Recently in Berlin we discovered Kreuzbär. Fassbrause they call it and it is delicious. If you can get your hands on a Kreuzbär get it and drink it. Simple advise.
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Graffiti of The Week – Street Art Nr. 193
Graffiti of the Week – Street Art 192
This is real and at the same time unreal – Just another day in Sao Paulo
Danny MacAskill in Gran Canaria – Incredible
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Hipster Beer – How Low Can We go?
What has the world become? Who buys this s****? were only some of the questions that formet in Trendengel’s head after seeing this on the shelfs of a Brazilian supermarket a few days ago…
Luxsit is Latin for “Let There Be Light”
This sounds like marketing talk and it somehow is – but TrendEngel is a fan of the products the two young SwedesTheresia Dibingers and Jenny Kärner have developed for their brand Luxsit. Elements such as collagen, elastin and cell formation are things that we take for granted, but are constantly active processes in the skin. The most nutrient dense cell boosting phyto-botanical extracts are found where the climate has harsh seasons, extreme cold, wet spring with very ”strong” sun, dry and hot summers and windy autumn. As a result, Luxsit combines the science found in nature with a unique phyto-botanical technology in all of their skincare and hair care products. Watch out for their beautiful stores – one will open up soon near you…
Coffee Lab – Coffee is a Science in Sao Paulo
People in Sao Paulo take their coffee very seriously. The best of the mall is the Coffee Lab created by Isabella Raposeiras.
The cafe is split up into indoor and outdoor seating. Towards the back of the cafe is an open kitchen furnished with an espresso bar, tools of the trade, and minimal kitchen appliances with staff dressed in mechanic inspired onesies working away. The front of the cafe is equipped with the industry’s best Diedrich coffee roasters since Coffee Lab roasts its own beans and creates its very own unique blends. Beans are also sold for retail in individual packages in store.
The menu is essentially an educational coffee booklet consisting of a variety of in house coffee blends with four main brewing methods including aeropress, pour over, french press and clever. Hot and cold espresso beverages, food, and desserts are also available. The most interesting part of the menu is the “Coffee Rituals” which pretty much schools you in coffee. Each ritual is essentially a lesson on coffee such as “compare the coffee Brazilians drink every day with one of our specialty coffees” or “enjoy the same coffee prepared with an Aeropress and a French Press.”
For a short course on coffee, order Ritual 13, a “Rare Brazilian micro-lot tasting” which involves an in depth tasting and analysis of coffee served in wine glasses perfect for coffee nerds.
Graffiti of the Week – Street Art Nr. 190
Graffiti of the Week – Street Art Nr. 189
Trancoso – A Little Piece of Brazilian Heaven
The beaches are beautiful, the food is amazing, the location stunning. If there is a place in the world where you would rather do nothing than something – this is it. This is one of the hottest vacation places on earth. Not yet discovered by the mainstream. Enjoy this beautiful place. If you can’t afford the 600$ a nicht Uxua – stay in one of the poussadas where you can spend the night for around 100 $ and be pampered all around.
After the hippies came other free spirits: painters, sculptors, dancers, musicians. The actress Sonia Braga visited frequently in the 1980’s, as did the tropicália singer Gal Costa. Her former summer house on Praia dos Nativos is now a Relais & Châteaux resort, Pousada Estrela d’Água (with the best bar on the beach). Elba Ramalho, the high priestess of forró music, owned a local club called Bar Bossa, where she often took the stage.
Since the turn of the millennium, another breed of biribando has arrived, landing private jets at the Terravista airstrip and flying choppers into town. The new wave uses not fish or dentures but actual money—a lot of it—to scoop up beachfront villas and rustic pieds-à-terre. Naomi, Eddie Vedder, and Gisele have joined the Quadrado promenade. Sig Bergamin, a Brazilian interior designer with an international clientele, and Olivier Baussan, founder of L’Occitane, both own property nearby. With them came outposts of fabulous Brazilian boutiques like Lenny and Richards.
Like Goa and Ibiza before it, Trancoso would seem to be at the tipping point between high freak and high fashion, hippies and hipsters. Yet despite recent incursions, Trancoso is curiously glamour-resistant—high-end shops are usually dead-empty, and besides, nobody wears heels on the Quadrado. Here the dominant pretension is the lack thereof.