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
An evening of yummie food, good conversations and laughter. When leaving a Korean barbecue restaurant, you spray each other to get the smell out! That restaurant did brisk business and I was the only foreigner - good!
It's fun and interesting here with my friend Insu and his girlfriend and family. The giant apartment buildings are part of a small country that has lots of mountains and 50 million people.
This space is an amazing mix for working, networking, relaxing and….enjoying a good cup with an exquisite piece of pastry. I’t the largest café I’ve ever seen. What makes it so unique is that the owner bought an old factory from the Kiswire Corporation, and restored it into a kind of industrial museum. Not only… Continue reading Café TERAROSA – an old factory converted into Busan’s largest café
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
It was the main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty, built in 1395. I felt humbled by the enormity and beauty of the structures, and by their surroundings. Korea’s very own history is long and substantive. A lot of folks were out on this beautiful day, many of them in rented Hanbok traditional clothing. Rascal… Continue reading Korea’s History and Present at Gyeongbok Palace
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
Yesterday Zozno introduced me to this venue, during our musical walk through Hongdae. Today I was back for a concert. Upon buying my ticket, I en-countered the growling poodle again…..guess where? There is that poodle again! The music spanned a wide range of styles. The performers engaged the audience not only with their music, but… Continue reading Back at Unplugged Acoustic Café for a memorable Concert
My World Café - insights & experiences from my travels, café visits and daily life. 