Party Playgrounds: The World's Most Popular Party Cities

If you’re the life of the party, you should be where the parties are a way of life. Everyone has their favourite party spots but we’ve done our best to find the party cities that were clearly created with partying in mind - some for summer beach parties and some for extreme fun all year round. Lights, music, dancing, and drinking until dawn, here some of the world's most popular places to go wild.

Ibiza, Spain

Amnesia, Ibiza

Located just off the coast of Spain, Ibiza attracts party lovers from all over the world. Nearly nocturnal, revellers in Ibiza sleep during the day and party all (and we mean all) night long. Sun-soaked days, hot nights, world-class restaurants, and a dizzying array of clubs keep the party hordes coming summer after summer and all year round. Clubs like Space shifted the whole spirit of this party city by keeping the fun going all day too. (It's not unusual for parties to last up to 22 hours!) In Ibiza clubs are super-sized too:Amnesia has room for just under 5,000 people. All this and more make Ibiza Europe’s undisputed party hotspot.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Tryst, Las Vegas

Serious sinning isn't for the faint of heart, but some sins make all the trouble worth it. And Sin City is definitely the place to commit the fun ones. The Las Vegas Strip has temptations aplenty and temptations to suit every sin palate, from sins found in mega-glam, neon-lit casinos to those in dark clubs filled with beautiful people dancing to music from some of the world’s best DJs. XS, one of the most expensive nightclubs ever built, is 40,000 square feet of excess from floor to ceiling. This Las Vegas club is so hot it makes the desert breezes seem cool by comparison. To cool down off the dance floor, head out to a cabana in the club’s patio and pool area. Tryst even has its own waterfall. In Las Vegas, there is glitz, glamour, and hot parties as far as the eye can see.

Goa, India

Goa beach party

Thanks to its abundant and varied nightlife, Goa attracts tourists from all over India and the world. No other major metropolis in India can compete with Goa when it comes to partying hard. In the 1960s, beach raves organized by hippies were all the rage and not much has changed. Today, there are beach parties, beach festivals, and beach clubs with people of every age embracing Goa's youthful vibe. Vagator Beach is the epicenter for Goa’s trance party scene. If you need a party break, there are plenty of restaurants, resorts, and beaches where delving into your beach read won't be interrupted by disco dance beats. Just remember that summer isn’t high season. Wait until winter to make your plans because parties organized before Christmas and on New Year’s Eve are legendary.

Berlin, Germany

Club der Visionaere

Berlin is Europe’s “capital of cool," but it also happens to be one of Europe's party capitals too. With no open container laws, no last call regulations, many underground, and ultra-chic clubs, Berlin caters to every variety of wild side, from dance divaism to out-of-the-box hedonism. According to the creative director of sugarhigh.de Alonso Dominguez, “Berliners spoil themselves when it comes to going out and having fun,” but they also have a casual, natural approach to having fun. In Berlin partying is a high priority. When it comes to hitting the town, locals and those-in-the-know favor uber-cool temporary spaces that pop up and then disappear. Ask friendly Berliners where to go or try to spot and follow well-dressed party-goers. For everyday, established spots, Sisyphos, Berghain, and Club der Visionaere, which is famous for Sunday afternoon gatherings, never fail to impress even the most jaded international club-goers.

