Restorative and reanimating brunch.
January 1st. The first day of the new year. The day the list of resolutions should be launched. But it's not like that. The first day of the year is always an extension of the old year. A pause. A parenthesis. An extension. One and a thousand excuses. An exception.
The year really begins on January 2, the second day of the year. So we offer you a repertoire of good justifications so that you can enjoy the first day of the year as you want.
RESTORATION BRUNCH
You've gone to bed first thing in the morning, maybe second, maybe just before dawn, you wake up at noon and surprise! despite last night's banquet, you're starving. But you also have a headache from the hangover of a whole year that you have left behind.
Solution? ** A brunch ** of those that make you forget and start with energy 12 new months. A brunch like the Hotel Santo Mauro , which starts with churros and ends with a Black Angus burger. Or like the Gran Melia Phoenix in the heights of its terrace in the Plaza de Colón.
Happy 2018!
WITH A COLD WATER BATH
(Almost) Same scenario as in the previous case, different solution. Or complementary. If you wake up in a city bathed by the sea (a cold lake is also fine), they say that there is no better way to shake off the ghosts of Christmas past than jumping into the freezing water.
A tradition already in many cities. From New York, where in Coney Island, every January 1, the oldest swimming club in the world, the Polar Bears, celebrates its traditional first swim of the year. But they also do in San Sebastian, in the waters of La Concha. EITHER on Samil beach, in Vigo. And in the one of The Quarries in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
LISTENING TO THE NEW YEAR'S CONCERT
The ideal plan would be to go to the New Year's Concert. sit on the Musikverein Golden Hall in the Austrian capital and listen and see live the concert that the Vienna Philharmonic has been 77 years organizing.
As it is not a very realistic plan for the vast majority of mortals, we settle, and well, with the retransmission that TVE does. You can sit on your sofa to enjoy it well concentrated. Or have it in the background while you pick up the havoc from the night before. Either way, it's an exciting and musical start to 2018.
The classic bathroom of day 1 in Coney.
PARTY
Going out on New Year's Eve was sooooo…some other year. For those who want to avoid the large crowds of bars, those who no longer think about parties organized on that night or those who want to extend the party with the family, there is a solution: partying on New Years.
The biggest party this year will be 01 New Year's Day 2018, at Ifema, with a great line-up of electronic music (Marco Carola, Richie Hawtin, Amelie Lens...)... An excuse to extend 2017 even further.
GO TO THE MOVIES
Cinema is magic, cinema is escapism, cinema is reflection, cinema is fun, cinema is dreams. The cinema is all you may need to start the new year off right. You just have to choose the perfect movie for this moment. And you have many options.
From the programming of the Cineteca (The young Frankenstein always and once again), to that of Navimad (The apartment or When Harry met Sally). Let's not forget the commercial billboard: you can recover the jewel that you should have already seen, Many children, a monkey and a castle, to see again what you already saw, starwars, or go out singing and dancing with The great showman.
Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron for 2018.
GO ON A TRIP
Because you have to travel more. Always. Going on a trip on day 1 is a wonderful option. And more and more common. Start a new year somewhere else, distant and heavenly, or close and rural, it can be wonderful.
WITH THE NTH FAMILY FOOD
It seems like a lot of family banquets, but it's not that many. And they go by very quickly. And then you will be in the middle of the year and you will miss the company, the shouting and the consommé of mom. So never reject one (another) good family feast.
Cinema, family, feasts and desires in a single movie.
GO FOR A RUN
On your own or accompanied. If you didn't run the San Silvestre on the afternoon of December 31, doing it on the morning or afternoon of January 1 is a great idea. You start fulfilling purposes and you come home with renewed hunger.
SLEEP ALL DAY
It's about as respectable as signing up for the first race of the year. Sleep, sleep and sleep and wake up on January 2, with resolutions waiting for you and a hunger to die to start with a brunch.
Namely, simply lengthen the beginning of the year by one more day. B R A V O. This option is probably only suitable for the lucky ones who are on vacation.
What's wrong with not getting out of bed for a day?
ICE SKATING
It is also sport, but more light and Christmassy. You fulfill purposes and take your children, nephews or grandchildren out for a walk. The skating rinks ** Madrid ,** for example, they open in the afternoon. You reactivate the body and enter the new year laughing.
THAT RESUSCENT COOK
It is told to you by someone who, for a long time, wakes up every January 1 with a consommé at the table. There is nothing like a good broth to forget about the hangover, about how bad it was last year and revive with a very warm body.
La Bola opens, also La Daniela, the Lhardy... Choose your favorite stew and reserve that unique meal for the first day of the year.
Energy for a whole year.
GO EXHIBITION
The culture dose. Or a little freak. The main museums in Madrid close, but there is an exhibition that will be open: Harry Potter's.
They just extended it until April 2, so you might think that there is no need to run and see it on the first day of 2018. Or yes. If you look closely, it is still one of the few days of these festivals that tickets are not sold out.