Category: Cafe
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“Banken” and Benches in Holland Village
The English speaking Germans might get the word-play almost immediately. “Bank” or plural “Banken” is the German word for bench or benches. But the word “Bank” has 2 meanings in the German language. It could be the bank where you go to deposit your savings or it could be the bench, where you try to…
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Stonehenge
It is early morning in Cosmopolis in Singapore. The cafe’s are not open yet. I am surrounded by buildings with names like Fusionopolis and Synthesis and other futuristic names. I had to wait till 7 am to get my regular coffee infusion this morning. To my pleasure there was a henge of benches. Stone benches,…
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Akha Ama – Bench in a Cafe
“Akha” is the name of a hilltribe in the northern mountains of Thailand, “Ama” means “Mother” in the language of the Akha people. Yes and the name of a nice little cafe in Chiang Mai is “Akha Ama”. The cafe is using coffee from the local plantations around Chiang Mai and the northern parts of…
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Bench Monaco
I am not sure why I called this bench “Bench Monaco”. It has nothing to do with Monaco itself, as the bench is located in Munich. To be precise, in Munich Schwabing, where most of Munich’s students live. May be it was just a spur of a moment which reminded me on “Monaco Franze”, a…