Trustroots Wiki - User contributions [en]

Trustroots Wiki:TODO

2018-12-05T16:00:05Z

Midsch:

There's a plan to turn Couchwiki into the Trustroots Wiki.

https://meta.trustroots.org/t/couchwiki/45

== Steps ==

* change domain
* add DNS record wiki.trustroots.org
* change logo
* change MediaWiki name
* https
* links from www.trustroots.org
* inform more people
* post on fb group and page
* blog post at ideas.trustroots.org
* improve articles, change mentions and links to "couchsurfing" into trustroots (and bewelcome, warmshowers)
* ''what else''?

== Who's helping? ==

* [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]])
* ''[http://couchwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Trustroots_Wiki&action=edit add yourself]''

== Feedback from Couchwiki ==

* I'm probably the last one standing: Yes, there is no significant activitiy here anymore and some stuff is broken (i. e. wikilinks for flags) for ages. I just follow the recent changes feed and clear out spam. So the dead of couchwiki won't be a loss for the world. Still, just moving (instead of copying) everything to trustroots feels a bit like hijacking to me. (And it's only possible because guaka runs it. And I may see it this way because I left trustroots after a very shot time and didn't followed it anymore.) [[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 16:24, 5 December 2018 (CET)

::Good to see you here, Midsch!
::I'm the first one to completely agree that it feels a bit like hijacking. I didn't propose this, I just posted on meta.trustroots.org to improve couchwiki. But when it was proposed I thought it was a good idea.
::So I hope this transition can be considered a benevolent hijack? (It also reminds me of how some people hear "hijacking" when others say "hitchhiking" :)
::Overall I prefer less things to maintain than more. Setting up a complete new wiki (and writing a script to copy everything) would be extra work and not much is gained by keeping Couchwiki in a zombie state that will at some point be taken over by spambots...
::(Which reminds me of Alex Steinhart's hospitality wiki, long gone and almost completely forgotten after it was unmaintained and killed by spam. I kinda think it's nice to not let all this information here end up at archive.org, where no one can even find it. Or the end of the original CouchSurfing wiki in 2009.)
::I'd also like to find a way to ensure that the wikis I'm hosting will survive myself (esp. hitchwiki, and also trashwiki), in the future Trustroots Foundation could be that way. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 16:40, 5 December 2018 (CET)

:::: You've mentioned the loss of the free couchsurfing wiki. The result of this sad story was creating a new network independent wiki. This one. But we need to be honest, the idea failt. Users of the single networks didn't know of it, didn't use wikis or simply didn't care enough. In the meantime some networks went down the drain, some are in a similar zombie state than couchwiki, some a still alive for their small groups of active users. This said, I can imagine to close down couchwiki for good. But if we do so, the idea of keeping the work and move it to a place where it gets some more love, sounds good to me. Especially when it is still accessible without an TR account. [[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 17:00, 5 December 2018 (CET) (PS: Giving the keys to the wikis to a legal, non profit institution, to make it independent from a single person, is a good idea. Even free content can be lost, if the server or access to it gets lost.)

Trustroots Wiki:TODO

2018-12-05T15:24:39Z

Midsch:

Rural Hospitality in France

2018-07-25T19:19:44Z

Midsch: Reverted edits by Briansage (talk) to last revision by Robyt

== Translations ==

'''Cette page est disponible en [[Les hôtes ruraux français|Français]].'''

== Rural CouchSurfing ==

Rural areas (also referred to as "the country", countryside) are settled places outside towns and cities. Such areas are distinct from more intensively settled urban and suburban areas, and also from unsettled lands such as outback, American Old West, or wilderness. Inhabitants live in villages, hamlets, on farms and in other isolated houses.

''For more information, [[Rural CouchSurfing|please visit this page]]''.

== Rural Hosts Map ==

The main concern rural hosts have is their lack of visibility within the search tools of the present Couchsurfing website. Newer, integrated search tools are in the process of being developed, but in the meantime, the creators of the Rural Hosts concept offer you the possibility to be registered on this map, enabling you to be easily found by surfers who are looking to travel in your area.

This global map is presently being tested by French Couchsurfers. They are, therefore, the pilot testers for this experiment, and in so doing, they will be improving this system during the following weeks and months.

'''Link to the [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=p&msa=0&msid=113144055528929546446.0004605cd5254b0b0620c&ll=49.102589,5.599723&spn=13.18847,39.550781&z=5 Rural French Hosts map].'''

== How to find a Rural Host in France. ==

It’s very easy. No need to register if you are just searching… all you have to do is consult the [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=p&msa=0&msid=113144055528929546446.0004605cd5254b0b0620c&ll=49.102589,5.599723&spn=13.18847,39.550781&z=5 map of Rural French Hosts] and to click on the points that are in the area you desire visiting. A link will bring you directly to the Couchsurfing member’s profile who is registered on the map. You can then send the member a request to Couchsurf if their profile corresponds to your liking.

== Registering as a French Rural Host ==

A procedure has been put into place which will allow volunteer hosts to be seen on the map. This procedure ensures your motivation and that you are indeed in a rural area. We assure you that this procedure is very simple.

If you wish to be on the map, you should contact an organizer by sending a short message to animateurs.ruraux@gmail.com

The organizer will then explain how to make the CS Rural icon appear on your profile page and the link to the project. [[File:RCSIcon2.gif]]

They will also verify the rural aspect of the Couch offered and your availability.
The requirements are :
* An available couch (Yes or Definitely)
* Lack of mass transit serving the area (less than 1 bus per day)

Case by case studies will be examined: If you are farmer, for example, even if you are in a city (yes, this does indeed exist), you do have a rural aspect, even if your situation is the exception.

Then the organizer will register you on the map with a point linking to your profile page and the approximate location of the city/town hall of your local community. The organizer will also sign you up to be part of the [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=18881 Rural French Hosts group], so you can also indicate within this group, the details of the couch you are able to offer.
That is it ! All what’s left to do now is to get your couch ready and wait for the travelers.

== FAQ's ==

=== Why must an available couch be offered ? ===

This being a map of Rural Hosts, the main concern of the Couchsurfer that is using it is to find an available couch. The Couchsurfer will most likely not be aware of the different communities surrounding a given region. Once a mode of lodging has been chosen, the user can then easily use the « CouchSearch » function within an area of 5 to 50 km in order to find other Couchsurfers to meet, to share a drink with or to go on a hike and just have a good time.

=== Why is the map point placed on the city/town hall of the local community ? ===

Placing the point on the city/town hall may seem a bit odd. For example, a member living within the community of Arles, (the most wide-spread community in all of France) but located very far away from the urban zones of the community, is clearly living in a rural area. This member will see their point right in the city center ! This is done for security reasons. As this map is a public document, everyone on the internet is able to consult it. We, therefore, strongly recommended not to show one’s place of personal residence (nor that of any other person).

The city/town hall is a public building and very easily identifiable on maps of all sorts all over France. However, '''upon a member’s written request''', we can put a point on the exact place of their residence, although we do not recommend it (The e-mail request, will then be printed out and conserved on file).

[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Rural CS]]
[[hitch:English]]

Aix-les-Bains

2018-06-17T13:49:02Z

Midsch: Reverted edits by Theyear (talk) to last revision by Robyt

{{France}}
{{City
|name =Aix-les-Bains
|country =France
|region =Rhône-Alpes
|nickname =
|group =8991
|wikipedia =Aix-les-Bains
|wikivoyage =Aix-les-Bains
|image =Blason Ville Aix-les-Bains.png
|imagetext =Blason of the City
|ambassadors=[[Liste_des_Volontaires_CS_en_France#En_Rh.C3.B4ne-Alpes|CS Ambassadors in the Area]]
}}
[[File:Aix-les-Bains.jpg|thumb|800px|center|]]

'''Aix-les-Bains''' is a city in the Savoie department in the '''[[Rhône-Alpes]]''' region in southeastern '''[[France]]'''. The town lies at an altitude of about 250m and stretches along the eastern end of the beautiful Lac du Bourget and up the slopes above the lake that culminate in the Tour de L'Angle Est that overlooks the town and lake at a height of 1562m. The western shore of the lake is narrower as the mountains along its edge are closer to the lakeshore, although lower than those on the eastern side. The lake drains out of its northern end into the Rhone river about 5 km to the north. Aix Les Bains is situated in the hilly country of the Bugey that makes up the foothills of the Alps and also forms part of the lower western extension of the Jura Mountains.

=='''HISTORY OF AIX-LES-BAINS'''==

Aix derives from Latin Aquae (literally, "waters"; cf Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) or Aix-en-Provence), and Aix was a bath during the Roman Empire, even before it was renamed Aquae Gratianae to commemorate the Emperor Gratian, who was assassinated not far away, in Lyon, in 383. Numerous Roman remains survive.

'''''More informations about the History of Aix-les-Bains on the [[wikipedia:Aix-les-Bains]] !'''''

=='''WHAT TO VISIT ?'''==

<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center>
<tr>
<td align=center>
[[File:Aixlesbains.jpg|thumb|280px|center|The Bourget Lake]]
</td>
<td align=center>
[[File:Casino-aix-les-bains-g.jpg|thumb|280px|center|The Casino]]
</td>
<td align=center>
[[File:Musée faure aix-les-b.jpg|thumb|280px|center|The Faure Museum]]
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center>
<tr>
<td align=center>
[[File:Aix-les-Bains ensemble.jpg|thumb|280px|center|The Temple]]
</td>
<td align=center>
[[File:Place-carnot-aix-les-bains.jpg|thumb|280px|center|Carnot Square]]
</td>
<td align=center>
[[File:Thermes nationaux aix-les-bains.jpg|thumb|280px|center|The National Therms]]
</td>
</tr>
</table>

'''''More informations about the places to visit in Aix-les-Bains on the [[wikivoyage:Aix-les-Bains]] and even the [http://www.aixlesbains.com/english/index.html Official Website of the Office of Tourism]!'''''

=='''TIPS'''==
[[File:Aix-les-bains0.jpg|250px|right]]

==='''Free Internet/Wifi Access'''===

Here is a list of places where you can get some Internet/Wifi access:

* '''Avenir Jeunes "annexe"''' - ''Adress: Avenir Jeunes - 4, rue Vaugelas - Tel: 04 79 34 32 35''
* '''Avenir Jeunes''' - ''Adress: 12 rue Vaugelas - Tel: 04 79 61 54 59''

==='''Nice & Cheap Places to Eat'''===

==='''Nightlife'''===

=='''COUCHSURFERS'''==
There are about 100 Couchsurfers in Aix-les-Bains and its area. You can check the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=8991 CS Group of Aix-les-Bains & Chambery] or simply a couchsearch to find and contact them. 

==='''Meetings'''===
There are sometimes some meetings organised in Aix-les-Bains, just check the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=8991 CS Group of Aix-les-Bains & Chambery] to see what happen in the city and/or the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=198 Regional CS Group of Rhône-Alpes] to see if there is any event in the area.

==='''Coffee or a Drink'''===
Here is a list of persons who are ready to have a drink with you and/or show you the city:



=='''TRANSPORTATIONS'''==

==='''How to get to Aix-les-Bains'''===

* By Car:
* By Train:
* By Plane:

==='''Bus'''===

==='''Bicycles'''===

=='''IN CASE OF EMERGENCY'''==
[[File:110 F 5944636 1f9rXG7PRPiG210JXW9Jql5PCPR0x9Lo.jpg|thumb|250px|right|]]

* '''Police Station:''' 
Gendarmerie : 04 79 61 15 00 
Commissariat de police : 04 79 35 00 25 
Police municipale : 04 79 35 78 93 or 17
* '''Health Urgency:''' 
Tel: 15
* '''Hospital:''' 
Hôpital général : 04 79 88 61 61 
Clinique Docteur Herbert : 04 79 88 64 64
* '''Fireman Station:''' 
Tel: 18
* '''Embassy:'''
* '''Emergency Doctor:''' 
[http://www.pharmacieduparc.com/gardes.php Here is the timetable of the opened pharmacy]

=='''LOCAL MEDIA MENTIONS'''==


=='''INTERESTED LINKS'''==

* '''[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=198 Regional CS Group: Rhône-Alpes]'''
* '''[http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=8991 City CS Group: Aix-les-Bains & Chambery]'''
_____________________________________________________________________________________________

* '''[http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Aix-les-Bains Aix-les-Bains on Wikivoyage]'''
* '''[http://hitchwiki.org/en/Aix-les-Bains Aix-les-Bains on Hitchwiki]'''
* '''[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aix-les-Bains Aix-les-Bains on Wikipedia]'''

[[File:Panorama-aix1.jpg|800px|center]]

[[Category:France]]
[[Category:Rhône-Alpes]]

Stockholm

2018-05-12T14:34:07Z

Midsch:

{{Sweden}}
{{City header
|city = Stockholm
|country = Sweden
|areas = '''[[Norrmalm]]''' (including Skeppsholmen) • '''[[Vasastan and Hagastaden]]''' (Vasastan, Hagastaden, Karlberg) • '''[[Östermalm]]''' (including Gärdet, Norra Djurgården, Värtahamnen) • '''[[Djurgården]]''' • '''[[Gamla Stan]]''' (including Riddarholmen, Helgeandsholmen) • '''[[Södermalm]]''' (including Reimersholme, Långholmen) • '''[[Kungsholmen]]''' (including Stora Essingen, Lilla Essingen) • '''[[Västerort, Solna and Sundbyberg]]''' (Bromma, Kista etc) • '''[[Söderort]]''' • '''[[Lidingö]]'''
|toplinks = *[[Sweden|Sweden page]]
*[[:category:Sweden|Sweden category]]
|bwgroup = 588
|csgroup =
|wikipedia = Stockholm
|hitchwiki = Stockholm
|wikivoyage = Stockholm
|image = Coat_of_arms_of_Stockholm.png
|imagetext = Flag of Stockholm Stockholm
}}

'''Stockholm''' is the capital of [[Sweden]].

'''CouchSurfing groups in Stockholm:'''

[https://www.couchsurfing.com/groups/sweden-couchsurfing Sweden CouchSurfing]

[https://www.couchsurfing.com/groups/stockholm-emergency-couch-requests Stockholm Emergency Couch Requests]

Things to do in Stockholm:
* '''Have a picnic in Djurgården.''' Grab smth to eat and go to the green oasis of Djurgården - this island has many picnic spots. You can enjoy tranquil walking, or take bicycle tour around it, enjoying some of the best views in the city.
* '''Rent a bicycle and see Stockholm by bike!''' Blue bikes ''Alvedon'' are situated in many places and all you need is to get a special card which unlocks bikes. Cards can be valid for a few days or a few months, if needed.
* '''Catch a ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago'''. It is a popular destination in the summer months. Archipelago begins just a few miles east of the capital and covers about 140 kilometres from north to south. Only very small part of the islands are inhabited, although many Stockholmers have summerhouses on islands. Some islands are pieces of forest in the sea, some are simply bare rocks. Ferries depart from the Blasieholmen peninsula.
* ''[to be continued?]''

----

'''What to see in Stockholm?'''

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">

<li> '''Gamla Stan''' - old town located on Stadsholmen island is the most touristic place in Stockholm, full of souvenir shops and beautiful alleys. During rush hours, especially in the summer time there are a lot of people but if you come in the early morning you'll find it empty. </li>
<li>'''Stortorget''' is the main square at Gamla Stan known from The Stockholms Bloodbath. There you can find those famous, old, colorful buildings so often presented on Stockholm's postcards. While wandering around Gamla Stan it’s good to know about secret places and hidden things which the most of tourists will miss: </li>

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">

  <li> '''Järnpojke''' – in the small courtyard at Slottsbacken behing the Finnish Church (Finska Kyrkan) lives ‘Iron Boy’ called by some ‘Little Boy who looks at the Moon’. During the winter time local people bring him scarfs and hats to not get sick. If you leave him a coin he’ll bring you luck in the future. Järnpojke is the smallest monument in Sweden. </li>
<li> '''Upplands runinskrifter 53''' – this runestone is built into a wall in the intersection between the thoroughfares Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken. </li>
<li> '''Cannonball in the corner of Skomakargatan''' – according to the legend the cannon ball was fired at the Danish kind Christian Tyrant, back to the Stockholm Bloodbath in 1520.</li>
<li> '''Mårten Trotzigs Gränd''' – the narrowest alley in Stockholm leading from Västerlånggatan and Järntorget up to Tyska Stallplan and Prästgatan. In the narrowest place it has only 90cm.</li>
<li> '''Aifur Krog&Bar''' is a restaurant/bar named after the legendary Viking ship Aifur. Listening to hurdy-gurdy, eating from handmade plates, using handmade cutlery, drinking from handmade cups and sitting and handmade benches you can feel like a real Viking. Coming into the restaurant you’re introduced to guests sitting in the dining room. Try different flavors of mead and beer, eat that what Vikings used to eat – Reindeer sausage, elk sausage, flat-smoked pork, reindeer heart, lamb steak, cheddar cheese. Does it sound yummy already? It is indeed. </li>
<li> '''Science-Fiction Bokhandeln''' – Great inside decoration, big collection of books (also in English), movies, board-games and gadgets. </li>

</ul>

<li>'''Stockholms Stadsbibliotek''' - the largest public library in Sweden with very interesting interior design and the collection of more than half a million books in over 100 languages.</li>

<li> '''Djurgården''' – is an island located in central Stockholm known of its parks, monuments, historical buildings, galleries and museums. You'll find there places such as: </li>

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">

<li> '''Gröna Lund''' – is an amusement park with many attractions. It’s a cool place to hang out with friends and have some fun but also quite expensive. A lot of concerts and events are taking place in there. </li>
<li> '''Skansen''' – it’s an open-air museum and zoo. You can discover Sweden’s history, see how Swedes lived according to the changing seasons, through the customs and traditions, work, celebrations and everyday life. During the summer the program is fulfilled with activities such as singing, dancing, concerts. During the winter you can enjoy Christmas markets. </li>

</ul>

<li>'''Jordbro Gravfält''' (Jordbro Grave Field ; Gullringsvägen, 137 63 Haninge) - the largest grave field in the Nordic Countries from the Iron Age.</li>

<li>'''Tyresta Nationalpark''' (http://www.tyresta.se/in-english/) - if you have time and willing to spend a lot of time in the nature Tyresta is a very good choice. It's about one hour from T-Centralen.</li>

<li>'''Nice panoramic views:'''</li>
<ul style="list-style-type: circle">
<li>'''Katarinahissen''' (Statsgården 1, 116 45 Stockholm).</li>
<li>'''Skinnarviksberget''' (Skinnarviksberget, 118 23 Södermalm).</li>
<li>'''The City Hall''' (Hantverkargatan 1, 111 52 Stockholm), the view from the garden.</li>

</ul>

----

'''Best museums in Stockholm:'''

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">
<li>[http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/ Etnografiska Museet]is The Museum of Ethnography (Free admission)</li>
<li>[http://www.armemuseum.se/ Armémuseum]- Swedish history since 16th century to the present focusing on how people have been affected by war and conflicts (Free admission)</li>
<li>[http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/medelhavsmuseet/ Medelhavsmuseet]is The Mediterranean Museum (Free admission)</li>
<li>[https://medeltidsmuseet.stockholm.se/ Medeltidsmuseet] is The Medieval Museum (Free admission)</li>
<li>[http://hallwylskamuseet.se/sv Hallwylska Museet] - The museum features preserved rooms from the late Victorian period (Free admission)</li>
<li>[http://www.nrm.se/index.html Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet] is The Swedish Royal Museum of Natural History (Free admission)</li>
<li>[http://historiska.se/home/ Historiska Museet] (Free admission)</li>
<li>[https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/sv/ Moderna Museet] (the Museum of Modern Art) - Museum for modern and contemporary art (Free admission)</li>
<li>[https://www.millesgarden.se/ Millesgården] is an art museum and sculpture garden </li>

</ul>
</ul>

{{stub}}
[[hitch:Stockholm]]
[[trash:Stockholm]]

{{IsIn|Sweden}}
[[nomad:Stockholm]]

User talk:Kamapuaa

2018-05-12T14:31:24Z

Midsch: hallo & thanks

Hey, thanks for your contributions! I've added some header stuff to [[Sweden]] & [[Stockholm]] and created [[Template:Sweden]]. The area stuff and links are just a quick guess, so feel free to edit and make it better. [[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 16:31, 12 May 2018 (CEST)

Stockholm

2018-05-12T14:27:36Z

Midsch: + header/templates

{{Sweden}}
{{City header
|city = Stockholm
|country = Sweden
|areas = '''[[Norrmalm]]''' (including Skeppsholmen) • '''[[Vasastan and Hagastaden]]''' (Vasastan, Hagastaden, Karlberg) • '''[[Östermalm]]''' (including Gärdet, Norra Djurgården, Värtahamnen) • '''[[Djurgården]]''' • '''[[Gamla Stan]]''' (including Riddarholmen, Helgeandsholmen) • '''[[Södermalm]]''' (including Reimersholme, Långholmen) • '''[[Kungsholmen]]''' (including Stora Essingen, Lilla Essingen) • '''[[Västerort, Solna and Sundbyberg]]''' (Bromma, Kista etc) • '''[[Söderort]]''' • '''[[Lidingö]]'''
|toplinks = *[[Sweden|Sweden page]]
*[[:category:Sweden|Sweden category]]
|bwgroup = 588
|csgroup =
|wikipedia = Stockholm
|hitchwiki = Stockholm
|wikivoyage = Stockholm
|image = Coat_of_arms_of_Stockholm
|imagetext = Flag of Stockholm Stockholm
}}

'''Stockholm''' is the capital of [[Sweden]].

'''CouchSurfing groups in Stockholm:'''

[https://www.couchsurfing.com/groups/sweden-couchsurfing Sweden CouchSurfing]

[https://www.couchsurfing.com/groups/stockholm-emergency-couch-requests Stockholm Emergency Couch Requests]

Things to do in Stockholm:
* '''Have a picnic in Djurgården.''' Grab smth to eat and go to the green oasis of Djurgården - this island has many picnic spots. You can enjoy tranquil walking, or take bicycle tour around it, enjoying some of the best views in the city.
* '''Rent a bicycle and see Stockholm by bike!''' Blue bikes ''Alvedon'' are situated in many places and all you need is to get a special card which unlocks bikes. Cards can be valid for a few days or a few months, if needed.
* '''Catch a ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago'''. It is a popular destination in the summer months. Archipelago begins just a few miles east of the capital and covers about 140 kilometres from north to south. Only very small part of the islands are inhabited, although many Stockholmers have summerhouses on islands. Some islands are pieces of forest in the sea, some are simply bare rocks. Ferries depart from the Blasieholmen peninsula.
* ''[to be continued?]''

----

'''What to see in Stockholm?'''

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">

<li> '''Gamla Stan''' - old town located on Stadsholmen island is the most touristic place in Stockholm, full of souvenir shops and beautiful alleys. During rush hours, especially in the summer time there are a lot of people but if you come in the early morning you'll find it empty. </li>
<li>'''Stortorget''' is the main square at Gamla Stan known from The Stockholms Bloodbath. There you can find those famous, old, colorful buildings so often presented on Stockholm's postcards. While wandering around Gamla Stan it’s good to know about secret places and hidden things which the most of tourists will miss: </li>

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">

  <li> '''Järnpojke''' – in the small courtyard at Slottsbacken behing the Finnish Church (Finska Kyrkan) lives ‘Iron Boy’ called by some ‘Little Boy who looks at the Moon’. During the winter time local people bring him scarfs and hats to not get sick. If you leave him a coin he’ll bring you luck in the future. Järnpojke is the smallest monument in Sweden. </li>
<li> '''Upplands runinskrifter 53''' – this runestone is built into a wall in the intersection between the thoroughfares Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken. </li>
<li> '''Cannonball in the corner of Skomakargatan''' – according to the legend the cannon ball was fired at the Danish kind Christian Tyrant, back to the Stockholm Bloodbath in 1520.</li>
<li> '''Mårten Trotzigs Gränd''' – the narrowest alley in Stockholm leading from Västerlånggatan and Järntorget up to Tyska Stallplan and Prästgatan. In the narrowest place it has only 90cm.</li>
<li> '''Aifur Krog&Bar''' is a restaurant/bar named after the legendary Viking ship Aifur. Listening to hurdy-gurdy, eating from handmade plates, using handmade cutlery, drinking from handmade cups and sitting and handmade benches you can feel like a real Viking. Coming into the restaurant you’re introduced to guests sitting in the dining room. Try different flavors of mead and beer, eat that what Vikings used to eat – Reindeer sausage, elk sausage, flat-smoked pork, reindeer heart, lamb steak, cheddar cheese. Does it sound yummy already? It is indeed. </li>
<li> '''Science-Fiction Bokhandeln''' – Great inside decoration, big collection of books (also in English), movies, board-games and gadgets. </li>

</ul>

<li>'''Stockholms Stadsbibliotek''' - the largest public library in Sweden with very interesting interior design and the collection of more than half a million books in over 100 languages.</li>

<li> '''Djurgården''' – is an island located in central Stockholm known of its parks, monuments, historical buildings, galleries and museums. You'll find there places such as: </li>

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">

<li> '''Gröna Lund''' – is an amusement park with many attractions. It’s a cool place to hang out with friends and have some fun but also quite expensive. A lot of concerts and events are taking place in there. </li>
<li> '''Skansen''' – it’s an open-air museum and zoo. You can discover Sweden’s history, see how Swedes lived according to the changing seasons, through the customs and traditions, work, celebrations and everyday life. During the summer the program is fulfilled with activities such as singing, dancing, concerts. During the winter you can enjoy Christmas markets. </li>

</ul>

<li>'''Jordbro Gravfält''' (Jordbro Grave Field ; Gullringsvägen, 137 63 Haninge) - the largest grave field in the Nordic Countries from the Iron Age.</li>

<li>'''Tyresta Nationalpark''' (http://www.tyresta.se/in-english/) - if you have time and willing to spend a lot of time in the nature Tyresta is a very good choice. It's about one hour from T-Centralen.</li>

<li>'''Nice panoramic views:'''</li>
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<li>'''Katarinahissen''' (Statsgården 1, 116 45 Stockholm).</li>
<li>'''Skinnarviksberget''' (Skinnarviksberget, 118 23 Södermalm).</li>
<li>'''The City Hall''' (Hantverkargatan 1, 111 52 Stockholm), the view from the garden.</li>

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'''Best museums in Stockholm:'''

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<li>[http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/etnografiskamuseet/ Etnografiska Museet](The Museum of Ethnography)</li>
<li>[http://www.armemuseum.se/ Armémuseum]- Swedish history since 16th century to the present focusing on how people have been affected by war and conflicts</li>
<li>[http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/medelhavsmuseet/ Medelhavsmuseet](Mediterranean Museum)</li>
<li>[https://medeltidsmuseet.stockholm.se/ Medeltidsmuseet] (Medieval Museum)</li>
<li>[http://hallwylskamuseet.se/sv Hallwylska Museet] - The museum features preserved rooms from the late Victorian period</li>
<li>[http://www.nrm.se/index.html Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet] (The Swedish Royal Museum of Natural History)</li>
<li>[http://historiska.se/home/ Historiska Museet]</li>
<li>[https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/sv/ Moderna Museet] (the Museum of Modern Art) - Museum for modern and contemporary art</li>
<li>[https://www.millesgarden.se/ Millesgården] is an art museum and sculpture garden</li>

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Things to do in Stockholm:
* '''Have a picnic in Djurgården.''' Grab smth to eat and go to the green oasis of Djurgården - this island has many picnic spots. You can enjoy tranquil walking, or take bicycle tour around it, enjoying some of the best views in the city.
* '''Rent a bicycle and see Stockholm by bike!''' Blue bikes ''Alvedon'' are situated in many places and all you need is to get a special card which unlocks bikes. Cards can be valid for a few days or a few months, if needed.
* '''Catch a ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago'''. It is a popular destination in the summer months. Archipelago begins just a few miles east of the capital and covers about 140 kilometres from north to south. Only very small part of the islands are inhabited, although many Stockholmers have summerhouses on islands. Some islands are pieces of forest in the sea, some are simply bare rocks. Ferries depart from the Blasieholmen peninsula.
* ''[to be continued?]''

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'''What to see in Stockholm?'''

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<li> '''Gamla Stan''' - old town located on Stadsholmen island is the most touristic place in Stockholm, full of souvenir shops and beautiful alleys. During rush hours, especially in the summer time there are a lot of people but if you come in the early morning you'll find it empty. </li>
<li>'''Stortorget''' is the main square at Gamla Stan known from The Stockholms Bloodbath. There you can find those famous, old, colorful buildings so often presented on Stockholm's postcards. While wandering around Gamla Stan it’s good to know about secret places and hidden things which the most of tourists will miss: </li>

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  <li> '''Järnpojke''' – in the small courtyard at Slottsbacken behing the Finnish Church (Finska Kyrkan) lives ‘Iron Boy’ called by some ‘Little Boy who looks at the Moon’. During the winter time local people bring him scarfs and hats to not get sick. If you leave him a coin he’ll bring you luck in the future. Järnpojke is the smallest monument in Sweden. </li>
<li> '''Upplands runinskrifter 53''' – this runestone is built into a wall in the intersection between the thoroughfares Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken. </li>
<li> '''Cannonball in the corner of Skomakargatan''' – according to the legend the cannon ball was fired at the Danish kind Christian Tyrant, back to the Stockholm Bloodbath in 1520.</li>
<li> '''Mårten Trotzigs Gränd''' – the narrowest alley in Stockholm leading from Västerlånggatan and Järntorget up to Tyska Stallplan and Prästgatan. In the narrowest place it has only 90cm.</li>
<li> '''Aifur Krog&Bar''' is a restaurant/bar named after the legendary Viking ship Aifur. Listening to hurdy-gurdy, eating from handmade plates, using handmade cutlery, drinking from handmade cups and sitting and handmade benches you can feel like a real Viking. Coming into the restaurant you’re introduced to guests sitting in the dining room. Try different flavors of mead and beer, eat that what Vikings used to eat – Reindeer sausage, elk sausage, flat-smoked pork, reindeer heart, lamb steak, cheddar cheese. Does it sound yummy already? It is indeed. </li>
<li> '''Science-Fiction Bokhandeln''' – Great inside decoration, big collection of books (also in English), movies, board-games and gadgets. </li>

</ul>

<li>'''Stockholms Stadsbibliotek''' - the largest public library in Sweden with very interesting interior design and the collection of more than half a million books in over 100 languages.</li>

<li> '''Djurgården''' – is an island located in central Stockholm known of its parks, monuments, historical buildings, galleries and museums. You'll find there places such as: </li>

<ul style="list-style-type: circle">

<li> '''Gröna Lund''' – is an amusement park with many attractions. It’s a cool place to hang out with friends and have some fun but also quite expensive. A lot of concerts and events are taking place in there. </li>
<li> '''Skansen''' – it’s an open-air museum and zoo. You can discover Sweden’s history, see how Swedes lived according to the changing seasons, through the customs and traditions, work, celebrations and everyday life. During the summer the program is fulfilled with activities such as singing, dancing, concerts. During the winter you can enjoy Christmas markets. </li>

</ul>

<li>'''Jordbro Gravfält''' (Jordbro Grave Field ; Gullringsvägen, 137 63 Haninge) - the largest grave field in the Nordic Countries from the Iron Age.</li>

<li>'''Tyresta Nationalpark''' (http://www.tyresta.se/in-english/) - if you have time and willing to spend a lot of time in the nature Tyresta is a very good choice. It's about one hour from T-Centralen.</li>

<li>'''Nice panoramic views:'''</li>
<ul style="list-style-type: circle">
<li>'''Katarinahissen''' (Statsgården 1, 116 45 Stockholm).</li>
<li>'''Skinnarviksberget''' (Skinnarviksberget, 118 23 Södermalm).</li>
<li>'''The City Hall''' (Hantverkargatan 1, 111 52 Stockholm), the view from the garden.</li>

</ul>
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Guide to punk

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This page was originally created by users of the [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=753 Punk Rock Group] to provide punk travellers an access to the local scenes. So for your convenience you find a list below that consists of links to sites where you can find out what to do or who to see at the place you're going to.

Let's keep this page as DIY as possible, remember : punk rock is not for sale!

If you can help, please do. If your country isn't yet in the list, just create a new paragraph, or even a regional sub-chapter.

A last detail, most of those links are in local language, but you can use a translator (like http://translate.google.com i.e.) it's usually enough to get the information you need.

== Worldwide ==
* http://www.anarcho-punk.net/
* http://www.byofl.org/ : Book your own fuckin' life
* [http://wiki.gifteconomy.org/Free_Shop A listing of freeshops]

== [[Africa]] ==

== [[North America]] ==
=== [[Canada]] ===

==== [[Montreal]] ====
* http://steemilieskillshare.com/ : A skillshare art space that has a fun workshops
* http://www.cinemapolitica.org/ : Free/by donation political movies
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112205855090852845604.000444470b1fe51bf2b2a&t=h&ll=45.534287,-73.598614&spn=0.128832,0.117073&source=embed A map of trash in Montreal for dumpster diving]
* http://www.centresocialautogere.org : Autonomous social center website
* http://themidnightkitchen.wordpress.com/ : Free or PWYC hot vegan lunch 5 days/week at 12:30pm during the academic year at McGill University
* http://www.peoplespotato.com/ : Concordia University's free or PWYC hot vegan lunch!

=== [[USA]] ===
* http://www.houseshowdatabase.com/ : A guide to alternative venues all over the states

==== [[New York city]] ====
* http://www.abcnorio.org/ : ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism
* http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/fnb.html : Food Not Bombs in Manhattan, runs out of ABC no Rio
* http://bluestockings.com/ : Activist/fair trade cafe and bookstore, there is some sort of event here almost every night
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100574565875408827436.000460d7b0698fbea089e&ll=40.712004,-73.965969&spn=0.058423,0.11055&t=h&z=13 Trash map of NY for dumpster diving]
* http://vacantnyc.crowdmap.com/ : A map that shows vacant lots and abandoned buildings in NYC, it's helpful to street view them in google maps to see what they look like.

=== [[Mexico]] ===

==== [[Mexico city]] ====
* CSO Casa Naranja - the only punk squat, some gigs

* http://www.facebook.com/chantiollinmx - Chanti Ollin, a hippy squat

* Okupa Che - a squat in the UNAM campus (philosophy faculty) - anarcho-communist ideas

* Cubiculo Emma Goldman in Economics Faculty at UNAM

* Furia de las Calles (Punk Collective that sells some anticapitalist stuff and organize gigs)

* http://multiforoalicia.blogspot.mx: Multiforo Alicia(punk, anarcho venue)

* http://www.lastfm.es/venue/8927865+El+Clandestino: El Clandestino (punk venue)

* http://www.theunder.org/under3/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=100011: El Under (concert venue/bar)

* Gato Calavera: punk/goth bar, some gigs

=== [[Guatemala]] ===

==== [[Guatemala city]] ====
* La Maga Gitana y Genuina - alternative venue/bar, punk/metal/rockabilly gigs

== [[South America]] ==
=== [[Argentina]] ===
* http://www.sevoszine.com.ar/ : webzine about being yourself and notes about local melodic hardcore and punk bands.

== [[Asia]] ==
=== [[Indonesia]] ===
=== [[Japan]] ===
=== [[Malaysia]] ===
http://www.myspace.com/hatirecs (Based in Borneo,booking Southeast Asia tour)

=== [[Philippines]] ===
'''United By Chaos''' - http://www.chaosnet.tumblr.com

=== [[South Korea]] ===
* http://www.myspace.com/soeultari : DIY punkrock show organizer. people who run this are disorganised bigots who've burned too many bridges to be helpful.
* http://brokeinkorea.proboards.com/ : english web board on korean punk scene. people who are posting here are disgusting expats.

== [[Australia]] ==
==== [[Sydney]] ====
* '''[http://jura.org.au/ Jura Books]'''
* '''[http://shac.squat.net/ Sydney Housing Action Collective]'''
* '''[http://www.bikesarefun.org/ Critical Mass Sydney]'''

==== [[Melbourne]] ====
* '''[http://mac.anarchobase.com/ Melbourne Anarchist Club]''' venue, infoshop and events
* '''[http://irenewarehouse.org/ Irenes Community warehouse]''' Food not bombs cooking, mondays and tuesdays, from 10am and 4pm, free computer access, workshops, artspace and concerts
* '''[http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/ Friends of the Earth]''' with cheap food, environmental shop, food co-operative, environmental projects.
* Squats are everywhere, you just need to find a person and ask, they are houses not social centers.

== [[Europe]] ==
* http://radar.squat.net/ : stuffs to do in your punk life in Europe
* http://squat.net : news about squatting in Europe

=== [[Austria]] ===
==== [[Wien]] ====
* [http://www.med-user.net/~ekh/ EKH] famous austrian squat
* [http://autonomizethecity.blogsport.eu/ a squatters' collective]
* http://www.capeet.com/gigs_list.html : Website listing gigs in Vienna
* http://www.gegendielangeweile.net : DIY Calendar for Vienna
* http://www.pankahyttn.at : Streetpunk-House/Squat
* http://pizza.noblogs.org : Squatted Pizzeria(!)
* http://www.dasbaeckerei.net : Anarchist cultural center
* http://wagenplatz.at/ : coordination site for the wagenplätze of Vienna (there are 2 at the moment)
* [http://bahoe.tk/ Bahö Magasin] anarchist (propaganda) collective, meets every Wednesday in lolligo kids cafe
* http://www.bikekitchen.net : DIY-bikeworkshop, also has a bar and events from time to time.
* http://wipplinger23.blogspot.com/ - Anarchist space in the city center. Has educational events as well as a bar and anarchist library.
* http://kaleidoskop.kukuma.org/ : Anarchist cultural center, anarch@-hippies gather here :)

==== [[Graz]] ====

(second largest town, exactly between Vienna, Zagreb and Ljubljana; 60km to Maribor No-border-Jam-Festival)

* [http://www.subsubsub.at Sub]: non-profit DIY location.

=== [[Belarus]] ===

* http://belarus.indymedia.org/ : Indymedia Belarus
* http://www.375crew.org/ : d.i.y. political punk/hardcore culture of Belarus
* http://belarus.avtonom.org/ : Autonomous action
* http://fnbminsk.noblogs.org/: FoodNotBombs Minsk
* squatthebelarus A T riseup.net : Squatters' movement of Minsk
* http://kairos.noblogs.org/: Kairos - libertarian analytic blog
* http://tryznas-kefiras.noblogs.org/ : Tryznas kefiras zine
* http://eatyourselfcrew.ucoz.ru/ : Eat Yourself Crew
* http://www.svabodny.kantakt.net/: Free Theatre - anarchist theatre from city of Brest
* http://rebels-library.org: Rebel Studies Library (Minsk)

=== [[Belgium]] ===
* '''[http://c3p0o.org/queerpunxbelgium/ QueerPunxBelgium]'''

==== [[Brussels]] ====
* '''[http://c3p0o.org/queerpunxbelgium/ Queer Punx Belgium]''' : a nice punk agenda
* '''[http://www.acrata.be/ Acrata], anarchist library''' : 32, Rue de la Grande Ile, 1000 Bruxelles / acrata(at)post.com
* '''[https://lapetroleusebxl.noblogs.org/ La Petroleuse]''', a squat

==== [[Liege]] ====
* http://www.chauvesouris.collectifs.net/ : a squat (had been destroyed)
* http://pigeoncommunal.collectifs.net/ : a squat
* http://www.myspace.com/suxtobeyoupresents : Show organisation
* http://www.carlolevi.be/ : a café that organises lot of punk shows

=== [[Bosnia & Herzegovina]] ===

=== [[Bulgaria]] ===
* http://www.diy.aresistance.net/ : d.i.y. anarchopunk webzine

According to those people :

" OK, so the situation in Bulgaria is very different than in the other
European countries.

There are no squats and autonomous centres!

There are problems with Nazis in cities like Sofia and Plovdiv, so you
have to be very aware of this, especially if you're with a mohawk and
dress like a punk.

Varna was much better, but the only DIY punk club was closed by the police
two months ago and there is nothing happening right now there.

Bulgarian and Serbian are the most intolerant to gay people societies in
Europe. 80% of Bulgarians are homophobes and some kind of nationalists.
Punk shows are two types: completely apolitical or nazi-friendly. The
hardcore scene is into tough guy macho beatdown or NYHC stuff without
political messages. Very patriotic, sexist and homophobic.

There are environmentalist with a hippie attitude, some rastas and
drum&bass fans that are cool people, but don't have any relevant political
culture. There are bikers and they have a NGO called Bikevolution, they're
cool people, but normal looking people with prejudices on punx with
mohawks etc."

Unfortunately, my short experience there confirm this more or less :(

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* http://a-bg.net/new/ : anarchist portal

=== [[Croatia]] ===
==== [[Pula]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/monteparadisopula http://squat.net/monteparadiso/ - squat with gigs, film screenings etc.

=== [[Czech Republic]] ===
* http://www.a-punk.cz/ : active ! punk
* http://www.periferia.cz/ : hc/punk webzine
* http://czechcore.cz : hc scene
* [http://www.punk.cz/index.asp?menu=603 www.punk.cz]
* [http://a-punk.cz/index.php?clanek=18-english-info info in english]

==== [[Praha]] ====
* http://praha.squat.net/ : squatblog

=== [[Denmark]] ===
==== [[Copenhagen]] ====
* '''[http://www.dortheavej-61.dk/ Dortheavej 61]''' the new Ungdomshuset, Overdrevet with concerts, peoples kitchen on thursdays, yoga, book cafe and other projects.
* '''[http://www.bolsjefabrikken.com/ The Candy Factory]''', workshop spaces, cinema, peoples kitchen, recording rooms, free shop. Bar and stage in basement.
* '''Bumzen'''- Old squat, now legal and with 2 collectives living there. Vegan peoples kitchen on wednesday, space for visitors, concerts. Baldersgade 20-22 nørrebro (south of nørrebro station)
* '''[http://www.folketshus.dk/english-info/ Folkets Hus]''', The peoples house with collective cafe, peoples kitchen (mondays from 630pm) Queer films on sundays, concerts and meeting spaces. Stengade 50, Nørrebro
* '''KafaX''', Peoples kitchen on tuesdays from 7pm, free shop, meeting space and food co-operative on Wednesdays. Korsgade 19, Nørrebro, close to the lakes.
* '''Solidaritetshuset''', Solidarity house, Material for sale, projects, meetings and events. Griffenfeldsgade 41, Nørrebro (close to Folkets Hus)

==== [[Aalborg]] ====
* http://www.1000fryd.dk 1000fryd is a social center @ Kattesundet 10. Concerts, peoples kitchen, meetings.. everything happens here only!

==== [[Kolding]] ====
* '''6000 DIY''' - DIY collective in Kolding. Concerts, house shows, vegan peoples kitchen (food not bombs), workshops, etc. Get in touch! http://myspace.com/6000diy (or) http://6000diy.dk

=== [[Estonia]] ===
* '''[http://www.rockiklubi.ee/ Valga Rockiklubi]''': the best DIY venue in Estonia (on the border with Latvia)

=== [[Finland]] ===
* http://www.punkinfinland.net/ : Finnish punk info site with an extensive discussion forum (gigs @ http://www.punkinfinland.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=11)
* http://www.punkinlapland.net/community/ : United punk scene in Northern Scandinavia
* http://takku.net/calendar/ : an event calendar @ an anarchist media project site
* http://kimppa.net/English/Default_eng.aspx : car-sharing

==== [[Helsinki]] ====

* '''[http://www.oranssi.net/english oranssi]'''an old squatter organization doing punk/indie shows (no age limit, no alcohol served), people's kitchen, vegan cafe and other stuff, too, whenever they have a place
* '''[http://mustankaninkolo.blogspot.com Mustan Kanin Kolo]''' : an anarchist infoshop and second-hand bookstore
* '''[http://www.fireinsidemusic.com/shop/shopinfo.php#english Combat Rock Shop]''' : a punk shop
* '''[http://lepakkomies.fi/ Lepakkomies]''' : a punk bar/venue
* '''[http://www.barloose.com/ Bar Loose]''' : a rock bar with occasional punk shows
* '''[http://www.tavastiaklubi.fi/ Tavastia]''' : the legendary rock club hosting punk shows every now and then
* '''[http://www.semifinal.fi/ Semifinal]''' : a smaller club in the courtyard of Tavastia with occasional punk shows
* '''[http://www.sture21.fi/ Ravintola Sture 21]''' : a club hosting different music events, also punk shows

==== [[Lahti]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/roosterpub : a hardcore/punk pub

==== [[Tampere]] ====
* http://www.vastavirta.net/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar/venue
* http://www.puntala-rock.com/ : an open air punk festival held near Tampere in July
* http://www.hirvikatu10.net/ : gallery, meeting place, social center, garden, D.I.Y. and more, worth to pay a visit.

==== [[Turku]] ====
* http://www.diyturku.net/forum/ : a meeting place and information resource for people interested in sub-/countercultural activities in the Turku region (event calendar: http://diyturku.net/forum/index.php?action=calendar)
* http://vapaakulttuuri.blogspot.com/ : a blog with information about autonomous cultural action in Turku
* http://dhost.info/ooo65/viewforum.php?f=1 : a squatter forum. information and discussion about occupations and other related stuff in Turku
* http://www.myspace.com/tvoturku : the oldest d.i.y. venue in the whole country (having done shows since the 1950s), run by university students and punks; UPDATE: evicted in May 2010, still looking for a new place where to organize public events
* http://www.kirjakahvila.org/ : a student-run co-op book cafe; maybe not that "punk", but the only d.i.y. not-for-profit place in town after TVO got evicted (besides, there are a few punks as volunteers, as well). serves fair trade coffee/tea/hot chocolate and all-vegan cakes and pastries, hosts free film nights, discussions, and even some small gigs. there's a freebox for books, and some zines and anarchist literature available in the bookshop. occasional uncommercial queer parties on weekends

==== [[Oulu]] ====
* http://www.ykanpub.com/ : an old scruffy pub with punk gigs every now and then.

=== [[France]] ===
* '''[http://punxforum.net/ PunxForum.net]'''
* '''[http://razibus.net/ Razibus]''' : french punk agenda
* '''[https://www.punk-hardcore.info/ punk-hardcore.info]''' : punk hardcore, and more, in france and everywhere
* '''[https://www.punk-hardcore.info/spip.php?rubrique19 punk-hardcore.info concert page]''' : may be the biggest listing of DIY punk/hardcore concerts in france
* '''[https://www.theyliewedie.org/ TheyLieWeDie.org]''' : anarcho-punk portal
* '''[https://infokiosques.net/ Infokiosques.net]''': infoshops & stuff
* '''[http://www.pirate-punk.net PIRATE-PUNK.NET]''': info concerts, bands, etc. all around France

==== [[Amiens]] ====

* '''[https://accueilfroidnuke.blogspot.fr/ Accueil Froid]''' : a DIY/artistic venue
* '''[https://picardie.demosphere.eu/ Demosphere Picardie]''' : alternative agenda

==== [[Angers]] ====
* '''[https://etincelleangers.wordpress.com/ l'Etincelle]''' : social center
* '''[http://chezle21.blogspot.com/ 21]''' : a community library AND a lovely [http://latetedansleguidon.blogspot.com/ bike workshop]
* '''[http://troglobal.waloomaloo.com Village Troglobal]''' : a kind of self managed village around Angers...
* '''[http://la-conserverie.blogspot.com/ La Conserverie]''' : a DIY concert place with rehearsal rooms for the bands (dead)

==== [[Bordeaux]] ====
* '''[http://gironde.demosphere.eu/ Démosphère Gironde]''': Bordeaux activist agenda
* '''[http://www.atheneelibertaire.net/ Athenée Libertaire]''': a social center. political music welcome
* '''[https://loukaze.squat.net/ l'Oukaze]''' : A squat in Bègles (evicted)

==== [[Brest]] ====
* '''[https://lafaussecommune.noblogs.org/ La Fausse Commune]''' : a squat in Brest
* '''[http://lapoudriere.noblogs.org/ La Poudrière]''' : a squat in Brest (evicted)

==== [[Clermont-Ferrand]] ====
* '''[https://hoteldesvil-e-s.blogspot.nl/ L'hotel des Vil-e-s]''' : a squat/social center
* '''[http://www.raymondbar.net/ Le Raymond Bar]''' : Self organized concert place

==== [[Dijon]] ====
* '''[https://tanneries.squat.net/ les Tanneries]''': a huge political squat/social center, the oldest still functioning squat in France
* '''[http://malokadistro.com/ Maloka]''' : 20-year old anarcho punk collective packing a large distro and doing a lot of concerts

==== [[Grenoble]] ====
* '''[http://grenoble.indymedia.org/spip.php?page=agenda Indymedia Grenoble calendar]''' : telling you what's going on in the city
* '''[https://www.lustucrust.org/ Lustucrust]''' : Grenoble punk info site
* '''[https://www.lustucrust.org/localautogere_presentation.html le Local Autogéré]''' : an anarchist/punk infoshop
* '''[http://www.le102.net/ le 102]''' : an autonomous social/cultural center/venue
* '''[http://labaf.org/ la BAF]''' : a self organized social center
* '''[https://www.bibliothequeantigone.org/ Antigone]''': an autonomous library/cafe/infoshop/social center

==== [[Lille]] ====
* '''[http://chpunk.org chpunk.org]''' : the punk agenda for the North (of france)
* '''[https://lille.indymedia.org/ Indymedia Lille]'''
* '''[http://lille.cybertaria.org/ Lille:alternataire]''' : a libertarian portal with an event calendar
* '''[http://lille.cybertaria.org/rubrique11.html Centre Culturel Libertaire]''' : a kinda social center

==== [[Lyon]] ====
* '''[http://lyonpunx.weebly.com/index.html Lyon Punx]''' : a local punk agenda
* '''[https://rebellyon.info/ rebellyon.info]''' : an event calendar with alternative radical political infos for Lyon
* '''[http://www.grrrndzero.org/ Grrrnd Zero]''': two separate venues for musical and other cultural activities
* '''[http://laluttine.wordpress.com/ La Luttine]''': a DIY punk infoshop open on Saturdays

==== [[Marseille]] ====

Le Vortex is an underground agenda, you'll find an updated paper version in most of the places below.
In Noailles you can get very cheap food, like 4€ pizzas :-p

* '''[http://crapoulet.fr/levortex/ Le Vortex]''' : punk/underground concert agenda
* '''[http://lasallegueule.free.fr/ La Salle Gueule]''' : Café-concert rock'n'roll
* '''[https://www.facebook.com/les9salopards/ Les 9 salopards]''' : a punkish venue
* '''[https://www.facebook.com/manifesten Manifesten]''' : an alternative cafe
* '''[http://polygone-etoile.com/ Le Polygone Etoilé]''' : alternative cinema
* '''[http://www.lemolotov.com/ Le Molotov]''' : a rock venue
* '''[https://mars-infos.org/ Marseille Infos Autonomes]''' : a local autonomous news site
* '''[http://www.millebabords.org/ Mille Babords]''' : an other news website and agenda

==== [[Montpelier]] ====
* '''[http://montpellier.demosphere.eu/ Démosphère Montpelier]''' : Montpelier activist agenda

==== [[Nancy]] ====
* '''[https://ccan.herbesfolles.org/ Centre Culturel Autogéré de Nancy]''' : Self managed social center

==== [[Nantes]] ====
* '''[http://bellamy17.free.fr/ B17]''' : a self-managed space
* '''[https://zad.nadir.org/ ZAD]''' : At Notre Dame des Landes (25km north of Nantes) Vinci wants to build an international airport and squatters resist

==== [[Paris]] ====
* '''[http://pariskiwi.org pariskiwi]''' : wiki about DIY scene in Paris
* '''[http://ctx-n-flrs.zikforum.com/infos-concerts-et-albums-f3/ Des couteaux et des fleurs]''' : Punk show forum
* '''[http://lamiroit.free.fr/ La miroiterie]''' : squat with concerts in Paris
* '''[http://www.cicp21ter.org/ Centre International de Culture Populaire]''' : Popular Culture International Center
* '''[https://transfo.squat.net/ Transfo]''' : a squat/social center
* '''[http://www.lamutinerie.eu/ La Mutinerie]''' : a political queer bar

==== [[Reims]] ====
* '''[http://www.ecluse-reims.org L'écluse]''' : a squat organizing concerts and stuff

==== [[Robiac]] ====
* '''[http://collectif.valette.free.fr/ la Vieille Valette]''' : Self managed village in the middle of nowhere (a big punk festival once a year)

==== [[Saint Etienne]] ====
* '''[http://lenumerozero.lautre.net/ NumeroZero] : local underground news portal with an event calendar
* '''[https://lafrancepue.org/wordpress/ la france pue]''' : DIY booker and distro
* '''[http://www.lasourcefurieuse.org/ la source furieuse]''' : punk collective
* '''[http://sainteunderground.free.fr/ Saint-Etienne Underground]''' : forum about independent music (french only)

==== [[Strasbourg]] ====
* '''[http://maison-mimir.com/ La Maison Mimir]''' : a kinda social center

==== [[Toulouse]] ====
* '''[http://concertoupizza.blogspot.com/ Concert ou Pizza ?]''' : listing of most punk related gigs in Toulouse and around there.
* '''[http://toulousecrust.blogspot.fr Toulouse Crust]''' : listing of crusts concerts around Toulouse
* '''[https://iaata.info/ Information Anti Autoritaire Toulouse et Alentours]''' : local anti authoritarian info
* '''[http://toulouse.demosphere.eu/ Toulouse Demosphere]''' : Toulouse activist agenda
* '''[http://infokiosques.net/kioskarnaudben le Kiosk]''' : an infoshop with library, internet, coffee, etc.
* '''[https://tidibi.wordpress.com/ TDB]''' : a queer squat organising stuff now and then
* '''[http://la-gazette-toulouse.over-blog.com/ La gazette de l'intersquat du 31]''': a blog with info about squats in Toulouse
* '''[http://www.panx.net/ PANX.net]''': Toulouse punk network infosite
* '''[http://collectifchaussas.wix.com/les-enfants-sauvages Les enfants sauvages]''': a collective organizing gigs, with rehearsal room and other cool stuff
* '''[http://mixart-myrys.org/ Mix'art Myrys]''' : a self-organised artists collective

==== [[Cubjac]] ====
* '''[http://encres-noires.squat.net/ Encres Noires]''': an anarchist library

==== [[Tours]] ====
* '''[https://larotative.info/ La Rotative]''' : info site
* '''[http://mediatours.noblogs.org/ medi@tours]''' : alternative info blog

=== [[Germany]] ===
* http://knox.p-u-n-k.de/db/ : Concert database

==== [[Berlin]] ====
* http://stressfaktor.squat.net/termine.php : an extensive underground guide/program calendar for berlin listing pretty much all the d.i.y. punk shows, people's kitchens (http://stressfaktor.squat.net/vokue.php), punk film nights, demos, and other activities
* http://www.wasteofmind.de/berlin/berlin.php : punkrock/hardcore ezine
* http://koepi137.net/ : a very famous and huge punk house project in Kreuzberg/Mitte with bars, two venues (AGH and Koma F), discos, films screenings etc.
* http://www.myspace.com/scharni38/ : a political house project in Friedrichshain with a two-floor punk bar and venue
* http://squat.net/liebig34/ : a queer/anarchafeminist house project in Friedrichshain with an anarchafeminist punk bar and venue (XB-Liebig)
* http://www.schwarzerkanal.squat.net : a radical queer living project ("wagenplatz") in Treptow with shows etc., bike workshop, and a yearly d.i.y. queer film festival
* Fischladen, Rigaerstr. 83 : a popular punk bar and venue in Friedrichshain
* http://www.rigaer94.squat.net : a house project in Friedrichshain with a punk bar (Kadterschmiede)
* http://www.myspace.com/subversivberlinmitte : a punk venue in Mitte
* http://www.myspace.com/cafemorgenrot/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar in Prenzlauer Berg that holds a famous vegan/vegetarian brunch on weekends and has a venue (Kastanienkeller) in the basement
* http://so36.de/ : a more-or-less political club/venue in Kreuzberg
* M-99, Manteuffelstr. 99 : an anarchist infoshop in Kreuzberg with all kinds of punk stuff for sale
* http://erinyen.blogspot.com/ : an anarcha-feminist collective
* http://www.schicksaal.org/konzerte.php : Tommyhaus squat gigs

==== [[Flensburg]] ====
* http://www.hafermarktflensburg.de/ : punk rock's house !!

