#2: find a group of French boys at the club (preferably more than there are of you so you don’t pair up). They’re great energy, speak little to no English, will keep the creepy boys away, share gum, fans and sunglasses, dance shamelessly, and keep it completely appropriate
#1: befriend your hotel ticket salesman. He’ll sell you sold out tickets & provide contact info for promoters to get on guest lists. Even better, he’ll sell you drugs! He’ll have you come over to hangout & pick them up, he’ll even bring them to work to save you the trouble
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30
Flying to Italy with a guy for a week, going Greece with a crew of people for yacht week, staying back in Athens then popping back over to Italy with two other guys, then meeting back up and flying back home with the original guy… I think this is my Mamma Mia moment