The Hotel Majestic  Barrière reopened last week in a stylish and busy manner . Stylish because lobby and all rooms have been totally refurbished and redecorated, busy because of a huge worldwide buy and sale property convention. All this to say that you have one minute a hotel in a shamble and the next time you look around you have an elegant guest, confortably seated, sipping a cup of coffee in front of you. That's what I call "magic" .

As you all probably know since Copenhagen I have been visiting Florida (where I shared a dinner with the Concierges of the Hotel Setai, South Miami Beach), Great Britain and more precisely London where I participated at their AGM and Gala night and finally, Ireland where, likewise I attented AGM and Gala. I was in our Paris Office on rue Cambon all day yesterday and will travel back to the French capital on March 31st. for their AGM and Gala night

The first year of my Presidency has just ended and the most difficult task has surely been keepig my weight under reasonable control ...

I have given Roderick very recently the "President's Word" for our Website and I invite you all to read it. It will give you the great lines of what the year to come has in store for us.

Now that the website is available to all, we will, of course, have to keep it instructive, informative and actual. " Volunteers " please ...

I shall be travelling to Vancouver for what looks like a huge participation at the " Panamerican congress" and then will make sure, in the months to come to visit the countries in difficulties ... The rest of our forthcoming activities, as I said earlier, to be read on ... WWW.UICHLESCLEFSDOR.ORG

I wish to all of you the very best life can give, not forgetting to send the messages of encouragement to all the one's confronted with the hard side of life and all my affection to Shujaat, his family and his fast recovering son.

 
Roger