Places to check out :: Europe ??

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:46 am

Anyone been to Portugal? I'd rather avoid the party life of Spain and find a nice lil' beach with nice food etc to chill at for a while?

LukeMcD · Post by **LukeMcD** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:25 am

Here is one they dont promote much.

Mar Bella beach in Barcelona Sundays from about 4pm till about 1am.

I played there last month and it was insane.

After party at a warehouse somewhere if they are still getting away with it.

Go ask for Caine from Bionikworld. He is an Aussie living there and playing most Sundays on the beach.

Loft rocks as mentioned, also try Moog and Macarena for the micro club experience.

Barcelona rules but you better like Minimal.

Enjoy.

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:38 am

oh yeah, don't forget to check out helsinki as well. it's bangin.

:cough:

C.I.A. · Post by **C.I.A.** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:59 am

fooishbar wrote:oh yeah, don't forget to check out helsinki as well. it's bangin.

:cough:

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:03 am

Thanks All!!

Knew this thread would be a good idea.

Post by **lynt** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:04 am

fooishbar wrote:oh yeah, don't forget to check out helsinki as well. it's bangin.

:cough:

I heard you have 101 different names for snow, Dan.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:15 am

Cubist wrote:Anyone been to Portugal? I'd rather avoid the party life of Spain and find a nice lil' beach with nice food etc to chill at for a while?

Lagos is the shizz I hear

LOL at foo. You're Finn-ished

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:00 am

Cubist wrote:Anyone been to Portugal? I'd rather avoid the party life of Spain and find a nice lil' beach with nice food etc to chill at for a while?

Portugal is amazing. Spent two weeks driving through there in a combi.

More chilled than Spain. Really diverse country. People are beautiful. food is increadible.. and the beaches....amazing!

Here's some of my Portugal pic's

1st C Roman ruins - Evora

Medieval streets - Evora

Church made of human bones - Evora

Guicho Beach - Lisbon

Medieval Castle ruins - Sintra

Someone with $$ - Sintra

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:03 am

looks amazing Fi! def going to hit Portugal on the next trip.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:11 am

surf!

yay for surf! god i hope i get a chance to surf while o/s, twud be way radical dudes

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:21 am

Lizkins wrote:surf! yay for surf! god i hope i get a chance to surf while o/s, twud be way radical dudes

Amazing surf in Portugal Liz...

Oh.. another reason why i like Spain... mojito!

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:24 pm

Thanks Stovie. Portugal it is for me.

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:13 pm

lynt wrote:
fooishbar wrote:oh yeah, don't forget to check out helsinki as well. it's bangin.

:cough:
I heard you have 101 different names for snow, Dan.

yep, and 101 different ways to say FUCK OFF SUN IT'S 2AM HAVE SOME COMMON DECENCY.

AJ · Post by AJ » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:11 pm

London - there's a great vodka bar just near the Holborn tube station that has about 100 flavoured types. Mmm, turkish delight! Tate Modern is def. worth it, as is the great court of the british musuem.

Venice - get off the main thoroughfares and you'll see the real city. plenty of little bars/clubs/trattorias worth checking out and tourists miss.

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:13 pm

AJ wrote:London - there's a great vodka bar just near the Holborn tube station that has about 100 flavoured types. Mmm, turkish delight!

yep, think it's called revolution? their watermelon vodka is brilliant, as is the time-honoured ginger with apple juice.

mmmm.

Chops · Post by **Chops** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:51 am

Rob M wrote:check out the church of dead in Prague, made out of skeletal remains and bones etc. i've seen pics from mates its wicked!

Bratislava (my hometown) is awesome too. the clock museum, danube river and radio slovak building (upside down pyramid)

Bone Church is in Kutna Hora bout an hour south east of Prague.
The best place outside of Prague is Ceske Krumlov. Bout 3 hours south of Prague.

Then there is Croatia. Get down to the Dalmatian Coast and let it all hang out. Dubrovnik is really something else.

Amick · Post by **Amick** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:43 am

listen to elysium, Baltic states are rad...

Especially Lithuania...best country ever....NOT BIASED!

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:50 am

elysium wrote:If you are going to Latvia anyway I would definitely recommend a stop in Tallin, Estonia and on the coast in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Everything was so cheap (may have changed now Estonia is on the Euro) and I had an awesome time in both places.

by the way, estonia still uses the estonia kroner, not the euro. exchange rate is 1:15 for the euro, so about 1:10 for australian dollars, I guess.

DBoy · Post by **DBoy** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:09 am

Chops wrote:
Rob M wrote:check out the church of dead in Prague, made out of skeletal remains and bones etc. i've seen pics from mates its wicked!

Bratislava (my hometown) is awesome too. the clock museum, danube river and radio slovak building (upside down pyramid)
Bone Church is in Kutna Hora bout an hour south east of Prague.
The best place outside of Prague is Ceske Krumlov. Bout 3 hours south of Prague.

word. I posted pics of the church above.
Ceske Krumlov was like my saviour. We got there and spent 3 nights just chillin in the village drinking really cheap wine and eating large shanks of meat.

