Bastide Saint Mathieu: Entrance
I’ve preluded to this review a long time ago in French Riviera and The Art of Booking Online: Nothing Zen! Part 3. I didn’t publish this review earlier, because I had terrible problems organizing my photos last year. That problem I only solved recently.
Front
In July 2007 we were probably among the last [...]
Posted in France, Hotels, Luxury, Paris on June 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
Planning a trip to Paris? Don’t plan without reading this Times Online article The Complete Guide to Paris Style Hotels, where Steve Keenan summarizes in a well written and well documented article some of the best hotels in Paris.
I had featured some on the list already. But there are new surprises.
I have avoided Paris for [...]
Hilarious Quote on T-Shirt
Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are Italian, the Mechanics German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by the Italians.
Unfortunately for the creator I [...]
Always when I want to process some of my pending posts I stumble on something that draws my attention: This time a photo of a beheaded KLM airplane:
Which made me think:”How long will this National Pride of The Netherlands live as a separate brand after the take over by Air France?”
I found the duly photo [...]
Posted in Coming Soon, Costa Rica, Design, France, Hotel Design, Hotels, News, Paris, Spain, USA on January 31st, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Hotel Everland on top of the Palais de Tokyo
Wow! What a view from your room on the Eiffel Tower!
From the roof of the Leipzig Gallery of Contemporary Art the one room (one suite) Hotel Everland has moved to the roof of the Paris Palais de Tokyo where it will receive guests for an overnight stay [...]
Palais de Versailles
Dinner?
On September 17 there will be another Epicurean happening: The US $ 30,000.- pp Dinner of the Chefs. A gastronomic experience, bringing together 38 Michelin stars (16 three stars donated chefs) in the Palais de Versaille.
On arrival at the airport in Paris, the sixty guests will be shuttled in their own limousine to [...]
I wasn’t aware it is almost completely new, at least for The Netherlands, as it appears it was available earlier in the USA, in Taiwan and in France: The Heineken 5 Liter DraughtKeg.
We hosted a party last Monday and someone took a cooled Heineken 5 L DraughtKeg with him and installed it. I noted the [...]