==== [[Frankfurt (Main) ]] ====
* http://copyriot.com/untergrund/ - Dates for concerts, parties in and around Frankfurt

==== [[Hamburg]] ====
* [http://www.bewegungsmelder.org Bewegungsmelder] - Shows, parties, politics
* [http://www.hamburgpunk.de/ Hamburgpunk] - Dates (mostly concerts), Forum, Gossip (not always up to date)

==== [[Kiel]] ====
* http://www.altemeierei.de/tiki-start.php : hausprojekt with cofee and venue since 1983

==== [[Leipzig Saxony]] ====
* http://www.http://sachsenpunk.de/: all shows and venues of saxony with links to most of the venues and house projects

==== [[Lübeck]] ====
* http://www.walli-bleibt.de/ : wagen burg with coffee, bar an venue

==== [[Mannheim]] ====
* http://www.juz-mannheim.de/termine.htm Youth Center with venue and bar

==== [[Munich]] ====
* http://kafemarat.blogsport.de/

=== [[Greece]] ===
* https://athens.indymedia.org/ : Indimedia is the main way of anarchist counterinformation in greece

==== [[Athens]] ====
* '''Katarameno Syndromo''' : DIY punk rock collective
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113348295068813260285.0004816098f8d47fe0ee6&z=12 Some map locating most of the places to go in Athens]
* [https://villa-amalias.blogspot.com/ Villa Amalias], one of the most famous squats of Athens (evicted and destroyed :'-( , a lot of Punk and other Concerts and Activities, near Victoria Metro Station
* the best way to meet punks in Athens is still to hang around Exarhia in the evening. The "punk" meeting spot is Mesonligiou but it worth to check out the Parko (self managed reclaimed area where people destroyed a car park to build up a public parc) 50 meters up on Navarinou or just the Exarchia Square.

==== [[Kavala]] ====
* https://accionmutantecollective.blogspot.com/ : punk collective
* https://anarxikoikavalas.squat.gr/ : anarchist infos

==== [[Thessaloniki]] ====
* https://myspace.com/streetattacksquad: Street Attack, a punk squat
* a good way to meet punks an other "alternative" people in Thessaloniki is to go at the place called "Rotode" is a famous youth gathering where police is not welcome (outdated ?)
* there are also a few squatted venues inside the university: Steki Sto Biologiko...

==== [[Iraklio]] ====
* [https://evagelismos.squat.gr/ Evangelismou Squat] in the Center of Iraklio

=== [[Hungary]] ===
* http://www.myspace.com/dreamlongdeadbooking : booking/shows
* http://freefest.hu/ : A free DIY festival every summer

=== [[Iceland]] ===
* http://www.savingiceland.org/ Saving Iceland is an anti-capitalist direct action campaign against heavy industry in Iceland and worldwide.
* http://www.aftaka.org/ An anarchist website that was active from 2008-2010. Has a few articles on the 2008-2009 uprising in english.
* http://www.taflan.org/ A hardcore/punk/metal/etc. message board. Info about upcoming shows.

==== [[Reykjavík]] ====
* [http://kedjuverkun.org/ Keðjuverkun] (Chain Reaction) is a DIY bike collective. Not as active since they lost their space.
* [http://www.andspyrna.org/ Andspyrnu Bókasafn], Anarchist Library in Reykjavíkurakademían.
* Radical Feminist Soup Kitchen every other thursday in Grasrótarmiðstöðin(Grassrootscenter), Bratarholt 4, 101. Contact: eldhusfolksins@riseup.net

=== [[Israel]] ===
==== [[Tel Aviv]] ====
* http://rogatka.me/blog/?m=201105&cat=3 small diy-place with shows, screenings, discussions; satursday 4€-vegan lunch. only place in TA with Taybeh-beer (from Ramalah); unfortunately non-smoking inside. Yitzhak Sade-street way down; next to it is:
* "Salon Mazal", the info-shop place. focus on animal rights, antifa and anti-occupation, queer&gender issues. big but random library with books of 40 years.
* the "yellow house": squat (without legal title) by nihilist punx, might be dangerous to visit... it's down in Yaffa next to Ha-Hagana Park, follow street (Ben Yehuda?)
* ask trustworthy people about the "red house" and handle the information decently; it's a house share of punx/activists but it's not explicitly an open political project.
* chaos-punx are said to hang around in front of Diezengoff-Mall.
* in small groups it's safe to sleep on the beach, there are even containers for BBQ-fires.
--Hathova bar (the abomination)-Underground non profit punk bar,cheapest prices in Tel-Aviv.
sunday-wednesday
19:00-till the last drunk.
Hasadna 16 street,tel aviv.

==== [[Jerusalem]] ====
* uganda: artsy cafe/pub-style place with records and comics near Yaffa-street, sometimes small shows. expensive beer.
* Lifta: you wouldn't believe it: an abandoned arab village! five minutes walk from Central Bus Station. Punx and bums have been crashing in there since decades. permanent stay is impossible because of men (from the park authorities and orthodox neighbors) removing and burning furniture and belongings frequently... the village consists of appr 100 stone-houses (mostly ruins) and a clean water pool frequently visited by orthodox males (drinking water quality). it's possible to have your camp-fire; bring your hammock and keep the place clean. for the history of this village whose population fled in winter 1947/48 can be found in detail on wikipedia.

=== [[Italy]] ===
* http://www.punk4free.org/concerti.html
* http://www.sowdust.it/sd/concerti/
* http://www.myspace.com/punxmeeting

==== [[Milan]] ====
* http://milano.tonight.eu/locali/centri_sociali : Alternative venues in Milan

==== [[Torino]] ====
* http://www.tuttosquat.net/
* http://www.radioblackout.org/ : anarchist radio

=== [[Ireland]] ===
==== [[Belfast]] ====
* http://warzonecollective.com

==== [[Dublin]] ====
* [http://seomraspraoi.org/ Dublin's autonomous social centre]

=== [[Latvia]] ===
* http://www.punk.lv

==== [[Kuldiga]] ====
* [http://www.nekac.lv/ NEKAC] : d.i.y. center with shows and stuff

=== [[Lithuania]] ===
==== [[Vilnius]] ====
* http://www.hardcore.lt/
* http://www.myspace.com/XI20 : booking/shows

=== [[Macedonia]] ===
* http://www.teror13.anarhija.org/

=== [[Netherlands]] ===
* http://www.punx.nl/ - Punk listings
* http://radar.squat.net/ - Squat listings

==== [[Amsterdam]] ====
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~binnenpr/ Binnenpret - Cultureel complex in Amsterdam-Zuid]
* [http://ot301.nl/ Overtoom301]
* [http://swomp.wordpress.com/ Freestate SWOMP]
* [http://www.vrankrijk.org/ Vrankrijk, queer squat]
* [http://www.occii.org/ OCCII, legal punk squat]
* [http://www.joesgarage.nl/ Joe’s Garage]

==== [[Den Haag]] ====
* '''[http://www.everyoneweb.com/presentation_tier/Index.aspx?WebID=piratenbar&BoomID=B1&KnooppuntID=K486&KnoopOpen=True El Lokal Pirata]''' : Pirate social center in Scheveningen

==== [[Leiden]] ====
* http://koppenhinksteeg.nl/ : Koppenhinksteeg - Bar, cafe, freeshop, offices, venue
* http://www.multipleks.org/ : Multipleks - Freespace

==== [[Rotterdam]] ====
* http://www.poortgebouw.nl/ : Poortgebouw - Cafe, gigs, living group
* http://www.wormweb.nl/ : Worm - Alternative music venue

==== [[Utrecht]] ====
* [http://www.acu.nl/ ACU] - politiek cultureel centrum (former squat which managed to keep the anarchist atmosphere in a professional setting)
* [http://www.dbstudio.nl/ Db's] - a big complex with lots of rehearsal rooms, a small concert hall and a studio. Programs a ot of underground acts
* [http://ubica.squat.net/start.html Ubica] - The last real squad in the city centre of Utrecht

=== [[Norway]] ===
==== [[Oslo]] ====
* http://www.blitz.no/ : an old squat with political activities, vegan/vegetarian cafe and punk shows

=== [[Poland]] ===
* '''[http://forum.hard-core.pl/ forum.hard-core.pl]''' : check out the forum, there you can find all gigs and what's going on in Poland

==== [[Gdansk & Gdynia]] ====
* http://www.diy3m.org : diy hardcore punk shows in Gdansk and Gdynia
* http://www.diy-fest.org : diy hardcore punk festival in Gdynia

==== [[Krakow]] ====
* [https://squatkrakow.wordpress.com/ Carandiru squat]
* [https://www.facebook.com/KawiarniaNaukowaKrakow Kawierna Naukowa] a bar booking punk gigs

==== [[Lublin]] ====
* http://tektura.wordpress.com/ : DIY cultural center in Lublin

==== [[Łódź]] ====
* http://k50squat.blogspot.com/ : squat with concerts etc. (seems dead)

==== [[Poznan]] ====
* http://www.rozbrat.org/ : the oldest squat in Poland, with concerts and more...

==== [[Toruń]] ====
* http://www.pilon.pl/ harcore punk anarcho cafe bar

==== [[Warszawa]] ====
* '''[http://syrena.tk/ Syrena]''' : a squatted social center
* '''[http://adapulawska.noblogs.org/ ADA]''' : Aktywny Dom Alternatywny a "houseproject" with concerts, screenings and stuff <strike>https://www.facebook.com/adapulawska</strike>
* '''[http://przychodnia.bzzz.net/ Przychodnia]''' : a squat with nice punk concerts <strike>https://pl-pl.facebook.com/przychodniasquat</strike>
* '''[http://reclaimthefieldspl.noblogs.org/english/ ROD]''' : squated gardens, part of Reclaim the Fields
* '''[http://www.u-f-a.pl/ UFA]''': nice place, nice people, some concerts and other "punk" activities
* '''[http://warsawpunk.pl/site/ Warsaw Punk]''': the crew promoting Warsaw DIY Punk Scene, bands, organizing concerts in different spots, making shirts http://www.facebook.com/WarsawPunk

==== [[Wrocław]] ====
* '''[http://www.crk.wroclaw.pl/ CRK]''' : alegal squat in Wrocław
* '''[https://www.facebook.com/wagenburg Wagenburg]''' : the Wrocław Wagenburg

=== [[Romania]] ===
* http://www.aro.ecobytes.net/lovekills/ : anarcho-feminist collective
* http://www.myspace.com/thrashsilvania : political hc/punk collective doing shows & stuff

==== [[Tinisoara]] ====
* http://gluganeagra.ro/ : Some DIY punk collective
* http://underground-festival.info/ : The Timisoara Underground Festival

==== [[Bucharest]] ====
* '''[http://biblioteca-alternativa.noblogs.org/ Bibilioteca Alternativa]''' : Self-managed library and more...
* '''[http://riotseeddistro.blogspot.com/ Riot Seed Distro]'' : distro

=== [[Russia]] ===
* http://pv.anho.org/forum/index.php
* '''[http://www.go-punk.ru/ go-Punk.ru]'''
* http://www.punk.ru/
* http://russia.indymedia.org/:
* '''[https://ru.squat.net/ Squatting Info]'''
* '''[https://www.avtonom.org Autonomous Action]'''
* '''[http://www.diy-zine.com/ diyzine.com]''': HUGE russian zines archive

==== [[Moscow]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/interpretation_zine
* '''[https://edavmestobomb.info/ Food Not Bombs Russia]'''

==== [[Samara]] ====
* '''[http://www.duplo.narod.ru/ Duplo]''': cultural center & alternative movie club

==== [[St. Petersburg]] ====
* '''[http://svinokop.narod.ru/ SzSS]''': a DIY label / distro

=== [[Serbia]] ===
==== [[Belgrade]] ====
* http://www.kontra-punkt.info/
* http://eng.queerbeograd.org/ : anarchist queers

=== [[Slovakia]] ===
* http://www.hard-core.sk/
* http://www.mangelcrusties.sk/

=== [[Slovenia]] ===
* http://www.ljudmila.org/anarhiv/
* http://tovarna.org/ : squatted bike factory, with gigs and some other nice things

=== [[Spain]] ===
==== [[Bilbao]] ====
* http://www.bilbaorockcity.com/ : all rock concerts in Basque Country including underground shows
* http://www.kukutza.net/ : biggest skuat in Bilbao
* http://www.blogari.net/itzubaltzeta : other skuat/social center

==== [[Barcelona]] ====
http://usurpa.squat.net/index.html
weekly squat agenda

http://antipatiazine.wordpress.com
hardcore/punk squat gigs

==== [[Madrid]] ====
* http://cokolakondenada.blogspot.com/ : Centro de Ocio kreativo ocupado la condenada. concerts, activities. thursdays and sundays, cafe, and something to eat.

=== [[Sweden]] ===
* http://gigguide.se/ all gigs around Sweden

==== [[Göteborg]] ====
* Annual punk festival outside Göteborg: http://punkillegal.com
* Truck Stop Alaska: http://www.truckstopalaska.com/kontakt.htm
* 120an (ex Härden): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aktivitetshuset-H%C3%A4rden/263264657037424
You need to give your e-mail address to get informations about the gigs.
* Pustervik: http://www.pusterviksbiljetter.com

==== [[Luleå]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=241848409
* http://foreningsgatan7.blogspot.com/ A culture house a bit outside of town. Sometimes there are some shows, vegan food servings and such.

==== [[Malmö]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/malmopunkandhardcorecrew
* ''''Utkanten'''' is a autonomous social center. People's Kitchen, bike workshop, meetings, workshops and the likes. Industrigatan 20 http://www.utkanten.net/english.php(less updated than the swedish version)
* ''''Glassfabriken'''' Vegan café and cultural center. Kristianstadsgatan 16 http://www.glassfabriken.net/

==== [[Stockholm]] ====
* http://www.stockholmhardcore.com/home.html
* http://www.hallongrottan.com/: a queer feminist bookstore carrying zines, underground comics, curiosities and whatnot, occasionally having film screenings and other cool stuff, too.
* ''''Kafé 44an'''' A vegetarian café with info shop and venue. Tjärhovsgatan 44
* http://www.skaggigadamen.se/: an anarkafeminist tattoo shop. Small distro coming up. Coffee and tea. Open 4 days a week. Svartågatan 26, Bagarmossen.

==== [[Umeå]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=207371356
* http://umeadiy.wordpress.com

==== [[Uppsala]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=31953059

=== [[Switzerland]] ===
==== [[Bienne]] ====
* [http://fabrik9.zeblog.com/ fabrik9]
* Schrött Bar festival: every second week end of September. The festival occurs at Bienne(Bielle) at "La Coupole", in the city center.
Information very difficult to find on internet.

==== [[Lausanne]] ====
* '''[https://espaceautogere.squat.net/ espace autogéré]''' : bar, gigs, infoshop etc. in a squat

=== [[Sion]] ===
* [http://z-a-p.ch Z.A.P] Permanent Autonomous Zone

==== [[Winterthur]] ====
* [http://ggs31.arachnia.ch/ Gisi]

=== [[Turkey]] ===
==== [[Istanbul]] ====
* http://wargasmistanbul.blogspot.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/wargasmcollective/ : '''Wargasm Collective & Booking'''
* http://www.noizine.net/ : Turkish DIY Punk/Hardcore/Noize Community

=== [[Ukraine]] ===
* http://infoshop.zaraz.org/

=== [[United Kingdom]] ===
==== [[Wales]] ====
* http://pumpkinrecords.wix.com/dirtyweekend
Festival organized at the Workhouse in Llanfyllin, early September.

==== [[Birmingham]] ====
* PUNKS ALIVE organizes gigs at the public house "Adam & Eve" at least once a week if not more.
Information on Facebook.

==== [[Brighton]] ====
* http://www.brightonzinefest.co.uk/ : Brighton zinefest - Also organise monthly zine socials
* http://cowleyclub.org.uk/ : Cowley Club - A collectively run libertarian social centre. 12 London Road
* http://cranks.org.uk/ : Cranks - A DIY bicycle workshop
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/props_edgeworld.shtml : Edgeworld - Independent record shop
* http://www.infinityfoodsretail.co.uk/ : Infinity - Centrally located organic wholefoods shop run by workers' co-op
* http://www.myspace.com/punkerbunker : Punker Bunker - A punk record shop and gig organizor. 34 Sydney St. North Laines
* http://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/ : Resource Centre - Cheap equipment and printing etc
* http://www.myspace.com/tattyseasidetown : Tatty Seaside Town - Organizes gigs
* http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/ : Titnore Woods Protest Site

==== [[Bristol]] ====
* http://comutiny.wordpress.com/ : Bristol Co- Mutiny
* http://www.templesfestival.co.uk/lineup : Temples Fest late May every year in Bristol city center

==== [[London]] ====
* http://www.56a.org.uk/ : 56a - A radical social centre since 1991
* http://www.eroding.org.uk/ : Eroding Empire - punk/anarchy listings for London
* http://infousurpa.co.nr/ : London Infousurpa
* http://londonscn.wordpress.com/ : London social centres network
* http://www.myspace.com/queermutinylondon : Queer Mutiny - anarchist queers
* http://therampart.wordpress.com/ : Rampart social centre

==== [[Manchester]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/fungalpunk : FungalPunk - diy punk gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/slitrecords : Slit Promotions - Ska/ punk / hardcore gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/gashcollective : Gash Collective - Underground DIY punk gigs/parties/raves
* http://www.myspace.com/sayittomyface : Say it to my face - punk/grindcore/hardcore gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/anarchisticundertones : Anarchistic Undertones - DIY punk/ska/harcore
* http://www.myspace.com/manchesterpunx : Manchester Punx
* http://www.myspace.com/mutinymanchester : Mutiny Manchester - Hardcore/Metal/Punk gigs

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{{State header
|state = Bavaria
|country = Germany
|cities = [[Augsburg]] • [[Bamberg]] • [[Erlangen]] • [[Fürth]] • [[Ingolstadt]] • '''[[Munich]]''' • [[Nürnberg]] • [[Regensburg]] • [[Würzburg]]
|toplinks = [[:category:Bavaria|Category Bavaria - Bayern]]
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|wikipedia = Bavaria
|hitchwiki = Bavaria
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|image = Coat_of_arms_of_Bavaria.svg
|imagetext = Flag of Bavaria
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Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern, pronounced ['fʁaɪ.ʃtaːt ˈbaɪ.ɐn] ( listen)), with an area of 70,548 square kilometres (27,200 sq mi) and almost 12.5 million inhabitants, is located in the southeast of Germany and is the largest state of Germany by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany. Its capital is [[Munich]] (''München'' in Upper Bavaria.

The largest State in Germany, it is also the region where all the famous typical things (food, clothes, music...) come from.

Other large cities:
* [[Augsburg]]
* [[Bamberg]]
* [[Erlangen]]
* [[Fürth]]
* [[Ingolstadt]]
* [[Nürnberg]]
* [[Regensburg]]
* [[Würzburg]]

==Geography==
[[Image:Bavarian Alps 2002.jpg|left|thumb|The Bavarian Alps]]
Bavaria shares international borders with Austria and the Czech Republic as well as with Switzerland (across [[Lake Constance]]). Neighbouring states within Germany are [[Baden-Württemberg]], [[Hesse]], [[Thuringia]] and Saxony. Two major rivers flow through the state, the [[Danube]] (''Donau'') and the [[Main]]. The [[Bavarian Alps]] define the border with Austria, and within the range is the highest peak in Germany, the [[Zugspitze]].

The major cities in Bavaria are Munich (''München''), [[Nuremberg]] (''Nürnberg''), Augsburg, [[Würzburg]], [[Regensburg]], [[Ingolstadt]], [[Fürth]] and [[Erlangen]].

===Population and area===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! | Administrative region
! colspan="2" | Population (2008)
! colspan="2" | Area (km²)
! colspan="2" | No. municipalities
|-
| [[Lower Bavaria]]
| align="right" | 1,193,444
| align="right" | 9.5%
| align="right" | 10,330
| align="right" | 14.6%
| align="right" | 258
| align="right" | 12.5%
|-
| [[Lower Franconia]]
| align="right" | 1,331,500
| align="right" | 10.6%
| align="right" | 8,531
| align="right" | 12.1%
| align="right" | 308
| align="right" | 15.0%
|-
| [[Upper Franconia]]
| align="right" | 1,085,770
| align="right" | 8.7%
| align="right" | 7,231
| align="right" | 10.2%
| align="right" | 214
| align="right" | 10.4%
|-
| [[Middle Franconia]]
| align="right" | 1,714,453
| align="right" | 13.7%
| align="right" | 7,245
| align="right" | 10.3%
| align="right" | 210
| align="right" | 10.2%
|-
| [[Upper Palatinate]]
| align="right" | 1,085,216
| align="right" | 8.7%
| align="right" | 9,691
| align="right" | 13.7%
| align="right" | 226
| align="right" | 11.0%
|-
| [[Swabia (administrative region)|Swabia]]
| align="right" | 1,787,995
| align="right" | 14.3%
| align="right" | 9,992
| align="right" | 14.2%
| align="right" | 340
| align="right" | 16.5%
|-
| [[Upper Bavaria]]
| align="right" | 4,320,934
| align="right" | 34.5%
| align="right" | 17,530
| align="right" | 24.8%
| align="right" | 500
| align="right" | 24.3%
|-
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
! '''Total'''
! align="right" | 12,519,312
! align="right" | 100.0%
! align="right" | 70,549
! align="right" | 100.0%
! align="right" | 2,056
! align="right" | 100.0%
|}

===Major cities===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- bgcolor=#dddddd
! City
! Inhabitants 31 December 2000
! Inhabitants 31 December 2005
! Inhabitants 31 December 2008
|-
|[[Munich]]
| align="right" |1,210,223
| align="right" |1,259,677
| align="right" |1,326,807
|-
|[[Nürnberg]]
| align="right" |488,400
| align="right" |499,237
| align="right" |503,638
|-
|[[Augsburg]]
| align="right" |254,982
| align="right" |262,676
| align="right" |263,313
|-
|[[Regensburg]]
| align="right" |125,676
| align="right" |129,859
| align="right" |133,525
|-
|[[Würzburg]]
| align="right" |127,966
| align="right" |133,906
| align="right" |133,501
|-
|[[Ingolstadt]]
| align="right" |115,722
| align="right" |121,314
| align="right" |123,925
|-
|[[Fürth]]
| align="right" |110,477
| align="right" |113,422
| align="right" |114,071
|-
|[[Erlangen]]
| align="right" |100,778
| align="right" |103,197
| align="right" |104,980
|-
|[[Bayreuth]]
| align="right" |74,153
| align="right" |73,997
| align="right" |72,935
|-
|[[Bamberg]]
| align="right" |69,036
| align="right" |70,081
| align="right" |69,989
|-
|[[Aschaffenburg]]
| align="right" |67,592
| align="right" |68,642
| align="right" |68,747
|-
|[[Landshut]]
| align="right" |58,746
| align="right" |61,368
| align="right" |62,606
|-
|[[Kempten (Allgäu)]]
| align="right" |61,389
| align="right" |61,360
| align="right" |62,135
|-
|[[Rosenheim]]
| align="right" |58,908
| align="right" |60,226
| align="right" |60,711
|-
|[[Neu-Ulm]]
| align="right" |50,188
| align="right" |51,410
| align="right" |53,866
|-
|[[Schweinfurt]]
| align="right" |54,325
| align="right" |54,273
| align="right" |53,588
|-
|[[Passau]]
| align="right" |50,536
| align="right" |50,651
| align="right" |50,717
|-
|[[Hof (Saale)|Hof]]
| align="right" |50,741
| align="right" |48,723
| align="right" |47,275
|-
||[[Freising]]
| align="right" |44,167
| align="right" |45,827
| align="right" |45,654
|-
||[[Straubing]]
| align="right" |44,014
| align="right" |44,633
| align="right" |44,496
|-
|}

{{See also|List of places in Bavaria}}
[[Category:Germany]]

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{{City header
|city = Valencia
|country = Spain
|areas =
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'''Valencia''' is the capital city of The Land of Valencia and the third largest city in [[Spain]].
We are going to make you love our town!


'''Note: As events and people are in constant motion, we kindly invite you to double-check any piece of information you're about to read on this page. Our team can't guarantee how accurate the information we're providing will remain through Time. Thanks for bearing with us and have a great CS trip!'''

==WELCOME TO VALENCIA==
How can I get to Valencia? What can I do? What can I see? Start checking out info.
You may take a look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zi6LW8djk4 this] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyf599cJ0BE this] videoclips with nice music from valencian artists and some pictures from the city.

===Weather===
Weather in Valencia is mild.
[http://www.aemet.es/en/eltiempo/prediccion/municipios/valencia-id46250 Weather forecast.]

===History===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia,_Spain City history] @ Wikipedia.

==INFORMATION==
===Emergency number===

In case of '''emergency'''(Police, Fire, Ambulance,...) please call [http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/112/index_en.htm '''112'''].

===Internet Access & international calls===

'''• Locutorios'''

You can find ''locutorios'' everywhere, in which you can surf the internet, make cheap international calls, send or receive faxes. Prices aren't fixed in some locutorios, you can try out you bartering skills in Spanish!

'''• WIFI for free'''

:- In museums ([http://www.ivam.es/ ''IVAM''], ...)

:- In associations ([http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=valencia+colega&fb=1&hq=colega&hnear=valencia&cid=0,0,7855908809294916242&ei=jNOUS9meB42h4Qal69iNDQ&ved=0CB0QnwIwAg&ll=39.476154,-0.380487&spn=0.010402,0.022724&z=16&iwloc=A ''COLEGA'']'''(computers are provided)''', ...)

:- In hostels ([http://maps.google.es/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=valencia+backpackers&fb=1&gl=es&hq=backpackers&hnear=Valencia&ei=HE3IS8m7Mc3l-Qagscz3Cg&ved=0CBsQtgMwAA&ll=39.479931,-0.376883&spn=0.035377,0.073299&z=14&iwloc=A&cid=13036152340941597093 Home backpackers], '''(computers are provided)''', ...)

:- In crappy places (McDonalds, ...)

:- In bars (loads in the city center, El Carmen Area - just enter and ask.)

:- Others: [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Street+Calixto+III,+10,+valencia&sll=23.129075,113.264423&sspn=0.979999,1.766052&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Calle+de+Calixto+III,+10,+46008+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana,+Espa%C3%B1a&t=h&z=16 ''Tango y Truco'']: Street Calixto III, 10, Juan Llorens area.

===Laundry===

:- Neighbohrood ''El Carmen'' - [http://www.thelaundrystop.es/ ''The Launtry Stop'']

:- 4 Laundries in the town - choose the closest to you [http://www.lavaexpres.com/ ''LavaExpres'']

===Medical Services===
[http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=cips+valencia&fb=1&hq=cips&hnear=valencia&cid=17974294934499123378 ''CIPS'']- Centro de Informacion y Prevencion del Sida (Aids Info and Prevention Center) - '''Free, anonymous and confidential HIV/AIDS tests'''

===Libraries, Bookshops...===
You can drop and get free books here: [http://www.bookcrossing-spain.org/zonasoficiales/#a47 Bookcrossing Valencia]. [http://www.bookcrossing.com/ What is BookCrossing?]

'''• Libraries:'''

A map with all the public libraries in Valencia: [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=biblioteca+valencia&sll=39.472643,-0.380316&sspn=0.025707,0.055189&ie=UTF8&hq=biblioteca&hnear=Valencia&z=13 Public Libraries Valencia]

'''• Bookshops:'''

Valencia has a large variety of bookshops all around the city. [http://fnac.es/ FNAC] on Calle Guillem de Castro, 9-11 is a good place to start. Just in front of the trainstation you find Libreria Soriano.

You can also choose a mix of a library with bookshoop and coffeeshop. Here are some options:

:- Ubik Ruzafa : [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=C%2FLiterato+Azor%C3%ADn,+13,+Valencia,+Spain+46006&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Calle+del+Literato+Azor%C3%ADn,+13,+46006+Valencia,+Spain&t=h&z=16 Calle Literato Azorín, 13]

:- Ubik El Carmen: [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Calle+Baja+30,+valencia&sll=45.421091,3.715115&sspn=23.945448,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Calle+Baja,+30,+46003+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana&z=16 Calle Baja, 30]

:- Slaughterhouse: [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Calle+de+Denia,+22,+Valencia&sll=39.477449,-0.379521&sspn=0.006426,0.013797&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Calle+de+Denia,+22,+46006+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana&z=16 Calle Denia, 22]

'''• Map shops (including mountains, other regions...):'''

A good map shop and travel book shop is [http://www.libreriapatagonia.com/ Libreria Patagonia], Calle Hospital, 1
Also you can find a lot of maps and travel guides in FNAC(see Bookshops section). If you are looking for mountain map check [http://www.deportesaitana.com/ Deportes Aitana Shop] on Avenida Perez Galdos 100 or [http://www.tiendalaventura.com Desportes L'Aventura] (behind of La Lonja de la Seda)

===Post Offices===

The Post Office in spanish is named Correos. All the information you need you find it on their website [http://www.correos.es/dinamic/plantillas/home1.asp Correos.]
For sending heavy luggage instead of flying with it, consider using them or other [http://couchwiki.org/en/Valencia#Getting_your_luggage transport agencies].

==SIGHTSEEING==

you might be interested in the [http://www.diariodelviajero.com/museos/valencia-tourist-card-transporte-publico-y-descuentos-para-turistas Valencia Tourist Card] -also available for [http://www.diariodelviajero.com/espana/vlc-cruise-card-tarjeta-turistica-de-valencia-pensada-para-cruceristas cruises] and [http://www.diariodelviajero.com/espana/tarjetas-de-descuento-para-viajar-por-espana other cities in Spain].

===Orientation===

Valencia is a compact city and easy to discover by foot. Because of the two official languages Valencian and Spanish finding a street may turn in to a confusing task as some of them have the name written in Valencian and others in Spanish. Some important word to know are: Street - Calle(Spanish) - Carrer (Valencian) / Avenue - Avenida(Spanish) - Avinguda(Valencian).
Free maps and info can be obtained from the tourist offices around the town. You can find a list here : [http://en.comunitatvalenciana.com/tourist-info/2?nombre=&zona=4&zona_value=4&municipio=250_46&results=1&subform_build_ids=Array&op=Buscar&form_id=oficinas_turismo_form Tourist Offices in Valencia]

===Classical===

Just take a look here on the [http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Valencia#See ''Wikivoyage page''] and make an idea about the things you can see in Valencia.

===Alternative===
Here's a quick guide of [http://couchwiki.org/en/Alternative_Travel Alternative tourism.]

If you want to visit the Valencia that's not on the guide books you should go and see the old neighborhoods Benimaclet, Cabanyal and Ruzafa. Just go, walk, talk with the people and enjoy the beautiful arhitecture. Try to see the full landscape and visit also the south-american, african, east-european or maroccan shops or bars. With a smile, nice attitude and some common-sense you will meet beautiful people and hear nice stories about the city. Is nothing better while traveling then taking your time to transform for a day or more in a local and discover the city.

===One day in Valencia===

Plaza del Virgen is the perfect place to begin a day in Valencia. From here you can visit the square's church and the free art galleries in the area. Visit Plaza de la Reina where is Valencia's cathedral, dating back to the 13th century, this cathedral is where you can see the Holy Grail, the cup Christ drank from at the Last Supper. Check out Plaza del Ayuntamiento and the Post Office building 'Correos', it has a precious glass roof. The square is dominated by an enormous fountain and is also where you can see some of the city's most beautiful buildings. When you are tired go,relax and drink an Horchata [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Horchater%C3%ADa+Chocolater%C3%ADa+Santa+Catalina,+Valencia,+Espa%C3%B1a&sll=39.473533,-0.375488&sspn=0.001607,0.003449&ie=UTF8&hq=Horchater%C3%ADa+Chocolater%C3%ADa+Santa+Catalina,&hnear=Valencia,+Espa%C3%B1a&ll=39.478804,-0.376024&spn=0.012024,0.027595&t=h&z=15&iwloc=A here.] Get lost on the small streets of the old city and visit Mercado Central. At noon go to eat a paella at El Rall, Calle Tundidores, no.2, close to Mercado Central.
Hop on one of the buses bound for Ciudad de las Artes de las Ciencas, Europe's largest urban complex. You can't leave Valencia without seeing these futuristic buildings. If you still have time hop on again on a bus and go to the beach. Don't forget to visit the Cabanyal neighboorhood.
Get the night going in one of Valencia's numerous tapas bars to whet your appetite. You can choose [http://www.qype.co.uk/explore/place_vicinity/287531-Bar-de-los-montaditos-gratis-Valencia El Bar De Los Montaditos Gratis]. Take a look on our leisure section and choose how you want to end the night.

You can check [http://g.co/maps/n3qf4 this map] with interesting places.

==SLEEPING==
Please use [http://www.couchsurfing.org/tips.html standard procedure] for couch request.
'''Don't post couch request at the Valencia general forum'''.
For emergency couch request, use [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=26264 ''Last Minute Couch Request''] or the new [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=26264&post=10849825#gpid10849825'' Open CouchRequest''].

Bad luck? Your CS cry for help didn't work out? You can still sleep somewhere for a fairly cheap price:

'''• Hostels'''

''' Use [http://www.tripadvisor.com Trip Advisor] to compare Hostels quality. A great travelling tool!'''

:- [http://maps.google.es/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=valencia+backpackers&fb=1&gl=es&hq=backpackers&hnear=Valencia&ei=HE3IS8m7Mc3l-Qagscz3Cg&ved=0CBsQtgMwAA&ll=39.479931,-0.376883&spn=0.035377,0.073299&z=14&iwloc=A&cid=13036152340941597093 Backpackers hostel]

:- Official Youth Hostel network [http://www.reaj.com/albergues-espana.asp#val REAJ] website.

:- Home (Plaza Dr. Collado) Nice views at the city center.

:- [http://www.nesthostelsvalencia.com/red/nest-youth-hostel-valencia-index-en.php Nest youth hostel.]

:- [http://www.likeathome.net Like At Home]

:- [http://www.indigohostel.com/ Indigo hostel]

:- [http://www.bedbreakfastinternational.com/english/canoini.html B&B Mare de Deu Cánovas] and [http://www.bedbreakfastinternational.com/english/jardini.html B&B Mare de Deu Jardines del Real]

If your budget is gone, or you have a morning flight and don't want to waste your money on taxi, you can always go and sleep in the airport which is opened 24H. Check when the last metro goes to the airport, because the airport is located at 10 km outside the city (metro schedules [http://www.metrovalencia.es/tools_horarios.php# here]).

'''• Hotels'''

[http://www.hotelvenecia.com Hotel Venecia]. Cheap and new hotel in the very city center - plaza del Ayuntamiento.

[http://www.hotel-carmenvalencia.com Hotel del Carmen]. Very nice hotel located 80m away from Torres de Serranos. 60-80€ double room.

'''• Camping sites'''

:- [http://www.cma.gva.es/cidam/montes/sendaverde/ficha.asp?idLugar=317 Portaceli]. Nice, free camp site, 8km away from [http://maps.google.es/maps?saddr=Carrer+de+Jos%C3%A9+S%C3%A1ez%2FCV-310%2FCV-3351&daddr=39.6479088850876,+-0.4753470624665587+(Portacoeli)&hl=es&ie=UTF8&ll=39.643173,-0.467176&spn=0.035095,0.055189&sll=39.597389,-0.464087&sspn=0.017559,0.027595&geocode=FWscXAIdGgX5_w%3BFaX6XAIdLb_4_w&mra=me&mrsp=0&sz=15&t=h&z=14 Bétera metro station] and 23 from the city.

:- [http://www.cma.gva.es/cidam/montes/sendaverde/ficha.asp?idLugar=242 Santo Espíritu]. Nice, free camp site.

:- Commercial [http://www.campingsonline.com/espana/ComunidadValenciana/Valencia/ campings] directory.

==WHAT TO DO==

If you are in a short visit, you can leave your luggage in the lockers ("consignas") at the train or bus station. It's a pretty safe place.

===Guides===

These guides are AWESOME. You can usually find printed versions around universities (Blasco Ibañez) and in the whole town, keep your eyes peeled!

:- [http://www.au-agenda.com/es/valencia/agenda Agenda Urbana]

:- [http://www.balencia.org BALENCIA - Alternative City Guide]

:- [http://www.laguiago.com/valencia/ La Guia GO]

===City Tours===
[http://www.valenciabusturistic.com Roofless bus] with several stops at turistic places. You can get off at one point and get the next bus with the same ticket.

:- [http://www.turiart.com Guided tours]

===Culture===

'''[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=110828085676261208649.000481702fef58a0b566e Overall cultural map of Valencia]''' (not updated)

:- [http://www.valencia.es/ayuntamiento/infociudad_accesible.nsf/vDocumentosWebListado/8CBD998D7BDFE96BC12572C20023FDA1?OpenDocument&bdOrigen=ayuntamiento%2FInfociudad_accesible.nsf&idapoyo=&lang=1 ''Centro Cultural La Beneficiencia''] (museum). '''> Free entrance.'''
This museum shows several exhibitions, and hosts the Prehistoric Museum and others.

:- [http://www.muvim.es/ ''MUVIM''] (Valencian Museum of Enlightenment and Modern Age). '''> Free entrance.''' Exhibitions, talks, concerts, workshops, library, film shows.

:- [http://www.ivam.es/ ''IVAM''] (Valencian Institute of Modern Art). '''> Free on sundays''', 2€ the rest of the week. Exhibitions, talks, concerts, workshops, library, film shows.

:- [http://www.mhv.com.es/cas/index.php ''Museo de Historia de Valencia''] (Valencian History Museum). '''2€'''

:- [http://museobellasartesvalencia.gva.es/ ''Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia''] (Valencian Museum of Fine Arts) '''-> Free entrance''' , The most important gallery of Valencia, a spanish referent on ancient masters painting. The museum have Velazquez, Murillo, Juan de Valdes, Sorolla, Van Dyck... [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_de_Bellas_Artes_de_Valencia]

:- [http://www.museoliber.org/Centro_Cultural_LIber/Inicio.html ''L'IBER: Museo de los soldaditos de plomo''] (The Iberian: Tin Soldiers Museum) '''4€ normal/ 2,80€ childrens,seniors,students, non-workers and groups''' -> More than 85.000 tin soldiers representing a lot of significative battles. historical building.

:- [http://www.cac.es/?languageId=1 ''Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias''] (City of Arts & Sciences). An entertainment-based cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_de_las_Artes_y_las_Ciencias ''Important information about the areas'']. The place contains some museums,etc...

:- [http://www.museoarrozvalencia.com/ ''Museo del Arroz''] (Rice Museum). '''2€''' The rice is so important in the valencian gastronomy. Really rare and interesting place. Historical Building

:- [http://www.valencia.es/ayuntamiento/museo_cnaturales.nsf/ ''Museo de Ciencias Naturales''] (Natural Science Museum). '''2€''' . A great hidden museum in the heart of one of the largest valencian gardens, Los Viveros.

:- [http://obrasocial.bancaja.es/institucional/centros/centros-ficha.aspx?id=3 ''Centro Cultural Bancaja''] (Bancaja Cultural Center) '''-> Free entrance''' Art exhibitions, conferences, studyroom and shop.

:- [http://www.valencia.es/ayuntamiento/infociudad_accesible.nsf/vDocumentosWebListado/6F7B283742F84C0AC12572C20023FE0B?OpenDocument&bdOrigen=ayuntamiento/laciudad.nsf&idapoyo=7A56E0AFD4368CBFC12571A900268CE5&nivel=5&lang=1 ''Museo del Patriarca''] (Patriarch Museum) '''1,20€'''. Historical Building, it contains a large art collection. s.XVI/XVII paintings (flemish, spanish, el Greco, Italian...), antiquities (like a manuscript by Thomas More), important relics, etc...

:- [http://www.museotaurinovalencia.es/home.html?event=wbe_i18n_change_lang&change_language=en ''Museo Taurino''] (Bullfighting Museum of Valencia). '''> Free entrance.''' [http://www.museotaurinovalencia.es/en__horarios.html - Opening hours -]. Regarding bulls, even if most Valencia CSers are against bullfighting, you can find some spectacles qhere the bull is not hurted: "el correbous" (people run ahead of bulls), and "recortadores" or retallador (they wait for the bull till the very last second to jump or move and not being caught).

:- [http://www.salaparpallo.com/en__index.html ''Sala Parpalló''] (exhibition hall) [http://www.salaparpallo.com/en__situacion.html - Opening hours -]

:- [http://www.uv.es/cultura/c/links/espaciosnave ''LA NAU''] ("THE BUILDING/WAREHOUSE") '''FREE ENTRANCE''' -> Old University Of Valencia, now reconverted as an exhibition hall, is one of the most important places (not in the travel guides) in the city. Despite the terrible webpage, it's one of the most active museums/concert halls in Valencia: art, exhibitions, drama, visual poetry, cinema, courses, conferences, special events, music (every wednesday at 19:30 free high level classical music concert), chapel, paranymph, courses, historical old library, cafeteria, bookshop, etc... (See all on "Actividades", in the webpage)

:- [http://www.museuprehistoriavalencia.es/ ''Museo de prehistoria de Valencia''] (Prehistoric museum of Valencia) [http://www.museuprehistoriavalencia.es/horarios.html - Opening hours - ]

:- [http://www.museuvalenciaetnologia.es/inicio.html?event=wbe_i18n_change_lang&lng=en ''Museo Valenciano de Etnología''] (Ethnological Museum of Valencia) [http://www.museuvalenciaetnologia.es/en__horarios.html - Opening hours -]

:- [http://www.valencia.es/ayuntamiento/almoina08.nsf/vDocumentosTituloAux/Inicio?opendocument&lang=1&nivel=1 La Almoina]. Roman and iberic ruins in the city center.

:- [http://www.octubre.cat ''OCTUBRE Centre Cultura Contemporánea''] '''-> FREE ENTRANCE''' (Centre/Museum of Contemporary Art & Culture) Exhibitions, classes, cinema, cafeteria, concerts, activities, talks.

:- [http://tiendas.fnac.es/san-agustin/ ''FNAC''] Why on earth FNAC is standing in the cultural section? Well, because there's a nice bunch of events there such as concerts (almost every saturday and sunday), exhibitions, film shows and way more! '''> Almost everything is free''' Check out their [http://tiendas.fnac.es/san-agustin/ monthly program]

:- [http://www.circuitocafeteatro.com/circuito/san-miguel-valencia ''Cafe Teatro''] Some informal theater, stand-up comedy, performances, etc... Normally at nice, small pubs, the usual price is 5€ (including a drink), but sometimes it's free. Keep in mind that language is spanish! Even if you don't understand it, maybe you can be a part of the act and have a lot of fun.

:- [http://kafcafe.blogspot.com/ Caf Cafe] Music, poetry...

===Festival & Events===

'''• In the city (Valencia)'''

:- Valencia is known for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falles Las Fallas], a famous local festival in March.

:- In july there's the [http://www.feriadejulio.com Feria de Julio] that includes fireworks, music concerts, exhibitions...

:- There are also a number of well preserved Catholic fiestas throughout the year. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week Holy week] celebrations in Valencia are considered the most colourful in Spain.

:- 24th of June - [http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/fiestas/sanjuan.asp San Juan Night]

:- Jornadas internacionales de guitarra de Valencia - [http://www.jornadasdeguitarra.com]

'''• In the region (the Valencian community)'''

:- La [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatina Tomatina], an annual tomato fight, draws crowds to the nearby town of Buñol in August. Please use the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=52387 La Tomatina 2012 subgroup].

:- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moros_y_cristianos Moros i Cristians], all around the Comunitat but the ones in Alcoy are Unesco World Heritage).

:- [http://www.lacordadepaterna.es/index.php Cordà de Paterna]. Firecrackers as you've never seen -and heard- before.

:- [http://mas.levante-emv.com/canales/pueblos-en-fiestas/component/k2/item/989-el-ruido-y-la-p%C3%B3lvora-conquistan-torrent.html La Trabucà], july in Torrent.

:- [http://fiberfib.com/ Festival internacional de Benicassim], music festival in July.

===Leisure===
'''Cinema'''

:- [http://www.cinestudiodor.es ''Cinestudio d'or''] The oldest and cheapest cinema in Valencia '''> 2,50€ for 2 movies each tuesday''', 3€ the rest of the week. Movies are spanish dubbed version.

:- [http://www.ivac-lafilmoteca.es/pagina.asp?idpag=14, ''Filmoteca Valencia''] , right in the city center in front of the town hall, is cheap (ticket around 1.5 euros) has good old and new movies, and a important detail '''with subtitles in the original audio version.'''

:- [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&q=Calle+de+Jos%C3%A9+Benlliure,+193,+46011+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana&sll=40.396764,-3.713379&sspn=6.491761,14.128418&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FeBDWgIdXvb6_w&split=0&hq=&hnear=Calle+de+Jos%C3%A9+Benlliure,+193,+46011+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana&z=16 ''Samaruc''] this is not a real big cinema, but a great place to go and see a good movie '''every Wednesday at 9:00PM'''. Free entrance, cheap beer(1 EUR) and really great ambience. An opportunity to meet locals and to see an old maritime village.

:- [http://www.ugc.es ''UGC''] Modern, medium sized cinema with some Original Version movies. Interesting prices.

'''• Nigtlife '''

''Most of the bars in Spain open around 10:00PM, and get crowdy at 12:00AM. ''
''The places where you go to dance, clubs or discos, usually get crowded around 02:00AM or 03:00AM.''
''If it's some '''live music''' you want to listen to and see, take a look at the '''culture chapter'''.''

'''• Are you looking for some places with rock music ?'''

Take a look here at this listing: [http://www.manerasdevivir.com/bares.php?provinciasel=Valencia Rock Bars and Clubs in Valencia]

'''• Students, young crowd and indie/spanish indie music ?

Here is a listing with some popular places: [http://www.guiaindie.com/detalle.php?id_ciudad=35 Indie/ Spanish Indie Music Bars/Clubs]

'''• In mood for salsa ?'''

:- Asucar, ''Calle del Beato Nicolás Factor'', 12 [http://www.asucar.es ''Asucar Webpage'']

:- Noches de Salsa, [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Avenida+Ecuador,+69&sll=39.461956,-0.383536&sspn=0.102844,0.220757&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Av+del+Ecuador,+69,+46025+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana&ll=39.493643,-0.390744&spn=0.01285,0.027595&z=15 ''Avenida Ecuador, 69'']

:- Cuba mia, the right place if you want to dance a cuban salsa with great atmosphere, [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Calle+de+Alcira+12&sll=39.493643,-0.390744&sspn=0.01285,0.027595&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Calle+de+Alcira,+12,+46007+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana&z=16 ''Calle de Alcira 12"]

:- 'Take care with' [http://www.vivirvalencia.com/ocio/son-caribe-salsa '''Son Caribe Salsa'''] it can be an interesting experience, but common sense must be used to avoid conflicts.

'''• Flamenco'''

:- [http://www.cafedelduende.com Café del duende], nice flamenco by semi-pros, 6€ drink included.

:- [http://http://www.laclaca.com La Claca], 8€ including drink.

'''• Gay pubs'''

:-Most gay bars ("bares de ambiente" in spanish) are in the El Carmen area. Venial, ADN or Deseo 54 are just a few examples.

===Sports & Nature===
:- [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=16208 CS Sports group in Valencia.]

There are some nice spots you can visit near Valencia. Remember that [http://couchwiki.org/en/Valencia#Using_bikes some restrictions] apply to bike transport on metro.

:- ''El Saler beach.'' Starting at the Ciutat de les Arts i Les Ciencies there's a bike path that reaches the beach, some small forest and L'Albufera.

:- ''Turia River.'' Starting at the Parc de Capçalera there's a path that reaches Villamarxant following the Turia River.

:- ''La Vallesa Forest.'' The [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=39.537761,-0.498004&daddr=&geocode=&hl=es&mra=mi&mrsp=0&sz=14&sll=39.531055,-0.490179&sspn=0.032504,0.055189&dirflg=w&doflg=ptk&ie=UTF8&ll=39.538933,-0.517731&spn=0.0325,0.055189&t=h&z=14 Vallesa metro station] is in the very middle of a small forest. Nice & flat walks, the Turia river is reachable from there.

:- ''La Serra Calderona.'' Nice trecks and bike routes. The closest tram station is Betera. A good start point is El Pla de Lucas and the Cartuja de Portaceli, located at some 8km from the metro station. The map is [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Calle+de+Jos%C3%A9+Saez%2FCV-310%2FCV-3351&daddr=CV-331+to:CV-331&geocode=FUgdXAIdjAL5_w%3BFTQwXQId9Kn4_w%3BFcqAXQIdHLn4_w&hl=es&mra=ls&dirflg=w&sll=39.667292,-0.471725&sspn=0.03244,0.055189&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12 here.]

===Eating & Drinking===

:- [http://www.frescco.es/ ''FrescCo''] (all-you-can-eat restaurant) Cheap vegetarian food.

:- [http://www.necobuffet.com/ '' NECO Buffet''] (all-you-can-eat restaurant) Good food, big variety - 10 EUR/person(drinks are not included but are reasonable priced)

:- [http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=100+montaditos+valencia&fb=1&hq=100+montaditos&hnear=Valencia,+Spain&ei=RkuVS4qfI4b64AaK-4H_DA&ved=0CBIQtgMwAA&ll=39.472775,-0.377269&spn=0.020804,0.045447&z=15 ''100 montaditos''] (Tapas bar) 2 places in the city-center where you can eat those little toasts. Kinda half-way between fast-food and traditional. '''> Each Wednesday, everything for 1€ (toast, beer, fries...)'''

:- [http://valencia.lanetro.com/comida-rapida/la-vaca-verde-20321837 ''La vaca verde''] (Tapas bar) Very tasty and typical tapas, fresh Alhambra beer.

:- [http://www.qype.co.uk/explore/place_vicinity/287531-Bar-de-los-montaditos-gratis-Valencia El bar de las tapas gratis]. Get a free tapa in each beer.

'''• Paella''': The traditional Paella is a must. Locals eat it ONLY for lunch -never for dinner ;)- Some places where you can taste it:

:- [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=Plaza+Picadero+Dos+Aguas,+3+-+46002+Valencia&sll=40.396764,-3.713379&sspn=6.491761,14.128418&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Plaza+del+Picadero+de+Dos+Aguas,+3,+46002+Valencia,+Comunidad+Valenciana&ll=39.47176,-0.375304&spn=0.000402,0.000862&t=h&z=20 ''La Uteliana''], behind the Palace of the Marques de Dos Aguas. Home made food at a reasonable price.

:- ''El Rall'', close Mercado Central. Good and not too expensive.

:- [http://www.restaurantebonaire.com ''Restaurante Bonaire''], at El Palmar. Good but expensive paella (some 25€)

:- ''L'eriço'' in paseo Neptuno (Malvarrosa beach, close to Neptuno tram stop). Good paella with views to the beach for the reasonable price of 15 euros per menu during workdays.

'''• Vegetarian restaurants'''

:- [http://www.copenhagenvalencia.com/ ''Copenhagen'']
:- [http://www.restauranteanaeva.es/ ''Anaeva'']
:- [http://www.kimpira.es/ ''Kimpira'']

===Shopping===

==COURSES - WORKSHOPS - REGULAR MEETINGS==
===CouchSurfing Weekly meetings===


:- There is a '''weekly Couchsurfing meeting every Thursday''' at [http://www.bar-lospicapiedra.com/mapa.html Los Picapiedra bar], Caballeros 25 (El Carmen). Some pics [http://menturbacion.tumblr.com/post/11139348417/los-picapiedra-buscando-bar here].
We have special discounts between 20h and 00h and you can bring your own food

:- You can check [[:csgroup:1259|the Valencia group]] on CS to keep up to date with Valencia CS activities. It is always a good idea to contact one or two active members personally to know if there is anything going on.

===CouchSurfing Exploring Wednesdays===
'''Valencia's new weekly meeting.''' Every Wednesday a new venue is chosen and all CouchSurfers meet there. The idea behind the ""Exploring Wednesdays"" is to build a huge database for the wiki with reviews from many different spots in the city. Check [[:csgroup:1259|the Valencia group]] on CS to look for this week's ""Exploring Wednesdays"" thread.

===Language Exchange Meetings===
Please use the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=14498 Languaje Exchange subgroup].

:- "Valencia Language Exchange" (English, german, french and italian). Organized by CSers, We meet in a bar Seven/Big Beng, Plaza honduras, Meetings are every Monday, Thursday and Sunday at 8pm, Language exchange and Quiz.

:- Italian/Spanish/English lang. exchange at Miobio every monday at Galilao Galilei 18.30h (UPV)

:- [http://www.portlandalehouse.com/PAH/Welcome.html Portland Language Exchange], Calle Salamanca, 10 - every Wednesday starting with 08:00PM. On sunday there is a english "language quiz game".

:- Taronja lang. exchange every monday @ 19.00h Ubik Café (Ruzafa)

===Workshops===

'''• Learn how to repair your bicycle:'''
Just get in touch with these members on CS [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=1259&post=5088951 Taller Bici]

===Courses===
[http://www.cfp.upv.es/formacion-permanente/index/index.jsp Centro de Formacion Posgrado of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia]. Wide, cheap catalog.

===Spanish Courses===
:- [http://www.route66idiomas.com/ Route 66] managed by dutch people. Accommodation available.

:- [http://www.hispania-valencia.com Hispania.]

:- [http://www.taronjaschool.com Taronja]

:- [http://www.costadevalencia.com Costa de Valencia]

:- [http://www.doyouspeakspanish.eu/ Do You speak Spanish.] Small groups, Intensive course 3h/day for 2 weeks: 99€

==GETTING AROUND==
The region has many places to visit. You can download a detailed PDF map of the Comunidad Valenciana [http://www.cit.gva.es/fileadmin/conselleria/images/Documentos/carreteras/mapas/CVmapa.pdf here].

===From/to airport===
You can get from the airport ("aeroport") to the city center by bus, subway ("metro") and taxi.

'''• BUS:'''
Route 150 Valencia-Airport
Timetable:
from 05.25 to 23:55.
Price:
Regular fare: 1.20 Euro. 65-year-old major persons: 0.85 Euro.

'''• SUBWAY('METRO'):'''
There are two underground lines which link the airport, the city centre and the port:
Line 3. Rafelbunyol-Aeroport
Line 5. Marítim Serrería - Torrent Av. / Aeroport

:- [http://www.metrovalencia.es/moverse-con-metrovalencia-horarios?page=143 Metro Timetables]

:- [http://www.metrovalencia.es/moverse-con-metrovalencia-billetes?page=149 Metro Ticket Price]

'''• TAXI:'''
Stops:
opposite arrivals.
Price:
From the airport to the city centre, approximately 14 Euro - 16 Euro.
Radio Taxi Manises:
961 521 155
Radio Taxi Valencia:
963 703 333
Telephone Teletaxi:
963 571 313

===Use bikes!===
One of the best way to discover Valencia and surroundings is by bike. Take care and lock your bike every time on bike parking places as bike robbery is very common.

:- [http://es.ridethecity.com/valencia Ride the city Valencia:] Handy on-line map with useful info for bikers (safest/fastest routes, shops...)

