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Early bed-goers / late bed-goers

• Thread starter matsisious
• Start date Mar 23, 2021
• Mar 23, 2021

Is this an expression casually used in English? Can I use it at a tour description on a website? eg this is a drinking tour for late bed-goers or not for the early bed-goers. How does it sound? I am actually looking for a similar expression to night owls, party goers, to characterise the participants. The tour does not go that late to include clubbing, just bar hopping. Thank you! Marina  

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"Early retirers" and "late retirers" are the usual forms for this.  

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• One who goes on a tour .
• October 12, 2007 , Amy Gunderson, House-Hunting as Vacation , New York Times: " While Mr. Burke readily tells tourgoers that he earns a fee if they buy a property (it’s not unusual for a tour participant to spend $350,000 on a condo), he said “there is no sales pressure.” "

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tourgoer : see also tour-goer‎ tourgoer (English) Origin & history tour + -goer Noun tourgoer (pl. tourgoers) One who goes on a tour. October 12, 2007, Amy Gunderson, House-Hunting as Vacation, New York Times: "While Mr. Burke readily tells tourgoers that he earns…

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Harbour Town Golf Links is just one piece of the diverse tapestry of golf found in the state of South Carolina. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

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South Carolina, known as the Palmetto State, boasts 351 golf courses that form a remarkably varied offering. From coastal gems, broad-based meadowland layouts and even courses up in the mountains in the western part of the state, the variety runs the gamut. Additionally, designs range from exclusive private clubs and real estate ventures to resort courses and remarkably affordable daily fee and municipal layouts. Moreover, golf in South Carolina is a year-round affair. In short, it’s an ideal state for diverse golf.

The state is particularly strong as a golf destination, whether for public players seeking affordable access, resort goers seeking a golf vacation, or second-home residents from other states. Data drawn from the National Golf Foundation shows that four out of every 10 rounds played in South Carolina come from out-of-state players. That’s the fourth-highest total in the country. The state has two of the four most intense regional markets in the country: the Grand Strand north and south of Myrtle Beach, and the Hilton Head-Bluffton-Beaufort area. Both are heavy on the side of resort and residential golf.

Among the draws – besides the favorable, virtually year-round golf season – is the quality of golf in South Carolina.

Harbour Town Golf Links, this week’s perennial host venue for the PGA TOUR’s RBC Heritage, is a Pete Dye-designed gem that debuted in 1969 to much acclaim for its low-lying intimacy through native corridors of live oaks and pines. It was a revolutionary golf course in its day for its small greens, reliance on all of 4-5 feet of elevation change across the entire site, and finish along the Calibogue Sound, with the iconic lighthouse behind the 18 th green.

Sahith Theegala tees off on the iconic 18th hole at Harbour Town Golf Links. (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Back then, land developer Charles Fraser was just trying to establish the island as a golf destination. He seems to have succeeded beyond even his ambitious dreams, what with two dozen golf courses now on the island and at least another 30 on the mainland side in the corridor between Savannah and Beaufort.

These, too, run the gamut of design character, including elegant real estate developments like the 36-hole properties of Colleton River, Belfair and Berkely Hall; the upscale sensibility of a resort-like May River Golf Club; or the privacy of intimate clubs like Chechessee Creek, Old Tabby Links and Secession. All are routed within the native land shaped by the Intracoastal Waterway. Their playing character changes with the tide and the wind.

Up in the Charleston area, the quality of golf starts with two classic Seth Raynor designs: the Country Club of Charleston (1925) and Yeamans Hall Club (1926).

The picturesque clubhouse at the Country Club of Charleston during the 2019 U.S. Women's Open Championship. (Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

These are both private clubs, though anyone playing the recently restored Charleston Municipal Golf Course would find Raynor’s influence palpable here as well, even though he did not directly design the course. When it comes to impressive coastal properties, Wild Dunes Resort’s Links Course (1981) still resonates with golfers four decades after it opened. Credit for that is due to the pristine nature of the site on Isle of Palms that designer Tom Fazio inherited and the way his chief shaper there, a young upstart named Mike Strantz, let his creativity run free.

