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VIP-Tickets to the Berlin Festival & Festival-Survival Kits 178 Mykonos – Bohemian Island
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Dear readers, The summer issue is always something special. More then two years ago we were working on the first summery sisterMAG - in our parents' attic in Saxony during a 40°C heat wave. Our mum regularly visited us up under the roof asking, semi-worried and slightly amused, whether Thea already melted. Two years later we returned to our roots - the cover and our big fashion feature all about »white skirts« was shoot in our parents' house, in said attic which is our new sisterMAG studio. This time around we were accompanied by some of our PHOTO SOURCES:
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friends and great supporters during the last years. Fashion director Evi tailor-made white skirts and colourful blouses for our photographers, interns, stylist, and our soon-to-be new team member Sandra, who will start working at Carry-On Publishing this September. Together we spend a truly sisterMAG-day in our parents Saxonian paradise. With this shooting we wanted to say thank you: Thank you for all those amazing projects we realised together. The nine people on this cover are representing so many more who are completing our
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»The Resort Issue« sisterMAG family. For example, Claudia Gödke sadly couldn't join us on the day of the shooting. But for this issue she created the main food feature: all the photos in the big matcha special were taken by her. Since our seminar with AIYA this July in Berlin we are all convinced of the green powder and turned into big fans. By now it is an integral part of Thea's morning routine to froth the green wonder with her brand new chasen bamboo whisk - almost better than coffee. :) You can read all the info and recipes from page 246 . Staying awake is also our
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Team work took the spotlight, especially as we moved into our new office in the beginning of July. We have finally enough space for all of us to work together. Nevertheless, Thea was still close to melting away: during the »heated« layouting phase Berlin was hit by heat wave and suffered tropical temperatures. A short escape was her trip to Vichy. Together with five beauty bloggers she travelled to the home of one of the partners of this issue, Vichy, to the heart of France. A welcome break, let alone because we took to spraying each other with thermal water ever since.
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The great weather inspired us to spend much more time outside. There were plenty of weekend trips, we call them »countryside outings«. The impressions from the journeys to Thuringia and the Münsterland, the Baltic sea and the urban hinterland of Hamburg heavily influenced a great number of layouts in this issue. To enjoy the endless sunshine we invited to our #sisterMAGparty, this time in the court yard of our office building. This was also the goodbye party for our Ford Ecosport, who was an addition to our team for two weeks and accompanied us on some adventures To make the break-up easier for everybody Cris
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We still haven't talked about this issue's sections: from the contents up to the last page everything is all about islands. We were never hit by a worse case of wanderlust and itchy feet - the wonderful photos from Zanzibar, Mykonos and Nassau left us daydreaming of our next vacation. So, lets go to the first island and have fun with the new issue of sisterMAG. As always, we are looking forward to your feedback!
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Corissa Bagan
Virginia Horstmann
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Tiana Kai
Tina Bergs
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SISTERMAG GOES VICHY For #sisterMAG14 we visited the hometown of the brand in France
In our summer issue of sisterMAG we dedicate a whole island to our partner VICHY. There were just so many pictures and stories to tell after we came back from the French town of Vichy, which we visited from 16th18th July to find out more about the heritage of the beauty brand. Come with us and explore the ﾃ四e de la Vichy! sister-mag.com
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A sparkling stream issuing from a nearby fountain and the soft murmurs of pedestrians sauntering by the Hotel Célestines de Vichy create an enchanting bed of sounds on which I settle down enjoying the warm summer air in the shade of an old oak tree in the small French town of Vichy, iPad and miniature keyboard at hand so I can write these lines for you to read. There is nothing I‘d like to do better now than take the lift up to the seventh floor and relax in the beautifully azure hotel pool, but it seems even more important to join the processing and committing to paper, or rather hard drive, of the experiences we have had in France in these past 48 hours. »Join?« »We?« Yes, for once this isn’t a sisterMAG-only trip but I am instead joined by five women bloggers to share my adventure: Lina, Talisa, Susanne, Kayla and Nana all blog about beauty, fashion and other lifestyle topics. They are not only in for a tour of the small town and highly antioxidative three-course-meals; they will also be pampered at the spa and be taken on a tour of the VICHY factory. Also joining us will be Laura, who works for VICHY in Germany, who will answer any questions we might have along the way.
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As part of our cooperation with VICHY I have already had the chance to showcase and photograph several of their products this year and asked a hundred people what makes the »perfect skin«. And after having been introduced to their Aqualia Thermal along the way it has become an essential part of my morning and evening skin care routine. Coming to the actual town of Vichy though and being allowed to tour the plant with its labs in which all their products are tried and tested is a truly unique experience! The trusted pharmacy brand is omnipresent here. The town in the French Auvergne region and its 35,000 inhabitants quite literally live and breathe the famous geothermal water which is PA R I S
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If you’ve ever perused the Vichy shelf at a pharmacy you’ll be familiar with their beautiful, effortlessly elegant jars and flacons with their elegant golden and silver lettering which always strikes the perfect balance between embellishment and reliability. The town of Vichy evokes exactly the same kinds of feelings. A comfortable feeling of tranquillity envelops 44
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concepts in these parts. And even I, who usually has her reservations when it comes to relaxing, enjoying a spa or a pool, find myself taking a dip not half an hour later. The famous water is omnipresent. The three-course meal we’re enjoying next is also our introduction to the special relationship the people around here have with it and which seems thoroughly unfamiliar to our own. Lina Mallon summarizes it quite beautifully on Instagram: »In the past 24 hours I have experienced a whole new way of drinking water. Completely different from what I am used to in Germany. There are pitchers of fresh water on every table and ABSOLUTELY NOBODY would even consider ordering a soft drink. Any empty glass is refilled immediately. I drank 1.5 litres without even noticing it!« – it doesn’t feel like drinking water at home. It feels different, better. That’s because the water in Vichy comes from the Celestian spring and is ever so slightly salty.
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The second most prevalent feeling in this town is one of professionalism. Health and wellbeing are the pivotal objectives, the reason d‘étre of this wonderful place which has (unfortunately?) lost the reputation of society must-visit hot spot it held in the 70s when spas became popular. The spa treatments live up to their name and hence are divided into two categories. The one kind is just what »spa girls« like us come here to enjoy. The other kind, highly concentrated geothermal waters from the Lucas and Hopital springs, is reserved for patrons with proper medial prescriptions. Our bloggers are led to the third floor of the Spa Célestins for a very special treatment supervised by Annic, a treatment coordinator, starting with a four-handed under-geothermal-water massage. Although VICHY are best known for their facial care products, the focus of these treatments is a different one, as Annic explains. Since our entire body is covered with skin, no distinction is made between the face and the rest for the purpose of this special treatment which aims to pave the way to each woman’s idea of their perfect skin. The preliminary skin analysis therefore does not involve stock taking of individual problems, but rather asks »what is your idea of perfect skin?« – Depending on the answer an analysis of the ideal collection of products to reach this goal is made.
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It doesn’t get any more special than having your skin analysed in this very place. Comparisons to the magical powers proscribed to holy water come to mind, after all, wherever in the world a woman is holding a jar of a VICHY product – be it Brazil or Japan – it has come from right here in France. This thought only begins to dawn on us as we take in the vast storage 54
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our group through area »UP-1« (i.e. production 1). We’re here during low season which means that right now, unlike between October and April, production is not 24/7. It also means there is more time than usual to dedicate to visitors like us. We’re treated to a short introductory film presenting the VICHY brand and some basic numbers. Or tour will take us along the entire production chain from the place where the ingredients are delivered and checked through production and filling all the way to the final quality assurance. So far we have only seen white-washed rooms and hallways but once Lea has finished her presentation we’re taken to our first storage facility where we see huge cans of liquids being moved around rows of shelves by forked lift trucks. At VICHY every batch of ingredients delivered is checked. And then there’s the water. It has got the highest concentration of minerals used anywhere in the entire cosmetics industry and is especially rich in iron, sulphates and calcium. It’s used by the hectolitre despite its surprisingly complex handling. We learn that it will only stay fresh and keep its high concentration of minerals for seven days. We enjoy listening to the VICHY staff explaining their tasks and responsibilities from QA and production to filling and storage. It’s not just their charming mixture of French and English that makes their stories fascinating, their dedication to their products and their quality is infectious. Stéphane, who is responsible for the organisation of new productions lines in the UP-2 area, explains how difficult the integration of changes, like a new container design, can be. The new Aqualia Thermal jar for instance sports a shiny watery blue surface – and it’s not circu-
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lar. This meant adjusting the specifications of the filling plant. We’re surprised to see that every step is fully automated: bottles are taken off plastic trays and moved to two nozzles which fill them in a matter of seconds with a carefully prepared proprietary blend before a metal robotic arm screws a lid on them. I am fascinated by this high level of technical sophistication and would be quite happy watching the process for a couple of more minutes. But Stéphane moves us along 56
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prove the transfer of geothermal water into spray containers. He supports his explanation with a most welcome prop: a 300ml bottle Eau Thermal - a very welcome refreshment for a group of girls bringing unique French savoir vivre to a busy production plant! But it’s just us who find anything noteworthy in this at all. For our guide, a petite French woman (who, forced to wear a white lab coat all day chose to wear a pair of particularly stylish glasses) and her colleagues, the French way of life mixes effortlessly with hygiene regulation glass partitions and the plainest of office furniture design choices and does, of course, include greeting someone with kisses on each cheek.
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It‘s time to say goodbye to Stéphane who leaves us with a wink and a charming »sank you forr coming« and make our way to our last stopover: quality assurance. This is where every single of the more than 10,000 units produced at VICHY
VICHY's product range is every year is checked! Does the product match the really diverse and offers packaging? Have the correct languages been selected? a solution for every skin Does the best before date match the batch number? type. Just have a look at our Is the lid on right – tight but not too tight!? Have #sisterMAG12 shoot! the texture and tension of a lotion been checked and do they match the reference sample? Are products labelled as paraben-free definitely free of paraben? All products go through more than 20 tests before they are shipped. In addition, a sample of each batch is kept for four years so in case there are any complaints the source (ingredients or a characteristic of the finished product) can be identified. We’re
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feeling quite exhausted after taking in so much information so getting back outside into the sunshine seems an excellent idea. Since taking photographs is strictly forbidden inside the factory there is no rush to upload anything to Instagram. I will, however, carry lots of pictures from that day in my head and whenever I unscrew a VICHY product I will probably see the factory in my mind’s eye - and StÊphane winking at me while he cardboard box.
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There are few things we take as much for granted in Europe and the Western world as water. In the last issue we already had an in-depth look at the properties of water and the benefits and importance of hydration for your body in an article entitled »Healthy Hydration«. But on our recent trip to Vichy we were introduced to a whole new aspect of the subject: the properties of geothermal water, the basis of every product. sister-mag.com
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Together with our tour guide we visited the Parc des Sources – the hall with the Vichy spring.
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The original source of geothermal water is precipitation. Precipitation which over the course of hundreds of years has seeped deeper and deeper into the earth and which - to make the resulting water so precious – has along the way absorbed important minerals and microelements. The deeper it seeps the warmer the water gets – it heats up by about 1 centigrade for each 33 meters travelled. At the Palais des Sources at the Hôpital spring in Vichy we could actually feel that warmth. Even the Romans knew about the benefits of mineral rich water and built entire cities close to geothermal springs. Minerals are vitally important inorganic nutrients which the human body cannot produce itself. They facilitate the building of cells and bones and also help regulate the interstitial fluid pressure. PA R I S
Geothermal VICHY water comes from one of the sources in Vichy. At the Parc des Sources, six springs can be explored: The Grande Grille and the Source Chomel with 40°C and 41°C respectively are the hottest ones. There is also the Source de l’Hôpital (33°C), the Source du Parc (24°C) and the Source des Célestins (21.5°C). The most important one for the VICHY brand however is number six: AU VER G N E
Source Lucas with its headwaters in the French Massif Central, a volcanic area, springs from the earth at 24°C. This geothermal water boasts a range of minerals and microelements which cannot be produced industrially. In Vichy, as we make our way through the Centres des Dômes to the Parc des Sources, we are each handed a small
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each contain a drinking vessel with the word »Vichy« engraved in ornate lettering. Laura excitedly assesses the glasses, use beyond a day-trip to the geothermal sources as a perfect utensil for the next garden party.
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alternative.
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water from the Source des Célestins tastes and smells pleasant with a slightly salty aftertaste. Geothermal water is revered for its healing and balancing Wanting
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properties. A carbonic acid bath
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rheumatic diseases) and the thermal
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des
salt waters are used in the treatment
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of rheumatic and musculoskeletal
have been warned by our guide, when
issues.
we daringly try the precious fluid
Geothermal water also has a
we’re appalled by its brackishness. It’s hot water alright but it tastes of rotten eggs and nothing like the famously healthy table water
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OUR TRAVEL GROUP Five bloggers accompanied sisterMAG on the trip to Vichy. On their blogs or channels they are all concenentrating on various topics all in their own style. On the next few pages, the five girls are introducing themselves and sharing their experiences from the spa treatment in Vichy. The products selected for them through the skin analysis you can find at the end of each portrait.
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After our trip I use the products that were recommended to me on a daily basis. Especially the eye serum is one of my favourites and I am planning to use it in the longer run.
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»LINA« - Four letters that perfectly describe the blog with the same name. From 2011, LINA MALLON coming from Hamburg writes about fashion and everything inspiring. Personal, authentic with a wink here and there, she takes the readers into her life, city and shopping trips, dates and her very personal stories. »I want to be a daily dose of inspiration and hope to make the readers happy when they visit my site.« Lina wants to be a friend rather than a stranger. A young woman who goes her own way and lives her dreams. She is inspiring, exciting and sometimes unusal and she makes life a little more colourful.
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Definitely the thermal water spray because it just feels so good on the skin and is not complicated. And for the summer, I use the sun spray Capital Soleil with LSF 50. Never was it easier to apply sun lotion. Even my kids like it!
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»For women. Not girls.« Texterella is a blog for women who are grown-up and who don’t fit with the girlie blog. Since 2009, I am blogging for women who like fashion but who don’t want to conform to any dictate. Those who want to be attractive but who don’t despair over their laugh lines. I am blogging for women who have found their way of life, but who still want to look beyond the obvious. That’s why I also cover a wide range of topics, What did you like best? from fashion (besides the Most enjoyable was the SPA catwalk), beauty, travel, reads, treatment and the pool with that foods. Shortly: lots of life, lots great view. And of course the town of style! And many interesting that gave VICHY its name. portraits of women who cross my path Susannes
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Ideal skin is fresh, a bit rosy, without impurities and glowing. Unfortunately, I don’t naturally have a balanced out skin, that’s why it is important to me to give the skin enough moisture. Only then I feel comfortable with my skin, when it has its natural glow!
My blog started in the beginning of 2013 with the idea to connect my passion for writing, cosmetic products and photography. During this time I had great experiences and I am writing every post with a lot of passion and commitment. »Fräulein ungeschminkt« offers a wide range of topics, such as beauty, lifestyle and fashion, all these topics that make every girl’s heart beat faster. But I also inlcude personal stories in the blog posts. Because only then a report seems authentic and complete. I love blogging, and I easily get carried away working for my blog, which I have as a sideline. Nanas'
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Just as the name suggest, »Not Your Standard« is by no means a standard style blog. I am a Canadian-born, Berlin-based blogger who aims to share a standard of living with an emphasis on details that sets it apart from the typical fashion & lifestyle blog. Consider it a glimpse into the fashion, food, decor, health and everything else that inspires me. Blogging since 2012, »Not Your Standard« has grown to become a source of inspiration for thousands of readers from Europe and beyond.