Black Rock City, Nevada

Burning Man Festival

The Black Rock Desert in Nevada gains a temporary city each August and September during the annual Burning Man Festival. Every year as summer starts to fade, Burning Man makes its appearance in the desert heat and this movable city packs a serious party punch. This year, from August 29th to September 5th, Burning Man’s inhabitants will build their city around the theme of “Rites of Passage.” Everything changes and nothing stays the same … well, except man’s need to let loose and have fun. At Burning Man, money has no value and self-expression, in whatever form it takes, is the only currency worth anything in the desert. Express yourself, rely on yourself and your new community, experience something new and dance, drink, and party. That's what Burning Man is all about.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio Scenarium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Samba, caipirinhas, sandy beaches with women in itty bitty, nearly invisible bikinis, and Carnival. Is there anything about Rio that doesn't scream party? The weather is hot and so is the city's party scene. If you schedule your time in Rio to coincide with Carnival (February and March), the party comes to you in the form of raucous street parties filled with music, glitter, and very little clothing. The rest of the year is just as lively. The number one club recommended by members in the ASW City Guides is Rio Scenarium. With a more authentic Brazilian vibe, Rio Scenarium is bustling every night, attracting locals and visiting internationals with live music and Samba. 00 (Zero Zero) has been the life of the party in Rio for a few years. Cool off (because you'll need to) on 00's breezy outdoor patio. In Rio, beautiful people are born here and stay here and beautiful people flock to Rio from all over the world to party. Why not join in?

Saint Tropez, France

Les Caves du Roy, Saint Tropez

There's a reason we picked Saint Tropez for ASW's Spring Weekend ... it likes to party (and in the lap of luxury). From truly impressive restaurants, shops, and clubs to pristine beaches and crystal blue waters on the Mediterranean, Saint Tropez has it all and much, much more. Its proximity to Cannes, Monte Carlo, and Nice means the scene is never the same two nights in a row. But Saint Tropez is the place to be seen after sunset. Les Caves Du Roy in the Byblos Hotel is extravagance come alive, from lavish trappings—lights, strict doormen, and hidden nooks and crannies— to its glamourous regulars—Hollywood heavy-hitters, models, royalty, and millionaires. Cannes gets the stars in May but Saint Tropez attracts an international crowd all year long.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Tel Aviv at night

Tel Aviv has been called the "Miami Beach on the Med," and it does resemble its American sister city in many ways but Tel Aviv still has a party scene all its own. Tel Aviv is a nightlife playground for young and wild Israelis and revellers from all over the world. And with incredible beaches (Tel Aviv has been named one of the world's top beach cities by National Geographic) and an outgoing population, Tel Aviv is on the go all day long, 24 hours a day. The saying, "Nothing good happens after midnight," doesn't apply to Tel Aviv. In Tel Aviv, everything worth staying up for happens after midnight. Clubs start to fill up with beautiful people as night becomes morning, from 1am until daybreak. New York might be "the city that never sleeps," but Tel Aviv is "the city that never stops."

Reykjavik, Iceland

NASA live music venue

Iceland is a country of extremes, from extreme weather and endless winter nights to bubbling geothermal spas and never-ending summer days. Iceland might have had its ups and downs economically the last few years, but its nightlife refuses to slow down. In Reykjavik, the nightlife scene is unique and quirky. The runtur, or city's weekend pub crawl, takes crawlers from one bar and pub to another from around 11pm to well after 4am. Live music is also big in Reykjavik where clubs like Nasa give the city a youthful, cutting edge atmosphere. Well-known bands from all over the world and local acts play scheduled (and surprise) shows in small venues throughout the city. The other extreme from Iceland's naughty late nights is its extreme relaxing. Take a short drive out of the city and enjoy a quiet party for one, two, or more in Iceland's most famous outdoor bath, Blue Lagoon.

Miami, Florida

Miami skyline

It's a city made for singles. It's a city made for anything actually, especially partying. Miami is where the beautiful, rich, famous, athletic, and successful vacation, live, and party. Parties last until the wee hours of the morning, but that doesn't keep the well-tanned and well-toned from taking the party to the beach from morning until afternoon and then taking it back out to the clubs again that night. Play the field when it comes to clubs and bars because Miami is much too sexy to tie yourself down to only one venue. Like any party city, the place to be isn't the same every night of the week, so ask the party-friendly locals and let them clue you into the current place to see and be seen.

4 out of 10 down..... Next will be Berlin, France and then Brazil for the World Cup in 2014

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Never Forget to Feed the Meter Again

    If Parking Wars has taught you anything, it’s that meter maids are a callous, unforgiving sort. 

You can’t argue
 with them, and you can’t tease them about the tightness of their pants.

So it’s probably better that you just remember to feed your meter. With some help from your phone.

