This is part two of our 48hs in Zurich, part 1 can be found here.

We got up quite early the next morning and walked to a cafe close by for some brekkie. I love the fact that the cafe was in front of a park, it made it 10 times more relaxing. Le boyfriend went for a basket with different breads, brioches and croissant with spreads and I chose some Greek yogurt with some seasonal fruit, muesli, and honey, both accompanied with some cappuccinos. Turns out… I hate Greek yogurt, I don’t know what it was, but something felt wrong about it. Lucky for me, Le boyfriend loved it, so we ended up switching breakfasts. (He loved it so much, he now has that for breakfast everyday… go figure.)

We then went back to our Airbnb to prepare for the day, we stopped at a supermarket before and made ourselves a MASSIVE sandwich (it is known that prices in Zurich are a little bit more elevated, and given our plans for that day we decided to make ourselves some pack lunches) So we stuffed a loaf of brioche bread with every single piece of charcuterie le boyfriend could find and made our way to the Haupbahnoff.
Continue reading

Via: Berlin-Enjoy

Some say the heart of Berlin can be found in the Brandenburg gate, some that is on any of its parks, while others say its in the bars on Warschauer Str. And even thought I believe the heart of Berlin is in its people, not it’s places, I also believe the closest to its heart is the flea market on the Mauerpark.

Every Sunday on spring and summer, this Park/BerlinWallMonument/HipNeighborhood transforms into the house of countless buskers, designers and treasure hunters. It overflows with people walking through the market, lying down listening to music or simply enjoying a beer and a wurst.
Continue reading

This year, Le Boyfriend and I celebrated our 8th anniversary together… seems like a lifetime ago we met and to celebrate it, we decided to pack our bags and take the first plane to Switzerland.

The weather was a little chilly, but it was the perfect weather to enjoy some swiss delicatessen, a classic cheese fondue with bread and potatoes and chocolate. We left our bags at our Airbnb which was located not too far from the Alt Stadt and was a lovely residential area and spent the first day walking the city.

Continue reading

If you’ve been here a while you know by now that Le Boyfriend and I are quite the globetrotters. Originally from Argentina, we moved to New Zealand in 2013 in search of new adventures and after three amazing years in the land of the big white cloud, we went in the search of new adventures, only that this time, we choose to make Berlin our home. Fast forward one year and we are itching for something new.

Via: Touropia Travel Experts  – Looking a bit like Kings Landing doesn’t it?

Continue reading

May was a bittersweet month, you’ll see soon but it was a month of goodbyes and hello’s and month where you could see the Summer creeping in the corner so we had a bunch of good sunny days. It was a busy month so I see there is a bit of a recurring theme of short videos but the truth is, we were really busy and given I’m still not used to being on the other side of the camera I can only work with what I have. I’m finally starting to get closer to schedule with these videos, and hopefully, I’ll be uploading JUNE soon as well. So…May brought us some good weather, some busy days, a lot of picnics and BBQs in the park and a new adventure…this is May.

Originally, this was meant to be a 72hs in Hamburg, but after a series of mishaps, we had to shorten our trip to only 8hs. Nonetheless, we had a great time and it was still worth sharing.

8hs in Hamburg

We began our trip in Berlin, taking the morning train from the Haupbahnhof, we grabbed some coffees to go, some croissants and Mandelkuchen and we waited for the train. Normally a smooth ride through the countryside will take you to the center of Hamburg in between 1.5 to 3 hours (it depends on which train you take) You might be able to sight some windmills and small villages on the way. [Pro-tip: Check online if there are any football matches in the area or from the city you are traveling from, we had very bad luck having the entire Berlin Herta B.C. fans in our train, at first the chanting was funny, but after everyone got drunk around 9 am, and started smashing bottles on the ground, smoking inside the train and pressing the emergency button twice…it stopped being funny and started to become tedious.]

Continue reading

As we get into the summer days in Germany, these little but powerful fruits make their way into every German and their grandma’s kitchen.

Johannisbeere Kuchen

Continue reading

Disclaimer. I’m using another computer because I left mine at home….and given that I’m clearly a genius (irony alert!) I left all my photos for this post in that computer. Nonetheless I really wanted to post this, so I thought I post it with some photos I’ve used as inspiration and hopefully when I get my laptop back, I’d update the pictures. Sorry for the mess.

June is Pride month. A month to be proud and embrace who you are, no matter who you love and how you may look. I’ve always felt very close to the LGBTQ+ community and even though every year I promise myself that I will go, I’ve never been to a pride march. And since I’ve watched it I’ve always loved this speech from Nomi (A trans woman from the Netflix show Sense8).

Anyway, I though since June is Pride month and even though I believe you can celebrate it all year round, I’d thought I’d share some tasty and easy recipes for a colorful “Pride Picnic.” So get your rainbow flag ready, set up some plates, call your friends and try some of these amazing recipes!
Continue reading

As a designer, you would think I would get off the plane in Berlin and go straight to the Bauhaus Archiv, but honestly, it took me the better half of a year to actually visit it…no excuse thought.

For those who have not idea of what I’m talking about, Bauhaus was a German art school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and it is probably the most famous one, given the impact it had on art, architecture, and interior, industrial and graphic design. Their teachers included the likes of Paul Klee and Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers, and as epicenter of creativity it was closed by the pressure of the Nazi regime on the false assumptions that in was a center for communist intellectualism.

Continue reading

I’m going to be blunt here, I was deeply disturbed by this one. I kept seeing it in cafes and delis and I’m still to actually try it, no matter in which cute way they present it.

Hackepeter

In Northern and Eastern Germany, as well in Berlin, this dish is known as Hackerpeter. Even though you can find it in the rest of the country, Belgium, and the Netherlands as simply Mett.

This dish is a mixture of raw minced pork meat, seasoned with salt and black pepper, usually served on half a bun. The name met also apparently comes from the Old Saxon meti which stand for food. A variety of this dish can be found around the country as Zwibelmett, which is a version that adds chopped onions to the mix.

Even though some are still put off by the idea of it, there is an amazing amount of the population who doesn’t just enjoy having this for breakfast but are crazy about it. They came to a point of even creating the Mettigel, a version of this dish where they mold the meat into the shape of a hedgehog, using black olives as its eyes and nose and form the whole body’s spines with raw onion. (This as well is consumed raw)

Thankfully there is a German law, called Hackfleischverordnung, that makes sure that this is safe to eat. Making it a law for it to be sold only on the day of production, for it be constituted by less than 35% fat and to be stored under 2 degrees. This makes it safe to eat at wherever place you find it, or when in doubt…ask!

On a ‘type’ note:
Harbour is a fairly new font, released in 1998 and showing a clash of latin and germanic typestyles and taking calligraphic forms that derive from writing with quills.