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On Location - November 2009

Emily Blavatnik‘s

birthday at Villa San

Michele

Maestro Andrea Bocelli sang

at Emily Blavatnik‘s birthday

party at Villa San Michele,

Fiesole. Her husband is

husband Len (Leonard) Blavatnik, Harvard-educated Founding

Chairman, Access Industries.

Ivanka Trump marries

Jared Kushner this

month

Ivanka Trump and Jared

Kushner, real estate mogul

and publisher of The New

York Observer, married

October 25th, 2009, at the Trump National Golf Club NJ.

Awesome Irish

entertainment at The

Gleneagles Hotel

The Gleneagles Hotel

entertained Virtuoso’s

Chairman’s Club October 21-

23, 2009. Seen from left,

Patrick Elsmie, Matthew Upchurch, Bernard Murphy.

Grand Hotel Europe’s

Charity Foundation

donates trees

Thomas Noll, left, GM Grand

Hotel Europe, St Petersburg,

plants one of 70 fruit trees

donated by the Grand Hotel

Europe’s Charity Foundation to celebrate 60 years of the SOS

Kinderhof International Charity Organisation. Read more about St

Petersburg events here.

Ballet evening in St

Petersburg

On October 24th, 2009, in St

Petersburg, from left, Tania

Noll, Vladimir Kekhman,

Jenny and Paul White,

Thomas Noll – read about the

incredible ballet evening in St Petersburg here.

Dorchester Hotel wins

Profile Regatta

The Dorchester Hotel team

won the third Profile

Regatta, organized by

Britannia Events off Cowes,

Isle of Wight, England,

September 22-23, 2009, were followed by a Springboard charity dinner

at the Royal Yacht Squadron. Entrants also included the Eton

Collection and Small Luxury Hotels.

Russia & CIS Hotel

Investment Conference

CEO of the Corinthia Hotel

Group Tony Potter, right,

hosted the vital Russia & CIS

Hotel Investment Conference

at the splendid Corinthia St

Petersburg Nevsky Palace (run by GM Asaad Farag, left). Read more

about the Russia&CIS Hotel Investment Conference here.

Sarah Ferguson

celebrates her 50th!

No longer the multi-million

ambassador for Weight

Watchers, Sarah Ferguson,

former Duchess of York, has

plenty of style. Flanked by

daughters Eugenie, left, and Beatrice, she arrived to celebrate her

50th birthday, October 15th, 2009, at the luxury, The Lanesborough, a

St. Regis Hotel.

Masters of Food & Wine,

Seoul

Daniel Chambon was among

the stars at Park Hyatt

Seoul’s Masters of Food &

Wine, November 2-6, 2009.

Chambon runs the Michelin-

starred Le Pont de l’Ouysse, Lacave, France.

The Duke of York in Abu

Dhabi

HRH The Duke of York – seen

here with Fairmont Bab Al

Bahr Abu Dhabi GM Michael

Kaile – opened the hotel’s

Frankie’s and Marco Pierre

White Steak House restaurants October 28th, 2009, The just-opened

369-room hotel is owned by RMAL Al Fattim.

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George Clooney at

London Film Festival

George Clooney was in

London for the premiere of

Fantastic Mr Fox, which

kicked off the London Film

Festival, October 14-29,

2009. He was with his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis, the Sardinia-born

model-actress currently co-hosting Italian television’s Total Request

Live.

Princess Michael of Kent

at Bulgari-Vogue party

Princess Michael of Kent,

seen with Francesco Trepani,

CEO Bulgari, was one of the

guests at the Bulgari-Vogue

party for Save The Children,

at the Saatchi Gallery, London, October 13th, 2009.

Underwater meeting in

the Maldives

Led by President Mohamed

Nasheed, the Government of

the Maldives held a cabinet

meeting underwater October

17th, 2009. This was to

highlight the threat of global warming.

