Living off Grid: French photographer Antoine Bruy captures the lives of families who escaped dependency upon the rat race to live simpler lives off the land [PICS] - www.ofINTEREST.net

El Pardal, Sierra de Cazorla, Spain, 2013.
El Pardal is a place situated in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park, established in 1986. This is where Antoine Bruy encountered Amiro, a German man who has been living in an area of the park for the last 25 years. The nearest village is a 3 hour walk away.

12 August 2014, by Mikhael Love, IIO

Could you or have you ever thought of living where there's no running water, no supplied heating source and no food market for as far as the eye can see?

Throughout the world, there are the families who have done just that and many more having thoughts of going rough. They have chosen to turn their backs on the breakneck speed of modern life to become at one with nature, free from the rat race.

By what ever name used to reference - prepping, survival, homesteading, nomad, "off the grid", "back to land", recluse, roma, gypsy ... - to those who leave the so-called social/economic society of today's seemingly humane way of living, life is just what they are making it. Perhaps one day we will look back at people who undertake such a way of life as the real humans!?

This report focuses on those throughout Europe who have taken up the life of leaving it all for times gone by.

Leaving city life for mountain ranges including the Carpathians and The Pyrenees, they pride themselves on living "off the grid" without access to any of the mod-cons that the 21st Century may have to offer.

French photographer Antoine Bruy spent years traveling across Europe interacting and photographing men, women and children who have joined the so-called 'back-to-land' movement on their very own organic farms.

Ramounat in The Pyrenees is well known to be the birthplace of back-to-the-land movement in France. It is here Bruy met Peter, a German man who has been living there for the last 30 years. He came originally with his wife and children, but they left decades ago. The ramshackle house belongs to Peter.

During this age of hand-held technology and urban living, a Waldenesque desire to live removed from it all has taken hold. Most of us only dream about a more solitary life abandoned to the wilderness. Photographer Antoine Bruy did just that, spending a period of time between 2010 and 2013 hitchhiking through Europe with no fixed course or destination for his series "Scrublands".

Driven by random encounters and chance, Bruy met those individuals who have sacrificed all modern comforts for autonomy from social expectations and consumption. The photographer would stop for days and sometimes weeks at at time, helping people farm land or raise cattle. He notes that though he shot in several countries, the communities are homogeneously linked through makeshift buildings, recovered materials and agriculture-based living. Still today, the "Roma" who have been living such lives for years, upon years, exist throughout Europe. For reasons both political and deeply personal, Bruy finds a distinct beauty in a world where there is no clock ticking or desperate necessity to conquer, “but a ballet of days and nights, seasons and lunar cycles.”

Vincent, The Pyrenees, France, 2012.
Mr. Bruy met Vincent who was a mathematics student that shunned academia for a simpler life.. He has been living in Ramounat for the last 7 years.

Urs, The Pyrenees, France, 2012

This boy who has grown up in the so-called 'back-to-land' movement poses with his dog in Urs.

The Workshop, The Pyrenees, France, 2012.

Marcel, The Pyrenees, France, 2012

Olivier nursing a sheep, Ardèche, France, 2010

Olivier is a French shepherd who raises sheep and goats. Here he is nursing a sheep who was bitten by a dog. Bruy spent one month with Olivier and his wife to watch the animals and help out with their land.

Lake of Laghetto, Alps, Switzerland, 2013

Christian, Alps, Switzerland, 2013

Sabine, Alps, Switzerland, 2013

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Bruy met Christian in Ces, a tiny village situated in the Leventina Valley. In the early 70′s some young people discovered Ces as an abandoned village and started rebuilding it. Before arriving there, Christian was an engineer. He’s been living in Ces for the last 30 years and is now raising cows with his wife Sabine. Sabine has been living there for the last 15 years with her husband Christian who left a life as a teacher of philosophy and literature.

Two girls taking a bath, Carpathians, Romania, 2013

Julian working on the bathtub, Sierra del Hacho, Spain, 2013

Composting Toilets, Sierra Nevada, Spain, 2013

The Swing, Sierra del Hacho, Spain, 2013

Sierra de Cazorla, Spain, 2013

Mr. Bruy teamed up with a movement that links volunteers with organic farmers. He would stay for months at a time helping with task in return. The people are those who abandoned a lifestyle of performance, efficiency and consumption in order to build trust. Mr. Bruy sought to gain a deeper understanding of this.

