Posts Tagged ‘europe’
Everyone Loves Blood: OTP’s Guide to Eating Blood Around the World
Black pudding, blood pudding or blood sausage – whatever you call it, it’s bloody and the rest of the world thinks it’s crazy tasty. Usually in the form of a coagulated animal-juice filled sausage, its exact origins are up for debate. Rumored to have been invented by some ancient Greek chef around the first centuries [...]
Getting Drunk with Locals: 10 Best Local Bars in Madrid
Rather than downing a pint of beer and getting smashed before the sun goes down, Spaniards take it Barry White slow. Their bull-like stamina comes from lining their stomachs with a tapa before downing a caña (small glass of beer) and heading to the next stop to do it all over again. OTP’s Top 10 [...]
OTP’s Guide to Street Art: Valencia
Setting the bar for legendary paella and ridiculous week-long fire fiestas, Valencia now adds street art to its list of claims to fame. Politically charged and creativity infested, Spain’s third largest city is gaining some serious street cred as an urban art capital worth hitting up. Spain has always been a little late to the [...]
OTP’s Guide to Partying Your Ass Off in Lisbon
Little baby Portugal once ruled half the world and while it is tiny land-wise, everything they do has a hint of grandiose. Much like the 1755 earthquake that gutted Lisbon, the party scene here will rip you to shreds. Ready yourself for a fermented fruit-drinking, meat-shoveling good time with OTP’s Guide to Partying Your Ass [...]
OTP’s Free Travel: Stockholm
No need to sell your entire ABBA vinyl collection in order to have a quality good time in Stockholm. There’s plenty of culture and nature to explore and, lucky for you, OTP has uncovered the best of this expensive city without spending a single öre. Show off your ice dancing skills at the Rockefeller-inspired ice-rink, [...]
OTP’s Travel Free: Vienna
Looking for a five-finger discount in one of the most expensive capitals in Europe? Thanks to us, you no longer have to rape, pillage or steal to get in on the Austrian action. OTP scraped together a list of ten free things to do in Vienna that will keep the euros jingling in your pocket [...]
OTP’s Top 10 Things to Do in Bern on a Backpacker’s Budget
Smushed between the high-flying action of Interlaken and the blingin’ ballers out in Zurich, capital city Bern rocks out enough culture to entertain the intelligence of Einstein in his prime, beautiful nature, busy restaurants, bars and clubs of the dive and classy kind and bears (of the “will eat you” kind). Hang on to those [...]
Getting Drunk with Locals: 10 Best Local Bars in Zagreb, Croatia
In Zagreb, they dig drinking and love music. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, so ditch your hostel-mates for the night to find natives who will appreciate your drunken singing. This is OTP’s top 10 places to drink like (and with) the locals of Zagreb. Cica-cica means “the boob” in Croatian. Suckle the teet juice, like rakijas [...]
OTP’s Guide to the Best Clubs in Berlin
The epitome of broke but sexy, nightlife in Berlin certainly has swagger like us. The fall of the Wall birthed the rise of a raging nightclub scene that pounds well into the day, blaring house music in multi-level warehouses. Since roaming tricky streets in search of an unmarked building can be a big bitch, OTP’s [...]
OTP’s Guide to Adventure Sports in Interlaken
Toss yourself into the Swiss Alps scene by jumping in, on and over Interlaken’s lakes and mountains by way of Europe’s most adrenaline-inducing adventure sports. It’s a thrill-seeker’s playground out there and Interlaken serves it all up to backpackers for a fair price. Muster up some fearless Spartan swag when you sign that death waiver, [...]
