Feed on
Posts
Comments

Monthly Archive for August, 2008

Recently, on recommendation of a friend, we stayed three nights in the Motel One Munich City Ost. It is important to mention the “City Ost” part in its name, as currently Munich has three and soon will have four Motel Ones. Currently, in Germany there are already 21 Motel Ones and they are expanding rapidly.
Why [...]

Read Full Post »

The Final Announcement:
Thecoolhunter.net - The Cool Hunter Book Publishing Series (our first book)

The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms - the first in a series of the cool hunter-branded books has been published by Harper Collins Publishers (US). Next in the line will be The World’s Coolest Houses, The World’s Most Creative Work Environments, The World’s Most [...]

Read Full Post »

Project Syndicate

Project Syndicate
is a not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to fostering global debate on issues shaping the world today. Our organization has rapidly risen to the forefront of the international print media market as the premier provider of the highest quality opinion and commentary content. In the last years, the number of member newspapers has [...]

Read Full Post »

Rose of The Day (1)

MMe Isaac Pereire

Another subject: Roses. I have been a rose aficionado for quite some time. Here I am experimenting a bit with Flickr. A recent photo that I uploaded and embedded in the blog….et voilá….quite simple: one of the nicest Bourbon roses on a rainy day.

Sphere: Related Content

Read Full Post »

Recently my friend and fellow travel blogger Guillaume Thevenot of Hotel Blogs ranted in Hotel Blog Rants about PR about all the stupid press releases you get in your mailbox as a Travel Blogger. I get my fair part of nonsense as well.
However, Sue Heady, Director of Communications of the new Pantin Hotels Group did [...]

Read Full Post »

I hinted already in my High Five (4) post to the extensive list of Woman Travel Bloggers from DeliciousBaby, but then I didn’t fully realize what was going on.
This is what happened:
There was a meet up of the BlogHer community of female bloggers in SFO. Several female travel bloggers had a separate meet up with [...]

Read Full Post »

Hospitality veteran Johan Neppelenbroek had set up Historic Hotels of The Benelux as a split off from Erfgoedlogies in order to enable this group of hotels to join the international network of Historic Hotels.
As of August 1, 2008 Annemarieke van der Velden (see photo) has taken over Johan’s position. Johan’s investment in the [...]

Read Full Post »

Chubby Hubby

Clearing up and posting old drafts:
I came across Chubby Hubby a long time ago, wanted to feature it and then it landed on my back burner. The photo is one of his while he reviews El Bulli. Wow do I envy him:-)
This blog started as an experiment. Then it became an addiction.
In early 2005, I [...]

Read Full Post »

« Newer Posts - Older Posts »