Bikes can be carried into the subway for free. But there are some restrictions on weekdays and Saturday afternoon, when you cannot use "underground" lines - just trams. More info [http://www.metrovalencia.es/metro/?page_id=103 here.]

There are some [http://www.metrovalencia.es/page.php?page=147 touristic routes outside Valencia] reachable by tram.

'''• RENT A BIKE:'''

:- [http://www.valenbisi.es Public bikes network] Still at an early stage, but sounds promising with fares starting at 18€/year or 10€/week (good option if you stay more than 2 days and you want to move around). Pay attention that only the first 30 min of every ride are free, after this they will charge you. Just park the bike in a station every half an hour and than take it again to avoid paying extra.

:- [http://www.doyoubike.com/ ''Do You Bike''] From 2EUR/hour, 3 rental-points in the city

:- [http://www.orangebikes.net/menuenglish.html ''Orange Bikes'']

:- [http://www.valenciabikes.com/en/ ''Valencia Bikes''] From 5EUR/hour, 2 rental-points in the city

'''• BUY YOUR OWN BIKE:'''

If you stay more in Valencia and you want to buy a second hand bike you can search online for one:

:- [http://valencia.loquo.com/en_us ''Loquo'']

:- [http://www.ebayanuncios.es/ ''Ebay Anuncios'']

:- [http://www.segundamano.es/ ''Segunda Mano'']

:- [http://www.biciutat.es ''BiciCiutat''] New and Second-hand bikes

:- [http://bicicletasbelga.com ''Bicicletas Belga''] specialized in medium and high-end bikes and accesories.

'''PLEASE DO NOT BUY BICYCLES FROM THE SUNDAY MARKET NEAR MESTALLA FOOTBALL STADIUM AS ARE ALL STOLEN BIKES.'''

===Driving===
Valencia is almost a traffic free city and even the rush-hours do not last too much. If driving is easy, finding a parking space in the city center is an adventure. Underground parkings exist but prices are usually very high, you may pay up to 4 Euros for one hour. The ideal is to find a white parking space around your destination and from there to go by foot.

You can find some info about car renting from people [http://movomovo.com/como-funciona/ here] and [http://www.socialcar.com/como-funciona here].

===Public Transportation===
If you are decided not to walk or take a bicycle Valencia offers you a complete network of public transportation. At nighttime, your only public transportation choice is a few night buses or public bikes. You can find the routes, maps and schedules permanently updated on their websites:

'''• BUSES (EMT Valencia):'''

:- [http://www.emtvalencia.es/portal/Main?ISUM_Lang=2 EMT Valencia]

:- Here you have a short guide of how to get from one point of interest to another by bus: [http://www.emtvalencia.es/portal/Main?ISUM_ID=Center&ISUM_SCR=linkServiceScr&ISUM_CIPH=KG6y4mnqaLgjP4YPHqxgKBwmFTvXkiXS4ohdQ9RppKwP2DzY%2BuE8z2rNzwczuxvNMxzfuRGoG2iI%0AMUvSTgrWZp%2Bqc7g8t8jSN%2BeyLUwAv3oAWBPdCL6vyi49kIDFMrK9oLzMPUFdGtVCNkhIQBOWRut1%0A4btMp8xcUG1AesMhJbGaK/B2R/uXxjsOR9LIAh0lxGwD5GvwQ6smc1nw5T7qMFaVJEHQV%2BNbJRJh%0AEO3%2BKdO2OSltCBKJgTiNabzy28D3Ra6VGkNBBsWFdD%2B/MDAYxr4%2BrbzRcD2MKosSYzj6H67chvCZ%0ANvWUKN/OFyNudKx58ujaVrBsZFuunzypCEnBSUhB8nFpa7Z51 Valencia Short Transport Guide]

:- Inside the city boundaries, public buses are red. Some turistic spoots outside the city (Albufera, Alboraya, El Saler Beach etc ) can be reached by yellow buses.

'''• SUBWAY/UNDERGROUND/TUBE in spanish is ¨METRO¨ (tranvia the one going above ground):'''

:- [http://www.metrovalencia.es/page.php?idioma=_en Metro Valencia]

==GETTING THERE & AWAY==

Even if hitchhicking is not common in Spain, you can give it a try, or contact some website where drivers and passengers meet to share time and expenses. This is a cheap and green option, and besides, you can get in touch with local people. You can check the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=25241 CS comparte viajes group] from Valencia or in [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=51794 Spain], the
[http://www.viajamosjuntos.com/do_search.jsp Viajamos Juntos] website, [http://www.comuto.es Comuto carshare] website, [http://www.rideshare.co.uk/ Rideshark], [http://www.conduzco.es Conduzco.es], [http://www.amovens.com Amovens], [http://www.blablacar.com/ Blablacar] or the [http://viajabarato.org/ Viaja barato] website. More info -in Spanish- [http://www.motorpasionfuturo.com/coche-compartido/conduzcoes-y-otras-plataformas-de-coche-compartido-ride-sharing-en-espana here].

Please don't post carsharing request in the Valencia main group unless you're looking for a whole-trip partners.

Please think green and don't take planes unless necessary for short trips!

:- '''BUS Transportation''' all around Spain: [http://www.alsa.es ALSA] & [http://www.avanzabus.com/web/ AVANZA]

:- '''Train Transportation''' all around Spain: [http://www.renfe.es RENFE]

:- '''Ferry Transportation''' to Balearic Islands: [http://www.balearia.com BALEARIA], [http://www.iscomar.com/ ISCOMAR] & [http://www.trasmediterranea.es TRANSMEDITERRANEA]

From/To '''Madrid''':

'''• BUS:'''
:- From the Estación Sur (Metro Mendez Álvaro) buses depart every hour. Price: 27-33 euros. Time: about 4 hours. [http://www.avanzabus.com/web/ Avanza Website].
:- You can also check [http://www.alsa.es Alsa buses].

'''• TRAIN:''' From Estación de Atocha (metro Atocha). There are three kind of trains:
Standar (Alvia, Alaris) Price: 47 euros (sometimes there are special offers buying on-line). Faster, more comfortable, greener and safer than bus. The Valencia main train station (Valencia Nord) is located at the very center of the city. You can book [http://www.renfe.es/ here].

'''• "Regional" train''' with MANY stops. It's cheaper but it takes some 5.30 hours - The landscape through Cuenca Serrania is worth, you can give it a try if you are not in a hurry. Price: 23 euros

'''• Fast train (AVE)''' 90 minutes only for 350 Km. Check the "internet" or "Estrella" fares, cheapest if you book 15 days in advance for some trips.

'''• PLANE:''' You can check [http://www.ryanair.com/en Ryanair] low cost company. Beware that it charges extra for the luggage. Both Madrid and Valencia airports are reachable by subway, wich cost less than 2 euro.

==MOVING IN VALENCIA==
===Paperwork===
:- Getting Empadronamiento In Valencia: [http://www.valenciaconnect.com/showlevel1.asp?pid=8648 Empadronamiento Information]

:- Getting a NIE Number in Valencia: [http://www.valenciaconnect.com/showlevel1.asp?pid=8647 NIE Information]

:- Residency for Non EU Citizens in Spain: [http://www.valenciaconnect.com/showlevel1.asp?pid=8646 Non-EU Citizens Residency Information]

:- Residency for EU Citizens in Spain: [http://www.valenciaconnect.com/showlevel1.asp?pid=8645 EU Citizens Resindecy Information]

===Finding a house===
:- Please check the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=20322 CS Valencia "Finding a House Group"]. Don't post in the main group.

:- [http://valencia.loquo.com/es_es Loquo]

:- [http://www.idealista.com/pagina/portada Idealista]

:- [http://www.appartamenti-valencia.it Appartamenti Valencia]. For short-term renting.

:- [http://www.enalquiler.com Enalquiler]

The main recommended areas are:

:- ''Benimaclet'': A former village, now it's been added to the city. Yet it still keeps some of its charm and quietness with few big buildings. Near the universities, you'll find many students in the area. Many cheap bars and good transport by metro and tram.

:- ''El Carmen'': The old city center, cute and with narrow streets. Few cars and close to the river (reconverted to a huge park nowadays). You'll find a bohemian spirit and overcrowding from Thursday till Sunday.

:- ''Ruzafa'': close to the city center, it's populated mostly by immigrants and students. Still has the look and feel of a traditional area with amazing mixture of ethnics, people and traditions. You'll find a intense cultural life with many libraries, coffee-shops, art galleries...

===Getting your luggage===
:- [http://www.sinmaletas.com SinMaletas]. Fine and cheap way to tranport your luggage.

:- [http://www.europarcel.co.uk/ Europarcel] Moving your luggage there&away

===Recycling===
:- [http://www.nolotiro.org Nolotiro.org] is a give-for-free website where you can give or ask for some stuff.

:- [http://www.valencia.es/ayuntamiento/infociudad_accesible.nsf/vListadoCategoriasWeb/8D253707872BD3D9C12572C200225540?OpenDocument&bdOrigen=&idapoyo=&nivel=8&lang=1 Ecoparques] list.

:- [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=17786 How to recycle wasted oil] post.

===Fair Trade Shops, eco, second hand...===
:- [http://www.puntdesabor.com Punt de Sabor]. Organic and local fresh products.

:- [http://www.setemcv.org SETEM] Next to Ruzafa Market, c/ Tomassos 14, wide variety of fair trade products. Closes on Satruday afternoon.

:- Ecomarket. Blasco Ibáñez, 66

:- Second hand clothes, fornitures... at a shop at the beggining of Alboraya Street.

:- [http://eldesvandeviviana.wix.com/eldesvandeviviana#!__sitio-web El desván de Viviana]
[[trash:Valencia]]
[[hitch:Valencia]]

Seville

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{{Spain}}

== Getting here ==

===By train===
* Santa Justa Train Starion

===By Plane===
* Sevilla Airport
* Faro Airport
* Jerez Airport
* Malaga Airport

== Things to visit in Sevilla ==

=== MANDATORY -> Metropol Parasol===
Especially different to any other thing you have seen
Locals name it as "Las Setas" (The mushrooms) the largest wooden structure in the world
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropol_Parasol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropol_Parasol]
* [http://alturl.com/zqtp2 http://alturl.com/zqtp2]

You have to go down to the level -1 to be able tom take the lift to go up to the view point

=== MANDATORY -> Plaza de España===
Just Amazing place. you have never seen something like that place. ceramics, pottery, azulejos.. full of simbols and history, build up in 1929
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_España_(Seville) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Espa%C3%B1a_(Seville)]
* [http://alturl.com/2p5ag http://alturl.com/2p5ag]

It was the palace of planet Naboo @ StarWars
* [http://youtu.be/mVQyW1n5ECY http://youtu.be/mVQyW1n5ECY]
It´s allso the palace ant the movie The dictator, or Rommer Headquarters ant the film Lawrence the Arabia

===IMPORTANT===
Unesco World Heritage [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/383 http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/383]

====Alcazar====

====Cathedral & Giralda====

====Archivo de Indias====

And you should wallk arround Triana & arrond Santa Cruz district..

==Flamenco places==

===Flamenco Museum===
Flamenco show at the flamenco museum is a good option, not one of those designed to take the tourists money.... :-) going there is a good choice...

===Lo Nuestro===
@ Triana the place "lo nuestro" @ Calle Betis 31, around midnight.
They have 2 groups singing Sevillanas & Rumbas, and locals go there to dance., they have not a "proper" show where you go ther to see people dance, you go ther to dance yourself.
*[ http://youtu.be/pLJ3Te71m1g http://youtu.be/pLJ3Te71m1g]
Here they donch charge to get in, but drinks are more expendsive than in a place with no live music
===El Tronio===
Triana @ Calle Pureza 3
Once you ahve ebbn dancing for a While in Lo nuestro, you can move to El, Tronio,
*[http://salatronio.blogspot.com.es/ http://salatronio.blogspot.com.es/]
*[http://youtu.be/iHR_vR1VBJk http://youtu.be/iHR_vR1VBJk]
Is free to get inside, but beers or other drinks are more expensive that if you go to a bar with no live music.

===La Anselma===
===La Madrugá===

Seville

2017-08-28T21:54:37Z

Midsch: {{Spain}} / removed spam

{{Spain}}

[TOC]

== Getting here ==

===By train===
* Santa Justa Train Starion

===By Plane===
* Sevilla Airport
* Faro Airport
* Jerez Airport
* Malaga Airport

== Things to visit in Sevilla ==

=== MANDATORY -> Metropol Parasol===
Especially different to any other thing you have seen
Locals name it as "Las Setas" (The mushrooms) the largest wooden structure in the world
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropol_Parasol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropol_Parasol]
* [http://alturl.com/zqtp2 http://alturl.com/zqtp2]

You have to go down to the level -1 to be able tom take the lift to go up to the view point

=== MANDATORY -> Plaza de España===
Just Amazing place. you have never seen something like that place. ceramics, pottery, azulejos.. full of simbols and history, build up in 1929
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_España_(Seville) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Espa%C3%B1a_(Seville)]
* [http://alturl.com/2p5ag http://alturl.com/2p5ag]

It was the palace of planet Naboo @ StarWars
* [http://youtu.be/mVQyW1n5ECY http://youtu.be/mVQyW1n5ECY]
It´s allso the palace ant the movie The dictator, or Rommer Headquarters ant the film Lawrence the Arabia

===IMPORTANT===
Unesco World Heritage [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/383 http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/383]

====Alcazar====

====Cathedral & Giralda====

====Archivo de Indias====

And you should wallk arround Triana & arrond Santa Cruz district..

==Flamenco places==

===Flamenco Museum===
Flamenco show at the flamenco museum is a good option, not one of those designed to take the tourists money.... :-) going there is a good choice...

===Lo Nuestro===
@ Triana the place "lo nuestro" @ Calle Betis 31, around midnight.
They have 2 groups singing Sevillanas & Rumbas, and locals go there to dance., they have not a "proper" show where you go ther to see people dance, you go ther to dance yourself.
*[ http://youtu.be/pLJ3Te71m1g http://youtu.be/pLJ3Te71m1g]
Here they donch charge to get in, but drinks are more expendsive than in a place with no live music
===El Tronio===
Triana @ Calle Pureza 3
Once you ahve ebbn dancing for a While in Lo nuestro, you can move to El, Tronio,
*[http://salatronio.blogspot.com.es/ http://salatronio.blogspot.com.es/]
*[http://youtu.be/iHR_vR1VBJk http://youtu.be/iHR_vR1VBJk]
Is free to get inside, but beers or other drinks are more expensive that if you go to a bar with no live music.

===La Anselma===
===La Madrugá===

Seville

2017-08-28T21:54:14Z

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[TOC]

== Getting here ==

===By train===
* Santa Justa Train Starion

===By Plane===
* Sevilla Airport
* Faro Airport
* Jerez Airport
* Malaga Airport

== Things to visit in Sevilla ==

=== MANDATORY -> Metropol Parasol===
Especially different to any other thing you have seen
Locals name it as "Las Setas" (The mushrooms) the largest wooden structure in the world
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropol_Parasol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropol_Parasol]
* [http://alturl.com/zqtp2 http://alturl.com/zqtp2]

You have to go down to the level -1 to be able tom take the lift to go up to the view point

=== MANDATORY -> Plaza de España===
Just Amazing place. you have never seen something like that place. ceramics, pottery, azulejos.. full of simbols and history, build up in 1929
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_España_(Seville) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Espa%C3%B1a_(Seville)]
* [http://alturl.com/2p5ag http://alturl.com/2p5ag]

It was the palace of planet Naboo @ StarWars
* [http://youtu.be/mVQyW1n5ECY http://youtu.be/mVQyW1n5ECY]
It´s allso the palace ant the movie The dictator, or Rommer Headquarters ant the film Lawrence the Arabia

===IMPORTANT===
Unesco World Heritage [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/383 http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/383]

====Alcazar====

====Cathedral & Giralda====

====Archivo de Indias====

And you should wallk arround Triana & arrond Santa Cruz district..

==Flamenco places==

===Flamenco Museum===
Flamenco show at the flamenco museum is a good option, not one of those designed to take the tourists money.... :-) going there is a good choice...

===Lo Nuestro===
@ Triana the place "lo nuestro" @ Calle Betis 31, around midnight.
They have 2 groups singing Sevillanas & Rumbas, and locals go there to dance., they have not a "proper" show where you go ther to see people dance, you go ther to dance yourself.
*[ http://youtu.be/pLJ3Te71m1g http://youtu.be/pLJ3Te71m1g]
Here they donch charge to get in, but drinks are more expendsive than in a place with no live music
===El Tronio===
Triana @ Calle Pureza 3
Once you ahve ebbn dancing for a While in Lo nuestro, you can move to El, Tronio,
*[http://salatronio.blogspot.com.es/ http://salatronio.blogspot.com.es/]
*[http://youtu.be/iHR_vR1VBJk http://youtu.be/iHR_vR1VBJk]
Is free to get inside, but beers or other drinks are more expensive that if you go to a bar with no live music.

===La Anselma===
===La Madrugá===

Salamanca

2017-08-28T21:54:04Z

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The goal of this Wikipage is to show useful and helpful info about Salamanca and CS Salamanca. If you have any doubts do not hesitate and ask in [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=5103 CS Salamanca Group]

== '''CS Salamanca''' ==

This group is for the Couchsurfers living in and visiting Salamanca or anybody interested in this beautiful city.

===Meetings===

We do not have a regular meeting yet, but we are continuosly organizing meetings of all kind: dinners, barbeques, picnics, tapas tours, pub-crawls, theme parties, travels, excursions to nearby cities or nice places, sports activities and so on, so just check the main group, each week we do something different,and feel always free to join our meetings!

We encourage everybody to propose new ideas for meetings and to organize them as well.

===Sub-groups===

There is a sub-group specially focus on Accomodation and Last Minute Couch requests: [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=21723 Salamanca (LAST MINUTE COUCH/ROOMMATES/RENT A ROOM)]

This is the place to post a Last Minute Couch request, ask for info about flats, find a room or a housemate.

===Moderators===

If you have any concern about the group and the use of it, please contact with one of the moderators on the next list:
[http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/kurro/ Kurro]
[http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/rodperdigao/ Rodrigo]
[http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/iloveaninha/ Ana Claudia]
[http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/saezm/ Saúl]
[http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/alfonsoespepo/ Alfonso]

===Ambassadors===

Our city ambassador is:[http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/iloveaninha/ Ana Claudia]

=='''Getting to Salamanca''' ==

===Nearby Airports ===
Salamanca has no international airport, but they have a daily flights from Barcelona and Malaga with [http://www.lagunair.com Lagun air].
* [http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?SiteName=MAD&c=Page&cid=1049727006353&pagename=Aeropuerto_MAD Madrid Barajas] + - 210 km from Salamcanca. Buses run frequently.
* [http://www.aena-aeropuertos.es/csee/Satellite/Aeropuerto-Valladolid/es/ Aena Aeropuerto in Valladolid] + - 110 km from Salamanca. The bus drive is 1.5 hour.
: [http://ryanair.com Ryan Air] flies to Valladolid from Brussels, Milan and London's Stansted airport. Besides you can find cheap flights to other destinations in Spain.

===By Bus===
The bus station is only a 15 walk from Plaza Mayor in the center. See the map with the direction [http://maps.google.es/maps?saddr=Avenida+de+Filiberto+Villalobos,+71+-+85,+37007+Salamanca&daddr=PLAZA+MAYOR,+Salamanca&hl=es&sll=40.967472,-5.669653&sspn=0.009365,0.01929&geocode=FbAocQIdgGip_yl9FR3VOiY_DTEmUu7Hq-cdgQ%3BFTkRcQId1Y-p_yEkA2QxbpdLhCnhPwO6FSY_DTFcMqNHc0nRiw&vpsrc=0&dirflg=w&mra=ls&t=m&z=16 here]

* [http://www.avanzabus.com/web/ Avanza bus]. From Madrid (They also run a direct line from the airport to Salamanca)
* [http://www.alsa.es/portal/site/Alsa/ Alsa]
*[http://www.movelia.es Bus Booking]. Easy way to book your bus whichever the bus company might be.

===By Train ===
Tains link the town with Madrid and [[Portugal]]
*[http://www.renfe.es/ National Trains (Renfe)]
: All the discounts [http://www.renfe.com/EN/viajeros/tarifas/index.html here]

===Share a car ===
Web sites for people who wants to share the expenses for travelling by car.

* http://www.viajamosjuntos.com/index.jsp

* From France: http://www.123envoiture.com/

== '''What to visit?''' ==

=== '''Museums''' ===

* '''Museo de Salamanca / Museo de Bellas Artes''': Art museum with a room devoted to Flemish, Dutch and French painting. Furthermore it contains a collection of precious-metal work and samples of provincial archaeology and local popular art.
Entry is free Saturday and Sunday for all people and 1,20 Euroes the other days. Students with card, children, pensioners and groups less than 10 (under request), have free entry. Adress: CASA DE LOS DOCTORES DE LA REINA. PATIO DE LAS ESCUELAS MENORES, 2

=== Sights ===

* These are the most popular local landmarks, but there are way more things to visit, check [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanca Wikipedia Salamanca]
<gallery>
File:Plaza Mayor.jpg|Plaza Mayor
File:Catedral_Nueva.jpg|Catedral Nueva
File:Casa_de_las_Conchas.jpg‎ |Casa de las Conchas
File:Clerecía-Casa_de_las_Conchas.jpg‎ |Clerecía & Casa de las Conchas
File:University_of_Salamanca.jpg |Universidad de Salamanca
File:San_Esteban.jpg‎ |San Esteban
File:Puente_Romano.jpg‎ ‎ |Puente Romano
File:Palacio_de_Anaya.jpg‎ ‎ |Palacio de Anaya
</gallery>

*'''[http://www.salamanca.es/infodeutilidad/oficinaturismo.aspx?sid=en-GB&id=2 Tourist office]''':
- Plaza Mayor, 32 Tel.: 923 21 83 42/ 902 30 20 02 /E-mail: información@turismodesalamanca.com
Monday to Friday: 09:00-14:00, 16:00-20:00.
Saturday: 10:00-20:00
Sunday: 10:00-14:00

- Rúa Mayor, s/n
902 20 30 30 / 923 26 85 71
oficinadeturismodesalamanca@jcyl.es

- [http://www.salamanca.es/planociudad/plano.htm?sid=es-ES&id=1 Tourist map]

== '''Tapas-bars, Restaurants, Cafés''' ==

=== '''Cafés''' ===

* '''Birland''' [http://g.co/maps/tuzs5 See map]

* '''Clavel 8''': A nice cousy places with sofas... [http://g.co/maps/mmasd See map]

* '''Café Alcaravan''': Nice and quiet place for reading ect. [http://g.co/maps/qrw3g See map]

* '''Café Novelty'''[http://www.cafenovelty.com/]: This café has a long story behind it as it was meeting point of writers and intelectuals of last the century [http://g.co/maps/z5wu6 See map]

* '''Mandala''': Beautiful moroccan style. C/ Serranos, 9

* '''Delicatessen''': Lounch like and cool. C/ Meléndez, 25

* '''Revolutum Hostel'''[http://www.revolutumhostel.com/]: Has couches and armchairs and a beautiful inside terrace with heating. C/ Sánchez Barbero, 7

* '''The café at Casa Lis Museum''': A very beautiful and quiet place, with a summer terrace that has the best with view over the river and it is a very good place the see the sunset. It's not necessary to pay the ticket for the museum, just say that you want to go to the coffee place and they will accompany you. C/Gibraltar, 14

== '''Nightlife''' ==

===Pub-Crawling===

Most of the bars and pubs for Pub-crawling are around Plaza Mayor, the main areas are Prior-Bordadores, Varillas-San Justo and Gran Vía.

*'''Paniagua''': Probably one of the most popular and legendary bars in Salamanca. Despite of its "decoration" it's one of the most crowded places, full of both local and international people. The normal drink here is a big plastic cup normally called Litro (almost a litre) of beer/ calimotxo (3,80 €) or mixed drinks. Upstairs there is a table-football (kicker, futbolín) and two rooms. If you go to "Pani" you will probably find a brunch of couchsurfers partying there, usually from 2am-4am. Music is normally rock in English .PS1: Be careful with the stairs.PS2: Toilets are....,let's say, not really clean ;)c/Varillas

===Clubs, Discos===

*'''Cum Laude''':It's a club a bit bigger than many of the other bars where you are crammed in with little ventilation and it has one of the most aesthetically pleasing dance floors of Salamanca. You night want to dress a little better to get in here on the weekends! now they have open-bar of mojitos, beer and sangria every Tuesday night.
*'''Music Factory''':Right next to the Chupiteria, house, pop music.Sometimes there will be 'celebrities' visiting. normally with entrance fee around 3 euros.
*'''The Irish Rover''':It is especially fond with the international students. open-bar of beer and sangria every Tuesday night. different theme parties every week.
*'''Posada De Las Almas''':Every day there is something special. on Thursday and Friday more. It is furnished as a dolls house. Camareros normally are good-looking and friendly. :P
*'''Potemkin''': 50's, 60's, 70's, rock&roll, rythm&blues, swing, funk, soul. Nice ambient, good-vibes perfect to dance no-mainstream music while enjoying the last (or lasts) drinks. People usually go to "Potem" when the pubs/bars close, that means from 4:30am until 6:30am. Beer 3€, mixed drinks around 6 €. On weekends normally there are gigs (rock, punk, hip-hop). It closes from the beginning of July until the end of August.http://www.salapotemkim.com/

==== Places to dance salsa====
* '''El Savor''' C/ San Justo
* '''El Tropico''' C/ Gran Vía, very close to El Savor

====Gay Salamanca====

*'''CarMen''':Great music and ample dance space are two of the high points of this bar, which boasts a slightly older crowd.c/ Patio de Comedia, 2
*'''De Laval Genovés''':Known as El Submarino (the Submarine) for its nautical decor and interior resembling a gutted out submarine, De Laval Genovés is not an exclusively gay and lesbian bar but is none the less a favorite of the community.c/ San Justo, 27
*'''Sol Café''':Its highly original atmosphere provided by varied music, a dance floor with a giant illuminated globe, drag shows and other performances.c/ Pozo Amarillo, 28
*'''Sarao''':One of the most popular bars for Salamanca's gay community boasting great music.Avda. de Alemania

== '''Where to stay?''' ==

===Hostels ===

*'''Hostel Revolutum''': - probably the nicest hostel in Salamanca despite is not the cheapest, very well located http://www.revolutumhostel.com/?lang=en
*'''Hostal Plaza Mayor''': http://www.hostalplazamayor.es/
*'''Hostal Las Vegas''': http://www.lasvegascentro.net/
*'''Pension Salamanca''':- if you are looking for a cheap place and you don't plan to spend much time in the room, this is the place http://www.pensionsalamanca.com/

===Cheap Hotels===

*'''Hotel Emperatriz I, II'''- very central, cheap double rooms http://www.emperatrizhotel.com/

===Apartments===

*'''Apartamentos JCH Congresos'''- http://www.booking.com/hotel/es/edificio-congreso.en.html
*'''Apartamentos Plaza de la Libertad'''-http://www.apartamentosplazadelalibertad.es/

===Long-term accommodation===

* Check the University accommodation office: [http://websou.usal.es/vivienda/presenta.asp]
* [http://www.easypiso.com/ Easypiso]

== '''About Salamanca''' ==

===Local festivities===

* '''Fiestas de la Virgen de la Vega''': 8th-15th of September. Is the main festivity in Salamanca. Many activities and events are carried out during it. Each night (or almost) there is a concert or gig for free in Plaza Mayor. During this week and even longer there is the "Feria del día" where many bars and restaurants place a stand "caseta" on the street offering a tapa plus drink from 1,50€ (the cheapest).
*'''Fiesta de San Juan de Sahagún''': 12th of June. Around this date there is a festival in Salamanca called [http://www.facyl-festival.com/ International Arts Festival of Castilla y Leon] with music, street art, perfomances and so on.
*'''Lunes de Aguas''': Each year, the first Monday after Easter Monday, it is tradition to go to the countryside or parks and have lunch or "merienda" with your family and friends. The typical food for this day is Hornazo. You can read about the nice origin of this tradition [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunes_de_aguas here] (in Spanish)

===Typical gastronomy ===

<gallery>
File:Hornazo.jpg|Hornazo de Salamanca
File:Chanfaina.jpg‎|Chanfaina
File:Farinato_with_fried_eggs.jpg |Farinato with fried eggs

File:Patatas_Meneas.jpg‎ |Patatas Meneas
File:Jamon_Ibérico.jpg‎ |Jamon Ibérico
File:Surtido_de_ibéricos.jpg‎ |Surtido de ibéricos
</gallery>

=== Traditions & Legends===

== '''Learning Spanish''' ==

===Language Schools in Salamanca ===

There is a lot of language schools in Salamanca as the city is a popular place for learning spanish in Spain
(feel free to add commands about good or bad experiences).

* '''University of Salamanca''': http://www.salamanca-university.org/

* '''Enforex''': http://www.enforex.com/spain-salamanca.html

* '''Don Quijote''': https://secure.donquijote.org/landing/learnspanish/salamanca.asp

* '''Tia Tula''': http://www.tiatula.com/

And a lot more.....

===Helpful links===

* A general site for comparing prices and read comments about the language schools: http://www.languagecourse.net/

* A language exchange network: http://www.sharedtalk.com/

* A free educational website for language exchanges via Skype: http://www.language-exchanges.org/

* Podcasts, vocabulary and exercises for free: http://www.audiria.com

* Free Spanish audio and video divided into levels: http://www.notesinspanish.com/

== '''A day-trip around Salamanca''' ==

* '''Vale de Jerte, Garganta del Infierno, Los Pilones''':

== '''Cultural Life''' ==

=== Museums===

CASA LIS Modernist building, Art Nouveau- Art Decó collection.
http://www.museocasalis.org/
C/ gibraltar, 14 (going down Tentenecio street from the cathedral and then the small street on the left)

Winter, 4 oct-31 march
Tuesday-Friday 11-14h. 16-19h.
Sat-sunday: 11-20h.

Summer, 1april-3 october
Tues-friday: 11-14h. 17-21h.
Sat-sunday: 11-21h.

Prices: 4€, students and +65 2€, unemployed 1€, under 14years old free, groups (minimum 10 people) 2€/p, thursdays morning free.

Modernist building, Art Nouveau- Art Decó collection.
You will find Chryselephantine sculptures, vases, lamps, perfume bottles from Lallique and his co-workers.
Also decoration items,jewels, furniture and toys from the beginning of the XXth century
Beautiful place, even only the building worths the visit, also nice cafe-terrace to enjoy the view and have a rest.

Da2 contemporary art museum
http://www.ciudaddecultura.org/da2/

Avenida de la Aldehuela s/n
Bus 8 or 13 take you near the museum

Tuesday-friday: 12-14h. 17-20h.
Sat-sunday: 12-15h. 17-21h.

Free entrance.

All the contemporary art you can find in Salamanca. The building is the old prison of Salamanca,restored and converted into a museum.
They have a restaurant with a summer terrace: MOMO Da2.

Other small exhibition halls:
SAN ELOY
Plaza San Boal (near calle Zamora)

PATIO DE ESCUELAS MENORES
Calle Libreros
There you can find Museo de Bellas Artes,already mentioned but inside the patio there is a small hall with temporary exhibitions and the very famous "Cielo de Salamanca" a painting in the ceiling representing the sky seen from our city, XV century.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES INFO
http://www.salamancaciudaddecultura.org/
http://www.dipsanet.es/cultura/agenda/
http://www.verquehacer.com/

=== Live Music===

* '''El Corrillo''': This restaurant-bar located very central is one of the fewest jazz venues in Salamanca http://cafecorrillo.com/musica-en-vivo.php

== '''SOS in Salamanca''' ==

* '''Emergency number''': 112
* '''Local Police''': Policía Local de Salamanca, Tlf: 923 19 44 40,Avda. de la Aldehuela, 43-63,37003 Salamanca
* '''Fireman''':923 23 23 36
* '''Red Cross''':923 30 07 11
* More [http://www.belt.es/articulos/telefonos_emergencia/telefono.asp?id=9&name=26 useful numbers]

== '''Sports in Salamanca''' ==

===Gyms===
[[hitch:Salamanca]]

Oviedo

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|imagetext = Flag of Oviedo
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'''Oviedo''' is the capital city of Asturias in northern [[Spain]] and has a population of approximately 223.617 people, 50 of they are CSers ''(august 2008)''. Oviedo is a small and calm city but with a lot of things to do, to visit, to taste, and to enjoy for really little money.
Oviedo University's international campus attracts many foreign students from all over the globe.

Check out our group: [[:csgroup:5859|Asturias, North of Spain]] to keep yourself informed about events and more.
 
==Climate & Weather==
Summers are mild, with lot of sunny days and winters are moderate with soft rains that we call '''orbayu'''. You can check the weather
[http://www.meteoasturias.com here] and also view some webcams of the region.

==Getting here==

'''ASTURIAS AIRPORT''' (code IATA: '''OVD''', code OACI: '''LEAS''')

is placed in Ranon, 47 km from oviedo and has [http://www.alsa.es buses] to oviedo every hour for €6,15 ''(august 2008)''.

airlines:

* Air Berlin: Palma de Mallorca.
* Air Europa: Lanzarote, Tenerife Sur, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Palma de Mallorca.
* Clickair: Barcelona.
* easyJet: Ginebra (Geneve), Londres-Stansted (London), Madrid-Barajas.
* Iberia: Barcelona, Madrid-Barajas.
* Air Nostrum (Iberia regional): Alicante, Barcelona, Bruselas (Brussels), Madrid-Barajas, Málaga, París-Orly, Sevilla, Valencia.
* Spanair: Barcelona, Madrid-Barajas.

'''BUSES'''

* [http://www.estaciondeautobusesdeoviedo.com Estacion de Autobuses de Oviedo] Oviedo's bus station
* [http://www.alsa.es ALSA] the bigest bus company

'''TRAINS'''

* [http://www.renfe.es RENFE]
* [http://www.feve.es FEVE]

'''HITCH-HIKING'''

Spain is not an easy country for hitchhiking, you can try it but remember it is forbidden in highways

==Local transportation==

Oviedo is a small city, and you can go walking everywhere, but if you are too lazy, take the [http://www.tua.es urban bus]. A one-journey ticket costs €0.90 ''(august 2008)''.

These buses work from 7:00 to 23:00 every ten minutes aprox (depends on the line) and in weekends and holidays there are special ones throughout the night, look for ''buhos'' in their web site.

==Places==

All of the next places are showed in this [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=es&msa=0&ll=43.360633,-5.846958&spn=0.022995,0.038581&t=h&z=15&msid=113951989354945120897.0004555a7e8dbbd3df483 google map]

===to visit===
<gallery>
Image:oviedo-escandalera.jpg|''La Escandalera Square''
Image:oviedo-san_francisco.jpg|''San Francisco Park''
Image:oviedo-santa_maria_naranco.jpg|''Santa Maria de Naranco Church''
Image:oviedo-catedral.jpg|''Cathedral''
Image:oviedo-iglesia_san_juan.jpg|''San Juan Church''
Image:oviedo-mercado_fontan.jpg|''El Fontán Market''
Image:oviedo-mirador_cristo.jpg|''El Cristo viewpoint''
Image:oviedo-san_miguel_lillo.jpg|''San Miguel de Lillo Church''
</gallery>

===Art & Culture===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%">
<tr>
<td width=150 valign=middle>[http://www.museobbaa.com Fine Arts museum]</td>
<td width=50 valign=middle align=center>free</td>
<td width=80 valign=middle>985 21 30 61</td>
<td width=170 valign=middle>Calle Santa Ana 1-3</td>
<td valign=middle>Tuesday on Friday - 10,30 to 14,00 & 16,30 to 20,30 Saturday - 11,30 to 14,00 & 17,00 to 20,00
 Sunday and holiday - 11,30 to 14,30 ''little time changes in july and august''</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=middle>Archaeological museum</td>
<td valign=middle align=center>free</td>
<td valign=middle>985 21 54 05</td>
<td valign=middle>Calle San Vicente, 5</td>
<td valign=middle>Tuesday to saturday - 10.00 to 13.30 & 16.00 to 18.00 Sunday and holiday - 11.00 to 13.00</td>
</tr>
</table>

===to drink something===
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%">
<tr>
<td width=170 valign=middle>'''Gascona'''</td>
<td>''"El bulevar de la sidra"'' (boulevard of cyder) is full of ''sidrerias'' and always crowded.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=middle>'''La Calleja La Ciega'''</td>
<td>A calm bar to enjoy summer nights in this wonderful terrace (downstairs)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=middle>'''CA Beleño'''</td>
<td>An old celtic tavern with tipical decoration, to drink an irish beer listening to bagpipe sounds</td>
</tr>
</table>

===to eat===
soon....

===Nightlife===
All the night clubs are in the same area (more or less) and I think it is better to mark all the area in google maps than mark them one by one, because here in spain, usually people dont spend more than 30 min in each club, and in one night you'll have time for visit most places and decide which is the best for yourself.

==Festivals & Events==
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%">
<tr>
<td width=210 valign=middle>[http://www.ayto-oviedo.es/es/programacion/agendaPorCategoria.php?cat=20 San Mateo]</td>
<td width=180 valign=middle>12 - 28 september</td>
<td valign=middle>''main party''</td>
</tr>
</table>

==Acomodation==
If you can't find any couch for crash, try with the next choices:

<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%">
<tr>
<td width=210 valign=middle>[http://www.reaj.com Albergue Ramón Menéndez Pidal]</td>
<td width=90 valign=middle>985 96 65 70</td>
<td width=190 valign=middle>C/ Julián Claveria,14</td>
<td valign=middle>''Hostelling International''</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=middle>[http://www.caminosantiagoastur.com Albergue de El Salvador]</td>
<td valign=middle>985 22 85 25</td>
<td valign=middle>Calle San Pedro Mestallón, nº 1</td>
<td valign=middle>''only for pilgrims (you need a card)''</td>
</tr>
</table>

==Useful Info & Links==

Spain phone prefix 0034

* Ambulance, Emergencies, Firemen, Police: 112
* Taxis: 985 25 25 00 [http://www.radiotaxiprincipado.com web]
* City Hall 984 08 38 00 [http://www.oviedo.es web]

==Info for Oviedo hosts==

In your profile, you can add the following text so you give people the basic information any CSer needs to know when planning to come to our city.

=== Copy + Paste this text in your "Couch information" ===

'''<nowiki>If you are coming to Oviedo, check our <a href="http://couchwiki.org/en/Oviedo">wiki</a> and <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=5859">Asturias group</a> -

very helpful info inside!!</nowiki>'''
[[hitch:Oviedo]]

Murcia

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Málaga

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Madrid

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{{Spain}}
{{Madrid}}
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Welcome to Madrid... and for sure to the MADRID WIKI!

In this Wiki you will find useful and common information that everybody is asking when they come to our city. Take your time exploring this Wiki, and if you don´t find (or you don´t understand) information about what are you looking for, feel free to ask us at the [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=494 CS Madrid Group] or [https://www.bewelcome.org/groups/82 BW Madrid Group].

We hope to make this Wiki better and complete it with much more information ...

Hey, Ho, Let´s GO!! :)
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= Collection of former cswiki-links =
'''Unfortunately all the links below point to wikipages deleted by Couchsurfing Corp.'''

Are there any backups?

[https://madridfortravellers.wordpress.com/ This looks like one!]

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_CS/ CS Madrid] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_CS/#Presentation_of_our_group 1.1. Presentation of our group].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_CS/#Meetings 1.2. Meetings].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_CS/#CS_links_-_Madrid_group_and_subgroups 1.3. CS links - Madrid group and subgroups].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_CS/#List_of_Ambassadors 1.4. List of ambassadors].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_CS/#CS_Safety_.28Contact_person_in_the_group_in_case_of_an_emergency.29 1.5. CS safety].

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/ Transports] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Tourist_Travel_Pass 2.1. Tourist Travel Pass].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Metro 2.2. Metro].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Taxis 2.3. Taxis].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Buses 2.4. Buses].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Local_buses 2.4.1. Local buses (EMT)].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#National_buses 2.4.2. National buses].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Trains 2.5. Trains].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Local_Trains 2.5.1. Local trains (Cercanías)].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#National_Trains 2.5.2. National trains (Renfe)].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Airport 2.6. Airport].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Luggage_lockers 2.7. Luggage lockers].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Car_and_Parking_facilities 2.8. Car and Parking facilities].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Car_Sharing 2.9. Car Sharing].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Transports/#Bicycle 2.10. Bicycle].

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit What to visit] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Museums 3.1. Museums]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Sights 3.2. Sights]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Parks 3.3. Parks]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Markets 3.4. Markets]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Major_events_during_the_year 3.5. Major events during the year]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Guided_tours 3.6. Guided tours]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Madrid_for_families:_what_to_do_and_visit_with_children.3F 3.7. Madrid for families: what to do and visit with children?]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Meeting_points_in_Madrid 3.8. Meeting points in Madrid]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Brief_History_of_Madrid 3.9. Brief History of Madrid]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Visit#Free_Museums_in_Madrid 3.10. Free Museums in Madrid]

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/ Entertainment] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Cinemas 4.1. Cinemas]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Theatres 4.2. Sports]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Sports 4.3. Theatres]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Thematic_Parks 4.4. Thematic Parks]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Zoo 4.5. Zoo]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Bullfighting 4.6. Bullfighting]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Flamenco_shows 4.7. Flamenco shows]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Entertainment/#Opera 4.8. Opera]

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Where/ Where to...] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Where/#Drink.2C_Eat_and_Party 5.1. Drink, Eat and Party].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Where/#Vegetarian_food 5.2. Vegetarian food].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Where/#Dancing 5.3. Dancing].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Where/#A_day_with_nothing_to_do.2C_and_few_money.3F 5.4. A day with nothing to do, and few money?]

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/ Around Madrid: one-day excursions] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#Alcal.C3.A1_de_Henares 6.1 - Alcalá de Henares].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#Aranjuez 6.2 - Aranjuez].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#.C3.81vila 6.3 - Ávila].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#Cuenca 6.4 - Cuenca].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#San_Lorenzo_del_Escorial 6.5 - San Lorenzo del Escorial].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#Segovia 6.6 - Segovia].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#Toledo 6.7 - Toledo].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#Trekking_-_hiking 6.8 - Trekking - hiking].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Around/#Sweet_water_beaches 6.9 - Sweet water beaches].

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/ In case of an emergency] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Safety_in_Madrid 7.1. Safety in Madrid]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Hospitals.2FCentros_de_Salud 7.2. Hospitals/Centros de Salud]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Pharmacies.2FChemists 7.3. Pharmacies/Chemists]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Police 7.4. Police stations]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Firemen 7.5. Firemen]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Embassies 7.6. Embassies]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Lawyers 7.7. Lawyers]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Cancel_your_credit_card 7.8 Cancel your credit card]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_SOS/#Other 7.9. Other]

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Communications Communications] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Communications#Phone:_where_to_buy_them.2C_fares 8.1. Phone: where to buy them, fares]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Communications#Locutorios 8.2. Locutorios]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Communications#Post_offices 8.3. Post offices]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Communications#Wi-fi_bars_and_places 8.4. Wi-fi bars and places]

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living Living in Madrid] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Madrid_Districts 9.1. Madrid Districts]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Language_schools 9.2. Language schools]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Work_in_Madrid 9.3. Work in Madrid]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Renting_flats_and_rooms 9.4. Renting flats and rooms]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Visa.2Fimmigration_information 9.5. Visa/immigration information]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Cost_of_living 9.6. Cost of living]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Shopping_Areas 9.7 Shopping Areas]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Going_out 9.8 Going Out]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Weather 9.9 Weather]
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Living#Health_Care 9.10 Health Care]

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation Accomodation] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation#Appartments.2C_Flats.2C_Houses_and_Rooms 10.1 Appartments].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation#Appartments.2C_Flats.2C_Houses_and_Rooms 10.2 Flats].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation#Hotels 10.3 Hotels].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation#Hostels 10.4 Hostels].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation#Appartments.2C_Flats.2C_Houses_and_Rooms 10.5 Houses].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation#Appartments.2C_Flats.2C_Houses_and_Rooms 10.6 Rooms].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Accomodation#Rural 10.7 Rural].

== [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Collaboration Collaboration and Help] ==

* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Collaboration# Why this Wiki?].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Collaboration# Collaborators].
* [http://couchwiki.org/en/Madrid_Collaboration# Help Us].
[[trash:Madrid]]
[[hitch:Madrid]]
[[nomad:Madrid]]

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Barcelona

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{{Spain}}
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|city = Barcelona
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|image = Flag_of_Barcelona.svg
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'''Barcelona''' is the capital city of Catalunya - [[Catalonia]] - and the second largest city in [[Spain]]. 
There's an active CS community. You can check [[:csgroup:497|the Barcelona group]] on CS to keep up to date with Barcelona CS activities.

== Welcome to Barcelona ==
How can I get to Barcelona? What can I do? What can I see? How is the couchsurfing community here? Well, start reading! : )

Barcelona>Catalunya>Spain>Europe 
2º 7’ 42’’ E 
41º 24’ 42’’ N 
ALT. 12,5m (Pl. Sant Jaume) 
POP. 1.593.075 (2005)

Barcelona's short name is BARNA or BCN. If you refer to it as Barça, Barca (btw, it means 'boat' in English) or Barsa, you mean the football team. Arsenal is not London, Juventus is not Torino, Steaua is not Bucharest, CSKA is not Moscow... so Barça is not Barcelona :DDD Keep this in mind when you want to get in touch with locals :P

== Climate & Weather ==
Planning a trip to Barcelona? [http://www.wordtravels.com/Cities/Spain/Barcelona/Climate Here] you have the monthly climate average with max and min temperature and monthly rainfall.

Already here in Barcelona? Just want to check the weather report? Several links:
[http://es.weather.yahoo.com/SPXX/SPXX0015/index_c.html Yahoo-Weather] | [http://www.bcn.cat/temps/english/ Barcelona's official website] |
[http://tiempo.meteored.com/weather/weather_Barcelona-Barcelona-Espana-Europa-LEBL-1.html weather at Meteored] | [http://www.tvcatalunya.com/eltemps/ Weather @ TV3]

== Getting here ==

=== Barcelona Airport ===
Many companies fly to '''El Prat''' which is connected regularly to the city by a bus and a train service [http://www.renfe.es/cercanias/barcelona/index_horarios.html RENFE]).

El Prat is about 30 minutes by train to Sants train station. A single ticket is €3.

'''Updated info new Terminal'''
Terminal names has changed now we have T1(new one), and T2 (A-B-C Old one).

Barcelona airport passengers can easily travel between the two terminals on the shuttle bus service that will be in operation.

There will be two shuttle buses covering the distance between T1 and T2. From the Renfe (Cercanías/Rodalia) suburban train station, situated next to T2B, there will be a shuttle that coincides with train arrivals. At T2B there will be another shuttle service which departs every six or seven minutes. Neither shuttle takes longer than 10 minutes.

Aerobus lines, more info and timetable on [http://www.aerobusbcn.com/ Web]:
* Aerobus (A1) Airport (T1) - Plaza de Catalunya. T1 (departures and arrivals roadway) bus stop
* Aerobus (A2) Airport (T2) - Plaza de Catalunya. Opposite T2B (opposite the Joan Miró mural) and T2C

Metropolitan bus lines:

* L77 Sant Joan Despí-Airport. The bus stop is situated on arrivals roadway.
* L99 Castelldefels-Airport. The bus stop is situated on arrivals roadway.
* PR1 El Prat-Airport. The bus stop is situated on arrivals roadway.
* 46 Plaza España-Airport.
* N17 Plaza Catalunya-Airport.

Regional bus lines. The bus stops are situated on the arrivals roadway:

* Directbus. Airport-Estación de Sants (railway station)-Andorra-Sant Julià de Lòria.
* Empresa Plana. Airport-La Pineda-Salou-Port Aventura-Cambrils.
* Mon-Bus. Barcelona-El Vendrell.
* Rapid Aeroport (Alsa). Services for Girona, Figueres, Lleida, Reus, Port Aventura and Tarragona.
* Novatel Autocars. Airport-Andorra

Barcelona Airport transport info: [http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?cid=1045569607503&pagename=subHome&SMO=1&SiteName=BCN&p=1045569607347&c=Page&MO=1&Language=EN_GB Getting there]

=== Girona Airport ===
Some low-cost carriers, notably Ryanair, use the airport in Girona, nearly 100km to the north, to connect Catalunya with Europe and Morocco. The Barcelona Bus service runs a shuttle bus from Estació del Nord in Barcelona to Girona Airport. A one-way ticket costs €12 and a return ticket costs €21. The journey takes approximately one hour and ten minutes. If you want to know the timetables of the buses from there check this page: [http://www.sagales.com/index.php?Origen=cp114&Desti=315&secc=cerca Horaris aeroport de Girona / Girona airport bus Timetables searcher]
[http://www.sagales.com/pubdocs/2093_aeroport-girona-costa-brava---barcelona-(estacio-nord)-2010-10-26.pdf Timetables Girona Airport to Barcelona]
[http://www.sagales.com/pubdocs/2094_barcelona-(estacio-nord)---aeroport-girona-costa-brava-2010-10-26.pdf Timetables Barcelona to Girona Airport]

Please report broken links, as we try to update as soon as they changed.

=== Reus Airport ===
For Reus airport, the easiest way is to take the train from Barcelona Sants station to Reus and then the local bus to the airport. The train costs €6.45 and then the bus costs €2. This takes roughly an hour and a half. Or there's another option: [http://www.igualadina.com/pdfs/REUS%20AIRPORT.pdf Bus] from Barcelona Sants station directly to Reus Airport.

You can also arrive to Barcelona by ferry, [http://www.barcelonanord.com bus], [http://www.renfe.es train]...

=== Hitch-hiking ===
Check these websites: [http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=Barcelona Hitchwiki Barcelona] |
[http://www.hitchbase.com/ergebnisse.php?LANG=eng&abfrage%5Bstartort%5D=164 Hitchbase Barcelona]
Although Spain is not an easy country for hitchhiking, and barcelona is a big city, it's quite easy getting a ride at one of the two gas stations reachable by local trains described at the links above.

=== Nitbus in Barcelona ===
* '''Nitbus''' Nitbus is the bus that works all night in all Barcelona Metropolitan area (Barcelona city and towns near Barcelona). Perfect for party-lovers who want to make most of the night!

All the night buses stop around Plaça Catalunya ([http://www.emt-amb.com/images/plazacat.jpg Map] | [http://www.emt-amb.com/planos/guiaBarcelona.pdf Guide]).

Routes and maps for the different buses:
* N0 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N0.pdf PDF])
* N1 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N1.pdf PDF])
* N2 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N2.pdf PDF])
* N3 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N3.pdf PDF])
* N4 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N4.pdf PDF])
* N5 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N5.pdf PDF])
* N6 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N6.pdf PDF])
* N7 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N7.pdf PDF])
* N8 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N8.pdf PDF])
* N9 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N9.pdf PDF])
''* N10 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N10.pdf PDF]) these line doesn't exist at these moment''
* N11 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N11.pdf PDF])
* N12 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N12.pdf PDF])
* N13 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N13.pdf PDF])
* N14 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N14.pdf PDF])
* N15 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N15.pdf PDF])
* N16 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N16.pdf PDF])
* N17 - ([http://www.emt-amb.com/Uploads/PDFsLinea/N17.pdf PDF])

== Public Transport '''updated 2014 rates''' ==
* Public Transport in Barcelona: [http://www.tmb.cat/en/home '''TMB'''] - You can plan your trip [http://www.tmb.cat/en/el-teu-transport here]

* The '''[http://www.barcelonabusturistic.cat/en/home Bus Turístic]''' links all of the Barcelona tourist sites you could possibly want to visit. It has three routes, including a northbound and a southbound line which leave from opposite sides of the ''Plaça de Catalunya''. You can buy tickets valid for one day (€27) or two consecutive days (€35), '''buy it only with discount at''' [https://www.barcelonabusturistic.cat/en/venda-de-titols here].

* The '''metro''' can take you to many places. Stations are marked <M> on most maps; every station has a detailed scheme of exits to the city. A one-journey ticket cost €2.15, so it's probably best to buy a multiperson 10-ride ticket for €10.30 (called a T-10) or a personal 50-ride for 30 consecutive days ticket for €42.50. These tickets are also valid on the '''Buses''', '''Trams''', '''FGC''' and '''Rodalies Renfe'''. [http://www.tmb.cat/en/home]. 1- to 5-day public transport tickets are available which allow unlimited travel on the metro and bus networks (€14 for 2 days, €20 for 3 days, €25.50 for 4 days, €30.50 for 5 days,).

* '''Alternative options''': (sharing travels)

[http://www.viajamosjuntos.com www.viajamosjuntos.com ]

[http://www.comparteviaje.es www.comparteviaje.es]

[http://debegesa.compartir.org debegesa.compartir.org]

[http://www.compartir.es/es/index_es.htm www.compartir.es]

[http://www.blablacar.es/ www.blablacar.es]

== Meetings ==

Barcelona has a growing active community that organizes meetings from time to time, end 2006 on a weekly basis.

You can find many active CS groups just by searching the keyword "Barcelona" in the main [http://www.couchsurfing.org/groups.html?search=1 community search portal]. It is always a good idea to contact one or two active members personally to know if there is anything going on. Also it's available the [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=csbcngroup%40gmail.com Barcelona CS Calendar]

== When to Visit: Festivals and Events ==

* '''Sant Jordi''' 23rd of April. Is like Saint Valentine's in many places. People give roses and books around the streets. Is one of the most popular and interesting celebrations in Catalonia.

* '''Corpus'''. Late in May (Corpus Christi day). An egg is put over the fountains (most of them in the churches, and decorated with flowers), and "magically dances" over the water. Most of the churches are in the city centre: Cathedral's cloister, Santa Anna, Casa de l'Ardiaca, Museu Frederic Marés, and over 10 more fountains.

* '''Revetlla de Sant Joan''': for weeks on end, listen to kids shoot off caps and fire crackers. Finish the week with San Juan, head down to the beach for various music stations and all night festivities. The shortest night of the year: 23rd June!

* '''Festes de la Mercè''' Around the 24th of September, the main celebrations in the city. Live music during all the day and night, theatre, life in the streets, ''castellers'', and most of it for free!

* '''Festes de Gràcia''' - around the 15th of August, the celebrations from the [[Gràcia]] quarter. Many streets are decorated by the neighbours, live music, food in the street, party all night long.

* '''Festes de Sants''' - similar to Gracia's event, but smaller and a bit later in August. If you can't go to the Gracia's, try this one!

* '''Festes de la Mercè''' - Around the 24th of September, the main celebrations in the city. Live music during all the day and night, theatre, life in the streets, ''castellers'', and most of it for free!

* '''Fira de Santa Llúcia''' - From December 2nd/3rd to December 23rd, to commemorate Sta Llúcia (December 13th). In front of the Cathedral, is where the Christmas objects are sold. Some places sell Christmas trees, but most of them sell elements for making the ''pessebres'', the representations of the birth of Jesus that people uses to put at home. These include small sculptures, wooden pieces and moss used to simulate grass.

== See and Do - Touristic Barcelona ==

Check the excelent resource [http://www.en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/barcelona Wikivoyage Barcelona]

'''Museu Picasso''' The Museu Picasso de Barcelona is the chief reference point for knowledge about Pablo Picasso’s formative years, and bears witness to the close relation between the artist and the city. Five Gothic mansions house this museum which, in addition to works from the artist’s youth and later life, such as the Blue Period, also contains the magnificent Las Meninas series, a rich interpretive exercise based on Velázquez’s famous work.