Carme Ruscalleda heads

MOments restaurant

Barcelona Mandarin

Oriental’s MOments will be

run by Spain’s only 3-star

female chef, Carme

Ruscalleda of Sant Pol de Mar

Sant Pau – with her son, Raül Balam, in the kitchen (Carme Ruscalleda,

a farmer’s daughter who studied charcuterie and business

management before marrying a grocer, also has 2 Michelin stars for

her Tokyo restaurant).

Society Café at Encore

at Wynn Las Vegas

Kim Canteenwalla’s Society

Café at Encore at Wynn Las

Vegas is one of John

Mariani’s 20 best new

restaurants in the USA (read

about one more of the best restaurants here). The 168-seat

restaurant, designed by Roger Thomas, is a partnership with Elizabeth

Blau and Sean Christie. Best sellers include Mac ‘n Cheese Bites with

Truffle Dipping Sauce, and Braised Kurobuta Pork Short Ribs with corn

succotash.

Gustavo Dudamel flavor

of the month

28-year old Venezuelan

Gustavo Dudamel is serious

music’s flavor of the month.

The conductor and violinist,

who made his name when

appointed director of Venezuela’s Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar at

aged 18. In addition, he is Principal Conductor of the Gothenburg

Symphony and Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Dinner with

Moet&Chandon

On October 20th, 2009, Hyatt

Regency Johannesburg’s

NdaU Private Dining Room

was turned into an exclusive

"bubbling" dinner showcasing

all Moet&Chandon champagnes including Brut, Rose, Vintage and

Nectar. WOW.travel, by the way, loves the hotel’s Zafferno restaurant.

The Pierre, Again

evening

Heiko Kuenstle, a would-be

banker who is now GM of The

Pierre – a Taj Hotel, one of

New York’s best-loved hotels,

hosted The Pierre, Again, a

celebration evening October 19th, 2009, in honor of the historic

hotel’s re-opening.

L’Acqua makes deal

with W Hotels

The amazingly-named

Michaelangelo L’Acqua,

Teaneck NJ-born co-founder

of Onda, has scored and

licensed music for nearly 200

commercials (clients include Karl Lagerfeld, Old Navy, Revlon and,

now, W Hotels), www.music2management.com.

This one's for the whisky

lovers

Richard Paterson, The

Dalmore’s Master Distiller,

has unveiled 12 decanters of

1951-vintage Sirius vintage

single malt whisky, selling at

£10,000 each. The Dalmore, part of Whyte & McKay, belongs to India’s

Kingfisher Airlines and United Breweries magnate, Vijay Mallya.

Valentino now offers

seven-day boutiques

Valentino seen with Gwyneth

Palltrow, now has divine

seven-day boutiques - for

fashionistas, and their men -

at the Ritz, Paris HYPERLINK

TO SEVEN. We adore Valentino’s perfect-travel handbags - and must-

have book, Valentino Garavani: Une Grande Histoire Italienne,

www.taschen.com.

‘Road to Awareness’

bike ride

Eighteen cyclists from

Starwood Hotels & Resorts

completed the second annual

‘Road to Awareness’ bike ride

- a three-day, 240-mile

journey through some of the most legendary climbs in the Pyrenees in

aid of UNICEF’s Egyptian street kids initiative. The team was led by

hotels’ President EAME Roeland Vos.

Bobbi Brown opens new

Paris studio

Bobbi Brown - Michelle

Obama's favorite facial

specialist - has a Paris studio

where fashionistas are

flocking for make-up lessons.

It's a stone-throw from Place des Vosges, so pop in first for a Carita

makeover at the Pavillon de la Reine's new spa.

Mikhail Gorbachev

addresses the UN

On October 5th, 2009, former

President Mikhail Gorbachev

addressed the United

Nations’ Nuclear

Disarmament Agenda and

went to the 1,000-strong German Day of Unity party at Grand Hotel

Kempinski, Geneva (this busy hotel was also a main sponsor of the

International Tribunes Cinéma Vérité, October 6-8, 2009 - one of the

many movies was the Montreal overall winner, Two Men’s Classroom).

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