What: Hotel Gran Meliá de Mar
Where: Palma, Mallorca
Welcome to the five-star hotel Gran Meliá de Mar Mallorca and the bay of Illetas!
It is no secret that the Mallorcan government wants to enhance the image of the popular Balearic island. More luxury tourism instead of the typical S’Arenal …
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What: Traveling with MS Europa 2
Where: Greek Aegean Sea
Part II
The luxury ship MS Europa 2 infront of the Greek island of Naxos, the third leg of my cruise. What I experienced during the first days on board, you will find here
Half of my childhood I spent …
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What: Traveling with the MS Europa 2
Where: Greek Aegean
Part I
Passing Rhodes’s historian city wall and the marina to MS Europa 2
Half of my childhood I spent on the sea. As a captain for a Hamburg shipping company, my father drove a reefer ship, so-called banana boats, …
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What: Hotel Sacher
Where: Vienna, Austria
In the legendary “Blue Bar” at the Sacher Hotel, where Graham Greene got his inspirations for his famous classic novel “The Third Man”
Do you know, what the English writer Graham Greene inspired to his legendary novel “The Third Man”? A drink …
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Where: Paris, Saint-Germain
What: Boutique Hotel
The hotel lobby, designed by fashion designer Christian Lacroix
First of all, I love, love, love Paris! The “savoir de vivre“, the elegance of the city and its inhabitants, the cultural offerings have already fascinated me when I lived in Paris as …
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What: Astier de Villatte, Ceramics-Manufactory
Where: Paris
Admirers of the cultivated table culture: these china dishes will delight you!
I have a distinctive weakness for fine china. Whether KPM or Dibbern, Rosenthal or Meißen, inherited, bought, or received as a gift: At home mountains of china pile up ‘till they …
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What: Louis Vuitton Exhibition “Volez, Voguez, Voyagez”
Where: Grand Palais, Paris
The Louis Vuitton-Exhibition “Volez, Voguez, Voyagez” (flying, sailing, traveling) is currently shown at the Grand Palais in Paris
I still remember my first Louis Vuitton-Handbag: the ‘Speedy’, a classical bag, which my grandmother gave me for my passed “Abitur” …
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Who: Claudia Weidung-Anders
Where: Klostergut Besselich, Germany
Pure idyll: Since one year Claudia Weidung-Anders resides in Klostergut Besselich in Urbar near Koblenz with her showroom ‘Home & Dogs’ *
Do you know that feeling when you enter a shop thinking, wow, how beautiful, I wanna have it all! Such a …
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Who: Gabriele Frantzen, Accessory Designer
Where: Munich, Germany
Time for a break: Gabriele Frantzen at the cozy fireplace. At her arm she wears the ‘Watch-Candy’ from her new collection. Her styling tip: consciously over the blouse!
Her jewelry is available in New York, London and Berlin. And she’s also regularly …
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