'''Fundació Caixa de Catalunya'''Ten years after its inauguration and coinciding with the centenary of the start of the construction of Milà House, the Fundació Caixa Catalunya has reopened the Espai Gaudí. It is a place of reflection, exploration and discovery, inviting the public to participate in an intellectual and sensorial experience which aims to let Gaudí speak for himself in the exceptional setting of La Pedrera attic.
In addition to the Espai Gaudí, the visitor can see the courtyards, La Pedrera Apartment, which recreates the ambience of a middle class home of the early 20th century, and the roof, surprising for its artistic and symbolic power.

'''Fundació Antoni Tapies''' Fundació Antoni Tàpies, housed in a Modernist building in Barcelona’s Eixample district, was established in 1984 by the artist Antoni Tàpies for the purpose of promoting the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art. The Foundation organises temporary exhibitions, lectures and film seasons in order to contribute to a better understanding of contemporary art and culture, as well as possessing one of the most complete collections of works by Antoni Tàpies.

'''MACBA''' The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) houses an important collection of artworks from the last fifty years. Besides a selection of works from the permanent collection, the museum also provides a broad programme of temporary exhibitions and organises activities related to contemporary culture and art. The building itself was designed by the American architect Richard Meier.

'''CCCB''' The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) is a centre that organises exhibitions and activities in such diverse spheres as music, film, dance, performance and anything involving artistic experiment.

'''MNAC''' The magnificent collections at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), covering from the 11th to the 20th century, illustrate, amongst others, two outstanding periods in Catalan art: the Romanesque, with a collection unique in the world; and Modernisme, featuring outstanding works by such artists as Antoni Gaudí, among others. The museum site also commands spectacular views over the city.

'''Fundació Joan Miró''' Fundació Joan Miró de Barcelona, housed in a magnificent building by Josep Lluís Sert in the Parc de Montjuïc, contains the finest public collection of the work of Joan Miró, with 300 paintings, 150 sculptures and the complete graphic works. The Foundation also presents a regular programme of temporary exhibitions by 20th century artists.

[http://www.articketbcn.org/en/mapa city map]

== Modernist Route ==
The Barcelona Modernisme Route is an itinerary that takes you through the Barcelona of Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner and Puig i Cadafalch, the architects who, together with others, made Barcelona the world capital of Modernisme. This Route enables you to get to know thoroughly impressive palatial residences, amazing houses, the temple that has become a symbol of the city and a huge hospital, but it also includes humbler and more everyday buildings and items such as chemists’, shops, lampposts and benches - 115 works in all which show that Art Nouveau put down strong roots in Barcelona and today Modernisme is still an art that is alive and part of life in the city.

You can follow the route with the aid of signs on the ground that are part of the very urban landscape of the city. These are small red paving stones set into the pavement that mark out the main sections of the Route’s and go past the Modernista works on the rest of the itinerary.

For those of you who prefer to get to know Barcelona’s Modernista masterpieces without following a pre-set route, here is a list of the thirty most recommended monuments:
* Hidroelèctrica (Hydroelectric building)
* Museu de Zoologia (Zoology Museum - [http://www.bcn.es/museuciencies Website])
* Palau Güell (Güell Palace)
* Palau de la Música Catalana (Palace of Catalan Music - [http://www.palaumusica.org Website])
* Casa Calvet (Calvet House)
* MNAC (National Museum of Art of Catalonia - [http://www.mnac.es Website])
* CaixaForum, Fàbrica Casaramona (Casaramona Factory - [http://www.fundacio.lacaixa.es Website])
* Casa Lleó Morera (Lleó Morera House)
* Casa Amatller (Amatller House)
* Casa Batlló (Batlló House - [http://www.casabatllo.cat/ Website])
* Editorial Montaner i Simón, Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Montaner i Simón Editor’s – Antoni Tàpies Foundation)
* Conservatori Municipal de Música (Municipal Conservatory of Music)
* Casa Thomas (Thomas House)
* Palau Montaner (Montaner Palace)
* Casa Milà, la Pedrera (Milà House - [http://www.fundacio.lacaixa.es/ Website])
* Casa Fuster (Fuster House)
* Palau del Baró de Quadras (Baró de Quadras Palace)
* Casa Comalat (Comalat House)
* Casa Terrades, Casa de les Punxes (Terrades House, House of the Spires)
* Casa Macaya (Macaya House)
* Casa Planells (Planells House)
* Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (Expiatory Temple of Sagrada Família - [http://www.sagradafamilia.org/ Website])
* Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Hospital of the holy cross and of Saint Paul)
* Park Güell (Parc Güell - [http://parkguell.net84.net/eng/ Website])
* Casa Vicens (Vicens House)
* Pavellons Güell (Güell Pavilions)
* Col·legi de les Teresianes (Teresian Nuns’ School)
* Torre Bellesguard
* CosmoCaixa, Museu de la Ciència (Science Museum - [http://www.fundaciocaixacatalunya.org Website])
* Observatori Fabra (Fabra Observatory)
* Parc del Tibidabo (Tibidabo Theme Park - [http://www.tibidabo.es Website])

== Bars with History - Places with its own style ==
Locales con historia:
He aquí una serie de lugares únicos donde hacer un alto en el camino. Todos ellos se encuentran en edificios o en entornos con mucha historia:

'''Andy Blue (Segre, 24)''' [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.434251&lon=2.1915120000000003&zoom=17&layers=M&mlat=41.43439&mlon=2.19132 map here].
Café, restaurante y copas. Este local se encuentra en una antigua fábrica textil del siglo XIX que hoy alberga también una de las mejores bibliotecas de Barcelona. Donde se escuchaba el traqueteo de los telares, hoy se oye el tintineo de platos y copas.

'''Bar Almirall (Joaquín Costa, 33)''' [http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=2.163877,41.381063,2.168255,41.383414&layer=mapnik&marker=41.38229,2.16594 map here]
Situado en una de las calles con más mezcla cultural de Barcelona, el Almirall es un bar muy antiguo (1860). Lugar de ambiente bohemio y decoración modernista, como el bar Muy Buenas (Carme, 63 -1918-) y el London Bar (Nou de la Rambla, 34 -1909-).

'''Bar Oller (paseo de Sant Joan, 146)'''
Vermut, cervezas y tapas. Un bar tradicional de barrio, que conserva la decoración original de 1928. Se encuentra junto a la fuente de Hércules (1798), también conocida como fuente de los Leones.

'''Bar Pastís (Santa Mònica, 4)'''
Copas en un diminuto bar de estilo marsellés y ambiente portuario fundado en 1947 en pleno barrio Chino. Para bohemios amantes de la música de Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Carlos Gardel, Georges Brassens, etc.

'''Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison (Sant Pere Més Baix, 7)'''
Situada en un señorial edificio del siglo XVI, esta biblioteca, creada en 1909, fue la primera de Europa en especializarse en temas relacionados con la mujer. Se puede acceder gratuitamente, como en el resto de Biblioteques de Barcelona, a libros, revistas, diarios, CD, DVD, Internet, etc.

'''Biblioteca de Sant Pau-Santa Creu (Hospital, 56 – Carme, 47)'''
Ubicada en una de las salas del que fue el principal hospital de Barcelona durante 500 años, hasta principios del siglo XX, es el lugar idóneo para practicar el arte de la biblioterapia bajo bóvedas de crucería centenarias.

'''Bodega Saltó (Blesa, 36 – bodegasalto.net)'''
Cenas frías, vinos y copas. Una de esas bodegas, con un siglo de historia, a las que las amas de casa solían ir a buscar vino a granel. Con actuaciones en directo entre grandes toneles de otro tiempo.

'''Cafè Borrell (Av. Paral•lel, 84)'''
Café y tapas. Situado frente al Molino, este café centenario (1909) es un vestigio del tiempo en que el Paralelo era el corazón del ocio nocturno barcelonés, con sus tabernas, cafés cantantes, teatros, carpas de circo y barracones de feria. Conserva algunos curiosos aparatos antiguos: gramolas, ventiladores, teléfonos, radios...

'''Cafè del Centre (Girona, 69)'''
Café. El tiempo parece haberse detenido en este café de mesas de mármol, bancos de madera y columnas de fundición, abierto en 1873. Muy cerca del Forn Sarret (Girona, 73) y de Queviures Betlem (Girona, 70), dos establecimientos de finales del siglo XIX. En el portal que está entre Queviures Betlem y el Bar Funicular fue detenido, el 25 de septiembre de 1973, el anarquista Salvador Puig Antich, uno de los últimos condenados a muerte del franquismo.

'''Cafè de les Delícies (Rambla del Raval, 47)'''
Cafés, tes, cenas frías y copas. Situado en plena Rambla del Raval, este delicioso café de ambiente bohemio ocupa una antigua tienda de mimbres de 1850. Gracias a una máquina de discos rescatada de los Encantes, aquí sigue sonando la música de la década de 1970.

'''Cafè de l'Òpera (Rambla, 74)'''
Café. Fue abierto en 1876 como restaurante y en 1929 se transformó en café. Al entrar, conviene fijarse en la puerta y también alzar la vista para contemplar los rótulos de un antiguo banco. En el interior, destacan las columnas de fundición y la decoración de los espejos.

'''Ca l’Estevet (Valldonzella, 46)'''
Cocina de mercado en pleno Raval, no muy lejos del CCCB y el MACBA. Por este restaurante, que lleva más de un siglo sirviendo platos, han pasado celebridades de la talla de Orson Welles.

'''Can Culleretes (Quintana, 5)'''
Cocina catalana en el restaurante más antiguo de Barcelona, fundado en 1786. En pleno centro de la Barcelona medieval, a un tiro de piedra de la plaza del Pi y el Call judío.

'''Casa Leopoldo (Sant Rafael, 24)'''
Restaurante fundado en 1929, a escasos metros de donde pocos años antes había sido asesinado Salvador Seguí. En sus orígenes era mesón y bodega a precios populares, pero hoy lo frecuentan intelectuales y personalidades de la política y el espectáculo.

'''Centre Cívic Torre Llobeta (Santa Fe, 2, bis)'''
Una de las masías más antiguas de Barcelona (siglos XV-XVI), muestra espléndida de arquitectura gótica, con dovelas en las puertas y ventanales esculpidos. Además del centro cívico, alberga una biblioteca pública.

'''Centre de Cultura Contemporània (CCCB) (Montalegre, 5)'''
Conferencias y exposiciones en lo que fue la Casa de la Caritat, una institución asistencial de origen medieval que se encargaba de personas pobres e incapacitadas para el trabajo. En el Pati de les Dones (siglo XIX), se pueden leer todavía las máximas con que se pretendía “educar” a las mujeres acogidas.

'''El Cangrejo (Montserrat, 9)'''
Taberna de ambiente bohemio y canalla, vestigio de la época en que el Barrio Chino estaba plagado de locales flamencos (1902). Por aquí han pasado personajes de la talla de Dalí, García Lorca, Joan Miró y Carmen Amaya.

'''El Gallo Quirico (Avinyó, 19)'''
Cocina paquistaní. Junto a la casa de Hércules (que ocupa el número 17 y es del siglo XVI), tiene la particularidad de que las mesas del fondo están apoyadas sobre la mismísima muralla romana de Barcino.

'''El Nus (Mirallers, 5)'''
Copas. Un bar con encanto, que conserva algunos vestigios del colmado que fue, en la calle donde en otro tiempo trabajaron los fabricantes de espejos. Si accedemos a la calle Mirallers desde Vigatans pasaremos entre caserones centenarios y junto a una carassa como las que en la edad media anunciaban la proximidad de un prostíbulo.

'''El Sortidor (plaça del Sortidor, 5)'''
Cocina catalana y mediterránea. Este café restaurante fue inaugurado en 1908, cuando la magnífica fuente de Ceres que dio el nombre a la plaza todavía no había sido trasladada a Montjuïc. Vivió su época más bulliciosa durante la Exposición Internacional de 1929 y todavía hoy conserva su antiguo mobiliario.

'''Els Quatre Gats (Montsió, 3 bis)'''
Café-restaurante. En la casa Martí, obra modernista neogótica de Puig i Cadafalch. Entre 1897 y 1903 fue lugar de reunión y exposición de artistas como Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Picasso y Nonell.

'''Escribà (Rambla, 83)'''
La antigua Casa Figueres fue una fábrica de pastas alimentarias. De entonces conserva la decoración modernista (1902), obra de Antoni Ros, pintor y escenógrafo, y de todo un equipo de artistas del vidrio, la escultura, el mosaico, la madera, el hierro... Hoy es una las pastelerías más conocidas de Barcelona.

'''Fonda L’Havana (Lleó, 1)'''
Tapas y cocina casera catalana en un restaurante de los de toda la vida. Situada en una zona del Raval que se urbanizó en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, L’Havana fue siempre la más frecuentada de las fondas que llenaban la calle Lleó. Tal vez por eso ha pervivido.

'''Granja Viader (Xuclà, 6)'''
Chocolates, cuajadas, flanes, pasteles, mató con miel… Junto a la iglesia de Betlem, esta granja fue fundada en 1870. Aquí se inventó el Cacaolat en 1931.

'''La Clandestina (Baixada Viladecols, 2)'''
Zumos, tes, pasteles, narguiles y bocadillos. A un paso de una torre de la muralla romana muy bien conservada (plaza dels Traginers) y muy cerca de algunos palacios medievales (calle Lledó, números 13, 11, 7, 4-6…) comparables a los de la calle Montcada.

'''La Confitería (Sant Pau, 128)'''
Cafés, tes, cenas frías y copas. A pocos metros de la joya del románico barcelonés, Sant Pau del Camp, esta antigua pastelería conserva la decoración de 1913 (los rótulos de la puerta, los escaparates, el mostrador de mármol, los espejos, las pinturas, las lámparas…).

'''La Granja (Banys Nous, 4)'''
Cafés, chocolates, tes, infusiones, batidos y bocadillos. En Banys Nous, la calle donde los judíos de la Barcelona medieval realizaban sus baños rituales. La Granja data de 1872, pero el trozo de la muralla romana que hay al fondo, de muchísimo antes...

'''La Palma (La Palma de Sant Just, 7)'''
Vinos, cavas, vermut, embutidos, quesos... En la Barcelona más antigua, a escasos metros de la plaza de Sant Just (donde se levantan la iglesia gótica dels sants Just i Pastor y una fuente de 1367), esta es una de esas bodegas de toda la vida, de las que ya quedan pocas.

'''La Paloma (Tigre, 27)'''
Sala de fiestas. Data de 1904. Conserva la decoración de Salvador Alarma (escenógrafo del Liceu) y Manuel Mestre (1915-1919): pinturas con escenas de baile, relieves, dorados, una gran lámpara…

'''La Tete (Comtessa de Sobradiel, 4)'''
Tes, infusiones, pasteles caseros y platos vegetarianos en un ambiente alternativo. En la edad media estuvo en esta zona el Palau Reial Menor, del cual sólo se conserva en parte la fachada de la capilla (calle Ataülf, 4).

'''La Vinya del Senyor (plaça de Santa Maria, 5)'''
Vinos y tapas en un lugar privilegiado, frente a la entrada principal de la gran joya del gótico religioso barcelonés: Santa Maria del Mar.

'''Llibreria la Central del Raval (Elisabets, 6)'''
Libros en la antigua iglesia de la Casa de la Misericòrdia (1693), que acogía niños abandonados y vagabundos sin hogar. Sobre la puerta, dos ángeles sostienen el escudo de la ciudad.

'''Marsella (calle Sant Pau, esquina con Sant Ramón)'''
Uno de los bares más antiguos de Barcelona. Fundado en 1820 por un marsellés que trajo de Francia la absenta. Los espejos, las mesas de mármol y las botellas cubiertas de polvo recrean el ambiente noctámbulo y bohemio del siglo XIX. Cerca de la Rambla del Raval y del lugar donde cayó abatido Salvador Seguí.

'''Otman (Cirera, 4)'''
Moda, tes y comida marroquí. En una de las calles más estrechas y ocultas de Barcelona. Si llegamos a ella por Flassaders desde el paseo del Born, pasaremos por delante de la antigua fábrica de moneda de Barcelona (número 40), que permaneció activa hasta 1836, sobre cuya entrada hay un gran escudo borbónico.

'''Pati Llimona (Regomir, 3)'''
Centro cívico que ofrece conferencias, exposiciones y toda clase de cursos y talleres. Ocupa el palacio de la familia March (siglo XIV), que a su vez se construyó sobre dos vestigios que se pueden visitar libremente: un lienzo de la muralla romana y una de las puertas de Barcino.

'''Puda de Can Manel (paseo Joan de Borbó, 60-61)'''
Restaurante de cocina marinera situado en una puda. Las pudas, características de la Barceloneta del pasado, eran almacenes de planta baja sobre los que se construyeron, retiradas, viviendas.

'''Quimet d’Horta (plaza Ibiza, 10)'''
Lugar emblemático de tapeo en el meollo de la Horta más antigua, a un paso de Can Mariner y de la plaza de Santes Creus.

'''Sala Parés (Petritxol, 5)'''
Sala de arte. Fundada en 1877, ha exhibido la obra de grandes artistas como Picasso y Rusiñol. Situada en una calle de origen medieval (aunque la mayor parte de los edificios actuales es del siglo XIX), llena de pastelerías y granjas.

'''Salterio (Sant Domènec del Call, 4)'''
Tes, infusiones y comida mediterránea. Cerca de la plaza de Sant Jaume, en el centro de lo que hasta 1391 fue el barrio judío de Barcelona, a unos metros de una sinagoga y de una lápida en hebreo (calle Marlet, números 5 y 1). Se recomienda fijarse en las fachadas, las portadas y las ventanas de los números 3-5, 4 y 6.

'''Taverna Can Margarit (Concòrdia, 21)'''
Vinos y cenas. Situada en una casa pairal de 1850 que en 1900 se transformó en bodega, esta taberna es un lugar de ambiente casi rural donde cenar entre toneles y objetos de otro tiempo.

'''Teatreneu (Terol, 26-28)''' ([http://www.teatreneu.com/ Website])
Gastronomía, copas y teatro en el antiguo local de la Cooperativa de Teixidors a Mà (1876), una buena muestra del asociacionismo obrero de Gracia.

'''Tèxtil Cafè (Montcada, 12)'''
Cafetería y comida mediterránea. En la calle más aristocrática de la Barcelona medieval y a un tiro de piedra de Santa María del Mar, este café tiene el privilegio de encontrarse en el soberbio palacio del marqués de Llió.

== What's on. Hang out - BCN Nightlife ==

Couchsurfers in Barcelona generally not only like museums and the beach a lot, they also tend to spend a lot of their time in bars and clubs.Here is a selection of some of their favourite places.

Most nightclubs in Barcelona charge entrance fees (with a drink included) but in the following websites you can get free list entrance to some of the trendiest clubs.

[revive la noche http://www.revivelanoche.com]
[Golden Designer http://www.goldendesigner.net]
[You Barcelona http://www.youbarcelona.com]
[Barcelona parties http://www.barcelonaparties.com]

=== Barcelona Agenda ===

For suggestions about meetings, events and CS activities in Barcelona, [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=csbcngroup%40gmail.com check our calendar].

A live music scene guide: [http://www.barcelonarocks.com/home_eng.asp barcelonarocks.com].

A weekly guide with cool, rather hipster ('moderno') concerts, parties, exhibitions, etc: lecool [http://lecool.com/cities/barcelona/subscriptions/new]. You have to subscribe but it's free.

=== Barcelona Gratis ===

Things to do for free in Barcelona: [http://www.barcelonagratis.com/ Barcelonagratis.com].

=== Butxaca, cultural agenda ===

gigs, festivals and other cultural events [http://www.butxaca.com/.com Butxaca website]

=== Bars ===

* McCarthy's Irish Bar: situated on the very central Via Laietana, number 44. Genuine Irish Bar, owned and operated by a friendly Irishman and a team of English speaking staff who make great local guides. Best Guinness in the city. ([http://www.mccarthysbarcelona.com Website])
* Alt Heidelberg: located in Ronda Universitat, just besides Plaça Universitat. A beer garden, where the black beer is excellent. Don't miss this one! ([http://barcelona.lanetro.com/guia/sitios/fichasitio.cfm?CodigoSitio=19505&IdTipo=58 Review])
* Petit Apolo: located in C/ Vila Vilá 62, corner with Nou de la Rambla. The main different is that you find your own beer tap on every table. 5€/liter of beer, but it is totally worth it! Don't miss this one! ([http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=vila+vil%C3%A1+62&sll=41.374313,2.170122&sspn=0.007777,0.020084&ie=UTF8&ll=41.374538,2.169843&spn=0.007777,0.020084&z=16&om=1 Map])
* Aurora Bar: one of the CS favourites! Cheap beer, good music, tables and chairs in the first floor, free entrance, open until 3 AM. It gets full quickly and the smoke will cover all the place, but you'll have a great time! ([http://barcelona.salir.com/aurora Review & Location])
* L'Antiquari: Located in the most beautiful square of Barcelona. Nice terrace with a real Chillida sculpture. Open doors from 17 to 2 AM. Street Veguer, 13; in the Gothic part of the city. ([http://www.esp.cityvox.es/bars-et-boites_barcelona/l-antiquari_4137/ProfilLieu Review])
* Antic Teatre: street Verdaguer i Callís, 12. Here you can find a wide range of theatrical activities. Besides, a large terrace and a variety of juices to choose. Minimalism in all its glory! ([http://www.lanticteatre.com/ Website])
* El Sifón: located in C/Espalter, 8 (very close to the Botero cat statue in Rambla del Raval)
* L'Ovella Negra or Black Sheep. Not very cheap prices for good beer. A central one in Carrer Tallers and another in Poblenou ([http://www.ovellanegra.net/ Website] | [http://www.bcninternet.com/touristinfo.php?contentid=287 Review]). The one in Carrer Tallers is the favourite place for tourists and you will NOT see locals in there. L'Ovella Negra in Poblenou is near Razzmatazz, where you can continue the party!
* Bar Ramat: located in C/Sant Martí, 15 (very close to Botero cat statue in Rambla del Raval)
* Mirablau: The best view of the city, with IT people there, not especially cheap. Located in Tibidabo area, in Pl. Dr. Andreu s/n. ([http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&hl=es&q=carrer+de+gallarza+Barcelona,+Catalu%C3%B1a,+Espa%C3%B1a&sll=41.415955,2.132227&sspn=0.007402,0.026951&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=41.417725,2.129073&spn=0.014804,0.053902&om=1&iwloc=addr Map])
* Manchester: another CS classic! In Street Milans, 5, Gothic Area. Indie music for people from 25s to 35s. Good atmosphere, relaxed but crowded. ([http://www.manchesterbar.com/ Website])
* Oviso: located in Gothic, Carrer de n'Aray, 5. Cheap food, international people and lovely walls. Go for a drink! ([http://www.festuc.com/local/39590/Oviso Review])
* Teatreneu: Terol, 26-28, Gracia. Very nice theatre with restaurant and bar. The restaurant just friday and saturday night. ([http://www.teatreneu.com/ Website])
* Glaciar Bar: just in Plaça Reial, 3. Very turistic place but cheap and big enough for groups. It is the perfect place to meet up CSers and after head to Karma or Sidecar. ([http://www.esp.cityvox.es/bars-et-boites_barcelona/glaciar_8915/ProfilLieu Info] | [http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=glaciar+bar&near=Barcelona&fb=1&view=text&latlng=41380249,2174764,9988597290078990326 Map])
* Harlem Jazz Club: located in the Gothic, Comtessa de Sobradiel, 8. It has live music almost every night of the week with the first set starting around 22:00 and continuing around 00:30. Music from Brazilian Bossa Nova to African-Caribbean fusions. The concerts are free during the week. ([http://www.bcninternet.com/touristinfo.php?contentid=263 Info] | [http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Harlem+Jazz+Club&near=Barcelona&fb=1&view=text&latlng=41381154,2178349,14457921613504761866 Map])
* Ambar: Ronda San Pau, 77. There is a growing mix of international people inhabiting this area, making of Ambar an attractive place to meet entertaining regulars. The bar is a mixture of art and music in a multicultural environment. ([http://www.bcninternet.com/touristinfo.php?contentid=792 Info])
* Indian Lounge: Street Sant Ramon, 23. Chill-out bar, cheap coctels on a confortable couch. A little hide and not very crowded. Perfect for the first drink and a nice talk before starting the destruction. ([http://www.barcelonaconnect.com/showlisting.asp?cfgid=1-51-1259 Info])
* Marsella: Ronda Sant Pau, 65. If you are looking for the most authentic place to drink absinth then look no further than the Marsella Bar. The interior has a 19th Century design with faded mirrored bar and hanging chandeliers. Miro, Picasso and Hemingway have all been rumored to have hung out here drinking. One glass of this is probably enough to sample for the first time user. Warning: it is strong and you will have a very good feeling. ([http://www.barceloca.com/data/details.aspx?ID=1620 Info] | [http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Marsella+Bar&near=Barcelona&fb=1&view=text&latlng=41378252,2171159,2868933110863992417 Map])
* Barroc Café: street Rec, 67, in Born. Designed by Daniel Piniello, Barroc Café is a creative concept with a special atmosphere, a nice cozy interior, dedicated to relax and enjoy the company. ([http://www.festuc.com/local/26247/Barroc+Caf%E9 Info])
* La Fíanna: street Banys Vells, 15, in Born. It is a funky, must-see place created to have a Moroccan and Turkish vibe. Trendy bar and restaurant. They also offer food service in the bar. After midnight they open the entire place for the bar crowd and the music starts beating. ([http://www.lafianna.com/ Website])
* Le Journal: street Francesc Giner, 36, in Gracia. Walls with newspapers from different parts of the world. Weird objects. A must on friday evenings in Gracia district. ([http://drinkbarcelona.blogspot.com/2007/02/le-journal.html Review])
* Qbar: street Quintana, 6, 1 minute from Plaça Reial, in the Gothic. It is a nice space but very turistic. Dutch and Perugian own this establishment which has an international crowd of waiters that can speak english, spanish and a big number of other languages. Watch out in summer, the temperature can be extremely high! ([http://www.bcn-nightlife.com/en/details/5261/ Review])
* Els Quatre Gats: located in street Montsió, 3. Històric Modernist coffee place in our city, where famous painters, writers and bohemians used to hang out, including Picasso and Miró. Cozy atmosphere to have a chat with friends. The paintings are original from Picasso, so don't miss it! ([http://www.4gats.com/ Website])
* Do you want to meet real locals?: go to 'El Rincón del Doctor' (street Provença between Enric Granados and Aribau) and have your first and cheap drinks there, let's say until 12:00 or 1:00; or move to Ramplax Bar, just in the corner. Then head to 'Línea 6,25', located in Enric Granados, in front of the previous bar, it's free entrance, good music and open until 3:00; at 2:30, be ready to have drinks @ 3€!!!. After that, move yourself to 'Tubo-Bar', 'La Fira' or 'Get Back', all of them in the surroundings.
* Les gens que j'aime Pub: It is more for dates, or you can also take people passing by, not very enlighted with Jazz music. Located in the real center of the city, in Valencia, 286. [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&hl=es&q=Valencia+286+Barcelona&sll=41.406171,2.154007&sspn=0.029613,0.079651&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=41.395001,2.164822&spn=0.014809,0.053902&om=1&iwloc=addr Map]
* Bar Mariachi: Some people say it's Manu Chao's bar, when you get there you will understand why. Tiny little bar well hidden in the Gótico. Nice decoration and if you're lucky you might see some live music in the early evening. Be nice to the bar tenders and you might get the chance to taste one of their secret drinks, very tasty! [http://www.mariatchi.com website] Carrer Codols, 14 bx, close to plaza del tripi (george orwell)
* Bar Bamboo: Near Barceloneta Beach, 5 minutes walking from several clubs. C/ Dr. Aiguader s/n. Barceloneta Metro Station (L4 - yellow). Check the [http://fon.gs/bamboobar/ map] for the exact location.
* Nevermind: Good atmosphere, good music and good prices. Escudellers Blancs, 3, behind Plaça Reial
* Born: Lots of bars there, a very common area for locals. [http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/areas/el-born.html Review]

=== Live Music! ===

* Big Bang Bar Oldies: Live music almost every night, from 10pm, free entrance or around 5 euros. Rock, folk, pop, punk, electronic...in the Raval, calle botella 7.[http://www.bigbangbcn.net/ Big Bang website ]

=== Tapas ===

* La Esquinica: one of the best places for Tapas in Barcelona! Very good price and delicious tapas. The place cannot be booked in advance, so you will have to queue until you get in. If you arrive before 8 PM on Friday or Saturday, or if you go during the weekdays, the wait will be reduced to 5 minutes. ([http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=la+esquinica&near=Barcelona&fb=1&view=text&latlng=41432284,2164617,7466984844739965468 Map] | [http://www.ciao.es/La_Esquinica_bar_de_tapas_Barcelona__194353 Review])
* Maxi: located in the entrance of Barcelona, in front of the Mall Gran Via 2, C/Carretera del Prat, 30 Bis, Barcelona Tel. (+34) 932968410. You will be surprised for the quantity and quality of their tapas. It is better to book in advance, but you will love this place.
* Bar Emilio: do you want to mix with real locals from the suburbs? Then get the metro until Plaça Espanya, change to the Ferrocarril (FGC) and stop in Gornal. Ask any person there for this bar, located just 2 minutes from the station. No booking, but incredible prices and very good tapas. It would be better to contact a member from CS Barcelona if you plan to try this bar :DDDDDDD (Volunteers to go there: [http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/chavales Chavales] | [http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/fusion Fusion])
* Bar Tomás: the best Patatas Bravas in the city, located in the area of Sarrià, Carrer Major de Sarrià, 49, Tel. 93 203 10 77. No booking. It would be better to contact a member from CS Barcelona if you plan to try this bar :DDDDDDD (Volunteers to go there: [http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/chavales Chavales] | [http://www.couchsurfing.com/people/fusion Fusion])

=== Clubs ===

* Sidecar: a nice club to end your night, right in the center at Placa Reial. Famous are the [http://www.antikaraoke.com/ Anti-karaoke] nights, every monday. ([http://www.sidecarfactoryclub.com/ Website] | [http://www.bcninternet.com/touristinfo.php?contentid=842 Review])
* The Alfa Club: in Gracia. For some ''the'' club to be on a Saturday night, for others a bar with too loud music. Definately a great go when lost at night in Gracia. ([http://www.barcelonaconnect.com/showlisting.asp?cfgid=1-35-46 Review])
* Razzmatazz: a huge club with 4 dancefloors and concerts. Opens until 7 a.m. Entry 12€ in advance and 15€ at the door. Including consumption. Great night guaranteed. ([http://www.salarazzmatazz.com/ Website])
* Karma: located in the center of Plaça Reial, N-10. If you like Rock, this is your place. ([http://www.karmadisco.com/ Website])
* Plataforma: the eternal and classic alternative Disco in Barcelona. Good music, reasonable price for entrance, beers, and cubatas. During the CS Italian Invasion, we filled it up with 90 people, so it became part of the CS History. It is located in Nou de la Rambla, 45, very close to Apolo - L3 / Paral.lel ([http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=plataforma+discoteca&near=Barcelona&fb=1&view=text&latlng=41369625,2157748,7277711510249215847 Map] | [http://www.ciao.es/Discoteca_Plataforma_Barcelona__Opinion_1414195 Review])
* CatWalk: near the Port Olímpic and the Arts Hotel, fashion place, good house music and nice people. ([http://www.clubcatwalk.net/ Website] | [http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&hl=es&geocode=&q=club+catwalk+barcelona&ie=UTF8&ll=41.386251,2.1963&spn=0.005401,0.00663&z=17&iwloc=A&om=0 Map])
* Fellini: multispace disco, different kinds of music... kinda laberintic.. specially after some beers ;) ([http://www.clubfellini.com/ Website] | [http://maps.google.es/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=fellini&near=Barcelona&fb=1&cid=0,0,7151943010533208099&z=16&iwloc=A&om=0 Map])
* Línea 6,25: in Enric Granados, 52, Eixample. Perfect after having a few drinks in 'El Rincón del Doctor'. Free entrace, good music (pachanga!!!) and open until 3 AM. At 2:30, long drinks' price is reduced to 3€ each, so do not miss the chance to get inexpensive vodka orange. ([http://www.topdiscotecas.com/ficha/linea Map])
* Opium: one of the most famous clubs in Barcelona. You can get free entrance before 1. Located in Passeig Marítim (La Barceloneta) 34 ([http://www.opiummar.com/home.html Website])
* Shoko: Restaurant, Lounge and Club, all together. Passeig Marítim (La Barceloneta) 36 ([http://www.shoko.biz/ Website])
* Sotavento Beach Club: Free access and house/tecno music. Passeig Marítim (La Barceloneta) 38 ([http://www.sotaventobcn.com/ Website])
* Don't know where to go???: then check [http://www.goldendesigner.net/discotecas/listas-clubs/ GoldenDesigner] and get free access to the main discos in the city.

=== Restaurants ===

Cheap eats in Barcelona....

* Restaurant 'La Fonda': Escudellers, 10. Nice and good restaurant close to the Plaça Reial. Mediterranean cusine. Good service. ([http://www.lafonda-restaurant.com/ Website])

* Restaurant 'The Pink Elephant': Villarroel, 82. Cosy restaurant close to metro Urgell (Eixample izq.), opened december 2008. Mediterranean cuisine. Very good food, service and sound. Lunch menu around 10 EUR. ([http://www.pinkelephantlounge.com/ Website], [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.383736&lon=2.1588615&zoom=18&layers=M&mlat=41.38419&mlon=2.15838 map])

* Restaurant 'Les Quinze Nits': Pl. Reial, 6. Very good price at midday. Lunch menu around 10 EUR. ([http://www.lesquinzenits.com/ Website])

* Restaurant 'La Dolça Hermínia': Magdalenes, 27. Very good, but not for low budgets.([http://www.ladolcaherminia.com/ Website])

* Restaurant 'La Crema Canela': Villarroel, 82. Unexpensive and very good.([http://www.lacremacanela.com/ Website])

* Restaurant 'La Mamasita': Av. Sarrià, 10, corner with Street Buenos Aires. Unexpensive and very good.([http://www.lamamasita-restaurant.com/ Website])

=== Flamenco Shows ===

Willing to see and dance some Flamenco? Yes, it is also possible in Barcelona!!!

* El Patio Andaluz: Andalucian Flamenco Dance Show in Eixample area of Barcelona. The Andalucian food is good quality, but like many dinner show combinations, don't expect a gourmet dining experience - the show is the star act of the night. Guests are also invited to try dancing the somewhat easier dance from Andalucia called Las Sevillanas. The live dance shows are twice a night at 20.00 and 22.00. Located in Carrer de Aribau, 242, Barcelona, Spain | Tel. (+34) 932093378 ([http://www.gargallo-hotels.com/patioandaluz/index.english.html Website])

* El Tablao de Carmen: live authentic and spectacular Flamenco show in the Spanish village on Montjuic - Poble Espanyol de Montjuïc. The Tablao de Carmen is a tribute to the legendary flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya. Carmen Amaya was a Gypsy and a Catalan and made her debut in 1929 in front of King Alfonso XIII, on the very grounds now occupied by Tablao de Carmen , to commemorate the inauguration of the Pueblo Español, during the Universal Exposition in Barcelona that year. The Tablao de Carmen offers a 75 minute Flamenco show with established flamenco artists and new young talent. Avinguda del Marquès de Comillas, Barcelona, Spain, 08038 - Telephone (+34) 933256895 ([http://www.tablaodecarmen.com/ Website])

* Tablao Flamenco Cordobes: The Tablau Flamenco Cordobes is a renowned flamenco nightclub on La Rambla in Barcelona. If you want a taste of authentic Spanish Flamenco then you will enjoy an evening of thrilling flamenco dancing and singing by popular and acclaimed artists. There are three shows nightly at 20.15, 22.00, and 23.30. Check the website for details of prices and menus if you want to include the dinner. Address: La Rambla, 35, Barcelona, Spain, 08002 - Telephone (+34) 933175711 ([http://www.tablaocordobes.com/ Website])

* Palacio del Flamenco: on Calle Balmes in Barcelona is billed as a "show of the purest flamenco!". The show is made up of original choreography acts including soloist acts. The night begins with the unique and enthusiastic performance of our flamenco group. The guitar and the sound of the palms accompany the "taconeo" and the movement by the “bailaores” that introduce to us in this enthusiastic world. Address: Carrer de Balmes, 139, Barcelona, Spain - Telephone (+34) 932187237 ([http://www.palaciodelflamenco.com/ Website])

* Opera and Flamenco: brings together the melody of lyrical singing, the seduction of the Gitano dance, the magic of Spanish music, in a unique show. It's festival of music and dance from Bizet with his passionate Carmen till De Falla in his Amor Brujo in a Journey through the popular songs and Spanish Zarzuelas. The fourth season of this extraordinary fusion of lyrical singing and flamenco seen already by more then 80.000 persons. Address: La Rambla, 130, Barcelona, Spain, 08002 - Telephone (+34) 933010660. ([http://www.operaflamenco.com/ Website])

* Tarantos: Plaça Reial, 17, Metro: Liceu (Line 3 - green). This is possibly the cheapest one (5€-7€), but better check the schedules on their [http://www.masimas.com/ Website].

* FLAMENCO.CAT: For all lovers of flamenco, Flamenco.cat website offers a full calendar of flamenco concerts ands flamenco festivals in Barcelona and Catalunya. In Spanish and Catalan only. ([http://www.flamenco.cat/ Website])

=== Original Version Cinemas ===
* Verdi in Gracia neighborhood ([http://www.cines-verdi.com/barcelona_en/cartelera.php Website])
* Renoir Floridablanca in the City center ([http://www.cinesrenoir.com/cartelera/cine/DE3A5F9A3B29A251/ Website])
* Renoir Les Corts in Les Corts neighborhood close to FCBarcelona Stadium ([http://www.cinesrenoir.com/cartelera/cine/7F3F41B6DEBA075E/ Website])
* Ycaria Yelcmo in Vila Olimpica neighborhood([http://www.yelmocines.es/cine/yelmo-cines-icaria Website])
* Maldà in the City center ([http://cinemamalda.net/ Website])

== Accommodation ==
'''Suggested hostels in the city center'''

''Barri Gòtic area'':
Hostal Kabul - [http://www.kabul.es/ Website] |
Itaca Hostel - [http://www.itacahostel.com/ Website] |
Hostal Quartier Gothic - [http://www.hostalquartiergothic.com Website] |
Hostal Levante - [http://www.hostallevante.com/ Website] |
Alternative Creative Youth Home Hostel - [http://www.alternative-barcelona.com/ Website] |
Ideal Youth Hostel - [http://www.idealhostel.com/ Website] |

'''Suggested hostels not in the city center but well comunicated'''

Sant Jordi Hostels Various hostels arround Barcelona- [http://www.santjordihostels.com Website] |

''Barri Clot area near '''Plaça de les Glòries''''':
Barcelona Urbany Hostel - [http://www.barcelonaurbany.com/ Website] |

''Barri Les Corts area, near '''L'Illa Diagonal''' Mall, not far from '''Sants Stació'''(''Sants train station'')'':
Youth Hostel Pere Tarres - [http://www.peretarres.org/wps/wcm/connect/peretarres_en/hostel/home/CNT_home_hostel/ Website] |
Alberguinn Youth Hostel - [http://www.alberguinn.com/en/ Website] |

''Barri Sarrià - Sant Gervasi area'' :
Inout Hostel - [http://www.inoutalberg.com/ Website] located in nature but very near Barcelona |

'''Suggested hostels in Barcelona Surrondings'''

''Badalona'' :
Barcelona Dream Hostel - [http://www.barcelonadream.net/ Website] very near Barcelona 15 min by metro|

'''Campings near Barcelona - probably one of the cheapest options you have'''

''Viladecans town (15 km from Barcelona city center - reachable by metropolitan bus)'':
Camping Filipinas - [http://es.infocamping.com/camping-Filipinas-Viladecans Website with contact info] |
Camping Ballena Alegre - [http://campings-autocaravanas.es/barcelona-zonas-de-acampadas/camping-ballena-alegre-viladecans/gmx-niv305-con429.htm Website with contact info ] |
Camping Tres estrellas: - [http://www.camping3estrellas.com/ Website] |
Camping Toro Bravo - [http://es.infocamping.com/camping-El-Toro-Bravo-Viladecans Website] |

'''Squats - Casas okupa'''

Sometimes people ask for them as a place to stay, we cannot say if you will be accepted or not, but you can just try!

[http://usurpa.squat.net/ Usurpa info] |
[http://okupesbcn.squat.net/ Assemblea d'Okupes de Barcelona] |

'''Useful websites to find accommodation in Barcelona'''

[http://www.hihostels.com/dba/Hostels-Barcelona-list.php?lang=E&city=ES|0005 HiHostels Website] |
[http://www.gomio.com Gomio Website] |
[http://www.barcelona30.com Barcelona30 Website] |
[http://www.hostels.com hostels.com Website] |
[http://www.hostelbookers.com hostelbookers.com Website] |
[http://www.hostelworld.com hostelworld.com Website] |
[http://www.rooms4rentbcn.com/ Rooms4rent Website] |
[http://www.barcelonacheckin.com/en/r/all_apartments_barcelona.php BarcelonaCheckIn Barcelona Apartments Website] |

'''Useful websites and places to find Long Term accommodation in Barcelona'''

''Websites''

[http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=8666 'Barcelona rent room or flat' group in CS] |
[http://www.loquo.com Loquo.com Website] |
[http://www.habitatgejove.com Habitatge Jove Website] |
[http://www.provivienda.org/sjh_menu.php Borsa d'Habitatge Website] |
[http://www.easypiso.com Easypiso.com Website] |
[http://www.pisocompartido.com Pisocompartido.com Website] |
[http://www.rooms4rentbcn.com/ Rooms4rent Website] |
[http://www.coleadministradors.com/esp/borsa.asp Col·legi administradors de Finques Website] |
[http://www.barcelona-metropolitan.com/Advertisers.aspx Barcelona Metropolitan Magazine Website] |

''Places''

BORSA D'HABITATGE JOVE (Barcelona city hall - Youth acommodation service)
Plaça Rius i Taulet, 3 (Gràcia).
Monday to friday (9 to 19h) 93 291 43 43
(borsa) habitatgejove@bcn.cat http://www.provivienda.org/sjh_menu.php

== Moving to BCN. What do I need to do? ==
=== General information ===
Related CS group: [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=22824 Moving to Barcelona]

=== NIE ===
''Número de Identificación de Extranjero''

* '''Which forms are required to apply for the NIE?'''
** [http://www.mir.es/SGACAVT/modelos/extranjeria/modelos_extranje/ex_14.pdf ex_14.pdf]: NIE application
** [http://www.mir.es/SGACAVT/modelos/extranjeria/modelos_extranje/ex_16.pdf ex_16.pdf]: Application for Certificate of Registration as an EU resident or family member residence card of citizen of the Union

* '''What documents do you need to bring?'''
** Passport
** Empadronado (see further down).
*** (Stefan): They did check for my empadronado, but I've read on other websites, that this is not necessary to have any more. Can anyone confirm that?
* '''How does the process work?'''
** You have to go to Oficina de Extranjeros in Calle Balmes 192 with your forms and papers. Once you're inside they will quickly check if everything is correct and give you a tax-payment form with which you have to go to a bank close by, pay €10.-, get it stamped and signed and return to the police station. A few minutes later you hold your NIE in your hands. Very easy process now. It was way more complicated some time ago.

** Some comments on banks: some won't let you pay for the NIE tax unless you're customer at that specific bank. Some won't let you pay for the NIE tax at all (Banco Santander). Caixa Catalunya seems to be the bank that works best. However, due to the huge amount of people coming to pay for their NIE tax and generating long lines, they've decided to distribute it over their different branch offices in Barceloneta. Meaning, depending on which day you're going there you've to look for a sheet of paper hanging somewhere in the lobby, saying which branch will accept NIE-tax payments on that day. Then directly go to that branch office, instead of waiting 15 minutes in the line and then being told that you've to go to another office.

=== Seguridad Social ===

Getting a Security social number? Very easy !

Be sure to take with you the following documents to go to Seguridad Social offices:

* Original & copy of your passport
* Original & copy of your NIE

There are several offices in Barcelona were you can get the Security Social number. Check out this [http://www.mir.es/SGACAVT/modelos/extranjeria/modelos_extranje/ link] to see where your closest one is situated

=== Empadronamiento ===

Basically, to get empadronado is to register with the community where you live. It makes you an official member of the community and benefits both you and the community. The community, because they get funds based on how many people they have registered which goes into health-care, schools, security etc. It benefits you because you are now a member of the community (not to be confused with resident) and can enjoy benefits like your own doctor at the hospital, numerous discounts at leisure centers and other places, gives you the right to vote, put your kids in the local school etc. It is also needed for a variety of administrative procedures.

To get your empadronamiento you will need to go to the Ayuntamiento (city hall) or Junta Municipal de Distrito (neighborhood administrative office) and bring:
* '''The form required (which you will get once there)'''
* '''Your passport'''
* '''Proof of where you are living (your contract or if you share a flat bring the person who has signed the contract and is registered already with you.'''

It is a quick procedure and usually only takes a few minutes if there is not a line.
Interesting to know about the Empadronamiento is that it is '''STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL'''.

For those who don’t have their papers in order, they have nothing to fear from registering. It’s in the city’s best interest to have an accurate count of the number of people within their jurisdiction and they will NOT use this list to go after illegal immigrants or those who overstay their visas.

=== CatSalut ===

* '''What is CatSalut?''' Please have a look in [http://www10.gencat.cat/catsalut/eng/coneix.htm here]

* '''What do you need to get the CatSalut card?'''
The documents needed are the following:
** '''Passport'''
** '''Stamped NIE application form (Número NIE)'''
** '''Registering as a citizen at the local Town hall (Certificado de Empadronamiento)'''
** '''E121 (They will give it to you there)'''

=== Bank Account ===
* '''What do I need to open up a bank account?'''

Normally when you open a bank account you need some documents ready in order to have not to come back again:

* NIE
* Passport
* Eventually you might need:
** Seguridad Social
** Work contract/salary sheet
* It's always good to bring copies of the documents as well. Sometimes they might want to keep it, sometimes not.

* '''Which is the best bank to open an account?'''
There are many different banks, so every bank has its own procedure and can be better than another one.
Please have a look at the following banks and look carefully their internet sites:

* BBVA ( Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria):[http://www.bbva.es/]
* BSCH ( Banco Santander Central Hispano):[http://www.gruposantander.es/]
* La Caixa : [http://www.lacaixa.es/]
* Caixa Catalunya : [http://www.caixacatalunya.es/] (very friendly and they don't ask for a minimum amount)
* Banesto : [http://www.banesto.es]

Some banks could be asking you to give them your salary paper because they are strict so be sure you start with a bank where they don't ask for it : La Caixa

=== Other Information ===
* '''Where can I make copies of my passport?'''

Normally it's not hard to find a shop where to make copies so you don't need anything more than walk some meters and you will always find an internet cafe' or some newspaper shop where you can ask to make a copy of your passport

* '''Where can I take passport photos?'''

There are 2 ways to take them:

* 1 - Going to a small kiosk under the metro station or outside where you can pay for the small photos
* 2 - Going to a photo shop where you will be paying some more money and they will take you photos and cut for you in order to be used in the passport

=== Other links & information ===
* http://www.movingtobarcelona.com/

== BAR CEL ONA - Personal Names ==

Hey Couchsurfers, if you haven't seen these places and don't know these names, then you haven't been to Barcelona. :DDDD

=== Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (1852-1926) ===

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was born in 1852 in Reus to a family of coppersmiths from Riudoms. The smallest of five brothers, he moved to Barcelona in 1873 to study architecture, which he finished four years later. It is said that on awarding him his degree, the Director of the School of Architecture, Elies Rogent, muttered “Who knows whether we have given the degree to a madman or a genius: only time will tell”.

His first professional assignment was to design the new buildings of the textile cooperative of Mataró (1878), for which Gaudí conceived unusual catenary arches of wood and a giant bronze bee (symbol of the cooperative). In the same year, he designed a glass and crystal ware cabinet decorated with wrought-iron, mahogany and marquetry for a Catalan glove manufacturer, Esteban Cornellá, to display his products at the Universal Exhibition of Paris. The display cabinet seduced Eusebi Güell, an industrialist, aristocrat and rising politician, who was to become the patron of the young architect. Gaudí’s first commission for Güell was to design the furniture of the pantheon that the Marquis of Comillas, Güell’s all-powerful father-in-law, possessed on the outskirts of Santander. This assignment was followed by another, a pergola decorated with globes and hundreds of glass pieces. From then on his career and his work, which in the course of time became one of the most famous symbols of Barcelona, were intimately linked to the Güell family.
In 1883 the Church commissioned him to build the Sagrada Família, which was to become the great work of his life, and in which he invested all the efforts of his last years. This gradual concentration on the great expiatory temple ran parallel to the consolidation of a fervent Catholicism, an aspect which had not been apparent in the young Gaudí. In his maturity, the great Catalan architect was known to be a frugal and solitary man who devoted all his energy to the profession through which he expressed his two great passions: Christianity and Catalan nationalism. His obstinate defense of Catalan identity even led to his arrest by the police in 1924 on Catalan National day (11th September), for refusing to submit to an officer who ordered him to speak in Spanish.

On 7th June 1926, Gaudí was hit by a tram when he was crossing the Gran Via. Initially on his admission the staff of the hospital, who struggled to save his life for three days, took him for a beggar because of his humble attire.

=== La Rambla ===
The original Rambla was a wide, rambling path that ran down the southern limits of the city parallel to the medieval wall built by king James 1st in the 13th century. One hundred years later a new wall would surround the Raval and leave the Rambla wall enclosed, without its theoretical defensive function. However, the wall gates (Santa Anna, Portaferrissa, Boqueria, Trentaclaus and Framenors) did not disappear and continued to be meeting points for open air markets, or were “recycled” into new buildings, such as a cannon factory. “Rambla”, in Arabic, means “watercourse” and this is precisely what it was: a torrent, known as the Cagalell, which had become both the sewer and the moat of the city. In the 16th century, the first religious centres (Convent de Sant Josep, 1586), schools (Estudis Generals, 1536) and theatres (Teatro de la Santa Creu, 1597) began to appear on the southern bank. Thus the 17th-century Rambla had the city wall on one side and churches and convents on the other side, in what is now the Raval district. In the late 18th century, military engineers under Juan M. Cermeño transformed this wide ditch into an elegant avenue, channelling the stream under ground and clearing plots for new, aligned buildings.

There is only one Rambla, but each section has been given a different name: going up from the port you will walk along Rambla de Santa Mònica, Rambla dels Caputxins, Rambla de Sant Josep, Rambla dels Estudis and Rambla de Canaletes. These names are not gratuitous but correspond to the monasteries, churches or buildings that stood beside the avenue that began to take shape as the ditch was filled in. In 1768 old king James’s wall was demolished and work began on the construction of some of the most emblematic buildings, such as Palau de la Virreina and Palau Moja, and Casa March de Reus (built by Joan Soler i Faneca in 1780) which is left behind down the Rambla, at number 8. The last great transformation of the Rambla was in the 19th century, when the disentailment of the church’s property as a result of liberal policies led to the disappearance of most monasteries that stood on it. They were replaced by new streets (Carrer Ferran), public spaces (Plaça Reial), markets (La Boqueria) and buildings that have become emblematic (Liceu). The Rambla is currently the best showcase of the city, of its history and of the life of its citizens, as was described by the Catalan writer Josep Plà in one of his works: “The Rambla is a marvel. It is one of the few streets of Barcelona in which I feel fully at ease. There are always enough people to meet someone you know, but there are always enough people to go unnoticed if you wish”.

=== Sagrada Família ===
Going up Carrer Sicilia and turning right at Carrer Mallorca we reach the TEMPLE EXPIATORI DE LA SAGRADA FAMÍLIA. (EXPIATORY TEMPLE OF THE HOLY FAMILY). Gaudí was a unique architect in his time, and one of the few in the history of architecture to have had a commission that lasted a lifetime -in fact, a commission that outlived him. The Sagrada Família is a work of great brilliance and ambition and of giant aspirations. The origin of the Expiatory Church of the Holy Family dates back to 1869 when Josep M. Bocabella, founder of the Josephite Association dedicated to fostering devotion to Saint Joseph, had the idea of building a church to honour the Holy Family (Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ). Bocabella bought a site and in 1882 started to build a church in a Neo-Gothic style with the aim of creating a cathedral for the poor, to counteract the anticlerical radicalism that was beginning to spread among the lower classes of Barcelona (the city anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin had pointed out as the most revolutionary in all of Europe). However, in the course of time the church took on a very different meaning as conservative Catalan nationalists began to identify with the project. The initial design of the church was by Francesc de Paula Villar, but the lack of understanding between the owner and the architect led to a radical change of plans. Villar was dismissed and replaced by Antoni Gaudí, who finished the crypt and presented a new, far more ambitious plan: to build a cathedral with a great, central, 170-metre-high tower dedicated to the Saviour. Pious Mr. Bocabella was thrilled with the idea and Gaudí plunged into the project. Progress, however, was not easy. In 1891 he started work on the Nativity façade: thirty-four years later, in 1925, Gaudí had finished only the first of the four bell towers that crown this façade. The other three were finished after the death of the architect.

The Sagrada Família may be considered a Bible in stone, owing to the great number of Christian symbols that Gaudí placed on its façades. These include, or rather will include once finished, Adam and Eve, the Twelve Apostles, all the episodes of the life of Jesus and all the main symbols of the Old Testament. The Sagrada Família is, indeed, a monument that could be used as an introductory crash-course to Catholic religion. The importance of this building is not, however, exclusively religious. It is also the “book of Gaudí”, the clearest lesson of his way of building, a kind of testament in which Gaudí applied all the structural solutions that he had studied and tested in his different works. The work where he paid his last homage to nature, which he called “the best builder” and which he always strove to imitate. One can see this clearly in the way the church is supported on leaning columns whose branches support small hyperboloid sections of vault, producing the effect of a forest.

The Nativity Façade, on Carrer Marina, is Gaudí’s great work. Almost completed by the architect, it attempts to express and communicate the joy of creation through the birth of Jesus. In the central archivolt, one can see Jesus, Joseph and Mary under the Star of Bethlehem and with the ox and the mule, surrounded by angels, musicians and singers. A careful examination of the façade’s decoration reveals over a hundred plant species and a hundred animals sculpted on the archivolts and ribs. This façade has three doors. The central one is the Door of Charity, inscribed with the names of the genealogy of Christ, from the beginning of the snake with the apple to the baby Jesus with the ox and the mule, and the signs of the Zodiac as they were on the day of Christ’s birth. On the south side is the Door of Hope, representing the marriage of Joseph and Mary, the flight to Egypt, the massacre of the innocents and a representation of the Montserrat mountain with the inscription “Salveu-nos” (“Save us”: Montserrat Mountain is traditionally considered a holy mountain and the Virgin of Montserrat the patron of Catalonia). On the opposite side is the Door of Faith representing the scenes of the Visitation; Jesus among the wise men in the temple and at his carpenter’s bench. The pinnacles of this façade resemble ears of corn and bunches of grapes, presided by the image of Mary as the Immaculate Conception. The façade as a whole celebrates the triumph of life.

The Passion Façade on Carrer Sardenya is the counterpoint to the Nativity Façade. This façade includes over a hundred contemporary sculptures evoking the Passion by the sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs. Desolation, nudity, pain and sacrifice all accompany the death of Christ to announce his resurrection and ascent to heaven. Gaudí often repeated that, had he started with this façade, people would have rejected the Sagrada Família outright. In contrast with the decorated, ornamented and turgid Nativity Façade, the Passion Door is harsh and naked, as if it were made of bones. Through a larger portico supported by six large leaning columns as sequoia tree trunks, an immense pediment rises with 18 smaller columns supporting an inner portico. The lack of decoration concentrates the tragedy in the dramatic main events, presided by the naked figure of Christ at the moment of his death.