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Grand Casino-Théâtre With its operas, ballets, operettas and song recitals, the Grand Casino-théâtre's programme is highly varied, attracting large audiences from the Clermont region. The building is decorated in Art Nouveau style, the work of the iron artist Émile Robert.
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Parcs d'Allier These beautiful English gardens are laid out either side of the Bellrive bridge, on land reclaimed from the Allier river. The beautiful area invites you to take a romantic walk along the water.
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Haus der Madame Sévigné Vichy Spa Hôtel Les Célestins
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Vichy has a very long and eventful history, especially in the time before the 20th century when the foundation of the city's wealth was laid. The symbolic colors of Vichy, which you can find in many homes and for example in the majestic building of the Thermes Les Domes are blue and beige / gold. Because of the thermal water (blue), the city became very wealthy (gold). The place was already founded in Roman times under the name Aquae Calidae. However, the present name comes
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Street scenery in Vichy
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The aforementioned Thermes Les Domes were established in the late 19th century when a pump room, a ½ mile promenade and an oriental bath were opened. With its oriental architectural features, originally meant as a friendly political gesture, the spa also became very popular with sultans and sheikhs holidaying in Europe. At the turn of the century 40,000 guests per year came to Vichy.
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Thermes Les Dômes Historical bathing complex from the 20th century.
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The French rulers had also known about Vichys magical springs for a long time but it wasn’t until the Marquise de Sevigné visited the town for a lengthy spa retreat in 1676/77 that it rose to proper fame. The writer suffered with severe rheumatism in her hands but found such relief in the Vichy water treatments that she praised their healing powers in many of her works. This spelled the beginning of the town’s heyday as a favourite society destination and royal spa retreat. Thirty-one years later a physician called Dr. Haller recognised the positive properties of the geothermal springs when an injury on his arm healed much faster than expected after exposure to the water – it was he who founded the Laboratoires Vichy which are to this day the home of the famous brand of cosmetics.
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Very famous are the »Pastilles de Vichy«, as a delightful little souvenir, that you can only buy in the candy shop and also in many pharmacies or souvenir shops. They were invented during the 19th century and were originally made from pure sodium bicarbonate which was believed to help with digestion. Empress Eugénie de Montijo was apparently a big fan of them. Later they extracted the minerals from the thermal water and added sugar. Nowadays you can buy them in mint, lemon or aniseed flavor.
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COLUMN
D I G I TA L A P P - I S L A N D
When I started thinking about our August issue in the early summer of 2014 and began my research into »islands« I used the Google app which offers a self-contained mobile search option on the smartphone. One quick click and I was looking at a lovely picture on Instagram, another click to a Tumblr blog and yet another one until I ended up –
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as I tend to do – in my Pinterest app. All these little independent islands of programs on my phone have their specific purpose but do not offer any additional functionality which means in using them one is constantly switching from one app to the next.
text Thea & i l l u s Neu t r a t i o n bau er
With the
subject on my mind anyway, I naturally started referring to this as island hopping! An app is really a lot like an island. And nowadays there are so many of these islands around that it is hard to get one’s head around the number. At the beginning of July there were 1.5 million apps available for the Android system, 1.2 for devices using iOS. If you were to line up the icons for all those apps - which measure 1x1cm (~0.4x0.4") each – they’d cover an area of 120m2
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(i.e. almost 1300 ft2) which is the size
day I was expecting to be tasked with
of quite a spacious flat. Looking at
menial Photoshop jobs, the cropping
this number, the question »Is there
of .pngs and maybe the occasional
an app for that?« can really only ever
design touch-up. But instead I was
be answered with a resounding »yes«.
placed right in the middle of the
And yet there are still plenty of ideas
busy place and asked by the British
for so far unavailable yet seemingly
agency director to create a design for
indispensable functionalities out there
a big British newspaper’s iPad app.
which have made moving to Berlin
Somewhat bewildered I admitted that
and founding a start-up the one-time
I had never even seen an iPad. Neither
– often booze-fuelled – dream of many
had he, replied the director in a thick
a wannabe entrepreneur.
British accent and a slightly waggish
Living in Berlin definitely means living
undertone before suggesting I check
right at the pulse of new app trends which means I have to remind myself
out Apple’s US website. The devices wouldn’t be available in Europe for
to »clean up« my phone regularly and
another couple of weeks anyway.
dismiss all the mobile payment, digital
So I got to spend a blissful summer
tape measure and shoe shopping
designing gradient navigational bars
apps I haven’t even opened for three
– before the advent of the minimal
months. And yet I enjoy adding new
and flat design prevalent today,
»islands« to my phone. I am the
gradient bars and sharp edges in the
coveted early adopter founders of
centre were staples – and coming up
start-ups are always looking for. I love
with crazy app features. My personal
assessing app UIs, examining their
highlight was the day I came to the
navigation and enjoying well executed
office to find a vuvuzela on my desk
graphics. It must be something that
which I was asked to replicate in a
stuck from my former job/internship at
detailed graphic. The related app was
a mobile marketing agency in London.
a 2010 football world cup »essential«
When I made my way to the offices
and supposed to recreate the horn’s
on Tottenham Court Road on my first
characteristic sound - activated by
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blowing into the phone’s microphone.
is HOW to discover the best apps. Do
It all worked out in the end but as to
I have to rely on recommendations
how essential the app actually turned
made by individual stores or outlets?
out to be...well, I wouldn’t want to
How do I browse, search and find high
speculate.
quality offers?
Anyone who has got a service or a
Friends
platform to offer to the public in this
recommendations and I have found
day and age will have to make a
some really great apps thanks to
decision at some point whether or not a related app should be available. Should we offer a native app (especially created for 96
an operational system, e.g. iOS, and available for download directly to your phone) or a web app (i.e. a website which can be displayed in a browser but has been optimised for display on small and mobile screens)? Should we only offer an iOS version or an Android one, too? Or even optimise for Kindle or Microsoft? Many developers and start-ups initially focus on the iPhone to avoid the frustrating issues related to Android fragmentation. Optimizing an existing app for miscellaneous systems and provider surfaces is a huge effort. The main problem for anyone finding their way through today’s app world
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will
usually
have
these: While I was on the Blog’n’hagen trip back in 2012 I noticed that all my friends were using the – a camera as well as
VSCO
photo editor software which I have since used on every single picture I have taken! It offers fabulous filters and a great community into the bargain. Tommy,
whom
remember called
from
you
might
a
feature
»Zusammen
schmeckt’s
besser«
in
SisterMAG8 introduced me to the
7-MINUTEN-WORKOUT
and I have made it a point to try and make this app a regular part of my morning routine ever since. About a
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year ago, our photographer
well as special recommendations
Chris mentioned another
and truly unique finds, though
app called TRUHDR
, a
discovering
the
latter
usually
camera app which takes
requires a fair bit of scrolling
three shots with varying
through lists and category listings.
exposure periods, thereby
The top categories for Android
creating an HDR picture.
apps on a global level are »tool«
Interestingly
followed
enough
he
by
»casual
games«,
doesn’t use the app himself
»entertainment«, »arcade games«
and asks me how I managed
and
this and that shot with every
also claim the top app categories
picture I show him.
for iOS apps (see table on the next
»communication«.
Games
Everybody has their own special
page).
way of organising and using apps
Many magazines now dedicate
on their phone. One of my friends
column inches to the presentation
insists on using the Deutsche Bahn
of apps (it’s not just us at sisterMAG
app for any journey from A to B
:)). Although I do have to admit that
within the city of Berlin. Although
I tend to find the approach in men’s
my obvious first reaction upon
magazines like GQ and digitally
noticing this was an incredulous
minded publications like Wired a
frown, but since he swears by it I
bit more innovative. Anyone looking
guess I will give it a try one of these
to get even more deeply into the
days …
latest developments and changes
Browsing the app store is always
in the app world should check out
a good albeit obvious way to find new and interesting apps. It offers big headline banners guiding you straight to this week’s highlights as
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The Next Web and especially their blog in the apps section where all articles relating to this fascinating topic are screened. Once a month
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IOS 1.2 Mio. Apps 305,994 Publishers (as of 03.07.14) 300 Mio. weekly App Store visitors
TO P C AT E G O R I E S ANDROID 1.5 Mio. Apps; 420,539 Publishers (as of 03.07.14)
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75 billion app downloads (as at the beginning of2014)
1. Tool 2. Game Casual 3. Entertainment 4. Game Arcade 5. Communication
the best new apps for Android and iOS
by downloading the apps featured in
are reviewed here, too.
this latest sisterMAG issue: ICOON
In this special niche of the big technology market, The Next Web mainly focuses on the US, but there are several German service providers casting their eyes around this side of the pond, too. So while we’re all
(see page 116 ), Steller (page 100 ) and - of course! - Instagram (page 120
). But nothing beats your very
own app! I admit that I sometimes take a (proud and clandestine at the same time) detour via the newsstand app and click the sisterMAG icon to
beginning to see the way through
have a browse through the past issues
the app maze a little more clearly,
– from a day at the beach by the Baltic
may I suggest starting your journey
sea to the Christmas tree dress. The
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App Travel & Holidays EVERPLACES
Never forget a restaurant, hotel, place in the world ever again: just save them in Everplaces or browse through other users' tips. update has made it all look even nicer – clean and bright. When I select an issue I am pleased to see that I no longer have to wait for 10 minutes to read the first sentence of the editorial (yes, we hated that, too ;) ). So here’s another apprelated recommendation for you: Make sure not to miss updates!
FLYING
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| € 2,69
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SHARING THE STORIES THAT SU R R O U N D US T E X T C A R LY D I A Z
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communication. And yet, it’s a tradition as old as time itself. From the first days of gathering around a fire in a cave, people have been compelled to share stories through words and images. The way that storytelling continues to resonate with us today suggest that it is integral to the human experience. But the method of composing and sharing
photos, video and text to create stories
stories
significantly
in a magazine-like format, then share
thanks to digital technology and social
those stories with the world. We talked
media.
with Lead Designer Karen Poole and
has
changed
It takes a lot for an app to make
Head of Community Jay Wilder, two of
significant waves in a market satuÂ
the co-founders and driving forces of
rated with media-sharing tools. Yet,
Steller, about the inspiration behind
Steller has done just that. The iPhone-
the app, the creative possibilities and
only app allows users to bring together
what it means for visual storytelling.
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What was the initial inspiration behind Steller? Karen Poole: When we first got together to talk about the concept, we all wanted to create a platform and environment where people can share their stories on a mobile device t足hrough photos, video and text. We wanted to make this platform available for everyone to share stories about their interests, as well as everyday life, and make it simple for those stories to look beautiful.
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What in your backgrounds made you want to do something related to storytelling? What drew you to this concept? KP: As a designer, I felt like there was an opportunity to bring together design and storytelling in a new way that allowed more people to achieve a beautiful, magazine-like result. It was important to make sure sharing your story on Steller would be a fun and creative process. Design was important from the start. Jay Wilder: Also, as avid social media users ourselves, we wanted to be able to share and follow a deeper experience easily on the phone. As we looked around, there was nothing on mobile that facilitated this at that time. It got us thinking, what would storytelling look like in the mobile world?
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What makes Steller unique among mediasharing apps? KP: People are being very creative with the medium and coming up with new ways to tell their story through the combination of photos, videos and text – which is unique. On Steller you’ll find users sharing amazing animated stories, really useful DIYs, recipes, travel stories, thrilling adventures and everyday stories too that give you a glimpse into the author’s life. The variety is something that we think definitely draws users in. JW: Stories can also be shared not only on Steller, but on any network, wherever your audience might be. I think this is very compelling for users too. One of the
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trends we’re seeing is the incorporation of multiple video clips in stories. It creates an authentic and lifelike experience – almost like being there. That’s very unique compared to storytelling on the web. When we were doing our beta testing and talking to three different groups (bloggers from the lifestyle segment, creatives, and action/outdoor expeditioners), each group kind of had the same feedback: that they rarely used video posts because it can be such a big production. They started thinking about how they could incorporate video with their photography and writing in a way that they hadn’t done before. It’s one of the interesting differences of Steller – you can write, you can share video and you can share photographs. You can express yourself in those three popular ways that people are pretty comfortable with today and mix and match to create the story.
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The word ‘storytelling’ is thrown storyteller wants to bring you to. I think around a lot these days and people, from
photographers
to
that’s an enjoyable experience for both
creative the storyteller and the audience.
directors, are rebranding themselves
People have always been drawn
as Storytellers. Why do you think to storytelling and in recent years people are drawn to storytelling?
it’s
continued
to
become
more
What is the appeal?
democratized. You saw it explode with
JW: It’s in our nature to tell stories. blogging and, now that the mobile The thing that is unique about stories, versus
other
ways
of
device has become the primary screen
conveying and device we interact with, it’s time
information, is that it reveals itself for storytelling to move to this new through the telling. If you look at how medium. Every time that storytelling a film works, or a book, or even how a
shifts from a medium, it starts taking
joke works, you follow along and you on new characteristics. What we’re kind of know where it’s going, but you seeing in our app, is that it’s more in don’t really know. That’s what makes it the moment, more personal. It’s as it’s so interesting, that it is revealing itself
happening, captured on a phone while
as it goes toward a conclusion that the
you were there.
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That opens up the door for people to tell stories in unexpected areas. You mentioned bloggers, but are there other areas, like journalism, where you see the app having potential? KP: Definitely. We’re already seeing people use Steller to share news as it’s unfolding – from both the publication side as well as the eyewitness side. Being able to share photos and videos together is a really powerful way to convey the backstory of an event or cover news as it’s happening. The page-by-page format also lends itself well to educational stories such as DIYs, step-by-step guides and recipes.
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JW: It’s really interesting where the action and adventure community is taking it too, which hasn’t traditionally been heavily associated with blogging. I think overall it’s wonderful to see people use it on a daily basis to capture their memories and experiences with friends and family – things that are important to them. Blogging brought a lot of new people into discussions about many different topics, I think now sharing more and more on mobile devices will expand that even further.
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So do you think that this is a new way to blog or a replacement for blogging? KP: I think it’s a new way to blog. I don’t think blogs are going to go anywhere, but mobile consumption of blog content is increasing and I think that we’re in the beginning phases of a shift happening towards consuming and creating content on the phone. JW: I think it’s going to transition and it will be interesting to see where it goes. For the moment, I think bloggers are trying to be in both places at once.
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Storytelling used to be rooted in words and a narrative, but now visuals are an integral part of the experience. Why do you think people are drawn to the visual element of storytelling? KP: People want to share their experiences. Not everyone is a writer, but everyone has a perspective. Sharing through imagery is a way for everybody to be a storyteller – to bring you in and inspire, educate, entertain.
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amazing stories that have been shared since we launched. Across the board from photography, food, travel, spaces and DIY. It’s really cool to see the variety together, where one moment
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you can check out a great recipe and the next moment you can check out an expedition to Everest. KP: One of the most popular stories that has come out is ‘Subway Music’ by a user named NYC Gallery Girl. She took several different video clips in the subway of street musicians and people loved it because it was so authentic. It’s a great example of capturing daily life in the city. JW: If you look around, there are stories happening everywhere around you.
