Sarah's Rincón

Sonntag, 12. Oktober 2014

Erfurt

family-weekend

I was on a family-weekend-get-away one month ago and went to Erfurt. To be honest, at first I was a bit scepitcal whether the city would be interesting and nice, because I have never heard any recommendations to go there from my circle of friends or any one else. What I was expecting though, were ancient builings and churches with a historical background. Because what I have to explain here briefly is that my uncle picks out the city for our family-weekend and he is very keen on educating us historically and culturally.

My impression of the city is, that it is small but very, very charming. I heard someone called it "Venice of East-Germany" and I kind of see the relation to it a little bit, because you have these small bridges and canals, which run through the city. What I also liked was the fact, that the streets are in some places a bit contorted and narrow and a lot of houses are just beautiful.

And now the bad news: I am sorry to say that my phone somehow deleted all my camera-pictures and I can only show you the ones I already had uploaded on my computer. There are not many pictures, but luckily I could save the ones of this cute little café I really liked!

Café Zuckerdose

https://de-de.facebook.com/Zuckerdose.Erfurt

Eismanufaktur Zucker & Zimt

https://de-de.facebook.com/pages/Zucker-Zimt-Eismanufaktur-Erfurt/1396179360663476

Donnerstag, 11. September 2014

Make-up artist Lisa Eldridge
and a quick desk question

I dedicate this post to my friend Patrick. As I said on the radio show, I know you really would like to get some make-up tips that fit to your daily hat-color choice! Watch closely!

I also know that my friend Tanja will go crazy about this because she is a make-up lover. So this goes out for you too!

Personally I am not a huge make-up fan. My make-up stash is reduced to 3 items - foundation, eyeliner and mascara. Playing around with eyeshadows or lipsticks is not really my thing, but it can look very good on other women.

Nevertheless my connection to those videos is that I like to watch the talented british make-up artist Lisa Eldridge work her magic on other peoples faces. That is definitely one of my girly things to do. She creates beautiful make-up looks but also talks about skin care in general. I think if I really was into make-up I absolutely would follow her advise.

....and I totally forgot her beautiful british accent...I love to listen to that accent!

Here are some tutorials of her:

Videos

effortless beauty - make-up essentials tutorial

Alexa Chung Tutorial

'No make-up' make-up look

Now a bit of a different topic, but a
Lisa Eldridge related question

More important for me is this awesome dresser or desk which Lisa Eldridge has in her apartment. It's so nice and I desperately want one too! I know you propably also can put this together on your own, but Lisa Eldridge says in her apartment-tour-video that they got it from a woman who lives in Berlin. Allegedly this woman is a drawer collector and each drawer you can see on this picture is from a different decade. If you know about this lady please leave a comment down below and put an end to my drawerless life!

Macau

in China

Macau is a former Portuguese colony. It was administered by Portugal from the 16th century until the late 1999. It was the last remaining European colony in Asia, so i have read.

The well known TV cook Ching-He Huang introduces Macau, its historical background and of course its food. I like her, she seems really sweet, but I do not know her reputation in the cooking world through. I have seen her BBC food documentary where she travels through China, but that was a while ago. Unfortunately it is not on youtube anymore. I found these little clips I thought were also interesting. As I already mentioned, I enjoy watching trips through other countries and cities and getting to know their food and cooking habits.
I know especially the first video is very done up also very much at the end, I don't like that at all, but the main use for this video is to have a little introduction. I was just so interested, because I had never heard of Macau and that it was influenced by the Portuguese culture. Her BBC documentary had a more down to earth atmosphere, which I liked more.

Ivonne, we have to go there!!!

https://www.google.de/maps/

Short Introduction

Macau's Flavours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzlIDFDGpPE

Cooking and Recipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woFlrdfHw4

Mittwoch, 10. September 2014

Café Vogelfrei

(veggie and vegan)

in Mannheim

After our radio show we went to this nice Café Vogelfrei. They have home made vegan or vegetarian cakes, tarlets, quiches or soups. Whenever I wanted to go there it was closed. Today I have made it and joined the circel of vogelfrei-lovers. I really would like to see this kind of café in Heidelberg.

https://de-de.facebook.com/cafevogelfrei

Location:

Café Vogelfrei

C 3, 20

68159 Mannheim

carrot-tomato soup and pizza

backyard

Events

For classic lovers

Scampylama Serendipity Selection

at Patrick's radio show in Mannheim

Patrick is a very good friend of mine and has this super cool radio show at the radio station bermudafunk in Mannheim. He is the host of his weekly radio show Scampylama Serendipity Selection. He plays a lot of Caribbean beatzzz, reggaeton, reggae, but also a lot of other styles of music and gives his listeners feedback to different music events he attended. Furthermore he is always happy to welcome guests in his show and therefor has a great variety of music to offer. I really recommend his show to everybody who wants to know more about Caribbean music and is also sick of this mainstream music that other radio stations play all day long. Before I had to drive half an hour to my workplace I listened just a very little amount of time to radio music, mainly in the bathroom. But since spending a lot of time driving, I realized how annoying it is to listen to the same songs on the radio all over again every single day! Patrick will fire up your ears with his hot music records!!!

It's so much fun to produce a radio show especially when my friend Noam is around. During the songs we went crazy-dancing and had a blast!

www.bermudafunk.org

Tune in on wednesdays at 4 pm
Mannheim UKW 89,6 MHz & Heidelberg UKW 105, 4 MHz

Check out todays show:

https://soundcloud.com/scampylama/serendipity-spirolina-and-sarahs-rincon

SWR 2 Tandem Recommendations

Pia Eberhardt - fights against the TTIP

and

How much is enough? - Living beyond the economic growth

I know this interview and the report have been uploaded a while ago, but I just found this in my collection of things I would like to share. On the way to my workplace I usually listen to music, but also enjoy to listen to radio stations like swr 2 or DLF. They have very interesting interviews and reports. My interests have a very wide range. In this post the focus is on political, economic and social issues. Pia Eberhardt is a political scientist, who works for the non-governmental organisation Corporate Europe Observatory in Brussels and fights against the trade agreement between the EU and the USA called TTIP ( = Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). I listened to the second report before going to Leipzig, so I was very curious about this community, that pursues a vision of an economy which adjusts to social and ecological interests.

Corporate Europe Observatory and the TTIP