Travel Food Italian Style
Travel is often all about culinary indulgences, especially when it comes to something cultured & universal. The following five cities have the best italian food & in countries you would not expect but a journey in every single bite.
This historic Italian in New York knows a great dish & a better price!! Trattoria Spaghetto has an extensive choice of food & leaves you ‘filling’ very content.
This is now an institution in Venice. Feel like a star at Harry’s Bar. Be safe in the knowledge that some of the greatest writers, actors & show off’s have dined here before you. Now its your turn 
You don’t automatically associate Hong Kong with Italian cuisine but you would be wrong then. Best food & possible the best views over the city at Aqua.
While your in New Delhi a visit to Caramelo is the place for your slice of italian cuisine. Stylish interiors means for even better food, better ambience but be sure to come early as Indian cities are very very busy.
A great way to finish any Italian feast is with some great home made Italian ice cream & no better place that in Dolce Sicilia in Sweden’s Malmo. Home made deliciousnbess at it’s best.
Like Irish Bars, Italian restaurants are historically every where & for some they can be the best place to eat any where in the world !!!
Music on the Road, a travellers collection
Music helps us in many different ways, especially when you’re on the road. Here’s the iwannagothere music charts!!
The Valley House on Achill Island in Ireland is as unique as you can get, grab an instrument & a hot whiskey & join in the fun with everyone else, sing, dance or just people watch.
The most popular music venue in Beijing, Yugong Yishan hosts local & international real live acts. Perfect to get the real feel of this city. Free Chinese Saki too
The Bla Jazz Club is a local musical refuge & was voted as one of the top 100 Jazz clubs in the world. Find out why Oslo’s best jazz is exactly that.
Not just one venue but a cultural mix of music, scents, animals, peoples, hustlers & sellers. Jemaa El Fna Square in Marrakech is a musical brain washing-ly fantastic experience.
The Bowery Ballroom is probably the most historic venue on our chart, your no-one if you haven’t played live here. New York’s finest !!
Finally Tin Tin Deo is a fabulous little salsa bar in Santiago de Cali, where the bodies move fast, the people are friendly & the music pumping loud. Vive Colombia !
Check out our other 600 recommendations right here !!
Vintage Stores All Over The World
You have to ask yourself one thing, did it ever die??
Vintage that is. Vintage everything you could imagine. Vintage everywhere. It never died, new design imitating old school Vintage pieces. Where ever you are in this world Vintage is just around the corner so you don’t have to go very far. Hot off the iwannagothere keyboard keys is our little Vintage selection:
Deep in the heart of West Cork in Southern Ireland their is a multi functioning enterprise called Lady Pearl’s & do these Chicks have a handle on whats what in the (wait for it) hair-retro-furniture-stylists-design-clothing world !! Keep your knickers on & just go & see what they can do for your home, your hair and your life !!!
Marrakech has always been old world, it’s the place of classic movies, legendary writers and the lives they lived. Now in Ministerio del Gusto you can have a little of what they had, style, glamour and a good item of 50´s retro to sit your beautiful derriere.
In the case of Tokyo the point to finding all the best stores and galleries of retro glamour and style is simple….. JUST LOOK UP, everything is on the 2nd floor or the 9th floor. and with a 5000 year history Japan has many many beauties to tickle your fancy.
A Vintage pioneer in Spain’s largest city ? Sure damn is, Pepita is Dead has been the fore runner is spreading the Vintage vibe for years in Madrid. Many a well dressed well heeled young one has been seen coming & going with pieces of ultimate beauty & glamour struggling to get out of their bags in Madrid.
America may only have 150 or so years of modern history but they seemed to have collected and kept the best pieces of vintage in the process. Sante Fe in New Mexico there is a Vintage heaven paradise called Double Take at the Ranch that has those really hard to find pieces that no one else will ever have. Precious !!!
The epi-center of all things hip & cool Manchester was awash with style during the rocking years of the 60′s and they never lost that cool element in regards to the music. Now Englands king of Vintage stores POP reings supreme through out the country. Retro retro retro till your vomiting it out of you, in a good way of course !!
