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My First Golf Lesson @ The Golf & Spa Resort Andreus

Posted on June 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

I’m on the road to S. Leonardo in Passiria,

where I will have my first golf lesson (of my life!), with Daniel Fink, the handsome young local champion. Me and golf, it’s a bit like me and yoga (!): NO connection, but am curious!

The Golf and Spa Resort Andreus (picture 1) includes the 18-hole course “Passeier Meran“: 60 hectares with seven lakes in a beautiful natural setting. One of the most beautiful golf courses in the Süd Tirol.

Now it’s raining and we’re heading to the indoor practice (photo below: Mirror my beautiful mirror, tell me that I have the right gesture!). The parctice is the “training area with practice balls.”

After thousand trials,

wow at length I succeeded to hit few balls well (last pictures: Okay all of those balls aren’t mine, lol).

We’re going on the pitch and putt: patience game to put the ball in the hole, it gets on my nerves (lol)! I even forget the rain! I do prefer the practice, more fun!

My arm and shoulders are a bit painful. Course done, I head to the beauty center of the resort area, for a neck massage. To be continued …

Informations

www.andreus.it, www.suedtirol.info, www.meranerland.com, www.suedtirols-sueden.info, www.lufthansa.com

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Many thanks for this beautiful invitation to Suedtirol and Lufthansa. As always these opinions are my own.

The Lancaster Hotel, Paris: Visiting the Marlene Dietrich Suite with Valentino Piazzi, the Manager of the Lancaster

Posted on January 30, 2012 | 1 comment

“Perfection doesn’t exist, but the excellence to make well, and to like what we make: yes.” Valentino Piazzi opens the door of the Marlene Dietrich suite, while we can hear the “Lili Marlene” song. Awsome! Beteween 1936 and 1939, the famous actress and singer lived there. If the suite was recently renewed, the grand piano, the furniture, the parquet, the lamps, the photos are of origin. Built in 1889, the Lancaster has this undefinable charm of the ancient luxury hotels. We feel like “at home“. For the general manager of the Lancaster who has a long experience of luxury hotels (the Ritz in Paris, the Savoy in London and the Raffles in Singapour): “It’s always pleasure to work in luxury hotels. There is a nostalgic side. The intensity of the experience which makes the difference. The place, the way you organize work“. I notice the “serenity button” which replaces in all the rooms the inelegant “Do not disturb” hung on in doors of hotels. “I ask to the staff to be thoughtful, but not invading. The hotel must be warm, with a home feeling. If you look for something different: the lancaster is atypical, it is a hotel with a supplement of soul“.