Posted in Been There, Coming Soon, Germany, Hotel Design, Pod Hotel on August 15th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in France, Germany, Humor, Inspiration, Italy, Quote of the day, Switzerland, UK on June 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Art, Berlin, Germany, Hotels, Pod Hotel, Street Art, Unusual on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
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 Bed and Breakfast, Been There, Germany, Hotels, Luxury on April 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Today a short review of Pension Manfred Klauss, because one of our Austrian relatives called for their address and I want to be able to find its address back here at my blog.
This little Inn (”Pension” in German) is located between Wurzburg and Nurnberg in Germany.
This is about half way between The Netherlands and Vienna [...]
Posted in Berlin, Blogs, Germany, Hoteliers, Hotels, Internet, Luxury, Rants, T-List, Travel, WIP, Web 2.0, Websites, Zen on March 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Where to stay in Berlin?
General
So I will be meeting a couple of fellow Travel Bloggers (T-Listers) at the PhoCusWright Travel bloggers Summit.
As a hotelier, my primary focus is Luxury Hotels, although I must admit that anyone who sees the various subjects covered here, might doubt that.
I use the tag Nothing Zen, because when you [...]
Posted in Been There, Berlin, Blogs, Germany, Hoteliers, Hotels, Internet, Luxury, T-List, Travel, WIP, Web 2.0, Websites, Zen on February 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Event
I am looking forward to the opportunity: On March 5 and 6, 2008 I will be meeting a couple of fellow Travel Bloggers (T-Listers) at a Travel bloggers Summit at ITB Berlin (International Travel Boerse (or Fair), Berlin.
More about the Summit itself later. For now a link to the Blog that has been launched [...]
Posted in Germany, Pod Hotel, Street Art on December 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Where
Located on Death Strip, the piece of land along the former Berlin Wall where people used to be shot and now a waste land dedicated to sculptures, French artist Etienne Boulanger formed a one room hotel between billboards. It definitely is a Room without a View. A night costs a mere Euro 20.- (approx US [...]
Posted in Architecture, Art, Canada, Design, Germany, Things to do on November 18th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
