Travel Innovation & Inspiration Around the World
TRAVEL & INNOVATION JOURNAL
You haven’t missed out folks…
Melbourne, Paris, Boston, Vienna, Sydney, London…they are all here in the Global innovation Travel Journal. For those who came in late, this a journal of meals, art, film and cultural experiences from wherever I am at the time.
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Globally, I have had some really interesting, meals, wines, design, film, architecture, art galleries, museums and conversations, all posted in the travel journal. It’s a neat way to find oplaces to visit in your city, or for that matter what to eat & Drink when you visit. It is also truthful, and not pretentious (i.e. not only Michelin!). And I don’t just visit the places in the guide-books.
Where’s cultured, innovative and inspirating?
Just follow the links below to go to the site. At current I am in Melbourne, but it has been through Paris, Vienna, Boston, London, Sydney and more destinations will be added on, on my next research trip into global innovation for 2thinknowTM. Adelaide & Perth are coming up, and later I may also publish research notes from previous visits.
Melbourne, June 12, 2007 - Melbourne Inspiration Art & Food
A breakfast at home, was Greek Bread from Prahran and NZ cheddar. Mmmm… also, some Greek yoghurt from Farmers Union, with mandarin pieces…. Tom Roberts had painted a number of world class … Likewise Streeton, Condor and especially Roberts had a huge contribution to the modern art, but under-rated globally… We drink the excellent Tahbilk 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon, a rich complex > MORE
Melbourne, June 9, 2007 - Melbourne Innovative Food
I miss France. Melbourne is obsessed with France at current, it’s going off for Francophiles, and of course I love French food, humour, intellectualism and rather unfashionably I guarantee with French trade policy ..I’m in a cafe here, I speak the language, and I am sitting at communal tables, and as most people come here in groups… MORE
Melbourne, June 4, 2007 - Melbourne Innovative Food
Monday. Groan. Wrote about Sunday’s food adventures, today some organic raspberries from Flinder St New organic supermarket (in Melbourne CBD) are possibly the best raspberries I have ever had,… Breakfast then was organic raspberries in Greek yoghurt, … work I go out & have a espresso from Cafe Mediterraneum and blueberry muffin. MORE
Sydney, Australia, May 29, 2007 - Parramatta, Sydney, food
Take off on the 9am Qantas flight to Sydney after breakfast raisin toast & coffee (again). I like flying Qantas, as they know how to run an airline, and despite Australian’s gripes at times, those complaining should go to the USA, where in many cases airlines are very poor. Blame Chapter 11. Enjoy my seat in economy and Luken May biscuit, … MORE
Melbourne, May 28, 2007 - Melbourne Innovative Food
Some scones from the Greek baker in Prahran, and some St Dalfours’ jam from France for a quick breakfast before off to the office.
Work on some projects before a lunch at Mrs Parmas, a pub-cafe dedicated to the Melbourne institution of the parma! Parmigianna (assuming I can spell it!) is an Italian dish of flattened chicken or veal, breadcrumbed, MORE
Sydney, Australia, May 24, 2007 - Parramatta, SYDNEY HERE
You know my jacket didn’t button yesterday. I started off a 48″ and now I have mostly 56″ suits, and I have my first 58″ … breakfast of cereals, pancakes with lemon & sugar and yoghurt. If I was to eat that in America, I’d be sick because of the sugar content…George at Simply Divine for a good black espresso (2-3 shots in a cup with hot water); and … Barramundi, salad & chips from Cafe Ziggy’s. Fish MORE
Sydney, Australia, May 23, 2007 SYDNEY HERE
Wake-up early … no breakfast included here, head around to Simple Divine in the Brand-Smart in Church St, where my friend makes a great coffee. (… early lunch is found in the hotel, the Crowne Plaza Parramatta, with a rather nice club sandwich with turkey and bacon, and the obligatory fries. MORE
Melbourne, May 21, 2007 Monday MELBOURNE HERE
Breakfast is a rather interesting Fruit loaf by … Queen Victoria Markets, where it is better. Café Au Soleil, in Royal Arcade is my mid-morning coffee, where I am writing this from. I have a home-made Madeline (French sweet cake). Support small business, guardians of diversity, especially MORE
Melbourne, May 19, 2007 Saturday MELBOURNE HERE
So a 5am wake-up, as my body clock still on Overseas time. Watched an excellent Hercule Poirot movie, with David Suchet, who is the best. The cute little Belgian with ‘little grey cells’ he plays to perfection.