Strantz further solidified his reputation as an unparalleled artisan with such designs as Bulls Bay Golf Club in the Charleston area and both Caledonia Golf & Fish Club and True Blue Golf Club up on Pawleys Island in the Myrtle Beach area.

There, they joined the region’s first golf course, Pine Lakes Country Club (Robert White, 1927), and the region’s first nationally acclaimed design, Dunes Golf and Beach Club (Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1949). By the end of the 20 th century, there were more than 100 courses in the region, including four resort layouts at Barefoot Landing, two at Grande Dunes Resort and Tidewater Golf Club.

Inland, the state has just as much quality to offer. The Palmetto Golf Club in Aiken sports the distinctive design flair of Herbert Leeds (1890s), complemented by a wedge-shaped clubhouse with eyebrow windows that is the 1902 handiwork of Stanford White, who also designed the famous clubhouse of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island.

A look at the 5th hole of the Palmetto Golf Club. (David Cannon/Getty Images)

On the other side of town in Aiken Golf Club, a 1912 design that maxes out at 5,795 yards and yet holds up well for its Pinehurst style of shot-making demands. Small wonder it is a favorite among golfers gathered in the area during Masters week.

In the more mountainous, western half of South Carolina, the golf tends to be much more parkland-oriented. That’s the appeal of the seven-course residential golf repertoire comprising The Cliffs communities, which brought to bear the design talents of Tom Fazio, Tom Jackson, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Ben Wright. The Player-designed Cliffs at Mountain Park (2013) in Travelers Rest, 25 miles north of Greenville, is an intimately routed, very walkable course. Its vast sand splashes and wide fairways straddle the North Saluda River along a valley that sits 1,600 feet above sea level in the Blue Ridge Mountains – hardly your conventional real estate golf course.

When it comes to drama that contrasts with South Carolina’s coastal golf treasures, you can’t find a sharper counterpoint than The Cliffs at Glassy (1994) in Landrum, 11 miles east of Mountain Park. The Cliffs at Glassy, which tops out at 3,353 feet above sea level, feels like golf on the roof of the world – or at least of the Palmetto State. If it doesn’t take your breath away, it will at least make you gasp at the distant views.

For all this strength of its diverse golf offerings, the supply is still getting more interesting. Two courses east of Aiken have just debuted and already have caught the buzz of social media architecture aficionados. Old Barnwell, by Brian Schneider and Blake Conant of Tom Doak’s Renaissance Golf Design team, fills up a sandy, 575-acre site that provides plenty of room for distinct angles and alternate paths of play. Though a private club, it has a mission of inclusivity and public service that ensures its place in the greater community of state golf and sports culture.

The Tree Farm, midway between Aiken and the state capital in Columbia, is the product of PGA TOUR member Zac Blair’s imagination, a routing by Tom Doak, and the shaping skills of Kye Goalby. It’s South Carolina’s version of a trendy place like Sweetens Cove Golf Club in Tennessee or Landman Golf Club in Nebraska – golf for hearty walkers who love the game, play fast, utilize the ground game and cannot wait to tee it up again.

The vast scale of the land provides a very unconventional scope for the golf. Think of it as Mike Strantz’s Caledonia Golf & Fish Club on a much larger canvas.

When it comes to interesting golf, South Carolina menu of courses offers a wide variety that appeals to players of every imaginable sort. Small wonder it’s such a strong golf destination.

Bradley S. Klein is a veteran golf writer and author of 10 books on course design. A former PGA TOUR caddie, he was architecture editor of Golfweek for over two decades and is now a freelance journalist and course design consultant. Follow Bradley Klein on Twitter .

