31 Mar, 2009
At the beginning of March I went with my brother to Miami on holiday for one week. When leaving the plane, obviously we immediately liked the weather, since we were both flying in from a place where it was still around 0°C 
We were staying in the Holiday Inn Miami Beach-Oceanfront. The hotel was fine and breakfast was good. Only problem we had was that the hotel is located in Mid Beach and it is quite a distance to go to South Beach. We misinterpreted some maps when booking the hotel and thought that we could easily walk down to South Beach. It was a bit too far, so we took a 7 day visitors pass that allowed us to take the bus as many time as we wanted. However, the location was not all bad though, as it was next door to the Gotham Steak restaurant which we might otherwise never have known 
Below are quite a few pictures from our trip
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28 Mar, 2009
The intro that was played on the Microsoft 2009 MVP Global Summit is available online. Click the link below to see it
The Microsoft 2009 MVP Global Summit Intro
24 Mar, 2009
Beginning of March I went to New York for a few days with some friends. We were very lucky with the weather. It was cold though, only 0°C or 32°F but we had no rain and it was blue sky almost all the time Since it was low season for New York at this time there were not too many tourists. This was very noticable on a few places where we saw long ’snake-lines’ for tourists to wait in line, but when we went there we almost never had to wait in any ’snake-line’
Below are some pictures of my trip to New York.
(Note: all pictures are copyrighted by me, Marc Gregoire. Please contact me if you want to use one.)
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19 Mar, 2009
I’m back from my holidays to New York, Seattle and Miami. When I find the time I will be writing some other posts with pictures.
This post however is about a nice restaurant we discovered in Miami. It is called “Gotham Steak” and is located in the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Resort. The first thing that you will notice when you enter the restaurant is the 2 story glass room full of wine bottles (see picture below). Apparently there are over 17.000 bottles and over 500 different kinds of wine in this marvelous “wine cellar”.
While browsing the menu, my eye fell on the foie gras starter. I love foie gras, so I ordered it. It was no mistake. The foie gras was delicious and melts in your mouth.
As main dish, we took the Wagyu Steak. At around $70 per portion, it’s not cheap, but after just one bite, we knew it was worth the money. The steak is so tender and tasteful. I would definitely take it again.
After dinner we went to the bar and saw a very nice collection of whiskeys. I tried the Glenmorangie Signet (see picture below) and this is one of the best whiskeys I ever tried, though at $45 per glass, it’s not the cheapest one.
We enjoyed our dinner at the Gotham Steak so much that we went again a few days later
Below are a few pictures taken at the Gotham Steak restaurant.
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