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What’s interesting about the app is not just that it takes multiple media and brings them together, but it also allows for an editing process. The flow of the story can be shifted around, adding things in and taking things out. In the end, it takes more time than posting a photo on Instagram. Do you see that as a benefit or a barrier? KP: We give you the control to add pages and rearrange them, change the layout, change the font, but it’s up to you how much design control you want to take advantage of. We created the page layouts so that you can still share a beautifully designed story without having to make any changes. It’s a creative process and we want people to have fun. JW: People have said that it’s an enjoyable process. What you come away with at the end feels substantial
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and meaningful. Something you want to keep that’s less ephemeral. How is Steller sharing its story and getting the word out? KP: When we launched on March 13, we were featured on the App Store and received Editor’s Choice from Apple; we’re honoured to have been chosen. We’ve been working closely with bloggers because we wanted to start with a strong community. We want to foster a community not only in the app but in real life. We’re planning to host meetups and community events to bring storytellers together from all over.
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Download STELLER in the app store. What other plans do you have for the future? KP: Our big focus right now is to continue to build a strong and connected community. Soon we're going to introduce search for hashtags and comments inside of stories. You’ll see a lot of evolution happening on Steller over the next few months and a lot of fun and creative community building.
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1 STARTUP SPOTLIGHT
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AMBERPRESS is a publisher for travel and design. We are designers with all our heart and soul and love to travel. We have been able to combine our two passions in our picture dictionary ICOON.
2 I studied 足linguistics and later visual communication. ICOON is the perfect combination of language and communication: because the most understandable and oldest 足 language of them all is pictures. I noticed during my travels that you often get stuck communicating only with gestures when no one
116 The money we earn is reinvested. We use it for new book publications, new apps, software updates or computers. I don't like to work with other people's money, so I prefer earning my own money. It probably isn't that cool anymore in times of crowdfunding and stuff like that, but we have been very lucky to be able to stand on our own two feet.
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I create corporate designs for our customers, sell books in our online store, on Amazon, in bookstores and via our partners throughout Europe. We have distribution partners available in different countries including Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Great Britain. We also brand our books
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speaks your language or it leads to misunderstandings. The purpose of ICOON is not to replace foreign languages but to help in difficult communication situations. For example, if you have to explain hay fever during your vacation in Hungary, or suffer from diarrhea in Africa, or you need safety pins when you're in China. 117 as giveaways. So our clients can give it to their own customers or partners as a useful and original gift that they can use in their free time, when they are on vacation and need help with a communication problem. In this case, the ICOONs are still called ICOONs but are made in
the corporate design of the customer. Sometimes we also add symbols or even several pages of icons of the branch that the customers works in. We did this for Boeren Medical from the Netherlands, for example: We added eight extra pages with symbols on the subject of diabetes
for the pharmaceutical company; or for Gazprom where we designed a category with energy icons. Being professional designers, we are able to cater to our clients' wishes and add a touch of individuality to the books. Individuality is the future, in my opinion.
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In Berlin! Definitely in our favorite city. You can still feel the energy in the air here. In five years, we will probably have come up with some more ideas and products that are connected to travel and design. We are already looking forward to it.
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Picture dictionaries have always been around, but most of them were impractical because they were too big or bulky or not clearly structured. Or sometimes they only included photos, but we knew you couldn't express everything with photos. And definitely
no complex context or abstract concepts. Or the competitors who used illustrations in a style we didn't find appealing. Hence ICOON. We just wanted to do something different. Shorter, more understandable, more modern.
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I have always had magenta in mind. Even years ago when you hadn't seen the color around a lot. A hundred percent magenta in combination with black and white has been perfect in my opinion.
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In organization and design. 119 Especially in Asia where you can't read all the characters, and off the beaten tourist tracks it comes in very handy to have ICOON available as an app. Although I always have the printed version with me. It fits into every pocket of your pants and in case the battery is empty, it is great to have the first-languageaid on hand when no one speaks English, German or Polish ;-)
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All of them! I really like the first ICOON magenta edition and the new app for the iPhone. But also the ICOON camouflage edition in the cool camo colors that we developed for Globetrotter and Innenstadtsurfer. But if I really had to decide I would choose our latest edition: the ICOON communicator in neon green that also features
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the new translation tool in the book cover: You can now combine and communicate the icons with the most important questions, answers and messages. This way you can explain whether you are allergic to peanuts or whether you are looking to buy them more easily and more precisely.
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When did you join Instagram? What were your first pictures? I joined Instagram more than two years ago and initially used it as a portal to share my life with my personal friends. It then became an extension of my blog and focused more on my deep love for photography by capturing unique shots of what I see in Florence and on my travels. What are you using Instagram for? What is the main focus of your feed? My focus on Instagram is to share the best of Florence and my travels, to inspire people to travel and notice the beauty in everyday things. I’ve been obsessed with photography since I was eight years old, so Instagram lets me share my passion with the world and anyone willing to check out my feed.
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Tell us a little bit more about your side photography project – @notmynonni. Italy has the most adorable nonni (meaning grandparents in Italian) and soon after moving to Florence my grandfather passed away and I would see him in many of these old people, so this project is dedicated to my grandfather. I post a photo every morning of an elderly woman or man, mainly taken in Florence although I capture them in every city I visit. It’s a very sentimental
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project for me, but also to many of my followers since they share their personal stories of their nonni with me. Nothing makes me happier than to read the loving comments from followers who fall in love with these nonni I photograph, telling me that @ notmynonni is their favorite account and that it reminds them of their nonni. How did you grow your followers? Any tips and strategies? Instagram is a commu nity unlike any other social app that I use, so I treat it as such. I
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like supporting the people I follow by liking, commenting and even sharing the images on other social sites. Many users have become personal friends throughout the years, so it truly feels like a community. As for tips, I suggest interacting with other users, not just those in your close circle. Sharing pretty photos doesn’t hurt either! What kind of editing tools are you using for your photos? Snapseed handles a great amount of editing, but I like to play around with VSCO for @tianapix. For @notmynonni,
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I just use Snapseed and Instagram’s updated tools, which are amazing! What are your favourite #hashtags? Any tips for hashtagging? Over the last year I’ve been using #inmyhand a lot when I extend my arm out while holding a cocktail or gelato. I think it’s fun and it gets people hungry, which is the intent…to have people feel so-mething when they look at my photos. I love hashtags and have created quite a few like #yousay-domeisayduomo and even more personal ones like #macintoshlovesclassics that’s about my dog posing with classic cars and vespas.
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spam the tag by using hashtags on photos that are unrelated to the hashtag. A whole community has developed around Instagram. What are you doing at the Instagram meet-ups in Florence? What was the Instameet #everchangingberlin in Berlin about? The first instameet that I organized in Florence was so much fun. I invited some friends and posted an invite on my account the day before in case other people wanted to join. I took everyone down to the river bank where no one usually goes, to see a different side of Florence. The walk ended at my favorite wine bar with complimentary prosciutto and cheese plates plus wine because I wanted to thank everyone for joining. I have another one in the works‌details will be revealed in a month when it’s all finalized.
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#Everchangingberlin was an incredible weekend organized by Berlin’s top Instagram users: @ uwa2000, @thomas_k and @brainyartist. They
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organized instawalks, meals, parties and a big picnic on the last day at Tempelhofer Feld for 160 of us. The people in attendance where other Instagram addicts like myself from all over Europe. It was an opportunity to meet up with some users I’ve been following for a while and to meet new faces. What are some current trends on Instagram in your opinion? Flowers are getting more popular, jump shots are still hot, and I see more people playing with portraits. Selfies will never die, but I I don’t post many selfies or portraits. The few times I post a selfie it’s usually silly to make people laugh. Pets are also popular— when I got my dog I was going to start an account for him, but right now I have fun just featuring him on my account sitting next to vintage Fiat 500s.
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PHONE AND MOBILE SPEAKER For the atmosphere at the festival there is a great deal of mobile speakers which are either connected with wire or by Bluetooth with your smartphone/iPad/computer.
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Tutorial Shorts 1 DIY from Renate Bretzke – titatoni.de What you'll need:
a pair of jeans (e.g. a colourful one) lace edging pair of scissors sewing machine First cut off desired length of your jeans. To check whether the length of both legs is accurate, put them on each other again. Measure the circumference of each leg and cut two pieces of lace to the required length plus 1,5cm addition. Pin lace to the inside of each leg using pins and sew lace onto the pants with a very small zigzag stitch of your sewing machine. Next, fold over the bottom part of the jeans and sew again. That's it! Ready for the next summer festival!
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Ina from pattydoo is a German DIY and craft blogger who just launched her site pattydoo designer with great patterns. The video below shows you in detail how to sew the yellow scalloped summer shorts (language: German)
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Questions about the Festival
C lau s K u h l m a n n cameraman Who are you? What do you do? And when did you last shoot at a festival?
your spare time, too?
The first time I really went to visit a
I’m a cameraman by trade and
festival as a private person was last
have been shooting at festivals
year at the Dockville in Hamburg.
like Hurricane and Deichbrand for the past two years.
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Are you a keen festival goer in
And it was the best festival I have ever been to.
How did you come to do that?
Hurricane and Deichbrand are
Most festival contracts are long-
huge events while Dockville is
term deals and the companies
a
who’ve got them in turn cooperate
beautiful though, with excellent
with
bands and in a great location.
TV
stations
which
are
looking to cover festivals. But the TV stations also send their own production teams to the big events where they produce the big stage shows live. I was sent to one of those as a cameraman covering the Deichbrand festivals for a German station called NDR. The footage produced will then
comparatively
small
affair,
Do the other festival goers mind your equipment when you make your way through the crowd?
They
don’t
pay
any
special
attention, really. You’re there to do a job amongst people who want to party. At events like Hurricane you’ll want to try your best not to
also be used for any related DVDs
get into people’s way. I tried to
as well as the big screens at the
actually watch a few acts there
festival itself.
last year but being slapped by
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drunken guys and having beer splashed in your face really makes you want to get away from the crowds. What’s a typical festival day like for you?
We set up on the day before the festival starts. This involves laying cables, crawling through the mud (because it always rains!) and under the stage. We also have to coordinate with the sound and video guys. If something’s not working we need to fix it in the spot. At Hurricane we were only able to set up five hours before the first act went on stage and then suddenly the lighting system
didn’t work. You can’t really talk to the tech guys in moments like these, everybody is on edge and the stage manager will probably be shouting at people. But I have had the experience that somehow everything suddenly works once the bands start playing. Who do you interact with? The stage manager, stage hands?
The stage manager sees the big picture, of course. Plus there are the sound and lighting guys. The big acts will also bring their own people into the mix. Rammstein for example travel with a five truck entourage and always get their own technicians to set up their stage. Our team is comparatively
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small: there’s a producer, a video
crew members at the festival
mixer and three cameramen.
location. But I am not a big fan of a night in a tent. Running around with your camera equipment in
Your musical taste:
60°F weather and rain is pretty singer/
tough on your body already and
songwriters at Hurricane this
sleeping in a tent afterwards does
year which I also like to listen
not exactly make it better.
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shot
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a
few
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good night’s sleep it can get very exhausting very quickly. I am usually the go-to guy for electronic music as my colleagues tend to prefer metal. Shooting electro acts isn’t very exciting either as they don’t do anything but stand by their console. Getting to take your break while an act you really like is playing is great, of course. My personal highlight in this category was catching T hees U hlmann from Tomte. Where you sleep:
Last year we stayed with the other
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We usually arrive from Berlin in coaches and vans. One of them is then parked under the stage - this is where the video mixer lives. It is quite a sight to see yards and yards of 40-inch thick cables running into a modified VW T5 van. We also have to make sure we rain-proof them overnight. The stage area is cordoned off so those cables are usually safe. You’ve got your camera with you all day and lock it away at night. The equipment is usually safe from drunken members of the audience but you have to make sure everything is cleaned properly. Sometimes the stage hands will play pranks on you too. This year
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sound. But after three hours of electronic music there is no way your ears won’t ring at least a bit. At which festival would you most like to shoot?
As a hip hop fan splash! would be my ideal workplace especially since there’s usually a lot going on on stage. And I’d also like to take in the music and atmosphere at Melt!.
a colleague of mine had smoke guns fired straight at him while he was shooting an act on stage. That’s actually pretty tiresome rather than funny though. You also spend a lot of time standing right next to the speakers so at some point your ears will start ringing. But hey, that’s life music. Do you take ear plugs?
I have got a pair of noise cancelling headphones through which I also communicate with the director. They do neutralise quite a bit of
Generally I don’t enjoy shooting acts I like listening to all that much because I’d rather concentrate on the music. My first job at last year’s Hurricane was OK K id and I had goose bumps all the way through the shoot. I tried slowly zooming in but was shaking so much I couldn’t get a decent picture. And one hip hop act once told me he saw me rapping along for their entire show. Your best experiences:
I had a great weather related experience at Dockville once: it had been sunny all weekend, which is highly unusual for Hamburg,
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and then when the last act, A gnes O bel , went on a big black cloud suddenly settled above the crowd. It looked incredible! Then the show started with a very melancholy piano piece, proper goosebump material, and it started pouring down like mad, but only right above the festival location. That was a proper mystical moment! Things that went wrong:
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We once laid a cable which at the time worked perfectly fine but then suddenly had a loose connection. We had to replace the cable while the band was already playing that was quite stressful. Your camera:
For the stage feed small broadcast equipment will do but shooting something for television is a more exciting matter. The stations have very specific requirements so they can process the material for different purposes. In addition to the director another person will take charge of the colour mix and aperture. The equipment used for these shootings is especially sophisticated.
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I had already worked a bit with shoulder mounted cameras during my studies. Those cameras are all basically the same and the manufacturers have reached an agreement to also make them all look much the same. So once you’ve found your way around one model you can basically work them all. At my first festival, however, I obviously had no practical experience to fall back on. But I got lucky and some more experienced cameramen gave me a few pointers beforehand and also had some helpful tips for me via our headphone connection during the shoot and I got quite a few »hold the camera steady!«, »I need a
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new shot« or »pull the zoom!« in my ears. What does »pull the zoom« mean?
It makes a difference whether you’re taping a live concert of a band or shooting for a live broadcast. In a broadcast people will want to see the band’s heads. You’ll have to get shots of the instruments and the band members but it’s not really about creating beautiful pictures. But when you’re shooting a video clip, for example, you’ll be going for different camera movements and use different stylistic devices like blurring. Say you’re filming a particularly lively rock band and focussing on the drummer’s head, and then you’ll suddenly pull the camera away to create a blurry image which you can use to cut to the next shot.
festival venue it started raining and temperatures dropped to the low 60s. Let’s say it wasn’t a very nice experience. Do you get tired?
I’m a big fan of mate style tea, especially when it’s warm. If that’s not available I’ll just try to get through it which can be quite tricky, especially with slower acts on which you need to stay with your camera and carefully zoom in and out. It’s quite easy to accidentally nod off for a second. That’s why I like electronic music, no danger of falling asleep there! Although, once I did actually fall asleep backstage on a break while Electrobeats were playing their gig up front at the same time.
What do you pack?