For years this Vintage location in Montevideo has been spinning vinyl for the creme of the art & music world from writers, films directors to musical artists. Its Vintage in the sense of the history but more so of the classic vinyl they are spinning. La Ronda Cafe is a true legend in Uruguay
We could do a Vintage post with mentioning New York, could we ? So try this on for size A beautiful of vintage & contemporary Min-K caters to your true Vintage needs but also design modern takes on pieces that you will love. Very Carrie Bradshaw with a splash of Jackie O
That completes our Vintage around the world and we loved every single key type and every single place. Remember Vintage is always with us, even if you don’t realise it, your probably living it.
Check out all the Vintage posts we have at home on iwannagothere
Vinyl City Lovers New York, Madrid & Paris
For all lovers of vinyl and music in general here are our favourite vinyl stores in New York , Paris & Madrid where you can find albums new and second hand all kinds of styles of music.
This store in New York you will find second-hand record of all styles. There are many records of hip-hop, soul, funk, and reggae. The store is nice and well organized, a plus of this store is that prices are not bad. In addition to the store, if you are music lovers and discs we recommend you visit their BLOG , very interesting.
Shop for punk & hardcore in the beating heart of Madrid. Loads of new releases especially local bands and Spanish bands. Aside from second hand vinyl they also sell T-Shirts, posters and music paraphernalia
If you’re in Paris and want to find out that is happening in the nightlife scene visit Born Bad , all your questions about, vinyl, CD’s, books, magazines about rock and punk will be answered. The store staff is very friendly. We also recommend you visit his store clothes Born Bad Exotica .
9 cool and totally off -the-beaten path things that you can do for FREE
Do a search on iwannagothere using the word FREE and what do you get ?
Every single post with that has something EVERYTHING to do with FREE, thats 25PAGES of stuff that YOU posted for others to do, so here is a wee sample to get you in the FREE mood !!
Strolling around Marseilles, have some free time in the evening then check out free early evening music gigs at Lollipop Records, while your there stock up on your music, music gear and clothing.
One of the best FREE views of Central Park in New York has to be the Roof Garden at the Met, its free to go up there nd sip a snazzy cocktail, take out for camera and snap away. Could it get any better than this ? (yes)
FREE art in the Museum Bellas Artes in down town Buenos Aires has it own unique allure and is sure to culturally slap your little travelling head with pleasure.
Step back in time in Madrid’s very own Metro Ghost Station, Chamberi. Untouched for 50 years it is spooky with a happy shock of melancholy. Its completely FREE to visit
In Tokyo pick up the FREE about town, street wise street smart Metropolis. It has everything and anything thats going on for the next 7days in Japan’s largest city. You can pick it up for FREE nearly everywhere. You need to have this !!
Watch FREE chickens in Malawi. See ancient FREE Wooden Boats in Seattle. FREE Gypsy Swing music nights in London. FREE bone soup in Beijing, This & so very much more, come and use iwannagothere the way you should be !!!!
The New York Mobile Guide is out!
So your going to New York or your in New York right now, and you need to find a place to eat, there are loads around you, where the blazes do you choose, is it any good ? Right now with the new IWGT New York Mobile Guide can tell you which one is closest to you and recommended by our users.
Travel like a local and act like a local with up to the minute hot tips of what to do, where to go and what to see and most importantly what NOT to MISS !!
Sleek smooth design and easy to navigate plus its on the brill Android platform so you know its gonna be good!!
Pick of the week: M&M Store
Record Store Route in New York
Record Store Route in New York is a customized guide by goose
Record stores in New York and beyond. All places have used vinyl and all the descriptions include their timetable or phone number.
Gimme gimme records
One of those places where genres be damned, they’ve got a little bit of everything, or maybe I should say you never know what you’ll find.
Hospital productions record store
If you like your metal with corpse paint this shop is the place to go. Hospital specializes in black metal and extreme noise records, but they’ve also got anything that tends towards the rough and tumble excesses of punk, hardcore, and rock. You can check out their website to get an idea of what they carry.