This make-shift pyramid dwelling is how many of the people Mr Bruy met were living. They have no access to running water, central heating or any other mod cons

Antoine Bruy plans to continue "Scrublands" next year in the United States.

Here you can find a fund that has been set up to help with this endeavor:

http://en.fotofund.org/campaigns/scrublands

(note: all photos were taken by Antoine Bruy)

Living off Grid: French photographer Antoine Bruy captures the lives of families who escaped dependency upon the rat race to live simpler lives off the land [PICS] - www.ofINTEREST.net

El Pardal, Sierra de Cazorla, Spain, 2013.
El Pardal is a place situated in the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas Natural Park, established in 1986. This is where Antoine Bruy encountered Amiro, a German man who has been living in an area of the park for the last 25 years. The nearest village is a 3 hour walk away.

12 August 2014, by Mikhael Love, IIO

Could you or have you ever thought of living where there's no running water, no supplied heating source and no food market for as far as the eye can see?

Throughout the world, there are the families who have done just that and many more having thoughts of going rough. They have chosen to turn their backs on the breakneck speed of modern life to become at one with nature, free from the rat race.

By what ever name used to reference - prepping, survival, homesteading, nomad, "off the grid", "back to land", recluse, roma, gypsy ... - to those who leave the so-called social/economic society of today's seemingly humane way of living, life is just what they are making it. Perhaps one day we will look back at people who undertake such a way of life as the real humans!?

This report focuses on those throughout Europe who have taken up the life of leaving it all for times gone by.

Leaving city life for mountain ranges including the Carpathians and The Pyrenees, they pride themselves on living "off the grid" without access to any of the mod-cons that the 21st Century may have to offer.

French photographer Antoine Bruy spent years traveling across Europe interacting and photographing men, women and children who have joined the so-called 'back-to-land' movement on their very own organic farms.

Ramounat in The Pyrenees is well known to be the birthplace of back-to-the-land movement in France. It is here Bruy met Peter, a German man who has been living there for the last 30 years. He came originally with his wife and children, but they left decades ago. The ramshackle house belongs to Peter.

During this age of hand-held technology and urban living, a Waldenesque desire to live removed from it all has taken hold. Most of us only dream about a more solitary life abandoned to the wilderness. Photographer Antoine Bruy did just that, spending a period of time between 2010 and 2013 hitchhiking through Europe with no fixed course or destination for his series "Scrublands".

Driven by random encounters and chance, Bruy met those individuals who have sacrificed all modern comforts for autonomy from social expectations and consumption. The photographer would stop for days and sometimes weeks at at time, helping people farm land or raise cattle. He notes that though he shot in several countries, the communities are homogeneously linked through makeshift buildings, recovered materials and agriculture-based living. Still today, the "Roma" who have been living such lives for years, upon years, exist throughout Europe. For reasons both political and deeply personal, Bruy finds a distinct beauty in a world where there is no clock ticking or desperate necessity to conquer, “but a ballet of days and nights, seasons and lunar cycles.”

Vincent, The Pyrenees, France, 2012.
Mr. Bruy met Vincent who was a mathematics student that shunned academia for a simpler life.. He has been living in Ramounat for the last 7 years.

Urs, The Pyrenees, France, 2012

This boy who has grown up in the so-called 'back-to-land' movement poses with his dog in Urs.

The Workshop, The Pyrenees, France, 2012.

Marcel, The Pyrenees, France, 2012

Olivier nursing a sheep, Ardèche, France, 2010

Olivier is a French shepherd who raises sheep and goats. Here he is nursing a sheep who was bitten by a dog. Bruy spent one month with Olivier and his wife to watch the animals and help out with their land.

Lake of Laghetto, Alps, Switzerland, 2013

Christian, Alps, Switzerland, 2013

Sabine, Alps, Switzerland, 2013

.

Bruy met Christian in Ces, a tiny village situated in the Leventina Valley. In the early 70′s some young people discovered Ces as an abandoned village and started rebuilding it. Before arriving there, Christian was an engineer. He’s been living in Ces for the last 30 years and is now raising cows with his wife Sabine. Sabine has been living there for the last 15 years with her husband Christian who left a life as a teacher of philosophy and literature.

