Posted in Design, News, France, Spain, USA, Coming Soon, Hotel Design, Hotels, Paris, Costa Rica 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 […]
Posted in Design, The Making of, Websites, Blogs, Spain, Coming Soon, Web 2.0, Hotel Design, Hotels, Marketing on October 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
El Blog de un Hotel banner
My Blogger friend Albert Barra pointed me to El Blog de un Hotel or The Blog of a Hotel.
Not that I am able to read or write Spanish, but with the help of Google Translate (Beta) I can at least assume I know a bit about what El Blog […]
Thanks to the UK Independent we now know their five best Factory Hotels:
The
Alicia Room Mate Hotel in Madrid, Spain.
The Room Mate history is this:
3 friends, Kike, Carlos and Gorka, having drinks mentioned how there weren’t any hotels in Madrid that would satisfy their needs and those of their friends. So they started wondering what kind […]
The Italians won again against the Yankees. Consequently Luna Rossa now has a 4-1 lead and just need one more win to go to the LV final series of Matchraces which Final series decide who may race against Alinghi.
Luna Rossa Challenge vs BMW ORACLE Racing.
©ACM 2007/Photo’s:Stefano Gattini and Carlo Borlenghi
Ah Maazing semi finals:
Valencia - 18.05.2007 - 16:53
Emirates Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa Challenge take control.
Luna Rossa Challenge has jumped out to a 3-1 series lead over BMW ORACLE Racing at the Louis Vuitton Cup. In these Semi Finals, the first team to […]
Luna Rossa Challenge
Photo by Leggo Online
The LV Ranking link is the quickest way to be kept updated about the current rankings in the semifinals of The Louis Vuitton Cup.
Today at 15.00 hr the second flight will start in the best of nine match races of the LV Cup Semifinals.
Yesterday, in the first flight, USA team […]
Desafío Español 2007.
©ACM 2007/Photo:Stefano Gattin
After today’s races, with one race to go in Round Robin 2, it is clear that my feeling expressed in this post, two days ago, was correct: The Spanish team Desafío Español 2007 will, for the first time for a Spanish Team, compete in the semi finals. The Swedish Team that, […]
The Louis Vuiton Cup is a series of sailing races that decides which of the 11 challengers may challenge the defender, the winner of the former (31st) America’s Cup (also known as “The Auld Mug”) series, Swiss Team Alinghi.
After a couple of fleet races over a couple of years (13 “acts”) where the defender […]
An earlier photo of Team China:
Valencia, 20 04 2007
Louis Vuitton Cup Round Robin 1
Luna Rossa Challenge vs China Team.
ACM 2007/Photo:Carlo Borlenghi
This really amazed me: China Team defeated BMW Oracle team today:
Few would have expected BMW Oracle Racing, leader out of Round Robin One to fall to the bottom ranked boat, China Team. But after showing […]
I have come to translating posts from the other (Dutch) »Weblog from June, 2004 up to June, 2006 and will continue translating, but so much is happening that I have to continue posting in real time and slow down the translating.
No better restart than with this Spanish »Luxury Collection Hotel Marqués De Riscal in […]
Posted in France, Spain on July 20th, 2005 No Comments »
Willem plans a trip from The Netherlands to Barcelona in Spain by car and considers the following hotels as a stop over:
Day 1 - Paris - »Hotel du Petit Moulin
Day 2 - Périgord Noir - »Le canard a trois pattes
Day 3 - Gascogne - »Just 2 suites
Day 4 - Barcelona - »Banys Orientals
German
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch
Greek
Japanese
Korean
Russian
Chinese
