My World Café – insights & experiences from my travels, café visits and daily life.
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For me a café is to stop, take a step back - and yet take a step forward. It is amazing what ambiance café owners are creating. But even more important for me is that their soul is in it: If I become a regular customer, it's the familiarity, the conversations, the caring about each… Continue reading Coffee Fairy and Vroom Vroom Café in Busan
Today my friend Insu took me to Sun Young’s Essay 68 - 68 means just the right temperature in Celsius. I was introduced to a feast around coffee. Apart from a delicious latte, I learned how she selects the green beans and her roasting process. Sun Young also demonstrated how to brew coffee with a… Continue reading Café Essay 68 in Busan – enjoy Sun Young’s hospitality and coffee she roasts herself!
Adjacent to the Palace grounds is the historic Buckchon district - a very well preserved array of historic buildings along narrow walkways. In the mix are modern stores and very cool cafés, plus the un-welcoming Saudi and Vietnamese embassies, the Ministry of Unification and what we in Canada would call the Auditor General's Office. It… Continue reading YIDO Café, Bukchon Hanok Village and more
This airbnb experience was fantastic! Eun Ji, the organizer, is part of the KunstBloom art collective. It includes a small gallery in Hannam-Dong, at which she arranges monthly concerts of upcoming musicians. Tonight’s first performer was Bad Dovi, who sang ballads reflecting human struggles that he all wrote himself. The second act blew me away:… Continue reading Unplugged Concert at ANOV Art Gallery
My curious nature led my up to the third floor - where the Korean behind the counter greeted me in German. Do I look it or what? He told me that this is a private German language school. In English the name means The German Garden. Most students are learning German because they want to… Continue reading “Der Deutsche Garten” – in Seoul ?!?!
Zozno is an accomplished indie musician based in Hongdae. Hongdae is not only the hip place to be in Seoul - the café scene alone is amazing - but also home to a cluster of indie musicians and their support networks. Tourists pulling their suitcases through Hongdae don’t have a clue about this fantastic music… Continue reading Amazing Tour through Hongdae’s Indie Music Scene – by Zozno
The location is only a three-minute walk from Gangneung Station! The space is spanking clean and quiet. It also conveys some things Westerners are not used to, like sleeping on a floor mattress (it works!) and the shower is without a separate stall, right between the toilet and sink (it's real water coming out and… Continue reading A word for my airbnb, Hanok Version Photo Gallery and Cafe
I discovered it by chance in a small side street. The ambiance, the variety, the top of the line coffee machine and the personal care for their customers! I stayed and I stayed. The owner lit up a coal brick in this strange stove - the white funnel contains coffee beans…..and then there is a… Continue reading Gangneung Coffee Gongbang – one of my five most favourite Cafés ever
Today in Jungjumin: Jumunjin Korea's largest fishing port on the eat coast The barista at Bada Coffee patiently utilized her translation app on my behalf. And when I had my second latte, she came to my table and this was on her smartphone’s screen: To round things off, at Bada Coffee I had a great… Continue reading Caring people turn the world – especially Koreans
Not just big birds…..these creatures must feel really lonely…or did they just find a way to advance to the top of the food chain? The proud First Officer on this A350-900 is a lady: YVR Art Walk: The diversity, elegance and lasting impression of the art exhibits at YVR are amazing. Make your stopover meaningful… Continue reading The not so obvious yet striking observations at the Vancouver Airport (YVR)
My World Café - insights & experiences from my travels, café visits and daily life. 