I got it very wrong last year: I left in 85°F weather wearing shorts and a t-shirt and when we got to the
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ÂťThe Danish festival Roskilde Festival is my favourite. I love how the casual atmosphere is combined with a constant inspiration of music, innovative art installations and not least fashion.ÂŤ
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My favorite music festival act is still a performance by James Blake at Roskilde Festival in 2011, where a big cloudburst broke out in the middle of his concert which created an exceedingly magical feeling in the concert tent.
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In this season my favourite festival item has without doubt been my Stine Goya / H2O sandals. They have followed me everywhere this summer, and they are perfect for a festival where you have to walk a great deal every day.
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Carolin Harwranke P R - a s s i s t a n t o f t h e f e s t i va l At the beginning we would like
newcomer band, how could you
you to give a short presentation
support me?
about yourself: Who are you?
Of course we do. We have a
What is your job and background?
separate festival for this exact
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online PR. What is in your opinion special about the festivals you are working for? The venue or the mix of exceptional bands with different styles of music? It is the mix of it all. Great bands, the world’s nicest and bestlooking audience assembled at an exceptional site. The whole weekend you can feel a special vibe that you won’t experience anywhere else.
case: First We Take Berlin. It’s a showcase festival that takes place in many in-locations in Berlin Kreuzberg during Berlin Music Week from 4th to 5th
September. What
was
your
personal
goosebumps event during a festival? The headliner’s show at Sunday evening is an absolute goose bumps
moment.
You
see
thousands of happy visitors in front of the stage, a great act on stage and realise how great the festival weekend has been. Which period is more stressful – is it the organisation and
Do you also support young
booking or the planning and
talents? Assuming I’m in a
organisation on site when the
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festival is just taking place? Both. A festival means a lot of work and organisation beforehand. But when you’re finally standing on the festival grounds you know the work was worth it.
Which object are you always taking to a festival? Comfortable shoes are very important. But of course you also need the right people around you. My air mattress is broken, my
Do you visit festivals in your free
smartphone’s battery is low, the
time? Maybe also abroad?
tin-opener was stolen and I’ve
Yes, absolutely. I love music and there is no other chance to experience that many good live bands at only one weekend.
got some sunburn: Which are the
Coachella festival in The California is on the top of my list – unfortunately I’ve not yet managed to visit it.
What’s your advice for people first visiting a festival to get through this jungle? You should be prepared for anything.
best survival tips for visitors? Luckily, you can find stations to charge your smartphone’s battery at nearly every festival by now. Instead of eating canned raviolis I recommend Handbrot (kind of German calzone, stuffed with cheese and ham or mushrooms) and only after the first or second beer and the first good act of the day you’ll forget the pain from sunburn.
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Which was the last festival you went to? When was it? And why did you choose this one?
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My last festival trip wasn’t that long ago. I went to the Hurricane festival in Scheeßel which is way up in the North, from 20th to 22nd June. One reason I like going there is the selection of acts you get to hear. I’ve seen many of my favourite bands there and discovered some new favourites, too. This year’s special find was an Australian band called “T he P reatures “. The other reason I like it is the fact that my mum lives only a few miles from the venue. So I get to go to a festival and still enjoy a hot indoor shower and full-time care for my 3-year-old daughter.;)
g o l d e n - c ag e . d e What is special for you about a festival holiday? What is the difference compared to a beach holiday, an adventure trip or a city break?
I like music in general and I do go to lots of concerts, too. But it was my husband who introduced me to festivals. I like the unique atmosphere. A carnival, a fun fair and music all rolled into one and all the different kinds of, and sometimes downright crazy, people – you can’t beat that. My inner child thoroughly enjoys raiding the Haribo booth and then going for a ride on the Ferris wheel. Festivals are also a great way to get close to your favourite bands - just make sure you claim your spot early enough. It’s much easier than at an ordinary concert. At least that’s the experience I have made at Hurricane. What was your most joyful or the funniest experience you’ve ever had at a festival?
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Definitely the ride on the Ferris wheel with a birds-eye view of the entire festival area. That was just fabulous! Which was the best music act any of the festivals you went to? Why?
there is a lot more happening in her stage show than with many other acts. There are curtains billowing in the wind and there is fog, too, which adds an air of mystery to it all. I also like the way she dresses and dances. It’s a perfectly crafted performance. What object would you always take with you to a festival?
Definitely my phone so I can take lots of pictures.
My personal highlight was definitely L ykke L i . I like her music and
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Which was the last festival you visited? Why did you choose this festival?
I went to Hurricane Festival and I chose it deliberately. It is close to my home, the line-up was fantastic and a lot of my friends went there as well. The perfect mix. What is in your opinion so special about festival holidays compared to e.g. beach holidays/adventure holidays/city trips?
Yikes, you can hardly compare that. During beach holidays or even
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during a city trip, I rest and relax, I try to come down and gather new energy and impressions for everyday life. I love nice hotels, good food and beautiful things. A festival means exceptional circumstances. Little sleep, tense muscles, everywhere dust and low comfort – but thousands of emotions! It is hard to describe. I’m totally euphoric when I come home from a festival but just as exhausted. Which was your best or funniest experience at one of the festivals you’ve been to?
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It was this year’s sunday. For about an hour, I was alone at the festival grounds, bought a Pina Colada, sat down in the afternoon sun and listened fully relaxed to the sound of F ranz F erdinand . Actually, it was not my favourite band and not my favourite drink but somehow everything was perfect and I was able to realise how many impressions I had gained and everything I’ve experienced in this 48 hours.
describe what these guys do on stage and what they did at Hurricane. For two hours, I jumped non-stop, danced in the crowd, sang loudly and produced endorphins in excess. A true firework! Which item would you always take with you to a festival?
I learned from experience: a rain jacket!
Which was the best music act you’ve seen on a festival? Why?
S eeed ! Definitely! It is hard to
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C ha r l i e M oy l e r f e s t i va l g o e r Which was the last festival you went to? Why did you choose this one?
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I went to Glastonbury Festival in June - it's the biggest festival in the UK and one of the biggest field festivals in the world. The best thing about its size is that there are so many stages with amazing and mixed line ups. It's also kid and family friendly, which means that it has a great atmosphere. We actually went this year with my family - my parents (in their 50s), my brother and his girlfriend (who are students) and my kid brother (who's still at secondary school). What is special for you about a festival holiday? What is the difference compared to a beach holiday, an adventure trip or a city break?
There are a few things that make festivals special for me. Firstly, the people that you go with, then
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of course the music, and lastly the fact that you are living and partying outdoors. So when a band plays your special song and you can enjoy it with your best friends, in the beauty of the big wide outdoors. That is really special. It's what gives festivals that magic feeling. Logistically camping is always a bit of a headache at one point or another - you have to be prepared for a heat wave and a thunderstorm at the same time, so there's a lot of 'stuff'... But when the very reason for sleeping in a tent is so that you can dance and sing all day to your favourite music, there's really no point stressing about your punctured blow up mattress. And the more relaxed you are, the better it will be. It gets to the point where you are happy to sleep with muddy clothes on - honestly! It's quite liberating‌
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just as D e L a S oul come onto the stage, it was again that electric feeling - the buzz of being happy to be alive. I also quite love sneaking back to the tent for a midnight feast of noodles and a glug of sloe gin under the stars... Cooking bacon in the rain What was your most joyful or the funniest experience you've ever had at a festival?
A few years ago at Latitude Festival my husband and I saw E lbow and just as they started to sing a song that we played at our wedding, a gorgeous fireworks display started... That feeling of worlds colliding is electric, it's like a first kiss! This year at Glastonbury we had a fair bit of rain, so when the sun came out from behind the clouds
Which was the best music act at a festival you went to? Why?
J ungle , a brilliant new band, were my absolute favourites. I have got their tunes in my head 24-7 at the moment. So to see them live before their first album was released was pretty epic. They're the sort of band you can sing and dance to, but equally have on in the background whilst you drive or do some work. Soul, funk, urban tunes.
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Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury
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take with you to a festival?
There are a lot of things that make the list of festival must-haves such as a flask of sloe gin, a blow up mattress, dry shampoo, baby wipes, sunglasses... But the only thing I know I could not do without is Wellington boots. Especially in the UK! There will always be mud, and if there isn't then you're missing out.
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Dav i d K h i l f e s t i va l g o e r Which was the last festival you visited? Why did you choose this festival? I went to Fusion in Lärz. This year was my fifth year there and it’s by far the best festival I’ve ever been to. Many styles of music are represented and they are of high quality. Apart from the attractive program I like the fact that Fusion is independent of advertising funding. The organising association doesn’t need to make profits. Prices for food and drinks are low and you’re allowed to bring your own groceries. The atmosphere there is very pleasant! At the camping site, you’ll only find a few hopelessly drunk persons who bother you, but a lot of nice people who want to have a good time. What is in your opinion so special about festival holidays compared to e.g. beach holidays/adventure holidays/city trips? That’s definitely the music. For me it is about great musicians and discovering something new.
What was your most joyful or the funniest experience you've ever had at a festival? The best experience was to come together with my former girlfriend. The funny moments are uncountable but always related to the situation. When so many people meet for a few days far from everyday life ingenious situations arise that outsiders cannot understand. Which was the best music act you’ve seen on a festival? Why? It was probably M onkey S afari at Fusion. Everything was perfect. The weather, highly motivated people, the atmosphere and the scene with all its details… and of course the duo’s ingenious three hour set that did not let you rest. Which item would you always take with you to a festival? Wellies. You don’t want to have to wear them, but in case of bad weather, they can make the difference!
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Favourite item? My camera! To remember all those fantastic festival moments! I'd love to shoot analogue photos because you'll only see them afterwards and that's what makes it so much fun!
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Questions about the Festival
Andrea Weber / Putpat.tv
Music television on the Internet
Could you describe in a few words what Putpat is, please? What is it that you do? How are you different from services like tape.tv or ampya. com? What makes you unique?
Putpat TV is music television specially tailored to the taste of each individual watching. We’re not just a website on which you can search, find and watch music videos: we are an actual TV station. That’s why most people access Putpat via their TV sets; be it via an app on a Smart TV set or watching our HbbTV channel via DVB-T. But of course we also offer apps for smartphones and tablets and you can watch Putpat online. What are the biggest challenges online musical television is facing? Due to licensing issues YouTube for example is not able to offer certain content in Germany. How do you solve these at Putpat?
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Licensing has definitely been our biggest challenge. Music videos used to be mere promotional materials but have since become valuable independent content in their own right. We have managed to come to a mutually viable agreement for both parties with the different performance rights organisations. Who is your target audience and how well are you reaching it?
Anyone who likes music is our target audience. Since everybody gets their very own personal television channel we cater to fans of jazz as well as those of beat and classical music. Even customers with highly specialised tastes will find what they are looking for. As, of course, will fans of hip hop, rock and pop.
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How and where are customers supposed to use Putpat?
Thanks to the mobile apps you can use Putpat just about anywhere. But you’ll get most out of the experience consuming it like you used to watch musical television in the past: via your TV set. This way you can enjoy the videos on the big screen and in high definition. It’s perfect background entertainment all hours of the day. But Putpat really shines at your party because you can choose your musical style as a group. What’s the Veequalizer?
The Veequalizer is your key to your personally created music television channel. It’s really easy to use and can be controlled with your TV’s remote. There are five control tabs to which you can assign musical
styles or the name of an artist and then select how heavily each should influence your channel. This way I can create my own TV program by telling the system that I like 80s hip hop but don’t mind a bit of A dele either. No J ames B lunt , please, but some M ilky C hance will be fine. From these selections the system curates my own personal channel which I can adjust anytime I like. How are you funded?
Putpat is funded by commercials which run between the video clips. This way we can offer the service for free. Does the name Putpat mean anything?
No, we were looking for a neutral name, one that wouldn’t automatically be associated with
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focussed on music to enhance
What’s Putpat’s connection with festivals?
the summer festival season by bringing the events to your TV screen. Festival footage is exactly the kind of special and exclusive content we want to offer. What makes festival broadcasts special? How do you source the content? Do you send your own camera teams?
The main challenges tend to be based around logistics. Festivals are usually very How did you come to broadcast
crowded and often in a remote
festivals?
location. You also have to
We have established media partnerships with festivals like
make sure you run your plans by the artists well in advance. We do have our own people
Southside and Hurricane and are
on location but also work with
actually very closely connected
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Are the Putpat staff festival goers? Are you in contact with the acts?
Enjoying the festival itself is definitely the best way to deal with the related stress. It’s important to maintain good and close relations with the artists and their management. That’s the only way to make sure you will get the camera time you need in the hustle and bustle of the actual festival. Do you also stream festivals live on Putpat?
Yes, we offer this service for, amongst others, splash! and the Berlin Festival. Other festivals are broadcast with a time delay but feature additional content like interviews and special acts. We’ve built quite a collection over the years to choose from.
What are your goals and objectives for Putpat for the next few years? Where do you want to take it?
We definitely want to add to our live events. Every year with Putpat means another year of experiences we can put into new, bigger and better projects the next year. We are also looking to improve our profile where more classical music television content is concerned: Getting people in front of the camera, interviews, hosts, shows etc.
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THE BOHEMIAN CHIC OF
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Lime-washed houses with colourful wooden doors, a turquoise sea with natural beaches and a veritably cosmopolitan town centre inviting you in to dance the night away. Mykonos in the Aegean Sea is one of the most exclusive
holiday
destinations
in
Greece and attracts visitors from all over the world. Despite the masses of tourists who choose this part of the Cyclades for their annual summer holiday the island still retains its authentic and unbridled charm, but you’ll have to come in pre- or post180
season to find it. Authenticity and originality is what Thomas Heyne and Mario Hertel from Germany strive for too. At their design hotel San Giorgio Mykonos, which opened in 2012, the island’s bohemian chic comes alive. Originally planned as a pop-up hotel, the guys’ keen attention to detail made the place such a hit in its first year that the San Giorgio Mykonos has become a permanent feature on the island and is now in its third year.
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are more picture perfect motifs to be seen.«
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ÂťThe simply yet
stylishly decorated rooms are perfect oases of peace and tranquillity.ÂŤ
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The idea of bohemian chic comes
bustle you came here to escape. »We
alive the second you set foot into the
wanted to create a truly unique hotel
hotel lobby—carefully placed vintage
experience that wasn’t square in any
highlights, exquisite use of natural
way,« Thomas Heyne explains their
elements—a perfect combination of
concept and adds, »luxury shouldn’t
old and new. Everything is just right.
be
Hanging wicker chairs are just one of
Mykonos makes all their guests feel
the elements creating a comfortable
right at home be it in flip flops, high
and
heels, a summer dress or a bikini.
homey
atmosphere
washing
away any memory of the hustle and
arduous.«
The
San
Giorgio
The only dress code is authenticity.
