Category: lodgings

  • W Barcelona

    I (Chris) attended a week-long business conference in Barcelona. The organizer chose its venue at the “W” on the city’s waterfront ! The hotel is built on land reclaimed from the sea during construction of a new entrance to the harbor. Upon arrival, there was a long line to check-in. It was almost 4:30pm. When I…

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  • Interlaken – part 2

    Continuing with our long weekend in Interlaken … Interlaken’s hotels are expensive and they are often fully booked. Our hotel is BeauSite located in the next town – Unterseen. It is a family-owned hotel which has a nice little seating area in front and ample parking spaces. It was impossible to find parking in Interlaken…

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  • Interlaken – part 1

    We spent a long weekend in Interlaken at the end of August. Without having consulted any official statistics, Interlaken is I think the most visited place in Switzerland. Lucern is a close second. It is situated between two mountain lakes. The city is built for tourism. Its name was originally Aarmühle but it was changed in 1891.…

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  • Thierry Marx’s Sur Mesure, Paris

    Continuing with our impromptu gastronomic tour of Paris … Beside Passage 53 (posted here), another 2-star restaurant we went to was Thierry Marx‘s Sur Mesure in the Mandarin Oriental on Rue Saint-Honoré.   The interior of the restaurant is rather unusual. The walls and the ceiling are all covered by white leather and occasionally, the leather…

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