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bull riding at rodeo

bull riding at forth worth…

Texas is a State teeming with must-sees and cant-misses. And inspired by the new destinations we have on our radar this year, we wanted to give you a bit of everything too by showing the enormous contrasts that exist in The Lone Star State: From the city’s bright lights and non-stop rhythms, to epic Cowboy landscapes. Want more? How about experiencing Texan space age modernism and then Wild West rodeo?

6th street in aust

block rockin’ beats in austin

The area from around East Sixth Street up to Red River Street, near to Austin’s prestigious university, is the world’s live music mecca…and that’s no exaggeration. This area, no more than a handful of blocks, rocks to the tune of Texas’s finest performers. Find all of the favourite Texan sounds here, for every type of Rock, Indie, Grunge and Punk, all the way to the other end of the scale with good ol’ Texan Honky Tonk, Country, Blues and Jazz. To get the most out of the sheer quantity of live music on offer here, work your way around on a loop in an eclectic whistle stop bar hop, taking in all of the tunes on offer.

rodeo in fort worth

fort worth stock yards

In the heart of Cowboy country, Fort Worth is the place to discover your Wild West side. Head on down to the Fort Worth Stock Yards and find all manner of Cowboy culture waiting for you. This is the place to catch a rodeo, swat up on your cowboy history, ride a bull and shop for your authentic Cowboy outfit. When the sun goes down, the Cowboys ride out and we can’t recommend catching a live rodeo show highly enough. On horseback, the riders show off their skills in a series of events such as barrel racing, calf roping and the most famous of all, bull riding. Yee haw.

space travel in houston

nasa space center

We love travelling around the globe, but travelling beyond it has always been a secret little obsession of ours. And while holidays to Mars feel like they’re still a few light years away, a trip to the Johnson Space Center will show you just how close we are. This is the center where NASA operates; designing, building and controlling the space missions of the last fifty years and still to this day. As well as a tour of the training facilities, the command modules and the enormous rockets that propel them there, you’ll be able to take a front seat at the command centre and see all the space age gadgetry that is used.

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horse play

Sadler’s Wells Theatre is one London institution that always manages to push those pre-constructed artistic boundaries, to leave us inspired, probably a little shocked and eager for a little more. This spring they’re looking east…Far East to one of our personal favourites, Japan.

From the 1^st- 6^th of March, The Centaur and the Animal, a contemporary collaboration of world renowned Horseman Bartabas and Japanese Butoh master Ko Murobushi takes centre stage here in London. This Intimate haunting work recreates the birth of the iconic Centaur in Japanese folklore, following the fragile ancient relationship between master and horse which ultimately culminates in the merging of the human and animal form. Now you see why we say that this is not something you see everyday.

bartabas on horse back

The performance is choreographed in the radical Japanese style of Butoh, where taboo stories are acted out in a playful slow, hyper-controlled motion. The performance even sees four stallions making their Sadler’s Wells stage debut… equestrian master Bartabas has trained his horses to hold a state of intense concentration throughout the performance (no mean feat we’re guessing). Starring in the play himself, Bartabas sees his equine co-stars more as dance partners than stage-side steeds.

For one week only Japan’s dark arts arrive in London, we say allow yourself to be transported to another world.

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