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»Lime
colou
sea w
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Its
Mediterranean
natural
building
architecture, materials
and
about a house creation: »I’d like a mojito, please.«
carefully selected accessories make
»Plain or rosemary?« the bartender
this new kid on the hotel block the
replies.
ideal destination for the aesthetically minded traveller who knows how to »do life«. It’s as much a place to get away as one at which to find kindred spirits. No sooner have you checked in than you can feel the daily routine melt away. The simply yet stylishly
The hotel’s location is ideal for both those looking to spend time by the beach and those who want to party. The pool and many of the rooms offer beautiful views of the Aegean Sea and the private beach provides a quiet spot for a splash. Just a
decorated rooms are perfect oases
few steps from the San Giorgio
of
tranquillity—and
Mykonos you will find Paraga Beach
intentionally and thankfully TV-less
whose exceptionally fine sands are
ones at that. Long wooden tables
naturally divided into two sections by
and benches by the pool facilitate a
a headland of cragged cliffs. Head to
lively exchange between the guests
Tasos’ Taverna for traditional Greek
at breakfast, lunch and dinner. And
meze and more fabulous views of
of course there are cocktails! How
the sea.
peace
and
e-washed houses with
urful wooden doors, a turquoise
with natural beaches«
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On the other side of the hotel you will find the lively Paradise Beach with its bars and clubs. Listen to the music or try your hand at a water sport or two during the day and enjoy the sunset with another tempting cocktail at night. But the San Giorgio Mykonos and its immediate surrounding beaches
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aren’t the only part of the island promoting a feeling of bohemia— the small taverns, turquoise sea and sheer coastlines are all essential parts of the puzzle. Mykonos is small and easy to explore. A stroll through the chora, the historic part of Mykonos, for example is a sight even before the shops open. Picturesque two-storey houses with colourful
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»Pétros is an indispensible part of Mykonos’ old town.« doors and windows line narrow alleys just wide enough for one car to pass through at a time. With every turn there are more picture perfect motifs to be seen and you can’t help wanting to explore every single one of them. There are also plenty of opportunities to sneak a peek at patios, laundry hanging out to dry and other scenes of the local’s daily lives through open
gates and windows. If you’re lucky you might bump into Pétros on your stroll, a pelican proudly strutting around the chora who was first nourished back to health and later adopted by the locals as their pet when a fisherman found him after a storm in 1954. The original Pétros has actually been dead for a long time but the locals’
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grief was so deep that a new one was
historic old town though and make
brought in and now the bird strolling
our way along steep and narrow roads
along the alleys is an indispensible
through the heartland of Mykonos all
part of Mykonos’ old town.
the way across to Agrari Beach where
Despite its modest dimensions time
the ever turquoise sea and golden-
just flies when you’re exploring the
brown sands of a, for now, empty
chora. Most meanderings through
beach greet us.
the old town’s nooks and crannies
For a visit to Mykonos’ most authentic
eventually lead travellers to the
tavern head to Panormos Beach in
boardwalk with its small market
the North. An easy twenty minutes by
and many fishing boats. Mykonos’
car outside the centre of Mykonos you
chora offers a splendid selection of
will find Kiki’s Taverna. Make sure you
taverns and bars suitable for both
get here before 12.45 to secure a table
lunch and dinner. Nikos’ Taverna is
and allow plenty of time to find the
a popular favourite with fresh fish
barely sign-posted place. The small
and other typically Greek specialities
bar does not accept reservations
on the menu. Choose the small
and there isn’t any electricity so you
Taverna M-Eating, however, and you
couldn’t call ahead for a table anyway.
might easily find yourself the only
The food is prepared on a wooden
tourist among local patrons. After a
stove outside the house for a uniquely
revitalising break it’s time to leave the
authentic taste.
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Fed and watered in the traditional
beach is quite small with only a few
Greek style we head for our next
taverns and cafés along the short
destination: Agios Stefanos just a
boardwalk. Since some of them are
few kilometres north of Mykonos
slightly elevated they offer especially
city. This is where you’ll find the truly
spectacular views across the bay as
peaceful side of Mykonos, a picture
well as the historic centre of Mykonos.
of a beach completely devoid of any
The latter is where we’re headed now
hustle and bustle of everyday life. The
to conclude our day trip in style. Before
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below the horizon we get a r the white houses in a light mth.«
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the sun sinks below the horizon we get a chance to see it cover the white houses in a light of almost surreal warmth. The sunset also means it’s now time to dive straight into Mykonos’ night life which starts with a traditional Greek meal at a small tavern at which we gather strength to dance all night...
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TEXT ANTONIA NEUBAUER
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PHOTOS THERESA NEUBAUER
FOR URBAN JOY TONI'S PERSPECTIVE OF BERLIN
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When I moved to Berlin in 2006 I was looking to settle
down and come to some much needed rest having moved around a lot in the years before. I wanted to put down some roots, really make a place my home, find local
friends and start a business. It sounds like an oxymoron: Coming to a metropolis to rest.
But Berlin was just what I was
lated businesses only, the gap to
looking for. A large conurbation
Hamburg (in second place) beco-
with lots to offer in terms of
mes even wider. This has notice-
culture and entertainment, an
able effects on the city itself: For-
international population, beautiful
merly derelict factory buildings
surroundings and not too far
from Wilhelminian times are now
from my hometown in Saxony.
the headquarters of the economy
A place in which, after many
of the future. Social networks,
years of division and economics
e-commerce service providers
struggles,
exciting
and app developers are all look-
was happening. Eight years on I
ing to utilise the internet to pro-
still feel I made the right choice.
vide offer services which only ten
Not only do I still live here, I have
years ago would have sounded
indeed set up a business with two
like something straight out of Star
partners - a decision definitely
Trek. Soundcloud offers a You-
facilitated by the supportive and
tube-style service with a strong
positive climate founders and
audio and music focus, Resear-
young entrepreneurs enjoy here.
chGate has become the leading
According to the 2014 New Bu-
social network for scientists and
something
siness Monitor of German government-owned
development
bank KfW most of the new companies founded in Germany between 2011 and 2013 were set up in Berlin. Looking at internet-re-
EyeEm is making a name for itself as a Getty-like agency for photographers of the internet age. And we here at sisterMAG join them in our efforts to create a magazine which is equally future-oriented,
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in terms of its form as well as its con-
main of the wealthy: the state opera
tent.
offers free concerts and a selection of
A booming start-up scene also makes
open-air exhibitions are also free of
for a high influx of young and enthusiastic people from all over the world. With all of them out and about in the streets and squares, English is now more common than German in some parts of the city. Our team be-
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charge so all Berliners can enjoy arts and music. Compared to other metropolises like London and Paris much of what’s on offer is still highly affordable even though the cost of housing and living has risen over the past few ye-
nefits immensely from the new arri-
ars.
vals too. Our pool of photographers is
Whenever the hustle and bustle of
made up of people from Canada, the
the big city become too much to bear
USA and Great Britain and so far we
you can just catch an S-train and find
have worked with models from Egypt,
yourself relaxing by one of the many
Brazil and Japan, all of which live in
lakes around Berlin in a flash – and
Berlin. Just by keeping our eyes and
even the sea is just a two hour car or
ears open we find new inspiration for
train ride away!
sisterMAG issues on a daily basis.
Yes… I have a very positive view of
Berlin is a great place to live. A huge
the place I have chosen to call home.
number of cafés, restaurants and
And there are, of course, many things
bars are competing for custom. A tas-
which don’t work quite as they would
ty currywurst or a Michelin star meal
in an ideal world. More could be done
– neither is ever more than a few
to help mothers juggle their family
streets away. There are many com-
and work life for example. And des-
munal initiatives which make the pla-
pite the increasing demand, housing
ce extra liveable like flower bed-lined
close to the city centre should remain
pavements, interesting night school
affordable. But if you ask me, the be-
classes and all kinds of sports. Even
nefits far outweigh any issues – I a m
the so-called high culture is not a do-
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http://eclectictrends.com
Barcelona, your city – why? It's the light and the sea that fascinate me all over again, even after 25 years. I loveto live where the water is nearby and even though I don't see it every day, it still has become important for me. Every trip is like a mini-vacation.
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your hand.
A project you support? Yes, Meet the Blogger is coming to Barcelona in September and I am both organising the event as well as I will have a talk. I enjoy talking to international bloggers and show them around in my city.
#WhatAreYouFOR I think it is important that every person has the possiblity to receive a good education for free no matter how old the person is. Training should always be possbile no matter if it has a connection to one's actual job. Creative workshops should be available for everyone, to motivate and stimulate and to build communities with like-minded people who all support each other.
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JA S M I N Hamburg, your city - why? Hamburg has so many different faces. On one hand it is very green and has almost a small city feel to it, on the other hand the city has all the convenience of a big city: many sport and leisure time options, lots of shops and different locations, parks, many different people and a wide range of cultural activities. And one thing, not to forget: We people up here in the north have lots of water – no
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sea, but with Elbe and Alster we still have a lot of water.
Summer in Hamburg I like to be outside as much as I have time. Eating ice cream, bike along the Elbe or sit on a rooftop with an ice cold drink, That's summer for me! Last but not least, summer offers the great possibilities for us bloggers to shoot photos with great lighting in the evening hours. ;-)
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A project you support? Not directly. I sometimes voluntarily support my mum with her work at a local sports club with small creative work and like to help the community. It's a small club where commitment and support directly show and you can reach many things. I am actually a (okay, honestly rather passive) member of Greenpeace, but actually only the mindset counts for me.
Urban Mobility – what does it mean? Urban mobility means for me to have the possiblity to reach my aim without a lot of waiting around. On the one hand because it is geographically not far away or because I have a choice of public transport possibilities which take me there quickly.
#WhatAreYouFOR I am standing in for conscious consumption with respect for environment and nature. I buy very consciously and like to invest in a sustainably produced product rather than many purchases at once. I really like the trend of stores and locations to put the focus on sustainable and high quality goods, stress on balanced and regional cuisine with love for their products.
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Vienna, your city – why? I really like Vienna because the city is connecting the historical and the modern in a very charming way. In furniture I also like that mix of old and new. All tastes can find what they are looking for. The city is not too big, you get everywhere rather quickly, by public transport, bike or car.
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I have kids, which means that sunny weather means a day at one of Wien's public baths. The Krapfenwaldbad at the 19. district is really pretty and you have a spectacular view over the city. Highly recommended is also the Schönbrünner Bad as it is really clean, there aren't too many people there and it is in the middle of Schönbrunner park. By night I love to go to the Rathausplatz. Every summer there is a film festival and you can try all these different types of ethnic foods and have a nice glass of wine.
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A project you support? Die MariahilfertstraĂ&#x;e in Vienna was rebuilt as a pedestrian area. Just buses and cyclists are allowed to drive there now. I supported the project from the beginning even though some Viennese did not like the idea. I think there should be a car-free zone in Vienna, because the area seems stress-free, cleaner and more quiet.
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Amsterdam, your city – why? After having lived in the Asian megacities of Manila and Singapore, Amsterdam feels like a global village, and I love that. It’s beautiful, charming, green and full of history. But it’s also incredibly diverse and dynamic—things are always changing. It’s laid-back, easy to live in, and easy to get around. The Dutch have a great respect for family and worklife balance, which makes living and working here great for young families like ours.
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Summer in Amsterdam is all about boats, bikes and terraces. I love going out on a boat to explore the canals with a little picnic and a bit of beer or bubbly. Many Amsterdammers own boats, and on a sunny day everyone is out on water! When I need to work, I hop on my bike and find a sunny terrace with good coffee and free Wifi. My new favourite place to work in the sun is the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam Noord, which is just a two-minute (free) ferry ride from Centraal Station. It feels like a totally different Amsterdam, and the view on the IJ River is amazing! With my 16 month-old daughter, I just take it easy and hang out at Westerpark, our neighborhood park. She loves to play in the sand and splash about in the paddling pool while I soak up the sun.
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A project you support? I’ve been a volunteer for TEDxAmsterdam, an annual event that brings together intelligent, passionate,
action-oriented
individuals
under the banner »ideas worth doing.« I also belong to Amsterdam Mamas, an online community that provides information and support to English-speaking parents in Amsterdam and across the Netherlands. It’s a vibrant, thriving community that’s been a tremendous resource for me both as a new mom and a resident of Amsterdam.
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For me, urban mobility is all about freedom. Freedom to design your lifestyle, to make decisions, to easily get from one place to another, and to transition seamlessly from one metropolis to another, whether it’s from Manila to Amsterdam or from Berlin to Toronto. To be mobile is to be unrestricted, and urban life makes that possible.
#WhatAreYouFOR Living a life you love and making a home wherever you are!
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Munich, your city – why? Munich is very clean, quiet and offers much safety, variety and nature, especially for families. In winter, you only have 45 minutes and you are right in the middle of the most beautiful ski resorts and in summer it is only three short hours away from the beautiful Tuscan countryside. What more to expect?
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In the summer we often take refuge in cool museums (the favourite museum of my children is the German Museum and the Brandhorst Collection). Or we spent time at one of the water playgrounds in the city, go to one of the many beautiful lakes in the area, take a bike ride along the Isar, relax at the Flaucher or cool off at the beach bar of famour Prater island.
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A project you support? Nick and Charlie attend the St. George's School, a British International school here in Munich, where social engagement is taken very seriously! This year we have several very successful fund raising projects (e.g. a run in the Olympic Park), where we supported the SOS Children's Villages in Germany and in Africa and many more projects. For us it is very important that our children develop a sense of global responsibility from an early age and learn to appreciate what they have. 217
#WhatAreYouFOR What am I for? Spontaneously I would say: caring about aesthetics in any life situation, feminism, children's education, freedom from gender stereotypes and BOOKS! The "why" would probably be beyond the scope of this article :-)!
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Essen, our city – why? My town is more than just a town. I live in Essen but since all towns in the Ruhr district merge into one another, I actually live more in the Ruhr district. Many people have prejudices about this region, that we just call our „territory“. People imagine us in between goo, smog and tar and express their condolences when we say that we live there. And on what basis? They are wrong! The Ruhr area is as good as gold! It’s pretty, green and rich in contrasts. White laundry on a clothing line meets iron steel and both hold hands with nature and it looks great! You can find everything here! Just no mountains. But we have heaps! People are warmhearted here – and that’s great! They are all loud-mouth – another great thing! 218
While all the metropolitan areas are forcing their hip image and showcase their creative scene like figureheads, people in the Ruhr area just stay relaxed and work.
Summer in the Ruhr area In summertime, there are an enormous amount of activity and you can find everything from arts to culture to sports and music. My favourite thing to do is to picnic on one of the heaps at sunset (that’s the real Ruhr area romance). Many towns have restored the spoil piles of the old coal mines and turned them into impressive landmarks. Above Bottrop, for example there ist he Tetraeder (the Ruhr area’s Eiffel tower) and above Duisburg you can find the giant roller coaster Tiger and Turtle. On top of the heaps, you have a spectacular view over the Ruhr area and it always amazes strangers how green it is here.
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A project you support? Because I regularly share insider’s tips and interesting locations on my blog heimatPOTTential
, I help young
startups to receive more attention. I present innovative art projects, small little burger huts as well as handmade Guerilla swings created by a woman with the slogan »LET LOVE GROW« at various places. Through my work I can support different projects and ideas non-stop in a way that I am saying: »Check this out, you need to have seen this!«
Urban Mobility – what does it mean? Everytime someone asks me: »How long does it take me to get to that place?«, I can proudly answer »20 Minutes«, because everythig in the Ruhr area is closeby. Just sometimes the traffic is so heavy that it takes a long time to drive the A40.
