Yannick Schroth

Yannick Schroth writes the guides on Cafeography. He is German, studied International Business and then Global Studies, and spent years as a digital nomad, living and working in Thailand, Taiwan, Mexico, Colombia and Peru before settling in Asunción, Paraguay.

Working remotely meant the office was usually a café: a table near a socket, a connection that held through a client call, and staff who did not mind a laptop for the afternoon. Every move started with the same questions. Which cafés open early enough to get work done before the heat? Which ones close at 17:00, just as the afternoon gets going? Where is the Wi-Fi password printed on the receipt, and where does the café want the table back after one drink?

The other half was the coffee itself. A small black coffee is a tinto in Colombia, coffee simmered with cinnamon and piloncillo is café de olla in Mexico, and in Thailand an iced oliang comes through a cloth filter. Each country has its own word at the counter and its own way of paying, and learning them made every new city feel less foreign.

Cafeography grew out of those two searches: where to sit, and what to order. The guides cover café customs, ordering phrases, working from cafés and the farms behind the cup. Each fact links to its source at the end of the page.

Alongside Cafeography he runs Topblog Agency and founded The Nomad HQ, a guide to cities for remote workers, and Paraguay Steuerfrei, which helps German speakers settle in Paraguay. He speaks German, English and Spanish.