Between our short stay in Hongkong and our visit in China mentioned in the previous post, we spent two months in Japan. Most of the time was spent in Tokyo, where we immersed ourselves in a quiet but really nice neighborhood called Sasazuka, which is part of Shibuya. We also got to experience cherry blossom season in all its glory and consumed more sakura mochis than we could have ever imagined. Every now and then, we embarked on little trips to discover other places such as Karuizawa, Nagano, Obuse, Mount Takao, Matsumoto, Nikko as well as Kyoto and Osaka. Though we only just returned home a couple of months ago, we can’t wait to go back eventually.

Spring of 2025 brought us to Hongkong for the very first time as well as back to China. Hongkong was amazing! We loved this huge city with a vibrant specialty coffee scene, lots of art museums and incredible food. Having spent a few days in Shanghai the previous year on a stopover, we were very much looking forward to visiting again—and for a few more days this time around. We had a full week to spend in and around Shanghai and while we also indulged in the city’s restaurants and cafés, we went to see Zhouzhuang Town in Suzhou as well as Hangzhou with the beautiful West Lake. Right next to the city, we were also able to visit some […]

It’s been on the list for a long time: In late 2024, we finally visited Brazil, the country that is the biggest producer of Arabica coffee. At Drip Roasters, we buy a lot of coffee from Brazil. And last year we got to visit all the farms and producers we have been buying from for several years. Besides many different sites in Minas Gerais, where the coffee magic happens, we visited São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, a town called Ouro Preto, and several incredibly beautiful places further north in Bahia.

Shanghai and Bangkok were two short stopovers on our way to Japan and Korea and on our trip back.

From Taipei to Kaohsiung, via Chiayi to the coffee growing region in the Alishan Mountain Range, to the Kenting National Park in the South of Taiwan.

From Tokyo to the museum islands Naoshima and Teshima, onwards to South Korea’s Busan and Jeju Island.

A good week’s road trip through Andalucía in the summer of 2023.

Coffee sourcing, beaches, waterfalls, lots of tacos – our last trip to Mexico more than a year ago was a big success. Read about our coffee sourcing activities in more detail in the blog post we published at Drip Roasters.

Last October, we took a trip of about 3.5 weeks to Kenya and added a week on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. Part of the trip was for sourcing coffee resp. visiting coffee producers I work with at Drip Roasters. I also just published a blog post about the coffee-related part of this trip with more words and less pictures. After having spent some time in the coffee region around Mount Kenya, we went on a 3 day safari tour in Maasai Mara. Our next stop was the beautiful island of Lamu, just off the Kenyan coast, where we also visited a coffee school project of the exporter we work with at Drip. Our trip led us down the coast […]

Paris, again. This time, most photos were taken for Drift Magazine‘s volume 12, which focuses on the French capital. I obviously took more pictures than the mag needed so I’m also sharing some that didn’t make it to print.