Happy Hotelier

When, after a long flight, you are awaiting a bit groggily at the airport luggage check out for your luggage to appear, it can happen that your suitcase travels three times the carousel without you noticing it. At least that has happened to me. That won’t happen anymore when you apply the “Pop Top personalize […]

It was Lorella Van Fossen (from her name I guess she has Dutch ancestry), avid WordPress advocate, who drew my attention to Woopra with her post Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program, starting as follows:
I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at Dallas WordCamp, John Pozadzides (of One Man’s Blog, who works […]

The opening Screen

Some time ago I came across Piclens from the company Cool Iris via a recommendation from Internet Guru Doc Searls. Doc has no search function on his Blog. A severe neglect! At first I couldn’t find his post back.
As an aside: He also recommended Flickrfan in a post Less T, More V […]

Getting organized is high on my wish list. Sometimes I see ideas from the corner of my eyes: I found some ideas, but are curious whether my readers have thoughts on the following gadgets:

BackPack It or
Samurize It or
Springnote it?

Any thoughts?

As a matter of fact I was experimenting with Netvibes and its Ginger version already. Just before noting Travel.Alltop I had made a public page on Netvibes by the name of Happy Hotelier’s Travel Readings, which was inspired by the way Edu Williams had formed his public Turismo (En) page.
Look for yourself if this is […]

Picard Solar Trolley

Need power to charge your camera, Ipod, Iphone or laptop on the road? Take your solar cells covered trolley or bag with you!
The over 75 years young German Company Picard Lederwaren has introduced a solar cell covered trolley and two solar cell covered bags: The Picard Solar Bag and the Picard Solar Messenger […]

With the congestions and waiting lines at the airports this is a nifty gadget: A suitcase trolley with a chair. The only disadvantage is the same as with a convertible car: Not much space for your luggage….or has the demonstrating lady such a large size of shoes?

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 […]

Thanks to Constance, the Blogging Stewardess I came across this nifty gadget of Drybike the umbrella holder to put on your bike.
Very helpful in this rainy country with more bikes (approx 18 mio) than inhabitants (approx 17 mio).
I would advise to use the Senz Storm Umbrella that has less chance to fly away (with you) […]

Three young Dutchman of 27 yrs have designed, developped and launched The Senz Storm Umbrella. It gets a lot of attention worldwide and they won a prestigious German 2007 Red Dot Award.
Even the Red Dot site is not up to date yet:-)
Again a nice amenity/gadget for a hotel.

Nancy Jarecki of NYC hadn’t planned on starting a cosmetics company, until a few years ago she noticed in a Roman hair salon a ritual whereby the ladies leaving the shop got a small envelope from their haircolorist. Asked what that was about, the receptionist answered “Per sotto per farli cobocaiari” meaning “For the hair […]

Hideo Stores stores sells this stylish attache. The designer is Hideo Wakamatsu, a Japanese designer based in Tokyo. He draws on Japanese and French design traditions.
Born and raised in Tokyo, Hideo is the scion of a family business that is Japan’s leading maker of “randoseru”raditional Japanese schoolbags. After studying Japanese and French art and literature […]

PAL-V stands for a hybrid of a car, a motorbike and a gyrocopter: a Personal Air and Land Vehicle. PAL-V is an initiative of Dutch entrepreneur John Bakker. John takes the Carver Technology one step further. The Carver technology has been developped by another Dutchman, Chris van den Brink, who developped the

Carver One, a […]

A bit drowsy from a flight I stood in the luggage reclaim area of Schiphol looking sleepily at the transport band. When I awoke, I realized I had seen my bag circle three times the whole of the band.
Therefore thanks to Gadling for tipping on the clever Tags for Bags.
Next time I will make sure […]

After downloadable Ipod format Audio City Tours some hotels in Amsterdam now have the hand held City Navigator Guide available for rent. It is preferable to a bulky paper guide or card or guidelines of the concierge you’ll not easily remember.
I hope more cities follow fast and that those guides become downloadable for free so […]