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etour-budapest
Etour-budapest organizes tailor-made tours, transfers according to the personal interests of the clients and gives information about the best programs of Budapest and Hunga
Bike Rental Barcelona
Bike Rental Barcelona is specialized in bike delivery service in Barcelona. The company also offers guided tours by bicycle.
Airport transfer into the city
Transport information from Barcelona Airport into the city
Sonar Kids, creative experiences for parents and children
On Sunday the 19th of June, Barcelona will have a wonderful time around music and a variety of creative experiences that bring together parents and children in the Sonar Kids 2011, which takes place at the festival of advanced music and Sonar multimedia. Various activities scheduled for this edition of the festival will take place at SonarComplex and SonarVillage, as well as in the spaces designated by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and the Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB). This activity was created to establish an emotional connection between parents and children through fun activities that can satisfy the tastes of both, something that is rarely taken into account in the summer activities, which only consider the adult amusement. That is why these activities have been developed for children to acquire practical knowledge of musical culture through games, for them to understand the new ways of making music, and the development of rhythm and musical design. Everything is just about playing, creation and new experiences. Many activities may be conducted with parents and others are just for kids. Children can experience how it feels to be a DJ or try out magic sounds with their voice in beatbox. They may also be designers of murals, transform their own clothes with their favorite images and discover new urban painting techniques, to write the best graffiti in their home. As you see, this will be a wonderful opportunity to live an unforgettable summer for parents and children. Recognized bands such as Papa Topo (author of “New adventures in pop”), the Portuguese electronic group Buraka Som Sistema, and the English DJ...Fortuny Museum
The Fortuny Museum is one of the most complete in Venice because it was the residence of Mariano Fortuny, a complete artists from the 20th century. Unmissable.
Mysteries of Lisbon
One of the most exciting things to be happening at the moment in European cinema just might be Mysteries of Lisbon, the latest film from France-based Chilean director Raúl Ruiz, who carries the weight of being for many, the most important, influencial Chilean director of all time. The novelist, screenwriter, cinema director, and chess player, (amonst other things) Fernando Arrabal (Founder of the Panic Group, along with Alejandro Jodorowsky, and French painter and actor Roland Topor) once declared that the cinema of Ruiz could be labelled as “cinema for the blind.” He was taught to watch films as a blind person. They would go to the cinema each week during the period he spent living in Italy. It was this blind person who taught him that The Apartment by Billy Wilder was a better film than The Process by Orson Welles, because the former had demonstrated a better sense of architectural and spacial oppression, using the same technique of showing the ceilings in shot. The knowledge, sensitivity, and intuition of this blind person totally convinced Arrabal that the only cinema which was worth making, was that for blind people – and with that intention, he has made his extraordianary – all be it few – films. The name of this blind person who had been such a mentor for the filmmaker, was in fact, ??Jorge Luis Borges – in case you wondering. Perhaps it couldn´t be said for certain that the surreal style cinema of Raúl Ruiz is a kind of cinema for blind people – but at one point, the critics at the prestigious cinema magazine Cahiers du Cinéma have referred to it as one-eyed cinema,...Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge is one of the most beautiful in the world. It crosses the river Thames and it´s also a drawbridge. It´s very beautiful and you cannot miss it.
Yelle comes to Barcelona
Love her or hate her, what is certain is that nobody could be indifferent to the antidote to macho rap, Julie Budet – better known by her pseudonym Yelle, which is an acronym for “You Enjoy Life” as the singer has explained in one of her many interviews. The young woman, born in 1983 in Saint-Brieuc (Brittany, France) formed a band with DJs GrandMarnier and Tepr, and resolved to rebel against the codes of today´s hip hop culture, which is dominated by macho lyrics and attitudes, which tend to refer to women simply as “bitch” and other sexually vulgar words. But Yelle is not one to be intimidated, and always has a cutting retort or response. Yelle became better known back in 2006 thanks to a track she posted on her Facebook page, which was a kind of response to the sexism which is so rife in rap music. With the title “Short Dick Cuizi” is answered back to songs by certain bands, including TTC, and its singer Cuiziner, who wrote, amongst others, a song called “Sale Pute,” which basically complained about women (all of them), and implied that they were only good for sexually pleasing men, like instruments. Obviously, Yelle didn´t take kindly to this attitude, and she responded with a song hinting at the size (or lack of) of Cuiziner´s penis. The song, later produced in a studio, and released under a different name “Je veux te voir” became a Myspace hit, with over 125,000 hits on its first day online. Yelle´s fame grew in October 2007, when she went on tour with singer Mika. The following...
Beauty Eurasia 2011 in Istanbul
Between 16 and 18 June some of the leading manufacturers of beauty products will be attending Beauty Eurasia, a trade fair that is being held in the Tuyap Exhibition Centre in Istanbul. The trade fair will bring together 400 producers from 40 countries. They will be exhibiting the most sophisticated perfumes, creams, make up and beauty products. Who doesn’t like to be considered beautiful, attractive and seductive? This is the question upon which the beauty industry bases its success; an industry that has been around for as long as humans have walked the Earth. According to the worldview of the Egyptians, beauty and physical harmony were integral to their wellbeing and played an essential part in pleasing their creator-god. Their god cried when seeing the loveliness of his people and his tears watered the Earth. This need to be attractive led the Egyptians to develop their knowledge about the plants, animals and minerals which could help them maintain their health and beauty. The paint that the men and women used around their eyes was made with lead sulphide, obtained from galena, or antimony sulphide, which came from antimonite. As well as increasing a person’s sex appeal, this makeup was an excellent fly repellent, and was also useful in preventing eye disease and lessening the impact of the sun’s rays. Peeling was achieved by the Egyptians by mixing alabaster dust with red natron sediment, salt from Lower Egypt and honey, and then applying the mixture to their face and body before washing it off with pure water. The war against ageing led them to develop products from herbs, minerals and...