Presenting Parkbud, a new app that’s like a personal assistant for all things parking, available now on iTunes.

It’s an all-too-familiar scenario: you’re out shopping for a new hang glider with a few Brazilian friends you met in New Zealand, and you’ve just parked the Aston Martin. You pump a few quarters in the meter. Then, you forget all about it. Zang. Ticket.

From now on, you’ll avoid all this nonsense. The process: just pull up this app, then set the time you parked and when the meter will expire. Before it does, you’ll receive an alert reminding you it’s time to appease the parking gods. At this point, you’ll send an intern to go take care of it.

But because you sometimes forget where you parked altogether, this app will also use GPS to locate your car, thus avoiding another way those tickets have racked up over the past few months.

Seriously: pay your parking tickets.

http://www.parkbud.com/

Who Has Time to Masturbate?

Dating SEX Atheists Admit to Masturbating POSTED BY JOSH GROSS website okcupid.com has releasedanother round of chartsillustrating odd factoids about relationships and sexual habits.

According to one of the charts, 20 percent of Jewish women claim never to have masturbated, as opposed to 18 percent of Hindus and 8 percent of Christians. The lowest percentage was a tie between Christian and Atheist men at 2 percent.

Other items charted include sex drive as it relates to college tuition, the average length of a relationship vs. the average length for regular Twitter users, and the level of confidence claimed across the spectrum of body types.

The charts are made with data gathered from users as they answer questions about their interests, demographics and personal backgrounds and desires.

Previous graphs have addressed things like the number of messages sent and received by members of various races and the number of messages sent between members as it relates to their profile photos.

Aside from being a sociologist's dream, the overall thrust of much of the data is that people are much shallower than they'd like to admit.

Google introduces laptops running Chrome system

Because the laptop runs on a stripped-down system, first-time setup takes three minutes, and the computers boot up in 8 seconds, Sundar Pichai, an executive for the Chrome group, said during the presentation.


"Chrome is tremendously valuable to Google," Pichai said afterward in an interview with reporters. "It serves as a platform for some of the most important applications we provide: Gmail, Google Maps, et cetera."


The notebooks will run Web-based apps and store files in the cloud instead of on a hard drive. "Your apps, games, photos, music, movies and documents will be accessible wherever you are and you won't need to worry about losing your computer or forgetting to back up files," Google said in a blog post announcing the computers.


The Chromebooks will go on sale next month at Best Buy and on Amazon.com in the United States, Google said. On the same day, the laptops will also be available in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Google launched the Chrome Web Store, which is a directory and marketplace for web apps, in several new countries on Wednesday, encompassing 41 languages.


In the current economic climate, Google and its business partners may have a tough time launching a new brand of netbooks -- the portable, lightweight and inexpensive computers that thrived during the recent economic downturn.


Stacy Smith, Intel's financial chief, told CNET recently that it hasn't seen an increase in demand for its processors optimized for netbooks. Microsoft observed in its recent earnings call that netbook sales have declined dramatically in the last few months, a far cry from their surge in 2009.


But in addition to the consumer market, Google sees significant revenue potential in providing combination hardware-software packages to businesses, where Microsoft makes a great deal of its money. Chrome OS, in many ways, is a direct challenge to Microsoft.


"I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with Windows, and Windows 7 has some great security features," Google co-founder Sergey Brin told reporters on Wednesday. "Chromebooks are a new model that doesn't put the burden of managing your computer on yourself."


He added: "Companies that don't use that model, I don't think will be successful."

Safe Bets this WEEK- Barcelona, Forget the Bulls and the Lakers.

Rank	Name	Team	Red	Yellow/red	Yellow	Matches	Pos
1	Pepe	Real Madrid	1 ×		3 ×	8	DEF

Pepe is suspended for the FC Barcelona-Real Madrid CF match on 3 May 2011.

With Pepe and Jose Mourinho out in the second leg game it seems as though Real Madrid will not have a chance. 

The only advantage they have is it will be home but it will not out-weigh the disadvantages.

Overall safe bet will be- BARCELONA