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THE OLYMPIC-GOER'S ESSENTIAL ONE-DAY TOUR OF BARCELONA

Every morning in Barcelona, I awoke to the discombobulating aromas of hot baked rolls and fresh-caught fish, drifting up from the bakery and the fish shop beneath my hotel window. And every day, this was the beginning of a day-long barrage of sensual teasing by the city. I was, to be sure, a willing target -- though as a result I wandered the streets in a pleasant daze, awaiting the next surprise.

My first afternoon in town I got lost in the mysterious, tangled pathways that thread the ancient Gothic Quarter, Barcelona's oldest neighborhood, where family laundry hangs overhead like heraldic flags from an earlier century. And then, only a few minutes after I emerged from the past, I suddenly found myself immersed in "Lollipop Land," which is how I perceived the city's trove of whimsical art nouveau architecture. Some buildings are so fantastically shaped and elaborately decorated they look like they might have been carved from a mound of melting tutti-frutti ice cream.

Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain, plays host to the Summer Olympics, which run from July 25 to Aug. 9. My advice to any participating athletes who want to keep their wits about them is to compete first and see the city afterward. I felt oddly off balance the whole time I was there. In preparation for the Olympics, the city has refurbished many of its museums and other cultural monuments, built new hotels and reclaimed its Mediterranean waterfront as a grand pedestrian promenade.

My main interest last fall, however, was not sports but the city's art and architecture, which has flourished in a culturally favorable climate. Unlike other Spanish cities to the south, Barcelona has long been both prosperous and open-minded -- although the repressive dictatorship of Francisco Franco, which ended in 1975, did limit artistic exuberance for almost 40 years. Every street seems to bear footprints of such modern-day masters as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Salvadore Dali and, of course, art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudi, whose eccentric, soaring Church of the Sacred Family has become a city symbol. The many works of Gaudi alone are reason enough to visit.

A busy port on the country's northeastern coast, Barcelona is sometimes referred to as Spain's "most European" city because it is so different from the romantic Spain a visitor might envision. Indeed, it looks much more like a stately Paris or Milan than the sleepy Seville of sun-splashed courtyards and tiled fountains, and it has earned a reputation for economic enterprise that has attracted go-getters from throughout the country. The hum of commerce is palpable, but the city also seems to play as hard as it works. Its artsy bars and discos are open until early morning.

There is another difference. Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a region of Spain that was once an independent sea-trading power, and it has retained many aspects of its separate heritage, including the Catalan language. Most people speak both Catalan and Spanish, which are similar. But street signs, public monuments and local maps generally are in Catalan, which can be confusing. My guidebook to Spain, for example, directed me to "plazas," which is the Spanish word for public squares, but my Barcelona-purchased city map listed them as "placas," the Catalan word. I had been in Spain for almost two weeks, but the shift in languages made me think I had crossed the border into a new country.

A pretty city, Barcelona is getting prettier under the impetus of the Olympics. The industrial clutter that once lined the waterfront has been torn down, opening up what is now a fine view of the harbor. And the setting has always been inviting. A line of low-lying green hills forms a scenic backdrop, and from their slopes the city descends gradually to the waterfront. Montjuic, the most prominent hill, is a rocky knob that juts high above the old seaside precincts like a wary sentinel. A popular park, Montjuic is one of four major Olympic sites within the city.

I suspect many Olympic ticket-holders intent on seeing the games will give Barcelona something of a brushoff, which would be a shame. This was my first visit, although I've been to Europe many times, and now I can't imagine why I ignored it for so long. To my surprise -- more discombobulation -- I came to regard it among the Continent's most interesting and vibrant cities. As an aid to harried sports fans, I've compiled a quick guide to what I found to be the best of Barcelona. Look on it as a historical and cultural teaser for a longer stay next time.

This tour, much of it afoot, might be done in a fast-paced day, but I recommend at least two days. A longer stay gives visitors more opportunity to relax at Barcelona's many sidewalk cafes, one of the principal pleasures of local life. The balmy Mediterranean climate keeps them open most of the year.

