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Have you joined the Travel Talk on Twitter, yet?!

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

What exactly is the Travel Talk on Twitter? The Travel Talk on Twitter is a social media travel event on Twitter created by traveldudes.org It exists since January 2011 and under the motto “For Travelers, By Travelers” there are two sessions every Tuesday where 5 questions to a relevant travel topic are being discussed . To participate in this ongoing and growing talk about everything travel, you simply have to look for the hashtag #TTOT on Twitter. Though there are scheduled times for #TTOT you can tweet travel related information using this hashtag any time. Over the traveldudes website or their Facebook page you can suggest topics and questions for upcoming talks, but also see and contact those in the travel community who always participate and help to organize this event. We from Only-apartments have been participating in the TTOT for a while now and on March 20, 2012 one of our topic suggestions was picked to be discussed. Here is a selection of our favorite #TTOT answers about “Lost in Translation”: Q1 via @trevormorrow: From experience, what have you learned not to do or say in certain countries or cities? #TTOT We read many tweets that went around similar lines and we think that this one might have summed it up best: An answer that made us wonder and where we would like to find out the story behind it: Q2 via @megamondotravel: Funniest, most ridiculous “lost in translation” communication meltdown you´ve experienced? The following one is just one of the many that made us laugh: Q3 via Robyn Boswell: What adventure/disaster have you had because you mis-interpreted... read more

Lee Ranaldo in New York

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

To talk about Sonic Youth is to talk about New York. Since the beginning of the 80s until today, Sonic Youth has carried on being one of the most emblematic bands of the Big Apple and proudly so. Since their beginnings and times before their formation, the young Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon came across places such as the CBGB and Max´s Kansas City, where some of the most revolutionary bands of the punk and nu-wave era played: Suicide, Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and DNA to name a few. With all of this emotional, generational and musically united package, as well as an avid interest for contemporary art and the Lower East Side galleries, Sonic Youth began to find their own way in the New York underground scene. During the 80s, Sonic Youth edited some of the most emblematic albums and songs of alternative rock of all time: ´EVOL´, ´Bad Moon Rising´, ´Daydream Nation´ and ´Schizophrenia´, in which the guitars of Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore arrived to levels of composition, noise, pop and dynamics of incredible value. It´s no coincidence that they´ve been named as two of the most important guitarists in rock in the last 60 years because in the formation of Sonic Youth, and perhaps from there their important input and the fact of their continuity up to today, Ranaldo and Moore depend off one another to arrive to that high musical state that only few bands can have in the studio and live; cohesion and precision, a group of forces working together. Last year they... read more

Sitges Vintage Car Rally Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be, Things to do in Barcelona

The Sitges Rally, which starts in Barcelona, is a route around the Catalan coast in classic cars. It takes place on the first Sunday in March so don´t miss it!