The Happier the Hotelier, The Happier the Guest
Via the Core 77 Design Blog I found:
Ane Lykke, a Danish designer with a textile design background who designed the entrance doors for the Exhibition Hall in Copenhagen.
I will disclose the main reason for this post later, maybe much later.
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.
Darren Cronian was the guy behind the Travel Rants Blog. Unfortunately he discontinued the blog later. Earlier I posted already about him.
I have a weak spot for him, because, in comments to a post about The Happy Hotelier he urged me to go on with this Blog and work hard on it, which I did since.
In a recent interview in Europe a la carte we learn a bit more about Darren:
His business is World Wide Holiday Homes. He developped this site into a business after his parents bought a holiday home in Spain which they wanted to rent. Ha ha, he obliged them by building a whole imperium of a website around the idea of setting up a site to rent the family property.
He was once asked to find a mud hut in Kenya as a vacation home and found it. This is not so strange and also not so difficult, as more than 2/3 of the world population lives in a mud house. Only we in the West usually are not aware of this fact. An important source for anything about adobe, earth, mud or straw bale building is this impressive Blog: Earth Architecture.
Actually I had collected already some links to mud hotels and vacation rentals in the past:
Out there there must be some more very luxurious earth lodges as well.
As sustainable or green holidays are becoming more and more an important factors in traveling, I believe earthen, clay, mud or adobe accommodations will get more and more attention and are worth while a consideration. Also in my own place I have experimented successfully with pigmented clay plastered walls that contain the central heating pipes.
Finally: a special way of spending your holiday is a working holiday where you learn how to build or decorate a home with earth/clay/mud.
Who has more sustainable accommodation suggestions?
If you want to know who is linking to your site Backlink Watch gives a simple to use and, compared to Yahoo’s and Google’s similar tools, reasonable complete overview of sites that link back to the site you enter.
And here ladies and gentlemen you see the bath tub where our dear Queen Beatrix, Crown Prince Willem and/or his Maxima and kids splash around, when they are on holiday in Patagonia.
How do I know? because an indiscreet hotelier mentioned them (and John Major) in an interview as guests visiting her hotel Las Balsas in Patagonia.
I am sure the paparazzi love this sort of information, but our Royalties will certainly not appreciate this indiscretion. What do you think?