The Happier the Hotelier, the Happier the Guest!
Posted in Africa, Art, High Five, Hotels, Inspiration, Luxury, T-List, The Hague, Travel, Twitter on Jun 4th, 2008
My High Five no 2 are for:
11 Bizarre Hotels That Will Knock Your Socks Off, most of them featured at my Unusual Hotels page or on the site Unusual Hotels of the World One minus in the post: I know that “Amsterdam” always draws visitore to your post, but this time the Dock Crane hotel [...]
Posted in Art, Berlin, Germany, Hotels, Pod Hotel, Street Art, Unusual on May 30th, 2008
When I wrote about this now closed Berlin object of art/experimental one room billboard hotel in December 2007, I didn’t imagine that people would actually sleep in it. I visited it in March when I was in Berlin for ITB Berlin. Henri Roelings, who is one of the guys behind WiWiH (Who Is Who [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art, Netherlands, New York City, The Hague, USA on Mar 20th, 2008
Titled Whitney Museum to Receive $131 Million Gift, Carol Vogel of The New York Times reports that Leonard A. Lauder, chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies and, according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth of $3.2 billion in 2007, said on Tuesday in a telephone interview that his art foundation would give the [...]
The Finger of Suspicion by Lisa Roet
Fellow Travel Blogger Darren Cronian informs us in his Compulsory Fingerprinting to be introduced in UK Airports that soon to be opened Heathrow terminal 5 will have installed fingerprint taking machines and that more airports will follow suit.
Many of my posts are inspired by mere association. As soon as [...]
Posted in Art, Austria, City Marketing, Hotels, Promotions, Switzerland, Things to do on Jan 1st, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Art, Street Art, Unusual on Dec 4th, 2007
Istanbul Asus Laptop Cow
Catching up, because there are many posts in statu nascendi (draft form), but every time I want to catch up , something else draws my attention.
I always wanted to start a Street Art Tag.
This summer Istanbul served as background for the Cow Parade. I took some pictures in September. The three [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art, Canada, Design, Germany, Things to do on Nov 18th, 2007
ROM CRYSTAL napkin sketch
On june 2, 2007 The official opening of the ROM extension was celebrated. The what extension? The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Who’s Crystal?
Okay okay I’ll try to explain.
The ROM is not Read Only Memory, but the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. The Piano is not Renzo Piano, but a real piano (see [...]
Posted in Art, Blogs, City Marketing, Photos, The Hague on Nov 10th, 2007
Suitcase in A Bottle by Ram Katzir
Behind I O U
Photo © Happy Hotelier
I spotted her earlier - a great find - through Technorati tag “The Hague”: The Hague Daily Photo Blog, but I was a bit curious whether she would continue her venture on a regular basis as she started in September 2007 only.
Lezard is [...]
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