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The research for the European Cooking Trip has taken over one year now. My intern Laura Duhme has created a giant marketing communication plan on which she successfully graduated. The locations in the various countries were carefully selected on historic background, accessibility and the variety of the surroundings.

In the last week of August 2010 it came to a test phase of this trip: I traveled through Europe to calculate the distances in real time, meet the locals that are going to give the cooking courses in each country and visit the appropriate accommodations for my future clients.

I didn’t go on this test drive in the van that will be used during the final trips, I drove it in my small Seat Marbella Fun from 1995, which got quite some comments from my friends. “That car won’t even make it to France!”.

With Paris, France, as the starting point, I drove down the toll roads south into the Dordogne, a département in the south-west of France.

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Last week I was asked for a fashion shoot at a the Dutch Arts University in Utrecht. Mariana Fernandes from Portugal lead a class designing used clothing into something new.

The model is Sarah Jane de Basagoiti.
Shot with my Sony DSLR-A350 at the studio of the university.

Check out the final photos here.

Want to find out how luxury hotels are going to look five years from now? I suggest you should go to Bali. The paradise Indonesian island is a virtual trend-lab for luxury hotels, and the place to experience the most stylish hotels with the most lavish levels of service. And for once it is less expensive to try the original than the copy: these heavenly properties are often surprisingly affordable. Read the rest of this entry »