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Going out in Barcelona for under 20€
Barcelona is getting more and more expensive, especially for locals, and it´s also more expensive to go out because, let´s not kid ourselves, dinner, drinks, club entry and taxi home is quite a spend. If it carries on like this, we will need to save all year long to celebrate New Year´s Eve! So that this doesn´t happen, we´ve found a route to go out partying in Barcelona for less than 20€. My friends, let the party continue: Instead of going out for dinner at a restaurant, you can go to one of those bars that offer beers for 1€ and tapas for 1€ or 2€. This way, for five euros you can drink and eat. Take note: Can Eusebio, Vilà i Vilà, 84. Beers and patatas bravas for one euro, and the rest of tapas for less than 5€ each. La Milagrossa, Torrent de les Flors, 94: This small bar managed by an Argentine specalizes in pasties and breaded steak, which are delicious. It has beer for 1€ and, also, if you want to have dinner, they offer combos for two pasties and a drink for less than 5€. La Gata Mala, Rabassa, 37. This narrow bar (which is always full) is run brilliantly by two lovely girls. 1.50€ for the beer and a free tapa. The good thing is that every tapa is better than the previous one: they start with a piece of bread with cheese, the second one will be Spanish omelette and the third one will be steak. Bar Atrapatapa, Compte d´Urgell 77 not only serve the free tapa with your drink...
The houseboats in Amsterdam
Like any city that has developed on the seafront, the capital of the Netherlands emerged from a small fishing village. Founded in the twelfth century, Amsterdam is located between the IJ bay and the Amstel River. Of the clean water from the Amstel river they produce their beer. Tourism is also very young, becoming one of the most lively cities in Europe. Today it is the country´s largest city and a major financial and cultural international center . Apparently the first to live in these makeshift houses were the hippies, due to the housing shortage after World War II. It also helped the Dutch fleets modernization that took place in those years, leaving large amounts of available cargo ships for use in this curious form of housing in the Amsterdam canals. Usually traditional houses are more expensive than this type of housing, but these houseboats carry more expenses. Every so often they must be transferred to the shipyard to be completely revised, which can last about a week, a perfect time to go on vacation. In addition to maintenance, this property must pay a floating excise duty, insurance and rent for boat parking. Currently, if you wanted to buy a boat, there is no more space to park, Amsterdam canals are completely saturated. But you can always buy an already established one. Along the canals of Amsterdam are some of the best and most expensive houseboats you can find in Europe. Prices have surged by a shortage of mooring spaces. There are currently more than 3,000 boats, characterizing Amsterdam for its canals and curious houseboats . Like other cities in...
Porto, a city with special charm
Porto is the second biggest city in Portugal, located in the north of the country and by the estuary of the Douro river, by the Atlantic Ocean. It also carries the same name as port wine, which originates from this region. The city centre has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, due to the beauty of its art deco architecture and the history of its buildings, which turn them into a place where it seems that time stands still. Its likeness to a British city and that feeling of a port city is so attractive that very little is required in order to enjoy your stay in Porto. One must say that everything is historical in this city, but it complements itself with delicious food, great wine and the kindness of its people. The Ribeira district The Ribeira district, as its name indicates, is located in the riverside of the Douro and around the square with the same name. It´s a beautiful area with its multi-coloured buildings that contrast with the river waters. You can go on an interesting tour around its steeped streets and find beautiful little cafés with tables outside. Clérigos Tower Torre dos Clérigos is located in the top part of the city, on the ´hill of the hanged´, and it receives this name because that´s where the people who were tried and hanged used to be buried. It´s a tower that rises 250ft into the air and that was built in 1763. It´s considered one of the most important landmarks in the city and it´s therefore one of the most visited ones. ...
Indie nights in Prague
It´s likely that we won´t take long to agree that Prague isn´t really the cradle of pop, rock, indie-rock or pop-folk, so if you´re a big guitar fan, you´ll struggle to find your place in Prague´s nightlife scene. However, we´ve done all the dirty work for you. We have a correspondent there who just goes to bars and decides if they´re cool or not. Read carefully: NoD Skinny jeans and expensive glasses and maybe some big taches is what you can find here, where they often stage concerts, art exhibitions and theatre plays. The music isn´t bad, but you might have to endure a Spice Girls song that ruins it for everybody, but that may be the price to pay. But seriously, it´s a good place if you´re looking to go out until late with a great atmosphere and serious partying. Find it on Diouhá 33 110 00, Praha 1. Meet Factory Another fashionable place amongst Prague´s coolest people is Meet Factory, a cool art gallery-room where you can often listen to live bands that will make your jaw drop. Great atmosphere. Ke Sklárn? 3213/15 150 00 Praha 5 Palác Akropolis Palác Akropolis is a bar, theatre stage and party venue. If you´re bored at any time of the day, from 12pm you can drop by here and enjoy their daily events, reggae, techno or latin music DJs (check out the programme before you get here to avoid any surprises) and even live jam sessions. Oh, I nearly forgot, it´s also an excellent cheap restaurant. Find it on Kubelíkova 1548/27 130 00, Praha 3 Cafe v lese A charming, retro and vintage place,...
