Where to go in spring: The best events in five cities of the world
Spring is especially strong drop everything and go on a trip. But even the most spontaneous trip requires minimal preparation (ticketing, booking of accommodation) and, most importantly, cultural planning. We chose the coolest events of this spring in European and not only cities, picked up a couple of alternative options for them and found out where to stop.
London
The project "Secret Cinema" is a social experiment for film lovers: in a place about which nothing is known until the very end, a film will be shown that no one knows before it began, before this forcing viewers to experience the movie for themselves. At the show "Escape from the Shawshank," for example, those who came were taken into the yard for a prison walk, and then forced to scrub the floor. Usually, the name of the film is unknown, but this time Wes Anderson’s Hotel Grand Budapest is socially adapted after his triumphant show and Grand Prix at the Berlin Film Festival this year. Londoners are here ahead of the rest, so it’s worth getting to the end of March - the tickets are still there and cost 50 pounds.
What else to do in London in the spring:
In addition to the huge pile of festivals (puppet for children and music for the rest), an exhibition of wedding dresses from the beginning of the XVII century to the present day and the London-style Comicon, it makes sense to explore the city from the side all travelers dream of - when it is “shown by the locals” . It is best to go on a free alternative tour of the city in the spring, although it is almost year-round - residents of East London show hidden nooks and avant-garde shops, tell secrets and tales that cannot be learned from guidebooks. Tips for walking - optional.
Where to live in London in the spring:
This is not a call to rent a house for huge money, but an attempt to turn even a short trip to London into a cultural, so to speak, experience: for robbery 300 pounds (we really understand everything) to move into a hotel room for a day, which overlooks the Thames, Big -Ben and other accompanying pictures from the English textbook. This temporary hotel is a collaboration of an architectural bureau and artist, an art-farti-mini-museum where you can sleep.
Barcelona
Even those who never go to festivals, because he rarely disappoints and offers artists for every taste, know about Primavera music festival. This year will be Sky Ferreira, CHVRCHES, Warpaint, Metronomy, St. Vincent, Disclosure, Jamie xx, Arcade Fire, The National, Haim, Earl Sweatshirt, Kendrick Lamar, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Stromae, Mogwai and Nine Inch Nails were invited as "best, loved and only for you". In addition to the concerts, there is a music fair and a soundtrack festival.
What else to do in Barcelona in spring:
Barcelona is one big cultural program - numerous museums, food festivals and the streets themselves, where history breathes in your back. But this year we advise you not to miss the Spanish Grand Prix - the Formula 1 race, which will take place half an hour from Barcelona. Many are waiting for the next victory of Fernando Alonso, but we offer all readers to root for the one and only Kimi Raikkonen - the “iceman” from Finland, who drowns our hearts and pedals.
Where to live in Barcelona in the spring:
You need to live in Barcelona in a hostel - they are like mushrooms there, so they are competing not at the service level, but at the clearance level. The three best ones are "Mambo Tango", "Kabul" and "Garden House".
Tokyo
It is strange to go for a spring hymn to technological Tokyo, but it is there that the flowering holiday is balanced by skyscrapers: unexpectedly stumble upon blossoming sakura in the world of glass concrete - a little comparable pleasure. Sakura blooms for a very limited time, and the dates in an almost astrological way are calculated by special people - this year it will bloom for two weeks, starting March 29. The Japanese have four flower points: Ueno, Shinjuku Goen, Asukayama and Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery.
What else to do in Tokyo in the spring:
Opening the swimming season in spring and in Tokyo is just as amazing as going there for sakura, so if you break stereotypes, you can do the same: sing karaoke in a huge jacuzzi in the Lovenet complex and take a dip in the Japanese bath-onsen "Oedo-Onsen- Monogatari "- the largest mineral spa complex in Tokyo. They also hold festivals there, guessing and shopping.
Where to live in Tokyo in the spring:
Because of housing prices in Tokyo, the question "where?" usually meet rhyme and are not looking for the most expensive hostels. If the price is critical, then it is better to look for the cheapest hostels in the Asakusa quarter, if not - then in Shinjuku or Shibuya - in any case, all three are considered the center.
Rio de Janeiro
There are not so many living classical music of Brazil left: Milton Nasimento turned 68, Gilberto Gil - 71. Despite the venerable age, Gilberto often performs cheerfully, but, alas, sometimes does not get to Europe (the May concert in Paris was canceled). If Gilberto does not go to us, then we go to him. Moreover, spring Rio is almost better than the rest of the year: the temperature is from 25 to 30 degrees and the decline of the tourist season - most of them leave immediately after the carnival.
What else to do in Rio in the spring:
In fact, in the spring, Brazilians have an autumn, quiet and peaceful, and even in the tourist quarter of Lapa they start to drink less. Therefore, it makes sense to go to all the usual tourist places and see how Brazilian harmony actually looks like: the local botanical garden (it is marked at each bus stop) really looks like a preserve, and you can take a picture of Jesus on Corcovado to be photographed without tourists' heads - they are just less.
Where to live in Rio in the spring:
Housing prices naturally fall during the outflow of tourists, so you can afford a pleasant hostel in Copacabana or Ipanema, for example, "Copa Hostel" with a super easy location. In Lapa prices are always a little lower, but unfortunately, there is more dangerous.
New York
Veteran American stand-up Bill Cosby in the United States is called "American dad" - he enjoys unquestioning respect and love. Cosby is not that hilariously funny, he has rather traditionalist humor about family, children, parents and relationships - in general, he cuts vividly with examples from his personal life, and in the last show as sharply as ever. To get to his stand-up is an achievement in itself, especially since the actor is already 76 years old.
What else to do in New York in the spring:
First of all, this season is the Broadway production of "Rocky" - a truly amazing musical about a well-known non-professional boxer, produced by Sylvester Stallone. Secondly, the theme of the American South, which Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson re-introduced to many, is also of concern to African-American artists - they try to rethink it in the exhibition “When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South” of the museum-museum in Harlem . And, finally, a week of spa from April 21 to April 27, when many spas perform expensive beauty treatments for $ 50.
Where to live in New York in the spring:
Alas, you can forget about hostels for $ 20 a day in New York forever - living there is very expensive in any area. In the most non-competitive ones, the price starts from 90-100 dollars, and perhaps Bushvik helps out again - 35 dollars for a bed in the New York Loft Hostel, and even that is more of an exception to the rule.
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