Lotta: FREE: Augsburg

There are lots of places I love in my hometown. In summer everybody's sitting on the "Rathausplatz", it's a square in front of the city hall. You just chill with your friends and cold drinks from Pow Wow and sometimes there's a stage with local bands or dancegroups or other special events. In winter there is the "Augsburger Christkindls Markt". My favourite café is Henrys. It's usually crowded and especially in autum it's difficult to get a table, because it is too cold or rainy to sit outside then. It is also a bit expensive, but the coffee & food is excellent and it has a nice flair. Another coffeehouse and also a good place to eat breakfast is "aran". Aran means bread in a different language and the name is up to the range. They offer slices with various spreads, sweet and savory. The location is special, because the café is placed in an huge, historic hall with high walls and a big, wooden table in the middle. But because of the dimension it is often noisy there. Who looks for a calmer place should go to the Baguette Company on "Moritzplatz". Upstairs they have some nice seats. If you want to go to a typical cafe of Augsburg "Dichtl" is the best. They have a offer of a variety of cakes. My favourite restaurants are Vapiano (an Italian chain with various noodles and delicious desserts), Anna (it is conveniently located in the main shopping street but in a quiet and usually sunny backyard) and the "Milchbar" on the marketplace (they have soo delicious milkproducts like rice pudding, yeast dumpling and "Kaiserschmarrn"). For brunching "Thalia" is the best place. It's an old, beautiful theater and every sunday they have a great buffet in a large, bright room next to it where you can eat everything from sweet pancakes to eggs with bacon. Thereafter you can watch a movie for little money.
The best places for shopping are downtown or for rainy days, the City Gallery where you have all popular chains side by side. Famous buildings are the "Perlachturm", it's a tower next to the city hall from which you have a great view over Augsburg, the Golden Hall in the city hall and, of course, the "Augsburger Puppenkiste" the only place in the world where you can watch a show of the puppets on strings. I was there often as a child with my grandma, but not anymore since then. That's it so far about my hometown.