Happy 2010, the start of a new decade!
A new web 2.0 social media hotel review project:
Amsterdam counts 350 hotels and Vincent Van Dijk starts his dedicated blog Amsterdam Slaapt (i.e. Amsterdam Sleeps). Each day of 2010 he will tell us about his adventures in one of those 350 hotels, as each day of 2010 he will be sleeping out of his suitcase in one.
As Vincent uses to live and work in The Hague I’m really curious what his experience will be. Especially as my slogan is always: You should party in Amsterdam, but you should sleep in The Hague!
Nevertheless it is an interesting initiative which I will be following closely as he seems to plan to be reporting in Dutch only.
Here is Victor’s first Tweet as @AmsterdamSlaapt
“On January 1, 2010 I’ll start start the hotel project Amsterdam Sleeps in
the stylish Parkhotel Amsterdam.
About Vincent van Dijk
Vincent van Dijk is a food and life style trend watcher and co owner of The Hague (Scheveningen) based ad agency HBMEO. He is a restaurant spotter for the Dutch Restaurant Guide SpecialBite err SpecialBite.com.
Sources in Dutch: Een jaar slapen in A’damse hotels – AT5 Nieuws and Misset Hotel.
October 27, 2009 · 3 comments
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Yesterday, as the first of the 5 or 6 prestigious restaurant guides in The Netherlands, the Dutch version of the Gault Millau Guide presented its 2010 awards and 2010 guide with the best 500 and something Restaurants and best 220 Hotels of The Netherlands here around the corner in The Hague. I’m a bit sad I had to miss the ceremony…so near by.
Today I received the sticker proving the Gault Millau editors deem Haagsche Suites worthy to belong to the best 220 Dutch Hotels in their guide. Thank you Gault Millau for the quick service, that even beats the new listings on your own website :-)
Gault Millau started in France as a restaurant guide in 1969. It was founded by two restaurant critics, Henri Gault (1929-2000) and Christian Millau. The French site is a mere window for their paper guide.
Yesterday the Belgian and Luxemburg Branche of Gault Millau also presented its 2010 Guide and awards.
I grabbed the following from the Misset Horeca Site:
Plaese note the best restaurant has been awarded 20 points out of 20 which is remarkable in the Gault Millau history. At the same time our Belgian neighbors awarded a Dutchman, Roger van Damme the Chef of the year award for his Antwerp based lunches only restaurant.
Gault Millau’s top 13 Restaurants of The Netherlands:
| Points |
Restaurant |
City |
| 20 |
Oud Sluis |
Sluis |
| 19,5 |
Inter Scaldes |
Kruiningen |
| 19,5 |
Beluga |
Maastricht |
| 19,5 |
De Librije |
Zwolle |
| 19 |
De Leest |
Vaassen |
| 18 |
La Rive Amstel Hotel |
Amsterdam |
| 18 |
Chalet Royal |
Den Bosch |
| 18 |
De Lindenhof |
Giethoorn |
| 18 |
De Bokkedoorns |
Overveen |
| 18 |
Parkheuvel |
Rotterdam |
| 18 |
De Zwethheul |
Schipluiden |
| 18 |
De Leuf |
Ubachsberg |
| 18 |
‘t Brouwerskolkje |
Overveen |
Two of those top restaurants, Parkheuvel and De Zwetheul are easy to reach for a dinner when staying in Haagsche Suites.
Two other Restaurants Calla’s and Seinpost who also earned good points are even nearer to Haagsche Suites. Seinpost has the best wine food combining sommelier of 2010.
Austria, Italy, Germany and Switzerland each have their own Gault Millau guides.The US and the UK have their Gayot guides. Gayot was a friend of Gault and Millau and they published joint guides until a schism in 2000.
Gault Millau is said to be the guide of the food purists more than the Guide Michelin….
I love this picture. It is part of a video by Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla that fetched a whopping £ 39,650 ($ 64,550) at a Christie’s sale in London, today:
A simple dream of mine – Just motor-boating the inland canals, rivers and lakes all year long – in its most simplified form.
South America First!
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Rio Wins 2016 Olympic Games in a First for South America
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COPENHAGEN — The Olympics were awarded to a South American city for the first time when the International Olympic Committee on Friday voted for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Games.
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Last week an anti terrorism squad lifted the director of the The Hague Todays Art festival from his bed with brutal violence and force. The reason was the posters the Todays Art Festival organization had spread over the town, just before the Dutch Queen addressing Dutch Parliament for the opening of the Dutch Parliamentary Year and just after remembering 09/11. I can understand that the Dutch anti terrorism persons are a bit itchy, especially after the 2009 Queens day attack by just another moron, but this action is a bit (to say the least) far fetched.
Here you see the Peace Palace against a lot of smoke.
A bit suggestive poster, yes off course, but that’s what art is about sometimes…get people thinking about their situation. A poster in blue….a bit suggestive no more than that. How worked up can you get when you claim that such poster invites terrorists to copy the outcome…..
Here you see a crater and some damage of the The Hague Town Hall.
This action of the Dutch police makes me think the repression by governments, their agencies and the politicians is going way too far again and we may need another 60ies movement to make people aware of the idiocies of repression. Luckily the director refused to take the posters down
This year’s Todays Art festival has as theme Conflict.
On Twitter they are known as @TodaysArt. I’m asking my readers for a bit support for them. Getting lifted from your bed and being interrogated by an anti terrorism squad is not nothing, if your only aim is to give the city a nice festival.
I’m looking forward to this fifth edition. Last year I enjoyed myself tremendously.
