Thanks to Gadling I came across this magnetically floating bed of $ 1,5 mio designed by JanJaap Ruijssenaars of the Amsterdam Firm of Architects Universe Architecture.
Dutch Design (9): The Floating Bed by Janjaap Ruijssenaars
Category: Netherlands
Shortcut: A City Blog about European cities
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 URL as they have moved to another provider.
Finally officially opened: Stadeshuys Stavoren
I have reported earlier about the making of this exceptional 2 suites Bed and Breakfast in Stavoren in 2004 and in 2006.
It has a honeymoon suite with a view that is probably the most beautiful view of The Netherlands. When the suite was half ready we have slept in it as test sleepers.
Saturday 7th April Stadeshuys was officially opened by the Lady of Stavoren, a mythical person in The Netherlands.
Host Pim an hostess Jane welcoming guests for the opening
The Honeymoon Suite with original wall painting
The view from the Honeymoon Suite
The Lady of Stavoren enjoying the view from the Honeymoon Suite’s balcony
The Honeymoon Suite’s bathroom
The view from the Honeymoon Suite’s bath
The other suite: the “Jol” (= Dinghy) Suite
(All photos © Happy Hotelier)
180: Cycling Around The World
180 !
Why 180? Well this is the 180th post published since inception of Happy Hotelier and whenever I see the number I connect it with the triumphant referee in a major Darts Match screaming: “One Hundred and Eieieieietheeeeee!” when one of the competitors hits the top score of three triple twenties. Then I also think immediately of current PDC Darts Champion Barney, also living in The Hague. Yes I am proud and a bit triumphant myself with this 180th post here and am really sorry technically I cannot paste the 180 sound here yet….
As a proud Dutchman I would further like to remind you that The Netherlands is bike country #1 and I switch subject to give you this link to Cycling Around The World of a Dutch couple, Paul van Roekel and Anja de Graaf, who have been cycling the world for many years and who have crated a beautiful and inspiring site about their travels with many photos.
Dutch Design (8): The Senz Storm Umbrella.
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.