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Hitting German beaches
Rügen doesn’t get much press
outside Germany, despite the
island’s chalk cliffs, sandy beaches,
wacky architecture and dark
history – you can now buy luxury
apartments at Prora, where the
Nazis built a hotel for 20,000
people that’s now mostly derelict.
ruegen.de
Staying on Lopud
An hour’s ferry from Dubrovnik,
sleepy Lopud is a tiny car-free
island of 220 people, famous for its
white sandy beaches (rare along the
Adriatic) and abandoned Franciscan
monastery. Stay at boutique gem
The Villa.
lavilla.com.hr
Belting show tunes
We adore New York gem
Marie’s Crisis Cafe, a gay (but
not exclusively so) basement
in the West Village where
everyone gathers round the
piano to blast out Broadway
show tunes until the small
hours.
59 Grove St
Seeing a legend
Leonard Cohen’s world tour
swings through Scandinavia this
month, with dates in Stockholm
(15 Aug), Odense (17 Aug)
and Oslo (20 Aug).
leonardcohen.com
Booking by the hour
Spanish start-up By Hours means you can
book a hotel room for just three hours – it’s
got a decent range of hotels in Spain (in
Barcelona, think €30 – NOK235 – for three
hours), and is set for a UK launch.
byhours.com
Stretching on
Silver Island
One of Europe’s newest yoga retreats is set
in a gorgeous whitewashed
villa on a remote Greek
island, reachable from
Athens. There’s no
electricity – just yoga,
beaches and nature.
silverislandyoga.com
Festing in Oslo
Headliners Blur, The Knife and
Kraftwerk lead a decidedly offbeat
line-up at Oslo’s Øyafestivalen, from
6-10 August.
oyafestivalen.com
Seeing planes
differently
It was only a matter of time before
planes got the Disney treatment –
Planes
, a spin-off of
Cars
, is out on
16 August.
disney.co.uk/
movies/planes
Eating in Copenhagen
The Copenhagen Cooking food
festival (23 Aug-1 Sep)
features everything from
Singapore hawkers taking
over Vesterbro to former
Noma star Mads Refslund
cooking in a museum.
copenhagencooking.dk
Watching Balkan films
The Sarajevo Film Festival (16-24 Aug) was
founded during the 1995 siege
and has become one of
Europe’s biggest – it’s
a great showcase for
the thriving Balkan
film scene.
See Should
Sarajevo be your next
city break? p27
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