#WhatAreYouFOR I like direct, warm-hearted people. I like sentences starting with a casual »Hömma« as a greeting and I also like humor on one’s own account. I like contrasts and loyality as well and Spaghetti ice cream. And schoes from paez.de
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CINNAMON SNAIL www.cinnamonsnail.com This truck has the longest queues
bread pudding, marinated kale, orange
of them all but if you ask the waiting
cranberry relish and roasted garlic aioli
customer’s if it’s worth the wait, which
on grilled baguette? And if you want
at the height of lunchtime can easily
dessert afterwards, there’s a choice
be 40 minutes, everyone will say, it is
of brownies, donuts and pastries of
indeed. All food is vegan. Interestingly
all sorts - again, of course, all 100%
enough,
returning
vegan. The queues are a little shorter
customers are not even vegetarian but
in the mornings, when Cinnamon
they love the variety and quality of the
Snail also offers breakfasts. Delicious
food so much that they keep coming
maple pecan waffles with cardamom
back for more. Interesting sandwich
butter and candied pecans and fresh
combinations are especially popular
fig pancakes with chamomile and
- how about a porcini mushroom
blood orange syrup are some of the
simmered seitan, rosemary parsnip
highlights.
lots
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MEXICO BOULEVARD www.mexicoblvd.com Hot dog and pretzel trucks may have started the street food trend but it’s the taco trucks that made it take off. Mexico Boulevard is a family business and with the family being from Mexico City, all food is authentic and made following old family receipes. You can have all fillings in tortas too but if you go for the tacos, the fillings will be piled high on top of two fluffy, freshly baked tortillas. The fillings are perfectly spiced such as the Tinga: organic chicken, marinated in a tomato and chipotle sauce. Another favourite, Bisteca, features pieces of juicy steak in a beer & chilli sauce. All tacos come with fresh coriander, onion and salsa and are best washed down with some Agua Fresca.
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CARPE DONUT carpedonutnyc.com Dessert trucks are no rarity in New York – some serve baked goodies like waffles or cupcakes, others ice227
cream. The little red Carpe Donut truck combines two dessert treats in form of a donunt ice cream sandwich! If that’s too much goodness, you can also go for just a simple donut, without the ice cream. And Carpe Donut’s apple cider donut has been voted NY’s best donut by NY Magazine! A yeast donut may be chewier but the apple cider donuts here are made on the spot and covered in cinnamon sugar before they melt in your mouth. There is only the one donut flavour but that flavour is all you need and as the owner put it, ›it’s better to be the best at one thing, than good at many‹.
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The bright orange stripes of a tiger
here. Generous portions of Korean BBQ
make the Korilla trucks stand out so
dishes come in the form of wraps or
you can easily spot them from afar. The
salad bowls. Slightly more traditional
name comes from the mix of Korean
chosun rice bowls are also available.
and grilled food that the chefs dish out
With only the best and mainly organic ingredients and a menu that can be customized to individual tastes, Korilla keeps winning awards and multiplying – at the last count there were three stripy tiger trucks out and about in NY.
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229 Arepas are a sort of Colombian Pizza. Their base is usually made from a corn and water dough and topped with vegetables and, for those wishing for a bit more subsistence, chicken, beef,
PA L E N Q U E C O L O M B I A N A R E PA S palenquehomemadecolombianfood.com
shrimp or cheese too. Palenque has a great choice of combinations
that
should satisfy any customer and all toppings are garnished with chipotle mayo
and
chimmichurri-cilantro
sauce. If you want a bit more bite go for one of their unique speciality bases, such as the quinoa or brown rice and flaxseed ones.
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cities too but is still worth highlighting. Again, this truck also only serves one specialty: frozen lemonade. It does come in two flavours though watermelon and original lemon. The first has a nice pink colour to it but the later is our favourite. A refreshing slushy with pieces of lemon makes for a thirst-quenching and cooling delight on a hot summers day.
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In summer 2014 we invited some friends over to have a party in our office courtyard. The car company sponsored the centerpiece – the new Ford Ecosport – and we had some lovely drinks and great fun!
PHOTOS: RYAN HURSH CRIS SANTOS
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Thea and Cris preparing table and cocktails
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#sisterMAGparty in the midst of the city The time with Mildred passes far too
heavy lifting: we load her with chairs,
quickly and we are already beginning
lights and beverages, visit H端rriyet
to plan the farewell. This is to be
of BotanicArt to get the beautiful
celebrated by a #sisterMAGParty
flower bouquet from her studio in
honouring Mildred. Together with
Berlin Wittenau. Right after that
Cris, who also develops three
we drive across the entire city to
special sisterMAG cocktails for the
the beverage market. On a balmy
occasion (the recipes can be found
Saturday evening we are ready for
on page 238), I start, rather short-
our guests: Mildred is sparkling
term, to plan the party. Mildred
clean and is, in the truest sense of
gives us a hand and takes over the
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Quick and easy decorations for the dinner table: carefully pin eucalyptus twigs to the napkins using clothe-pegs. Added bonus: it will keep the napkins from flying away!
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No idea how you put party playlists together before there was Spotify :)! For our court party we added more songs to our ÂťsisterMAG summer 2014ÂŤ playlist so we could enjoy our favourite music the entire evening. You can listen to it here .
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The courtyard of our office building in Berlin Wedding was a great spot for our party.
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When celebrating in the the courtyard, a 3-course-meal isn't necessary. With a plate of cheese and sausages as well as bread we have everything we need. We picked up the food only 20 minutes prior to the party. Our favourite bistro, Le Flâneur at Greifswalder Straße in Berlin, offers a wide variety of French specialities and put together the lovely selection for us. For the sisterMAG summer party Cris – who is also an excellent bartender – developed three exclusive cocktails with the corresponding names: »Mildred's Pearally Legal«, »Marsred« and »TONI-ght is the Night«. The recipes, and our cocktail menu to print at home, are on page 240 and you
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M I L D R E D ' S P E A R A L LY L E G A L 1 oz pear obstler 1/2 oz wild strawberry liquor
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1/2 oz lychee liquor 1oz lychee juice (best to use straight from the can)
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M A R S R E D The colour of the car! 2 oz gin bitter orange soda
Pour the gin in a tall glass filled with ice. Fill with bitter orange soda.
grenadine syrup Drizzle with grenadine syrup. orange slize red currants
Garnish with an orange slice and red currants.
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TONI-GHT IS THE NIGHT 2oz coconut rum lime wedge
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mango nectar orange slices and lime slices Cocktail for TONI with her favourite fruit: Mango
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In a tall glass filled with ice, fill the liquor. Squeeze one lime wedge and fill with mango nectar. Garnish with the orange and lime slice.
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While the sun is slowly disappearing behind the industrial lanterns that once were designed by Peter Behrens, we turn up the volume of our music. Next to our red car we dance until midnight and sip one or more cocktails with those wonderful names, Cris came up with. Thanks to all guests, friends and friends of friends that came out to our #sisterMAGParty and made this evening one to remember! Do you have another idea for a party that we should have in #sisterMAG? Let us know and tweet us your ideas!
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248 Matcha – very few food products have drawn as much public attention in recent years as the precious green powder from Japan. My personal history with this intriguing powder of almost unreal green started quite a while back. My co-founder had given up coffee for lent and we spent many a lunch break on our trips to London hunting high and low for a »Matcha Latte«. I knew about the so-called super food’s revitalising properties but had my reservations when it came to taste, colour and its actual effects on my body.
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THE BIG SISTERMAG SPECIAL But then I met Sabine. Or rather,
ged to convince me of the powder’s
Sabine came to meet us in Ber-
ample advantages. I have tried
lin a few weeks back with a whole
and compiled as much of the in-
host of little tins and boxes full of
formation she gave us as possible
Matcha green tea of varying quali-
to share with you on the following
ties and properties in tow. It came
pages, and I bet some of the facts
, a leading sup-
will really surprise you! In addition
plier of matcha products for which
we asked our food photographer
she works as a brand manager in
Claudia Gödke to work her ma-
Hamburg. We spent a highly en-
gic on some summertime matcha
joyable three hours doing matcha
specialties so you’ll be able to see
finger tests, trying out smoothie
just how incredibly versatile it is!
courtesy of AIYA
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Origin Sabine’s very first remark right at the beginning of our little seminar was one of the most memorable ones: If you liken it to the world of sparkling wine, matcha is French champagne ! But Sabine was full of flattering
comparisons: a Ferrari to a Volkswagen – a truffle to a mushroom. It did sound a bit over the top at first, but then there had to be a reason Buddhist Sen monks more than 800 years ago first went to all the trouble of creating matcha as their dedicated drink for meditation. Until this day it is revered as the rarest and most precious type of all teas in Japan. 251
The rediscovery of this traditional drink coincided with an increased demand for healthy nutrition in large parts of Western society and hence resulted in the veritable ‘matcha mania’ of recent years. Something matcha producers like AIYA, who rediscovered the powder 125 years back and have been producing it in certified »bio« quality for 40 (!) years , have come to view as a dou-
ble edged sword. Not only has the increased demand for matcha resulted in several start up companies in the field increasing their competition, it has also invited producers of cheap imitation products into the market. Not all that says matcha on the tin actually contains the precious powder. Many products advertised as Chinese matcha aren’t actually made from the techna plant but
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use pesticide heavy alternatives. Needless to say that the quality of the latter does not in any way compare to the original. When buying matcha these days you have to pay special attention not to be swindled. The availability of fake green tea alternatives is high and many counterfeits aren’t even cheaper than real matcha. Low quality green tea alternatives can have anything from a bitter to an algae-like taste. Tests have even found cooking matcha (as in cooking sherry) sold as high quality ingredient for classic tea ceremonies. The table on page 254 } will give you an idea of what kind of matcha (in terms of its quality) is best suited for which use. There is no official definition for matcha but Sabine knows just how to explain to us just what makes matcha 252
matcha. AIYA have made it their mission to spread this knowledge: Matcha is always from Japan! It’s produced by Ja-
pan’s tea growing elite. Of around 30,000 tea farmers in Japan only 300 make matcha! The tencha plants only produce shadow-grown tea leaves – dark, net like covers are used from about four weeks before the harvest to further reduce sunlight by 90%. Anyone who has sat through biology 101 will inevitably ask »why?«. Don’t plants need sunlight? The explanation is quite ingenious: deprived of direct sunlight the plants compensate by focussing even more relative energy on the production of chlorophyll which allows for an excess build up of amino acids in the leaves to which the plant owes its delicate and slightly sweet taste as well as its intensely green colouring.
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The combination of caffeine and amino acid L-Theanine has both a stimulating and relaxing effect – your mental and physical abilities are strengthened.
Covering the tea bushes is a delicate project for the farmers. It’s not unusual for them not to sleep through the nights leading up to the harvest and instead keep a watchful eye on their plants to best be able to determine the exact moment of the harvest, sometimes within a very small time window, Sabine explains engagingly. If the bushes aren’t covered and protected properly, the entire crop is spoiled and the harvest is lost.
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Varieties Name
Quality
Description
Super
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Limited edition of Japan’s most exquisite organic matcha quality. Sweet and mild, fruity, fresh and deliciously intense in flavor. Gorgeously deep and shiny jade green cup. It is the absolute top quality of organically grown Matcha tea. The name Ten means »heaven« and represents the peak of the matcha art.
Matcha Ten
Premium
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Horai is the pride of our organic tea farmers, a rare premium matcha tea variety. Ultrafine ground tea powder, sweet and smooth, luminous emerald green color. The name Horai is an old name of the Japanese island chain, the pride of Japan.
Ceremonial
Hikari is the most popular matcha quality and unites all the good qualities of a matcha. The name Hikari means "light" and recalls the bright green glowing color of matcha tea.
Beginner
Ideal for entering the world of matcha. This matcha is also ideally suited for cooking and can be enjoyed in mixed drinks with milk or soy milk. The name Izumi means »spring«.
Premium Matcha for Cooking Fuku
Premium
Matcha Fuku is a brilliant blend of organic matcha for culinary use. Adds sweetish delicate matcha taste as well as beautiful vibrant green to your delicacies. The name Fuku means »joy« .
Matcha for Cooking Tsuki
Standard
Matcha Tsuki is an ingredient matcha blended for cooking purposes. The name Tsuki means »moon«.
Matcha Horai
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Ceremonial Matcha Hikari Beginner’s Matcha Izumi
For Cooking
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For who?
Sweet while mild, fruity, Matcha Ten is a must-have for true fresh and intense in flavour. matcha fans.
Mild, sweet and very soft Matcha Horai is the ideal tea for a finish. moment of tea pleasure.
Combines all good qualities Perfect for everyday's use. of a matcha tea: rich flavour, brisk, mild, delicate and smooth.
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Stronger than other matcha A unique blend of Japanese matcha varieties: crispy, fresh and tea for first-time matcha drinkers. aromatic
Mild, soft, fine grinding.
It is ideal for those who value the sweetish taste of matcha and who have a penchant for the East Asian light cuisine. Great in pastries as well.
Rich green tea aroma and For those who want to give their fresh green tea flavour. ice creams, chocolates, lattes or smoothies a green twist.
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THE FINGERTEST Put a small amount of Matcha on a white sheet of paper and pull down with your finger. The finer the quality, the finer the line is. The Super Premium Matcha Ten was so fine, it almost looked drawn with wax crayons
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Production No sooner have the leaves and plants been harvested – for top quality teas this is still done by hand – than the first quality checks begin. So called tea tasters judge the smell, colour, texture and taste of the leaves and determine which of them will yield which quality of matcha – not any easy task! While the leaves for other teas are dried using fire, matcha production only uses hot air. The whole leaves, including stalk and veins, are put on an electro-statically charged belt and – using vibration and suction techniques – all the heavy parts are filtered out leaving only the purest parts of the leaves for further processing.
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Harvest by hand on a Tencha field. 2 Hard to believe that the precious tea leaves grow under that coverage. 3 Left: raw material. Right: Without stalks or leaf veins - the purest flesh of the tea plant 1
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The granite millstones used to grind the leaves are a sight to see. They are still manufactured in the traditional way and it takes 10 years to train as a stone mason for matcha millstones. The leaves are ground through increasingly fine grooves to make the delicate tea that just melts on your tongue. It takes one stone mill about an hour to grind 30 to 40 grams of tea – an amount equivalent to a small tin of matcha.
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Aiya's tea taster sort the leaves after different leaf grades and test them for colour, texture and taste.
Tools for making the mills
It’s the 21rst century, so why don’t they just use faster modern mills? Even though the granite stones grind very slowly, there is no real alternative to them. Despite the immense pressure the stone stays cool through the entire grinding process which guarantees that all ingredients are preserved.
Nevertheless these production plants can strike you as technically elaborate and straight out of a science fiction movie. To ensure all food standards are adhered to, protective gear must be worn. Exceeding most other industry standards, AIYA guarantees a degree of 0% additives in its matcha products. So you won’t even find the generally accepted 2% of hair or lint in their tea. Random samples from each and every batch are retested at their lab. With a view to the recent events in Fukushima, AIYA is especially eager to ensure the highest standard of quality possible. Before a batch is allowed to be shipped off to Germany, a small sample is sent in advance and tested once more. No batch has ever been rejected because the winds shifted most of the radiation East – much to the dismay of Californians – instead of West towards the green tea fields.
