Posted on October 10, 2009 by Thorsten
I’ve never been to Munich’s Oktoberfest.
Somehow the combination of binge drinking, oom-pah music and big-busted waitresses in dirndl-dresses always failed to intrigue me.
So I was unprepared for what I experienced last night, when I attended the Oktoberfest in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh – of all places.
Imagine an authentic Bavarian band playing German beer-drinking music and [...]
Filed under: asia, observations, travel | Tagged: beer, cambodia, dirndl, german, germany, munich, oktoberfest, oom-pah, phnom penh | 1 Comment »
Posted on July 17, 2008 by Thorsten
Believe it or not, but you can see a lot of German influence in Mongolia’s capital Ulan Bator.
Everywhere you go, you’ll come across advertisements for Khan Bräu, for instance. The Khan Bräu brewery has been around since 1996. It’s run jointly by a German and a Mongolian.
Khan Bräu makes its beers in Mongolia, but they’re [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by Thorsten
I was in Leipzig over the weekend, which used to be part of communist East Germany. We were sitting in a cafe on Saturday and a young black man walked in. It suddenly occurred to me that he was the first colored person I’d seen all day.
From that moment on, I kept my eyes open, [...]
Filed under: travel | Tagged: black, bollywood, diversity, ethnic, german, germany, leipzig, neo-nazi, neo-nazism, racism, turkish, xenophobia | 1 Comment »
