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Hello from Marrakech, which you can read about next month. For now, we already have much of the world covered – read below for quick bites. You can also click straight through for Seven Sensational Hotels for Faces, for Insider thoughts from the Executive Chairman of the Jumeirah Group, Gerald Lawless, and style from Marcel Levy. Away-nights take us to England. Here, too, below, you have WOWconfidential.
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WOW.travel stops by The Lausanne Palace
In Lausanne, Switzerland, we went to talk with Jean-Jacques Gauer, whose many important hats include chairing The Leading Hotels of the World. He also runs one of Switzerland’s best hotels, The Lausanne Palace – read more here.
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Rain or no rain? Plan of Rain Reduction at the Asian Games won't let that happen
It will not rain in Guangzhou, China, on November 12th or 27th, 2009. The organizers of the 16th Asian Games have a Plan of Rain Reduction, using liquid nitrogen, dry ice and silver iodide, for the Games’ opening and closing ceremonies at the city’s 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium.
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Learn about these cuddly water dogs at VILA VITA Parc
Learn about Portuguese water dogs at VILA VITA Parc, in the Algarve. New Director of Portuguese Hospitality, Manuela Felgueiras, will introduce you to top breeders of Portuguese water dogs and to noted Portuguese fashion and jewelry designers.
VILA VITA Parc, Porches, Portugal
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Ojai Valley Inn & Spa hosts the Celebrity Chef Classic
We love food, and golf and natural beauty. Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, 90 minutes’ drive from Los Angeles, hosts its Celebrity Chef Classic November 13-15, 2009: golfing chefs include Alan Wong from the Pineapple Room, Honolulu.
Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, Ojai, United States
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Abu Dhabi Art at the Vitra Design Museum - check it out!
Abu Dhabi Art runs November 19-22, 2009 (it includes a panel, Sunday November 22, 2009, at Vitra Design Museum, with Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, London). This month, InterContinental Abu Dhabi’s Yacht Club lounge is a year old: book your table, and your favorite vodka bottle, far ahead.
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WOW.travel catches up with Marcel Levy, MD of The Eden
In Rome, we caught up with our good friend Marcel Levy, MD of The Eden – he knows what is going on before it happens! Read about his elegant taste in this month's style report here.
Hotel Eden, Rome, Italy
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Bee-keeping at The Fairmont Royal York
In Toronto, WOW.travel was introduced to bee-keeping on the rooftop of The Fairmont Royal York – read more about this here.
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The Pierre, a Taj Hotel stars in 'Mad Men'
Mad Men, AMC Cable’s very-American Sundays soap on 1960s Madison Avenue advertising, showed Duck Phllips (photo) and Peggy Olson ‘enjoying’ themselves at The Pierre, a Taj Hotel. Rush to New York to recreate the happening, and watch the appropriate DVD, followed by a glass of Veuve Clicquot in the must-visit Two-E lounge.
The Pierre, A Taj Hotel, New York, United States
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Fans of middle eastern design will love Bokja
The buzz is about Bokja furniture, designed by Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri in Beirut, Lebanon. By the way, Four Seasons Hotel Beirut opens next month, with a 26th floor rooftop pool.
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Hullett House heralds a new age of appreciation for old Hong Kong
Hullett House, an amazing conversion of Hong Kong’s 1881 Marine Police HQ, opens November 2nd, 2009 – and GM Phil Oakden showed us around. Each of ten suites is divinely unique – and you have five sensational restaurants, and great retail.
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Sydney's Sculpture by the Sea
Sydney’s 12th annual Sculpture by the Sea, created by David Handley, runs through to November 15th, 2009 - shown, Mark McClelland’s She Thought. And, talking of Australia, read about an exciting outback station here.
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Jimmy Choo President Tamara Mellon launches her collection at H&M
On November 14th, 2009, Jimmy Choo President Tamara Mellon launches a collection with Swedish fashion chain H&M (she follows designer Matthew Williamson): she’s also doing a psychedelic Aids-awareness collection with Sir Elton John, Project PEP.
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WOW.travel stays at Four Seasons Dublin
Singer Brian Kennedy’s retrospective The First Twenty Years is scheduled for Dublin, November 21st, 2009 - on our last visit, we stayed at one of Ireland’s best hotels, Four Seasons Dublin (shown, GM José Soriano, right, and his predecessor John Brennan, left).
Four Seasons Hotel Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Halloween fun at Kiwi Collection
Yes, as always, the WOW.travel team, and its kiwicollection.com siblings, travels and reports on your behalf (by the way we also enjoy ourselves – see our Halloween party, in our Vancouver base – but no, Brian, Erik, Bradley and Mary did NOT get dressed up).
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