Two girls taking a bath, Carpathians, Romania, 2013

Julian working on the bathtub, Sierra del Hacho, Spain, 2013

Composting Toilets, Sierra Nevada, Spain, 2013

The Swing, Sierra del Hacho, Spain, 2013

Sierra de Cazorla, Spain, 2013

Mr. Bruy teamed up with a movement that links volunteers with organic farmers. He would stay for months at a time helping with task in return. The people are those who abandoned a lifestyle of performance, efficiency and consumption in order to build trust. Mr. Bruy sought to gain a deeper understanding of this.

This make-shift pyramid dwelling is how many of the people Mr Bruy met were living. They have no access to running water, central heating or any other mod cons

Antoine Bruy plans to continue "Scrublands" next year in the United States.

Here you can find a fund that has been set up to help with this endeavor:

http://en.fotofund.org/campaigns/scrublands

(note: all photos were taken by Antoine Bruy)

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Is an RV the Best Bug Out Vehicle?

By Pat Henry on June 30, 2014

When it comes to planning for the end of the world as we know it, thoughts generally turn to Bug Out Vehicles sooner or later. For most of us, our BOV of necessity will be whatever we can get our hands on in the moment. For those of you who have a little extra time or money, I wanted to discuss the concept of using an Recreational Vehicle (RV) as your dedicated mode of getting the hell out of dodge. The idea for this came to me from a reader named Alexander who asked the following:

I’d like to hear what you have to say about using an RV for a bugout vehicle. What would you stay away from and what would you do to get it ready?

Great question and I am happy to give my thoughts and opinions, this is a blog after all. For the record, I do not have an RV, so my thoughts will be centered on an analysis of aspects of both the RV and the practical needs for bugging out. I welcome anyone who does have experience to comment below and give you own side of things.

In thinking about the question of whether an RV is the best Bug Out Vehicle or not, I think it makes sense to start with a shared understanding of what exactly I mean by RV. For the purposes of this article, let’s say an RV is any vehicle you can drive or pull behind another vehicle that has living quarters built into it and was designed for one or more people to live in temporarily. Don’t get hung up on the temporarily part of that description. Essentially everything from Motley Crue’s tour bus to a truck camper fits into this category of RV. I’ll even add some photos below.

So now we know what an RV is lets discuss what Bugging Out is. From my perspective, Bugging Out is when you need to leave your home quickly to avoid a natural or man-made disaster. This can be a flood, hurricane, Tsunami or Wildfire. It can also be rioting, war, chemical gas leak, nuclear plant melt-down, zombies, ethnic cleansing, slow moving lava or any one of hundreds of other possible scenarios. You are bugging out hopefully with supplies you need to live for three days at a minimum and you may or may not expect to ever go home again.

Unless you have a fully stocked mountain retreat tucked into the woods within walking distance away from your home, you are going to need to get there somehow, so we developed this term of Bug Out Vehicle to describe our conveyance that could help us avoid the calamity we were leaving and be tough enough to navigate the terrain in a post-apocalyptic world. It is my contention that most of us do not have even a partially stocked retreat anywhere so if we are forced to bug out of our homes, we won’t have any place to stay or we will be lucky to shack up with friends far enough away from the catastrophe that we won’t be affected.

The RV seems at first to be a logical vehicle to consider when you are looking into what can take you down the road in style and offer some of the comforts of home at the same time. Some of these comforts can work against you and I’ll describe some thoughts I had when I considered if an RV was the best Bug Out Vehicle for my family.

How are you planning to use this RV in a bug out situation?

The first thing I think of when I consider RV’s as a bug out vehicle is their obvious ability to take a pretty big chunk of the conveniences of home with us on the road. Even pop-up campers can comfortably sleep 5 or 6 people and isn’t that better than sleeping in the woods? Larger 5^th wheel campers have 2 bedrooms a full kitchen (for a camper) and even a living room! Worried about going to the bathroom in the woods or taking a shower? Have no fear because most RV’s have this covered too. In terms of roughing it, RV’s do their best to make that a non-issue.

Campers have their own sets of problems.

So, we would buy one to live in if the grid went down, right? Or else you have one already or were considering the purchase because you genuinely want an RV to tour around the country. Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, if you were away from home and the grid went down for whatever reason, having a stable place you could stay would be a huge advantage. However, if you were planning to fire up the old RV after a disaster was announced, or people were already fleeing from (insert your reason here) an RV could have a lot of liabilities.

