Disneyland Paris 20th Anniversary

I had a wonderful day with my Spanish friends in Disneyland Paris.

I´ve worked there for 3 years and it´s always a pleasure for me to come back and visit old work colleagues and friends.

The nightspectacular "Disney Dreams!" with special effects, water screens, lasers, fountains, pyrotechnics and projections is amazing!

Munich: Long Night of Music with Alev Lenz & Band

Saturday 28th April 2012 I will miss the long night of music in Munich :-(

With a ticket for only 15 € you can choose between hundreds of music stages in different places (small stages, bars, restaurants, churches, big concert halls, etc.) and enjoy live music of various international and local artists!

All music events start at 8pm and last till 3am!

My recommandation:
Alev Lenz, the storytelling, piano-playing singer and songwriter.

at 11pm: Gasteig - Philharmonie
with her band from London: Aicha Djidjelli (drums), Harry Deacon (bass), Stevie Wyatt (guitar) and special guest Werner Klemm will join the band for some songs.

Check out the website: www.alevlenz.com

Berlin: Book presentation and exhibition "In Between - Sibiria China Mongolia"

If you are in Berlin between the 26th April and 19th May 2012, check out the exhibition "In Between - Sibiria China Mongolia" (Tue-Fri 2-7pm, Sat 11pm – 4pm).

Tomorrow, Wednesday, 25th April 2012, the book presentation for the exhibition opening takes place at Only Photography, Niebuhrstr. 78, Berlin, at 6pm and you have the golden opportunity to meet the artist Katrin Streicher!

About the book

"In Between: the starting point and the final destination of a long journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. In between the centers of the big cities, where the eyes and the imagination find room to wander. In between ambiguous perceptions and away from ones own culture. In between a different experience of space and time, within the confining walls of the train compartment, for many days, with complete strangers." 

The photo book "In Between – Siberia China Mongolia" has been released by the publishing house Nimbus Art and books, Zurich in September 2011 with an essay by Janika Gelinek.
26 x 23,5 cm, linen with dust jacket.
88 pages, 65 photographs.
36,00 Euros, ISBN 978-3-907142-64-6.

About the artist
Katrin Streicher is a documentary photographer who currently lives and works in Berlin. In 2003 she graduated in photography from the Staatl. Fachakademie für Fotodesign in Munich and since 2007 she holds a Master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Katrin Streicher is available for photographic assignments (editorial, portraiture, reportage and commercial).
Check out the website: www.katrinstreicher.com

Munich Nightlife

It´s a strange feeling to come home after such a long time in France (9 years) and this incredible 3 months travel experience.

The difference in temperature -> Cairns 30° - Munich 10° and the grey rainy Bavarian spring weather distroyed my idyllic travel bubble in seconds and brought me directly back to reality!

Of course I had already a new travel destination in my head, but, for the moment there are no visas available anymore, and I´ll wait till December to apply for 2013. Till then, I stay in Munich.
Well, I had to change my ideas and since saturday 14th of April, I had a very exciting week with lots of things to do, for example:

- Organizing my new room (the old one of my sister), because the next months I will do flat sharing with my parents :-) 
- Visiting friends and babies (OMG, the kids grow so fast!),
- Going in cafés, restaurants, etc.
- Inspecting friends new flats and houses in construction, 
- French and German administration stuff... Boring!
- Choosing the best pics of ca. 12.000 pics I did since January... not finished yet...
and of course: checking out the Munich nightlife :-)

Café Kong (This website must be a joke! That can´t be serious! Horrible!)
Elektro sound in creative atmosphere.
Good place for singles around 30 ;-)

Das Provisorium - Kunstbar und Lesesaal
Nice little bar with exhibitions of local artists or cultural events near Goetheplatz.
Next time I have to try their own special vodkas.

Favorit Bar, Damenstiftstr. 12, 80331 München,
I went there already 10 years ago, very often on Monday and/or Thursday. 
Same style, same people, still great music and atmosphere. Can be really crowded, but I like!

