by Scott Coates Smiling Albino Partner/Director/Advisor Todd Kuipers recently organized a trip to Portland to celebrate his 40th Birthday. A dozen of his closest friends and family made the journey. Why Portland you ask? – Beer. Todd is an accomplished beer aficionado and tells me that Portland has more microbreweries per capita that Munich, Germany. [...]
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Urban Trains
July 21st, 2009 
Scott Coates by Scott Coates The last couple months have seen me visit an array of world cities and use their train systems to get around. Each city’s system is unique, varies in age, technology, area of coverage, price and ease of use. I deliberately took no map to any of the following systems, relied on my [...]
No Pockets
July 14th, 2009 Scott Coates by Scott Coates The cure it seems to riding the world of bribes is pants without pockets. A recent BBC online story told of how authorities at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan Airport are issuing pants without pockets to airport staff. It seems there have been a high number of complaints by Nepalis that workers at the airport [...]
A Pleasant Surprise
July 6th, 2009 Scott Coates by Scott Coates Having lived in Bangkok since September 1999 it becomes tougher to find new, interesting, quality places to take guests. As we’re always designing innovative experiences and checking out every nook and cranny it’s a treat to discover something new that fits the Smiling Albino mold. I recently inspected a new property which [...]
