Small June Escapes
Here we talk about the small June escapes to places where you recharge; escapes, that planned accordingly, can make for some quality recharging. How for a day or two, by ending up somewhere else, you can recharge your batteries and have truly wonderful adventures.
It’s definitely not hard to get a way for a short, or long weekend.
Our escapes are usually connected to the sea, because apart from good music and food, there’s a wonderful feeling of freedom and lightness. Always!
Our escapes start with Istanbul – we always have at least three interesting events throughout the evening. Good food and views, the rhythm and the sunsets we don’t even need to discuss.
But apart from Istanbul, the world is full of such places.
Well known Thessaloniki offers the same kind of energy, the same concentration, as long as you’re willing to dive a little deeper. Because usually people go there for shopping and dining. But Thessaloniki is a wonderful, young, full of energy town, where you can find everything. And only if you were to look at your watch you can realize what time it actually is. Nothing about the city’s rhythm can’t help – meeting cheerful people, eating gyros at five in the morning is nothing out of the ordinary.
Our favourite blues and jazz bar is inhabited by a couple of dogs, not afraid of the music, and the bathrooms are plastered with Woody Allen posters. To top things off – they serve absent.
Thanks to Ryan Air, Athens is now also just a shot flight away. And there’s a whole neighbourhood dedicated to music and art there – Gazi. Small, cosy places, that keep luring you inside.
But the places to be this summer are Skopje and Belgrade.
Belgrade is traditionally a very lively place. A cosmopolitan city, where everyone feels good. Warmth and hospitality are floating in the air. But also intellect – each return makes us feel the souls of Branislav Nusic and Milorad Pavic. And each time we have fun in the line of our local shop, which can easily be described as the place to eat fort he local academic community.
Belgrade will be home to the incredible Snarky Puppy on 23rd of June, that go even further east after Ljubljana.
And on June 5th, in Skopje, the magicians of Fatoumata Diawara can be seen live at this year’s Off Fest.
And Bucharest, Sarajevo and Ljubljana are still to come.
May 2019
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