Sunday, July 14, 2013

Munich's Cat Café Katzentempel - my new favorite place!


I found my absolutely favorite Café in Munich: Germany's first "Katzencafé" Café Katzentempel, offering hot coffee, vegan food and cuddly cats!
The principle of a cat cafés is nothing new, at least not in Asia. The Japanese had this great idea to put two of my favorite things together - coffee and cats! So of course I was deeply jealous when I read a feature on a newly opened cat café in Vienna (the Café Neko) a few months ago, thinking I would totally be a regular there if I lived in Vienna. Imagine my joy when I heard that a cat café just recently opened in Schwabing's Türkenstraße.

So I went there this weekend and these are my impressions:

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Moving into a Brisbane Queenslander



As a backpacker you often stay in hostels or couchsurf a bit. But when you know you’ll be staying in one city for a while and may be working there it can be a good idea to look for a permanent place. So here’s a little story how looking for a place in Australia can look like:

So there I was, moving into the house of that “Wolfe Creek”-Murderer-Look-alike. It was a nice, though a little shabby Queenslander just a few miles out of Brisbane. How did I get there?

 
The famous Queenslander