San Francisco
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San Francisco/Carmel
Today we went to the south: headed to Carmel and arrived in a golf parc, but after some searching we found the right Carmel with super beautiful streets. From Carmel we drove along the beautiful California Pacific Coast Highway 1, the way to Big Sur. Breathtaking scenery, azure water and rugged cliffs. We felt privileged to experience this beautiful landscape. It had the same atmosphere as the coast line of the Campsbay route from Cape Town and feels laidback like LA.

San Francisco
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San Francisco
We settled down in San Francisco. We did some hilarious shopping on Market Street and bought books at the great bookstore William Stout Architectual Books on Montgomery Street. Books about art, fashion, architecture, life style, travel…a Walhalla! We ended with a nice glass of wine and little bite at the Archive bar & kitchen on Mission Street.

New York
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New York
What a wonderful day in New York City. The weather was magnificent and we started our day in Soho and visited the wonderful bookshop Mc Nally Jackson on Prince Street. Our own Dutch actor Michiel Huisman was represented on a cover of a trendy magazine. We had to make a picture of that! Prince Street is such a nice street. We liked the atmosphere and by chance we came across Ladurée on 396 West Broadway, including the Salon de Thé with the best macarones. In the courtyard it almost seemed like we were in Paris. We had a business meeting while enjoying the delicious macarones and had a perfect cup of tea. We took the subway back to Bryant Park. What a fantastic park. Everybody was sitting on the grass or at a table having lunch, drinking coffee or having a break. A vibrant park! New York is truly our favorite metropolis. Take your Wallpaper City Guide for instance and discover new trendy places!

New York
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New York
We arrived in New York City, dressed up and had a drink in the very hip NoMad bar in The NoMad Hotel on 1170 Broadway. It has several bars with professional cocktail makers. A must-visit! Take in all the dark mahogany and leather, the carved elephants that support the shelves of bottles, and the bartenders, backlit like priests at a pagan ritual. And also important: the cocktails are delicious!

San Francisco
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San Francisco
We started at the Alexander Book Co on Second street. A beautiful book store with all kinds of books, coffee table books, travel books, literature and so on. We spent almost one hour in that store. We walked through China town and saw some nice graffiti walls. San Francisco is pretty famous for that. We ended up in the Italian district. First we went to Lola on Columbus Avenue. A store packed with all kinds of cards and nice gadgets. You can hear people laughing out loud when reading all the funny text messages on those cards. On the same street, a couple of doors next, the nice candy store Z.Cioccolato is worth a visit. Don’t eat too much! Caffé De Lucchi is a nice spot to have lunch while sitting in the sun and having a nice glass of prosseco. If you like this, check it out!

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San Francisco
We arrived with our ‘proud blue KLM bird’ in San Francisco. We were visiting Market street and had a coffee in a coffee bar where our cappuccino’s were served by Michaelknight. He was named by the tv serie of the Knight rider with David Hasselhoff. How cute was that ;-). We said goodbye and left the coffee bar while singing the tune of the tv series and followed our way into the city.

Houston
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Houston
Houston…we thought it was a boring city, but the opposite is true! In the morning we went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and visited the Butterfly Center. The butterflies were wearing the most exotic outfits. The guard asked us to check our hair and clothes first before leaving the garden…a butterfly could stick on us as a refugee…how cute! We visited afterwards the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and saw the exposition from Marilyn Minter, ‘Pretty/Dirty’. It was a manifest on our culture’s complex and contradictory emotions around the feminine body and beauty. After seeing this interesting exposition we drove our rental car to 19th street, but ended up in the middle of nowhere. Our navigation system was not really okay. We talked with the very kind and friendly locals over there and finally we arrived on 19th street in Heights a little later. We visited very nice vintage stores like Replay and Thrifty. We had a nice lunch in Down House, a lovely spot in the neighbourhood of 19th street. Lovely lanes with green trees and big houses formed our landscape while driving back to the hussle and bustle of Houston downtown. Meanwhile we spotted a nice pink old Cadillac in the parking lot of the Target. Houston has so much more to offer than we would have thought. Culture, art, a lot of vintage stores and such a laid back feeling in the Heights area of Houston. An ugly city changed into a very interesting place to be for us. How cool is that!

New York
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New York
After five hours of sleep we had breakfast in our hotel and a business talk about don’t disturb the sheep. After lots of coffee we started making plans for the day. We set off by subway from Broadway via 14th street to Williamsburg with line L. We visited vintage stores like JunkBrooklyn and had a lovely lunch in House of Small Wonder. Williamsburg is an upcoming district. It is hip and happening, especially during the weekends. We love it!

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New York
Arrived in the big Apple at night time. Dressed up including high heels for a night out. We wanted to go to the roof top bar of Gansevoort at Park Avenue but unfortunately it was closed. Afterwards we took a glimpse at the roof top bar of 230 fifth but that was too crowded, becoming a tourist trap these days. We ended up on the roof top bar of ‘La Quinta’ on the 32nd street. A small roof top bar, quiet and with a nice view on the Empire State Building. We sipped our prosecco and inhaled the vibrant city of New York. This city is made for us!

Bangkok
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Bangkok
A beautiful day in bloody hot Bangkok. We took the private hotel boat to the skytrain and travelled by train to the MBK. At the MBK we had our business cards printed. On the second floor of the MBK Center you can find a lot of printing shops. Printing on demand, waiting for less than two hours for two hundred business cards. Not bad. We designed our business card with a hole in it. The print shop wasn’t able to cut out the hole, so now we have to do it ourselves. We went to Siam Discovery, a high end mall with brands like Cartier, Chanel and Dior. The Thai people waited in long lines to spend money in one of those expensive shops. Beside that, Siam Tower had more to offer. A lot of hip design shops are inside this mall. Worth a visit. We had dinner in Sukhumvit 49 at Smith. After the main dish they asked: “Would you like a desert?” We said that we didn’t want a camel but instead a single espresso ;-)!

Bangkok
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Bangkok
Arrived in the morning. After having a short nap, for the first time while travelling together, we split up for our night program. Desiré went to the concert of ‘the Script’ and Margré was having a small dinner and had a calm evening. The concert took place at the Impact Stadium and dinner took place at ‘The never ending summer’, a very hip industrial design restaurant at the opposite of the river. At the end of the night we were reunited and we took a glass of wine to finish up a long day!

San Francisco
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San Francisco
Shopping on Market Street after arrival. We went to a toy shop to buy a sheep, a frog, a goat and a duck for a photo shoot. Near the counter a film maker from Los Angeles tried to imitate the noises of the animals that were laying on the counter. Weird people downtown SanFran…very funny! The next day we took line N on Market Street with the SFMTA to Ocean Beach. We had lunch on the beach, watching the sea, enjoying the sun while laying in the dunes. Later on we catched line N again but in the opposite direction to Haight Asbury. Haight street is fully packed with vintage stores and lovely tiny book shops. You could spend a whole day on this street. San Francisco has much to offer. A city, a beach, a sea, lots of green, hills, hip shops and it is very laid back. We ended the day at ‘Sparrow’ on Haight Street.

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