Camp Silver is a new campsite right in the middle of the Dutch island of Texel. It combines the outdoors with the service of a luxury hotel. Picture eight silver Airstream caravans, brought over from the United States and specially designed for Camp Silver by Christopher Deam of San Francisco together with Airstream. The inside features designs and materials by designers such as Charles & Ray Eames and Frette. The big dome tent in the middle of the campsite acts as a lounge and breakfast place. Speaking of breakfast, they strive to make it with local and island biological products. Retro futuristic cool!
(Link: persberichten.nl)
Tags: caravans, hotels
As of this Wedsnesday, cemetery de Larikshof in Rhenen, Utrecht is the first to boast a digital headstone complete with screen, which can show films or slides. However, visitors of de Larikshof need a special battery to activate the screen. And of course, the films and slides are hopefully related to the dearly departed.
(Link: webwereld)
Tags: graveyards, Rhenen, Utrecht
The town of Oirschot in the province of Noord Brabant will open the very first four star resort for alcoholics. The hotel, which will be called RoderSana, is scheduled to open in May. According to interim director Van der Meer, regular care facilities are full of drug addicts and there is no room for alcoholics. Moreover, he says that treating alcoholics is totally different than treating drug addicts. This will be the first facility in The Netherlands dedicated to kicking the drinking habit, as alcholics usually have to be treated outside the country.
(Link: fok.nl)
Tags: addicts, alcohol, hotels, Noord-Brabant, Oirschot
3FM DJ Michiel Veenstra is planning to broadcast from atop the North Pole for five days starting April 23. For the occasion, 3FM has been rebaptized Noordpool FM. The idea is to raise awareness for the greenhouse effect and figure out how The Netherlands can help find a solution to the climate problem. The last broadcast on April 27 will be at the actual pole, the northernmost point of the earth. This is the first time anyone has attempted to do a live radio broadcast from this location.
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Tags: 3FM, DJ, NOrth Pole, radio
![[photo of two rescue pods]](https://www.24oranges.nl/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/rescue_pod_hotel1.jpg)
Denis Oudendijk, who makes art out of garbage, will let you stay at his Capsulehotel which consists of a number of discarded 1972 rescue pods. You will be a live work of art! A night in the luxury capsule, dubbed Bond Meets Barbarella, will set you back 150 euro, and contains amongst others two sheep skins, a martini bar and a DVD player with all Bond movies. Students get a hefty discount.
Oudendijk sees this project as a way to let people get to know his world.
(Via: :)= Esc.)
Tags: hotels, pods, rescuing
Thanks to the Dutch nudist federation (Naturisten Federatie Nederland – NFN), plans for starting fitness for nudists in a sports school in the Dutch town of Heteren have attracted worldwide interest in naked fitness. Since fitness centre owner Patrick de Man went public with his plans, he has been called from the US, England, Germany and Belgium. According to the NFN, The Netherlands will be the first country ever to offer naked fitness.
(Link: www.ad.nl, Photo: Photo of Stationary bikes by janeyesee, some rights reserved)
Tags: Fitness, nudists