50 Years of James Bond
There are few fictional characters as iconic and enigmatic as Agent 007, also known as James Bond. Given the “license to kill” he possesses extraordinary and by that deadly skills, is intelligent and through all of that maintains impeccable style. He embodies the erotic fantasy of many females and the ideal male image that men strive for. On occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Bond movie Dr. No in 1962, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA) is presenting all Bond Movies throughout the month of October. Over the years several actors have slipped into the role of the smooth secret agent. Whether he was played by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, or Daniel Craig the mysterious, sophisticated demeanor and his quiet confidence make him irresistible and serve him countless romantic yet short lived encounters on a silver plate. He always remained a loner and the only woman he will always be loyal to remains the Queen of England. But it is not just the personality of this fictional character (created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953) that turns the movies in such a phenomenon. As already mentioned before the Bond style remains timeless, his desirable women, his gadgets and vehicles never fail to surprise, the music of the movies is just as anticipated as the movies and his signature drink vodka martini, shaken, not stirred is a detail that everyone associates with James Bond. It has to be a question of personal taste which of the Bond actors and/or movies is your favorite, but what remains without...
A month as diverse as the autumn colours!
Make the most of October with our promotion! Promo Code: PC4MDVEW1I8Z The good thing about autumn is, undoubtedly, the warm colours that spread around the landscape wherever you look. However, the beauty of this season is enhanced with never-ending events and activities that await you in our highlighted destinations: the music of The Beatles in London, good jazz in Belgrade or the festival of lights in Berlin amongst many other options. You choose! What is clear is that October is a colourful and diverse month. So that you can enjoy it, at Only-apartments we are going to give you a special promotion for this month. The hard thing will be to choose a destination, which we will leave up to you to decide! Now is the best time for a getaway: there are less tourists and you can still enjoy the good weather. Choose your destination and the chosen dates, introduce the promotional code in the required field and you´ll get a 5% discount on your accommodation. The offer is valid for the first 10 days in October. Make the most of it!...
06 iDans Istanbul
Turkish artists, especially dancers, musicians and videoartists have difficulty creating new productions. The scarcity of grants and subsidies from institutions, have resulted, that artists independently has sought a way out of this problem. In this framework iDans was born in Istanbul, and has been organized for the last 6 years by the Bimeras Cultural Foundation. The International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance of Istanbul is one of the best in Turkey, and now one that is among the 14 best in Europe since iDans has been accepted, for their professionalism, in the European Culture Commission´s program . This sixth edition will be held from October 2012 to May 2013, under the name of “Silk Road of Dance”. So iDans 06 will be structured around the metaphor of the Silk Road. Recall that the Silk Road was a network of trade routes between Asia and Europe that stretched from China, Syria and now Turkey (formerly Constantinople) to Europe. So it was a huge network of exchange of goods, but not only that, but its ramifications had other exchange, crosses between cultures, religions and people … This is precisely what we want to convey in iDans 06. In addition to established artists and young talents in Europe and the Mediterranean coast, also contemporary performing arts of East and Southeast Asia take part. Thus, different styles, movements, expressions, will converge, to cross, to mix and be influenced in a contest dedicated to an intercultural mix, taking as its theme or main thread, the Silk Road. In parallel, iDans also develops Critical Endeavor Turkey, journalistic criticism workshop performing arts as...
The Cranberries concert in Barcelona and Madrid
The Irish rock band returns to Spain. The Cranberries will present on October 5 at the Palace of Vistalegre in Madrid their sixth album called “Roses” But it will not be the only concert by the Irish, the day before they will be playing in Barcelona at the Club Sant Jordi. It has been two years since the Irish rock band visited our country, just at the time when they got back together after seven years apart. Now back on track with a new album which was released on February 14, produced by Stephen Street and recorded in May 2011 in Toronto and London called “Roses”, this is the first studio album by the band in ten years. For them, of course, it is very special. But, how did the form?. The Hogan brothers, once they finished school, began to help their parents who ran a bakery. One night during a concert they met Fergal Lawler, a hairdresser of Parteen. And this curious mix between bakers and hairdressers formed into what we now know as The Cranberries. Their rise to fame happened in the 90s with the album “Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we?” Which achieved them stardom for the album became a commercial success with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. and more than 40 million albums worldwide. Their other successes are “No Need To Argue”, “To the Faithful Departed” and “Bury the Hatchet”. In 1999 they surprised us with “Just My Imagination”, undoubtedly one of my favorite tunes by them . “Just My Imagination” was the third single from their fourth studio...
Films Shot in Barcelona (without Seeming Like It)
“Walking around New York is like walking through a large-scale Hollywood set” is a comparison well known in the history of world tourism. Obviously, Barcelona is not characterized as a city in this way but because of other no less special reasons: sun, sand, sangria and paella… Most people known of the Sagrada Familia, the parties in Gracia and even Joan Clos dancing to the rhythm of Carlinhos Brown. The truth is that this city has more often played a secondary than central character. But if you’re interested in finding the settings that you’ve seen on the big screen, we will name a few of the movies that were shot inBarcelona. They capture a bit of the city but not the whole. The Perfum by Tom Tykwer, 2006 Although this film is set in eighteenth-centuryParis, it was shot between Figueres, Besalú (Costa Brava) and Barcelona. The director, Tom Tykwer, chose to shoot it between Girona and Barcelona because these are places that “have better preserved the essence of the architecture” of the time. So, in the Gothic quarter they set up a market with tons of authentic fish that would have been worthy of the time period before sewers. Another part was set in the Laberint d´Horta and others, in the Poble Espanyol, where they filmed the famous final scene. REC by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, 2007 This film was shot almost entirely in the same block of buildings in the Rambla Catalunya (no. 34). Of course, they could also have been done in my town and no one would have noticed, but I...
