lifestyle
‘Why can’t German men flirt?’ - a German man answers
A few days ago I came across an article online by a young British girl who describes her experiences with men in Germany. I often stumble across articles from women who claim Germany to be a developing nation with respect to flirting. Yet why is this the case and where are all the emancipated women?
lifestyle, feminism, germany, men and women, lifestyle, emancipation, nightlife
God Save my Shoes: one French woman explains why
Women own at least five pairs of shoes according to the debut documentary by Franco-American director Julie Benasra, which celebrates women, sexuality, shopping and shoes. Any less means you’re not a real woman
Asexual awareness week: what’s wrong with preferring cake?
Asexuals form a colourful and diverse community of people who don’t want sex and want their little-known sexual orientation to be acknowledged and respected, especially during a special awareness week between 23 to 29 October. After all, what’s wrong with preferring cake, which is one of the symbols they use to promote themselves?
lifestyle, men and women, sexuality, asexual, lifestyle, sex, society
I like Mostar: are there really no tourists who want to go to Bosnia?
Mostar and I go back a long way. Ours is the story of a missed encounter – in 1998. Fast forward to September 2011: cafebabel.com organises the annual network meeting in Dubrovnik. On learning that the city is only 150 kilometres away from Mostar, I decide to revisit the city I never reached
lifestyle, identity, balkans, bosnia and herzegovina, tourism, mostar, war
Malmo, London, Berlin, Glasgow: roller girls derby in Europe
Cat fights on wheels? Or a sport to be taken seriously? In the run up to the first ever ‘roller derby’ world championships in Toronto in early December, the women’s team sport on wheels brought to the big screen in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut ‘Whip It’ (2009) has been steadily sweeping through Europe. To mark the film's release in Germany, a German roller girl gets on the case
lifestyle, sport, cinema, best of cafebabel.com, men and women, film, europe
Vienna’s green wavelengths
The Prater park, the Vienna woods and the Lobau: Vienna is green no matter which way you look. Fifty percent of the Austrian capital is made up of green spaces and in 2010 the city received the accolade of having the best quality of living worldwide from the international Mercer study. It isn’t just in internationally orientated events in the city centre like Danube Day that we see Vienna riding a green wave. Instead it is also clear in the town’s most hidden corners: some city-dwellers grow cannabis quite legally, others opt for a car-free life, and others still go back to nature and live in caravan communities. Five European reporters got to the bottom of Vienna’s green lifestyle as part of cafebabel.com’s monthly editorial project Green Europe on the Ground (Image: (cc) M'sieur Rico/ Flickr)
Forget environment! Cars rule the road in Athens
In Athens driving is quite frankly a way of life. Doctors and environmentalists sound the alarm, yet it’s the financial crisis that’s on everyone’s mind, while health and environmental issues take a backseat. Take a walk around the city, but don’t expect a breath of fresh air
lifestyle, green cities, greece, athens, green europe on the ground, green parties, lifestyle
Environmental art in Athens: art project for Kifissos river
Whoever asks the Athenians about the Kifissos river hears mainly legendary tales, as Yvonne Senouf and Corinne Weber, the creative minds behind the international art platform MELD’s Project Nero, can testify. Their project for a vanished river aims to deal with urbanisation and pollution creatively
lifestyle, contemporary art, green cities, greece, athens, green europe on the ground, lifestyle
Survey: Yes I am French and I was born pessimist
It's gruelling every time a holiday period winds down in Paris, capital of a country populated by the 'world champions of pessimisim'. Crestfallen faces enveloped in black coats on grey jumpers, the Parisians being carried away on the metro seem to have just been released from their hangover. I am one of them, and proud of it, because when even if you're a champion of the most nauseating state of mind, you're still a champion! Right?