Ksar
Good cocktails in club ambiance.
Nice to start the night!

Paradiso
I was there for the second time to give this club another chance, but this was the last one!
The DJ (I didn´t know that it´s still allowed to smoke in a club, maybe only for DJ´s?) has a very special way to choose and mix his sound (classics and chart music). I don´t like it at all.

Furthermore, I felt 10 years younger, because the other people are much older!
I think it´s the perfect place for stag parties, if you´re already really drunk and you don´t care about good music anymore.

I´m still surprised, that this club didn´t augment the entry and the place in front of the cloakroom. It´s really narrow (if there are more than 5 people) and difficult to go in or out. 
Could be really dangerous in some cases...

Munich (Rotkreuzplatz): Café Neuhauser & Sarcletti

Saturday evening, my family and I had dinner at Café Neuhauser, near Rotkreuzplatz.

The foto quality is bad, but the food was really good! 

Café Neuhauser

Lasagne

small mixed salad

Big choice of wood oven pizzas in the menu.
You have to be very hungry, the pizzas are huge!

And for dessert: Just around the corner, is situated one of the my favorite ice cream cafés in Munich: Sarcletti. 

Large choice, very tasty and so cheap! One cone =1 €.

Munich: Giant fleamarket & spring festival

Fortunately, the weather was quite good today for the giant fleamarket and a short visit at the spring festival, Oktoberfest´s little sista.

Lunch in the Hippodrom Festzelt
- Fleischpflanzerl mit Kartoffelsalat
       - Nürnberger Rostbratwürschtl mit Sauerkraut

What´s next?

I just updated my blog with the photos of my last travel weeks up the Australian East Coast and I´m a bit sad, that this amazing time passed too fast :-(


Now, what´s next? 
First, organizing some important administration things in Munich and Paris (26 april - ...) and then... I don´t know yet... For sure, I will continue writing this blog :-) 


FYI:
Recently a friend made a funny comment related to my blog, that it is so serious, because there are only pictures of landscapes, culture stuff or me. Yes, that´s right, because of respect to the privacy of other people, I don´t want to post party photos with them in the internet. ;-)

Munich: Home sweet Home

Hello everybody :-)


Since Saturday I´m back in Munich!
Well, I was really sad to leave Australia and ~ 30° in Cairns, but I´m happy to be back home after 3 really exciting travel months in USA, NZ & OZ.

I discovered amazing cities and the worlds most beautiful places and national parks: canyons, mountains, caves, rainforests, deserts or oceans with an incredible diversity and number of animals in the wilderness.

Furthermore, I have met so many wonderful and interesting people from all over the world and visited good friends (thanx for showing me your citylife!), I had a great time with you! 

I will update my blog in the next days that you can see my pics from the Australian East coast. 

Munich (Rotkreuzplatz): Bohne & Malz

Saturday morning, back in Munich at 5.30 am... breakfast at 11am
at Bohne & Malz:

Fitness Frühstück

Sydney (Glebe): Yuga Café

Yuga Café, Art Gallery & Catering

DELICIOUS!!!

Chef’s Pazza Beef burger with rocket, tomato, beetroot, 

smoked mozzarella, caramelized onions and horseradish cream 

with a side of kipfler potato chips

Cairns: Lunch, Dinner & Party

To start the evening I recommend pizza and drinks at the Rattle N´Hum Bar.

To party check out the Woolshed.

And the next day you need a lot to eat :-)

Ibiza Beach Bar


Chicken salad wrap

Café Thailand

Great Barrier Reef

Snorkeling and first diving experience with Pro Dive Cairns.

Easter sunday: Diving for easter eggs
in the Great Barrier Reef ;-)

After my first diving experience I couldn´t stop smiling,
it was the best thing I´ve ever done in my life!

Cairns

The following underwater pictures are from Jessica G.:

It was an incredible feeling to swim just next to a turtle!