More dates for the diary
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How to choose yourmusic festival
Montreaux Jazz Festival
Geneva, Switzerland
5-20
July
Prince, plus
more to be
announced.
Exit
Belgrade, Serbia
11-14
July
Fatboy Slim,
Cee Lo Green,
Bloc Party.
Primavera
Barcelona, Spain
22-26
May
My Bloody Valentine,
Nick Cave,
The Postal Service.
Soundwave
Tisno, Croatia
18-22
July
Bonobo,
DJ Shadow,
Quantic.
Roskilde
Copenhagen,
Denmark
29
June-7 July
Rihanna,
Animal Collective,
Crystal Castles.
Can you deal
with mud?
Do you want
a beach?
Do you want a city too?
Are you into dance music?
Want guaranteed
warm weather?
Hovefestivalen
Tromoya Island, Norway
2-5
July
Calvin Harris,
Kings Of Leon,
Frank Ocean.
Paris’s food trucks
The street food craze has reached Paris.
Le Camion Qui Fume (lecamionquifume.
com) started the trend with its diner-
style burgers and the stakes were raised
by the likes of Cantine California’s
(
cantinecalifornia.com) – but the biggest
buzz right now belongs to Le Pressing
(
pressing-pressing.com) and their
glorious panini sandwiches.
Helsinki Restaurant Day
The quarterly Restaurant Day, on 18 May,
means hundreds of pop-up eateries
across the Finnish capital, from public
spaces to peoples’ homes.
restaurantday.org
Marseille Picnics with Views
Picnics with Views sees some of
Marseille’s best chefs cook up al fresco
meals in the hiking trails outside the city
for just €15 (NOK112). Picnics on 12 and
26
May feature such chefs as Michelin-
starred René Bergès and Alexandre
Mazzia of hot eatery Le Ventre de
l’Architecte.
mp2013.fr
17-20
May
Berlin’s Karnival der
Kulturen
was inspired
by the Notting Hill
Carnival in London, and
the multi-kulti long
weekend involves floats,
music and hundreds of
people in silly costumes.
karneval-berlin.de
Inflight WiFi
(
norwegian.com, right now)
Travellers investing in
local communities
(
tribewanted.com)
Pop-up hotels
(
thepopup
hotel.com, snoozebox.com)
Pop-up ashrams
(
popupashram.com)
YES
NO
Start here
NO
NO
NO
NO
YES
YES
YES
YES
Here
to stay
Gone
tomorrow
Here
today
Le Camion Qui Fume
food truck, Paris
22
May–5 June
The
Bergen
International Festival
,
the largest music and
culture festival in the
Nordic countries, kicks
off with multimedia
opera
Marco Polo
by
star Chinese composer
Tan Dun.
fib.no
12-14
June
Lisbon’s Feast of St
Anthony
sees the city’s
old quarter, Alfama,
fill with the smell of
sardines, cooked to
celebrate the time
when Rimini’s fish rose
for the 13th-century
Catholic saint.
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