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Germany online dating just got a facelift

Germany online dating just got a facelift

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The Germany online dating scene is woefully lacking in two main areas - price and flexibility. German professionals, as well as the large number of foreign professionals moving to Germany, find they are being stung by the country's inadequate consumer protection laws, when related to online dating portals. Many are finding themselves locked into contracts they did not realise they had to cancel during a tight window of opportunity - a very ruthless strategy employed by many companies here. This...

Hans Kirk: one of the classics of Nordic literature

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

For the first time in bookshops all over Spain, readers can find a classic of Nordic literature: Los Pescadores. One of the most widely sold and read books in Denmark, Hans Kirk's work describes with great skill the religious fundamentalism and the capacity of human beings to adapt to the confines of the world. At the end of the boat, there is a small group of people looking out over the fjord in the distance. They are dressed in elegant blue-marine dresses, shiny boats and fossilised boots....

Britain's Busiest Airport back to telly

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport returns to UK screens for its seventh series on Wednesday 10th March. Set against the backdrop of the global pandemic, the series shows the interaction of an airport struggling with the biggest challenge in its history. Like many other companies all around the world, the airport of Heathrow had to recreate its role to find a path for a safety normal operation. In Heathrow Blog, the main UK airport declares: "Where previously colleagues would have dealt...

Mantranima: Mantras and Kirtan Music at Sitges

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Mantranima is a kirtan band from Sitges, Barcelona. Described as "mantras with a Mediterranean touch," the duo plays music for meditation, relaxation, and peace. Periodically they perform their Musical Refuge Kirtan at Ashtanga Yoga Center, in Sitges Poble Sec (Germans Maristes 6). Kirtan is a very different kind of music.  Based on ancient chants, it has the ability to quieten the mind if listened to with intention.  Everyone experiences kirtan differently, and it doesn't have to be a...

Adam and Eve - by Masaaki Hasegawa

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

This project aims to improve the social status of LGBT, especially female couples in the world, as many campaigns and publicities are focused on male couples. The objective of this project is to empower female couples around the world and strengthen their social status.
 
The artist, Masaaki, has painted two female models with pride colors and other colors: silver, black, and pink that represent homosexual women and the emotional and intelligent strength that they have. The front of the body is...

Artist showcases Europe's largest calligraphy work

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Video: Masaaki Hasegawa at the Museo Zapadores in Madrid (source: Mask Movement)
As part of his project "Connect People Thru Art Beyond Borders", the artist Masaaki Hasegawa (Tokyo, 1987) has devised the largest calligraphy work in Europe to date. It consists of a 1,926 square meter area in the Museo Zapadores of Madrid that represents a transition process of our world from chaos to coexistence through language. Hasegawa is interested in the abstraction of the concept of letter. Although the...

The Meerkats are back in Town

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Munich Zoo (Tierpark Hellabrunn) proudly presents their new inhabitants - three male and one female meerkat that moved in right next to the giraffes' enclosure.

Coming from a wildlife park in Saxony, the four little predators are busy exploring their new Bavarian environment and scraping around for food.

Despite the fact that the animals originally stem from Africa, the local winter weather does not bother them. They either retreat into the cave system or lie down underneath the heat lamps or on...

Top 10 Sledging Hills for Kids in Munich

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

If you're looking for a sledging opportunity in Munich where you can easily take your kids without much fuss, here are some suggestions:

1. Olympiaberg in Olympic Park
The highest sledging hill in Munich also offers the best panoramic view and a large variety of sledging routes. You can chose from long and flat slopes for the little ones to steep high speed slopes for the more adventurous tobogganist. Additionally there is a snow tubing rack directly at the Olympic Lake.
How to get there: U3 to...

Foo Fighters meet Lollapalooza Berlin

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

"We've played Lollapalooza before, but we've never played Lollapalooza Berlin!" 85,000 people, 22 years of rock'n'roll music, 9 records encored in a smashing playlist and a show to remember. This was the music festival Lollapalooza Berlin and the only concert in 2017 for Foo Fighters (so far) in Germany, as part of their tour "Concrete and Gold". Dave Grohl (front and guitar), Taylor Hawkins (drumms), Nate Mendel (bass), Chris Shiflett (lead guitar) and Pat Smear (rhythm guitar) rocked the...

How to have fun playing online?

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

In recent years, technology has become a part of our lives and, for this reason, it is important to emphasize that many habits have changed. In which way? Today we spend more time with our smartphone, tablet or PC and this is an incontrovertible fact: both adults and teenagers are always connected and, for that reason, there are new ways of having fun.

If we open the app store of our devices, we notice that there is a big number of applications dedicated to fun. There are some applications with...

Tollwood Summer Festival 2017

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

From the 21st of June to the 16th of July, Olympiapark South in Munich hosts this year's Tollwood Summer Festival.

For the next 26 days visitors are invited to enjoy the full variety of theater and performance groups, live concerts and the "Market of Ideas".

There is a lot to discover such as the market stands with handicraft and international gastronomy. In other spaces visitors can be active themselves and ake part in activities. Over 70 percent of all performances - including children's...

Biergarten Season Finally Arrives

September 27, 2025 • 12:00 AM

It´s summer in the city and most Munich people can be found in what they call their second living room: their favorite Biergarten (beer garden).
If you are new in town or visiting as a tourist you might have already had the opportunity to rest in the shade of a tree and enjoy a cold beer and a giant pretzel (Bavarian: Brezn) - and you may have wondered about a few things: why are customers allowed to bring their own food? Why do they sit on beer benches rather than decent chairs? And why is the...

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Christoph Scheuerecker: ,,Ereignis: Erzählung"

Join us at the Kunstraum in der Au for the exhibition titled ,,Ereignis: Erzählung" by Christoph Scheuerecker, focusing on the captivating world of bees. This exhibition invites visitors to explore the intricate relationship between bees and their environment through various artistic expressions,...

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