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:31 am

DBoy wrote: Ceske Krumlov was like my saviour. We got there and spent 3 nights just chillin in the village drinking really cheap wine and eating large shanks of meat.

How good is it!! We found this little hole in the wall place by following our noses that did the most amazing steaks over an open smokey fire. We went there pretty much every night. Mmmm mmm. I certainly was not iron deficient by the time I left.

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:10 pm

croatia, specifically the dalmatian coast.

I'll post photos once I get organised. anyone know which site is a good host?

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:20 pm

www.photobucket.com

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:22 pm

fooishbar wrote:
elysium wrote:If you are going to Latvia anyway I would definitely recommend a stop in Tallin, Estonia and on the coast in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Everything was so cheap (may have changed now Estonia is on the Euro) and I had an awesome time in both places.
by the way, estonia still uses the estonia kroner, not the euro. exchange rate is 1:15 for the euro, so about 1:10 for australian dollars, I guess.

really?!! WICKED!! It was such a treat to go there last time... so beautiful, but so cheap. I heard it had gone on the Euro and was bummed becasue of the inevitable inflation. This is excellent news

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:46 pm

elysium wrote:
fooishbar wrote:
elysium wrote:If you are going to Latvia anyway I would definitely recommend a stop in Tallin, Estonia and on the coast in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Everything was so cheap (may have changed now Estonia is on the Euro) and I had an awesome time in both places.
by the way, estonia still uses the estonia kroner, not the euro. exchange rate is 1:15 for the euro, so about 1:10 for australian dollars, I guess.
really?!! WICKED!! It was such a treat to go there last time... so beautiful, but so cheap. I heard it had gone on the Euro and was bummed becasue of the inevitable inflation. This is excellent news

heh, god no, their entire tourism industry would collapse.

dad and I had the most incredible meal overlooking the knight and cross, right at the top of the old town. fantastic food, and the bill for the two of us (entree, main, dessert, drinks) came to just under â‚¬20.

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:49 pm

Nice one foo! I definitely want to go back there if I move to London next year. I only got to see Tallinn, but I hear that town on the coast and also that university town in central Estonia are also worth a visit

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:00 pm

elysium wrote:Nice one foo! I definitely want to go back there if I move to London next year. I only got to see Tallinn, but I hear that town on the coast and also that university town in central Estonia are also worth a visit

definitely. take a month off in summer and do the whole baltic thing. i'm planning to take a large whack of time off (really large) and see as much of eastern europe as possible, including properly seeing all the baltic states.

elysium · Post by **elysium** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:02 pm

sounds wicked foo

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:49 pm

breaksRbest wrote:www.photobucket.com

thanks chief!

komiza, vis

palmizana. (the photo doesn't do the water colour justice)

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sibenik. I love this town!

It's still relatively cheap and the warmer weather usually holds out through september, often october too.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:51 pm

that water is beautiful!!!!!

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:52 pm

nice Rob. love the 1st shot.

Scholtzy · Post by **Scholtzy** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:00 pm

I hear there's great hostels in Slovakia

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:04 pm

The view from a friends balcony. Vis, vis.

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:11 pm

I'm hanging to go to Croatia. Your pics are further inspiration QR (and welcome home BTW!!)

Instanbul has jumped onto my travel list now too. Must get to Europe

numz · Post by **numz** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:10 am

I'm currently in Budva, Montenegro now... south of Serbia. Its great to be near the fucking beach. Eurogash galore everywhere, sometimes a little like Halfmoon bay but on a grand scale and a better backdrop. There's also Kotor nearby, which has an old fortress atop a ridge looking down onto a fjord -southern europe's deepest apparently.

Budapest was crazy. There's so much to do there (helps if you know a local). There's a breaks and drum and bass scene happening too. Mellogs - my mates coincindentally know the Fine Cut Bodies bunch.. small world as they say. Parties often happening on one of the 2 islands on the Danube. I head back up there in a few weeks to see Prodigy at the Sziget festival.

Warsaw is probably not worth it, my opinion... and it was also hell cheaper to fly into Krakow, which was nice, but didn't float my boat for too long. Auschwitz and Berkenau was a good short trip from there. Quite interesting... you know the story. Zakopane and the Tatras mountains on the Polish-Slovak border was awesome. Great if your into a little intermediate hiking and climbing.

Slovakia was boring, never even wanted to go to stag city Bratislava...my opinion. Spent time in a town in the sticks called Levoca. That was quaint. They had a great castle in ruins to check out, though I've seen enough castles by now.

Tomorrow I jet off to Dubrovnik, Croatia. Much of the old town is made of marble. The beaches are awesome and I'm just glad to spend time on the beach for a while. Its sweltering hot right now.

From there we hit Sarajevo, which I hear is quite nice albeit the shit thats gone down previously. Then back up to Budapest before heading back to the northern coast of Croatia and the islands. A short trip to Llubjana, Slovenia to check out Lake Bled then back to London...

I'm feelin eastern europe. Maybe cos it more affordable... 40 eurocents for a pint size bottle of Pivo is great! But the peeps are quite friendy and don't hold that grouch rep some may assume... Last night we found a festival on the beach here in Budva which went off. Paying for it now. Yeh, its cool here.

anyway peeps, might try post some photos when I'm settled... must pack for the 6am bus.

