route” and travels occasionally to see modern art. Recently we visited Düsseldorf to soak up some modern art. For us Baby Boomers art, design, music, dance, but also good wining and dining are excellent excuses to travel. Therefor I introduce a new category to my blog “Cultural Travel”

Katharina Fritsch: Monk, Doctor and Salesman

I have several posts in my sleeve, but will start with a couple of sculptures of Katharina Fritsch that belong to the K21 Art Collection im Standeshaus. The Standeshaus appeared to be a very nice Museum in the middle of a park. Apart from its facade it had been demolished and rebuild entirely and has a glass roof like some other museums have nowadays. Nowhere on its site is there any information about this renovation after which it became the home of the 21st century art collection of the Art Collection of the German Nordrhein-Westfalen state. I like the building, its location and its restaurant.

Katharina Fritsch: Mouse and Man, Monk, Doctor and Salesman

I am impressed by these sculptures and the fact that K21 devotes a whole room to her.
Katharina Fritsch does not seem to have a website. At present she is a Professor at the German Münster art academy and there is some info about her on Wiki.
I have uploaded more photos to my Flickr Set Katharina Fritsch at K21 im Standeshaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, in case you are interested.

If you search her on Flickr, you’ll get a nice collections of her sculptures.

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I wouldn’t have thought that so soon after my post Quote of the Day (6) The Future: Back to the Past - Knitting, I would find more examples of this trend: Deputy Dog has a nice and informative post Urban Knitting: The most inoffensive Graffiti about the various forms of guerrilla knitting. I agree. It is the most inoffensive form of graffiti.

Knitted Road Signs

The video is hilarious:

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This one is from Deeply Superficial People

Added 2:

The Theresa Honeywell Knitted Bike:

Guerrilla Knitting brings us a smile in these dark times after Black Monday.

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The great blog and newssite aggregator Alltop is crunching out their pages like a real www factory. Now they have launched Hotels.Alltop and again you can find Happy Hotelier there.

Thank you Alltop! I have to add a second badge! Yep I like the Kick Ass one.

In addition I’ll have to update my Blogging Hotel Insiders list with some great finds of Alltop.

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Carl-Peter Echtermeijer with the 2008 Tripadvisor award

1) Who Are you?

I am currently Assistant General Manager of 2 luxury hotels in Vienna, the famous Grand Hotel Wien, part of Leading Hotels of the World and The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel, a luxury design hotel we opened in 2007

2) What do you like about what you do?

I like working with people for our guests, I like the fact that hotel industry in like ‘theater’, every day and every situation is different, I like facing challenges, making things possible to our clients and guests, having an overall ‘thinking-out-of-the-box’ mentality.

3) What don’t you like about what you do?

This question took me a while to think about, I cannot tell you what I do not like, my personal opinion is that one should see this job as a ‘hobby’……

4) Please tell us all about your blog and your aims with it.

The blog we recently developed and implemented (The Ring Press) for our The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel is meant to inform guests, journalists, actually the on-line community about who we are, what people think and wrote about us and with which partners we work. I personally see this blog as a very unique on-line marketing tool.

5) Your top 3 destination experiences you’ve ever stayed to date and why?

Thailand due to the spa experiences, France due to the excellent food and the French mentality, Holland due to the very open culture and off course….Friesland.

Grand Hotel Wien with the Concierge and Bellboy in the cold

6) Your top 3 accommodations you’ve ever stayed to date and why?

Paris as I wanted to surprise my wife, Bratislava to experience this upcoming city, Garda lake as we (my family and myself) needed a summer break.

7) Your top 3 most memorable food experiences to date and why?

The famous ‘Heuriger’ in Vienna and Austria, this is so typical and so nice….google it and give it a try, our Japanese restaurant ‘Unkai’ as it is indeed the best Japanese food in Vienna…..number 3 is yet to come

8) Your 3 worst destination/ accommodation /food experiences to date and why?

I only had a very bad food experience in Bratislava due to the fact that 1.) the food was terrible and 2.) we were definitely treated like foreigners…..one does not expect that anymore

9) Can you offer the readers 3 travel/ food / accomodation / things to do tips about the city you are currently living in?

Do stay at one of Vienna’s trendy design hotels or at the recently opened ‘Hotel Stadthalle’ (a bit of a ‘green’ hotel focusing on green travel…), visit the ‘Heuriger’ restaurants and do plan culture, culture, culture…..also nightlife is great in Vienna. For dinner : our restaurant ‘at eight’ at The Ring : aroma cuisine, new and spectacular.

The Ring Hotel with its new led Xmas lights

10) Any Question(s) you’d expected me to ask that you would like to answer?

No, I would have asked the same questions and I am so happy to have the opportunity to get presented in this blog. Thank you!

Thank you Carl-Peter!
First congratulations with the Tripadvisor Award! A great achievement! Scondly: I have been informed that your at eight Ring restaurant got a very high Gault Millau rating recently - you should update your Blog!

I will be meeting Carl Peter soon and get a personal tour of this new Viennese Hotel The Ring. Looking forward to it. Stay tuned!

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