Breakfast is Greek Bread and New Zealand Cheddar with some Victorian butter from regional Victoria. Sometimes the simplest meals are the best, the cheese & butter come from the greek-Australians… MORE
Melbourne - 17 May, 2007 MELBOURNE HERE
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Over coming weeks when the mood strikes, I will be posting various Fried Chicken innovation stories- bad change (anti-innovation) …
Melbourne — 16 May, 2007 MELBOURNE HERE
Terry Wogan and Eurovision and whingeing Brits… Sydney Qantas Club, work a little, clear out the 1000 or so emails I have been filing without reading…. home made pancakes, bacon and ice-cream, with real Canadian maple syrup. Before you go yuck, it actually tastes good. You can substitute French Blueberry Jam. St Dalfours! MORE
Day 22: London — 13 May, 2007 LONDON HERE
Breakfast is very enjoyable. They have a club floor, and I am impressed by the very high number of healthy and fresh choices. Cereals, berries, good yoghurt, fruit, cold cuts, bread all fresh. Excellent one of the best small buffet breakfasts I have seen…Very relaxing, and my thinking flows… MORE…
Vienna, Austria > Vienna Blog
Day 19: Vienna — 11 May, 2007 VIENNA HERE
Are the English spreading the bad food gene even to the “city of culture”…
Day 18: Vienna — 10 May, 2007 VIENNA HERE
Nice enough room at Bristol on 6th floor… for the Cafe Frauenhuber, for a Lunch. I haven’t actually had a meal since breakfast yesterday …Wiener schnitzel, baked potatoes, palatschinken (crepes) and 2 double expressos. Finally a decent meal. …visit Julius Meinl … upscale grocery store and coffee maker, I visit the one at the end of the Kartner Strasse. Meinl coffee is great, if I wasn’t …private party with musicians, so I decide …why isolationism and loneliness is so popular a choice in English-speaking countries … like a bug under a Hum-vee. …remember this suit in Washington DC more>
London, UK > London Blog
Day 17: London — 9th May, 2007 LONDON HERE
What a difference a day makes…. freight elevator/machinery plant. 2am and it’s Tony Blairs dull hum of state again …was a quiet room… discussing and making fun of guests in front of me. He keeps disappearing… I hate London, chock full of unimportant wankers, who think they are just ‘filling in’ a job, until they become the next next … an Amsterdam sprint to the wrong gate …I am considering to Air France/KLM or Austrian. Qantas is still my favourite,..
Day 16: London — 8th May, 2007 LONDON HERE
Well, that’s a little better, showered, shave and a working toilet. Bonus. The Tony Blair Gulag hum is still there from air-con plant, but the shower drowns it out. …Breakfast is a organic yoghurt, ‘classic’ blueberrry muffin (classic = sugar + fat), an orange juice and an Americano …check in is handled by a Slovene baggage clerk, a Viennese check-in girl, and I drink coffee made by a Parisian. Only decent coffee I had in London, and … more
Day 15: London — 7th May, 2007 LONDON HERE
PRAISE: Air France Lounge, monkeys
CONDEMN: Sheraton Park lane,
MISS: Paris dearly, bye bye, petit mon ami Paris (my Francais is limited… so….)
Land after London flight. The Air France lounge at Charles De Gaulle decent (been here before twice). Very comfy, … tall guy doing a choo-choo through a metal detector, … Sheraton Park lane… toilet not fixed, so I ask for a change. …Beethovens 5th symphony … her the monkey and organ grinder story and tell her she should rent the room as the $29 special…. more
Paris, France > Paris Blog
PRAISE: Paris, St Germain, the tube, and Parisian local bakeries…
READ ALSO: Sarkozy, brasseries, and why paris is lucky!