SQ - that you, jaq and trey in Barca?

hope you're all well.

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:22 am

[quote="numz"]SQ - that you, jaq and trey in Barca?[quote]

Si

menace · Post by **menace** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:38 am

nice photos stovequeen

luke let me know then u are u uk .. we will drink

Post by **system** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:57 am

stovequeen wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:edit: and you also MUST see the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres. too fucking cool
know someone who's going there tomorrow

I hope he takes flicks of the broken eggs on the outside walls! It's an amazing place, aside from the artwork.

Post by **system** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:59 am

lynt wrote:
fooishbar wrote:oh yeah, don't forget to check out helsinki as well. it's bangin.

:cough:
I heard you have 101 different names for snow, Dan.

That's for yellow snow.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:29 am

Yep, defo got to get to croatia (next trip).

Numz, Looks like u having a ball. chuck some photos up when u can.

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:32 pm

numz wrote: Tomorrow I jet off to Dubrovnik, Croatia. Much of the old town is made of marble. The beaches are awesome and I'm just glad to spend time on the beach for a while. Its sweltering hot right now

Dubrovnik is the most expensive place in Croatia, chief. You might be better off hanging somewhere nearby (plenty of beautiful places: mljet, korcula, for example) for beach action and pop over to check the town as you like. just my two cents.

Either way, enjoy!!!

Post by **lynt** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:10 pm

system wrote:
stovequeen wrote:
breaksRbest wrote:edit: and you also MUST see the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres. too fucking cool
know someone who's going there tomorrow
I hope he takes flicks of the broken eggs on the outside walls! It's an amazing place, aside from the artwork.

numz · Post by **numz** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 10:03 pm

quiet roar wrote:Dubrovnik is the most expensive place in Croatia, chief. You might be better off hanging somewhere nearby (plenty of beautiful places: mljet, korcula, for example) for beach action and pop over to check the town as you like. just my two cents.

Either way, enjoy!!!

we go to mljet tomorrow... it is pricey here, but relative anyway... and compared to London...
On saturday we ate next to Ian Pooley, then saw him play at the amphitheatre of this derelict hotel on the beach. Im ready to sit on an island for a bit though.

dengelman · Post by **dengelman** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:50 am

elysium wrote:
DBoy wrote: Ceske Krumlov was like my saviour. We got there and spent 3 nights just chillin in the village drinking really cheap wine and eating large shanks of meat.
How good is it!! We found this little hole in the wall place by following our noses that did the most amazing steaks over an open smokey fire. We went there pretty much every night. Mmmm mmm. I certainly was not iron deficient by the time I left.

sweet.

im there right now!

shame about drizzle keeping me off the river!!

Lukey - youre gonna have a ball wherever you go. just in my last week of euro-tour so still collecting my thoughts... Would stronlgy advise searching overseas sites and forÃ¼ms and finding music festivals close to your destinations. August is about to explode but should be lots on in september too. Line-ups all drool-worthy and has forced me to rekindle old techno flames which youll agree is never a bad thing!

Ive been to many and still hard to leave so many great acts behind! Have found lots of cool clubs, will write more soon - or PM if anything specific you after.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:28 am

dengelman wrote: Lukey - youre gonna have a ball wherever you go. just in my last week of euro-tour so still collecting my thoughts... Would stronlgy advise searching overseas sites and forÃ¼ms and finding music festivals close to your destinations. August is about to explode but should be lots on in september too. Line-ups all drool-worthy and has forced me to rekindle old techno flames which youll agree is never a bad thing!

Ive been to many and still hard to leave so many great acts behind! Have found lots of cool clubs, will write more soon - or PM if anything specific you after.

Nice one. Thanks man.

Yep post anything you recommend up.

Will look into forums etc tonight..

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:24 am

Alright people.

Clubs in London?

Where's good ? What nights ?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:08 pm

stovequeen wrote:
Church made of human bones - Evora

Love that pic Fi and the rest of the ones from your travels.

Particularly impressed with all your Gaudi photo's and of course the 'Church made of human bones' - eerie!

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:15 pm

speaking of Gaudi, I just got a bunch of photos from Quinn & Neets. They got to go inside Casa Battlo (so jealous)

here's a photo of the front of Casa Battlo with some random chick standing in front...

http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/quinna ... FB7nYjTqKe

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:24 pm

breaksRbest wrote:here's a photo of the front of Casa Battlo with some random chick standing in front...

Heh heh careful

They posted that in that Reprazent thread too

Shonks currently in Lisbon and heading to Morocco in a few days

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:26 pm

breaksRbest wrote:speaking of Gaudi, I just got a bunch of photos from Quinn & Neets. They got to go inside Casa Battlo (so jealous)

here's a photo of the front of Casa Battlo with some random chick standing in front...

http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/quinna ... FB7nYjTqKe

dude, that's isla fisher!!

Post by **breaksRbest** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:31 pm

hahahahaha, if you squint a bit you can see Sascha in the b/ground