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I’m just back from another small trip to Budapest, just 2 days.

I have uploaded some pictures of the trip. See them here. Enjoy

Last week I was in Warsaw (Poland) on a business trip. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much time to go see things because it was already dark after work. However, I did try to take some pictures. You can see them here.

In October 2009 I went to Tokyo with some friends for a week.

Some pictures of the trip can be seen in a new photo album.

In September 2009 I went to Panama with KrisKras.

I have created a photo album about the trip. See it here. Enjoy

In August 2009 I went to Budapest for a short city trip with some friends.

I have uploaded some pictures to a photo album. See them here. Enjoy

In June 2009 I went to Prague for a city trip with a few friends. I already posted a few pictures on my blog in this post.

I finally uploaded a few more pictures to a photo album. See them here. Enjoy

In March 2009, my brother and me went to Miami on holiday.
I had already posted some pictures on my blog in the “Back from Miami, Steak and Whiskey” and “Holiday in Miami ” posts.
We now have uploaded a lot more pictures. See them here. Enjoy

A few pictures from my city trip to Prague in the Czech Republic. The last picture is taken in Kutná Hora, a small town near Prague and a UNESCO World Heritage site.

(Note: all pictures are copyrighted by me, Marc Gregoire. Please contact me if you want to use one.)

A bit late, I know, but you can find some pictures of our (my brother and me) trip to Seattle in 2008 at the following link.
Pictures Seattle 2008

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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I have added the following pictures to my earlier post “Back from Miami, Steak and Whiskey“.

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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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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On wednesday my holidays are starting

I’m flying to New York and will stay a few days in New York. After that I’m flying to Seattle to attend the Microsoft Global MVP Summit 2009. After the summit, I’m flying to Miami and will stay around 1 week there. I’m looking forward to my trip

I went to Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina for work. Mostar is a nice city and I think it would be great in the summer. I was there only for 2 days and after work it was already dark, but I still managed to go to the Old Bridge and take some pictures from the old part of the city.

(Note: all pictures are copyrighted by me, Marc Gregoire. Please contact me if you want to use one.)

I had to go to Nairobi in Kenya for a business meeting. It was only for 2 days, but luckily I was free for one day During that day I did a mini safari in the Nairobi National Park. This is a national park just 15 minutes from Nairobi center with wild life. I saw a wild giraffe, lots of zebras, ostrich and some other. There are also wild lions, tigers, elephants … but I didn’t see them this time. Some pictures of the safari: Read the rest of this entry »

I’m back from my 3 week holiday to West-USA. It was a great holiday. We were traveling in a group of 8 people and it was a perfect group

The trip started in Los Angeles and continued to San Diego, Grand Canyon, Antilope Canyon, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Las Vegas, Death Valley, Lone Pine, Bishop, Mono Lake, Bodie, Yosemite, San Francisco, Montarra, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and back to Los Angeles.

(Note: all pictures are copyrighted by me, Marc Gregoire. Please contact me if you want to use one.)

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Last weekend I went to Vienna together with 2 friends from Belgium. Vienna is really a nice and clean city. Public transportation is pretty good and we used it all the time. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m back from a second business trip to Berlin. The weather was not good. It was cold and raining, but I managed to go see some things anyway. Some picture can be seen below. Read the rest of this entry »

Due to some extended business trips and the fact that I will have my yearly holiday in August (finally ), my development on NuonSoft products has been temporarily suspended until September. In September or October, I hope to finalize the new build of Wallpaper Cycler.