Mel's Coffee Travels

Mel's Coffee Travels Traveling the world and exploring my travel destination via its specialty coffee scene - one cup of coffee at a time.

For hundreds of years people are gathering over a cup of coffee, absorbed into conversations about life & living, business and coffee itself. At home, but more often in cafes and coffee shops around the world. This page is about my explorations and travel experiences of local coffee communities. If you like exploring your travel destination off the known paths, exploring a city based on its coffee

scene and culture, experiencing street art and street culture, meeting locals and seeing the city through their eyes, then you found the right page!

Pour yourself a cup of coffee today. ☕️Just for yourself. And relax. There’s nothing you have to do... There’s nothing y...
12/02/2021

Pour yourself a cup of coffee today. ☕️

Just for yourself. And relax. There’s nothing you have to do... There’s nothing you have to say... There’s nothing you have to be that you don’t want to. Just be yourself. You’re worth it! 💫🙌

The Origami filter. Since I’ve bought this Japanese ceramic filter last summer, it’s been part of my food photography a ...
27/01/2021

The Origami filter.

Since I’ve bought this Japanese ceramic filter last summer, it’s been part of my food photography a lot! Because it’s so freaking pretty! 💖
To be honest, I haven’t used it much for brewing coffee on a regular daily basis, though. 🤷🏼‍♀️
I think I just haven’t found a recipe that gives this device the most credit. Or maybe I haven’t had the perfect matching coffee, yet? 🤔

Have you tried the Origami filter? Any tips on recipes, coffees and such?

What does success mean to you? ✨Is it money in your bank account? Is it attracting more and more clients w/o the cold ca...
17/01/2021

What does success mean to you? ✨

Is it money in your bank account? Is it attracting more and more clients w/o the cold calls, w/o going door to door? Is it by becoming an expert in your very field? Is it by making a life of your passion? Is it, when your local newspaper is publishing an interview about you? Is it, when people find you online, just by googling certain keywords...?
I tell you what it is! It’s all of this 👆 But, it’s also this: Knowing your worth as a femalepreneur. It’s recognizing that it’s a hell of big deal to having built that all by yourself. It’s never having given up, even in your darkest hours, even with a big fat minus in your bank account. It’s never compromising my own happiness over security. ✌️

I was thinking about writing something nice here, something empowering or cheering... But the past days and weeks kinda ...
23/12/2020

I was thinking about writing something nice here, something empowering or cheering... But the past days and weeks kinda leave me speechless... So, all that I can say is this: Hug your loved ones a little tighter this year. 🤗✨

Merry Christmas 🎄

“Way to go, Melanie!”These words have been said by a like-minded coffee friend just recently... Of course, there’s been ...
13/12/2020

“Way to go, Melanie!”

These words have been said by a like-minded coffee friend just recently... Of course, there’s been a reason, why he’d said that... it’s been after I shared news that I’ve become the co-host of a new German coffee podcast.
But, it’s only when people outside are telling me, I’m doing a great job, that I’ve achieved a lot, that I actually believe it myself. That I’d tap myself on the shoulder...
And, I still wonder why’s that the case? Why is it so hard for me, to see the hard work that I put into my coffee career? Why can’t I just be proud of myself like my friends and family are?
I exactly know why! It’s a mix of - still - feeling not skilled enough, not ready yet... you name it. Basically it comes down to this one crucial fear that we all more or less have. The fear of not being (good) enough.

Have you experienced similar issues in your personal lives or your businesses/your jobs? I’m curious to know!

I’ve always loved conversations over having a bite to eat, sharing a glass of wine and, in recent years, coffee, of cour...
03/12/2020

I’ve always loved conversations over having a bite to eat, sharing a glass of wine and, in recent years, coffee, of course.
Preparing a meal/cooking together even adds to that experience for me. It creates a relaxed atmosphere and immediately brings you closer together. And it’s so much fun! 🤩
Since I’m not only working in coffee as a journalist, but also personally love to nerd-talk about coffee, I could dive deep into a conversation with my barista or the roaster or a like-minded coffee friend at pretty much any time.
A conversation / real talk without food and something to drink is possible, but a little bland, if you know what I mean…

What about you?
Is there a connection for you between a good meal and a good conversation?
How important is coffee for a good conversation for you?

I’ve always liked to read books. 📖 In my teenage years I’d almost inhale them. I brought tons of books back home from ou...
29/11/2020

I’ve always liked to read books. 📖 In my teenage years I’d almost inhale them. I brought tons of books back home from our local library and made trips to foreign countries - at the age of 13 or 14 I discovered my love for Japan - went on adventurous journeys in real or fantasy worlds, traveled back in time - I loved historical novels... While reading books, I’ve escaped reality where I’ve felt I wasn’t seen & heard as a child and later as a teenage girl...
In recent years I noticed I’m not reading that many books anymore, especially in the past 6-7 years. If I read today, I tend to grap books that deal with personal development & growth, with self help or coffee. Apparently, haha! ☕️😆
My only exception is reading Harry Potter, because many people told me it’d be so much more worth reading the books, than just knowing the movies… Last winter I read the books 1-4. Now I’m at book 5.

