i feel like i only know how to engage with a city in the most superficial ways. the gardens, cafes, garden-cafes, lookout points, venues
how do i get into the good stuff
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in reply to @Quelklef's post:
to follow up on my tag, i suspect the answer is "go do things ... no, more things, new things; be on the look out for things, weirder things, go to them, keep going to them"
im going to be visiting a lot of different countries this summer and i've been wondering about the exact same thing: what do i do in the city that's more meaningful than just going to museums n shit
part of me feels like hanging out with locals is the answer, but how tf do you even go about that
i dunno 😭 although i know a guy who might know 🤔
one time he was in china, knew no chinese, and just up and went to a bar, by himself, and had fun with the locals. insane!
first thought: pick one sticker covered lamp post and try to understand even half the random cultural ephemera referenced. this activity is hazardous to me so i don't know why my brain suggested it.
for instance the stickers near me that say "trans love beats terf hate" are lovely, but they are in response to an actual wave of stickers from both haters and advocaters of uh .. drastic action .. which are not good for ptsd. neither are some band names though so it's difficult to tell sometimes, and alot of them sticker. anyway most of the interesting and indecipherable stickers are on the university bus route, and that's probably not a coincidence. there's also a stretch through the city center that gets all the eco action sites and demonstration groups, some of those are kinda volatile too. yeah i should probably just not look at stuff, but culture happens everywhere.
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