Maybe the question shouldn’t be is an RV a good bug out vehicle, but rather, is an RV a good replacement for a survival retreat? If you have an RV parked in the middle of the woods away from society and we have some type of grid down disaster I think that you would consider yourself one of the luckiest people in the world. However, I think if you were trying to navigate the roads with one of these vehicles right in the middle of mass panic, you would not feel the same way.

For one thing, RV’s stick out like a sore thumb. Anyone who sees one knows that you most likely have room in there and you are driving around shelter. An RV would make a tempting target to anyone looking to better their position in life during a disaster, but that’s assuming you are actually moving. If you are one of the lucky ones who made it out of your town before the rest of the crowd, you might not be stuck on the highways but any plan involving bugging out in a vehicle faces the risk of traffic jams.

RV’s this size offer a ton of luxury, but not a lot of feasibility off road.

If you find one route blocked, quickly detouring to an alternate route could give you a better way to reach your destination. Most RV’s aren’t going to be able to quickly do anything. If you are pulling a trailer, turning around may be impossible if turning means leaving the road even slightly.

Another aspect of RV’s that my friend Captain Bill covered in a post he wrote for another site is the ruggedness of your RV. I think it’s fair to say that RV’s aren’t meant to haul tons of equipment and go jostling down country roads and over boulders. They are really just nice mobile homes and as such, loading them down with all the supplies you might need for an extended time away from home could cause mechanical issues. Captain Bill had purchased a 5^th wheel and almost immediately saw the need to enhance the suspension to carry his extra weight and provide stability. I know there are extreme campers out there that can go off road like the Ford EarthRoamer, but starting at over $300,000 that is a little out of the scope of this article.If you have that much money you aren’t listening to me anyway…

Ford EarthRoamer – Closer to what I think would be necessary to handle SHTF.

So what’s the bottom line? I think if you want to purchase an RV to have fun, they are great. For bugging out, unless you are the first ones out the door you will run into problems. Even if you do leave before everyone else, RV’s aren’t designed to be highly maneuverable and off-road capable. For the cost, I would personally sink a lot less money into a Quad Cab – 4 wheel drive truck, add a cap to cover the bed, cargo rack on top, beef up the suspension, add winches and call that my Bug Out Vehicle. If I had to bug out, I would leave the RV at home and hit the trail in my truck first. I know there are a million different scenarios that each of us have that could make an RV a better choice, but for me they aren’t the most versatile vehicle I can think of to get me and my family out of dodge. What is yours?

 Another Vehicle of INTEREST: http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/06/zetros-2733-mercedes-66-provides-luxury.html

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Is an RV the Best Bug Out Vehicle?

By Pat Henry on June 30, 2014

When it comes to planning for the end of the world as we know it, thoughts generally turn to Bug Out Vehicles sooner or later. For most of us, our BOV of necessity will be whatever we can get our hands on in the moment. For those of you who have a little extra time or money, I wanted to discuss the concept of using an Recreational Vehicle (RV) as your dedicated mode of getting the hell out of dodge. The idea for this came to me from a reader named Alexander who asked the following:

I’d like to hear what you have to say about using an RV for a bugout vehicle. What would you stay away from and what would you do to get it ready?

Great question and I am happy to give my thoughts and opinions, this is a blog after all. For the record, I do not have an RV, so my thoughts will be centered on an analysis of aspects of both the RV and the practical needs for bugging out. I welcome anyone who does have experience to comment below and give you own side of things.

In thinking about the question of whether an RV is the best Bug Out Vehicle or not, I think it makes sense to start with a shared understanding of what exactly I mean by RV. For the purposes of this article, let’s say an RV is any vehicle you can drive or pull behind another vehicle that has living quarters built into it and was designed for one or more people to live in temporarily. Don’t get hung up on the temporarily part of that description. Essentially everything from Motley Crue’s tour bus to a truck camper fits into this category of RV. I’ll even add some photos below.