The main façade, which will represent the life and destiny of man, is still to be built. According to Gaudí’s plan, it will face the sea looking over Carrer Mallorca, which would be covered by a large plaza reached by a huge staircase rising from what today is the doomed block of houses facing the temple. What is beginning to take shape is totally new forms in the naves of the church, which show unusual geometrical and structural solutions. The naves of the church are the result of years of study and reflection: it wasn’t until 1910 that Gaudí started the study of the naves, incorporating the experience he had acquired in the chapel of the Colònia Güell. However, the discovery of the luminosity of the hyperboloid led Gaudí to use concave-convex domes fitted to columns, walls and windows. At a scale of 1/10, this was the vision of the forest that he often used to explain his design.

The museum of the church conserves the history of its construction in site plans, photographs of different periods of the construction, fragments of models, iconography and wrought iron, wood and metal work designed by Gaudí, in addition to photographs and an audiovisual presentation on other buildings by the same architect. One can also see the models of the central nave and the façades. The most outstanding exhibits are the model that was used to calculate the structure of the church of the Colònia Güell (a solution including slightly helicoidal columns and paraboloid-helicoid arches) and a score of original drawings by the architect. There are also photographs of other buildings by Gaudí and elements that he designed and that were modelled in the workshops of the church. One of the adjoining facilities is the Sagrada Família Schools, a simple curvilinear building with the stamp of Gaudí that dazzled Le Corbusier with its technical boldness. These schools, originally intended for the children of the builders who were working on the site, form an innovative building in which Gaudí did not use iron and made all the structures with brick, thus achieving great plasticity with a very cheap material.

=== Lluís Domènech i Montaner ===
The son of a bookbinder, Lluís Domènech i Montaner was born in Barcelona on 27 December 1849. He was a versatile man who combined his passion for drawing with literature, history, deluxe editions, teaching, politics -and of course architecture. Domènech understood the work of an architect as similar to that of an orchestra conductor. He held the baton and all the instruments (the glaziers, the sculptors, the carpenters, the manufacturers of mosaics and paving...) had to sound perfect.

The young Domènech was a brilliant student of physical and natural sciences in Barcelona, and later of engineering in Madrid. This discipline led him finally to study architecture, in which he qualified in 1873. He was a lecturer at the School of Architecture of Barcelona from its foundation in 1875 (so he taught Gaudí and Puig i Cadafalch), and he was director of the School from 1900 to 1920. The publication in 1879 in the journal La Renaixença of the article “En busca de una arquitectura nacional” (“The quest for a national architecture”) gave him, along with other later works, a certain fame as an art theoretician and disseminator of the latest ideas in architecture, especially those of his much admired Viollet-le-Duc.

Considered today by many to be the “most Modernista” of the artists of Catalan Modernisme, Lluís Domènech did indeed travel and he knew what was being done in the rest of Europe by the artists of the Art Nouveau, Secession and the Arts and Crafts movements, with some of whom he established a friendship. He was, in fact, a humanist of his time, who developed himself in a wide range of fields, including botany, publishing and illustration. He was one of the most outstanding heraldists in the country, a journalist of certain renown and on several occasions he was elected president of the Ateneu Barcelonès, the main cultural association of the time. He had a long political career, starting in a Catalan nationalist movement called Jove Catalunya (Young Catalonia) and reaching the presidency of the Lliga de Catalunya and the Unió Catalanista, the first major parties of the Catalan Renaixença (the “Rebirth” of Catalan culture and nationalism, which came to life in the second half of the 19th Century). He was foremost in the drafting of the first declaration of sovereignty for Catalonia, Les Bases de Manresa in 1892, and he was elected member of the Madrid Congress in in 1904 in the so-called “four presidents’ ticket”, considered to be the first political triumph of Catalan nationalism. Soon, however, Domènech came into conflict with the almighty leader of the Lliga Regionalista, Francesc Cambó, and he abandoned conservative Catalan nationalism to found a new left-wing party, Esquerra Catalana, and to become the editor of its newspaper El Poble Català.

General Primo de Rivera in 1923 led to the dismantling of the regional structures of government in Catalonia, the prohibition of Catalan nationalist political activity at all levels, and the suppression of all but the most naive expressions of Catalan culture (even the Barcelona Football Club stadium was closed!). Domènech, always a passionate lover of life and refinement and of the most civilised forms of expression, felt profoundly affected by the brutal repression of a military regime that he could only see as illegitimate and barbaric. He retired to family life and died that winter, on the same day on which he had been born.

In addition to Barcelona, Domènech performed several important works in Canet de Mar, the home town of the family of his mother, Maria Montaner, and in Reus, thanks to his great friendship with the intellectual Pau Font de Rubinat.

=== Park Güell ===
Gaudí’s unfinished urbanistic dream, listed UNESCO World Heritage in 1984. The most ambitious urban planning operation of Barcelona in the late 19th century was idea of Gaudí’s main patron, Eusebi Güell, who in 1899 bought an old rural estate of 15 hectares called Can Muntaner de Dalt for conversion into a luxury garden city inspired in Ebenezer Howard’s model (and so the name was -and still is- spelt the English way: “Park”, as opposed to “Parc”, in Catalan).

Predictably, the person entrusted with carrying out Güell’s landscape planning scheme was Antoni Gaudí. Gaudí’s project involved the construction of a housing estate of 60 private plots and large common greens. Gaudí devised the idea of a bucolic retreat for the highest bourgeoisie of Barcelona. Its location on the hillside and far from the city was ideal to symbolise the metaphor of the ascent to paradise, to Eden. The project, however, was a total failure. Development of the estate began between 1900 and 1904 and was definitively halted in 1914. One plot was purchased by the owner of the construction company developing the works, and two more plots were sold to a single purchaser, who had only one villa built. As for the common facilities, three crosses were built to mark the place where the chapel was to be erected, but only the two entrance pavilions, the retaining walls and all the road infrastructure around a large square supported by columns were completed. As a result of this financial disaster, the heirs of Eusebi Güell, who died in 1918, sold the site to the City Council, and it was decided to preserve it as a public park. The prodigious structures raised among the typical Mediterranean vegetation are a curious mixture of fantasy and spirituality, which the staunch patriot Gaudí interspersed with Catalan emblems. A work, in short, where Gaudí gave up his habitual historicism and boldly chose a language of his own ranging from naturally-inspired forms to a surprisingly avant-garde plasticity.

The main gate of Park Güell, featuring a brick wall decorated with mosaics, is protected by a wrought iron railing and flanked by two evocative pavilions that reproduce the story of Hansel and Gretel, which was performed as an opera at the Liceu in late 1900, the same period Gaudí began to design the Park Güell. The smaller one on the left with a double cross on the roof, is the house of the children Hansel and Gretel: it currently has a bookshop and souvenir shop on the ground floor. The house on the right, crowned by a poisonous toadstool-shaped dome, represents the Witch’s dwelling -interestingly, it was meant to be the house of the Park’s guard. It now houses the Interpretation Centre of the Park, part of the Barcelona History Museum. The free-access ground floor has information on Gaudí’s work, but you must pay a fee to go upstairs to see the original house of the guard and the exhibition “Gaudí and Park Güell. Architecture and Nature”. Beyond the two pavilions, on the right one can see a kind of grotto supported by a central column that becomes wider at the top, as if it were a wine glass, meant as a shelter for carriages and horses on rainy days.

The main staircase is parted by a small waterfall featuring the famous multi-coloured dragon of glazed ceramic trencadís. The stairs lead to the hypostyle hall, also known as the Hall of the 100 Columns though it only has 86. This hall, originally intended to be the market of the future housing estate, was decorated by Gaudí’s assistant Josep Maria Jujol, who was given 'carte blanche' to do so. The result was exceptional: an undulating ceiling of mosaic with varied incrustations forming capricious spirals. When this zone was restored in 1992 lights were added at the base of the columns, which create a spectacular resemblance to a Greek church at night. From the hypostyle hall two paths lead to the great circular square, a marvellous belvedere overlooking the city. According to Gaudí’s initial design, this square was to collect rainwater, channelled down inside the columns of the hypostyle hall to be collected in a huge cistern holding up to 12,000 cubic metres (not open to the public).

The square is surrounded by a winding bench of trencadís in which the imagination of Gaudí and Jujol achieved an extraordinary boldness, considered by some specialists a forerunner of abstract art. The bench is a symphony of colours: greens, blues and yellows are used in different combinations, forming moon shapes and stars and abstract flowers. Colour, however, fades away gradually from left to right, and at the far right the bench is mainly white, the symbol of purity. The bench seems to hint that human life is a kaleidoscope of colours that culminate after death in heavenly white. The white of this part of the bench is not, however, a pure white: here Gaudí used materials that had been rejected in other buildings, such as Casa Batlló, precisely because of the “impurity” of this white. The last restoration of the bench (1995) has maintained this imperfection by using up to 21 different hues and shades of white to replace the deteriorated parts.

Other unusual features of the Park Güell are its bridges and viaducts, with twisted, grotto-like columns. The fourth portico that connects the upper part with the lower part is perhaps the most Surrealist structure, with the leaning walls and arches that recall images by Dalí. The summit of the park is crowned by a monumental Calvary formed by three crosses at the place where Gaudí had planned to build the chapel. Even here the feverish architect had symbolic fantasies. If we look toward the east -toward Jerusalem, as it were- the perspective seems to merge all three crosses into one. This is the final point of the ascent: the cross is the ultimate symbol.

* Address: Olot, s/n; ctra. del Carmel, s/n.
* Park opens November through February from 8am to 6pm. March and October, 8am to 7pm. April and September 8am to 8pm. May through August 8am to 9pm.
* [http://parkguell.net84.net/eng/ More information about the park.]

=== Tramvia Blau ===
Near La Rotonda, at the beginning of Avinguda del Tibidabo, there is a stop where you can catch the TRAMVIA BLAU. (BLUE TRAM). This tram, which originally dates from the Modernista period, is a pleasant way to approach the mountain, on a relaxed ride between majestic houses and gardens up to the funicular lower station. The six trams on the route cover the distance of 1,276 metres, including a difference in altitude of 93 metres, at an average speed of 10 kph. The Tramvia Blau’s first service on 29 October 1901 was the fulfilment of Doctor Salvador Andreu’s ambition to open up an alternative way to the Tibidabo, direct to his funfair at the summit. At first the fleet consisted of four trams that covered the route between Passeig de Sant Gervasi, the end of the line for Barcelona’s urban trams, and the lower station of the Tibidabo funicular half way up the mountain. In 1981, following a long period of restoration work, two old trams were put back into operation: tram number 2 from 1901, which had been out of service for 30 years, and the model popularly known as “la Jardinera” (“the Flower Box”) which had once run along the sea front. The renewal of the tracks on 1984 and the construction work on the city’s second ring road in 1990 affected the line’s old route. However, advantage was taken of this circumstance to build a new transformer station and refurbish the tracks and the tram sheds.

* Address: Avinguda del Tibidabo, s/n.
* Prices (2008): Single ticket: €2.60. Return ticket: €3.90.
* Open Timetables may vary with the seasons, it is advised to chek them beforehand.

=== Mercat de la Boqueria ===
==== 1200 - 1700 (Origin) ====

The Boqueria Market, as known nowadays, has been through many phases. Throught this document, we'll try to give a faithfull description of facts Where this market comes from is uncertain, what we are sure of is that it was born as a traveling market, placed in Ramblas of Barcelona. La Rambla adquired importance as a pedestrian lane, and the market couldn't be set in a better place, and it's location was many times threatened. Taking into consideration that in Catalunya, towns and cities have been founded around markets, we find that it's origens are as an open air market, infront of one of the gates of the old wall (Pla de la Boqueria) where salesmen and fruit and vegetable vendors from other towns and farms nearby settled to sale their products. Inner spaces where small for the stablishment of a big market and was necesary to set them outside the walls. It seems that some time ago vegetables were sold precisely at Pla de la Boqueria, where farmers of orchards stablished near paseo de la Ronda, known as "huertos de Sant Antoni, Sant Pau and Sant Bertran". Furhter stoped the farmers of the neighbour towns from Corts de Sarriá and Sarriá itself and between the old greengrocers and the new ones there would be fights, that would lead to not leaving tables and other things in the same warehouses. The primitive "marmanyeres" had the wide street of Figuera to rest their products, that went from calle Hospital to la Petxina and which was obstructed to public acces because of the construction of the legendary "casa de la Sileta". The "marmanyeres" of Sarriá left their things on another street, called "Sarrianesses". The market of Pla. de la Boqueria was called Bornet. Until 1794 it was called "Mercado de la Paja" (market of the hei), that's why at that time it was know as Pla del Peso de la Paja (Square of the Weight of the Straw) The market was surrounded by portics intending to be the first market in Europe. Later the Market didn't get built as it was projected. With all that, the market of Pla. de la Boqueria didn't have official caracter and became an extension of "Plaza Nueva" which grew to Plaza del Pi and by the riera with the same name connected with la Rambla.

==== 1701 - 1900 ====

It was believed convinient to take the market out of those two sqares and reorganize ir in Rambla de Sant Josep, and then the fish shops was built and butcher and bird shops were built, which formed streets by the side of the convent and the Virreina. The open air market, in Rambla de Sant José was inaugurated October 18th, 1827. - In 1823 it moved up to "Convento del Carme", but when religious orders went back to convents it went back to la Rambla, from where still wasn't taken out at all. Then it was projected to built a special constructiion for the market in the orchard of Infants Ofres' house, by calle Elisabets. - In 1826 The Marquee of Campo Sagrado, general captain of Catalunya ordered to regulate for the first time the flying market of la Boqueria. In 1835 took place the destruction of the convent of Sant Josep, then a square similar to the Plaza Reial was constructed in its lot, everything surrounded by porches and named Plaza del Treball. It had to had gardens and foutains and a very high column of monumental, allegorical sense of the work. At that time it would've been the the greatest square in Barcelona, since it had to connect with Jerusalem street. When the urbanization was almost ready and while the moment was expected to begin works of the new market in the orchard of the "Orfes", it was believed necessary to temporarily install the market in the lot of the old convent of Sant Josep to be able to remove it from the middle of la Rambla. That's why the houses that surround and frame the market of the Boqueria form porches, that are not like the present market, but to the projected Plaza del Trabajo, in style of the Real. In 1836 when the convent of the Carmelitas dissapeared with it's church of Saint Josep, the city hall projected the construction of the market. The project was in charge of the architect Mas Vilá. That year the market was inaugurated.

St. Joseph's day in 1840 the first stone of the market of la Boqueria was placed. In 1848 was constructed an enclosure for the fishmonger's shop behind the palace of the Virreina. Also was built the pavilion "Repeso" that would later become the office of the Direction and Veterinary Services. The new market was insufficient. - In 1853 the market acquired to official character when 14 florists paid their tables, and they were uniformed. This is the origin of the florists of la Rambla. -In 1861 some fruits and vegetables salesmen wer allowed to settle provisionally at Plaza Sant Agustí and it was then when la Rambla remained exclusively for flower stands. Many salesmen gave out a flower for the purchase of some of their products. The sale of flowers increased. - In 1863, the retail places of fruits and vegetables, settled underneath the porches. - In the 1869 the convent of Jerusalen was demolished, behind the market to extend it in that direction. - In Christmas of 1871, the gas illumination was inaugurated. In 1911 the actual fishmonger's shop was built. In the beginning of the XIX century, la Rambla had from Carme st. to la Petxina, the width that has today the front part of the Palace of the Virreina. In the space between the houses and the trees, was the market divided in differentiated sectors (according to the product that was dealt).

==== 1901 - 2007 ====

In 1914 the market with the metal deck was inaugurated. As from there it began to modernize and to improve, not only at sanitary level, aesthetic, and decorative. These places have been demolished several times. Before in Plaza Galdrich (of the farmers) there were wooden shaks, where gentlemen with a typewriter wrote up what people asked them to. Long lines formed. These services we give them today at the information point.

==== Today ====

Throughout the years La Boqueria has become the most emblematic market of all the network. The structure, the situation, and the salesmen turn it into an obligated (must-see) to all the tourists who visit our city. This market has for the Barcelonians, the suggestion of a family memoire, it's entwined with the city history, of all our families, their popular traditions and celebrations. The present salesmen are mostly, of the third and fourth generation of salesmen of the market. They are the union of the past with the present. Inovators, full of projects and renovation ideas of la Boqueria for the new Barcelona. The commercial supply is vary; fresh fish and seafood, salty fish, tinned food, butchery and offal, birds, hunt and eggs, fruits and vegetables, herbes and dietetic, delicatessen, bread furnace, restaurants, frozens, specialities, charcuterie, farmer stops, etc...

== Emergency List ==

=== Police Stations ===

If you are really unlucky and manage to land yourself into trouble, here's a list of the local police stations:

- Ambulance, Emergencies, Firemen, Police: '''112'''

- Police Stations in Barcelona: '''(+34) 93.290.30.00'''

- Fire Department - Bombers/Bomberos: '''080'''

- Local Police - Guardia Urbana : '''092'''

- Catalan National Police - Mossos d'esquadra: '''088''' - '''[https://www10.gencat.cat/jusinte_di/AppJava/jsp/form/idioma.jsp To make complaint online visit]'''

- Policía Nacional '''091'''

- Guardia Civil '''062''' borders police, customs

=== Hospitals ===

- Ambulance, Emergencies, Firemen, Police: '''112'''

- Medical Emergencies: '''061'''

- Fire Department: '''080'''

- Hospital Vall d'Hebron - Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 119-129 Barcelona - '''(+34) 93.489.30.00 | (+34) 93.274.60.00''' - [http://www.vhebron.net/ Web]

- Hospital Clínic i Provincial - Villarroel nº 170 Barcelona - '''(+34) 93.227.54.00''' - [http://www.hospitalclinic.org/ Web]

- Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau - C/Sant Quintí, 89 Barcelona - '''(+34) 93.291.91.91''' - [http://www.santpau.es Web]

- Hospital del Mar -Passeig Marítim 25-29 Barcelona -'''(+34) 93.248.30.00 | (+34) 93.248.90.11''' - [http://www.hospitaldelmar.org/hospitals/hospital-del-mar/ Web]

- Hospital de l'Esperança - Sant Josep de la Muntanya, 12 Barcelona - '''(+34) 93 367 41 00 | (+34) 93.248.90.11''' - [http://www.hospitaldelmar.org/hospitals/hospital-esperan Web]

- Hospital Sant Joan de Deu '''specialized in children''' - Passeig Sant Joan de Déu, 2. 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat - '''(+34) 93.253.21.00''' - [http://www.hsjdbcn.org/ Web]

- Hospital de Nens de Barcelona '''specialized in children''' - Carrer Consell de Cent, 437 Barcelona- '''(+34 ) 93.231.05.12''' - [http://www.hospitaldenens.com Web]

- Funeral Services: '''(+34) 93.484.17.00'''

=== Embassies and Consulates ===

- Foreign Embassies & Consulates in Spain:
[http://www.embajada-online.com/embajadas-de-otros-paises-en-Espana-P166.htm Embassies] |
[http://www.embajada-online.com/consulados-de-otros-paises-en-Espana-P166.htm Consulates]

- Spanish Embassies & Consulates abroad:
[http://www.embajada-online.com/embajadas-de-Espana-en-otros-paises-P166.htm Embassies] |
[http://www.embajada-online.com/consulados-de-Espana-en-otros-paises-P166.htm Consulates]

=== Official and Crisis Unit ===

- Office Against Discrimination: '''(+34) 93.304.31.18'''

- Ajuntament de Bacelona: '''010'''

- Generalitat de Catalunya: '''012'''

- Diputació Provincial: '''(+34) 93.402.22.22'''

- Parlament de Catalunya: '''(+34) 93.221.20.00'''

- Veterinarian Services - 24 hours-: '''(+34) 93 205 31 16 | (+34) 93.581.18.94 | (+34) 93.426.87.46'''

- Information about On-Call Pharmacies: '''(+34) 93.481.00.60'''

=== Fraud Prevention Unit, Banks & Info ===

(Lost Credit Cards)

- Visa - MasterCard - Servired: '''(+34) 93.315.25.12 | (+34) 91.519.21.00'''

- American Express: '''(+34) 91.572.03.20'''

- Dinner's Club: '''902.401.112'''

- Red 6000: '''(+34) 91.596.53.35 | (+34) 91.596.53.00'''

(Banks)

- Caixa d'Estalvis de Catalunya: '''(+34) 93.484.50.00'''

- Caixa d'Estalvis de Girona: '''900.300.259'''

- Caixa d'Estalvis Laietana: '''(+34) 93.741.75.00'''

- Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona: '''(+34) 93.330.70.09 | 900.300.081'''

- Caja de Madrid: '''(+34) 91.519.38.00'''

- Caja Ahorros de Galicia: '''902.432.433'''

=== Emergencies and Last Minute Couch Requests ===

''' Barcelona LAST Minute COUCH Request <72 HOURS ''' [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=5017].

=== Your Local CS Ambassadors ===

(Guidance Note: Provide a link to your city's/area's nearest ambassador (if there is none in the city, then at least the one who's nearest is just as good, as a poin tof contact through CS. Any further information you put here is optional and down to you (some Ambasadors chose to make their phonenumber pubillc for members to contact them in case of emergency. If you already list that in your profile, then you could list it here as well. But, remember, you don't *have to*. If you don't offer such information, then this is absolutely understandable. Providing links to the Local Ambassador's profile, in this section, is more than enough).

== Working ==

The main site to find a job in Barcelona: [http://www.infojobs.net/ Infojobs]

For English speaking jobs and work in Barcelona, check out [http://www.jobsinbarcelona.es/ JobsinBarcelona]

== Pickpockets, Thieves, and Self-Defense ==

MOST VISITORS TO European and other countries don't encounter pickpockets or thieves regardless of how or where valuables are carried. In one developing North African country with a rap for rip-offs only five percent of visitors are victimized by thievery, according to a British magazine survey. In your travels you will mostly experience waitresses chasing you down with a forgotten camera, taxi drivers taking the best route, other backpackers looking out for your stuff, the correct change in your hand time after time, the shining honesty and kindness of good people.

Nevertheless, if you make it easy there are a few thieves everywhere (including Barcelona) who may steal your property, and the trouble and expense of replacing passports, tickets, travelers checks, and gear can wreak havoc on your tour. Fortunately, with common sense and an awareness of how thieves operate, risks can be reduced.

=== Dangerous Areas and Local Information ===
Every major city has an area more dangerous than elsewhere, and a time when this is especially true. It may even be safe during the day, but becomes sinister after nightfall. Such areas are always well-known to locals, so get advice from a hotel, tourist office, or waitress. Most guidebooks include warnings about red light or seedy areas, but conditions may have changed since the information was written.

Another point is that just because other travelers say someplace is perfectly safe, that doesn't make it true. It may only means they didn't encounter problems. I listened to an experienced backpacker swear how the dangers of a particular area were highly exaggerated or non-existent, when the previous day I had encountered three Germans who had been robbed at gunpoint there.

Local authorities and tourist offices cannot always be relied upon, either, as they may have an interest in minimizing problems, so you always need to use your eyes, ears, instincts, and best judgment, along with a few degrees of body lean towards safety, away from recklessness.

=== Pickpockets ===
As you wait in line at the crowded Amsterdam tourist office continuously blaring over the loudspeaker is this warning in six languages: "Your attention, please. Watch your wallets, there are pickpockets about!"

That tourist office is tough pickings for any would-be pickpocket, as everyone is continuously fidgeting with pockets or purses, and throwing about a great many suspicious looks.

I have, however, encountered a number of pickpockets in my travels. While queuing in a train station I observed a pickpocket's hand stealthily slip into a purse. For some reason the snatch couldn't be made, so he slithered into another line and attempted to lift a wallet from a back pocket. (I then made his presence known, but he immediately disappeared into the crowd.)

I have also chased hands from my pockets four times--twice while disembarking crowded buses (a very vulnerable situation1); while temporarily blinded as I descended into a dark, sleazy club from a bright street; and in a market. A travel mate had her fanny pack unzipped and wallet removed while pressed against a wall of people in a crowded market. Another backpacker in the same country had been pickpocketed three times in two months, also in markets. Said he, "They're good."

The professional pickpocket in the developed world has a more-or-less standard operating procedure. He chooses a likely target--someone who obviously has money within easy reach, which includes back pockets and purses. If the thief cannot get the money cleanly, he or a partner will create a distraction by bumping the target, violently colliding with the target, or spilling something on the target. The wallet is snatched and within two seconds discreetly handed to a partner who quickly walks away. The money and valuables are removed and the rest dumped within a few more seconds.

Even if you see or feel what is happening, you have no evidence. The scoundrel says someone shoved him into you, you fell into him, or you were trying to rob him.

Another tactic is to create a disturbance with the target's friend or partner, and then pickpocket the real target while he/she is distracted.

These pickpockets look for easy marks. As long as you don't dangle your money in a purse, or dangle it in a back pocket, or otherwise dangle it on a thread ten feet behind you, they will choose an easier target, of which there are many.

In the developing world you are a juicy target because pickpockets know you have ten, a hundred, or a thousand times more money than the average local. You are the target. There is no getting around that. But if you keep most of your money in a hidden money belt against your skin as detailed below, you'll be safe from pickpockets.

=== Money Belts--Your Best Defense ===
"Money belt" does not mean the fanny or waist pack many tourists wear outside their clothes. If you wear one of these in some areas you will immediately see "$" signs light up in some eyes. And I'm willing to bet when you see a waist pack on a tourist your first thought will be something like "Big, fat bag of money!" Imagine your thoughts if you were hungry and jobless, or a street urchin with no one to look after you.

You can probably use a waist pack in Europe without incident. Millions of tourists enjoy their convenience, and they are safer than pockets and purses. But they are not nearly as safe as hidden money belts. Criminals know waist packs are "where the money is," and no waist pack is a match for their deft hands and incredibly sharp razors.

Thus the primary achievement of hidden money belts is the "out of sight, out of mind" principle. It's almost a secondary benefit that they are impossible for a thief to snatch without your knowledge.

== Other tips ==

Experience BCN like a local! For tips by Barcelona locals, check out [http://www.SpottedbyLocals.com/barcelona Spotted by Locals Barcelona].

== Info for Barcelona hosts ==

In your profile, you can add the following text to your "Couch Information" so you give people the basic information any CSer needs to know when planning to come to our city.

If you are coming to Barcelona, check this post in Barcelona group, with basic information which is very useful for CSers who come to Barcelona: [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group_read.html?gid=497&post=951566 Read before posting in 'Barcelona' group - Helpful info inside -] Thanks!

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Alicante

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{{Spain}}
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|city = Alicante
|country = Spain
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|wikipedia = Alicante
|hitchwiki = Alicante
|wikivoyage = Alicante
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== Information about the city ==
Alicante is a 3000 years old coast city, by the Mediterranean sea. Most of the year under the sun, it´s a well-known touristic place and counts with 316.000 inhabitants.

The exact origin of the city come back to the Iberians. the Fenicians (which called the city Akra Leuka), ruled by the romans (by that time calling the city Lucentum), the musilms, which gave it it´s nowadays name, Alicante, and finally taken back by the spanish army in 1246 AD.

== Getting in and out ==

== Activities ==

== To visit ==

== What's on. Hang out ==

If you want to see some live cams, check:
[http://webcam.comunitatvalenciana.com/webcamcostablanca-alicante1.htm?id_camara=16 link title]

'''Getting in and out'''
''Airport''
Alicante´s airport, El Altet, is the second most important airport in Spain.
http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?pagename=subHome&Language=ES_ES&c=Page&SiteName=ALC&cid=1049437849176

Bus station

http://www.alicante-ayto.es/redir.php?apartado=trafico&pagina=trvia_autobuses.html&titulo=Estaci%F3n%20de%20Autobuses%20-%20Transporte%20de%20Viajeros%20-%20Tr%E1fico%20y%20Transportes%20/%20Ayuntamiento%20de%20Alicante

For those who want to move around the main cities in Spain or Europe, you can check this company:
www.alsa.es

Train station
www.Renfe.es

Moving in the city
Bus
www.subus.es

Taxi

'''Activities'''
Alicante´s Group
[[:cs:groups/Alacant - Alicante]]
Here you can find the postings related to the activities organized by local CS members.
Any visitor is welcomed to join us inany of our activities or even propose yours.
Tell us when you are coming, we´ll always arrange something ;-)
Please, do not use this group for requesting a couch. Use <this> subgroup instead.

Agenda (Google Calendar)
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=2mqrvrb5qdm1t81uj1o7omsl2s%40group.calendar.google.com"><img src="http://www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button1_es.gif" border=0></a>
[<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=2mqrvrb5qdm1t81uj1o7omsl2s%40group.calendar.google.com"><img src="http://www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button1_es.gif" border=0></a> Agenda]

GoogleMap con los sitios en los que quedamos.

[[File:GoogleCalendar.gif|frame|xxxx]]
[[File:CS.ES.Alicante.VistaGeneralNoche.jpg‎|Frame|Alicante de noche]]

'''Places to visit'''
GoogleMap con los puntos de interés turístico.

Castillo de Santa Bárbara

Explanada

Parque de Canalejas

Isla de Tabarca

Museos

'''Services for surfers'''
GoogleMap con la localización de los centros de servicios.

Couch Request´s Group
[[:cs:groups/Couch Requests]]
[http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=6937 Request for a couch in Alicante]

Laundry Services
Albergue Juvenil La Florida
Avenida Orihuela, 59
03007 Alicante
Telefono 965 282 754
Por 1,8 euros se puede lavar la ropa. Incluye secadora.

Telephone Services(?)

--[[User:JFQueralt|JFQueralt]] 08:01, 16 October 2007 (EDT)
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Granada

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{{Spain}}
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|city = Granada
|country = Spain
|areas =
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|wikipedia = Granada
|hitchwiki = Granada
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=== Some Historical info / Algo de historia ===
[[File:granada2.jpg|400px|alt=Granada]] 
Para saber más sobre la ciudad de Granada, puedes consultar este artículo en la Wikipedia: 
To know about the rich history of Granada: 
[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada Wiki Granada Info Page] 

También puedes visitar la web del Ayuntamiento: 
You can also find info on the Townhall site: 
[http://www.granada.org/ Link] 

Si quieres ver unas cuentas webcams en directo, visita: 
Here a live webcam link: 
[http://www.granada-webcam.com/granada-webcam.php Webcam] 

== CouchSurfing en Granada ==

=== CS Members/ Miembros CS ===
Granada cuenta con un grupo de CouchSurfers activo, que recibe a muchos viajeros de todo el mundo y organiza actividades de forma regular. 

Granada s group is more and more active, and receive many visits from worldwide traveller. The members also organize many activities.

=== CS group / Grupo CS ===
Puedes darte de alta en este grupo para estar informado de todas nuestras actividades. 
Participa con tus propias sugerencias! 
You can register to the Granada group to be aware about the local activities. 
If you register be an active member! 
[http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=6753 Granada Group] 

=== CS meeting spot / Zona CS ===
La Zona CS es un punto de encuentro de CouchSurfers en Granada. 
En este momento no tenemos decidida nuestra Zona CS pero estamos en pleno debate. 

The meeting spot is currently in discussion 

== CS traveller / CS viajero ==

=== Find a couch / Solicitar un couch ===
Si estás buscando un sitio donde quedarte durante tu estancia en Granada puedes mandar mensajes individuales a miembro local, tambien puedes registrarte en nuestro grupo de solicitudes de couch: 
If you search a couch please contact members personally, you can also belong to Granada find couch Group (i strongly recommend the first option) 
[http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=8970 Granada couch group] 

=== Elementary rules / Reglas elementales ===
Por favour llene su perfil (foto, detales…), es siempre mejor mostrar información personal al miembro quiénes tienen que recibirle. 
Esté amistoso, provechoso, respetuoso, y participar a los honorarios. 

1) It is better to ask for hospitality directly to the people rather than leaving an open message in the group. In this way you’ll have the chance to know better who your potential host is we are sure it is your concern to know where you’ll end up sleeping!). 
Also, you won’t give the idea of being just someone looking for a free place to stay. 

2) Once you selected some people, be clear in your request; specify when you are arriving and when you are leaving. 

3) Be sure you thoroughly read your potential host’s profile. Do not ask for things that are already included in it! 

4) Have your own profile properly filled out, including some pictures. Let your perspective host be able to understand what kind of person you are. 

5) Explain your plans. Are you coming for a cultural visit or to enjoy the nightlife? Do you intend to sleep late or wake up early? ... These types of information will help the host decide whether he/she will take you in or not. 

6) Write your couch request with the right advance notice. Some people write requests several months before they arrive (it can be too much) or just a couple of days before (too short notice). A 2-4 weeks notice would be ideal. 

7) If you want to surf together with your partner or friends, specify if they are registered at CS as well, and eventually add a link to their profiles. If they aren't registered, have them sign up. People like to know who will be sleeping under their roof! 

=== Emergency contacts / contacto de emergencia ===
When couchsurfing site is down / Cuando el sitio couchsurfing está abajo 

Puedes contactar cs.granada@gmail.com, esto se extenderá correo electrónico a algunos miembros (no olvide de añadir su teléfono celular / correo electrónico). 
You can contact cs.granada@gmail.com, it will spread you email to some members (Don’t forget to add your cell phone/email). 

si no puedes encuentrar de couch puedes llamar este hostales: 
If you were unsuccessfull to find a couch you can call(only for info ,we haven't checked the quality of these places): 
Hostels 
[http://www.visitagranada.com/mochiguesthouse Mochi Guesthouse] 
[http://www.oasisgranada.com/en/default.html Oasis Hostal] 
[http://www.hostels.com/en/availability.php/HostelNumber.8344 Funky Backpackers] 
[http://www.makutoguesthouse.com/eng-home.php Makuto Guesthouse] 
-
http://www.hostelworld.com (it charges commission)("a good tip is to surch for your hostel on hostelworld and then call them or make a reservation trough there website!" Thanks, Tom) 
http://www.hostelz.com 
http://www.meligrana.com/esp/ 
[http://www.maktubgranada.com Maktub] (next to plaza Nueva) 

If you stay in any of these hostels, or if you use these web sites, 
it would be nice if you leave your opinion as a feedback that will be very useful for other travellers... :) 

=== For longer stay / alojamiento para mas tiempo ===
[http://www.granada.loquo.com Granada Loquo] 
[http://www.compartepiso.com Compartir piso] 

== Services for travellers and members / Servicios para Surfers y miembros ==
Para todos los surfers que visiten Granada aqui se exponen una serie de servicios que facilitarán tu estancia. 
For all Surfers, the following services can help you.

=== Calendar / Agenda ===
Mantenemos una agenda con las actividades que vamos organizando. 
El agenda esta compartido con los miembros activo de Granada, para añadarlo: [http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=cs.granada%40gmail.com ADD CALENDAR] 
Todo el mundo puede consultarlo en: [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cs.granada%40gmail.com&ctz=Europe/Paris Public CS Calendar] 

The calendar is shared with the local Members; they can add events and organize meetings or activities. 
The visitor can consult the public page of the calendar: [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cs.granada%40gmail.com&ctz=Europe/Paris Public CS Calendar] 
If you have a gmail account you can add the calendar here: [http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=cs.granada%40gmail.com ADD CALENDAR] 

mas informacion sobre el calendar de google: 
More info about howw to manage a google calendar: 
[http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=34578&hl=es info] 

=== Map / Mapa ===
Mantenemos una Mapa con todos los lugares interesante de Granada y de su region. 
Tambien que el Agenda puedes preguntar de participar activamente a su elaboracion. 
Puedes consultarla en: [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=fr&msa=0&ll=37.175193,-3.598902&spn=0.012994,0.028667&z=16&om=0 Mapa Cs Granada] 

The dynamic Google Map shows the important places in the city but also in the province, as the google Agenda you can ask the rights to add your own information by sending a email to cs.granada@gmail.com- you need a google account(free)) 
[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=fr&msa=0&ll=37.175193,-3.598902&spn=0.012994,0.028667&z=16&om=0 CS Granada Map] 

==== Zonas WiFi ====
Si llevas tu portátil contigo y necesitas poder conectarte, prueba en los siguientes lugares: 
xx
They are many Wifi areas, often in hotels and bars, and sometimes free in the street :D 
xx
==== Servicios telefónicos ====
Vodafone 
Orange 
Movistar 
Yoigo 
Happy movil 

Si esta en viaje en españa y necesita un numero de movil Es puede comprar tajeta de prepago. 
Yoigo es muy barato para llamar dentro del pais 
Happy movil barato por llamada internacional 

==== Health /salud ====
This info is for the member of the European Union. 
If you travel don't forget to ask the European healthcare card. 
How to see a doctor in spain: 
Pre required elements: 
-make a photocopy of your European Card 
-take your passport 
-know your Spanish adress 

Go to a [http://www.granadaenlared.com/guia/publicos-sanidad-centros-salud.htm Centro de salud] (this from the area you live) 
-ask for a general paper 'take in charge' 
-fill out the paper 
-return to the desk and ask for the type of doctor you need. 

once you got this paper, you also have a specified doctor. 
Now you can ask for an appointment with doctor. 
normaly you should pay nothing. 
at the pharmacia you will pay only 40% of the total. 

=== Learn spanish/Apprender la idioma ===
con internet: 
http://www.granada.loquo.com/cs/comunidad/intercambio-de-idiomas/ 
http://www.sharedtalk.com/ 
http://www.language-exchanges.org/ 
http://www.audiria.com (Podcasts, vocabulary and exercises for FREE) 
http://www.notesinspanish.com/ 

== Move in the city / Moverse en la ciudad ==

=== By foot /A pie ===
Granada es realmente una ciudad no demasiado grande, en la que moverse a pie es casi la mejor opción. 
Prácticamente todos los puntos de interés para un viajero se pueden alcanzar andando. 

Granada is a small city, almost everything is practicable by foot and it’s also one of the best options, especially if you don’t want to get annoyed by parking a car! 

=== By bike / En bicicleta ===
La ciudad no está realmente preparada para el ciclista. No existen carriles bici excepto en contadas zonas en la periferia. Tampoco existen aparcamientos específicos para bicicletas. 

The City is not well fitted for cycling, they are few cycling pists and in some areas it ‘s quite dangerous to bike the streets. They aren’t bikes parking. 
Outside from Granada they are many user, exclusively for sports activities / mountain bike. 

=== By Motorbike / En moto ===
Moverse en moto es muy sencillo y práctico. Se evitan la mayoría de atascos y existen multitud de zonas de aparcamiento específicas para las motos. 

Use a motorbike or motor cycle is very convenient; it avoids you to get stacked in the traffic jam. 
They are many parking. 

=== By car / En coche ===
Moverse en coche es posible pero se convierte fácilmente en un pequeño suplicio. 
Los parkings suelen tener plazas disponibles entre semana. 

It’s a bit difficult to use the car in the centre, mostly because of the little streets, of the dense traffic, parking problems. And if you can avoid to pollute, especially in summer, you will be a good example. 

=== By Bus / En autobús ===
La red de autobuses de Granada cubre prácticamente todo el área metropolitana y la periferia, existiendo líneas que te llevan a las poblaciones colindantes. 
Las formas de pago son efectivo y la tarjeta Bonobus. Los autobuses pueden no aceptar cambio de billetes de más de 10 euros. 
Más información sobre los autobuses: [http://www.granadadirect.com/transporte/autobuses-granada/ Autobuses de Granada] 

=== En Taxi ===
El uso del taxi puede ser una solución en algunos casos, si bien tiene un precio que no todos los bolsillos pueden permitirse. 

La flota de taxis no es demasiado amplia y en ciertos franjas horarias como un sábado noche pueden no parar para recoger clientes en medio de la calle si están cerca de una parada de taxis. 

[http://www.ayto.es Para más información]/ 

To use the Taxi can be an alternative solution, but much more expensive than bus or by foot. Depends on your budget! 
[http://www.ayto.es Taxi info]/ 

== How to arrive at Granada / Cómo llegar a Granada ==
=== En avión ===
El aeropuerto de Granada. 

[http://www.aena.es La web oficial del aeropuerto] 

'''Como llegar a Granada desde el aeropuerto''' 
El aeropuerto está a penas 15Km de Granada. Para llegar a la ciudad se puede usar: 
[http://www.aena.es La línea de autobús]/ 
[http://www.aena.es Un Taxi]/ 

=== By Bus / En autobús ===
La estación de autobuses de Granada conecta la ciudad con la inmensa mayoría de destinos dentro del territorio español y con un abanico bastante considerable de destinos en el resto de Europa. 

http://www.ayto.es/ 

La empresa que más trayectos cubre es Alsa: 
http://www.alsa.es 

Buses from and to the airport are run by a separate company and coincide with flight arrival and departure times: 

Los autobuses desde y hacia el aeropuerto son administrados por una empresa independiente y coinciden con los vuelos de llegada y salida: 

http://www.autocaresjosegonzalez.com/ 

=== By train / En tren ===

http://www.Renfe.es 

== Alternative travel method in Granada / Método de viajes alternativo en Granada ==
Esta información está pensada para aquellos viajeros que sigan su viaje tras visitar Granada. 
A parte de la información ya indicada en el apartado "Cómo llegar a Granada", existen otras opciones y aspectos a tener en cuenta. 

=== Hitchiking / Autoestop ===
En España no existe gran tradición del autoestop pero Granada posee ciertos puntos en los que las probabilidades de encontrar un conductor aumentan. 
(MAPA) 

There is not a big tradition of hitchhiking in Spain, but if you plan to make hitchhiking, one good possibility is to wait for cars in a Gas station and have a talk to the people who are there 

=== Share a car / Compartir un coche ===
Existe la posibilidad de encontrar un compañero de viaje que vaya a hacer el mismo trayecto. 
http://www.viajamosjuntos.com/index.jsp 
http://www.viajandojuntos.com/ 
http://granada.loquo.com/cs/comunidad/compartir-coche-viajes/101 
de Francia: http://www.123envoiture.com/ 

You can find on web site people who wants to share the expenses of a travel by car.
http://www.viajamosjuntos.com/index.jsp 
http://www.viajandojuntos.com/ 
http://granada.loquo.com/cs/comunidad/compartir-coche-viajes/101 
from France: http://www.123envoiture.com/ 

== What would you like to see, visit? / ¿En qué plan vienes? ==
En este apartado te ofrecemos varias propuestas para tu estancia en Granada dependiendo de lo que has venido a buscar. 
(GoogleMap con los puntos de interés turístico.) 

We add a list of sightseeing, nice places to see…etc (you can find them on the google map) 

=== In Granada city / En Granada Ciudad ===
-Alhambra 
-Monasterio de la Cartuja 
-Monasterio San Jeronimo 
-Catedral de Granada (de los Reyes Catolicos) 
-El barrio Albayzin 
-El barrio Realejo 
-Mirador de San Nicolas 
-Los Baños Arabes - Arabic baths, of which there are two main central baths. The smaller of the two,
Hammam Baños Arabes, is located near Plaza Nueva on C/ Santa Ana 16. For more info: www.hammamspain.com. The larger second, Aljibe Baños Arabes, is located on C/ San Miguel Alta, 41. Website: http://www.aljibesanmiguel.es. Expect to pay around 18 Euros for the baths and 24 for bath and massage.
-Tapas tour 
-El Parque de Las Ciencias 
-Biblioteca de Andalucía 
-Museo casa de los tiros 
-Centro José Guerrero, modern art center, calle Oficio, 8, junto a la Catedral 
-Centro de Interpretación del Sacromonte, barranco de los Negros s/n 
-Hospital San Juan de Dios 
-Centro cultural Manuel de Falla, paseo de los Mártires s/n 
-Teatro Isabel la Católica, acera del Casino 

=== Around Granada / alrededor de Granada ciudad ===
==== Sierra Nevada , norte ====
[http://www.guadix.es Guadix] 
[http://www.lacalahorra.com/intro.html La Calahorra] 
[http://www.pueblos-espana.org/andalucia/granada/purullena Purullena]/ 

==== Alpujarras (Sierra nevada Sur) ====
[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpujarras Alpujarras] 
[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpujarra_Granadina Alpujarra Granadina] 
Capileira-Pampaneira 
Trevelez 
Lanjaron 

==== Sierra de la Cabra ====
vista sobre la Mar Mediteraneo 

==== La playa ====
Salobreña 
Motril 
Almuñecar 

==== Otro ====
Fuente de agua caliente natural 
-Alhama de Granada 
-Cerca de santa Fe, aeropuerto 
-La Malahà 

==== Antequera ====
El Torcal 

==== Sierra de Cazorla/Segura ====
Cazorla 
La Iruela 
Segura de la sierra 

==== Norte de Granada ====
Moclin 

== Activities / Actividades ==
[http://www.yuzin.com El Yuzín] 

=== Flamenco shows ===
(avoid dinner+show it's more for tourists) 
Peña flamenca La Platería 
Theaters: ciclo Flamenco Viene del Sur 
El Upsetter, carrera del Darro, 7 
7xmedio, calle San José 
La chumbera, carretera de Murcia 
El Liberia, calle Duquesa, 8 
El Eshavira, Postigo de la Cuna, 2 (junto a calle Elvira) 
El Huerto del loro 

=== Night life / Marcha ===
==== Tapas bars / bar tapas ====
Minotauro 
Riviera 
Los diamantes 
Calle Navas 
El Círculo, calle Elvira 33. Lounge bar. Mediterranean tapas. 
Café Elvira, calle Elvira, 85 
Al Sur de Granada, calle Elvira 
La Taberna 
La Taberna 22 
El Boabdil 
La Tortuga, calle Elvira 
La Riviera 
La casa Julio 
Nuestro bar 
El Establo 
El Labrador 
El bar K-ito 
El Saint-Germain 
La Medida 
La Bella y la bestia 
El Europa II 
Bodega Castañeda 
Antigua Bodega Castañeda 
La bella curva 

==== Bar pubs ====
La Válvula, plaza Einstein 
El peatón, calle Sócrates, 25 
El music, realejo, calle Rosario 
El Fontana, carrera del Darro, 19 
El Entresuelo, plaza del mercado San Agustín 
La Estrella, calle Cuchilleros, 6 (junto a plaza Nueva) 
El Son, calle Joaquín Costa, 13 
El Enano rojo, calle Elvira, 91 
El Pplaymobil, calle Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, esquina calle Sócrates 
Ojánkano, calla Cedrán, 7 
El Pícaro, calle Varela, 10. Jazz and world music. 
El Bagdad Café, Coca de san Andrés, junto a calle Elvira 
El Granero 
La Tertulia 
El bohemia 
La Cueva del Gato 

==== Teterías ====
Abacote 
Tetería Tuareg 

=== Para bailar salsa ===

[http://www.salseromayor.com Salsero Mayor] c/ Paz 
Bachata Rosa (c/ Madre Riquelme, 1) 
[http://www.barriolatinogranada.com Barrio Latino] (c/ Metinez de la Rosa, 18) 
Merengue (c/ Alhamar) 
Montuno (c/ Madre Riquelme, s/n.) 
Salsa (Pasaje Sócrates) 

==== club disco ====
Vogue, Calle Duquesa (indiepop/rock/80’s/electro) 

==== concert live ====
[http://www.plantabaja.net Planta baja] 
[http://www.tertuliagranada.com La Tertulia]/ 
Sala industrial Copera; carretera de Armilla, junto autovia, Armilla,Granada 
[http://www.industrialcopera.net Industrial Copera]/ 

==== Nightclubs / discotecas ====
[http://www.granadamarcha.com/Mae%20West.htm Mae west] (zona neptuno) 
[http://www.acrssalsa.com/granada10 Granada 10] 
Ls Sugarpop, calle Gran Capitán, 25 
El Camborio, camino del Sacromonte, 47 
El Príncipe, campo del príncipe 
La Quilombo, carril de San Cecilio, 21 
El Tren, carretera antigua de Málaga 
El Afrodisia 
Boogaclub, calle Sta Bárbara, 3 

==== Summer night clubs / Discoteca de verano ====
? El Embrujo (cerca de Otura) ?

=== Local holydays / Ferias locales ===
Semana santa 
Corpus christi 
Fiesta del Agua, lanjaron (fin de junio) 
Noche de san Juan (21 junio, a la playa) 
El día de la Toma (2 de enero, cuando los reyes católicos tomaban la ciudad de Granada)

=== Ski snowboard in the sierra / Esquiar en la Sierra Nevada ===
http://www.cetursa.es/ 

=== Hiking / Senderismo ===
hay un montón de rutas de senderismo en la sierra nevada. 
Monachil (8km de granada) 
Dilar 
En las Alpujarras...etc 
No olvida la reglas de seguridad, son rutas de alta montaña! 

They are plenty of hiking routes in the sierra Nevada, Books can be bought in Corte Ingles, and maps in hicking/mountain shops, but it’s better to go with people who knows the routes. 
Monachil (8km de granada) 
Dilar 
En las Alpujarras...etc 
Don’t forget the security rules in high mountains! 

=== CS activities / Actividades CS ===
Mira al google agenda 
see google Calendar 

=== specialities of Granada / productos de Granada ===
No olvida de descubrir y probar la productos de la provincia de Granada: 
Don't forget to discover the tipical products of Granada: 
Jamón de Trevelez IGP 
Miel de Granada DOP 
Aceite de oliva del Poniente de Granada DOP 
Espárrago de Huetor Tájar IGP 
vinos de la Tierra Norte de Granada 
(thanks to Anna-Gwen for all those info ;) ) 

--Thanks to Segis 
--Thanks to J-F Q 
Marco ( mihiku @ gmail.com )
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== General Information ==
Hannover (German: Hannover) is the capital of the German region [[Lower Saxony]].

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== Hospitality Exchange ==
=== Hosting during fairs ===
There are a lot of fairs in Hannover and during bigger fairs all hostel and hotel beds are very expensive (Ø 200€/night). And you need to book a few month in advance to get one of those. This is the reason why the Hannover hosts get tons of requests, most of them from almost empty profiles.

'''Please follow these advises:'''

* Try to write more than two weeks before the fair.
* Write very personal requests.
* '''If you are new to hospitality exchange, take extra care to fill your profile with enough information and explain why you are joining at this moment'''
* If you come with friends, make sure that they have their own profile.
* Bring some time for your host and the social amenities of hospitality exchange and tell this in your request.
* Don't write only to experienced or centrally located hosts.
* Don't ask for a place to stay in the local Hannover groups (unless they're especially made for requests/emergencies), your post will be deleted very fast or ignored.

=== Special networks ===
==== CS Community Hannover ====

The Hannover CS Community organizes lots of local events. All events are announced in the Hannover Group.

'''Regular events:'''

* every 8th of the month
* every last Saturday of the month

==== BeWelcome ====

The [https://www.bewelcome.org/groups/275 BeWelcome community] is still small but starts to get active with meetings and alike right now.
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'''Cairns city and surrounds'''

Cairns is located about 1,700 km from Brisbane, and about 2,420 km from Sydney by road. It is a popular travel destination for foreign tourists because of its tropical climate and proximity to many attractions. The city is rapidly expanding, with a population of around 147,100 in 2010. Tourism is the largest income producer for the region, followed closely by the sugar industry. Cairns city is nice enough if you just want to eat, drink, party or chill by the lagoon. But the best parts are all in the surrounding areas: the Atherton Tableland, south towards Mission Beach (including Paronella Park), north towards Cape Tribulation and of course out to the Great Barrier Reef. The must-do activities in the city are a walk along the Esplanade and a look at the hundreds of flying foxes (also known as fruit bats) that hang out in the huge fig trees next to the library (corner Abbott and Aplin St).

A notable feature of the Cairns Esplanade is the swimming lagoon with adjoining barbecue areas. This is a free outdoor pool with shade areas, artificial beach, water fountains and shower facilities. A boardwalk along the Esplanade allows pedestrians and cyclists to move north along the foreshore, or south to the Marina, from the lagoon.

The Cairns botanical gardens precinct at Edge Hill (a 35-minute walk or 10-minute bus ride north from city centre) includes: Flecker Botanic Garden; Red, Blue and Green Arrow rainforest walks; Tanks Arts Centre; and wetland boardwalk through to Centenary Lakes.

The nearest beach to Cairns is Machans Beach (15min), but it’s better to go a little further to Holloways or Yorkey's Knob if you want some sand, or Palm Cove (1hr) if you want whiter sand (but more tourists!). Buses are available to all these beaches. Catch buses from the bus terminal on Lake St. If you have wheels then Ellis Beach to the north and Bramston beach to the south are also local favourites.

If you prefer freshwater swimming there are a number of beautiful creeks and rivers close to the city, including Lake Placid, Crystal Cascades and Stoney Creek. Further afield, spectacular water holes include Mossman Gorge to the north, and Behana Gorge, the Boulders and Josephine Falls to the south. Be aware that heavy rains in the mountains can cause flash flooding and please pay attention to any danger signs.

There are many excellent hotels and hostels in Cairns in various locations. As usual, make sure you check the location is close to the city centre or the hotel or hostel offers a free, regular shuttle service.

'''Aboriginal Culture'''

The local Aboriginal culture is fascinating and offers something very different for visitors to enjoy. Visit Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park at the base of the Skyrail to Kuranda.

The Mamu Rainforest Canopy walkway (on the Palmerston Highway, near Innisfail) includes elevated walkways, a cantilever and observation tower. It offers visitors an exhilarating experience of being high in the rainforest canopy and provides spectacular panoramic views of World Heritage rainforest landscapes. The Mamu rainforest is the homeland of the Ma:Mu Aboriginal people. Many generations of Ma:Mu people have lived here—they have a strong and enduring connection with their rainforest country.

'''Sightseeing'''

Various parks and attractions take advantage of Cairns city's natural surroundings. Among them are Rainforestation Nature Park (a 5 min drive from Kuranda and a 30 min bus from Cairns), Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, and Kuranda Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, which extends for 7.5 km over World Heritage rainforest.

The best way to see the beautiful areas surrounding Cairns is to hire a car; if you don't have anyone to share the costs with why not put a note up asking for people to join you? Most hostels have a noticeboard. You might even find other people offering lifts down the coast or to Darwin etc.

CSs often post to the Cairns group looking to share hire car costs usually for trips to Cape Tribulation or the Atherton Tableland. This allows you to avoid expensive tours, travel at your own place, and visit some of the areas that are less touristy.

Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation, about 130 km north of Cairns, are popular areas for experiencing a tropical rainforest. Various tours operate in this area, but it’s recommended that you stay at least overnight to get the full benefit of this beautiful part of Queensland’s far north.

'''The Great Barrier Reef''' can be reached in less than an hour by boat. A wide variety of cruises from a range of operators is available, including snorkelling (all), scuba diving (some), lunches (most) and island visits (some). However, consider how many people are taken on each boat, the locations that the boat will visit and try to pick the best day weatherwise to maximize your experience. Couchsurfers often post in the Cairns group looking for diving recommendations so it might be worth checking what others report. For the best deals on Reef trips, walk around Lake St, Shields St and Grafton St and check tour places and specials on signboards; the best offers may be available for trips leaving the next day.

Come Sailing every Wednesday!

Join local yachtsmen and women who volunteer their yachts and time to take all-comers for a social race on picturesque Trinity Inlet each Wednesday afternoon. This is referred to as WAGS or lately as WAGALS - Wednesday Afternoon Gentlemen's and Ladies' Sailing. Sign on in the Cairns Yacht Club Boatshed at the Cairns marina at noon and return for drinks and snacks around 1700 hrs. All welcome. Please note spaces are limited, so be sure you're on time. For more info ph: (07) 4031 2750

Cairns Diving Advice from Allan Woo http://www.couchsurfing.org/profile.html?id=4JMXH2K

Cairns is the Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Its international airport and its proximity to beautiful reefs, islands and sand cays have spawned a thriving and competitive diving industry in Far North Queensland. Although the Reef is closer to land here than along other parts of the Queensland coast, you will still need to take a boat to see its beauty; and there are dozen of companies that are more than happy to take you. The following is a broad overview of the variety of trips offered in the region.