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The matcha buzz Starbucks’ Matcha Latte campaign, Eva Padberg’s declaration of love for the powder (»I don’t drink coffee – just matcha«*) and a countless number of green smoothies, cakes and Christmas cookies in all sorts of magazines have made it abundantly clear: Matcha is the new must have drink – even in the Western world. Home stores and their websites offer all the necessary equipment and the seemingly simple decision of whether to buy a 80-, 100- or 120-twig chasen (a bamboo matcha whisk) suddenly seems to have far reaching effects on the rest of your life. And we’re bound to see even more trends emerge in the future. Matcha has already made its way into the food industry as a new flavour option and now manufacturers of beauty products have discovered the intriguing green powder, too. Not necessarily an easy situation for AIYA. Due to the aforementioned elaborate production this industry does not adhere to the economics of scale. No matter if it’s the training of new and more tea farmers or convincing more of the current plantations to grow certified »bio« quality tea, an increased demand for matcha means a higher price.
You can find more recipes, information & background stories about AIYA on their FACEBOOK-PAGE and on INSTAGRAM *www.teegschwendner.de/tee/info_matcha_trend_de.mfpx
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myself still awake at 3 am the next morning. What I learned though was that a matcha-induced extended period of wakefulness feels very comfortable. I wasn‘t shaking, my stomach wasn’t acting up, I wasn’t nervous - I just wasn’t tired. I immediately placed an extra order of »matcha to go« to see me through the days leading up to the launch of a new sisterMAG edition – I will let you know how I get on . :).
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sisterMAG matcha seminar with Sabine, who showed us different matcha varieties (page 254). Through the tasting we discovered all the different matcha flavours. LEFT: A Matcha Latte with vanilla- and soymilk were especially tasty. There is even a special Matcha to Go blend where you just need to add foamed milk for the perfect Matcha Latte. 265
More images from the matcha seminar in the picture gallery
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Preparation Are you convinced by the green powder? Because now we have come to the preparation, which consists of simple but yet important steps. Click the magnifier
, to view the photos in big. If you haven't noticed
it on page 3, the little shopping cart
takes you directly to the online
shopping site! AIYA's products - THE TEA are exclusively available at TeeGschwendner.
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To avoid any lumps, it's best to filter the matchapowder. In Japan, special SIEVE TINS are used for that purpose.
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Whisk the tea with a matcha whisk (CHASEN ) until a fine froth appears. It will take you around 15 seconds to prepare your cup of matcha tea.
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2 TSP aiya Matcha Ten Matcha Horai
M AT C H A GIMLET
or
FOR 2 DRINKS
90 ml water
1. In
juice of one lime
a seperate glass mix the matcha powder and water with a bamboo whisk or a milk frother.
15 ml simple syrup* 75 ml gin
2. Add lime juice and simple syrup
ice cubes
3.
to the matcha tea..
Combine a few ice cubes, the matcha mixture and the gin in a glass and stir carefully.
4. Strain drink into a glass and enjoy.
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Let the matcha tea cool completely and pour it into ice cube moulds. Freeze for 8 hours or ever night.
Place 4 (or more, up to taste) ice cubes into a glass and wait a few minutes until the ice cubes start to melt. Pour milk over and cubes and mix to combine. Add agave syrup and adjust sweetness to taste.
4. To make a Matcha Frappe simply blend the ice cubes and the milk in a blender.
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1 TSP aiya Matcha Tsuki
½ avocado
250 ml cold almond milk
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½ vanilla bean, scraped
½ mango
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Combine the rest of the ingredients in a blender and blend until completely smooth. Add agave syrup to taste.
Carefully pour the smoothie over the mango puree. Using a long spoon or straw slightly mix the two layers and enjoy.
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In a small bowl, mix hot water and matcha with a bamboo whisk (or with a milk frother). Set aside. Combine coconut milk, greek yoghurt, lemon zest and honey in a blender and blend until smooth. Add the matcha and mix to combine. Adjust sweetness to taste. Pour mixture into popsicle moulds, insert popsicle sticks or spoons. Freeze for several hours or overnight before serving.
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60 g butter, room temperature 70 g rolled oats 2 tbsp all purpose flour 4 tbsp honey 2 tbsp milk 1 pinch salt Preheat oven to 180째C, line a baking tray with parchment paper, set aside. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well to combine. Using a teaspoon, drop small pieces of the dough onto the parchment paper. Use the backside of a spoon to flatten it out as thin as you can. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown. Let cool completely on a wire rack.
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M AT C H A I C E C R E A M 1 litre good quality vanilla ice cream or coconut ice cream 2 -3 TSP a iya Matcha Fuku 70 ml water, lukewarm Place the ice cream in a large bowl and let thaw for 15 minutes. Meanwhile mix the matcha and water in a small bowl using a bamboo whisk or milk frother. As soon as the ice cream is creamy, yet firm, add the matcha tea and carefully stir to combine. Add more matcha to taste.
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and many uninhabited ones. As a result of its isolated location and complex history, Okinawa has its own unique dialects, food and culture that are distinct from the mainland. The islands that make up Okinawa today were called the Ryukyu Kingdom, an independent state once in the 15th to 19th century. It was an important trading hub among China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia which helped to shape Okinawan uniqueness.
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city of Tokyo.« I jumped in an airport shuttle bus that directly goes to Ishigaki Port, a major boat terminal where many ferries depart for neighbor islands. I had planned to explore the Yaeyama Island group based in Ishigaki city for three days. The population of Ishigaki, a city on the island’s southern edge is about 45,000, which are concentrated in the city. You can find many restaurants, bars, shops and hotels, very much like an urban city. I was looking for a bit more remote and relaxing island though…
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MO RE I MAGE S A
ten-minute
ride
Taketomi is a fairly small island
from Ishigaki port took me
taking a few hours to explore
to Taketomi Island, where
the tourist attractions. The
time
gentle
common transportation on
pace, which made me feel
the island is by foot or rental
very comfortable. Taketomi
bicycles. There are no public
has a beautifully preserved
buses or rental cars. However,
Okinawan traditional village
my
with one-storied houses. It is
take a look at the village is by
surrounded by coral-block
taking one of the tours with
passes
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a
recommended
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竹富島 walls, covered with red tiled roofs and Shisa statues, the half lion half dog figurines, believed to ward off evil spirits. With a population of just more than 300 in about 5.5 square kilometers, Taketomi is a charming and relaxing island, suitable for a day trip from Ishigaki.
a water buffalo drawn cart. The tour around the centre of the village takes around 30 minutes in slow speed, even slower than man’s walking pace. The Japanese-speaking guides
are
singing
songs
and playing Okinawan music on their sanshin (Okinawan stringed instrument), which makes you adapt to Taketomi’s pace easily.
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Okinawan Cuisine I am a typical Japanese
Asia and Japan’s mainland. Okinawan food
who loves Sushi very much.
may be difficult to define, but its bold, intri-
Though, I also enjoyed ea-
guing flavours are easy to love – particularly
ting traditional Okinawan
when paired with a glass of local Orion beer
cuisines, which were influ-
or Awamori, the area’s indigenous liquor with
enced by China, South East
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Umibudo
Umibudo literally means »sea (umi) grapes (budo)« in Japanese. As its name suggests, this seaweed does resemble miniature bunches of grapes. Each ball has a delicate skin that releases a salty liquid when you bite on it in your mouth and it is normally eaten by dipping it in tangy soya sauce. 292
沖縄そば
Okinawa Soba
It’s named Soba, which are buckwheat noodles in mainland though; Okinawa Soba is a completely different type of noodles. They are made of wheat and their texture is firm and slightly chewy. Normally it is served with toppings such as green onion, red ginger and soft-boiled pork, called Soki.
泡盛
Awamori
Awamori is Okinawa’s unique distilled spirit with an alcohol content between 30-45 percent. There are dozens of different Awamori brands. You can enjoy Awamori on the rocks or with water as many Okinawans do. My favourite way to enjoy it is in a cocktail, like many girls enjoy it. sister-mag.com
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The second day, I took a ferry
of the island is a Japanese
again from Ishigaki Port to
National Park due to its diverse
Iriomote Island, the second
eco-systems
largest island in Okinawa
vegetation and animals. The
Prefecture
Okinawa
famous activities in Iriomote
Island. After a 50 minutes
Island are snorkeling, sea
ferry ride, the Japanese island
and river kayaking or hiking
shows a totally different face. I
in Iriomote’s abundant nature.
would call Taketomi a tropical
I chose a river kayaking tour
rural island; while Iriomote
that goes into the heart of the
after
with
unique
The island
Iriomote 西表島 Island is a natural wonderland.
nature wonderland. The good
Nearly 90 percent of the land is
thing about kayaking is that
covered with dense jungles and
you can closely be a part of
mangrove forests and most
the nature. I rowed the kayak
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towards the innermost depths of the jungles while hearing the birds’ calls and looking closely at the mangroves. The river kayaking in the spectacular jungles and wildlife was an amazing experience that you must try on Iriomote Island!
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What’s left to do once your request for a holiday has been approved, your plane tickets have been safely stored in your Passbook app and the hotel has confirmed several times that there will indeed be a speed boat waiting to pick you up at Male airport? Don’t worry, be happy. We’ve come well prepared, read through several guide books, learned that Maldive sharks tend to be friendly, and we are looking forward to having our picture taken high fiving Robinson Crusoe. After trying on just about any bikini stocked by any online store anywhere in the universe it became obvious that the dimpling must be in the surface of the mirror. The self-tanning experiment at least was a partial success. Not being the whiter than white 300
girl at the pool is something! Being the only striped one, however, is another thing entirely. Well, at least they were vertical stripes. They’re the flattering kind, right? A neighbour has been recruited to water the plants, anything at risk of spoiling in the fridge has been eaten, the sheets have been changed—because a women’s magazine said that that will be so much nicer to come home to, practically a holiday encore dressed in a flower-scented night gown. But what to pack for a holiday in paradise? You’re not really supposed to need any clothes on Velassaru or Kurumba, not even shoes. Settling for 12 dresses, four comfy pants, eight tunics and five shirts seemed reasonable in the end. Because you never know. Online check in? Check! Getting the suitcase to close gave a whole new meaning to the expression »body combat« but then…it was all done.
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How to insel Learn how to dive and forget how to breathe when the first enormous manta ray is swimming just above you. To bob up and down in the lagoon together with baby reef sharks, who actually don’t have teeth yet.
And suddenly there it was: The beach we’d seen in that 90s Ferrero Raffaello commercial. It actually exists! All those sunset wallpaper
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The
sea
does
actually make this sound, it’s not just a track on a corny CD entitled »roof terrace summer chill«. The good fairies of the island have been up before dawn to sprinkle the way to the beach with flower petals. And the Indian Ocean is just the right temperature to get your toes wet, too, even this early in the morning.
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But what do you do on an island like that
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Isn’t it going to get really boring after two days once you know every pebble on the beach like the back of your hand?
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the computer desktop or a push message coming in through an app informing us of honeybunnyxyz1982’s like of our latest Instagram upload. So you open Pinterest for just a second and…you know what happens next, you’re drawn in by the colourful pictures of the ever present and nurturing world version 2.0. But here and now we’ve got world 1.0 in the palm of our hands—real and live, a multisensual experience.
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So here comes the classic »three things I would take on an island«. It’s very simple for me, something I already knew it when I was five: a magnum-bottle of Veuve Clicquot, the »What's Going On«- record by Marvin Gaye and sun lotion with SPF 30. Too bad it’s only three, so the bathing cap has to stay home unfortunately.
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ANGELIK A SCHWAFF FROM REISEFREUNDE
The magic potion against any island fever: Take your time! That might sound super strange but it really is essential. If you spend several days on a small island, you often engage in everything that is possible: snorkling or even diving, jet ski, massa-
ges or going on a boat ride and after that is all done, you are bound to get bored. In order to prevent this from happening, it helps to read books or just to stare at the sea for hours. That is real luxury, especially on the maldive islands because they actually look picture perfect!
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S e t t l i n g i n By which I mean the opposite of booking a full schedule of spa treatments, yoga classes or tables at must-check-out sushi places the second you check in at your hotel. It also excludes marking your sun chair by the »infinity pool« with a towel!
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G o o n l i n e ? G o I’m probably never going to be someone bite-sized!
who’s comfortable leaving their phone at home myself, but try answering the clerk’s question whether you’ll be needing Wi-Fi access with a firm »NO!«. It’s not necessary to cut out going online completely, but ration yourself. Just not checking your phone for a longer while and not being distracted by news or apps can be very relaxing. Try going online at set times of the day like before breakfast or after dinner.
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Try sending vintage Whatsapp messages, also known as P o s t c a r d s . Your friends and your grandma will love it! Especially the latter will then enjoy getting out the big old atlas and showing all her bridge friends which exotic place her grandchild has picked for a holiday destination.
L e av e the off i c e at home We all know that the company is not really going to come to a grinding halt without us. The boys and girls back at the office will be all right steering the ship alone for a while!
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E n j o y b e i n g pa m p e r e d !
Forget about Mr. Atkins for a day and explore the culinary adventures on offer. A whole world of new spices, flavours and tastes is waiting to be discovered.
T a k e pict u r e s , b u t d o n ’ t fo rg e t to a c t u a l ly l o o k at things!
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I love taking pictures, but I have scaled down the equipment I take on holiday. Too many lenses inevitably mean too many decisions, too many gadgets and too many distractions.
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REad! Take the books that have been lying around your living room floor for so long you have come to think of
Courtney Sullivan: Maine, Atlantic Books Paperback Kindle Edition
down, plant your feet into the warm,
Truman Capote: Summer Crossing, Penguin Classic
soft sand, get yourself a refreshing
Paperback
them as additional shelf space. Sit
drink straight from a coconut and‌ enjoy.
Deborah Moggach: These Foolish Things, Vintage Paperback Kindle Edition Mary Simses: The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop and CafĂŠ, Review
Jennifer Close: Girls in White Dresses, Vintage
Paperback
Paperback
Kindle Edition
Kindle Edition
Beatriz Williams: The secret Life od Violet Grant, Putnam Adult Tracey Garvis Graves: On the Island, Plume Book
Hardback Kindle Edition
Paperback Kindle Edition
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The smaller, the better. For feeling comfortable at least. Even though WLAN is acting up and the next flatscreen is onshore which you can only reach via a long boat ride or by flight with a waterplane. Who would have thunk that those places are best for me even as a feisty person? I don't even need to take a book. Fantasy and a nice spot on the beach are enough to give me that special feeling: to dig my feet in the warm sand, certain that I am far far away; from civilisation, from everyday life, from the desk. The only ingredient you need is time and the certainty, that outside of this little island, life goes on without you. You don't need to be permanently on call and a few days offline won't cause
any harm. To reach that state of serenity, I am trying to maximize the length of my time on the island while minimizing the amount of luggage I am taking. The simpler, the better. Shoes on a beach are overrated anyway. Your motto should be: enjoy the simplicity of things, the beauty of the nature, the glowing of the plankton, the brightness of the stars and all the colours underwater. Sometimes you get the greatest ideas on those small islands! Sigh. When is our flight leaving?
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G e t e x e rci s e to c l e a r yo u r h e a d Diving, snorkelling, stand up paddling, a Jet Ski safari, tennis, yoga—the list of possible activities on Velassaru, Kurumba or Kuramathi is endless. And it’s a good idea, too, to use all that excess energy for physical activities, but do make sure you’re not stressed out by too many choices. Fresh air and exercise! Hmmm,
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didn’t your mother used to say something about that?
