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As always Kiwi Collection is covering the world for you – see below, some of the places we have been (and right now Philippe is in Vancouver, Erik is in Beijing, Bradley is in Sydney and Mary is in the English countryside, in the rain). Read below for quick bites - you can also click straight through for Seven Sensational Hotels for kids, for insider thoughts from Hershel Sarbin and style from Jacques and Ineke Hamburger. Away-night takes us to Miami. Here, too, below, you have WOWconfidential.
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WOW.travel & Kiwi Collection go paintballing
One of the many highlights of the last month was WOW.travel’s paintballing afternoon in Vancouver. We joined up for this impact-ful team-building with our colleagues from Kiwi Collection.
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Mount Kenya Safari Club offers a unique blend of comfort, relaxation and adventure
In Kenya, Serge Simard, VP Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, took us to the beautiful Mount Kenya Safari Club, so long associated with William Holden. Read about our trip to Kenya here.
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Check out The Sartorialist style blog!
Style is - oh so simple (read this month's style report here). Shown, a man in Florence, featured on a favorite real-fashion blog, conceived by New York resident Scott Schuman - read more about this here.
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John O'Sullivan at the Henley-on-Thames Literary Festival
Poet John O’Sullivan speaks at the Henley-on-Thames Literary Festival October 2nd, 2009, and some of his paintings are showing at the Gaya Gallery, Bali, October 6-30, 2009 (he is also the beloved GM of Four Seasons Resorts Bali).
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WOW.travel relaxes at the Spa at Icon Brickell, Viceroy Miami
In Miami, we went to visit Florent Gateau, GM of Viceroy Miami on Brickell (that’s the famous Philippe Starck spa chandelier, behind). Read what it is like staying in one of Florida’s best hotels here.
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Change your rush hour with BIXI
We are thrilled that Montreal’s BIXI rent-a-bike scheme will launch in Boston (2,500 bikes) and London (6,000 bikes) in 2010. Michel Dallaire has seven patents for the wireless-activated concept: the aluminum bikes have GPS chips that slow down, locking brakes, if not returned.
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Going on a family vacation? Check out our top hotels for kids!
The new youngsters’ play room at Reid’s Palace, Madeira, is attracting a lot of interest – from all ages. Click here to see a selection of other best hotels around the world that kids love to visit (so their parents come too).
Reid's Palace, Madeira, Portugal
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Seaweed butter is the newest culinary craze!
We were introduced to artisan Jean-Yves Bordier’s designer butters by Omer Acar, GM of Ritz Paris, here, at the chef’s private dining table - a miniscule taste of Bordier’s seaweed butter, alone, on your tongue, is as heavenly as foie gras.
Ritz Paris, Paris, France
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Kempinski Hotel Bahia Estepona's organic garden impresses
Talking of food, Kempinski Hotel Bahia Estepona’s organic garden, overseen by chef Jordi Bataller and organic specialist Alfonso, is, we hear, coming up with nearly all the fresh produce for its 45-seat Alminar restaurant.
Kempinski Hotel Bahia Estepona, Costa del Sol, Spain
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Fall in love with Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
It's time to travel to Brazil - to Foz do Iguacu (Iguazu Falls) to be
exact: the photo shows one of its 270-odd falls, Devil’s Mouth. Hotel das Cataratas, the only hotel in the Iguaçu National Park, is now an Orient-Express hotel.
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Experience beach yoga at Madinat Jumeirah
And it’s time to rejuvenate. In Dubai, at times of full moon Talise Spa offers Bikram Yoga at Madinat Jumeirah’s private beach. You listen to the sounds of gentle waves and classical Indian music.
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Guy Laliberte is about to become Canada's first private space explorer
On October 9th, 2009, Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil and first Canadian ‘space tourist’, will broadcast down to earth, to 14 world cities, linking Al Gore and U2, on behalf of his charity One Drop Foundation. Laliberté was waved off at his blast-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by our good friend Sean O’Donnell, owner of Quintessence, Mont Tremblant.
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Coming up next month...
In November, Seven Sensational Hotels for your face. But click
through now to read the style of Jacques and Ineke Hamburger, seen here in the fabulous Saturday market at Carcassonne, October 3rd, 2009. This month you also have Seven Sensational Hotels for Kids, insider thoughts from luxury travel writer Hershel Sarbin, a concierge's ideas for Cairo, our restaurant is in Shanghai and Away-night takes us to Miami. If that is not enough, Around The World takes us to Aberdeen, Bangkok, Evian, Nairobi-Mt Kenya and Sonoma. Have a great month!
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