New year, new sex? cafebabel.com's statistics success
We raise our hands, we're an internet magazine. Every Monday our eyes glaze at the top ten most-clicked articles onsite. In between an investigation on the porn industry in Budapest, a focus on the ideal Swedish woman or an exclusive interview with the Italian porn veteran Rocco Siffredi, we find an analysis on the economic crisis of 2008! We won't hide our deploring eyes anymore at internet's fickle hand; instead, we've chosen to celebrate the start of 2011 with those very articles which are our website hits. From a hit parade throbbing with Berlin swingers and European red-light districts, we wish you a happy new year. We're back onsite on 5 January 2011!
Job hunting in Brussels: serenity of the hopeless
Anna is a German university student who has just turned twenty and is looking for a job in the European capital. She ould like to remain anonymous – but her story is representative of an entire generation of young Europeans
lifestyle, labour market, labour, brussels, youth, eurogeneration, unemployment
Bridges in Belgrade: why citizens should have a 26-hour-day
If we don’t have enough bridges, we should at least have enough time to cross the three over Sava river that we do have. Because, it really does require a lot of time... and nerves! Extract from cafebabel.com's latest city blog, Belgrade citypulse
Vegetarianism: 'Eating Animals' in Europe
Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2009 novel, published in March 2010 in the UK, has just been released in German. The 33-year-old American has fast become the new vegetarian messiah. While it reached the top three of the Der Spiegel bestseller list, only 1.3 million Germans follow a vegetarian diet, a mere 1.6% of the population
lifestyle, vegetables, germany, meat, eat, european union, culture calendar
Most annoying questions put to expats
Stereotypes, judgements, accidental offence or ignorance? After living between Japan, Hungary, Sweden and Israel of late, our resident Lithuanian blogger attempts to officially go where not many want to go, but do everyday... Extract from wonderland.cafebabel.com
lifestyle, expatriation, expatriates, relationships, people, travel, stereotype
Get into the swing: alternative lifestyles
The French call their 9-5 routine 'metro - boulot - dodo' (commute, work, sleep). The university students are filing back in glumly, their holiday shots packed away on their external drives. There are one or two of us who concoct alternative lifestyles to escape the monotone. Like Estelle and Espen, a Franco-Norwegian couple who live on water and will swap grey skies for the open sea. Germans Klara and Felix live through their hiking shoes on a Spanish pilgrimage. Polish-German couple Anna and Tom quit the everyday to travel eastern Europe and the Caucasus with their six-month old baby, Hanna, in a striking series of photos. Everywhere, from Polish freegans to eastern European squatters in Amsterdam, there are fragmentary examples of European dropouts. They share a small part of 'their way' with us in this week's special edition
- Read the special edition Get into the swing: alternative lifestyles
- Franco-Norwegian couple: life on a houseboat in Germany
- Freeganism in Poland: 'horror' of taking food from bins
- Alternative lifestyles: 'I came to Amsterdam to live in a squat'
- Spiritual Spain: two German pilgrims in Santiago de Compostela
Europe's Latin men: summer's gone, sex non
Time to sling your beach towels over your shoulder and abandon your Mediterranean Casanova. Climate change doesn't mean that you have to change your sex life climate. We got cafebabel's lads to spend a night under the cover with sex toys, and examine the micro-penis phenomenon - after all, we've heard that the myth of the Italian stallion is dying down. Back in the urban city - take the German capital - having a wander around some more private entertainment spots might just be enough to get you exploring down under too. Boy talk from our modern saints (Image: Sergius and Bacchus (cc) radiant.baby/ Flickr)
Expats dating abroad? That's Brussels for you
Why in Brussels do my friends of every nationality land themselves in the most bizarrely complicated relationships? Do all men here just want sex? One woman on why fellow expats can't do steady relationships
lifestyle, parity, sex, men and women, brussels, expatriates, lifestyle
Sise delle Monache: no toplessness nor religion behind Abruzzo's domed cakes
Yes, you've just sunk your teeth into 'nun's tits' - albeit made of sponge and cream. The name behind this regional Italian speciality hovers between mountain peaks and nun's habits
lifestyle, italy, cooking, culture, yum nyam, regions, traditions
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