Things don't look too bad in this picture. Everybody's relaxed and having a good time. Someone's even cooking sausages (we keep coming back to sausages in Haderer's work. He must really love them), and the sun's out. The only issue is that we appear to have gone on vacation to a traffic jam. Even if the weather's great, we can think of better places to spend our time off.
There are a few things we could take from this image. One of them would be to remember to actually go on vacation when we can - if you're still getting stuck in traffic jams, you haven't got anywhere. And perhaps it's also a nudge to look beyond the obvious for vacation destinations. This traffic jam might be caused by everyone trying to go to the same place, at the same time. The world is wide and wonderful, and it's always sunny somewhere. Look further afar!
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.