Academy records annex
Academy Records owns three different record shops in New York, this one, in Williamsburgh, is the best bet for vinyl of absolutely any genre.
The friendly folks there challenge both the record store employee and new yorker stereotypes by being pretty damn helpful.
Mercer st books & records
Used book shop with a large selection of out of print and hard to find books that also has some vinyl records. They also have new books.
Record Store Route in New York is a customized guide by goose
USA East Coast Photo Book: Last days at New York, part 3
Adriii finaly got the time to do her long-time expected train-trip through the north-east coast of the United States… and she is telling us about her journey!
New York is mostly about the skyscrapers, the people, the hurry, the contrasts, the surprises in each corner, the different neighborhoods… The city that never sleeps. But there’s one thing apart from all the city life that it’s also the heart of Manhattan: Central Park.
Central Park is huge and has so many different spaces that you will see so many different people, activities… First of all, the park is so big so my first recommendation to you is to rent a bike. They have them on the Boathouse at a very fair prize. Riding a bike is the best way to visit every corner. Do it on a Sunday, it’s when the park is more alive 
First stop: The Dairy. There they’ll give you a very detailed map. There you’ll see all the places worth to visit. I’ll give you some of my favorites.
The Dairy is in the southern part so we decided to visit all this area first. The Carousel is quite unique and it is next to a baseball court so we stopped for a while to see some middle-aged friends playing. It was fun. Then we did a quick visit to the Zoo from the outside and the little pond there.
Then we ride all the way to the upper side (don’t worry, the park is mostly flat, you won’t get tired at all). After visiting the north meadow, we bordered the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, the biggest lake at the park. Very beautiful views there.
Then we got to the Great Lawn. It’s often full of people doing yoga or practicing martial arts, sleeping, reading… you get the point, right? In that area you’ll find the Delacorte Theatre, the Obelisk and the Belvedere Lake. Take a picture to the Belvedere Castle from the opposite side of the lake and then go up the hill and visit the Castle; you won’t regret it at all.
Going down there is the Ramble, a labyrinth of little paths surrounding The Lake. I recommend you to do the Ramble, it’s pretty and you’ll encounter the Bow Bridge on your way to the Strawberry Fields
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Then we took the transverse road t o get to the famous Bethesda Fountain and Terrace. Do not just visit the fountain, if you go under the bridge, there’s a beautiful arched structure where a family chorus usually sings on Sunday.
To finish the visit, we went to the Conservatory Water, where the Hans Christian Andersen statue is located, and tried to see Pale Male. We did!
After that, it was about time to get back to the boathouse and return the bikes.
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USA East Coast Photo Book: Last days at New York, part 2
Adriii finaly got the time to do her long-time expected train-trip through the north-east coast of the United States… and she is telling us about her journey!
There are a few “oasis” in the skyscrapers jungle of New York. Obviously the Central Park is the biggest one but I’ve already talked you about the uniqueness of Bryant Park, the many things to do at Battery Park, the views at the East River Park (both Brooklyn and Manhattan sides), the River Terrace Park and the street art at the Washington Park.
But I have another peaceful place that is not a park: Columbia University. For me, this is a mandatory visit when being in New York: the buildings, the history, the atmosphere… I’d even recommend you to go inside the Library if you have some time to spare.
Another must-visit is the Flatiron Building. Probably you’ve seen it in pictures but it’s so amazing when you’re there… It’s incredible how a simple lot problem can become a great building as this one is.
My next post is going to be all about Central Park so let’s walk towards to it and make a first stop at the San Remo Apartments. You might see famous people when being around this building. The two towers are a very recognizable landmark of the city, especially when you’re inside Central Park.
Also, next to it, you’ll find the Dakota, the famous hotel where John Lennon was shot. City all reserved a spot inside Central Park, just in front of the Dakota, to commemorate Lennon.
Would you like to join us? Calling all seasoned backpackers!
Willing to share your hidden gems with your fellow backpacker enthusiasts?
If so, we’re willing to share our love in the form of some well-deserved cash!
Email us at backpackreporter@iwannagothere.com to learn more.
