Big airports can be stressful, crowded and not least – boring! If your flight get cancelled or delayed it can be really tiresome to wander the airport for hours. Especially for business travellers, families travelling with children and if you are not allowed to leave the airport. For years, only business and first-class passengers have… [Read more…]
May 9, 2012
A smart phone is probably the number one travel gadget anyone can get. Music, flashlight, camera, compass, maps, mailbox and travel guides all in one. Here are my top ten travel apps! In a non hierarchical order. XE Currency - convert the currency of the country you´re trave-ling in to your own currency, and get the real-time exchange rate.… [Read more…]
April 29, 2012
The worlds best restaurant will come to London this summer! Headchef Rene Redzepi and his team of chefs from the Danish restaurant Noma, voted the worlds best restaurant two years in a row, will come to Claridges from 28th July to 6th August 2012. They have created a special five course menu which will reflect the signature flavours and dishes from Noma whilst using… [Read more…]
April 27, 2012
The best part of going to a museum is often to visit the museum shop afterwards (shhh, don’t tell anyone I said that! ), and there are so many good ones. Often you don’t even have to visit the museum or pay an entrance fee to browse in the shop. The museum shops usually have a really… [Read more…]
April 16, 2012
On March 24th, a retrospective exhibition with one of my favorite photographers, Helmut Newton, opened in Paris at Grand Palais. The exhibition features more than two hundred original photographs and a film made by Newton’s wife of sixty years – the photographer June Newton. The exhibition seeks to show that Newton was much more than a fashion… [Read more…]
April 9, 2012
You don’t have to be religious or take any wows of chastity to stay at a convent or a monastery. In fact, convents and monasteries, offer some of the best and most interesting budget accommodation in Europe. A monastery or a convent is a house or complex of buildings that houses a room for prayer, domestic quarters… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
Who can ever get enough of Marilyn Monroe? I can’t and I’m hoping I can go to London before the Marilyn exhibition at the Getty Image Gallery in London closes in May. Marilyn includes imagery from Monroe’s early years as an aspiring actress through to her rise to international stardom. Accompanying the photographs is original film… [Read more…]
March 13, 2012
As the first airport in the world, Sola airport in Stavanger, Norway, is launching a Kissing Point. An employee of the airport got the idea after watching thousands of passengers kissing, crying and saying their goodbyes in front of the security, where only passengers are allowed. He saw that there was a need for a private… [Read more…]
March 7, 2012
From 1 May – 9 July 2012 The Design Museum in London presents the first ever retrospective exhibition of french shoemaker Christian Louboutin! It’s a celebration of his twenty-year career of sculpturous shoes and red soles. Christian Louboutin is inspired by performance, cabaret, showgirls, fantasy and fairy tales, art, architecture, film, landscape and travel. There… [Read more…]
March 4, 2012
To celebrate its 150 years anniversary, famed Parisian Fabricant de Douceurs, Ladurée, will release a special limited-edition box every month for their famous Macarons! First in line is japanese designer Tsumori Chisato, who has been inspired by the cherry blossom season. The Macarons in his box are pink, and filled with cherry ganache! Another good excuse to go to… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012
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