So now we know what an RV is lets discuss what Bugging Out is. From my perspective, Bugging Out is when you need to leave your home quickly to avoid a natural or man-made disaster. This can be a flood, hurricane, Tsunami or Wildfire. It can also be rioting, war, chemical gas leak, nuclear plant melt-down, zombies, ethnic cleansing, slow moving lava or any one of hundreds of other possible scenarios. You are bugging out hopefully with supplies you need to live for three days at a minimum and you may or may not expect to ever go home again.

Unless you have a fully stocked mountain retreat tucked into the woods within walking distance away from your home, you are going to need to get there somehow, so we developed this term of Bug Out Vehicle to describe our conveyance that could help us avoid the calamity we were leaving and be tough enough to navigate the terrain in a post-apocalyptic world. It is my contention that most of us do not have even a partially stocked retreat anywhere so if we are forced to bug out of our homes, we won’t have any place to stay or we will be lucky to shack up with friends far enough away from the catastrophe that we won’t be affected.

The RV seems at first to be a logical vehicle to consider when you are looking into what can take you down the road in style and offer some of the comforts of home at the same time. Some of these comforts can work against you and I’ll describe some thoughts I had when I considered if an RV was the best Bug Out Vehicle for my family.

How are you planning to use this RV in a bug out situation?

The first thing I think of when I consider RV’s as a bug out vehicle is their obvious ability to take a pretty big chunk of the conveniences of home with us on the road. Even pop-up campers can comfortably sleep 5 or 6 people and isn’t that better than sleeping in the woods? Larger 5^th wheel campers have 2 bedrooms a full kitchen (for a camper) and even a living room! Worried about going to the bathroom in the woods or taking a shower? Have no fear because most RV’s have this covered too. In terms of roughing it, RV’s do their best to make that a non-issue.

Campers have their own sets of problems.

So, we would buy one to live in if the grid went down, right? Or else you have one already or were considering the purchase because you genuinely want an RV to tour around the country. Nothing wrong with that at all. In fact, if you were away from home and the grid went down for whatever reason, having a stable place you could stay would be a huge advantage. However, if you were planning to fire up the old RV after a disaster was announced, or people were already fleeing from (insert your reason here) an RV could have a lot of liabilities.

Maybe the question shouldn’t be is an RV a good bug out vehicle, but rather, is an RV a good replacement for a survival retreat? If you have an RV parked in the middle of the woods away from society and we have some type of grid down disaster I think that you would consider yourself one of the luckiest people in the world. However, I think if you were trying to navigate the roads with one of these vehicles right in the middle of mass panic, you would not feel the same way.

For one thing, RV’s stick out like a sore thumb. Anyone who sees one knows that you most likely have room in there and you are driving around shelter. An RV would make a tempting target to anyone looking to better their position in life during a disaster, but that’s assuming you are actually moving. If you are one of the lucky ones who made it out of your town before the rest of the crowd, you might not be stuck on the highways but any plan involving bugging out in a vehicle faces the risk of traffic jams.

RV’s this size offer a ton of luxury, but not a lot of feasibility off road.

If you find one route blocked, quickly detouring to an alternate route could give you a better way to reach your destination. Most RV’s aren’t going to be able to quickly do anything. If you are pulling a trailer, turning around may be impossible if turning means leaving the road even slightly.

Another aspect of RV’s that my friend Captain Bill covered in a post he wrote for another site is the ruggedness of your RV. I think it’s fair to say that RV’s aren’t meant to haul tons of equipment and go jostling down country roads and over boulders. They are really just nice mobile homes and as such, loading them down with all the supplies you might need for an extended time away from home could cause mechanical issues. Captain Bill had purchased a 5^th wheel and almost immediately saw the need to enhance the suspension to carry his extra weight and provide stability. I know there are extreme campers out there that can go off road like the Ford EarthRoamer, but starting at over $300,000 that is a little out of the scope of this article.If you have that much money you aren’t listening to me anyway…

Ford EarthRoamer – Closer to what I think would be necessary to handle SHTF.

So what’s the bottom line? I think if you want to purchase an RV to have fun, they are great. For bugging out, unless you are the first ones out the door you will run into problems. Even if you do leave before everyone else, RV’s aren’t designed to be highly maneuverable and off-road capable. For the cost, I would personally sink a lot less money into a Quad Cab – 4 wheel drive truck, add a cap to cover the bed, cargo rack on top, beef up the suspension, add winches and call that my Bug Out Vehicle. If I had to bug out, I would leave the RV at home and hit the trail in my truck first. I know there are a million different scenarios that each of us have that could make an RV a better choice, but for me they aren’t the most versatile vehicle I can think of to get me and my family out of dodge. What is yours?

