It’s difficult to imagine a more predictable celebration than New Year. You have to think about everything to entertain yourself and guests – but usually things do not go beyond parties with mandarins and Russian salads, or a trip to . Pulse offers you an opportunity to relax – and also do things that are quite ordinary, but not at all characteristic for a celebration. If you think about it, the celebration only lasts one minute, until the bells chime. Why eat salad and drink champagne all evening if there are many other things to do?
Option 1.
Trip
While everyone’s in Bali, you’re in
For the second year in a row, everyone is going to to see in the New Year, to work as guides and save money. The Indian state of is noticeably empty. This is why you should go there – at least no one will stop you from seeing in the dawn with a loud trance on the beach. This is an ideal place for people who want to see in the New Year calmly, interchanging meditations with banana lassi. To reach the border of reality, you just need to buy a ticket (about $600 from ) to Mumbai, and in six hours you’ll be there.
There is a special Indian aroma at the airport. It is a wild mix of incense, burning rubber and cow dung drying in the sun. After a week this aroma will become quite familiar.
A small stop in Mumbai – a trip to the Indian gates and a visit to the cafe with the Russian name "Samovar", and then to the train station to buy tickets to . You can also go there by bus, but this is thought to be a dangerous way of traveling around , as drivers sometimes fall asleep at the wheel, as the rumor goes.
In North Goa, the most popular beaches are Vagator (trance), Kandolim (New Age) and Anjuna ( trance, a big market on Wednesdays). Kerala is the green center of with the "palm" capital of Kochin. 5,000 years ago, the school of ayuverdy was founded in Keral, and since then the tourists have been going there for the best massages and meditations in the world.
If you still have any money left after your holiday in Goa, then go to the "Golden triangle": , and Jaipur. In Dehli is the Jama Masjit, the largest mosque in , the tome of Khumayun and Radjat, and the place where Mahatma Gandi was cremated. Jaipur has a monument to Fatehpur Sikri. has the Agra Fort.
Option 2.
Gastronomic
Instead of mandarins and champagne, pears, cheese and wine
In the face of New Year tradition, instead of champagne, Russian salad and mandarins, choose a combination that is better for your stomach: pears, cheese and wine.
However much the Spanish may boast about their famous combination of melon and jamon, the French and Americans have gone further – they have thought up bold mixtures of pears and cheeses, wines, nuts, salads and meat. For some, the top snacks are a selection of pears, cheddar and gorgonzola… Others have decided not to limit themselves to a combination of pear and roast beef, and try to develop variations from the classical range: pears, cheese and wine. The green pear is excellent accompanied by brie cheese and Sauvignon, and the aromatic with the cheese Saint Andre and Brut, and honey Bosque with white cheddar and Cabernet Sauvignon. Thanks to the rich contents of folic acid, pears can also improve the mood of the most despairing pessimist on their own, and when combined with cheese and wine, they are an elixir of vivacity. The New Year will pass cheerfully with pears. Especially as the Year of the Tiger welcomes yellow “pear” colors.
Option 3.
Shopping.
Instead of going to European sales, go to boutiques
Real time-management gurus use all the time they have for a purpose. For these people, the New Year is a good chance to go to winter sales. While fashion victims drink desperately on the 31st, 1st, 2nd and 3rd, rationalist yuppies hunt the best items with discounts. They also don’t waste time flying to – local buyers have already brought in the best things, they believe. First they go to Bosco, then to Babochka, and the Mega for essential times.
For real machos, there are brutal trench coats from Costume National or Dior Homme. They are worn with a leather cap or a Humphrey Bogart-style hat from the “Maltese Falcon” era.
For pedantic perfectionists, there are jackets from Emporio Armani, or Dolce & Gabbana, which go well with snobbish lackey gloves.
For intellectuals, there are tweed suits. is for people who aren’t scared of looking two sizes larger. American women once wore the tweed suits of their husbands who did not return from WWII – because they had nothing else to wear. Then Coco Chanel rehabilitated them. Now designers don’t need to try very hard to invent something worthwhile out of tweed.
For rock and roll heroes, progressive brands offer frost-resistant biker jackets. Jasper Conran sews jackets from seal fur, and John Richmond from basil.
Option 4.
Clubbing
Instead of Purga, trash techno at Efir and crazy dancing at XXXX.
Once, XXXX bar was a big hit on , by the rowing club. Not many people knew about the parties at the club. But most girls knew that surfers and bikers gathered here. Girls turned up on high-heels – and obviously not for the eccentric stripping and shashlyk. Now the extreme parties continue, in a similar format, but now everyone knows about XXXX – and most people agree: this chain of extreme bars is a club corporation. If you want a full-on New Year, then you should go to XXXX.
The more progressive public, with a European outlook on electronic music, gathers at Maly Prospekt on the Petrograd Side, at Efir club. The interior of Efir has already been awarded a prize from Sobaka magazine, for the pure lines and flawless geometry. You really do feel freedom and easy relations with the world: windows in the floor, like at a fashionable hotel in . There are sofas along the worlds upholstered with textiles, like in a casual cafe in or . The square chandelier on the ceiling comes straight from . One of the central objects of the restaurant hall is an enormous white oval table, the latest hit in Scandinavian furniture design. This is a good place to discuss plans for a big evening out, or to play Mafia.
After the performances of the French dOP, the Chileans Pier Buchi and Francisco Allendes, there will be a Mandarin Tiger party on New Year’s Eve featuring the mystical Tryo de Ghettville from a city that does not exist on the map, films about sailors and pirates, and mermaids embracing scoundrels. Tryo de Ghettvile will come to Efir, play some jolly songs in pounding rhythms – in the spaces of nameless blocks of northern cities, sultry oases and through night storms and squalls.