What about you? Are you a bookworm? What do you like to read?

The last real vacation - in the definition of going on vacation - I did was in October 2015, when I went to Teutoburg Fo...
25/11/2020

The last real vacation - in the definition of going on vacation - I did was in October 2015, when I went to Teutoburg Forest in North Western Germany.
Since then I traveled and went abroad, but not for vacation. It’s always been for work, for education or for research. Thinking about these past 5 years I notice that, especially since I became a freelancer and started my own business, I do not have the need to switch off, to break out of my daily life anymore. Why’s that? 🤔
Well, I guess it’s because I can set my own routines, I can build my life around my business every day. Whenever I need to switch off during the day, I just do.
I know that’s very privileged compared to people being in a corporate job... I also know of other freelancers or people having their own business, having super long days and tight schedules and all, and do need vacation. Again, everyone’s different. 😉

What about you?
How important is it for you to break out of your everyday life? What does this mean for you?
Where can you best switch off from your daily life?
And, does switching off mean alone time with just yourself or spending time with friends and family?

Brewing some filter coffee is part of my morning routine... ☕️Since I’m a freelancer I could get up, whenever I wake up,...
21/11/2020

Brewing some filter coffee is part of my morning routine... ☕️
Since I’m a freelancer I could get up, whenever I wake up, but I figured, only when I set myself some routines for the day, I’ll be productive. 🙈😁
Hence I’m usually getting up before 8am on weekdays, do my 20min workout every 2nd day, followed by 20min of meditation every day. And then, breakfast with usually some porridge (Sunday is still my pancake Sunday 🥞) and filter coffee. Often times I’m sitting there having breakfast and contemplating about the day or what’s on my mind at that time for at least an hour or so...
Do I actually work? Yup, I do! But not in the sense of several hours working on one certain thing like I felt I had to while I was still working in my corporate jobs, kind of glued to my office desk... 🙈
Writing, taking photos and all the other stuff that I do, is a very creative process. Whenever I feel the creative flow isn’t with me, I pause, cook or bake something, take a walk outside, read a book.
That’s what works for me for a while now already. But, hey, everyone’s different, right?

What’s your (morning) routine?

I grew up with certain beliefs about other people, especially about interacting with others. I was raised being rather s...
17/11/2020

I grew up with certain beliefs about other people, especially about interacting with others. I was raised being rather skeptical and cautious. In my teenage years I went through certain experiences that made me even withdraw from boys & girls of my age, that made me even more shy and reserved.
After years of inner work, of questioning those (limiting) beliefs, of opening up slowly but surely I’ve realized one crucial thing:
If I open up, others will open up, too! If I listen and being interested in what others have/want to say, I’m being listened, also. ✨

What about you?!
Which type of people do you open up to most likely?
If someone would be really interested in you and would be all ears for what you have to say, would you even tell very personal stuff, even though you might have just met? 🤔

I used to be one of those people that were saying - while having a look at my watch ⏰ - ‘Oh, I hope I can call it a day ...
13/11/2020

I used to be one of those people that were saying - while having a look at my watch ⏰ - ‘Oh, I hope I can call it a day soon!’ I’d always wanted it to be Friday and the weekend, when it was only like Tuesday. 😱
Why was that? Because I wasn’t happy with the situation (my job mainly, but also with myself) that I was in at that very moment, so I was longing for better days.
The thing is that most of the times, I didn’t really actually know how I wanted to spend my free time / my days off, was bored and unhappy again... and was again looking forward to better times, when I finally eventually would feel satisfied and happy. What a cycle...🙈
It took me years to not only know, what I wanna spend my time with - I haven’t been bored in ages. 🤷🏼‍♀️
I’m also managing better how to be more in the NOW and can appreciate every moment as it is. 🙏🏻💫

By the way, happy weekend y’all! 🤗

Several years ago I used to be rather shy and reserved in a group of people, especially when meeting new folks. I wouldn...
09/11/2020

Several years ago I used to be rather shy and reserved in a group of people, especially when meeting new folks. I wouldn’t really start talking, starting a conversation... thinking, I wouldn’t have much to say or add anyways... 🙈😬
Now many years and a lot of inner work later I opened up and I talk and I’m speaking my very own truth. ✨🗣
What I don’t like at all, and my close friends know of this - I even tend to tell people I meet for the first time about it - is 🤷🏼‍♀️
Be it the weather, politics, gossiping about the neighbor... you name it. Nope, not with me. ✋
I prefer a real conversation, real talk or deep talk as I call it here among 2 people, a 4-eye-conversation. It gives me so much more than just scratching the surface of things. 🥰

What about you? Small talk or real/deep talk? What gives you more and why? ✨
Would you prefer a 4-eye-conversation over meeting with a bunch of friends?

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