Rose Cantine

So no one could spot the irony, eh? Here it is: (1) This sign is affixed on the outdoor dining tables in Yosemite Park. It is sponsored by Coca Cola, a manufacturer of sugary sweet drinks, not exactly health food. (2) If the food is bad for animals — all that salt, fat and preservatives [...]

Guido van den Elshout, owner of the glam boutique hotel, Haagsche Suites in The Hague, interviewed me and posted my responses to ten questions ranging from my favorite travel destinations to top three tips for visitors to San Francisco. Find out where I like to hangout in SF and Amsterdam, what I love and despise [...]

I came across the Guerilla Gardening movement after reading this article on Salon. Richard Reynolds decided to weed and plant flowers in a neglected area of his London neighborhood, surreptitiously in the wee hours of the morning. Unwittingly he had joined a secret society of humans around the world who are beautifying their communities, often [...]

Marketwatch columnist Chris Plummer makes several arguments as to why high gasoline prices are good for the US. It’s one of the more lucid articles on the subject.
As oil prices climb, we’ve seen politicians call for a moratorium on the gasoline tax. In Europe, they’re calling for a lowering of the high benzine tax, too. [...]

The historic events of May 1968 — the student revolt and workers’ strikes — have been captured on film and camera but where are they now? A remarkable website created by the French newspaper Liberation has compiled many of the videos and images, a lot of them never seen before. Go to http://mai68.ina.fr.
I saw [...]

[Oops, I bought Societe Generale]

I was in Munich this week for the DLD conference and one of the first things I did was to head straight for the Gmund store on the Prannerstrasse next to the Bayerischer Hof hotel. Gmund is a Bavarian paper making firm that dates back to 1829. It is named after Gmund am Tegernsee, the [...]