I am trying to use the time by taking thousands of selfies or just by playing around with different camera settings. Every five minutes there is something to take a picture of. Plus these sunsets....it’s heavenly. It’s best to break down the days: one day for chilling out, one day field trip, one day sports...and everything again. That’s my one best tip!
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L i s t e n t o M u s i c If you’re fed up with the sound of the ocean (if that’s possible) put your headphones on and lose yourself in your favourite tunes
either on a walk along the
beach or watching the sun set. Knee deep in the Indian Ocean, eyes closed, the warm wind in your face with the waves tickling your knees.
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Panko Crusted Salmon in Piccata Sauce with Nigella Garlic Flatbread Yield: Serves 2 By: playfulcooking.com
For the Nigella garlic flatbread
―― 2 cups all-purpose flour ―― 1/3 cup plain yogurt ―― 1 tablespoon ghee/melted butter/oil ―― 1 teaspoon salt ―― 1 teaspoon active dry yeast ―― 1/2 cup warm water ―― 1 teaspoon sugar ―― 1 tablespoon nigella seeds ―― 3 garlic cloves, grated ―― 1 tablespoon oil
For the panko crusted salmon
―― 1/2 cup panko ―― 1 teaspoon chili powder ―― 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro/ parsley ―― zest of one lemon ―― 2 tablespoons oil (olive or vegetable) ―― salt and pepper, as per taste ―― 2 salmon fillets, I used skinless For the piccata sauce
―― 2 tablespoons butter ―― 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour ―― 1 cup chicken/vegetable stock ―― juice of half lemon ―― 1/4 cup brined capers, rinsed ―― salt and pepper, as per taste ―― fresh cilantro/parsley, for garnish on top
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Roasted Zucchini + Soba Noodle Summer Rolls {Vegan + Gluten-Free} Yield: Serves 2 By: bojongourmet.com
Instructions Select smaller zucchini for these rolls, which will have maximum flavor and minimum water content. Feel free to play fast and loose with the filling, adding cucumber, radish, snap peas, thai basil, shiso, mushrooms, or sweet peppers as you see fit. I used 100% buckwheat soba for their gluten-free-ness, but the hybrid guys made with wheat tend to hold together better when cooked. I used these organic brown rice spring roll wrappers from Happy Pho which contain green tea, but any wrappers will work beautifully. I found that 25 seconds submerged in warm water prior to rolling softened these just the right amount (yes, I timed it). White rice wrappers will probably soften up more quickly, however, so go with the package instructions.
These rolls are best eaten shortly after rolling when the wrapper is moist and pliant, but they›ll keep airtight and
covered in damp paper towels in the fridge for a day or two. You can spritz the rolls with water if they become dry or tough. As for the sauce, be sure to stir your jars of almond butter and tahini prior to measuring as the oil likes to separate and float to the top. You can substitute both with peanut butter if you like. For the zucchini:
―― 6 medium zucchini (about 1 3/4 pounds / 800 grams) ―― 2-3 tablespoons light olive oil (or other cooking oil) ―― 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt For the noodles:
―― 7-8 ounces soba noodles (100% buckwheat if you want the rolls to be gluten-free) ―― 1 tablespoon light olive oil ―― … Go To Full Recipe
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Japanese Fried Chicken Burgers Yield: Serves 4 By: thesugarhit.com
―― 2 small chicken breasts ―― 3 tbsp mirin ―― 3 tbsp light soy sauce ―― 2 tsp grated ginger ―― 1 clove garlic, flattened slightly ―― ¾ cup cornstarch (cornflour in Australia) ―― ¼ cup sesame seeds ―― canola or vegetable oil, for frying ―― 4 burger buns ―― Sriracha Coleslaw (recipe linked in post) or other salad, to serve ―― kewpie mayo, to serve
Instructions 1 Slice the chicken breasts in half horizontally, so each breast becomes two flat breast-sized pieces, about ½ inch thick. Thinner is better, as they will cook through more easily.
Place the pieces into a bowl, and add the mirin, soy sauce, ginger and garlic. Stir to coat everything and leave to marinate for 30 minutes, or up to 2 hours. 2
When you‘re ready to cook, place the cornstarch and sesame seeds into a shallow dish and stir them together well. Place a large heavy based frying pan onto a medium heat, and pour in enough oil to create a layer just under ½ inch (1 cm) thick. 3
To test if the oil is hot enough, place a wooden spoon or chopstick into the oil. If the oil bubbles up gently around the spoon that means it‘s hot enough to cook. 4
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Savory Pineapple Salad {Paleo} Yield: 2 to 4 servings By: anediblemosaic.com
―― 1 (15 oz/435 g) can pineapple chunks in 100% pineapple juice, drained with 1 tablespoon juice reserved (see Note below) ―― 2 Persian cucumbers (or 2/3 of an English cucumber), chopped ―― 1/2 small-medium white onion, thinly sliced ―― 1 cup fresh mint leaves ―― 1 tablespoon pineapple juice (reserved from the canned pineapple) ―― 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice ―― 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil ―― 1/4-1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes (more or less to taste) ―― 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
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Instructions Gently stir together all ingredients in a large bowl.
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Serve.
Notes
To Use Fresh Pineapple: Chop the
pineapple in chunks and use the same amount; omit the pineapple juice and instead add a drizzle of honey to taste if your pineapple isn’t that sweet. To Make This Salad Ahead: Toss
together everything except for the mint leaves up to a day in advance and store refrigerated; toss in the mint leaves right before serving.
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Green Chickpea & Chicken Curry with Swiss Chard A rich coconut based curry made with chicken, chickpeas and Swiss chard. Yield: Serves 6 By: thecrepesofwrath.com
Instructions 1 Heat your olive oil in a large, heavy bottomed pot. Add in your cubed chicken and cook over medium heat until almost fully cooked, about 6-7 minutes. Add in your shallots and continue to cook until the shallots are softened, about another 5-6 minutes. Add in the curry paste, chili paste, kosher salt, ginger, coconut milk, and 1 cup of water. Stir to combine, then bring to a boil. Add in the additional cup of water. Bring back up to a boil, then add in the drained and rinsed chickpeas and simmer for 20 minutes.
After simmering, add in the trimmed and sliced Swiss chard. When you're trimming the chard, the thicker, whiter parts are generally too tough to eat, but the smaller, more tender colored stalks and all of the leafy greens will soften as they cook. Simmer for an additional 10-15 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings as desired. Serve alone or with some naan or pita bread. 2
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Red Cabbage and Mango Slaw Yield: Serves 4 By: tartineandapronstrings.com
For the slaw
―― 1/2 a red cabbage, finely shredded ―― 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced ―― 2 large mangos, cut into strips ―― broccoli sprouts or other micro greens ―― seeds or nuts Instructions 1 To make the dressing, heat a saucepan and place the lime juice, maple syrup, sesame oil, coconut aminos (or tamari), green onion and red chili in it.
Boil over medium-high or high heat until liquid is reduced, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool.
For the dressing
―― 7 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice ―― 3 tablespoons maple syrup ―― 1 tablespoon sesame oil ―― 1 teaspoon coconut aminos or tamari ―― 1 green onion, sliced ―― 1 red Thai chili, sliced (optional) ―― 4 tablespoons walnut or macadamia nut oil
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To prepare the slaw, place the shredded red cabbage and red onion in a large mixing bowl. 4
Add the chilled dressing, one tablespoon at a time, and toss gently to coat the vegetables. 5
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Cabbage and Apple Salad By: pureandsimple.typepad.com
For the salad:
―― 1 large head of red cabbage, thinly sliced ―― 1 red onion, thinly sliced ―― 1 apple, sliced into thin strips ―― 1/2 cup dried currants ―― 1/2 cup pecans, chopped into small pieces ―― 2 tsp. salt For the tahini-ginger dressing:
―― 1/4 cup tahini (sesame seed butter) ―― 3/4 cup orange juice, freshsqueezed ―― 3 tbs. lemon juice, fresh squeezed ―― 1 tbs. cold-pressed olive oil ―― 1 tbs. raw honey ―― 1/4 cup garlic chives (or 2 cloves garlic)
―― 2-inch piece of fresh ginger root ―― 1 tsp. salt ―― 1 tsp. black pepper Instructions To prepare the salad:
Place strips of cabbage into a large 1 bowl. Add salt and massage into cabbage with hands until well combined (this will wilt the cabbage a bit for easier digestion). Let this sit for 5 minutes. Add onion, apple and currants to ca2 bbage. Mix well. Pour Tahini-Ginger Dressing (recipe 3 below) over salad and combine thoroughly. Garnish with pecans. 4 5
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photos and text: JULIA HOFMANN
I lost my heart somewhere in Africa – more than 14 years ago. I’ve been coming back to the southern part of this continent ever since visiting South Africa. My most recent trip, in January 2014, took me back once more: This time to Zanzibar. A stunningly beautiful island full of contrasts off the shore of Tanzania. Issue14 | August 2014
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As the plane doors open a warm wind enters the cabin. Hot sunshine sends a warm African welcome. Which is followed by the unavoidable queuing for visa and passport control as well as the baggage reclaim. Thanks to a helpful member of the airport staff, encouraged by a few dollars, we are soon reunited with our own luggage and ready to leave the airport. I can’t help but feel somewhat relieved when I see our names on a small white sign held up by someone in the crowd outside the terminal. By the time we’ve reached our taxi, we’re properly exhausted.
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At the hotel we’re greeted with a happy »Hakuna Matata« (http://www.cristalresort.net) before being shown to our small wooden hut on the beach. It’s a perfect picture of white sands and coconut trees. Not such a bad place to spend some time. Across the hot white sand our first venture is straight into the Indian Ocean. Looking around there is nothing but palm trees, sand, the sea and beautiful seashells as far as the eye can see. We have reached our destination: Paradise. The to-do list for our first few days is comprised of just one item: Relaxing! I literally devour the books I brought and spend hours walking along the beach looking for the most beautiful shells while my other half conquers the tranquil sea by surfboard.
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Zanzibar wasn’t a random pick for a holiday destination. There is a lot of history to be discovered here: Merchants from the orient have been coming here since as early as the 7th century to trade in gold, ivory and most of all spices. So naturally, a visit to a spice farm where they grow vanilla, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, coriander, lemon grass and pepper is a must! Our guide has a great time putting different leaves from all sorts of trees in front of our noses and watching us draw a blank every single time. I am especially fascinated by the cinnamon tree. The bark is used for cinnamon sticks while the leaves are used to produce oil.
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I get a chance to stock up on spices for my kitchen at home at the market in Stone Town where, apart from the spices, they also sell local fruits and vegetables as well as fish and meat. The raw meat is cut right in front of our eyes, and my desire for a meaty dinner that night is somewhat diminished. Having made our way through the crowded market we venture deep into the nooks and crannies of the old town. The white-washed buildings all sport magnificent doors which, we are fascinated to find out, tell you a lot about the owners of the respective houses – the bigger and more elaborately decorated the door, the better off and more influential the owner. sister-mag.com
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Our way leads us past hole-in-thewall shops, souvenir stands, cafÊs and restaurants to the capital’s port. All that sight-seeing has made us hungry and we are eager to find an especially nice place for dinner. Finally, a tower-top restaurant by the port gets the nod and we enjoy a lovely piece of fish as well as gorgeous views of the cities mosques, churches and temples. We make our way back to Paje through the moonlit night.
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For animal lovers, like myself, Zanzibar might not be the most obvious holiday destination, but there are still some highlights to check off your list. The Jozani Forest for example which was declared a conservational area 1964 and gained national park status in 2004. It’s a great place to see Colobus monkeys as well as mangroves and all the animals that live in them. It’s also supposed to be the habitat of the last few surviving Zanzibar leopards although we didn’t manage to spot any. But it took us only a few minutes to make the acquaintance of a group of Colobus monkeys and I was very surprised by how big their adults were and just how close they were willing to get to us. The babies were especially curious and don’t seem to know any fear of humans whatsoever.Led through the forest by a knowledgeable guide we soon reached the mangroves on the other side of the park. Strolling along the wooden pathways looking at all sorts of crabs and colourful fish proved a highly enjoyable pastime.
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Our plan for the next day was to rent a car and find our own way across the island. Since Zanzibar is relatively small a tour to the northern town of Nungwi is perfectly doable as a day trip although we somewhat underestimated the bad conditions of the roads. Potholes, some as wide as our car, provided for several unexpected obstacles along the way. We reached the small fishing community by early afternoon though and made straight for our ultimate destination: MNARANI MARINE TURTELS CONSERVATION POND (http://www.mnarani.org) – a breeding station for sea turtles. Sea turtles were hunted in Zanzibar until the 1990s but now the villagers of Nungwi watch out for them and
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It was time for us to get back, too. Not just back from our day trip but back home and say goodbye to this exotic island. We came to find relaxation and peace and quiet, and we found it. And so much more.
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x NAME The city’s name comes from the German noble family Nassau. British settlers founded the city in the year 1656 under the name Charlestown. After the city’s destruction in 1684 it was rebuilt under the name Nassau, in honour of the Dutch and British King Wilhelm III. from the house of Orange-Nassau.
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The city of Nassau
is the capital of the Bahamas and located on the island of New Providence. Nassau is the island state’s centre of transportation, banking and commerce.
Map: freevectormaps.com
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x PIRACY Right after the founding, pirates began to hide in the city. This was the reason for the destruction by the Spanish and French fleet in 1684. Even after the reconstruction the piracy problem didn’t vanish, which is why the city was destroyed two more times in 1695 and 1703. The pirates controlled the Bahamas directly from Nassau, supposedly with the pirate Blackbird as unofficial magistrate. In 1718, pirates were finally expelled for good.
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x ARCHITECTURE Nassau is known for its Georgian architecture, Victorian villas and pastel wooden shutters. You may rest on the balconies and be refreshed by the Caribbean breeze. There is a high density of historical cathedrals in Nassau as the inhabitants are very religious. One of the most famous is the Christ Church Cathedral.
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If you like to watch James Bond films, come to Nassau and you will feel like in one of these films. Thunderball (1965) as well as the remake of Never Say Never Again (1983) were shot in Nassau. In Casino Royale (2006), the fateful relation between Vesper and James begins at the beach of the One & Only Ocean Club in Nassau. And even Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Carribean Âťsacked Nassau Port without firing a shotÂŤ.
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x SOUVENIRS
Straw hats, baskets,
mats: Women from the Bahamas use dried palm leaves to make straw souvenirs of any kind in old tradition, they are much requested by tourists. You can buy straw souvenirs on straw markets in Nassau, Cable Beach, Paradise Island and other islands.
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Outlook outlook October
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The Future of us: How will the world look like in 40 years? We talk to various people from many fields and search for trends in living, Physics or the business world. Elisaveta from Fernwehosophy talks to us about the future of traveling.
Photo: fernwehosophy.com
We really hope that you are looking at white beaches just as you open this last page of #sisterMAG14 (and we don't just mean the pictures from our last feature). We are going into a little summer break in August and will be back with the new issue of sisterMAG in the beginning of October with the school courses Music, Physics & Maths.
Off to the pharmacy! We search the newest and the oldest pharmacies in the world. Furthermore we talk to pharmacists about their jobs and lifes
Music all around – Whether it is jazz, opera or country: We visit different cities all around the world and present the music that is typical for those cities.
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