Day 15: Paris — 7th May, 2007 > PARIS HERE
So I posted the Sarkozy story here, it attracted some interest, … opinions of French-born and migrants alike, and most of you I spoke to voted centrist, and equally hated Royale and Sarkozy. I hadn’t heard much of your voices in the press, … In Melbourne, Australia apparently 30 seconds coverage, and then 3 minutes on injured Collingwood (football) players. …head out to St Germain, …chicken here tastes like chicken. … St Germain/Montparnasse MORE
Sarkozy Mixed Reaction: Migrants and Little Boys with little signs (see the photo)
Day 14: Paris — 6th May, 2007 > GO TO BLOG RELEASE
SARKOZY ELECTION Result - 2 REACTIONS
I was live outside Fouquets, when Sarkozy arrived got a great photo, one I rushed up here of this kid holding a sign saying “Youth for Nicolas Sarkozy”. At the same time many of you whom I have spoken to feel he is “another Bush”.
PARIS, FRANCE — from the Prince De Gaulle hotel, 33 Avenue George V
… VIEW the Blog Release here
Or View the rest of the Paris Blog: Louvre, pompidou, Orsay and foooood.
London, UK > GO TO BLOG
PRAISE: British Airways, Cabin Food, Polish & Hungarians, Innovation
READ ALSO: Sheraton Heathrow, Investment Bankers, Not eating alone doesn’t work!
Day 11: Heathrow — May 3rd, 2007 > GO TO PAGE
Work until 1am GMT. I care about innovation, put out a call earlier for global creative conversation. … Breakfast is Special K, and British yoghurt with sugar. …What I notice in Britain is everyone whispers before > MORE
Vienna, Austria GO TO PAGE >
PRAISE: Hotel Bristol, British Airways, Vienna, Viennese food, Vienna Culture
READ ALSO: Not eating alone does work!
Day 8: Vienna — April 30th, 2007 GO TO PAGE >
The Bristol is a great hotel, and I find the room’s very inspiring. No two are identical, or certainly of the many I have stayed in none are the same.
Breakfast at Cafe Tirolerhof, Wiener Frühstück: large bread basket, plus beautiful schinken (ham) and Kase (cheese). Great Espresso, not as strong as Melbourne, but perfectly done. Inspires my writing talents, and I start.
Walk down through Hofburg Palace, taking a new route, always worth a look, but my most inspirational museum is the Kunsthistoriches Museum.
Day 9: Vienna — May 1st, 2007 GO TO PAGE >
It is daylight, woken by room service breakfast at Bristol Hotel. Wonderful breakfast, Viennese style. Cold cuts, cheese, sausages, bread basket, OJ and coffee pot. Yum… still eating at lunch. If you are the sort of enlightened eater who enjoys beautiful food, this will suit you. wunderbar!
London Heathrow GO TO BLOG >
CONDEMN: Heathrow, pretty much it really, a long rant…
Day 7: Heathrow — 29th April, 2007 GO TO PAGE >
Breakfast on the BA Club world. … Arrive at Dante’s 5th circle of Hell, sorry Heathrow. Creativity, originality and common sense die here. … it takes me 15 minutes to empty my pockets and shuffle my bag to fit laptop inside. Paranoid, as I have lost passports, money and a wedding ring (my suspicion) in security before…. Told in a whisper you can’t complain otherwise you might be arrested, by BA Staff. Is this fascism, communism or another -ism? Really!
Boston, USA GO TO BLOG >
PRAISE: Boston, Fine Art, Boston restaurant, Bouchee, Harvard and Borders, MORE
READ ALSO: Why Conference Hotels are no good, Anybody eat something NOT sweet?
Day 4: Boston — 26th April, 2007 GO TO PAGE >
Dinner Bouchee. French American Style. Wow. Prompt service, a great steak and a flatbread you must try. Wine list pricey, but good. My single wine by the glass, was quality and tasted like ‘just poured’. My wife has a divine chicken pilaf, just right as ‘Americanised French’. An exemplary dining experience.
You folks who order the same thing, be adventurous, …
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