 Another Vehicle of INTEREST: http://ofinterestnet.blogspot.com/2014/06/zetros-2733-mercedes-66-provides-luxury.html

Iglu-Dorf Hotel in Switzerland gives guests a chilly stay, but with a difference - www.ofINTEREST.net

Iglu-Dorf Hotel in Switzerland gives guests a chilly stay, but with a difference - www.ofINTEREST.net

Michael Love, IIO

28 January, 2013

If you have ever played outside in the snow during the freezing days of winter and better yet, been fortunate enough to go on a winter ski/snow boarding trip, then you know that after a day of activities outside you are ready for the warmth of the inside.

Well, time to rethink when booking into a the Iglu-Dorf hotel in Davos, Switzerland. I remember enjoying the days of winter while growing up, and there came a time when warmth was definitely sought out. At the Iglu-Dorf, when the weather outside hovers below freezing, you can seek warmth inside this very interesting hotel, but please no fires. The reason being is that the whole hotel is made of frozen water. Yes, frozen water, and an open fire would melt your surroundings.

Rooms are kept at a constant 32 degrees, so maybe packing the wooly, winter sleep wear might be in order. A nights stay ranges between $170.00 to $580.00 per room. Yes, there are rooms!

The Iglu-Dorf hotel in Davos, Switzerland is one of seven which exist throughout Europe. Snowboarders and skiers alike who journey about Europe taking in the winter life can stay at any one of them provided temperatures don't heat up drastically. 

In the video below it is stated that it takes 10 builders and two artist 2,700 hours to create each of these unusual hotels. The annual cost of constructing each hotel has a price tag of $107,000.00 at the time of this article.

But wait, there is warmth in this chilly story. The annual income is a "HOT" $3.2 million. Now, how's that for taking profit out of a frozen business venture?

Do you think the the Iglu-Dorf hotel might make its way into a James Bond movie?

In any case, Iglu-Dorf hotel makes its way into our Area(s) and/or Place(s) "of INTEREST"!?

More about Davos, Switzerland. 

Below is a video via Bloomburg Businessweek which details this hotel "of INTEREST"!?

Iglu-Dorf Hotel in Switzerland gives guests a chilly stay, but with a difference - www.ofINTEREST.net

Iglu-Dorf Hotel in Switzerland gives guests a chilly stay, but with a difference - www.ofINTEREST.net

Michael Love, IIO

28 January, 2013

If you have ever played outside in the snow during the freezing days of winter and better yet, been fortunate enough to go on a winter ski/snow boarding trip, then you know that after a day of activities outside you are ready for the warmth of the inside.

Well, time to rethink when booking into a the Iglu-Dorf hotel in Davos, Switzerland. I remember enjoying the days of winter while growing up, and there came a time when warmth was definitely sought out. At the Iglu-Dorf, when the weather outside hovers below freezing, you can seek warmth inside this very interesting hotel, but please no fires. The reason being is that the whole hotel is made of frozen water. Yes, frozen water, and an open fire would melt your surroundings.

Rooms are kept at a constant 32 degrees, so maybe packing the wooly, winter sleep wear might be in order. A nights stay ranges between $170.00 to $580.00 per room. Yes, there are rooms!

The Iglu-Dorf hotel in Davos, Switzerland is one of seven which exist throughout Europe. Snowboarders and skiers alike who journey about Europe taking in the winter life can stay at any one of them provided temperatures don't heat up drastically. 

In the video below it is stated that it takes 10 builders and two artist 2,700 hours to create each of these unusual hotels. The annual cost of constructing each hotel has a price tag of $107,000.00 at the time of this article.

But wait, there is warmth in this chilly story. The annual income is a "HOT" $3.2 million. Now, how's that for taking profit out of a frozen business venture?

Do you think the the Iglu-Dorf hotel might make its way into a James Bond movie?

In any case, Iglu-Dorf hotel makes its way into our Area(s) and/or Place(s) "of INTEREST"!?

More about Davos, Switzerland. 

Below is a video via Bloomburg Businessweek which details this hotel "of INTEREST"!?