Posted in City Marketing, Netherlands, Switzerland on June 29th, 2008 No Comments »
With Spain we have a worthy European Football Champion now that it defeated Germany with 1-0.
In Basel the Dutch team lost from the Russians under a Dutch coach.
Yesterday The Swiss City of Basel thanked the Dutch Football fans in an ad of a whole page in a Dutch Newspaper for the good time they [...]
Posted in Austria, Dutch Design, Inspiration, Promotions, Switzerland, UK on June 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Aanvallah (source Arab_Lab Loves Aanvallah)
According to Tjebbe, who initiated this media project to get Muslims united with the Dutch soccer team, and Dutch people with their neighbors, this will be the T-Shirt of choice for the Dutch Football Fans who will visit the 2008 EK Football (European Soccer Championship) that starts today in Switzerland and [...]
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 General, History, Hotels, Luxury, Switzerland on January 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Well not really under, but more on the rocks with a lot of snow:
We spent our annual holiday on the slopes of the Swiss Alps. Skiing away with nice fresh snow and gorgeous weather. I must admit I was on the verge of posting here. However, I chose to have some more quality time with [...]
Posted in Art, Austria, City Marketing, Hotels, Promotions, Switzerland, Things to do on January 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Georges Prêtre
For us 2008 started traditionally with viewing the Vienna New Year’s Concert.
This time the French conductor Georges Prêtre was invited by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct this concert.
The vital 83 year old conductor delivered an excellent job and gained a standing ovation from the the very critical Viennese public that seldom stands up [...]
Posted in Austria, Belgium, Blogs, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey on April 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Today I discovered the nicely written Shortcut, A European City Blog with a nice lay out. It writes about 17 European cities.
It used to write about upcoming events, but nowadays in true web 2.0 style it links through to Yahoo’s Upcoming.
A pity Shortcut don’t feature The Hague.
Go enjoy yourself!
Added July 1, 2007
I changed the [...]
Posted in Been There, Luxury, News, Suite Talk, Switzerland on January 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Yes, I am on the road and slowing down the posting a bit.
Today, I had an excellent lunch in what I believed was an observatory, but turned out to be an extraordinary high hide away above Zermatt in the Swiss Alps at 3100 m above sealevel which is almost two miles high, the 3100 Kulmhotel [...]
Posted in Switzerland, Things to do on August 11th, 2006 No Comments »
After the previous post I couldn’t help but Google with the search term “Bath with a view” and find this Scuol Tarasp Warm Whey Bath.
Like Cleopatra’s usual practice:
An experiences you will one day tell your grandchildren about: Sitting in a wooden tub, high up in the mountains, while the soothing warmth of whey water [...]