First of all, when deciding on a trip, be aware that the saying holds true “You get what you pay for”; and there´s nothing wrong with that. There are so many operators in Cairns that there is a trip that best suits the needs of everybody. If you are a snorkeler who would like to also try a first time scuba dive, or a diver with limited time, I would recommend that you choose a day boat (departs in the morning and returns in the evening). From here, you need to decide on the level of service and quality of reef systems you desire. If the excursion is cheaper, one or both of two things probably exist: many people on a small boat and/or the money is saved on the distance travelled. Many companies brag that they visit three sites in one day. In my opinion, this is not always a good thing. I feel that these trips can be quite rushed for customers, especially during high occupancy times.

Generally I would recommend www.tusadive.com.au because they maintain a high level of quality, service, and safety. Certified divers have the freedom to plan and follow their own dive plan independently with a buddy, or they can relax and chose to simply follow a certified dive master. Snorkelers with very little previous experiences in the water, as well as nervous first time divers, will feel secure and receive patient instruction from the crew.

It is also important to check weather conditions. You will be travelling through open sea, so don´t expect a smooth trip to the Reef. If you are somebody who gets motion sickness easily, don´t think about it – take a sea sickness preventative before you board the boat! If you are somebody who is terrified of water but still would like to see the wonder of the Great Barrier Reef, I would recommend that you try one of the floating pontoons. Try www.greatadventures.com.au, where, from their stable pontoon, you have more options of looking at the Reef in glass bottom boats or semi-submersibles. Be prepared for many people, but for those terrified of water, or who succumb to motion sickness easily, this is a more enjoyable option.

For those who would like to learn how to scuba dive, I recommend that you do your Open Water Course. It is the foundation for all recreational diving, allows you to dive independently with a buddy anywhere in the world, and it never expires. In Cairns you have several options. For these courses I would definitely suggest live-aboard vessels. You will have more fun, have the option of going on an exciting night dive, and will finish the adventure with some new friends and lifelong diving buddies.

For high quality and good reef systems, I would recommend www.prodivecairns.com.au or www.diversden.com. They both offer PADI Open Water Courses, offer courses in English and German, and have good boats and equipment. If I had a choice, however, I would lean toward Pro Dive Cairns. The main reason is that you stay with your team for the entire 5 days and you will have an after-party with the whole boat at the end. It really makes for a well rounded trip and allows for some real bonding between fellow passengers and crew. They also have a strong foundation of permanent instructors which facilitates a good learning environment resulting in the development of good competent divers.

For cheaper options, try Cairns Dive Centre. They also offer live-aboard trips at middle-of-the-road prices. The cheapest option for Open Water Course in Cairns is Down Under Dive. It is not a live-aboard trip, but you would do two or three day trips to complete your training and possibly at the same locations. Remember that you get what you pay for, and this is often what people want, but keep in mind that with live-aboard trips, your accommodation and food is included; as well, as you will do more diving as well as a night dive on the live-aboards.

For those serious divers with money and experience, I would recommend that you strongly consider one of the three operators who will take you north to the Coral Sea. The quality of the diving and reefs are far superior to those out of Cairns. These trips will take you through the ribbon reefs up to Lizard Island and to the Cod Hole where you can dive with the giant Potato Cods and grey reef sharks. After you can go to Osprey Reef, a reef that drops down thousands of meters on all sides, you can witness the whirlwind of sharks and groupers during the shark feed. www.mikeball.com and www.spiritoffreedom.com.au are the two more expensive ones and www.takadive.com.au is a little more economical.

Now there is one last recommendation I would like to leave with you couchsurfers. I feel that this trip is what many of you are looking for. It’s a two-day one-night live-aboard boat that is not as widely advertised as some of the other trips, therefore it is often overlooked. There will never be more than 16 passengers so be prepared to know everybody´s life story by time the evening goon gets passed around. On this boat, do not expect luxury cabins, or gourmet food; but what you will get is an intimate environment with others who share similar interests. The boat is called www.rumrunnercairns.com.au and I believe it is the most value for your money out to the Great Barrier Reef. The day is relaxing and it includes a free introductory to scuba dive with the possibility to do four or more dives at the cheapest rates in Cairns. Certified divers have the options of a guide and generally will be in small groups. They also offer three-day open water courses, advanced courses, rescue and Dive Master internships. If you are interested in this one, I recommend visiting the website as they often have web promotions.

'''Shopping and Logistics'''

You can buy anything you need from Cairns Central shopping centre, which is at the other end of Shields St from the lagoon, just a few blocks away. Fresh fruit, veg, bread, cheese, coffee etc. is best from Rusty's Market, which is open Friday-Sunday. The closest supermarket to the Esplanade and city centre is Woolworths on Abbott/Lake St. It is probably a little more expensive but convenient if you don’t want to lug shopping around. Supermarkets in the city centre are open until 9pm every day (except public holidays), but banks and post offices are generally open on weekdays only (except public holidays).

'''Climate'''

Cairns experiences a warm tropical climate, specifically a Tropical monsoon climate under the Köppen climate classification. A wet season with tropical monsoons runs from November to May, with a relatively dry season from June to October, though showers may be frequent for most of this period. Mean rainfall of Cairns is 1,992.8 millimetres. It has hot, humid summers and milder temperatures in winter. Mean temperatures vary from 25.7 °C (78.3 °F) in July to 31.4 °C (88.5 °F) in January. Monsoonal activity during the wet season occasionally causes major flooding of the Barron and Mulgrave Rivers, cutting off road and rail access to the city.

Like most of North and Far North Queensland, Cairns is prone to tropical cyclones, usually forming between November and May. Notable cyclones that have affected the Cairns region include: Cyclone Yasi, 2011; Cyclone Larry, 2006; Cyclone Abigail, 2001; Cyclone Steve, 2000; Cyclone Rona, 1999; and Cyclone Justin, 1997.

For up-to-date weather and flood information go to www.bom.gov.au

For road conditions, go to the RACQ website: www.racq.com.au

'''Public Transport'''

http://www.sunbus.com.au/sit_cairns.htm

'''Airport Shuttle'''

http://www.sunpalmtransport.com.au

Cairns Taxis: 131 008

'''Emergency Information'''

Emergency number is 000. The hospital is located on the Esplanade, about 15min walk north of the lagoon. The hospital number is (07) 4226 0000.

Short notice doctor’s appointments are available at the 24hr medical centre on corner of Florence and Grafton Streets. The Chemist Warehouse on McLeod St opposite Cairns Central shopping centre is good value.

CAIRNS POLICE: (07) 4030 7000

STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE (SES) for natural disasters such as cyclones: 132 500

(Most of the information for this page is from the Cairns couchsurfing wiki, which has now been deleted.)
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This page was originally created by users of the [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=753 Punk Rock Group] to provide punk travellers an access to the local scenes. So for your convenience you find a list below that consists of links to sites where you can find out what to do or who to see at the place you're going to.

Let's keep this page as DIY as possible, remember : punk rock is not for sale! (And another important thing: [http://www.dynamite.lautre.net/antimyspace/antimyspace.htm Keep Myspace out of punk!])

If you can help, please do. If your country isn't yet in the list, just create a new paragraph, or even a regional sub-chapter.

A last detail, most of those links are in local language, but you can use a translator (like http://translate.google.com i.e.) it's usually enough to get the information you need.

== Worldwide ==
* http://www.anarcho-punk.net/
* http://www.byofl.org/ : Book your own fuckin' life
* [http://wiki.gifteconomy.org/wiki/Free_Shops A listing of freeshops]

== [[Africa]] ==

== [[North America]] ==
=== [[Canada]] ===

==== [[Montreal]] ====
* http://steemilieskillshare.com/ : A skillshare art space that has a fun workshops
* http://www.cinemapolitica.org/ : Free/by donation political movies
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112205855090852845604.000444470b1fe51bf2b2a&t=h&ll=45.534287,-73.598614&spn=0.128832,0.117073&source=embed A map of trash in Montreal for dumpster diving]
* http://www.centresocialautogere.org : Autonomous social center website
* http://themidnightkitchen.wordpress.com/ : Free or PWYC hot vegan lunch 5 days/week at 12:30pm during the academic year at McGill University
* http://www.peoplespotato.com/ : Concordia University's free or PWYC hot vegan lunch!

=== [[USA]] ===
* http://www.houseshowdatabase.com/ : A guide to alternative venues all over the states

==== [[New York city]] ====
* http://www.abcnorio.org/ : ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism
* http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/fnb.html : Food Not Bombs in Manhattan, runs out of ABC no Rio
* http://bluestockings.com/ : Activist/fair trade cafe and bookstore, there is some sort of event here almost every night
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100574565875408827436.000460d7b0698fbea089e&ll=40.712004,-73.965969&spn=0.058423,0.11055&t=h&z=13 Trash map of NY for dumpster diving]
* http://vacantnyc.crowdmap.com/ : A map that shows vacant lots and abandoned buildings in NYC, it's helpful to street view them in google maps to see what they look like.

== [[South America]] ==
=== [[Argentina]] ===
* http://www.sevoszine.com.ar/ : webzine about being yourself and notes about local melodic hardcore and punk bands.

== [[Asia]] ==
=== [[Indonesia]] ===
=== [[Japan]] ===
=== [[Malaysia]] ===
http://www.myspace.com/hatirecs (Based in Borneo,booking Southeast Asia tour)

=== [[Philippines]] ===
'''United By Chaos''' - http://chaosnet.blogsome.com An online page maintained by XMARKN a ph based scenester (which also organize punk shows/film screening events ect.) Print Edition is out every 4 months. Send in your Review Material/ Articles/ Recipes/ Gig Review/PIX ect. Contact: xmarkn@riseup(dot)net / Can also host travelers & "Couch Surfers".

=== [[South Korea]] ===
* http://www.myspace.com/soeultari : DIY punkrock show organizer. people who run this are disorganised bigots who've burned too many bridges to be helpful.
* http://brokeinkorea.proboards.com/ : english web board on korean punk scene. people who are posting here are disgusting expats.

== [[Australia]] ==
==== [[Sydney]] ====

* http://blackrosebooks.org/ : Black Rose Anarchist Library and Bookshop
* http://jura.org.au/ : Jura Books
* http://squat.net/shac/index.html : Sydney Housing Action Collective
* www.bikesarefun.org/ : Critical Mass Sydney

==== [[Melbourne]] ====
* http://mac.anarchobase.com/, Melbourne Anarchist Club, venue, infoshop and events
* http://loopholecommunitycentre.org/node/827 Community/ Social center with Library, kitchen, bike workshop, urban gardening, concerts and Food not Bombs
* http://barricade.org.au/news/- anarchist bookshop- located in loophole from november 2009.
* '''Irenes Community warehouse'''- Food not bombs cooking, mondays and tuesdays, from 10am and 4pm, free computer access, workshops, artspace and concerts
* http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/ Friends of the Earth, with cheap food, environmental shop, food co-operative, environmental projects.
* http://thearthouse.com/ The Arthouse, Bar with alternative concerts
* Squats are everywhere, you just need to find a person and ask, they are houses not social centers.

== [[Europe]] ==
* http://radar.squat.net/ : stuffs to do in your punk life in Europe
* http://squat.net : news about squatting in Europe

=== [[Austria]] ===
==== [[Wien]] ====
* [http://www.med-user.net/~ekh/ EKH] famous austrian squat
* [http://autonomizethecity.blogsport.eu/ a squatters' collective]
* http://www.capeet.com/gigs_list.html : Website listing gigs in Vienna
* http://www.gegendielangeweile.net : DIY Calendar for Vienna
* http://www.pankahyttn.at : Streetpunk-House/Squat
* http://pizza.noblogs.org : Squatted Pizzeria(!)
* http://www.dasbaeckerei.net : Anarchist cultural center
* http://wagenplatz.at/ : coordination site for the wagenplätze of Vienna (there are 2 at the moment)
* [http://bahoe.tk/ Bahö Magasin] anarchist (propaganda) collective, meets every Wednesday in lolligo kids cafe
* http://www.bikekitchen.net : DIY-bikeworkshop, also has a bar and events from time to time.
* http://wipplinger23.blogspot.com/ - Anarchist space in the city center. Has educational events as well as a bar and anarchist library.
* http://kaleidoskop.kukuma.org/ : Anarchist cultural center, anarch@-hippies gather here :)

==== [[Graz]] ====

(second largest town, exactly between Vienna, Zagreb and Ljubljana; 60km to Maribor No-border-Jam-Festival)

* [http://www.subsubsub.at Sub]: non-profit DIY location.

=== [[Belarus]] ===

* http://belarus.indymedia.org/ : Indymedia Belarus
* http://www.375crew.org/ : d.i.y. political punk/hardcore culture of Belarus
* http://belarus.avtonom.org/ : Autonomous action
* http://fnbminsk.noblogs.org/: FoodNotBombs Minsk
* squatthebelarus A T riseup.net : Squatters' movement of Minsk
* http://kairos.noblogs.org/: Kairos - libertarian analytic blog
* http://tryznas-kefiras.noblogs.org/ : Tryznas kefiras zine
* http://eatyourselfcrew.ucoz.ru/ : Eat Yourself Crew
* http://www.svabodny.kantakt.net/: Free Theatre - anarchist theatre from city of Brest
* http://rebels-library.org: Rebel Studies Library (Minsk)

=== [[Belgium]] ===
* '''[http://c3p0o.org/queerpunxbelgium/ QueerPunxBelgium]'''

==== [[Brugge]] ====
* http://www.freewebs.com/lappersfort/ : Forest occupation

==== [[Brussels]] ====
* '''[http://www.acrata.be/ Acrata], anarchist library''' : 32, Rue de la Grande Ile, 1000 Bruxelles / acrata(at)post.com
* '''[https://lapetroleusebxl.noblogs.org/ La Petroleuse]''', a squat

==== [[Liege]] ====
* http://www.chauvesouris.collectifs.net/ : a squat (had been destroyed)
* http://pigeoncommunal.collectifs.net/ : a squat
* http://www.myspace.com/suxtobeyoupresents : Show organisation
* http://www.carlolevi.be/ : a café that organises lot of punk shows

=== [[Bosnia & Herzegovina]] ===
* http://www.osvajanjeslobode.bravehost.com/ : anarchist info

=== [[Bulgaria]] ===
* http://www.diy.aresistance.net/ : d.i.y. anarchopunk webzine

According to those people :

" OK, so the situation in Bulgaria is very different than in the other
European countries.

There are no squats and autonomous centres!

There are problems with Nazis in cities like Sofia and Plovdiv, so you
have to be very aware of this, especially if you're with a mohawk and
dress like a punk.

Varna was much better, but the only DIY punk club was closed by the police
two months ago and there is nothing happening right now there.

Bulgarian and Serbian are the most intolerant to gay people societies in
Europe. 80% of Bulgarians are homophobes and some kind of nationalists.
Punk shows are two types: completely apolitical or nazi-friendly. The
hardcore scene is into tough guy macho beatdown or NYHC stuff without
political messages. Very patriotic, sexist and homophobic.

There are environmentalist with a hippie attitude, some rastas and
drum&bass fans that are cool people, but don't have any relevant political
culture. There are bikers and they have a NGO called Bikevolution, they're
cool people, but normal looking people with prejudices on punx with
mohawks etc."

Unfortunately, my short experience there confirm this more or less :(

[[User:Bikepunk|Bikepunk]][[User talk:Bikepunk|Talk]][[:cs:Bikepunk|CS]] 15:32, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

* http://a-bg.net/new/ : anarchist portal

=== [[Croatia]] ===
==== [[Pula]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/monteparadisopula http://squat.net/monteparadiso/ - squat with gigs, film screenings etc.

=== [[Czech Republic]] ===
* http://www.a-punk.cz/ : active ! punk
* http://www.periferia.cz/ : hc/punk webzine
* http://czechcore.cz : hc scene
* [http://www.punk.cz/index.asp?menu=603 www.punk.cz]
* [http://a-punk.cz/index.php?clanek=18-english-info info in english]

==== [[Praha]] ====
* [http://www.discentrum.cz DisCentrum] : anarchist cafe/infoshop
* http://praha.squat.net/ : squatblog
* http://mayday-festival.cz/ : anarchist festival

=== [[Denmark]] ===
==== [[Copenhagen]] ====
* [http://www.dortheavej-61.dk/ Dortheavej 61] the new Ungdomshuset, Overdrevet with concerts, peoples kitchen on thursdays, yoga, book cafe and other projects.
* http://www.myspace.com/copenhagenunderground : underground music info
* http://www.bolsjefabrikken.com/ The Candy Factory, workshop spaces, cinema, peoples kitchen, recording rooms, free shop. Bar and stage in basement.
* '''Bumzen'''- Old squat, now legal and with 2 collectives living there. Vegan peoples kitchen on wednesday, space for visitors, concerts. Baldersgade 20-22 nørrebro (south of nørrebro station)
* '''Folkets Hus''', The peoples house with collective cafe, peoples kitchen (mondays from 630pm) Queer films on sundays, concerts and meeting spaces. With Cafe Under Konstruktion http://underkonstruktion.dk/ Stengade 50, Nørrebro
* '''KafaX''', Peoples kitchen on tuesdays from 7pm, free shop, meeting space and food co-operative on Wednesdays. Korsgade 19, Nørrebro, close to the lakes.
* '''Solidaritetshuset''', Solidarity house, Material for sale, projects, meetings and events. Griffenfeldsgade 41, Nørrebro (close to Folkets Hus)

==== [[Aalborg]] ====
* http://www.1000fryd.dk 1000fryd is a social center @ Kattesundet 10. Concerts, peoples kitchen, meetings.. everything happens here only!

==== [[Kolding]] ====
* '''6000 DIY''' - DIY collective in Kolding. Concerts, house shows, vegan peoples kitchen (food not bombs), workshops, etc. Get in touch! http://myspace.com/6000diy (or) http://6000diy.dk

=== [[Estonia]] ===
* '''[http://www.rockiklubi.ee/ Valga Rockiklubi]''': the best DIY venue in Estonia (on the border with Latvia)
* http://www.hxc.pri.ee/ http://www.myspace.com/eestihardcore) : Estonian hardcore portal (down ?)
* http://punkar.pri.ee/ : discussion forum (down ?)

=== [[Finland]] ===
* http://www.punkinfinland.net/ : Finnish punk info site with an extensive discussion forum (gigs @ http://www.punkinfinland.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=11)
* http://www.punkinlapland.net/community/ : United punk scene in Northern Scandinavia
* http://takku.net/calendar/ : an event calendar @ an anarchist media project site
* http://tresquat.net/ : Finnish information channel about squatting
* http://kimppa.net/English/Default_eng.aspx : car-sharing

==== [[Helsinki]] ====
* http://satama.org : a social centre (legal but gained through squatting actions) hosting punk shows, workshops, cafe, etc. - in danger of being evicted due to anti-racist immigrant solidarity
* http://www.myspace.com/oranssiklubi : an old squatter organization doing punk/indie shows (no age limit, no alcohol served), people's kitchen, vegan cafe and other stuff, too, whenever they have a place
* http://mustankaninkolo.blogspot.com : an anarchist infoshop and second-hand bookstore
* http://www.fireinsidemusic.com/shop/shopinfo.php#english : a punk shop
* https://www.facebook.com/lepakkomies.baari?ref=ts&fref=ts : a punk bar/venue
* http://www.barloose.com/ : a rock bar with occasional punk shows
* http://www.tavastiaklubi.fi/ : the legendary rock club hosting punk shows every now and then
* http://www.semifinal.fi/ : a smaller club in the courtyard of Tavastia with occasional punk shows
* http://www.clubliberte.fi/ : a club hosting mainly indie rock but also punk gigs
* http://www.sture21.fi/ : a club hosting different music events, also punk shows

==== [[Lahti]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/roosterpub : a hardcore/punk pub

==== [[Lappeenranta]] ====
* http://www.lprhardcore.net/ : info site

==== [[Tampere]] ====
* http://www.vastavirta.net/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar/venue
* http://www.puntala-rock.com/ : an open air punk festival held near Tampere in July
* http://www.hirvikatu10.net/ : gallery, meeting place, social center, garden, D.I.Y. and more, worth to pay a visit.

==== [[Turku]] ====
* http://www.diyturku.net/forum/ : a meeting place and information resource for people interested in sub-/countercultural activities in the Turku region (event calendar: http://diyturku.net/forum/index.php?action=calendar)
* http://vapaakulttuuri.blogspot.com/ : a blog with information about autonomous cultural action in Turku
* http://dhost.info/ooo65/viewforum.php?f=1 : a squatter forum. information and discussion about occupations and other related stuff in Turku
* http://www.myspace.com/tvoturku : the oldest d.i.y. venue in the whole country (having done shows since the 1950s), run by university students and punks; UPDATE: evicted in May 2010, still looking for a new place where to organize public events
* http://www.kirjakahvila.org/ : a student-run co-op book cafe; maybe not that "punk", but the only d.i.y. not-for-profit place in town after TVO got evicted (besides, there are a few punks as volunteers, as well). serves fair trade coffee/tea/hot chocolate and all-vegan cakes and pastries, hosts free film nights, discussions, and even some small gigs. there's a freebox for books, and some zines and anarchist literature available in the bookshop. occasional uncommercial queer parties on weekends

==== [[Oulu]] ====
* http://www.ykanpub.com/ : an old scruffy pub with punk gigs every now and then.

=== [[France]] ===
* '''[http://punxforum.net/ PunxForum.net]'''
* '''[http://razibus.net/ Razibus]''' : french punk agenda
* '''[https://www.punk-hardcore.info/ punk-hardcore.info]''' : punk hardcore, and more, in france and everywhere
* '''[https://www.punk-hardcore.info/spip.php?rubrique19 punk-hardcore.info concert page]''' : may be the biggest listing of DIY punk/hardcore concerts in france
* '''[https://www.theyliewedie.org/ TheyLieWeDie.org]''' : anarcho-punk portal
* '''[https://infokiosques.net/ Infokiosques.net]''': infoshops & stuff
* '''[http://www.pirate-punk.net]''': info concerts, bands, etc. all around France

==== [[Angers]] ====
* '''[http://letincelle.over-blog.org/ l'Etincelle]''' : social center
* '''[http://chezle21.blogspot.com/ 21]''' : a community library AND a lovely [http://latetedansleguidon.blogspot.com/ bike workshop]
* '''[http://troglobal.waloomaloo.com Village Troglobal]''' : a kind of self managed village around Angers...
* '''[http://la-conserverie.blogspot.com/ La Conserverie]''' : a DIY concert place with rehearsal rooms for the bands (dead)

==== [[Bordeaux]] ====
* '''[http://gironde.demosphere.eu/ Démosphère Gironde]''': Bordeaux activist agenda
* '''[http://www.atheneelibertaire.net/ Athenée Libertaire]''': a social center. political music welcome
* '''[https://loukaze.squat.net/ l'Oukaze]''' : A squat in Bègles

==== [[Brest]] ====
* '''[http://lapoudriere.noblogs.org/ La Poudrière]''' : a squat in Brest

==== [[Dijon]] ====
* '''[https://www.brassicanigra.org/agenda/ brassicanigra agenda]''' : an event calendar with links to places and collectives of interest in the city
* '''[http://squat.net/tanneries/ les Tanneries]''': a huge political squat/social center, the oldest still functioning squat in France
* '''[https://malokadistro.com/ Maloka]''' : 20-year old anarcho punk collective packing a large distro and doing a lot of concerts

==== [[Grenoble]] ====
* '''[http://grenoble.indymedia.org/spip.php?page=agenda Indymedia Grenoble calendar]''' : telling you what's going on in the city
* '''[https://www.lustucrust.org/ Lustucrust]''' : Grenoble punk info site
* '''[https://www.lustucrust.org/localautogere_presentation.html le Local Autogéré]''' : an anarchist/punk infoshop
* '''[http://www.le102.net/ le 102]''' : an autonomous social/cultural center/venue
* '''[http://labaf.org/ la BAF]''' : a self organized social center
* '''[https://www.bibliothequeantigone.org/ Antigone]''': an autonomous library/cafe/infoshop/social center

==== [[Lille]] ====
* '''[http://lille.cybertaria.org/ Lille:alternataire]''' : a libertarian portal with an event calendar
* '''[http://lille.cybertaria.org/rubrique11.html Centre Culturel Libertaire]''' : a kinda social center

==== [[Lyon]] ====
* '''[http://lyonpunx.weebly.com/index.html Lyon Punx]''' : a local punk agenda
* '''[https://rebellyon.info/ rebellyon.info]''' : an event calendar with alternative radical political infos for Lyon
* '''[http://www.grrrndzero.org/ Grrrnd Zero]''': two separate venues for musical and other cultural activities
* '''[http://laluttine.wordpress.com/ La Luttine]''': a DIY punk infoshop open on Saturdays

==== [[Marseille]] ====
* '''[http://lasallegueule.free.fr/ La Salle Gueule]''' : Café-concert rock'n'roll
* '''[http://www.acratos.org/ ACRATOS]''' : @punk collective.
* '''[http://polygone-etoile.com/ Le Polygone Etoilé]''' : alternative cinema

==== [[Montpelier]] ====
* '''[http://montpellier.demosphere.eu/ Démosphère Montpelier]''' : Montpelier activist agenda

==== [[Montréal (Bourgogne)]] ====
* '''http://www.kanivo-chaos.com/''' : Festival in Montréal in Bourgogne every August.

==== [[Nancy]] ====
* '''[https://ccan.herbesfolles.org/ Centre Culturel Autogéré de Nancy]''' : Self managed social center

==== [[Nantes]] ====
* '''[http://bellamy17.free.fr/ B17]''' : a self-managed space
* '''[https://zad.nadir.org/ ZAD]''' : At Notre Dame des Landes (25km north of Nantes) Vinci wants to build an international airport and squatters resist

==== [[Paris]] ====
* '''[http://pariskiwi.org pariskiwi]''' : wiki about DIY scene in Paris
* '''[http://ctx-n-flrs.zikforum.com/infos-concerts-et-albums-f3/ Des couteaux et des fleurs]''' : Punk show forum
* '''[http://lamiroit.free.fr/ La miroiterie]''' : squat with concerts in Paris
* '''[http://www.cicp21ter.org/ Centre International de Culture Populaire]''' : Popular Culture International Center
* '''[https://transfo.squat.net/ Transfo]''' : a squat/social center
* '''[http://www.lamutinerie.eu/ La Mutinerie]''' : a political queer bar

==== [[Reims]] ====
* '''[http://www.ecluse-reims.org L'écluse]''' : a squat organizing concerts and stuff

==== [[Robiac]] ====
* '''[http://collectif.valette.free.fr/ la Vieille Valette]''' : Self managed village in the middle of nowhere (a big punk festival once a year)

==== [[Saint Etienne]] ====
* '''[http://lenumerozero.lautre.net/ NumeroZero] : local underground news portal with an event calendar
* '''[https://lafrancepue.org/wordpress/ la france pue]''' : DIY booker and distro
* '''[http://www.lasourcefurieuse.org/ la source furieuse]''' : punk collective
* '''[http://sainteunderground.free.fr/ Saint-Etienne Underground]''' : forum about independent music (french only)

==== [[Strasbourg]] ====
* '''[http://maison-mimir.com/ La Maison Mimir]''' : a kinda social center

==== [[Toulouse]] ====
* '''[http://concertoupizza.blogspot.com/ Concert ou Pizza ?]''' : listing of most punk related gigs in Toulouse and around there.
* '''[http://toulousecrust.blogspot.fr Toulouse Crust]''' : listing of crusts concerts around Toulouse
* '''[https://iaata.info/ Information Anti Autoritaire Toulouse et Alentours]''' : local anti authoritarian info
* '''[http://toulouse.demosphere.eu/ Toulouse Demosphere]''' : Toulouse activist agenda
* '''[http://infokiosques.net/kioskarnaudben le Kiosk]''' : an infoshop with library, internet, coffee, etc.
* '''[https://tidibi.wordpress.com/ TDB]''' : a queer squat organising stuff now and then
* '''[http://la-gazette-toulouse.over-blog.com/ La gazette de l'intersquat du 31]''': a blog with info about squats in Toulouse
* '''[http://www.panx.net/ PANX.net]''': Toulouse punk network infosite
* '''[http://collectifchaussas.wix.com/les-enfants-sauvages Les enfants sauvages]''': a collective organizing gigs, with rehearsal room and other cool stuff
* '''[http://encres-noires.squat.net/ Encres Noires]''': an anarchist library
* '''[http://mixart-myrys.org/ Mix'art Myrys]''' : a self-organised artists collective

==== [[Tours]] ====
* '''[http://mediatours.noblogs.org/ medi@tours]''' : alternative info blog

=== [[Germany]] ===
* http://knox.p-u-n-k.de/db/ : Concert database

==== [[Berlin]] ====
* http://stressfaktor.squat.net/termine.php : an extensive underground guide/program calendar for berlin listing pretty much all the d.i.y. punk shows, people's kitchens (http://stressfaktor.squat.net/vokue.php), punk film nights, demos, and other activities
* http://www.wasteofmind.de/berlin/berlin.php : punkrock/hardcore ezine
* http://koepi137.net/ : a very famous and huge punk house project in Kreuzberg/Mitte with bars, two venues (AGH and Koma F), discos, films screenings etc.
* http://www.myspace.com/scharni38/ : a political house project in Friedrichshain with a two-floor punk bar and venue
* http://squat.net/liebig34/ : a queer/anarchafeminist house project in Friedrichshain with an anarchafeminist punk bar and venue (XB-Liebig)
* http://www.schwarzerkanal.squat.net : a radical queer living project ("wagenplatz") in Treptow with shows etc., bike workshop, and a yearly d.i.y. queer film festival
* Fischladen, Rigaerstr. 83 : a popular punk bar and venue in Friedrichshain
* http://www.rigaer94.squat.net : a house project in Friedrichshain with a punk bar (Kadterschmiede)
* http://www.myspace.com/subversivberlinmitte : a punk venue in Mitte
* http://www.myspace.com/cafemorgenrot/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar in Prenzlauer Berg that holds a famous vegan/vegetarian brunch on weekends and has a venue (Kastanienkeller) in the basement
* http://so36.de/ : a more-or-less political club/venue in Kreuzberg
* M-99, Manteuffelstr. 99 : an anarchist infoshop in Kreuzberg with all kinds of punk stuff for sale
* http://erinyen.blogspot.com/ : an anarcha-feminist collective

==== [[Flensburg]] ====
* http://www.hafermarktflensburg.de/ : punk rock's house !!

==== [[Hamburg]] ====
* [http://www.bewegungsmelder.org Bewegungsmelder] - Shows, parties, politics
* [http://www.hamburgpunk.de/ Hamburgpunk] - Dates (mostly concerts), Forum, Gossip (not always up to date)

==== [[Kiel]] ====
* http://www.altemeierei.de/tiki-start.php : hausprojekt with cofee and venue since 1983

==== [[Lübeck]] ====
* http://www.walli-bleibt.de/ : wagen burg with coffee, bar an venue

==== [[Mannheim]] ====
* http://www.juz-mannheim.de/termine.htm Youth Center with venue and bar

==== [[Munich]] ====
* http://kafemarat.blogsport.de/

=== [[Greece]] ===
* http://athens.indymedia.org/ : Indimedia is the main way of anarchist counterinformation in greece
* http://athens.indymedia.org/calendar/ : just the calendar (google translate may help)

==== [[Athens]] ====
* '''Katarameno Syndromo''' : DIY punk rock collective
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113348295068813260285.0004816098f8d47fe0ee6&z=12 Some map locating most of the places to go in Athens]
* [http://villa-amalias.blogspot.com/ Villa Amalias], one of the most famous squats of Athens, a lot of Punk and other Concerts and Activities, near Victoria Metro Station
* the best way to meet punks in Athens is still to hang around Exarhia in the evening. The "punk" meeting spot is Mesonligiou but it worth to check out the Parko (self managed reclaimed area where people destroyed a car park to build up a public parc) 50 meters up on Navarinou or just the Exarchia Square.

==== [[Kavala]] ====
* http://accionmutantecollective.blogspot.com/ : punk collective
* http://anarxikoikavalas.blogspot.com/ : anarchist infos

==== [[Thessaloniki]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/streetattacksquad: Street Attack, a punk squat
* a good way to meet punks an other "alternative" people in Thessaloniki is to go at the place called "Rotode" is a famous youth gathering where police is not welcome
* there are also a few squatted venues inside the university: Steki Sto Biologiko...

==== [[Iraklio]] ====
* [http://katalipsievagelismou.blogspot.com/ Evangelismou Squat] in the Center of Iraklio

=== [[Hungary]] ===
* http://www.socialdisease.tk/ : anarchist punk collective
* http://www.myspace.com/dreamlongdeadbooking : booking/shows
* http://freefest.hu/ : A free DIY festival every summer

=== [[Iceland]] ===
* http://www.savingiceland.org/ Saving Iceland is an anti-capitalist direct action campaign against heavy industry in Iceland and worldwide.
* http://www.aftaka.org/ An anarchist website that was active from 2008-2010. Has a few articles on the 2008-2009 uprising in english.
* http://www.taflan.org/ A hardcore/punk/metal/etc. message board. Info about upcoming shows.

==== [[Reykjavík]] ====
* [http://kedjuverkun.org/ Keðjuverkun] (Chain Reaction) is a DIY bike collective. Not as active since they lost their space.
* [http://www.andspyrna.org/ Andspyrnu Bókasafn], Anarchist Library in Reykjavíkurakademían.
* Radical Feminist Soup Kitchen every other thursday in Grasrótarmiðstöðin(Grassrootscenter), Bratarholt 4, 101. Contact: eldhusfolksins@riseup.net

=== [[Israel]] ===
==== [[Tel Aviv]] ====
* http://rogatka.me/blog/?m=201105&cat=3 small diy-place with shows, screenings, discussions; satursday 4€-vegan lunch. only place in TA with Taybeh-beer (from Ramalah); unfortunately non-smoking inside. Yitzhak Sade-street way down; next to it is:
* "Salon Mazal", the info-shop place. focus on animal rights, antifa and anti-occupation, queer&gender issues. big but random library with books of 40 years.
* the "yellow house": squat (without legal title) by nihilist punx, might be dangerous to visit... it's down in Yaffa next to Ha-Hagana Park, follow street (Ben Yehuda?)
* ask trustworthy people about the "red house" and handle the information decently; it's a house share of punx/activists but it's not explicitly an open political project.
* chaos-punx are said to hang around in front of Diezengoff-Mall.
* in small groups it's safe to sleep on the beach, there are even containers for BBQ-fires.
--Hathova bar (the abomination)-Underground non profit punk bar,cheapest prices in Tel-Aviv.
sunday-wednesday
19:00-till the last drunk.
Hasadna 16 street,tel aviv.

==== [[Jerusalem]] ====
* uganda: artsy cafe/pub-style place with records and comics near Yaffa-street, sometimes small shows. expensive beer.
* Lifta: you wouldn't believe it: an abandoned arab village! five minutes walk from Central Bus Station. Punx and bums have been crashing in there since decades. permanent stay is impossible because of men (from the park authorities and orthodox neighbors) removing and burning furniture and belongings frequently... the village consists of appr 100 stone-houses (mostly ruins) and a clean water pool frequently visited by orthodox males (drinking water quality). it's possible to have your camp-fire; bring your hammock and keep the place clean. for the history of this village whose population fled in winter 1947/48 can be found in detail on wikipedia.

=== [[Italy]] ===
* http://www.punk4free.org/concerti.html
* http://www.sowdust.it/sd/concerti/
* http://www.myspace.com/punxmeeting

==== [[Milan]] ====
* http://milano.tonight.eu/locali/centri_sociali : Alternative venues in Milan

==== [[Torino]] ====
* http://www.tuttosquat.net/
* http://www.radioblackout.org/ : anarchist radio

=== [[Ireland]] ===
==== [[Belfast]] ====
* http://warzonecollective.com

==== [[Dublin]] ====
* [http://seomraspraoi.org/ Dublin's autonomous social centre]

=== [[Latvia]] ===
* [http://pretspars.hardcore.lt/ Prepstars] : zine, distro, action
* http://www.punk.lv

==== [[Kuldiga]] ====
* [http://www.nekac.lv/web-content/index.html NEKAC] : d.i.y. center with shows and stuff

=== [[Lithuania]] ===
==== [[Vilnius]] ====
* http://www.hardcore.lt/
* http://www.myspace.com/XI20 : booking/shows

=== [[Macedonia]] ===
* http://www.teror13.anarhija.org/

=== [[Netherlands]] ===
* http://www.punx.nl/ - Punk listings
* http://radar.squat.net/ - Squat listings

==== [[Amsterdam]] ====
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~binnenpr/ Binnenpret - Cultureel complex in Amsterdam-Zuid]
* [http://ot301.nl/ Overtoom301]
* [http://swomp.wordpress.com/ Freestate SWOMP]
* [http://www.vrankrijk.org/ Vrankrijk, queer squat]
* [http://www.occii.org/ OCCII, legal punk squat]
* [http://www.joesgarage.nl/ Joe’s Garage]

==== [[Den Haag]] ====
* http://www.everyoneweb.com/presentation_tier/Index.aspx?WebID=piratenbar&BoomID=B1&KnooppuntID=K486&KnoopOpen=True : Pirate social center in Scheveningen

==== [[Leiden]] ====
* http://koppenhinksteeg.nl/ : Koppenhinksteeg - Bar, cafe, freeshop, offices, venue
* http://www.multipleks.org/ : Multipleks - Freespace

==== [[Rotterdam]] ====
* http://www.poortgebouw.nl/ : Poortgebouw - Cafe, gigs, living group
* http://www.wormweb.nl/ : Worm - Alternative music venue

==== [[Utrecht]] ====
* [http://www.acu.nl/ ACU] - politiek cultureel centrum (former squat which managed to keep the anarchist atmosphere in a professional setting)
* [http://www.dbstudio.nl/ Db's] - a big complex with lots of rehearsal rooms, a small concert hall and a studio. Programs a ot of underground acts
* [http://ubica.squat.net/start.html Ubica] - The last real squad in the city centre of Utrecht

=== [[Norway]] ===
==== [[Oslo]] ====
* http://www.blitz.no/ : an old squat with political activities, vegan/vegetarian cafe and punk shows

=== [[Poland]] ===
* http://www.hard-core.pl/ : check out the forum, there you can find all gigs and what's going on in Poland

==== [[Biała Podlaska]] ====
* http://zakazny.110mb.com/ : squatted venue in Biała Podlaska

==== [[Częstochowa]] ====
* http://elektromadonna.bzzz.net/ : old nice squat in a boring town

==== [[Gdansk & Gdynia]] ====
* http://www.diy3m.org : diy hardcore punk shows in Gdansk and Gdynia
* http://www.diy-fest.org : diy hardcore punk festival in Gdynia

==== [[Gliwice]] ====
* http://www.krzyk.gliwice.com/ : squat in Gliwice

==== [[Krakow]] ====
* [http://www.myspace.com/kawiarnianaukowa Kawierna Naukowa] a bar booking punk gigs
* [https://squatkrakow.wordpress.com/ Carandiru squat]

==== [[Lublin]] ====
* http://tektura.wordpress.com/ : DIY cultural center in Lublin

==== [[Łódź]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/falodz http://www.czsz.bzzz.net/czarny/ : anarchist site with news, calendar etc.
* http://www.myspace.com/vlodz http://k50squat.blogspot.com/ : squat with concerts etc.

==== [[Poznan]] ====
* http://www.rozbrat.org/ : the oldest squat in Poland, with concerts and more...

==== [[Toruń]] ====
* http://www.pilon.pl/ harcore punk anarcho cafe bar

==== [[Warsawa]] ====
* '''[http://infotrouble.blogspot.com/ InfoTrouble]''': independent newsletter of warsaw
* '''[http://syrena.tk/ Syrena]''' : a squatted social center
* '''[http://www.u-f-a.pl/ UFA]''': nice place, nice people, some concerts and other "punk" activities
* '''[http://cykloza.waw.pl/ Cykloza]''': a vegan bikepunk cafe just in the centre of warsaw
* '''[http://www.myspace.com/nocwalpurgii Noc Walpurgii]''' : queer feminist hc/punk festival
* '''[http://www.elba.bzzz.net/ Elba]''': a squated punk social center in warszawa (evicted)

==== [[Wrocław]] ====
* [http://www.crk.wroclaw.pl/ CRK], alegal squat in Wrocław
* [http://punx-piknik.pl/ punx piknik] a DIY festival, every year in june

=== [[Romania]] ===
* http://www.aro.ecobytes.net/lovekills/ : anarcho-feminist collective
* http://www.myspace.com/thrashsilvania : political hc/punk collective doing shows & stuff

==== [[Tinisoara]] ====
* http://gluganeagra.ro/ : Some DIY punk collective
* http://underground-festival.info/ : The Timisoara Underground Festival

==== [[Bucharest]] ====
* http://biblioteca-alternativa.noblogs.org/ : Self-managed library and more...
* http://www.myspace.com/riotseeddistro : distro

=== [[Russia]] ===
* http://pv.anho.org/forum/index.php
* '''[http://www.go-punk.ru/ go-Punk.ru]'''
* http://www.punk.ru/
* http://russia.indymedia.org/:
* '''[https://ru.squat.net/ Squatting Info]'''
* '''[https://www.avtonom.org Autonomous Action]'''
* '''[http://www.diy-zine.com/ diyzine.com]''': HUGE russian zines archive

==== [[Moscow]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/interpretation_zine
* '''[https://edavmestobomb.info/ Food Not Bombs Russia]'''

==== [[Samara]] ====
* '''[http://www.duplo.narod.ru/ Duplo]''': cultural center & alternative movie club

==== [[St. Petersburg]] ====
* '''[http://svinokop.narod.ru/ SzSS]''': a DIY label / distro

=== [[Serbia]] ===
==== [[Belgrade]] ====
* http://www.kontra-punkt.info/
* http://eng.queerbeograd.org/ : anarchist queers

=== [[Slovakia]] ===
* http://www.obluda.hard-core.sk/ : venue
* http://www.mangelcrusties.sk/

=== [[Slovenia]] ===
* http://www.ljudmila.org/anarhiv/
* http://tovarna.org/ : squatted bike factory, with gigs and some other nice things

=== [[Spain]] ===
==== [[Bilbao]] ====
* http://www.bilbaorockcity.com/ : all rock concerts in Basque Country including underground shows
* http://www.kukutza.net/ : biggest skuat in Bilbao
* http://www.blogari.net/itzubaltzeta : other skuat/social center

==== [[Barcelona]] ====
http://usurpa.squat.net/index.html

==== [[Madrid]] ====
* http://cokolakondenada.blogspot.com/ : Centro de Ocio kreativo ocupado la condenada. concerts, activities. thursdays and sundays, cafe, and something to eat.

=== [[Sweden]] ===
* http://gigguide.se/ all gigs around Sweden

==== [[Göteborg]] ====
* Annual punk festival outside Göteborg: http://punkillegal.com
* Truck Stop Alaska: http://www.truckstopalaska.com/kontakt.htm
* 120an (ex Härden): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aktivitetshuset-H%C3%A4rden/263264657037424
You need to give your e-mail address to get informations about the gigs.
* Pustervik: http://www.pusterviksbiljetter.com

==== [[Luleå]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=241848409
* http://foreningsgatan7.blogspot.com/ A culture house a bit outside of town. Sometimes there are some shows, vegan food servings and such.

==== [[Malmö]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/malmopunkandhardcorecrew
* ''''Utkanten'''' is a autonomous social center. People's Kitchen, bike workshop, meetings, workshops and the likes. Industrigatan 20 http://www.utkanten.net/english.php(less updated than the swedish version)
* ''''Glassfabriken'''' Vegan café and cultural center. Kristianstadsgatan 16 http://www.glassfabriken.net/

==== [[Stockholm]] ====
* http://www.stockholmhardcore.com/home.html
* http://www.hallongrottan.com/: a queer feminist bookstore carrying zines, underground comics, curiosities and whatnot, occasionally having film screenings and other cool stuff, too.
* ''''Kafé 44an'''' A vegetarian café with info shop and venue. Tjärhovsgatan 44
* http://www.skaggigadamen.se/: an anarkafeminist tattoo shop. Small distro coming up. Coffee and tea. Open 4 days a week. Svartågatan 26, Bagarmossen.

==== [[Umeå]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=207371356
* http://umeadiy.wordpress.com

==== [[Uppsala]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=31953059

=== [[Switzerland]] ===
==== [[Bienne]] ====
* [http://fabrik9.zeblog.com/ fabrik9]
* Schrött Bar festival: every second week end of September. The festival occurs at Bienne(Bielle) at "La Coupole", in the city center.
Information very difficult to find on internet.

==== [[Lausanne]] ====
* http://kadterschmiede.squat.net/espaceautogere/ : bar, gigs, infoshop etc. in a squat

=== [[Sion]] ===
* [http://z-a-p.ch Z.A.P] Permanent Autonomous Zone

==== [[Winterthur]] ====
* [http://ggs31.arachnia.ch/ Gisi]

=== [[Turkey]] ===
==== [[Istanbul]] ====
* http://www.noizine.net/ : Turkish DIY Punk/Hardcore/Noize Community
* http://wargasmcollective.blogspot.com/ : DIY Political Punk Collective & Booking

=== [[Ukraine]] ===
* http://infoshop.zaraz.org/

=== [[United Kingdom]] ===
==== [[Wales]] ====
* http://pumpkinrecords.wix.com/dirtyweekend
Festival organized at the Workhouse in Llanfyllin, early September.

==== [[Birmingham]] ====
* PUNKS ALIVE organizes gigs at the public house "Adam & Eve" at least once a week if not more.
Information on Facebook.

==== [[Brighton]] ====
* http://www.brightonzinefest.co.uk/ : Brighton zinefest - Also organise monthly zine socials
* http://cowleyclub.org.uk/ : Cowley Club - A collectively run libertarian social centre. 12 London Road
* http://cranks.org.uk/ : Cranks - A DIY bicycle workshop
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/props_edgeworld.shtml : Edgeworld - Independent record shop
* http://www.infinityfoodsretail.co.uk/ : Infinity - Centrally located organic wholefoods shop run by workers' co-op
* http://www.myspace.com/punkerbunker : Punker Bunker - A punk record shop and gig organizor. 34 Sydney St. North Laines
* http://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/ : Resource Centre - Cheap equipment and printing etc
* http://www.myspace.com/tattyseasidetown : Tatty Seaside Town - Organizes gigs
* http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/ : Titnore Woods Protest Site

==== [[Bristol]] ====
* http://comutiny.wordpress.com/ : Bristol Co- Mutiny
* http://www.templesfestival.co.uk/lineup : Temples Fest late May every year in Bristol city center

==== [[London]] ====
* http://www.56a.org.uk/ : 56a - A radical social centre since 1991
* http://www.eroding.org.uk/ : Eroding Empire - punk/anarchy listings for London
* http://infousurpa.co.nr/ : London Infousurpa
* http://londonscn.wordpress.com/ : London social centres network
* http://www.myspace.com/queermutinylondon : Queer Mutiny - anarchist queers
* http://therampart.wordpress.com/ : Rampart social centre

==== [[Manchester]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/fungalpunk : FungalPunk - diy punk gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/slitrecords : Slit Promotions - Ska/ punk / hardcore gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/gashcollective : Gash Collective - Underground DIY punk gigs/parties/raves
* http://www.myspace.com/sayittomyface : Say it to my face - punk/grindcore/hardcore gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/anarchisticundertones : Anarchistic Undertones - DIY punk/ska/harcore
* http://www.myspace.com/manchesterpunx : Manchester Punx
* http://www.myspace.com/mutinymanchester : Mutiny Manchester - Hardcore/Metal/Punk gigs

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This page was originally created by users of the [http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=753 Punk Rock Group] to provide punk travellers an access to the local scenes. So for your convenience you find a list below that consists of links to sites where you can find out what to do or who to see at the place you're going to.

Let's keep this page as DIY as possible, remember : punk rock is not for sale! (And another important thing: [http://www.dynamite.lautre.net/antimyspace/antimyspace.htm Keep Myspace out of punk!])

If you can help, please do. If your country isn't yet in the list, just create a new paragraph, or even a regional sub-chapter.

A last detail, most of those links are in local language, but you can use a translator (like http://translate.google.com i.e.) it's usually enough to get the information you need.

== Worldwide ==
* http://www.anarcho-punk.net/
* http://www.byofl.org/ : Book your own fuckin' life
* [http://wiki.gifteconomy.org/wiki/Free_Shops A listing of freeshops]

== [[Africa]] ==

== [[North America]] ==
=== [[Canada]] ===

==== [[Montreal]] ====
* http://steemilieskillshare.com/ : A skillshare art space that has a fun workshops
* http://www.cinemapolitica.org/ : Free/by donation political movies
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112205855090852845604.000444470b1fe51bf2b2a&t=h&ll=45.534287,-73.598614&spn=0.128832,0.117073&source=embed A map of trash in Montreal for dumpster diving]
* http://www.centresocialautogere.org : Autonomous social center website
* http://themidnightkitchen.wordpress.com/ : Free or PWYC hot vegan lunch 5 days/week at 12:30pm during the academic year at McGill University
* http://www.peoplespotato.com/ : Concordia University's free or PWYC hot vegan lunch!

=== [[USA]] ===
* http://www.houseshowdatabase.com/ : A guide to alternative venues all over the states

==== [[New York city]] ====
* http://www.abcnorio.org/ : ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism
* http://www.abcnorio.org/affiliated/fnb.html : Food Not Bombs in Manhattan, runs out of ABC no Rio
* http://bluestockings.com/ : Activist/fair trade cafe and bookstore, there is some sort of event here almost every night
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100574565875408827436.000460d7b0698fbea089e&ll=40.712004,-73.965969&spn=0.058423,0.11055&t=h&z=13 Trash map of NY for dumpster diving]
* http://vacantnyc.crowdmap.com/ : A map that shows vacant lots and abandoned buildings in NYC, it's helpful to street view them in google maps to see what they look like.

== [[South America]] ==
=== [[Argentina]] ===
* http://www.sevoszine.com.ar/ : webzine about being yourself and notes about local melodic hardcore and punk bands.

== [[Asia]] ==
=== [[Indonesia]] ===
=== [[Japan]] ===
=== [[Malaysia]] ===
http://www.myspace.com/hatirecs (Based in Borneo,booking Southeast Asia tour)

=== [[Philippines]] ===
'''United By Chaos''' - http://chaosnet.blogsome.com An online page maintained by XMARKN a ph based scenester (which also organize punk shows/film screening events ect.) Print Edition is out every 4 months. Send in your Review Material/ Articles/ Recipes/ Gig Review/PIX ect. Contact: xmarkn@riseup(dot)net / Can also host travelers & "Couch Surfers".

=== [[South Korea]] ===
* http://www.myspace.com/soeultari : DIY punkrock show organizer. people who run this are disorganised bigots who've burned too many bridges to be helpful.
* http://brokeinkorea.proboards.com/ : english web board on korean punk scene. people who are posting here are disgusting expats.

== [[Australia]] ==
==== [[Sydney]] ====

* http://blackrosebooks.org/ : Black Rose Anarchist Library and Bookshop
* http://jura.org.au/ : Jura Books
* http://squat.net/shac/index.html : Sydney Housing Action Collective
* www.bikesarefun.org/ : Critical Mass Sydney

==== [[Melbourne]] ====
* http://mac.anarchobase.com/, Melbourne Anarchist Club, venue, infoshop and events
* http://loopholecommunitycentre.org/node/827 Community/ Social center with Library, kitchen, bike workshop, urban gardening, concerts and Food not Bombs
* http://barricade.org.au/news/- anarchist bookshop- located in loophole from november 2009.
* '''Irenes Community warehouse'''- Food not bombs cooking, mondays and tuesdays, from 10am and 4pm, free computer access, workshops, artspace and concerts
* http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/ Friends of the Earth, with cheap food, environmental shop, food co-operative, environmental projects.
* http://thearthouse.com/ The Arthouse, Bar with alternative concerts
* Squats are everywhere, you just need to find a person and ask, they are houses not social centers.

== [[Europe]] ==
* http://radar.squat.net/ : stuffs to do in your punk life in Europe
* http://squat.net : news about squatting in Europe

=== [[Austria]] ===
==== [[Wien]] ====
* [http://www.med-user.net/~ekh/ EKH] famous austrian squat
* [http://autonomizethecity.blogsport.eu/ a squatters' collective]
* http://www.capeet.com/gigs_list.html : Website listing gigs in Vienna
* http://www.gegendielangeweile.net : DIY Calendar for Vienna
* http://www.pankahyttn.at : Streetpunk-House/Squat
* http://pizza.noblogs.org : Squatted Pizzeria(!)
* http://www.dasbaeckerei.net : Anarchist cultural center
* http://wagenplatz.at/ : coordination site for the wagenplätze of Vienna (there are 2 at the moment)
* [http://bahoe.tk/ Bahö Magasin] anarchist (propaganda) collective, meets every Wednesday in lolligo kids cafe
* http://www.bikekitchen.net : DIY-bikeworkshop, also has a bar and events from time to time.
* http://wipplinger23.blogspot.com/ - Anarchist space in the city center. Has educational events as well as a bar and anarchist library.
* http://kaleidoskop.kukuma.org/ : Anarchist cultural center, anarch@-hippies gather here :)

==== [[Graz]] ====

(second largest town, exactly between Vienna, Zagreb and Ljubljana; 60km to Maribor No-border-Jam-Festival)

* [http://www.subsubsub.at Sub]: non-profit DIY location.

=== [[Belarus]] ===

* http://belarus.indymedia.org/ : Indymedia Belarus
* http://www.375crew.org/ : d.i.y. political punk/hardcore culture of Belarus
* http://belarus.avtonom.org/ : Autonomous action
* http://fnbminsk.noblogs.org/: FoodNotBombs Minsk
* squatthebelarus A T riseup.net : Squatters' movement of Minsk
* http://kairos.noblogs.org/: Kairos - libertarian analytic blog
* http://tryznas-kefiras.noblogs.org/ : Tryznas kefiras zine
* http://eatyourselfcrew.ucoz.ru/ : Eat Yourself Crew
* http://www.svabodny.kantakt.net/: Free Theatre - anarchist theatre from city of Brest
* http://rebels-library.org: Rebel Studies Library (Minsk)

=== [[Belgium]] ===
* '''[http://c3p0o.org/queerpunxbelgium/ QueerPunxBelgium]'''

==== [[Brugge]] ====
* http://www.freewebs.com/lappersfort/ : Forest occupation

==== [[Brussels]] ====
* '''[http://www.acrata.be/ Acrata], anarchist library''' : 32, Rue de la Grande Ile, 1000 Bruxelles / acrata(at)post.com
* '''[https://lapetroleusebxl.noblogs.org/ La Petroleuse]''', a squat

==== [[Liege]] ====
* http://www.chauvesouris.collectifs.net/ : a squat (had been destroyed)
* http://pigeoncommunal.collectifs.net/ : a squat
* http://www.myspace.com/suxtobeyoupresents : Show organisation
* http://www.carlolevi.be/ : a café that organises lot of punk shows

=== [[Bosnia & Herzegovina]] ===
* http://www.osvajanjeslobode.bravehost.com/ : anarchist info

=== [[Bulgaria]] ===
* http://www.diy.aresistance.net/ : d.i.y. anarchopunk webzine

According to those people :

" OK, so the situation in Bulgaria is very different than in the other
European countries.

There are no squats and autonomous centres!

There are problems with Nazis in cities like Sofia and Plovdiv, so you
have to be very aware of this, especially if you're with a mohawk and
dress like a punk.

Varna was much better, but the only DIY punk club was closed by the police
two months ago and there is nothing happening right now there.

