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B-Fest B Movie Festival
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B-Fest – Open Air B Movie Festival in Cologne

24. July 202225. July 2022 Mia Jaap 1 Comment cologne, movie

B-Fest is a free movie festival where you can’t be sure what film will be shown. And it also promised entertaining b movies. A no-budget festival for low-budget films?

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Kunstpalast at Museum Night
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Museum Night 2022 in Düsseldorf

4. July 20224. July 2022 Mia Jaap 1 Comment duesseldorf

It’s time for Düsseldorf’s Museum Night! This museum night is set in Summer – that means there is plenty of warmth, but not much night. So off to the city of Heine and Kraftwerk!

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Light art in Unna
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Extraschicht 2022: Rhine-Ruhr Culture Festival

30. June 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments art, dortmund, unna

Extraschicht is Germany’s biggest festival: For one night only, you can experience former industrial sites and museums in the Rhine-Ruhr region with plenty of events.

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Dockland building
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Dockland Hamburg: Step by Step for a view

9. June 20227. June 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

An office building that also serves as an observation deck – Dockland in Hamburg is more than that. The shape of the building is interesting…and then there are the 136 steps.

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Kimchi Bokkeum Bap and Tteok Bokki
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Kini: Vegan Korean restaurant in Hamburg

7. June 202221. August 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

Kini is a rare Korean-style vegan restaurant in Germany. It’s located in the (still?) hip Schanzenviertel district and offers plant-based variants of popular Korean dishes.

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Vinokilo event
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Vinokilo Vintage Clothing Sale – Cheaper by the Pound?

9. May 20228. May 2022 Mia Jaap 1 Comment duesseldorf

Vinokilo is an online shop for vintage clothing. Quite often, they have events where they open up a pop-up shop for a limited time and do a vintage kilo sale.

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Pretzel chained to a chair
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NRW-Forum: Subversive Design

8. May 20228. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments art, duesseldorf

“Subversive Design is critical design. It questions the status quo of the classical system” – that’s written on the website, but this exhibition is also fun.

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Onigiri at the Asian Street Food Festival
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Asian Street Food Festival in Cologne

1. May 20222. May 2022 Mia Jaap 1 Comment cologne

Foodies unite for a taste of Asia in Cologne – food truck style. The Asian Street Food Festival was held from April 29 to May 1.

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Culture Flea Market Barmbek
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Culture Flea Market in Hamburg Barmbek

24. April 202220. April 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

It’s Spring, and Spring is flea market time. As Corona restrictions are gradually removed, a flea market visit almost feels like pre-Corona.

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Sign full of sticker art on the back
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Sticker Art – Urban art in Hamburg

22. April 202219. April 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments art, hamburg

If you live in an urban area, chances are that you’ve seen a wall of stickers – sticker art. This is a form of street art often with a political or societal message.

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Freiheit und Roosen: Great vintage atmosphere
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Vinyl Shopping in Hamburg

20. April 202219. April 2022 Mia Jaap 1 Comment hamburg, music

There’s nothing cooler than collecting vinyl, so I went on a tour to three vinyl stores in Hamburg: Slam Records, Freiheit und Roosen and Minigroove.

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Market place of Oberursel
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Oberursel: Enchanted half-timbered alleys

13. June 202414. June 2024 Mia Jaap 0

Recently I was visiting Frankfurt (Main) for the annual Nippon Connection Film Festival – but there is always time for a quick trip to a town like Oberursel.

Schloss Oldenburg
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Oldenburg: An Evening Day Trip

7. September 20227. September 2022 Mia Jaap 0
Dockland building
where to go 

Dockland Hamburg: Step by Step for a view

9. June 20227. June 2022 Mia Jaap 0
Sign full of sticker art on the back
where to go 

Sticker Art – Urban art in Hamburg

22. April 202219. April 2022 Mia Jaap 0

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