I'm headed out to the world-renowned TED conference early tomorrow morning-- I received an invite for last year's event but unfortunately wasn't able to attend. I had plenty of warning this time around and I've honestly never been this excited…
Continue Reading →With a few free hours on my last rain filled afternoon in Amsterdam I made it over to Droog@Home, the design gallery, shop and offices of what some are calling the Dutch design super-humans. Having seen dozens of pictures of…
Continue Reading →When I went back to my 'Siberian' hometown recently, the new rave were these Toyo Microbit Tires. People who live in the Colorado Rockies drive on snow and ice during the majority of the year, so they don't skimp when…
Continue Reading →Best described as darlingly innovative cuisine, we had a chance to dine at Beddingtons Saturday evening in Amsterdam. Usually a near impossible reservation to get, we lucked out with a cancellation literally seconds before we called to inquire. Jean Beddington,…
Continue Reading →Another gem of a shop I ran into today was Universe on a T-Shirt, a small workshop space on Bloemdwarsstraat, off the busy street of Rozengracht. They primarily sell t-shirt and sweatshirts on which they hand print their sometimes elaborate…
Continue Reading →The best shops in Amsterdam seem to be the ones I stumble in to accidentally. It seems like most of the popular shops readers have told me to go to so far overall are pretty lack-luster and over hyped. For…
Continue Reading →Yamazato is a traditional Japanese restaurant tucked on the ground floor of Amsterdam's Hotel Okura. Zagat readers gave their nod to the restaurant as being one of the best Japanese restaurants in the whole of Europe-- and being the Asian…
Continue Reading →I touched down in Amsterdam late Saturday afternoon, welcomed by torrential downpours and incredibly overcast skies-- just my luck! I used some of the evening catching up on emails in my hotel downtown before heading out to dinner at a…
Continue Reading →I'm sure many (if not all of you) have seen those pay-per-use charging stations at airports recently. Doesn't that make you mad-- or at the very least puzzled-- that airports are trying to charge you to juice up your electronic…
Continue Reading →A late arrival in London last evening left me at myhotel (no pun intended) famished. I stumbled down the road to a gem of a restaurant called Patara. With locations in South Kensington, Knightsbridge, Oxford Circus and Soho, the self-proclaimed…
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