Bulgarian and Serbian are the most intolerant to gay people societies in
Europe. 80% of Bulgarians are homophobes and some kind of nationalists.
Punk shows are two types: completely apolitical or nazi-friendly. The
hardcore scene is into tough guy macho beatdown or NYHC stuff without
political messages. Very patriotic, sexist and homophobic.

There are environmentalist with a hippie attitude, some rastas and
drum&bass fans that are cool people, but don't have any relevant political
culture. There are bikers and they have a NGO called Bikevolution, they're
cool people, but normal looking people with prejudices on punx with
mohawks etc."

Unfortunately, my short experience there confirm this more or less :(

[[User:Bikepunk|Bikepunk]][[User talk:Bikepunk|Talk]][[:cs:Bikepunk|CS]] 15:32, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

* http://a-bg.net/new/ : anarchist portal

=== [[Croatia]] ===
==== [[Pula]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/monteparadisopula http://squat.net/monteparadiso/ - squat with gigs, film screenings etc.

=== [[Czech Republic]] ===
* http://www.a-punk.cz/ : active ! punk
* http://www.periferia.cz/ : hc/punk webzine
* http://czechcore.cz : hc scene
* [http://www.punk.cz/index.asp?menu=603 www.punk.cz]
* [http://a-punk.cz/index.php?clanek=18-english-info info in english]

==== [[Praha]] ====
* [http://www.discentrum.cz DisCentrum] : anarchist cafe/infoshop
* http://praha.squat.net/ : squatblog
* http://mayday-festival.cz/ : anarchist festival

=== [[Denmark]] ===
==== [[Copenhagen]] ====
* [http://www.dortheavej-61.dk/ Dortheavej 61] the new Ungdomshuset, Overdrevet with concerts, peoples kitchen on thursdays, yoga, book cafe and other projects.
* http://www.myspace.com/copenhagenunderground : underground music info
* http://www.bolsjefabrikken.com/ The Candy Factory, workshop spaces, cinema, peoples kitchen, recording rooms, free shop. Bar and stage in basement.
* '''Bumzen'''- Old squat, now legal and with 2 collectives living there. Vegan peoples kitchen on wednesday, space for visitors, concerts. Baldersgade 20-22 nørrebro (south of nørrebro station)
* '''Folkets Hus''', The peoples house with collective cafe, peoples kitchen (mondays from 630pm) Queer films on sundays, concerts and meeting spaces. With Cafe Under Konstruktion http://underkonstruktion.dk/ Stengade 50, Nørrebro
* '''KafaX''', Peoples kitchen on tuesdays from 7pm, free shop, meeting space and food co-operative on Wednesdays. Korsgade 19, Nørrebro, close to the lakes.
* '''Solidaritetshuset''', Solidarity house, Material for sale, projects, meetings and events. Griffenfeldsgade 41, Nørrebro (close to Folkets Hus)

==== [[Aalborg]] ====
* http://www.1000fryd.dk 1000fryd is a social center @ Kattesundet 10. Concerts, peoples kitchen, meetings.. everything happens here only!

==== [[Kolding]] ====
* '''6000 DIY''' - DIY collective in Kolding. Concerts, house shows, vegan peoples kitchen (food not bombs), workshops, etc. Get in touch! http://myspace.com/6000diy (or) http://6000diy.dk

=== [[Estonia]] ===
* '''[http://www.rockiklubi.ee/ Valga Rockiklubi]''': the best DIY venue in Estonia (on the border with Latvia)
* http://www.hxc.pri.ee/ http://www.myspace.com/eestihardcore) : Estonian hardcore portal (down ?)
* http://punkar.pri.ee/ : discussion forum (down ?)

=== [[Finland]] ===
* http://www.punkinfinland.net/ : Finnish punk info site with an extensive discussion forum (gigs @ http://www.punkinfinland.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=11)
* http://www.punkinlapland.net/community/ : United punk scene in Northern Scandinavia
* http://takku.net/calendar/ : an event calendar @ an anarchist media project site
* http://tresquat.net/ : Finnish information channel about squatting
* http://kimppa.net/English/Default_eng.aspx : car-sharing

==== [[Helsinki]] ====
* http://satama.org : a social centre (legal but gained through squatting actions) hosting punk shows, workshops, cafe, etc. - in danger of being evicted due to anti-racist immigrant solidarity
* http://www.myspace.com/oranssiklubi : an old squatter organization doing punk/indie shows (no age limit, no alcohol served), people's kitchen, vegan cafe and other stuff, too, whenever they have a place
* http://mustankaninkolo.blogspot.com : an anarchist infoshop and second-hand bookstore
* http://www.fireinsidemusic.com/shop/shopinfo.php#english : a punk shop
* https://www.facebook.com/lepakkomies.baari?ref=ts&fref=ts : a punk bar/venue
* http://www.barloose.com/ : a rock bar with occasional punk shows
* http://www.tavastiaklubi.fi/ : the legendary rock club hosting punk shows every now and then
* http://www.semifinal.fi/ : a smaller club in the courtyard of Tavastia with occasional punk shows
* http://www.clubliberte.fi/ : a club hosting mainly indie rock but also punk gigs
* http://www.sture21.fi/ : a club hosting different music events, also punk shows

==== [[Lahti]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/roosterpub : a hardcore/punk pub

==== [[Lappeenranta]] ====
* http://www.lprhardcore.net/ : info site

==== [[Tampere]] ====
* http://www.vastavirta.net/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar/venue
* http://www.puntala-rock.com/ : an open air punk festival held near Tampere in July
* http://www.hirvikatu10.net/ : gallery, meeting place, social center, garden, D.I.Y. and more, worth to pay a visit.

==== [[Turku]] ====
* http://www.diyturku.net/forum/ : a meeting place and information resource for people interested in sub-/countercultural activities in the Turku region (event calendar: http://diyturku.net/forum/index.php?action=calendar)
* http://vapaakulttuuri.blogspot.com/ : a blog with information about autonomous cultural action in Turku
* http://dhost.info/ooo65/viewforum.php?f=1 : a squatter forum. information and discussion about occupations and other related stuff in Turku
* http://www.myspace.com/tvoturku : the oldest d.i.y. venue in the whole country (having done shows since the 1950s), run by university students and punks; UPDATE: evicted in May 2010, still looking for a new place where to organize public events
* http://www.kirjakahvila.org/ : a student-run co-op book cafe; maybe not that "punk", but the only d.i.y. not-for-profit place in town after TVO got evicted (besides, there are a few punks as volunteers, as well). serves fair trade coffee/tea/hot chocolate and all-vegan cakes and pastries, hosts free film nights, discussions, and even some small gigs. there's a freebox for books, and some zines and anarchist literature available in the bookshop. occasional uncommercial queer parties on weekends

==== [[Oulu]] ====
* http://www.ykanpub.com/ : an old scruffy pub with punk gigs every now and then.

=== [[France]] ===
* '''[http://punxforum.net/ PunxForum.net]'''
* '''[http://razibus.net/ Razibus]''' : french punk agenda
* '''[https://www.punk-hardcore.info/ punk-hardcore.info]''' : punk hardcore, and more, in france and everywhere
* '''[https://www.punk-hardcore.info/spip.php?rubrique19 punk-hardcore.info concert page]''' : may be the biggest listing of DIY punk/hardcore concerts in france
* '''[https://www.theyliewedie.org/ TheyLieWeDie.org]''' : anarcho-punk portal
* '''[https://infokiosques.net/ Infokiosques.net]''': infoshops & stuff
* '''[http://www.pirate-punk.net]''': info concerts, bands, etc. all around France

==== [[Angers]] ====
* '''[http://letincelle.over-blog.org/ l'Etincelle]''' : social center
* '''[http://chezle21.blogspot.com/ 21]''' : a community library AND a lovely [http://latetedansleguidon.blogspot.com/ bike workshop]
* '''[http://troglobal.waloomaloo.com Village Troglobal]''' : a kind of self managed village around Angers...
* '''[http://la-conserverie.blogspot.com/ La Conserverie]''' : a DIY concert place with rehearsal rooms for the bands (dead)

==== [[Bordeaux]] ====
* '''[http://gironde.demosphere.eu/ Démosphère Gironde]''': Bordeaux activist agenda
* '''[http://www.atheneelibertaire.net/ Athenée Libertaire]''': a social center. political music welcome
* '''[https://loukaze.squat.net/ l'Oukaze]''' : A squat in Bègles

==== [[Brest]] ====
* '''[http://lapoudriere.noblogs.org/ La Poudrière]''' : a squat in Brest

==== [[Dijon]] ====
* '''[https://www.brassicanigra.org/agenda/ brassicanigra agenda]''' : an event calendar with links to places and collectives of interest in the city
* '''[http://squat.net/tanneries/ les Tanneries]''': a huge political squat/social center, the oldest still functioning squat in France
* '''[https://malokadistro.com/ Maloka]''' : 20-year old anarcho punk collective packing a large distro and doing a lot of concerts

==== [[Grenoble]] ====
* '''[http://grenoble.indymedia.org/spip.php?page=agenda Indymedia Grenoble calendar]''' : telling you what's going on in the city
* '''[https://www.lustucrust.org/ Lustucrust]''' : Grenoble punk info site
* '''[https://www.lustucrust.org/localautogere_presentation.html le Local Autogéré]''' : an anarchist/punk infoshop
* '''[http://www.le102.net/ le 102]''' : an autonomous social/cultural center/venue
* '''[http://labaf.org/ la BAF]''' : a self organized social center
* '''[https://www.bibliothequeantigone.org/ Antigone]''': an autonomous library/cafe/infoshop/social center

==== [[Lille]] ====
* '''[http://lille.cybertaria.org/ Lille:alternataire]''' : a libertarian portal with an event calendar
* '''[http://lille.cybertaria.org/rubrique11.html Centre Culturel Libertaire]''' : a kinda social center

==== [[Lyon]] ====
* '''[http://lyonpunx.weebly.com/index.html Lyon Punx]''' : a local punk agenda
* '''[https://rebellyon.info/ rebellyon.info]''' : an event calendar with alternative radical political infos for Lyon
* '''[http://www.grrrndzero.org/ Grrrnd Zero]''': two separate venues for musical and other cultural activities
* '''[http://laluttine.wordpress.com/ La Luttine]''': a DIY punk infoshop open on Saturdays

==== [[Marseille]] ====
* '''[http://lasallegueule.free.fr/ La Salle Gueule]''' : Café-concert rock'n'roll
* '''[http://www.acratos.org/ ACRATOS]''' : @punk collective.
* '''[http://polygone-etoile.com/ Le Polygone Etoilé]''' : alternative cinema

==== [[Montpelier]] ====
* '''[http://montpellier.demosphere.eu/ Démosphère Montpelier]''' : Montpelier activist agenda

==== [[Montréal (Bourgogne)]] ====
* '''http://www.kanivo-chaos.com/''' : Festival in Montréal in Bourgogne every August.

==== [[Nancy]] ====
* '''[https://ccan.herbesfolles.org/ Centre Culturel Autogéré de Nancy]''' : Self managed social center

==== [[Nantes]] ====
* '''[http://bellamy17.free.fr/ B17]''' : a self-managed space
* '''[https://zad.nadir.org/ ZAD]''' : At Notre Dame des Landes (25km north of Nantes) Vinci wants to build an international airport and squatters resist

==== [[Paris]] ====
* '''[http://pariskiwi.org pariskiwi]''' : wiki about DIY scene in Paris
* '''[http://ctx-n-flrs.zikforum.com/infos-concerts-et-albums-f3/ Des couteaux et des fleurs]''' : Punk show forum
* '''[http://lamiroit.free.fr/ La miroiterie]''' : squat with concerts in Paris
* '''[http://www.cicp21ter.org/ Centre International de Culture Populaire]''' : Popular Culture International Center
* '''[https://transfo.squat.net/ Transfo]''' : a squat/social center
* '''[http://www.lamutinerie.eu/ La Mutinerie]''' : a political queer bar

==== [[Reims]] ====
* '''[http://www.ecluse-reims.org L'écluse]''' : a squat organizing concerts and stuff

==== [[Robiac]] ====
* '''[http://collectif.valette.free.fr/ la Vieille Valette]''' : Self managed village in the middle of nowhere (a big punk festival once a year)

==== [[Saint Etienne]] ====
* '''[http://lenumerozero.lautre.net/ NumeroZero] : local underground news portal with an event calendar
* '''[https://lafrancepue.org/wordpress/ la france pue]''' : DIY booker and distro
* '''[http://www.lasourcefurieuse.org/ la source furieuse]''' : punk collective
* '''[http://sainteunderground.free.fr/ Saint-Etienne Underground]''' : forum about independent music (french only)

==== [[Strasbourg]] ====
* '''[http://maison-mimir.com/ La Maison Mimir]''' : a kinda social center

==== [[Toulouse]] ====
* '''[http://concertoupizza.blogspot.com/ Concert ou Pizza ?]''' : listing of most punk related gigs in Toulouse and around there.
* '''[http://toulousecrust.blogspot.fr Toulouse Crust]''' : listing of crusts concerts around Toulouse
* '''[https://iaata.info/ Information Anti Autoritaire Toulouse et Alentours]''' : local anti authoritarian info
* '''[http://toulouse.demosphere.eu/ Toulouse Demosphere]''' : Toulouse activist agenda
* '''[http://infokiosques.net/kioskarnaudben le Kiosk]''' : an infoshop with library, internet, coffee, etc.
* '''[https://tidibi.wordpress.com/ TDB]''' : a queer squat organising stuff now and then
* '''[http://la-gazette-toulouse.over-blog.com/ La gazette de l'intersquat du 31]''': a blog with info about squats in Toulouse
* '''[http://www.panx.net/ PANX.net]''': Toulouse punk network infosite
* '''[http://collectifchaussas.wix.com/les-enfants-sauvages Les enfants sauvages]''': a collective organizing gigs, with rehearsal room and other cool stuff
* '''[http://encres-noires.squat.net/ Encres Noires]''': an anarchist library
* '''[http://mixart-myrys.org/ Mix'art Myrys]''' : a self-organised artists collective

==== [[Tours]] ====
* '''[http://mediatours.noblogs.org/ medi@tours]''' : alternative info blog

=== [[Germany]] ===
* http://knox.p-u-n-k.de/db/ : Concert database

==== [[Berlin]] ====
* http://stressfaktor.squat.net/termine.php : an extensive underground guide/program calendar for berlin listing pretty much all the d.i.y. punk shows, people's kitchens (http://stressfaktor.squat.net/vokue.php), punk film nights, demos, and other activities
* http://www.wasteofmind.de/berlin/berlin.php : punkrock/hardcore ezine
* http://koepi137.net/ : a very famous and huge punk house project in Kreuzberg/Mitte with bars, two venues (AGH and Koma F), discos, films screenings etc.
* http://www.myspace.com/scharni38/ : a political house project in Friedrichshain with a two-floor punk bar and venue
* http://squat.net/liebig34/ : a queer/anarchafeminist house project in Friedrichshain with an anarchafeminist punk bar and venue (XB-Liebig)
* http://www.schwarzerkanal.squat.net : a radical queer living project ("wagenplatz") in Treptow with shows etc., bike workshop, and a yearly d.i.y. queer film festival
* Fischladen, Rigaerstr. 83 : a popular punk bar and venue in Friedrichshain
* http://www.rigaer94.squat.net : a house project in Friedrichshain with a punk bar (Kadterschmiede)
* http://www.myspace.com/subversivberlinmitte : a punk venue in Mitte
* http://www.myspace.com/cafemorgenrot/ : a really nice punk cafe/bar in Prenzlauer Berg that holds a famous vegan/vegetarian brunch on weekends and has a venue (Kastanienkeller) in the basement
* http://so36.de/ : a more-or-less political club/venue in Kreuzberg
* M-99, Manteuffelstr. 99 : an anarchist infoshop in Kreuzberg with all kinds of punk stuff for sale
* http://erinyen.blogspot.com/ : an anarcha-feminist collective

==== [[Flensburg]] ====
* http://www.hafermarktflensburg.de/ : punk rock's house !!

==== [[Hamburg]] ====
* [http://www.bewegungsmelder.org Bewegungsmelder] - Shows, parties, politics
* [http://www.hamburgpunk.de/ Hamburgpunk] - Dates (mostly concerts), Forum, Gossip (not always up to date)

==== [[Kiel]] ====
* http://www.altemeierei.de/tiki-start.php : hausprojekt with cofee and venue since 1983

==== [[Lübeck]] ====
* http://www.walli-bleibt.de/ : wagen burg with coffee, bar an venue

==== [[Mannheim]] ====
* http://www.juz-mannheim.de/termine.htm Youth Center with venue and bar

==== [[Munich]] ====
* http://kafemarat.blogsport.de/

=== [[Greece]] ===
* http://athens.indymedia.org/ : Indimedia is the main way of anarchist counterinformation in greece
* http://athens.indymedia.org/calendar/ : just the calendar (google translate may help)

==== [[Athens]] ====
* '''Katarameno Syndromo''' : DIY punk rock collective
* [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113348295068813260285.0004816098f8d47fe0ee6&z=12 Some map locating most of the places to go in Athens]
* [http://villa-amalias.blogspot.com/ Villa Amalias], one of the most famous squats of Athens, a lot of Punk and other Concerts and Activities, near Victoria Metro Station
* the best way to meet punks in Athens is still to hang around Exarhia in the evening. The "punk" meeting spot is Mesonligiou but it worth to check out the Parko (self managed reclaimed area where people destroyed a car park to build up a public parc) 50 meters up on Navarinou or just the Exarchia Square.

==== [[Kavala]] ====
* http://accionmutantecollective.blogspot.com/ : punk collective
* http://anarxikoikavalas.blogspot.com/ : anarchist infos

==== [[Thessaloniki]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/streetattacksquad: Street Attack, a punk squat
* a good way to meet punks an other "alternative" people in Thessaloniki is to go at the place called "Rotode" is a famous youth gathering where police is not welcome
* there are also a few squatted venues inside the university: Steki Sto Biologiko...

==== [[Iraklio]] ====
* [http://katalipsievagelismou.blogspot.com/ Evangelismou Squat] in the Center of Iraklio

=== [[Hungary]] ===
* http://www.socialdisease.tk/ : anarchist punk collective
* http://www.myspace.com/dreamlongdeadbooking : booking/shows
* http://freefest.hu/ : A free DIY festival every summer

=== [[Iceland]] ===
* http://www.savingiceland.org/ Saving Iceland is an anti-capitalist direct action campaign against heavy industry in Iceland and worldwide.
* http://www.aftaka.org/ An anarchist website that was active from 2008-2010. Has a few articles on the 2008-2009 uprising in english.
* http://www.taflan.org/ A hardcore/punk/metal/etc. message board. Info about upcoming shows.

==== [[Reykjavík]] ====
* [http://kedjuverkun.org/ Keðjuverkun] (Chain Reaction) is a DIY bike collective. Not as active since they lost their space.
* [http://www.andspyrna.org/ Andspyrnu Bókasafn], Anarchist Library in Reykjavíkurakademían.
* Radical Feminist Soup Kitchen every other thursday in Grasrótarmiðstöðin(Grassrootscenter), Bratarholt 4, 101. Contact: eldhusfolksins@riseup.net

=== [[Israel]] ===
==== [[Tel Aviv]] ====
* http://rogatka.me/blog/?m=201105&cat=3 small diy-place with shows, screenings, discussions; satursday 4€-vegan lunch. only place in TA with Taybeh-beer (from Ramalah); unfortunately non-smoking inside. Yitzhak Sade-street way down; next to it is:
* "Salon Mazal", the info-shop place. focus on animal rights, antifa and anti-occupation, queer&gender issues. big but random library with books of 40 years.
* the "yellow house": squat (without legal title) by nihilist punx, might be dangerous to visit... it's down in Yaffa next to Ha-Hagana Park, follow street (Ben Yehuda?)
* ask trustworthy people about the "red house" and handle the information decently; it's a house share of punx/activists but it's not explicitly an open political project.
* chaos-punx are said to hang around in front of Diezengoff-Mall.
* in small groups it's safe to sleep on the beach, there are even containers for BBQ-fires.
--Hathova bar (the abomination)-Underground non profit punk bar,cheapest prices in Tel-Aviv.
sunday-wednesday
19:00-till the last drunk.
Hasadna 16 street,tel aviv.

==== [[Jerusalem]] ====
* uganda: artsy cafe/pub-style place with records and comics near Yaffa-street, sometimes small shows. expensive beer.
* Lifta: you wouldn't believe it: an abandoned arab village! five minutes walk from Central Bus Station. Punx and bums have been crashing in there since decades. permanent stay is impossible because of men (from the park authorities and orthodox neighbors) removing and burning furniture and belongings frequently... the village consists of appr 100 stone-houses (mostly ruins) and a clean water pool frequently visited by orthodox males (drinking water quality). it's possible to have your camp-fire; bring your hammock and keep the place clean. for the history of this village whose population fled in winter 1947/48 can be found in detail on wikipedia.

=== [[Italy]] ===
* http://www.punk4free.org/concerti.html
* http://www.sowdust.it/sd/concerti/
* http://www.myspace.com/punxmeeting

==== [[Milan]] ====
* http://milano.tonight.eu/locali/centri_sociali : Alternative venues in Milan

==== [[Torino]] ====
* http://www.tuttosquat.net/
* http://www.radioblackout.org/ : anarchist radio

=== [[Ireland]] ===
==== [[Belfast]] ====
* http://warzonecollective.com

==== [[Dublin]] ====
* [http://seomraspraoi.org/ Dublin's autonomous social centre]

=== [[Latvia]] ===
* [http://pretspars.hardcore.lt/ Prepstars] : zine, distro, action
* http://www.punk.lv

==== [[Kuldiga]] ====
* [http://www.nekac.lv/web-content/index.html NEKAC] : d.i.y. center with shows and stuff

=== [[Lithuania]] ===
==== [[Vilnius]] ====
* http://www.hardcore.lt/
* http://www.myspace.com/XI20 : booking/shows

=== [[Macedonia]] ===
* http://www.teror13.anarhija.org/

=== [[Netherlands]] ===
* http://www.punx.nl/ - Punk listings
* http://radar.squat.net/ - Squat listings

==== [[Amsterdam]] ====
* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~binnenpr/ Binnenpret - Cultureel complex in Amsterdam-Zuid]
* [http://ot301.nl/ Overtoom301]
* [http://swomp.wordpress.com/ Freestate SWOMP]
* [http://www.vrankrijk.org/ Vrankrijk, queer squat]
* [http://www.occii.org/ OCCII, legal punk squat]
* [http://www.joesgarage.nl/ Joe’s Garage]

==== [[Den Haag]] ====
* http://www.everyoneweb.com/presentation_tier/Index.aspx?WebID=piratenbar&BoomID=B1&KnooppuntID=K486&KnoopOpen=True : Pirate social center in Scheveningen

==== [[Leiden]] ====
* http://koppenhinksteeg.nl/ : Koppenhinksteeg - Bar, cafe, freeshop, offices, venue
* http://www.multipleks.org/ : Multipleks - Freespace

==== [[Rotterdam]] ====
* http://www.poortgebouw.nl/ : Poortgebouw - Cafe, gigs, living group
* http://www.wormweb.nl/ : Worm - Alternative music venue

==== [[Utrecht]] ====
* [http://www.acu.nl/ ACU] - politiek cultureel centrum (former squat which managed to keep the anarchist atmosphere in a professional setting)
* [http://www.dbstudio.nl/ Db's] - a big complex with lots of rehearsal rooms, a small concert hall and a studio. Programs a ot of underground acts
* [http://ubica.squat.net/start.html Ubica] - The last real squad in the city centre of Utrecht

=== [[Norway]] ===
==== [[Oslo]] ====
* http://www.blitz.no/ : an old squat with political activities, vegan/vegetarian cafe and punk shows

=== [[Poland]] ===
* http://www.hard-core.pl/ : check out the forum, there you can find all gigs and what's going on in Poland

==== [[Biała Podlaska]] ====
* http://zakazny.110mb.com/ : squatted venue in Biała Podlaska

==== [[Częstochowa]] ====
* http://elektromadonna.bzzz.net/ : old nice squat in a boring town

==== [[Gdansk & Gdynia]] ====
* http://www.diy3m.org : diy hardcore punk shows in Gdansk and Gdynia
* http://www.diy-fest.org : diy hardcore punk festival in Gdynia

==== [[Gliwice]] ====
* http://www.krzyk.gliwice.com/ : squat in Gliwice

==== [[Krakow]] ====
* [http://www.myspace.com/kawiarnianaukowa Kawierna Naukowa] a bar booking punk gigs
* [https://squatkrakow.wordpress.com/ Carandiru squat]

==== [[Lublin]] ====
* http://tektura.wordpress.com/ : DIY cultural center in Lublin

==== [[Łódź]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/falodz http://www.czsz.bzzz.net/czarny/ : anarchist site with news, calendar etc.
* http://www.myspace.com/vlodz http://k50squat.blogspot.com/ : squat with concerts etc.

==== [[Poznan]] ====
* http://www.rozbrat.org/ : the oldest squat in Poland, with concerts and more...

==== [[Toruń]] ====
* http://www.pilon.pl/ harcore punk anarcho cafe bar

==== [[Warsawa]] ====
* '''[http://infotrouble.blogspot.com/ InfoTrouble]''': independent newsletter of warsaw
* '''[http://syrena.tk/ Syrena]''' : a squatted social center
* '''[http://www.u-f-a.pl/ UFA]''': nice place, nice people, some concerts and other "punk" activities
* '''[http://cykloza.waw.pl/ Cykloza]''': a vegan bikepunk cafe just in the centre of warsaw
* '''[http://www.myspace.com/nocwalpurgii Noc Walpurgii]''' : queer feminist hc/punk festival
* '''[http://www.elba.bzzz.net/ Elba]''': a squated punk social center in warszawa (evicted)

==== [[Wrocław]] ====
* [http://www.crk.wroclaw.pl/ CRK], alegal squat in Wrocław
* [http://punx-piknik.pl/ punx piknik] a DIY festival, every year in june

=== [[Romania]] ===
* http://www.aro.ecobytes.net/lovekills/ : anarcho-feminist collective
* http://www.myspace.com/thrashsilvania : political hc/punk collective doing shows & stuff

==== [[Tinisoara]] ====
* http://gluganeagra.ro/ : Some DIY punk collective
* http://underground-festival.info/ : The Timisoara Underground Festival

==== [[Bucharest]] ====
* http://biblioteca-alternativa.noblogs.org/ : Self-managed library and more...
* http://www.myspace.com/riotseeddistro : distro

=== [[Russia]] ===
* http://pv.anho.org/forum/index.php
* '''[http://www.go-punk.ru/ go-Punk.ru]'''
* http://www.punk.ru/
* http://russia.indymedia.org/:
* '''[https://ru.squat.net/ Squatting Info]'''
* '''[https://www.avtonom.org Autonomous Action]'''
* '''[http://www.diy-zine.com/ diyzine.com]''': HUGE russian zines archive

==== [[Moscow]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/interpretation_zine
* '''[https://edavmestobomb.info/ Food Not Bombs Russia]'''

==== [[Samara]] ====
* '''[http://www.duplo.narod.ru/ Duplo]''': cultural center & alternative movie club

==== [[St. Petersburg]] ====
* '''[http://svinokop.narod.ru/ SzSS]''': a DIY label / distro

=== [[Serbia]] ===
==== [[Belgrade]] ====
* http://www.kontra-punkt.info/
* http://eng.queerbeograd.org/ : anarchist queers

=== [[Slovakia]] ===
* http://www.obluda.hard-core.sk/ : venue
* http://www.mangelcrusties.sk/

=== [[Slovenia]] ===
* http://www.ljudmila.org/anarhiv/
* http://tovarna.org/ : squatted bike factory, with gigs and some other nice things

=== [[Spain]] ===
==== [[Bilbao]] ====
* http://www.bilbaorockcity.com/ : all rock concerts in Basque Country including underground shows
* http://www.kukutza.net/ : biggest skuat in Bilbao
* http://www.blogari.net/itzubaltzeta : other skuat/social center

==== [[Barcelona]] ====
http://usurpa.squat.net/index.html

==== [[Madrid]] ====
* http://cokolakondenada.blogspot.com/ : Centro de Ocio kreativo ocupado la condenada. concerts, activities. thursdays and sundays, cafe, and something to eat.

=== [[Sweden]] ===
* http://gigguide.se/ all gigs around Sweden

==== [[Göteborg]] ====
* Annual punk festival outside Göteborg: http://punkillegal.com
* Truck Stop Alaska: http://www.truckstopalaska.com/kontakt.htm
* 120an (ex Härden): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aktivitetshuset-H%C3%A4rden/263264657037424
You need to give your e-mail address to get informations about the gigs.
* Pustervik: http://www.pusterviksbiljetter.com

==== [[Luleå]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=241848409
* http://foreningsgatan7.blogspot.com/ A culture house a bit outside of town. Sometimes there are some shows, vegan food servings and such.

==== [[Malmö]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/malmopunkandhardcorecrew
* ''''Utkanten'''' is a autonomous social center. People's Kitchen, bike workshop, meetings, workshops and the likes. Industrigatan 20 http://www.utkanten.net/english.php(less updated than the swedish version)
* ''''Glassfabriken'''' Vegan café and cultural center. Kristianstadsgatan 16 http://www.glassfabriken.net/

==== [[Stockholm]] ====
* http://www.stockholmhardcore.com/home.html
* http://www.hallongrottan.com/: a queer feminist bookstore carrying zines, underground comics, curiosities and whatnot, occasionally having film screenings and other cool stuff, too.
* ''''Kafé 44an'''' A vegetarian café with info shop and venue. Tjärhovsgatan 44
* http://www.skaggigadamen.se/: an anarkafeminist tattoo shop. Small distro coming up. Coffee and tea. Open 4 days a week. Svartågatan 26, Bagarmossen.

==== [[Umeå]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=207371356
* http://umeadiy.wordpress.com

==== [[Uppsala]] ====
* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=31953059

=== [[Switzerland]] ===
==== [[Bienne]] ====
* [http://fabrik9.zeblog.com/ fabrik9]
* Schrött Bar festival: every second week end of September. The festival occurs at Bienne(Bielle) at "La Coupole", in the city center.
Information very difficult to find on internet.

==== [[Lausanne]] ====
* http://kadterschmiede.squat.net/espaceautogere/ : bar, gigs, infoshop etc. in a squat

=== [[Sion]] ===
* [http://z-a-p.ch Z.A.P] Permanent Autonomous Zone

==== [[Winterthur]] ====
* [http://ggs31.arachnia.ch/ Gisi]

=== [[Turkey]] ===
==== [[Istanbul]] ====
* http://www.noizine.net/ : Turkish DIY Punk/Hardcore/Noize Community
* http://wargasmcollective.blogspot.com/ : DIY Political Punk Collective & Booking

=== [[Ukraine]] ===
* http://infoshop.zaraz.org/

=== [[United Kingdom]] ===
==== [[Wales]] ====
* http://pumpkinrecords.wix.com/dirtyweekend
Festival organized at the Workhouse in Llanfyllin, early September.

==== [[Birmingham]] ====
* PUNKS ALIVE organizes gigs at the public house "Adam & Eve" at least once a week if not more.
Information on Facebook.

==== [[Brighton]] ====
* http://www.brightonzinefest.co.uk/ : Brighton zinefest - Also organise monthly zine socials
* http://cowleyclub.org.uk/ : Cowley Club - A collectively run libertarian social centre. 12 London Road
* http://cranks.org.uk/ : Cranks - A DIY bicycle workshop
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/huw/props_edgeworld.shtml : Edgeworld - Independent record shop
* http://www.infinityfoodsretail.co.uk/ : Infinity - Centrally located organic wholefoods shop run by workers' co-op
* http://www.myspace.com/punkerbunker : Punker Bunker - A punk record shop and gig organizor. 34 Sydney St. North Laines
* http://www.resourcecentre.org.uk/ : Resource Centre - Cheap equipment and printing etc
* http://www.myspace.com/tattyseasidetown : Tatty Seaside Town - Organizes gigs
* http://www.protectourwoodland.co.uk/ : Titnore Woods Protest Site

==== [[Bristol]] ====
* http://comutiny.wordpress.com/ : Bristol Co- Mutiny
* http://www.templesfestival.co.uk/lineup : Temples Fest late May every year in Bristol city center

==== [[London]] ====
* http://www.56a.org.uk/ : 56a - A radical social centre since 1991
* http://www.eroding.org.uk/ : Eroding Empire - punk/anarchy listings for London
* http://infousurpa.co.nr/ : London Infousurpa
* http://londonscn.wordpress.com/ : London social centres network
* http://www.myspace.com/queermutinylondon : Queer Mutiny - anarchist queers
* http://therampart.wordpress.com/ : Rampart social centre

==== [[Manchester]] ====
* http://www.myspace.com/fungalpunk : FungalPunk - diy punk gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/slitrecords : Slit Promotions - Ska/ punk / hardcore gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/gashcollective : Gash Collective - Underground DIY punk gigs/parties/raves
* http://www.myspace.com/sayittomyface : Say it to my face - punk/grindcore/hardcore gigs
* http://www.myspace.com/anarchisticundertones : Anarchistic Undertones - DIY punk/ska/harcore
* http://www.myspace.com/manchesterpunx : Manchester Punx
* http://www.myspace.com/mutinymanchester : Mutiny Manchester - Hardcore/Metal/Punk gigs
* http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385514487 : Punk gigs in Manchester Facebook
* http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=703395004 : No particular Promotions ( gamberro )

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'''Amsterdam''' is a city in the province of North Holland in the [[Netherlands]].

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Rotterdam

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Welcome to Rotterdam!

Visit the [http://www.bewelcome.org/places/NL/South%20Holland/Rotterdam Rotterdam place page] To find a host in our city!

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdam Rotterdam] is the second largest city in the Netherlands with 617.347 inhabitants in the city, but the Stadsregio Rotterdam (connected cities Spijkenisse, Schiedam, Vlaardingen, Maassluis, Capelle a/d Ijssel, Krimpen a/d Ijssel, Berkel, Bergschenhoek, Rhoon, Smitshoek, Hoek van Holland, Ridderkerk) it actually has 1.2 million inhabitants. The Metropolian region Rotterdam -The Hague has 2.2 million inhabitants and is the most high-densed area in the Netherlands. Of course Rotterdam is also the biggest port in Europe, the third biggest port in the world. It's the only city in the Netherlands with a real skyline. Rotterdam or 'Manhattan on the Maas' as it is also called, was bombed in the second worldwar. But Rotterdammers have rebuilt it quickly and now it is the capital of modern architecture of the Netherlands! Rotterdam has 173 nationalities and more than 45% of the Rotterdammers immigrated here, which increased diversity of the city.

Rotterdam is also the youngest city in the Netherlands, almost a third of the city's population is under 28 years of age.

Other popular names of Rotterdam are 'Rotjeknor', 010 (referring the dialcode) or Roffa.

===City of business===
Rotterdam is home to the [http://www.eur.nl/english/ Erasmus University], a very famous university for Business and Economics. Despite the fact that Rotterdam is not so well known as a university city, the many cultural events and international and multicultural atmosphere good nightlife and very good transport options makes many students choose for Rotterdam as their university city.

===City of architecture===
Rotterdam is a un-dutch city in a way, because after the world war the historical centre was not restored but room was given to modern architecture. The city is therefore also home to the [http://en.nai.nl/ Dutch Architecture Institute] (Nai) and of course many modern buildings and structures. Most famous is of course the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmusbrug Erasmus bridge] (the Swan) which completes the futuristic skyline of Rotterdam. Near Blaak station there is another famous architectural site the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_house Cube houses]. But there are also new project, like the [http://www.rotterdam.nl/rotterdamcentraal new central station] of Rotterdam. The soon to be built [http://www.markthalrotterdam.nl/ Markthal] of Rotterdam. Crowd-funded airbridge [http://www.imakerotterdam.nl/ de Luchtsingel].

===City of sports===
Rotterdam is in the Netherlands seen as the capital of sports.
First of all there are three professional football clubs in Rotterdam
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feyenoord Feyenoord] plays in the [http://eredivisielive.nl/eredivisie/ Dutch Eredivisie] and the best known and the most successfull [http://www.feyenoord.nl club] of the city and plays in the iconic football stadium [http://www.dekuip.nl/ 'the Kuip'] in Rotterdam south.
- [http://www.sparta-rotterdam.nl/ Sparta Rotterdam] plays in the [http://eredivisielive.nl/jupiler-league/ Eerste Divisie] and is the oldest football club of the Netherlands with a great history and a nice stadium located in the west part of the city.
- The smallest club of Rotterdam is [http://www.sbvexcelsior.nl/ SBV Excelsior] they also play in the Eerste Divisie and their stadium is located in the East part of the city.

Next to that Rotterdam is home to the biggest [http://www.marathonrotterdam.nl marathon] of the Netherlands and the [http://www.abnamrowtt.nl/ ABN Amro international tennis tournament]. Also there is the indoor cycling event the [http://www.zesdaagserotterdam.nl/ Zesdaagse], the CHIO (equestrian sports), the world port tournament (baseball), the Roparun, Ladiesrun and many more.

===Rotterdam city of art, food and culture===
Rotterdam is a ever-changing city renewing itself quickly time after time. It is visible in the many new pop-up clubs, restaurants, galleries, vintage stores that keep popping up here and there, if something was nice and hip this month, next month it is maybe something else. This is all kept together in a sauce of events, art weeks, food fairs, exhibitions and cultural happenings. Keep up to date with [http://weownrotterdam.nl/ this site].

===Home of the Kapsalon===
The story goes that a hairdresser walked down from his work to local Turkish food store in Schiedamseweg. It must have been one of those finicky days when he was not quite sure what he wanted to eat because he ended up asking Â�for a bit of everything, bit of that and thisÂ� in the takeaway container. Creativity induced by hunger pangs and the [http://www.venere.com/blog/kapsalon-rotterdam/ Kapsalon] was born! With 1800 calories this after drinking food will take all your hunger away!

===Lakes & beaches===
Rotterdam is the city with the most water in the Netherlands. Of course because of all the ports, but also because there are three rivers in the city the Maas (that divides the North and the South of Rotterdam), the Rotte and the Schie. Next to that there are severals recreational lakes in Rotterdam, the Kralingse plas, the Bergse plassen, the Rottemeren en the Vrijenburger plas.

Also a good thing about Rotterdam is that it is close to the sea. There is a direct train that takes you in less then 30 minutes to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoek_van_Holland_Strand_railway_station beach of Hoek van Holland] with many popular [http://www.beachclubroyal.nl/nl/ beachclubs]. Also the ferries to England go from Hoek van Holland.

A second great beach to visit is [http://www.recreatiezuidholland.nl/content/gebieden_detail.asp?menu=0010000_000000_000048_000000 Rockanje beach], a bit to the South west of Rotterdam. Very easy to reach by car, by public transport take metroline D till station Spijkenisse Centrum, then take bus [http://wiki.ovinnederland.nl/wiki/Lijn_103_Spijkenisse_Metro_Centrum_-_Rockanje_Tweede_Slag 103] to Rockanje Tweede Slag. It's a great and popular beach with nice beachclubs, for instance [http://www.havana.nl/ Havana].

A third option is the newly created beach of the [http://www.maasvlakte2.com/nl/index/show/id/71/Recreatie Maasvlakte ] , this is also a great opportunity to visit [http://www.maasvlakte2.com/nl/futureland Futureland].
Here you can learn about the new created land that is taken from the sea to extend the port of Rotterdam.

===Things to see===
Rotterdam is the home to one of the oldest and nicest zoo's in the Netherlands, [http://www.blijdorp.nl/?lang=EN Diergaarde Blijdorp]

The world famous UNESCO World Heritage [http://www.kinderdijk.nl/index.html Kinderdijk] (a lot of dutch windmills in a beautiful landscape) is very near Rotterdam, there are even boat tours available from Rotterdam centre. The local hospitality community in Rotterdam usually organizes a bike tour in the summer or spring to this beautiful site.

Even though most historical parts of Rotterdam have been destroyed, there are some real nice historical parts to visit. For instance Delfshaven is a authentic and beautiful neighourhood where you will find the Pilgrimchurch but also many cozy bars and the only beer brewery in Rotterdam [http://www.pelgrimbier.nl/ Pelgrim]. You can try the beer on the bar of the brewery or take a tour. The name is Pelgrim, because the boat that took the Pilgrim fathers (first settlers in North America) left from Delfhaven and then to York.

Another magnificient building is the [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_New_York_(Rotterdam) Hotel New York], this used to be the terminal for the famous Holland - America line, which transported many dutch that left to North America after the war to start a better life.

===Museums===

Rotterdam has many museums that are worth visiting, here is a selection:

- Museum [http://www.boijmans.nl/en/ Boymans van Beuningen] Classic and modern art
- the [http://www.kunsthal.nl/en-2-Kunsthal-Rotterdam.html Kunsthal] different art expositions
- the [http://www.maritiemmuseum.nl/website/index.cfm?itm_id=96 Maritime Museum]
- the [http://www.wereldmuseum.nl/en/home.html Wereldmuseum]
- [http://www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/index.php?lang=en Nederlands fotomuseum]
- [http://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/ Natuurhistorisch museum]
- [http://www.ovmrotterdam.nl/english/index.php War resistance museum]
- [http://www.havenmuseum.nl/ Port museum]
- [http://www.dedubbeldepalmboom.nl/ Museum de Dubbelde Palmboom]
- [http://www.chabotmuseum.nl/ Chabot museum]
- [http://www.bdmuseum.nl/ Tax and customs museum]
- [http://www.trammuseumrotterdam.nl/ Tram museum]
- [http://www.onderwijsmuseum.nl/ National museum of Education]

===Festivals===
Rotterdam is a real [http://www.rotterdamfestivals.nl/public festival city] and has many annual events:

- [http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/ International Film Festival Rotterdam] 22 january - 2 february
- [http://www.artrotterdam.com/users/128/content/home/EN-index.html Art Rotterdam Week] 5 february / 10 february
- [http://www.abnamrowtt.nl/ ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament] 11 -17 february
- [http://www.rotterdamsemuseumnacht.nl/en/index.php Museumnight Rotterdam] 9 march
- [http://www.motelmozaique.nl/en/ Motel Mozaique] (arts, live bands, theatre) 5, 6 april
- [http://www.parfumdeboemboem.nl/ Parfum de Boem Boem] (buiding sites tour) 5 - 7 april
- [http://www.circusstad.nl/english Circusstad Festival] 29 april - 5 may
- [http://www.newskoolrules.com/ New skool rules festival] 5 - 7 april
- [http://www.marathonrotterdam.org/home Marathon of Rotterdam] (biggest in NL) 13,14 april
- [http://www.redear.nl/ Red ear festival] (classical music, jazz, bands) 19 - 21 april
- [http://kdfrotterdam.nl/ Queens day festival] Rotterdam 30 april
- [http://www.bevrijdingsfestivalzh.nl/ Liberation day festival] 5 may
- [http://www.roparun.org/ Roparun finish] (estafette tour from Paris to Rotterdam) 20 may
- [http://www.operadagenrotterdam.nl/en/ Operadays Rotterdam] 5 may - 2 june
- [http://www.zomerzondagen.nl/ Zomerzondagen] (summer sundays) sunday end may and june
- [http://www.routedunord.nl/ Route du Nord] 7-9 june
- [http://www.ladiesrun.nl/home Ladiesrun Rotterdam] 9 june
- [http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/festival/index/en Poetry International festival Rotterdam] 9 - 15 june
- [http://www.rotterdamunlimited.com/en Rotterdam Unlimited] (former Zomercarnaval and Dunya festival combined, multicultural festval and tropical summercarnaval) 11 - 16 june
- [http://www.chio.nl/EN CHIO Rotterdam] (equestrian sports) 19 - 23 june
- [http://www.deparade.nl/ De Parade Rotterdam] 20 - 30 june
- [http://www.dagvandearchitectuur.nl/ Architecture Day] 22 - 23 june
- [http://www.northseajazz.com/nl Northsea Jazz festival] 28 june / 14 july
- [http://www.dancefloat.nl Dance House festival on boats and onshore] 5 july
- [http://www.worldporttournament.nl/ World Port Tournament] International baseball 30 june / 7 july
- [http://metropolisfestival.nl/ Metropolis Festival] 7 july
- [http://www.campingrotterdam.nl/ Camping Rotterdam] 18 july / 21 july
- [http://www.wednesdaynightskate.nl/ Wednesdaynight skate] wednesdays in july and august
- [http://www.duizelinhetpark.nl/ Duizel in het park] 9 augustus / 11 august
- [http://www.boothstock.nl/ Boothstock Festival] 10 augustus
- [http://www.pleinbioscooprotterdam.nl/ Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam] (open air cinema) 13 august / 2 september
- [http://www.cityracing.nl/ City Racing Rotterdam] 25 august
- [http://www.dagvanderomantischemuziek.nl/nl/ Dag van de Romantische Muziek] 25 august
- [http://www.veerhavenconcert.nl/ OVG Veerhavenconcert] 28 august / 31 august
- [http://www.culinesserotterdam.nl/ CuliNESSE] 29 august / 31 august
- [http://www.wereldhavendagen.nl/ World Port days] 6 september / 8 september
- [http://www.denachtvandekaap.nl/ De Nacht van de Kaap] 7 september
- [http://festivalwww.nl/en/ De Wereld van Witte de With] 13 september / 15 september
- [http://worldfoodfestival.wordpress.com/ World Food Festival] 18 september / 27 october
- [http://www.baroegopenair.nl/nl Baroeg Open Air] 21 september

Tips
- [http://naturthegreeneryelle..com/ Organic farm] near Rotterdam
- [http://www.degroenepassage.nl/ Groene passage] organic shopping
- [https://www.facebook.com/Burgertrut Burgertrut] Art gallery & pop-up restaurant
- [http://www.miniworldrotterdam.com/ENGindex.htm Railz miniworld] Miniature Rotterdam and trains
- [http://www.vapiano.de/frame.php?lang=nl Vapiano] cheap and good italian food (but long lines)
- [http://www.happyitaly.nl/ Happy Italy] cheap and good italian food (but long lines)
- [http://www.veryitalianpizza.nl/nl/home/ Very Italian Pizza] cheap and good italian food (no long lines yet)
- [http://www.rotown.nl/ Rotown] legendary bar/restaurant/club/venue with indie rock/hipsters/concerts
- [http://www.getback.nl/ Get Back] restaurant/club with 70's 80's 90's music
- [http://www.blenderrotterdam.nl/ Blender] restaurant/club 30+ crowd
- [http://corsorotterdam.nl/ Off corso] Big mainstream club
- [http://www.thaliarotterdam.nl/ Thalia] Club with latin house
- [http://www.tikis.nl/ Tiki's] hawaiian style bar
- [http://www.sorbonne.nl/ Sorbonne] bar/dancing
- [http://www.paddymurphys.nl/ Paddy murphy's irish pub] live music/sports bar
- [http://www.deapresskihut.nl/ Skihut] dutch apres-ski style partyplace
- [http://www.maassilo.com/events/index.asp Maassilo] & Factory010 Big dance events in an industrial building
- [http://www.herrzimmerman.eu/ Herr Zimmermann] German style techno parties
- [http://www.baroeg.nl/ Baroeg] hardrock/metal venue
- [http://www.frank010.nl/ Frank010] Friday afterwork drink event (see and be seen) in the cruiseterminal
- [http://www.cafestalles.nl/ Stalles] great bar with a good pizza deal
- [http://www.theviproom.eu/ VIP room] mainstream dance parties
- [http://www.dewitteaap.nl/ Witte aap] popular bar
- [http://www.clubvibes.nl/ Club vibes] little club
- [http://www.breakaway.nl/ Breakway cafe] american style bar with pooltables
- [http://www.bedrotterdam.nl/ BED Rotterdam] mainly international student parties (afterparty place of CS/BW meeting)
- [http://www.hmh.nl/home.aspx Hollywood music hall] great club for ages 16-20
- [http://www.club-eclipse.nl/ Club Eclipse] Danceclub with themeparties (surinam, hindi, hardcore, latin)
- [http://www.worm.org Worm] alternative clubbing
- [http://www.schieblock.com/ Schieblock/dependance/Club BAR] popup bar and dance events
- [http://bird-rotterdam.nl/stage/ BIRD] Restaurant/bar/concert venue
- [http://raafrotterdam.nl RAAF] Rotterdam Art Adventure Food
- [http://www.toffler.nl/ Toffler] alternative party place
- [http://www.levagabond.nl/ Le Vagabond] legendary bar with jazz concerts
- [http://www.roffaswing.nl/ Roffaswing] lindyhop and swingdance
- [http://www.hemingwaycafe.nl/ Hemingway Social club] Creative arty new club
- [https://www.facebook.com/lamaisondetre La Maison d'être] Music Art Food

===Cinema's===
Rotterdam is a great city for cinema's, the filmfestival is of course great, but there are a lot of movietheaters, not only blockbuster movieplextype, but also small arthouse cinema's and of course the pleinbioscoop open air cinema :-)

- [http://www.pathe.nl/ Pathe]
- [http://www.cineramabios.nl/ Cinerama]
- [http://www.lantarenvenster.nl/ Lantaarnvenster]
- [http://www.kloosterbioscoop.nl/ Kloosterbioscoop]
- [http://www.pleinbioscooprotterdam.nl/ Pleinbioscoop]

===Markets===
Rotterdam has some great markets where you can buys many fresh foods and items.
One of the biggest ones of the Netherlands is on tuesdays and saturdays on the Binnenrotte, another famous one is the market on the Afrikaanderplein and even a biological market on Eendrachtplein on tuesdays, check the details [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_markten_in_Rotterdam here].

===Pools===
If you like swimming then there is a lot of choice, because Rotterdam has [http://www.rotterdamzwemt.nl/ 14 pools] to choose from.

===Getting around===

'''Cycling'''
Rotterdam is a great city for cycling and there are also many [http://www.fietseninregiorotterdam.nl/content/themaroutes.asp?menu=0030000_000000 cycling routes] around and in the city

'''Trams'''
There are many tramlines in Rotterdam that will get you to your destination quickly and also to the connecting cities like Schiedam, Vlaardingen en Barendrecht. Plan your trip [http://www.ret.nl/en/homepage.html here].

'''Metro'''
Rotterdam has the oldest and the biggest [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdamse_metro metronetwork] of the Benelux, there are lines from East-West and North-South, but also it is very easy to reach connecting cities like Schiedam, Spijkenisse, Capelle a/d Ijssel, Rhoon, Hoogvliet, Pijnacker, Leidschendam and even to The Hague centre. Plan your trip [http://www.ret.nl/en/homepage.html here].

'''Bus'''
There are many buslines in Rotterdam that will get you to your destination quickly and also to cities like Oud-Beijerland, Heerjansdam, Dirksland, Zeeland, Leiden, Utrecht and many more. Plan your trip [http://www.ret.nl/en/homepage.html here] or [http://ov9292.nl here].

'''BOB-bus (nightbus)'''
Rotterdam also has many nightbus lines that run in the weekend at night. Check it [http://www.ret.nl/en/travel-with-ret/timetable/bob-bus.html here].

'''Watertaxi and waterbus'''
As Rotterdam is a watercity there are also [http://www.waterbus.nl/ waterbuses] and [http://www.watertaxirotterdam.nl/home/uk_index.php?page=uk_home watertaxis] to transport you within the city and connecting cities or even to Dordrecht or to UNESCO heritage Kinderdijk.

'''Trains'''
Rotterdam also has 8 train station if you would need it. There are good connections to Utrecht, The Hague, Eindhoven, Breda and Amsterdam and Intercity trains to Antwerp and Brussels. There is a [http://www.nshispeed.nl/en hispeed connection] (25 minutes) with Schiphol airport. There are also [http://www.nshispeed.nl/en highspeed trains] directly to Lille and Paris (Thalys) and to Cologne (ICE). Plan your trip [http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/home here]/

'''Taxi'''
Necessary evil it is, but sometimes you need a taxi, a reliable one is [http://www.rtcnv.nl/ RTC]

'''Airport'''
Even though there is a good connection with Schiphol airport and with the train you can also use Eindhoven airport, Rotterdam also has it's own [http://www.rotterdamthehagueairport.nl/ airport], with mainly flights within Europe.

==Meetings & events==
===Hospitality community===

The local hospitality community with many locals, international students and expats makes it supereasy to make friends or attend social events for both travellers and newbies in the city. To get easily in contact with the community the best way is the active [https://www.facebook.com/groups/120605294790036/ Facebook group].

The local hospitality community has a weekly meeting on tuesdays, every other week in [https://www.couchsurfing.org/meetings.html?mid=173055 Haagse Bluf] (near city hall). The meeting has 20-60 people weekly present and starts about 20:00 (but most show up after 21:00)

The Rotterdam local hospitality community organizes several meetings, such as the weekly meetings on Tuesdays. In the summer there are many Barbeque events, usually in Het Park (near the Euromast) in the Kralingse bos or the Vroesenpark (Blijdorp).

===Kitchensurfing===
For the foodlovers and cooking talents there is also the [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=17327 Kitchensurfing group] in Rotterdam. Organize a kitchensurf to let people try the delicious food from your country of join a potluck or attend a foodfestival.

===Winetasting===
For winelovers there is the winetasting group [http://www.bewelcome.org/groups/965 Amarotes Rotterdae Veni] this is also on a [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=47157 CS group].

===Bookclub Rotterdam===
For booklovers there is also a group where you can read and discuss literature called [https://www.facebook.com/groups/148620431897286/ Book club Rotterdam]

===CSinterklaas event===
The local hospitality community in Rotterdam is also famous for the 'annual' [http://www.csinterklaas.nl/ CSinterklaas event] at the end of November, the largest CS event in the Netherlands.

Besides the weekly meeting, there are often other meetings as well, from roller skating to visit art exhibitions and festivals. More meetings are either shown in the group it self and/or displayed on the event part of this site.

=== Getting a couch===

Obtaining a place to stay in Rotterdam is relatively easy for a city as big (Dutch standards) as Rotterdam, please write locals a personal request first. If you still have problems finding a place, use the group. A last minute couch might be found easily at Tuesday's weekly meeting. If you still cannot find a couch or don't want to there is also the [http://www.stayokay.com/nl/hostel/rotterdam Stay-ok hostel],
hostel [http://www.roomrotterdam.nl/ Room] [http://www.kingkonghostel.com/ King Kong Hostel] (next to the Witte Aap) , [http://www.anihaakien.nl/ Ani Haakien] and [http://www.sleep-in.nl/ Hostel the Mafkees]

===Looking for a room===
There is a special group on both [http://www.bewelcome.org/groups/1325 BW] as [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=31589 CS] for people who are looking for accomodation to live in Rotterdam.

===Free market & Secondhand stuff for sale===
If you want to look for free stuff people give a away or you have something to give away try this [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=21297 group]. If that doesn't work and you want to sell or buy secondhand stuff use this
[https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=40803 group]. Otherwise there is always [http://www.marktplaats.nl Marktplaats].

===Language learning===
Do you need a language tandem partner or you want to organize or join a conversation evening in a certain language, use this [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=38930 group].

===Expat meetings & parties===
For expats & Internationals Engels is regularly organizing parties in the Groothandelsgebouw (near Central Station) on the top floor of the building. More info [http://engels.nl/nieuws/Internationals%20meet%20internationals here].

Also there are expat meetings organized by [http://www.meetup.com/Expatrepublicrotterdam/ Expat Republic].

[http://www.internations.org www.internations.org] has a monthly barmeet in Rotterdam.

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Welcome to Rotterdam!

Visit the [http://www.bewelcome.org/places/NL/South%20Holland/Rotterdam Rotterdam place page] To find a host in our city!

