Getting lost in the city while searching for the best ice cream, Sevilla showed us its prettiest corners and it literally felt like paradise. Living the dream while being sick, we were optimistic until we got to Barcelona. Stay tuned to know who stole our smiles and ruined our optimism.

Katharina + Katharina – The Podcast

Alameda + Hospital

Social Butterflies were hitting a new level of volunteering work: social media takeover for Alissa Katharina and classy bed-climbing (or in bed-staying) for Maren Katharina. Sharing the housekeeping-workload with our volunteer buddies, working for this Hostel was fair. We had our first monthly editorial job besides badge-optimizing and portfolio-power.

Confetti + Takeover

Starting the next hostel experience as a volunteer, we arrived together with a french invasion to the biggest hostel we worked for – so far. Our days in Sevilla were fueled by chia pudding, tapas, Tinto de Verano, as well with antibiotics and rooftop sun-bathing while working on our laptops.

Invasions + Chia

With a 12 hours holiday in Lisbon, we found ourselves in the South of Spain after a nightbus ride. Welcome summertime in Sevilla. Not knowing this will be the last city of our adventure... Optimistic that we will have the time of our lives again in a new setting, it all came to an end with a boom. And this boom was expensive. Listen to the whole new season, and you will know what happened.

Rooftops + Corona

Having weekend-visitors brought back some weekday routines. Enjoying the time, guided by our tour guide incognito, we discovered new places – although Alissa has been in Porto before. Living a network-life, we felt the 21st century with connecting via Instagram. Even though there were no green spaces and it was hilly, hilly, hilly, Porto got our hearts in those 5,5 weeks. Obrigada to everyone!

Secret Gui(de) + Obrigada

The firsts continue: first time in a Co-Working space for us. And it wasn’t the only one. In Porto we extended the variety of working spots in the name of change while making new friends and job collaborations. Coffee culture is big in Porto and we have seen it all (?). Go and listen to this episode the whole way to get some recommendations.

Combi Café + Co-Work

Loads of firsts in Porto: yoga in the morning, (extraordinary) self-made breakfast, a netflix series and audio books scream "self care". Calming down in our home base with a Porto (Tonico) and friends. 

Homebase + Porto Tonico

In season 05 we talk about our prime time in Porto, living in our own apartment, being the boss of our daily routine and deciding for which healthy cooking option we are going for. Learning the lesson that paying rent can be relaxing. You want to know why? Go and listen to the upcoming season. 

Raindrops + Renting

Exploring Rotterdam and exploring the Netherlands. This is about what we have done in our free time with welcoming visitors and visiting friends, making new friends while being on the construction side and falling in love with the ironic culture of the dutchies.

Pencil + Dank Je Wel

Fulfilling bigger jobs and random tasks, we spent hours doing extraordinary work. Part of the daily hostel routine was drying floors, wiping stairs, vacuuming stories and carrying bed sheets. Listen yourself if you want to find out what „Extra Attention“ means.

Wiping + Extra Attention

Talking about our contemporary home in Rotterdam in between the trash and the storage room. Living in the basement while people are partying in "Clock Tower" four stories above our heads. The dutchies introduced us to their beloved toasties, to Stroopwaffles and Oliebollen all the way to Kapsalon.

Stairs + Stroopwaffles

Season 04 is all about our month in the Netherlands. Our time in this harbor city is best described with walking stairs, eating (mostly) unhealthy, visiting friends and building a "Tiny Villa". Staying in the city with the motto "Rotterdam Make it Happen", Rotterdam made it happen and they made us work. Receiving vouchers for the Hostel bar and working our butts off resulted in not spending a lot of money and not having time to explore as much as we wanted to. But hey, our motto became "Saving money" and in the end it was successful – listen to this short episode and you’ll get to know the details and a bit more.

Welkom + Vouchers

"Many cents make a Euro." That is definitely the motto of Latvian market stand owners. For us this was a big change after spending six weeks in Stockholm where we didn’t use a single coin at all.

Euros + Cents

Talking about what we did in Rīga work-wise, we combine talking about our jobs and tasks. So it is about climbing beds, no-shoe-policy, Corporate (Social) Design and Photography (Clients).

Branding + Bed-Climbing

To continue with the things we experienced in city number two, this is a quick episode about many „first-times“. Rīga was filled with loads of nice discoveries - regarding our alimentation as well. It was about tasting sours and bitters, about bread in various forms and about (liquid) sweets.

Alus + Breadchips

Two designers who love to talk and who live in the podcast-generation should probably have a podcast themselves instead of writing a blog or limit their shares to Instagram posts – although we are visual victims. It is a podcast about two digital nomads in their mid twenties, about being newly self-employed, about financially surviving in European cities, about making wrong choices and about aha-moments. Without editing we record the episodes completely raw: you will get 100 percent "Katharina" personalities with all misspellings and spontaneous noises.

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Katharina + Katharina – The Podcast

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