Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Illustration: Topless woman at the beach — © Cristóbal Schmal

Beach Etiquette

Culture clash

Beach season is coming, so what’s to stop you from tearing off your clothes and jumping into the waves? Etiquette, that’s what. A guide to the different beach rules around the world.

Dry Up

Every self-respecting Brazilian man wears a skimpy Speedo at the beach – and dries off in the sun. Anyone on the beach with a towel is definitely a tourist.

Cover Up

Topless bathing is perfectly acceptable in many European countries, but you’d better keep your top on in the USA. Not even infants and toddlers run around entirely naked at the beach but usually wear diapers.

Pay Up

Are you the type who gets up early to bag a top spot at the beach with your towel? What is frowned upon at many beaches is strictly prohibited in Italy. You could end up facing a 200-euro fine for claiming that prime position.

Mr. Know It All

Business trip

Working in places where others vacation is appealing in the winter. These new hotspots for digital nomads aren’t quite full yet …

Kosmos: Mr. Know-It-All — © Bente Schipp

change of pace

Once you left your computer screen to swim in the cenotes and inspect Mayan ruins in Tulum, Mexico, it’s time for something new. We recommend the excellent beach clubs in Puerto Vallarta on the Pacific coast.

beach included

Rio? Sure, that’s a place you won’t want to leave in a hurry. But if you have to work, Florianópolis, a small town on the South Brazilian coast, is more relaxed and fast becoming a mecca for startups.

quick return

The perfect place is sometimes closer than you think: Las Palmas, the capital of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, has it all: culture, beaches and high-speed Internet – plus a fast flight home for the European nomad whose business partner insists on a personal meeting.

Worldwide

Otherworldly

British photographer Reuben Wu isn’t interested in realist images; he wants to photograph landscapes as though they were unexplored territory. To do so, he attaches spotlights to a drone and uses a long exposure to create surreal effects.

reubenwu.com

Kosmos: Otherworldly — © itsreuben; reubenwu.com

Culture podcasts

Culture clash

Travel broadens the mind. Particularly if we pass the time at airports, on airplanes or in taxis with fascinating culture podcast.

Living in Sweden

Billy bookcases and cinnamon buns? Certainly not. The German-language podcast “Läget” goes far beyond the usual clichés.

facebook.com/laeget.podcast

All about Asia

Who where the Samurai again? How did the Nüshu script come about? What was the first Japanese manga? “History ofJapan” and “China History Podcast” are top infotainment.

recordedhistory.net / china-history.net / isaacmeyer.net

Tit for tat

“Americana für euch” explains the finer points of U.S. culture in German. Alternatively, check out the “History of Germany Podcast” in English.

podcastnik.com

Travel is a splendid way to remedy a confused state of mind.

Franz Grillparzer (1791 - 1872) Austrian author

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Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

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Otherworldly

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