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdam Rotterdam] is the second largest city in the Netherlands with 617.347 inhabitants in the city, but the Stadsregio Rotterdam (connected cities Spijkenisse, Schiedam, Vlaardingen, Maassluis, Capelle a/d Ijssel, Krimpen a/d Ijssel, Berkel, Bergschenhoek, Rhoon, Smitshoek, Hoek van Holland, Ridderkerk) it actually has 1.2 million inhabitants. The Metropolian region Rotterdam -The Hague has 2.2 million inhabitants and is the most high-densed area in the Netherlands. Of course Rotterdam is also the biggest port in Europe, the third biggest port in the world. It's the only city in the Netherlands with a real skyline. Rotterdam or 'Manhattan on the Maas' as it is also called, was bombed in the second worldwar. But Rotterdammers have rebuilt it quickly and now it is the capital of modern architecture of the Netherlands! Rotterdam has 173 nationalities and more than 45% of the Rotterdammers immigrated here, which increased diversity of the city.

Rotterdam is also the youngest city in the Netherlands, almost a third of the city's population is under 28 years of age.

Other popular names of Rotterdam are 'Rotjeknor', 010 (referring the dialcode) or Roffa.

===City of business===
Rotterdam is home to the [http://www.eur.nl/english/ Erasmus University], a very famous university for Business and Economics. Despite the fact that Rotterdam is not so well known as a university city, the many cultural events and international and multicultural atmosphere good nightlife and very good transport options makes many students choose for Rotterdam as their university city.

===City of architecture===
Rotterdam is a un-dutch city in a way, because after the world war the historical centre was not restored but room was given to modern architecture. The city is therefore also home to the [http://en.nai.nl/ Dutch Architecture Institute] (Nai) and of course many modern buildings and structures. Most famous is of course the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmusbrug Erasmus bridge] (the Swan) which completes the futuristic skyline of Rotterdam. Near Blaak station there is another famous architectural site the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_house Cube houses]. But there are also new project, like the [http://www.rotterdam.nl/rotterdamcentraal new central station] of Rotterdam. The soon to be built [http://www.markthalrotterdam.nl/ Markthal] of Rotterdam. Crowd-funded airbridge [http://www.imakerotterdam.nl/ de Luchtsingel].

===City of sports===
Rotterdam is in the Netherlands seen as the capital of sports.
First of all there are three professional football clubs in Rotterdam
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feyenoord Feyenoord] plays in the [http://eredivisielive.nl/eredivisie/ Dutch Eredivisie] and the best known and the most successfull [http://www.feyenoord.nl club] of the city and plays in the iconic football stadium [http://www.dekuip.nl/ 'the Kuip'] in Rotterdam south.
- [http://www.sparta-rotterdam.nl/ Sparta Rotterdam] plays in the [http://eredivisielive.nl/jupiler-league/ Eerste Divisie] and is the oldest football club of the Netherlands with a great history and a nice stadium located in the west part of the city.
- The smallest club of Rotterdam is [http://www.sbvexcelsior.nl/ SBV Excelsior] they also play in the Eerste Divisie and their stadium is located in the East part of the city.

Next to that Rotterdam is home to the biggest [http://www.marathonrotterdam.nl marathon] of the Netherlands and the [http://www.abnamrowtt.nl/ ABN Amro international tennis tournament]. Also there is the indoor cycling event the [http://www.zesdaagserotterdam.nl/ Zesdaagse], the CHIO (equestrian sports), the world port tournament (baseball), the Roparun, Ladiesrun and many more.

===Rotterdam city of art, food and culture===
Rotterdam is a ever-changing city renewing itself quickly time after time. It is visible in the many new pop-up clubs, restaurants, galleries, vintage stores that keep popping up here and there, if something was nice and hip this month, next month it is maybe something else. This is all kept together in a sauce of events, art weeks, food fairs, exhibitions and cultural happenings. Keep up to date with [http://weownrotterdam.nl/ this site].

===Home of the Kapsalon===
The story goes that a hairdresser walked down from his work to local Turkish food store in Schiedamseweg. It must have been one of those finicky days when he was not quite sure what he wanted to eat because he ended up asking Â�for a bit of everything, bit of that and thisÂ� in the takeaway container. Creativity induced by hunger pangs and the [http://www.venere.com/blog/kapsalon-rotterdam/ Kapsalon] was born! With 1800 calories this after drinking food will take all your hunger away!

===Lakes & beaches===
Rotterdam is the city with the most water in the Netherlands. Of course because of all the ports, but also because there are three rivers in the city the Maas (that divides the North and the South of Rotterdam), the Rotte and the Schie. Next to that there are severals recreational lakes in Rotterdam, the Kralingse plas, the Bergse plassen, the Rottemeren en the Vrijenburger plas.

Also a good thing about Rotterdam is that it is close to the sea. There is a direct train that takes you in less then 30 minutes to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoek_van_Holland_Strand_railway_station beach of Hoek van Holland] with many popular [http://www.beachclubroyal.nl/nl/ beachclubs]. Also the ferries to England go from Hoek van Holland.

A second great beach to visit is [http://www.recreatiezuidholland.nl/content/gebieden_detail.asp?menu=0010000_000000_000048_000000 Rockanje beach], a bit to the South west of Rotterdam. Very easy to reach by car, by public transport take metroline D till station Spijkenisse Centrum, then take bus [http://wiki.ovinnederland.nl/wiki/Lijn_103_Spijkenisse_Metro_Centrum_-_Rockanje_Tweede_Slag 103] to Rockanje Tweede Slag. It's a great and popular beach with nice beachclubs, for instance [http://www.havana.nl/ Havana].

A third option is the newly created beach of the [http://www.maasvlakte2.com/nl/index/show/id/71/Recreatie Maasvlakte ] , this is also a great opportunity to visit [http://www.maasvlakte2.com/nl/futureland Futureland].
Here you can learn about the new created land that is taken from the sea to extend the port of Rotterdam.

===Things to see===
Rotterdam is the home to one of the oldest and nicest zoo's in the Netherlands, [http://www.blijdorp.nl/?lang=EN Diergaarde Blijdorp]

The world famous UNESCO World Heritage [http://www.kinderdijk.nl/index.html Kinderdijk] (a lot of dutch windmills in a beautiful landscape) is very near Rotterdam, there are even boat tours available from Rotterdam centre. The local hospitality community in Rotterdam usually organizes a bike tour in the summer or spring to this beautiful site.

Even though most historical parts of Rotterdam have been destroyed, there are some real nice historical parts to visit. For instance Delfshaven is a authentic and beautiful neighourhood where you will find the Pilgrimchurch but also many cozy bars and the only beer brewery in Rotterdam [http://www.pelgrimbier.nl/ Pelgrim]. You can try the beer on the bar of the brewery or take a tour. The name is Pelgrim, because the boat that took the Pilgrim fathers (first settlers in North America) left from Delfhaven and then to York.

Another magnificient building is the [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_New_York_(Rotterdam) Hotel New York], this used to be the terminal for the famous Holland - America line, which transported many dutch that left to North America after the war to start a better life.

===Museums===

Rotterdam has many museums that are worth visiting, here is a selection:

- Museum [http://www.boijmans.nl/en/ Boymans van Beuningen] Classic and modern art
- the [http://www.kunsthal.nl/en-2-Kunsthal-Rotterdam.html Kunsthal] different art expositions
- the [http://www.maritiemmuseum.nl/website/index.cfm?itm_id=96 Maritime Museum]
- the [http://www.wereldmuseum.nl/en/home.html Wereldmuseum]
- [http://www.nederlandsfotomuseum.nl/index.php?lang=en Nederlands fotomuseum]
- [http://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/ Natuurhistorisch museum]
- [http://www.ovmrotterdam.nl/english/index.php War resistance museum]
- [http://www.havenmuseum.nl/ Port museum]
- [http://www.dedubbeldepalmboom.nl/ Museum de Dubbelde Palmboom]
- [http://www.chabotmuseum.nl/ Chabot museum]
- [http://www.bdmuseum.nl/ Tax and customs museum]
- [http://www.trammuseumrotterdam.nl/ Tram museum]
- [http://www.onderwijsmuseum.nl/ National museum of Education]

===Festivals===
Rotterdam is a real [http://www.rotterdamfestivals.nl/public festival city] and has many annual events:

- [http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/ International Film Festival Rotterdam] 22 january - 2 february
- [http://www.artrotterdam.com/users/128/content/home/EN-index.html Art Rotterdam Week] 5 february / 10 february
- [http://www.abnamrowtt.nl/ ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament] 11 -17 february
- [http://www.rotterdamsemuseumnacht.nl/en/index.php Museumnight Rotterdam] 9 march
- [http://www.motelmozaique.nl/en/ Motel Mozaique] (arts, live bands, theatre) 5, 6 april
- [http://www.parfumdeboemboem.nl/ Parfum de Boem Boem] (buiding sites tour) 5 - 7 april
- [http://www.circusstad.nl/english Circusstad Festival] 29 april - 5 may
- [http://www.newskoolrules.com/ New skool rules festival] 5 - 7 april
- [http://www.marathonrotterdam.org/home Marathon of Rotterdam] (biggest in NL) 13,14 april
- [http://www.redear.nl/ Red ear festival] (classical music, jazz, bands) 19 - 21 april
- [http://kdfrotterdam.nl/ Queens day festival] Rotterdam 30 april
- [http://www.bevrijdingsfestivalzh.nl/ Liberation day festival] 5 may
- [http://www.roparun.org/ Roparun finish] (estafette tour from Paris to Rotterdam) 20 may
- [http://www.operadagenrotterdam.nl/en/ Operadays Rotterdam] 5 may - 2 june
- [http://www.zomerzondagen.nl/ Zomerzondagen] (summer sundays) sunday end may and june
- [http://www.routedunord.nl/ Route du Nord] 7-9 june
- [http://www.ladiesrun.nl/home Ladiesrun Rotterdam] 9 june
- [http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/festival/index/en Poetry International festival Rotterdam] 9 - 15 june
- [http://www.rotterdamunlimited.com/en Rotterdam Unlimited] (former Zomercarnaval and Dunya festival combined, multicultural festval and tropical summercarnaval) 11 - 16 june
- [http://www.chio.nl/EN CHIO Rotterdam] (equestrian sports) 19 - 23 june
- [http://www.deparade.nl/ De Parade Rotterdam] 20 - 30 june
- [http://www.dagvandearchitectuur.nl/ Architecture Day] 22 - 23 june
- [http://www.northseajazz.com/nl Northsea Jazz festival] 28 june / 14 july
- [http://www.dancefloat.nl Dance House festival on boats and onshore] 5 july
- [http://www.worldporttournament.nl/ World Port Tournament] International baseball 30 june / 7 july
- [http://metropolisfestival.nl/ Metropolis Festival] 7 july
- [http://www.campingrotterdam.nl/ Camping Rotterdam] 18 july / 21 july
- [http://www.wednesdaynightskate.nl/ Wednesdaynight skate] wednesdays in july and august
- [http://www.duizelinhetpark.nl/ Duizel in het park] 9 augustus / 11 august
- [http://www.boothstock.nl/ Boothstock Festival] 10 augustus
- [http://www.pleinbioscooprotterdam.nl/ Pleinbioscoop Rotterdam] (open air cinema) 13 august / 2 september
- [http://www.cityracing.nl/ City Racing Rotterdam] 25 august
- [http://www.dagvanderomantischemuziek.nl/nl/ Dag van de Romantische Muziek] 25 august
- [http://www.veerhavenconcert.nl/ OVG Veerhavenconcert] 28 august / 31 august
- [http://www.culinesserotterdam.nl/ CuliNESSE] 29 august / 31 august
- [http://www.wereldhavendagen.nl/ World Port days] 6 september / 8 september
- [http://www.denachtvandekaap.nl/ De Nacht van de Kaap] 7 september
- [http://festivalwww.nl/en/ De Wereld van Witte de With] 13 september / 15 september
- [http://worldfoodfestival.wordpress.com/ World Food Festival] 18 september / 27 october
- [http://www.baroegopenair.nl/nl Baroeg Open Air] 21 september

Tips
- [http://naturthegreeneryelle..com/ Organic farm] near Rotterdam
- [http://www.degroenepassage.nl/ Groene passage] organic shopping
- [https://www.facebook.com/Burgertrut Burgertrut] Art gallery & pop-up restaurant
- [http://www.miniworldrotterdam.com/ENGindex.htm Railz miniworld] Miniature Rotterdam and trains
- [http://www.vapiano.de/frame.php?lang=nl Vapiano] cheap and good italian food (but long lines)
- [http://www.happyitaly.nl/ Happy Italy] cheap and good italian food (but long lines)
- [http://www.veryitalianpizza.nl/nl/home/ Very Italian Pizza] cheap and good italian food (no long lines yet)
- [http://www.rotown.nl/ Rotown] legendary bar/restaurant/club/venue with indie rock/hipsters/concerts
- [http://www.getback.nl/ Get Back] restaurant/club with 70's 80's 90's music
- [http://www.blenderrotterdam.nl/ Blender] restaurant/club 30+ crowd
- [http://corsorotterdam.nl/ Off corso] Big mainstream club
- [http://www.thaliarotterdam.nl/ Thalia] Club with latin house
- [http://www.tikis.nl/ Tiki's] hawaiian style bar
- [http://www.sorbonne.nl/ Sorbonne] bar/dancing
- [http://www.paddymurphys.nl/ Paddy murphy's irish pub] live music/sports bar
- [http://www.deapresskihut.nl/ Skihut] dutch apres-ski style partyplace
- [http://www.maassilo.com/events/index.asp Maassilo] & Factory010 Big dance events in an industrial building
- [http://www.herrzimmerman.eu/ Herr Zimmermann] German style techno parties
- [http://www.baroeg.nl/ Baroeg] hardrock/metal venue
- [http://www.frank010.nl/ Frank010] Friday afterwork drink event (see and be seen) in the cruiseterminal
- [http://www.cafestalles.nl/ Stalles] great bar with a good pizza deal
- [http://www.theviproom.eu/ VIP room] mainstream dance parties
- [http://www.dewitteaap.nl/ Witte aap] popular bar
- [http://www.clubvibes.nl/ Club vibes] little club
- [http://www.breakaway.nl/ Breakway cafe] american style bar with pooltables
- [http://www.bedrotterdam.nl/ BED Rotterdam] mainly international student parties (afterparty place of CS/BW meeting)
- [http://www.hmh.nl/home.aspx Hollywood music hall] great club for ages 16-20
- [http://www.club-eclipse.nl/ Club Eclipse] Danceclub with themeparties (surinam, hindi, hardcore, latin)
- [http://www.worm.org Worm] alternative clubbing
- [http://www.schieblock.com/ Schieblock/dependance/Club BAR] popup bar and dance events
- [http://bird-rotterdam.nl/stage/ BIRD] Restaurant/bar/concert venue
- [http://raafrotterdam.nl RAAF] Rotterdam Art Adventure Food
- [http://www.toffler.nl/ Toffler] alternative party place
- [http://www.levagabond.nl/ Le Vagabond] legendary bar with jazz concerts
- [http://www.roffaswing.nl/ Roffaswing] lindyhop and swingdance
- [http://www.hemingwaycafe.nl/ Hemingway Social club] Creative arty new club
- [https://www.facebook.com/lamaisondetre La Maison d'être] Music Art Food

===Cinema's===
Rotterdam is a great city for cinema's, the filmfestival is of course great, but there are a lot of movietheaters, not only blockbuster movieplextype, but also small arthouse cinema's and of course the pleinbioscoop open air cinema :-)

- [http://www.pathe.nl/ Pathe]
- [http://www.cineramabios.nl/ Cinerama]
- [http://www.lantarenvenster.nl/ Lantaarnvenster]
- [http://www.kloosterbioscoop.nl/ Kloosterbioscoop]
- [http://www.pleinbioscooprotterdam.nl/ Pleinbioscoop]

===Markets===
Rotterdam has some great markets where you can buys many fresh foods and items.
One of the biggest ones of the Netherlands is on tuesdays and saturdays on the Binnenrotte, another famous one is the market on the Afrikaanderplein and even a biological market on Eendrachtplein on tuesdays, check the details [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_markten_in_Rotterdam here].

===Pools===
If you like swimming then there is a lot of choice, because Rotterdam has [http://www.rotterdamzwemt.nl/ 14 pools] to choose from.

===Getting around===

'''Cycling'''
Rotterdam is a great city for cycling and there are also many [http://www.fietseninregiorotterdam.nl/content/themaroutes.asp?menu=0030000_000000 cycling routes] around and in the city

'''Trams'''
There are many tramlines in Rotterdam that will get you to your destination quickly and also to the connecting cities like Schiedam, Vlaardingen en Barendrecht. Plan your trip [http://www.ret.nl/en/homepage.html here].

'''Metro'''
Rotterdam has the oldest and the biggest [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdamse_metro metronetwork] of the Benelux, there are lines from East-West and North-South, but also it is very easy to reach connecting cities like Schiedam, Spijkenisse, Capelle a/d Ijssel, Rhoon, Hoogvliet, Pijnacker, Leidschendam and even to The Hague centre. Plan your trip [http://www.ret.nl/en/homepage.html here].

'''Bus'''
There are many buslines in Rotterdam that will get you to your destination quickly and also to cities like Oud-Beijerland, Heerjansdam, Dirksland, Zeeland, Leiden, Utrecht and many more. Plan your trip [http://www.ret.nl/en/homepage.html here] or [http://ov9292.nl here].

'''BOB-bus (nightbus)'''
Rotterdam also has many nightbus lines that run in the weekend at night. Check it [http://www.ret.nl/en/travel-with-ret/timetable/bob-bus.html here].

'''Watertaxi and waterbus'''
As Rotterdam is a watercity there are also [http://www.waterbus.nl/ waterbuses] and [http://www.watertaxirotterdam.nl/home/uk_index.php?page=uk_home watertaxis] to transport you within the city and connecting cities or even to Dordrecht or to UNESCO heritage Kinderdijk.

'''Trains'''
Rotterdam also has 8 train station if you would need it. There are good connections to Utrecht, The Hague, Eindhoven, Breda and Amsterdam and Intercity trains to Antwerp and Brussels. There is a [http://www.nshispeed.nl/en hispeed connection] (25 minutes) with Schiphol airport. There are also [http://www.nshispeed.nl/en highspeed trains] directly to Lille and Paris (Thalys) and to Cologne (ICE). Plan your trip [http://www.ns.nl/en/travellers/home here]/

'''Taxi'''
Necessary evil it is, but sometimes you need a taxi, a reliable one is [http://www.rtcnv.nl/ RTC]

'''Airport'''
Even though there is a good connection with Schiphol airport and with the train you can also use Eindhoven airport, Rotterdam also has it's own [http://www.rotterdamthehagueairport.nl/ airport], with mainly flights within Europe.

==Meetings & events==
===Hospitality community===

The local hospitality community with many locals, international students and expats makes it supereasy to make friends or attend social events for both travellers and newbies in the city. To get easily in contact with the community the best way is the active [https://www.facebook.com/groups/120605294790036/ Facebook group].

The local hospitality community has a weekly meeting on tuesdays, every other week in [https://www.couchsurfing.org/meetings.html?mid=173055 Haagse Bluf] (near city hall). The meeting has 20-60 people weekly present and starts about 20:00 (but most show up after 21:00)

The Rotterdam local hospitality community organizes several meetings, such as the weekly meetings on Tuesdays. In the summer there are many Barbeque events, usually in Het Park (near the Euromast) in the Kralingse bos or the Vroesenpark (Blijdorp).

===Kitchensurfing===
For the foodlovers and cooking talents there is also the [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=17327 Kitchensurfing group] in Rotterdam. Organize a kitchensurf to let people try the delicious food from your country of join a potluck or attend a foodfestival.

===Winetasting===
For winelovers there is the winetasting group [http://www.bewelcome.org/groups/965 Amarotes Rotterdae Veni] this is also on a [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=47157 CS group].

===Bookclub Rotterdam===
For booklovers there is also a group where you can read and discuss literature called [https://www.facebook.com/groups/148620431897286/ Book club Rotterdam]

===CSinterklaas event===
The local hospitality community in Rotterdam is also famous for the 'annual' [http://www.csinterklaas.nl/ CSinterklaas event] at the end of November, the largest CS event in the Netherlands.

Besides the weekly meeting, there are often other meetings as well, from roller skating to visit art exhibitions and festivals. More meetings are either shown in the group it self and/or displayed on the event part of this site.

=== Getting a couch===

Obtaining a place to stay in Rotterdam is relatively easy for a city as big (Dutch standards) as Rotterdam, please write locals a personal request first. If you still have problems finding a place, use the group. A last minute couch might be found easily at Tuesday's weekly meeting. If you still cannot find a couch or don't want to there is also the [http://www.stayokay.com/nl/hostel/rotterdam Stay-ok hostel],
hostel [http://www.roomrotterdam.nl/ Room] [http://www.kingkonghostel.com/ King Kong Hostel] (next to the Witte Aap) , [http://www.anihaakien.nl/ Ani Haakien] and [http://www.sleep-in.nl/ Hostel the Mafkees]

===Looking for a room===
There is a special group on both [http://www.bewelcome.org/groups/1325 BW] as [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=31589 CS] for people who are looking for accomodation to live in Rotterdam.

===Free market & Secondhand stuff for sale===
If you want to look for free stuff people give a away or you have something to give away try this [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=21297 group]. If that doesn't work and you want to sell or buy secondhand stuff use this
[https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=40803 group]. Otherwise there is always [http://www.marktplaats.nl Marktplaats].

===Language learning===
Do you need a language tandem partner or you want to organize or join a conversation evening in a certain language, use this [https://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=38930 group].

===Expat meetings & parties===
For expats & Internationals Engels is regularly organizing parties in the Groothandelsgebouw (near Central Station) on the top floor of the building. More info [http://engels.nl/nieuws/Internationals%20meet%20internationals here].

Also there are expat meetings organized by [http://www.meetup.com/Expatrepublicrotterdam/ Expat Republic].

[http://www.internations.org www.internations.org] has a monthly barmeet in Rotterdam.

User talk:Andersaknielsen

2014-01-02T19:25:47Z

Midsch:

Be welcome at couchwiki Anders and thanks for your contributions! If you need help give us a shout. ([[Copenhagen]] could use a more network neutral rewriting of the hospex part) [[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 14:33, 30 December 2013 (GMT)
:Hi Midsch, thanks a lot for the welcome. I'll add a rewrite to the Hospex-part to my todo-list. Are there any good examples/templates you can point to? I checked the page on [[Berlin]], which seems extensive, I may reuse some of that structure. [[User:Andersaknielsen|Andersaknielsen]] ([[User talk:Andersaknielsen|talk]]) 17:47, 2 January 2014 (GMT)
::There are no templates beside the headers (and they're still missing on a lot of pages). In general we try to use neutral words like "guest" instead of "surfer" and the like. The idea is to include all the networks around. On some local pages the whole hospex part is neutral, on my "homepage" [[Hamburg]] different networks who're known to be active are listed. So it's basically the authors choice and also a matter of the local situation. If an organisation is simply non-existing at a place, it's no use to mention it. Also, I know it's tempting to write down everything one knows about the own spot, but if it's general tourist stuff it's better to contribute to wikivoyage and simply link to it (same with i.e. hitchwiki). Redundanten information is hard to maintain. [[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 19:25, 2 January 2014 (GMT)

User talk:Andersaknielsen

2013-12-30T14:33:51Z

Midsch:

User talk:Andersaknielsen

2013-12-30T14:33:28Z

Midsch: welcome

Be welcome at couchwiki Anders and thanks for your contributions! If you need help give us a shout. ([Copenhagen] could use a more network neutral rewriting of the hospex part) [[User:Midsch|Midsch]] ([[User talk:Midsch|talk]]) 14:33, 30 December 2013 (GMT)

How to write a hosting request

2013-08-22T12:13:39Z

Midsch: /* Conclusion */

[[Hospitality exchange]] is more than a "free" bed. It's an exchange, it's about the experience of meeting and spending time with similar minded people. "What can you bring and what can the host offer in the time you share". You should be looking for a '''[[host|host to stay with]]''' and not just a '''[[freeloader|couch to use]]'''. [[Host]]s in popular cities get so many requests, they have to be selective about whom they choose. But even the single host at a place far away from the touristic hot spot may be picky. All these potential hosts are using the [[List of Hospitality Exchange Networks|networks]] for their own reasons, mostly because they want to meet new people and bring the world to their place, but they may also have limited time and space. So: How to make your request standing out and increase your chance to get accepted? Read on!

Some [[host]]s ask that you write requests with a lot of personalized comments about them and their profile. Some even include a codeword that you have to find to prove that you read their profile. Others would prefer that you copy and paste a request to all selected hosts so you can spend more time traveling than writing requests without even knowing which couches are available when you need one. It is important to read the hosts' profiles carefully to determine how personalized they want requests to be. Also, before posting a request to local groups or forums , make sure to check the guidelines and that there is not another sub-forum specifically for that purpose. Some popular cities name such a sub-forum as "Last minute Requests".

== Official tips for writing a request on hospitality exchange networks ==
Most networks have their own [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faq FAQ], make sure to read them they may contain some useful tips and special requirements. Examples can be found at:

* [https://www.bewelcome.org/wiki/Writing_your_host Writing your host at BeWelcome Wiki]
* [https://www.couchsurfing.org/couchrequest_tips.html CouchRequest tips at Couchsurfing] - One speciality on this site is the "CouchRequest form" so make sure to use the button at the top right above the profile picture. It is this button that counts the number of replies the hosts sends and counts to the CouchRequests % figure on your profile.
* add more ... (alphabetical order)

== This page in other Languages ==
(Note: This is a wiki, so all pages can be edited at any time, so don't expect word-by-word translations!)

* [[File:1VQT.jpg|30px]] [[Comment rédiger une requête de canapé]]
* [[File:Flag_of_Italy.png|30px]] [[Come scrivere una richiesta di ospitalità]]
* [[File:Flag_of_Germany.png|30px]] [[Wie man einen Host anschreibt]]

== Saying hello ==

* '''Read their profiles'''!: This will help you better predict the quality of your experience. Also read to see if they have special rules/requirements, e.g. bringing a sleeping bag, no smoking, dates when they are unavailable, limits on numbers of people they can host, needs a donation towards food, or for electricity, or internet, or help in home and family, or is it a shared house or a flat.
* '''See if you are compatible'''. Look for a host with similar interests. If you only like museums and your host only likes drinking, there could be a personality clash :).
* Some hosts want to know why you want to surf ''their'' couch and not just ''any'' couch. When you try to answer this question in your request, you should realize that you are interested in the ''host'' more than just their ''couch''. Each host is different. So until there's a field to specify request personalization requirements, just read the profiles carefully.
* '''Try to contact newer & less busy hosts''' to increase your chances. Busy hosts in popular cities can get up to 10 or more requests every day
* Realize that some hosts get fewer couch requests simply because '''they live outside of their main city limits''' "proper", but they still happen to live very close to the main attractions. Be sure to use the "Within ___ kilometers/miles" of a city when you do a couch search. Often, these hosts are more willing to take surfers simply because they get less requests. You can also just search the region instead of the city, when traveling in more sparse areas.
* '''If you're traveling with friends''', make sure they all have profiles. Your profiles should be linked to each other (as friends or with comments/references) and the single links provided in your request, because this makes it easier for hosts to look at all your profiles. (Group/couple profiles are a bad idea, as all references will be for the group/couple after a split up each of you will loose the history record. So better have all individual profiles, and reference each other.)

== Say my name ... ==

* Start with a good impression and say the person's name. Don't start with, "hey man/hi there/hello you/hi" unless you already know them. Sometimes people have a username on CS that is not their real name, but their real name can often be found in their CS references - why not use that and show that you've read that section of their profile, at least. People of Asian background might be uncomfortable with addressing someone by their name the first time they write to you, since, in many cultures, addressing a person by first name is considered rude and too forward. You can work around this by specifically referring to something from their profile to communicate that you read it. A "Hello Mr. or Ms. ''Surname''" will most likely not offend anyone.

* Introduce yourself. Don't tell your whole life story, but try a little harder than just saying, "Hi! I want to surf your couch." '''Don't copy/paste your request emails to try to get a couch.''' Hosts have already caught on to this, and your chances of being successful are much greater if you make it clear to the host that you've ''actually read their profile'' and want to stay with ''them'', not just stay on ''their couch''.

== Timing is everything ==

* Be as precise as possible about arrival and departure dates/times. If you are hitch-hiking, let your host know and tell them not to wait for you at home because it's impossible to know when you will exactly be there.
* Be aware that '''people may write dates in different formats'''. The dates "8/9 to 8/11" could mean 2 days or 2 months, depending on the culture. Instead, use expanded, clear date formats such as: "9-August to 11-August" to avoid confusion. This will make it easy for the host to decide quickly if they can have you surf or not.
* '''Don't rush.''' If you need a couch by tomorrow, you are making it hard for yourself. Try to send requests 1-4 weeks before.
* Realize that '''many hosts will have a hard time accepting couch requests more than a few weeks in advance''', due to unpredictable schedules. Many hosts have a "sweet spot" of about 1-2 weeks beforehand. Asking to be hosted months in advance can make a host feel more like a hotel reservation system than a personal residence.
* Don't feel bad about asking more than one host at the same time -- this is not a dating game anyway and also you are not even sure all hosts will respond or even get your request . Mention the range of days you will be in their town and perhaps that you hope to only stay one day per host. Then narrow it down from any positive responses you receive after all.
* In the Arrival and Departure fields of the request form, enter the approximate or exact dates of your whole visit to a place, even though you only intend to stay with a single host for part of that time. Then in the body of your request, ask the host to let you know which dates within that range are available.

== Are you for real? ==

* '''Make sure you have a complete and detailed profile.''' Upload more than one picture of yourself - possibly doing fun activities that you enjoy, or places you've already visited. Describe yourself in details, not generalities. This takes some time, but it is worthwhile, especially for those who have few (or no) references.
* Write about what you want to do in the place you are wanting to visit.
* Don't make any demands, but don't be obsequious or give fake compliments either. You will get the most from a visit by adapting to and experiencing what's different about the place. Share what you can and accept what is offered.
* Some networks have specific features that allow member [[verification]] that you might want to consider.
** The [[:cs:verification.html|verification]] on Couchsurfing is a bit tricky as it merely means that someone's credit card was used and that there's an address where someone was able to receive a postcard. Being a level 3 fully verified member might help increase your chance of the host accepting you, but it might also decrease your chances with other hosts who are sceptical of the verification process.
** A better attempt is the member based [https://www.bewelcome.org/wiki/verification verification at BeWelcome], which is only done in person. Members can verify each other's ID cards or passports.

== Traveling with friends ==

* If you are surfing together with other people: mention them, introduce them, link to pictures, and try to make them sign up at the network with their own profile. Some people will not host you if your travel partner is not a member as well.

== Conclusion ==

Your success at receiving invitations from hosts depends on a lot of things... '''Are you smiling or scowling in your photos'''? Are you pictured '''doing something fun or sitting in the dark in front of your computer'''? How did you fill out your profile description? Do you have connections, verification and references within the use network or can link to others?

No prior references/comments? Try to go to in touch with other local members before you start your trip. The bigger networks have local meetings, where you can learn more about [[Hospitality exchange]] and harvest some references/comments from real life persons. (Besides: It's fun meeting local members of your network and very often their travelling guests are taking part as well.) Another option is to offer members travelling to your place company, tours or meetings. This is especially usefull if you're completely new or your current living situation prevents you from hosting.

It's OK if you contact several hosts to "increase your chances", but please don't spam everyone in a particular city. Every network has several spamfilters in place and when you send a certain number of messages within a small amount of time you may be automatically identified as a possible spammer and NONE of your messages might go out until they are reviewed by a volunteer to make sure you are not spamming people. How many requests is the right number depends on a lot of things, but 10 requests to an average place with a decent profile and a few days advanced notice is usually more than enough to get one invitation.

Also, it's just polite to '''write back to everyone who replied to you, to thank them''' and say you already have a couch if you have already found one. Even if they say "no", reply with a "Thanks anyways" - they will remember your politeness... and who knows, maybe one of their friends may be able to host you.

Remember, read the host profiles carefully and follow any instructions they include when writing your request.

[[Category:Tips]]
[[Category:Hospitality]]

How to be a good guest

2013-08-22T12:12:01Z

Midsch: /* General Tips */

Hospitality exchange works because people somehow know '''how to be a good guest'''.

You don't need to stay with someone to use [[Hospitality_exchange|hospitality networks]]! You can always email people just to offer a coffee or beer, or ask if they can show you around their hometown. It is very important to remember that the whole idea of hospitality exchange is new to many people. It is up to you to build up trust. Different people warm up to others at different rates. Please be respectful of this.

== Tips from single networks "how to be a good guest" ==
* Bewelcome: [https://www.bewelcome.org/wiki/Being_a_good_guest Being a good guest]
* Couchsurfing: [http://www.couchsurfing.org/surf_tips.html Tips for Surfers]
* ...

== Languages ==

* [[File:Srbija.png|30px]] Ova stranica je dostupna i na srpskom, [[Kako biti dobar gost|kliknite ovde !]]
* [[File:1VQT.jpg|30px]] Traduction en français : [http://couchwiki.org/en/Comment_être_un_bon_Invité Cliquez ici!]
* [[File:Flag_of_Italy.png|30px]] Questa pagina è disponibile anche nella versione italiana [[Come essere un buon ospite]]
* [[File:Flag_of_Russia.png|30px]] Эта страница также доступна и на русском языке, [[Как быть хорошим гостем|жмите сюда!]].

== General Tips ==

* If you haven't yet read '''[[How_To_Write_A_Couch_Request|how to write a couch request]]''', please do so before you start search for a host or someone to meet.

* '''Hospitality exchange is not the same as a hotel'''. You should be looking for a host to stay with, and not just a couch to use. Hospitality exchange is also about the experience of meeting and spending time with people, so try to choose compatible hosts. Don't forget that while you are traveling, your hosts have their own work, school, and daily schedules to keep.

* '''"Spread the love around"''': Less days with more hosts is better than more days with less hosts. You get to meet more hosts, see more places, and don't become a burden or bore returning night after night to the same host. Try 'one night max per host' on your next trip and see if it makes your travel more lively. (However this might have a greater carbon footprint [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=9949&post=6502259#post6695721].)

* Appreciate the hospitality, time, and effort spent on your behalf.

* '''Communicate clearly.''' Be clear about the dates you are arriving and leaving. Use formats like "9 August", instead of "9/8" or "8/9". If possible, share chat accounts, personal e-mail addresses, Skype, additional phone numbers, as backups for the network message system. If you can, confirm your arrival the day before. Don't overstay; leave when you said you would.
* '''Plan to be self-sufficient for meals:''' either bring food with you (e.g. sandwich fixings, cereal for breakfast), or be prepared to eat out. Your hosts may invite you to share their meals, but are under no obligation to do so. (Hosts themselves may be on limited budgets, or have different dietary preferences.) If you're invited to join them for a meal, offer to help in some way: with the preparation, washing-up, or by buying some of the groceries for the meal.
* '''Be flexible.''' You may have to hang out for a few hours at a cafe until your host gets off work. Your host may not be able to give you a spare key, so you might have to be out of the house while they're at work or school. Arrange your schedule around theirs. Being flexible and having good communication with your host is critical for a positive experience.
* '''Gifts.''' The entire idea of hospitality exchange is that you can stay, for free, as a guest in a person's home. That being said, however, gifts from home are generally welcome and may even be culturally required. But try to do better than cheap, dollar-store souvenir trinkets. And be sensitive to individual and cultural differences: for example, some hosts don't drink (so don't bring them a bottle of wine); or certain flowers in some cultures are associated with mourning. Read your hosts' profiles to get a sense of what they may like; chocolates, fruit, pastries, or baked goods from a local bakery, are often good standbys. If you have the skill and time (and your hosts agree), you could even offer to cook a meal for them (see section below). MP3's shared, books left behind or lent, can cost you nothing to leave behind, but leave a nice lasting impression.
* '''Money.''' You should have funds to pay for travel-related expenses: budget for food, local transportation and other costs (museum entries, etc.). Hosts should not be expected to provide anything except a place to stay for the night. If your host provides you with meals, entertainment, or transportation, offer to compensate them: offer to buy groceries, pay for your share of the tickets, or re-imburse them for fuel costs. If your host will not accept payment, then a "thank you" in some other form - whether a gift, a cooked meal, a chore done (e.g. shovelling snow from the sidewalk) or shared skill (e.g. fixing their bicycle) - would be nice. Don't take advantage of the generosity of your hosts; don't be a freeloader.

* '''Local Information''' - Your host is a valuable source of information. You can find out how to get around (cheaply!), where the nightlife is, how to meet other local people, how to deal with the authorities, and what you should see in the area. Ask! However, be aware that your host is not a free tour guide or travel agent, and may be busy with work and other commitments, so don't bombard them with constant questions.
* That said, try to have some idea of what you want to do in the area if possible by checking out a guidebook or the city's tourism site before you arrive. While hosts usually have many ideas, you shouldn't expect them to provide you with an itinerary.

* If '''a host is unable to offer you a couch''' at the time that you need it, please acknowledge their response with a "thanks anyway..." or something along those lines. You never know... maybe they will host you in the future.
* If '''a host offers you a couch, and you choose not to accept it''', you have to let them know. At least send a polite note saying "thanks, but I've found another place to stay...". You might like to add, "..maybe we can meet for coffee or a drink?" - but do so only if you genuinely have the time and desire to meet.

=== Along the way ===
* '''Don't pick the fruit'''. It may seem to grow wild to you but it may very well be the hard work of your host's neighboring farmers. One or two such incidents is all it might take to get guests banned from the whole area.

=== During your stay ===
* '''Appearances & Cleanliness:''' A whole division of the backpacker world seems to think looking dirty and being stinky is cool, but it does not make strangers want to share their living spaces with you. So shower: but also check with your host as to when it would be a good time to do so. Some hosts may live in areas with water-use restrictions; or have limited hot water; or have only one shared bathroom and several people who all need it at the same time in the morning.
* '''Toilets:''' Some sewage systems are not designed to take tampons; others may not take toilet paper (for example, you may be expected to clean yourself with water, or to put toilet paper in a special bin for other disposal). If in doubt, ask beforehand. (In some cultures, it may be polite to talk about such subjects only with a member of the same sex. Or not raise the topic at all. But it may be better to risk being rude, than to clog the only household toilet.)
* '''Keep your footprint small:''' Remember to be as tidy and use the least space possible - perhaps try to fit all your belongings in one square meter! Some couchsurfers suggest not leaving accessories in the bathroom. But, if you do so, keep them (makeup, shampoo, soaps) neatly bagged. This is especially important if your host's place is small (one-room 20 square meters flats are common in main European cities such as [[Paris]] or [[London]])
* '''Adapt to your host's rhythm at home:''' Is the "couch" in a "high traffic" area for the household? If so, do people tend to stay up late, or wake up early? Be sensitive to your host's style, preferences, and schedule, and everyone will enjoy the experience. If you go to a party host, then sure, party on! (Only at their invitation, of course.) If you go to a family, take it easy.
* '''Schedules:''' Your hosts probably have fixed work or school schedules. Before or at the beginning of your stay, ask what schedule they keep. Allow time in your schedule to spend time with them. Even if you have a separate room, don't sleep all morning unless it is compatible with the household schedule. If you are badly jet-lagged, let your hosts know, and check if it's okay if you sleep in.
* '''Bringing guests back:''' It is never acceptable to bring back guests to the host's house without getting explicit permission first. You should not ask to bring back a guest that you have just met as the host may feel uneasy about having to refuse. Expecting to bring back a guest "to spend the night with you" is nearly always considered extremely inappropriate.
* '''Door keys:''' Hosts decide whether or not to lend a spare house key to their guests. Some do. Others prefer that guests be in the house only when someone else is at home. Yet others lend a house key, but request that guests be back by a certain hour (to avoid waking the household upon return). Respect your host's wishes. If he/she is gracious enough to lend you a spare door key, it is not a free ticket to stay out as long as you want, especially if you plan to go out at night without them. Check to see what would be a reasonable and convenient time for you to return. Call them if you are unexpectedly delayed.
* '''Door locks:''' Ask about the host's door-locking policy, and how the door lock works. You don't want to accidentally lock your host (or yourself) out of the apartment! (In some countries and communities, people don't lock the doors from inside, because it is not needed. In some rural areas, some houses might not even have doors.) Be sure to confirm with you host how you can leave early without him/her available to unlock an exit door!
* '''Cooking:''' ''If'' you have the skill and inclination, and the host would like enjoy it, offer to cook for your host. Making dinner is usually appreciated, but hard to pull off if you are only stopping for a night. If you are staying for a few nights, those later in your vist may be better ones for you to cook: by then, you'll have a chance to check if your host has the necessary spices, condiments and other ingredients; and if not, for you to buy them. Your hosts will also know at least a bit about you, and be comfortable with you in their space (since some people are very particular and picky in their own kitchens).
* '''Helping out:''' When you eat together, offer to wash dishes. Nothing is better for a couch surfer than doing the dishes. This is especially appreciated when you are staying at a shared house and you only know one of the renters, or if you have been hooked up with this couch by a 3rd party. Everyone likes to have a clean kitchen, even if they are too lazy to deal with it. And cleaning the kitchen is usually "safe": people are unlikely to be offended by your help there, and you can usually figure out where things go.
* If '''borrowing something''' from your host (with permission beforehand, of course), try to return it in better condition than you found it: e.g. re-fill the fuel tank of a motorbike, oil the chain and pump up the tire of a bicycle. At least return what you've used clean and in good condition.
* '''PC and Telephone:''' Don't use your host's computer or telephone unless he/she gives you explicit permission. Offer to pay for all phone calls. Don't download any programmes onto their computer. Check to see if they prefer the computer logged off, shut-down, or left on when you finish using it.
* '''Electrics:''' Check your host's preferences about having things like lights, fans, and air-conditioning left on or off.
* '''Leave the house:''' It is expected that you are traveling to see the area you are visiting. Do venture outside, and be prepared for temperature extremes of the region you are in. Have an idea of what you can do in the area and don't expect to be in your host's home for most of the day or every day.
* '''Staying on longer:''' You should always ask permission, as far in advance as possible, if you want to stay on longer than initially agreed and not just assume it will be okay. If no agreement is made initially, try to let the host know as soon as possible when you are intending to leave and check that it is okay. Do not outstay your welcome, be conscious of signals that you may be staying too long even if your host doesn't explicitly say so. Never question or try to overturn a request by your host that you need to leave or that they can't host you for any longer.
* '''Clean up after yourself:''' If you bought food please take it with you when leaving, unless your hosts would like it.
* '''Say "thank you" when you're with your host, but also after you leave.
'''

=== After leaving ===
* Hospitality exchange works ''works'' because people can trust others. That's why it's important to leave comments (=references in CS talk :). If you have a bad experience, this is even more important, though might be more difficult. Just remember that other CouchSurfers depend on ''you'' leaving comments.
* Say "thank you". Either the old fashioned way, with a card, postcard, or letter from a later destination, or from back home. Or, if you're not into sending "snail mail" anymore, at least e-mail a "thank you" note.

== [[Cultural Differences]] ==
Violating customs can cause offense. Read ahead of time and find what is appropriate, and what are considered "local sensitivities". Ask your host what is expected, or assume the most conservative scenario. Be well-informed in advance, so that you do not inadvertently find yourself embarrassed. For instance:

* Remove your shoes outside the door in Japan, and you eat with your right hand only in some parts of the Middle East.

* '''Avoid conversation topics that are taboo or poor taste to discuss'''. These subjects are things like: (homo) sexuality, religion, politics, war, genocide, minorities. These are probably not the best topics to discuss in casual or public environments. Save these conversations for your close friends, and not for people you have just met. This is a good social relation tip in general, actually.

* Hindus don't eat beef, as cows are considered sacred. Muslims generally do not eat pig related food products (as do some Jews).

* Sometimes, romantic couples may need to sleep separately.

More info:

* [[India#How to be a good guest|India]]
* [[Finland#How to be a good guest|Finland]]
* [[Netherlands#How to be a good guest|Netherlands]]

== See also ==
* [[How To Write A Couch Request]]
* [[How To Be A Good Host]]
* [[How to handle Couchscroogers]]
* [[How to handle freeloaders]]
* [http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Conversation-with-a-Stranger Tips on starting a conversation with a stranger]
* [http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Good-House-Guest How to Be a Good House Guest] at wikiHow

How to be a good guest

2013-08-22T12:11:12Z

Midsch: internal links before external

Hospitality exchange works because people somehow know '''how to be a good guest'''.

You don't need to stay with someone to use [[Hospitality_exchange|hospitality networks]]! You can always email people just to offer a coffee or beer, or ask if they can show you around their hometown. It is very important to remember that the whole idea of hospitality exchange is new to many people. It is up to you to build up trust. Different people warm up to others at different rates. Please be respectful of this.

== Tips from single networks "how to be a good guest" ==
* Bewelcome: [https://www.bewelcome.org/wiki/Being_a_good_guest Being a good guest]
* Couchsurfing: [http://www.couchsurfing.org/surf_tips.html Tips for Surfers]
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== General Tips ==

* If you haven't yet read [[How_To_Write_A_Couch_Request|how to write a couch request]], please do so before you start search for a host or someone to meet.

* Hospitality exchange is not the same as a hotel. You should be looking for a host to stay with, and not just a couch to use. Hospitality exchange is also about the experience of meeting and spending time with people, so try to choose compatible hosts. Don't forget that while you are traveling, your hosts have their own work, school, and daily schedules to keep.

* "Spread the love around": Less days with more hosts is better than more days with less hosts. You get to meet more hosts, see more places, and don't become a burden or bore returning night after night to the same host. Try 'one night max per host' on your next trip and see if it makes your travel more lively. (However this might have a greater carbon footprint [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=9949&post=6502259#post6695721].)

* Appreciate the hospitality, time, and effort spent on your behalf.

* '''Communicate clearly.''' Be clear about the dates you are arriving and leaving. Use formats like "9 August", instead of "9/8" or "8/9". If possible, share chat accounts, personal e-mail addresses, Skype, additional phone numbers, as backups for the network message system. If you can, confirm your arrival the day before. Don't overstay; leave when you said you would.
* '''Plan to be self-sufficient for meals:''' either bring food with you (e.g. sandwich fixings, cereal for breakfast), or be prepared to eat out. Your hosts may invite you to share their meals, but are under no obligation to do so. (Hosts themselves may be on limited budgets, or have different dietary preferences.) If you're invited to join them for a meal, offer to help in some way: with the preparation, washing-up, or by buying some of the groceries for the meal.
* '''Be flexible.''' You may have to hang out for a few hours at a cafe until your host gets off work. Your host may not be able to give you a spare key, so you might have to be out of the house while they're at work or school. Arrange your schedule around theirs. Being flexible and having good communication with your host is critical for a positive experience.
* '''Gifts.''' The entire idea of hospitality exchange is that you can stay, for free, as a guest in a person's home. That being said, however, gifts from home are generally welcome and may even be culturally required. But try to do better than cheap, dollar-store souvenir trinkets. And be sensitive to individual and cultural differences: for example, some hosts don't drink (so don't bring them a bottle of wine); or certain flowers in some cultures are associated with mourning. Read your hosts' profiles to get a sense of what they may like; chocolates, fruit, pastries, or baked goods from a local bakery, are often good standbys. If you have the skill and time (and your hosts agree), you could even offer to cook a meal for them (see section below). MP3's shared, books left behind or lent, can cost you nothing to leave behind, but leave a nice lasting impression.
* '''Money.''' You should have funds to pay for travel-related expenses: budget for food, local transportation and other costs (museum entries, etc.). Hosts should not be expected to provide anything except a place to stay for the night. If your host provides you with meals, entertainment, or transportation, offer to compensate them: offer to buy groceries, pay for your share of the tickets, or re-imburse them for fuel costs. If your host will not accept payment, then a "thank you" in some other form - whether a gift, a cooked meal, a chore done (e.g. shovelling snow from the sidewalk) or shared skill (e.g. fixing their bicycle) - would be nice. Don't take advantage of the generosity of your hosts; don't be a freeloader.

* '''Local Information''' - Your host is a valuable source of information. You can find out how to get around (cheaply!), where the nightlife is, how to meet other local people, how to deal with the authorities, and what you should see in the area. Ask! However, be aware that your host is not a free tour guide or travel agent, and may be busy with work and other commitments, so don't bombard them with constant questions.
* That said, try to have some idea of what you want to do in the area if possible by checking out a guidebook or the city's tourism site before you arrive. While hosts usually have many ideas, you shouldn't expect them to provide you with an itinerary.

* If '''a host is unable to offer you a couch''' at the time that you need it, please acknowledge their response with a "thanks anyway..." or something along those lines. You never know... maybe they will host you in the future.
* If '''a host offers you a couch, and you choose not to accept it''', you have to let them know. At least send a polite note saying "thanks, but I've found another place to stay...". You might like to add, "..maybe we can meet for coffee or a drink?" - but do so only if you genuinely have the time and desire to meet.

=== Along the way ===
* '''Don't pick the fruit'''. It may seem to grow wild to you but it may very well be the hard work of your host's neighboring farmers. One or two such incidents is all it might take to get guests banned from the whole area.

=== During your stay ===
* '''Appearances & Cleanliness:''' A whole division of the backpacker world seems to think looking dirty and being stinky is cool, but it does not make strangers want to share their living spaces with you. So shower: but also check with your host as to when it would be a good time to do so. Some hosts may live in areas with water-use restrictions; or have limited hot water; or have only one shared bathroom and several people who all need it at the same time in the morning.
* '''Toilets:''' Some sewage systems are not designed to take tampons; others may not take toilet paper (for example, you may be expected to clean yourself with water, or to put toilet paper in a special bin for other disposal). If in doubt, ask beforehand. (In some cultures, it may be polite to talk about such subjects only with a member of the same sex. Or not raise the topic at all. But it may be better to risk being rude, than to clog the only household toilet.)
* '''Keep your footprint small:''' Remember to be as tidy and use the least space possible - perhaps try to fit all your belongings in one square meter! Some couchsurfers suggest not leaving accessories in the bathroom. But, if you do so, keep them (makeup, shampoo, soaps) neatly bagged. This is especially important if your host's place is small (one-room 20 square meters flats are common in main European cities such as [[Paris]] or [[London]])
* '''Adapt to your host's rhythm at home:''' Is the "couch" in a "high traffic" area for the household? If so, do people tend to stay up late, or wake up early? Be sensitive to your host's style, preferences, and schedule, and everyone will enjoy the experience. If you go to a party host, then sure, party on! (Only at their invitation, of course.) If you go to a family, take it easy.
* '''Schedules:''' Your hosts probably have fixed work or school schedules. Before or at the beginning of your stay, ask what schedule they keep. Allow time in your schedule to spend time with them. Even if you have a separate room, don't sleep all morning unless it is compatible with the household schedule. If you are badly jet-lagged, let your hosts know, and check if it's okay if you sleep in.
* '''Bringing guests back:''' It is never acceptable to bring back guests to the host's house without getting explicit permission first. You should not ask to bring back a guest that you have just met as the host may feel uneasy about having to refuse. Expecting to bring back a guest "to spend the night with you" is nearly always considered extremely inappropriate.
* '''Door keys:''' Hosts decide whether or not to lend a spare house key to their guests. Some do. Others prefer that guests be in the house only when someone else is at home. Yet others lend a house key, but request that guests be back by a certain hour (to avoid waking the household upon return). Respect your host's wishes. If he/she is gracious enough to lend you a spare door key, it is not a free ticket to stay out as long as you want, especially if you plan to go out at night without them. Check to see what would be a reasonable and convenient time for you to return. Call them if you are unexpectedly delayed.
* '''Door locks:''' Ask about the host's door-locking policy, and how the door lock works. You don't want to accidentally lock your host (or yourself) out of the apartment! (In some countries and communities, people don't lock the doors from inside, because it is not needed. In some rural areas, some houses might not even have doors.) Be sure to confirm with you host how you can leave early without him/her available to unlock an exit door!
* '''Cooking:''' ''If'' you have the skill and inclination, and the host would like enjoy it, offer to cook for your host. Making dinner is usually appreciated, but hard to pull off if you are only stopping for a night. If you are staying for a few nights, those later in your vist may be better ones for you to cook: by then, you'll have a chance to check if your host has the necessary spices, condiments and other ingredients; and if not, for you to buy them. Your hosts will also know at least a bit about you, and be comfortable with you in their space (since some people are very particular and picky in their own kitchens).
* '''Helping out:''' When you eat together, offer to wash dishes. Nothing is better for a couch surfer than doing the dishes. This is especially appreciated when you are staying at a shared house and you only know one of the renters, or if you have been hooked up with this couch by a 3rd party. Everyone likes to have a clean kitchen, even if they are too lazy to deal with it. And cleaning the kitchen is usually "safe": people are unlikely to be offended by your help there, and you can usually figure out where things go.
* If '''borrowing something''' from your host (with permission beforehand, of course), try to return it in better condition than you found it: e.g. re-fill the fuel tank of a motorbike, oil the chain and pump up the tire of a bicycle. At least return what you've used clean and in good condition.
* '''PC and Telephone:''' Don't use your host's computer or telephone unless he/she gives you explicit permission. Offer to pay for all phone calls. Don't download any programmes onto their computer. Check to see if they prefer the computer logged off, shut-down, or left on when you finish using it.
* '''Electrics:''' Check your host's preferences about having things like lights, fans, and air-conditioning left on or off.
* '''Leave the house:''' It is expected that you are traveling to see the area you are visiting. Do venture outside, and be prepared for temperature extremes of the region you are in. Have an idea of what you can do in the area and don't expect to be in your host's home for most of the day or every day.
* '''Staying on longer:''' You should always ask permission, as far in advance as possible, if you want to stay on longer than initially agreed and not just assume it will be okay. If no agreement is made initially, try to let the host know as soon as possible when you are intending to leave and check that it is okay. Do not outstay your welcome, be conscious of signals that you may be staying too long even if your host doesn't explicitly say so. Never question or try to overturn a request by your host that you need to leave or that they can't host you for any longer.
* '''Clean up after yourself:''' If you bought food please take it with you when leaving, unless your hosts would like it.
* '''Say "thank you" when you're with your host, but also after you leave.
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=== After leaving ===
* Hospitality exchange works ''works'' because people can trust others. That's why it's important to leave comments (=references in CS talk :). If you have a bad experience, this is even more important, though might be more difficult. Just remember that other CouchSurfers depend on ''you'' leaving comments.
* Say "thank you". Either the old fashioned way, with a card, postcard, or letter from a later destination, or from back home. Or, if you're not into sending "snail mail" anymore, at least e-mail a "thank you" note.

== [[Cultural Differences]] ==
Violating customs can cause offense. Read ahead of time and find what is appropriate, and what are considered "local sensitivities". Ask your host what is expected, or assume the most conservative scenario. Be well-informed in advance, so that you do not inadvertently find yourself embarrassed. For instance:

* Remove your shoes outside the door in Japan, and you eat with your right hand only in some parts of the Middle East.

* '''Avoid conversation topics that are taboo or poor taste to discuss'''. These subjects are things like: (homo) sexuality, religion, politics, war, genocide, minorities. These are probably not the best topics to discuss in casual or public environments. Save these conversations for your close friends, and not for people you have just met. This is a good social relation tip in general, actually.

* Hindus don't eat beef, as cows are considered sacred. Muslims generally do not eat pig related food products (as do some Jews).

* Sometimes, romantic couples may need to sleep separately.

More info:

* [[India#How to be a good guest|India]]
* [[Finland#How to be a good guest|Finland]]
* [[Netherlands#How to be a good guest|Netherlands]]

== See also ==
* [[How To Write A Couch Request]]
* [[How To Be A Good Host]]
* [[How to handle Couchscroogers]]
* [[How to handle freeloaders]]
* [http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Conversation-with-a-Stranger Tips on starting a conversation with a stranger]
* [http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Good-House-Guest How to Be a Good House Guest] at wikiHow