The best introduction to Barcelona is a stroll down La Rambla (or Las Ramblas/Les Rambles, as it is frequently called), the broad, tree-shaded promenade that flows through the heart of the city like a gentle river descending gradually to the sea. Thronged from morning into late evening, it is both a major pedestrian artery linking many of the city's most important buildings and a colorful spectacle that features plenty of good people watching. Vendors hawk flowers and caged birds while clowns, mimes and other street performers entertain. I stopped to listen to a flute player offering a Mozart tune.

La Rambla officially begins at Placa de Catalunya, north of the old city, and then proceeds to slice right through the historic precincts in a slightly angled drop to the harbor. I landed in Barcelona at noon, and by 2 I had settled into a sidewalk cafe at the upper end of La Rambla, which is a very fashionable part of town. The tables around me were filled with what I took to be young office workers on a lunch break. They were spiffily dressed, men and women alike, and all of them appeared to be creatively bold in their clothing choices. It was evidence that Barcelona, as I was to learn, is a European center of design. Plan to test your fashion flair in this city.

As La Rambla continues downhill, the ambiance becomes somewhat seedier but hardly less interesting. I was impressed by the news kiosks, huge stalls filled with newspapers and magazines from throughout Europe -- including a rather large array of skin publications. The bird vendors line one block of La Rambla, and in the next are the flower vendors, whose lavish displays transform the walkway into a garden.

About midway down the mile-plus promenade, a narrow side street leads westward to La Boqueria, a splendid turn-of-the-century market just steps away. Heaps of fresh vegetables, giant mushrooms and fish on ice are displayed beneath a vaulted iron arcade the size of a train station. Stop for a cup of coffee and a pastry at one of the small, quick-service stalls popular with locals.

Back on La Rambla, I noticed that the bricks beneath my feet now were brightly painted, and when I paused to look about I realized I was standing in the midst of an abstract design that my guidebook confirmed was the work of Miro, a leader in the European avant-garde movement who was born in Old Barcelona. In Barcelona, street mosaics, sculpture, exotic-looking fountains and other artworks pop up anywhere. Nearby was the Teatre del Liceu, the city's 19th-century opera house, where Richard Strauss's "Salome" was advertised (although there were no performances scheduled during my stay).

Along this stretch of La Rambla, several tempting alleyways lead east into the Gothic Quarter. But I suggest continuing to the end of La Rambla before returning to explore this fascinating district. On a short detour to the west, however, is a tantalizing first glimpse of the work of Gaudi: the startling Palau (Palace) Guell. A few steps down Carrer Nou de la Rambla, it is the mansion Gaudi designed in the late 1880s for his enthusiastic patron, Eusebi Guell, a wealthy textile manufacturer.

Important in the history of modern art, it is a curious building that, like Gaudi's later works, is appealing for its oddity. A bulky four-story stone structure, it seems to combine features of a 12th-century Moorish palace, the gingerbread-trimmed mansions of Victorian San Francisco and Sleeping Beauty's castle. Organized chaos is the thought that jumped to my mind. Inside, marble, wood and wrought iron flow from ceiling to floor in the distinctive curves of the art nouveau style, which in Barcelona was dubbed "modernism." It flourished from the end of the 19th century until the mid-1920s, and Gaudi was the leading exponent.

At the foot of La Rambla is a soaring iron column atop which stands a heroic statue of Christopher Columbus, his right arm pointing to the busy harbor. Columbus reported back to Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand in Barcelona on his return in 1493 from his famous first voyage to the New World, the 500th anniversary of which is being celebrated this year.

On the left, as a visitor faces the water, is the Moll de la Fusta ("timber wharf"), the new waterfront promenade. Outdoor cafes have opened beneath the Mediterranean palms that shade its terraces. On the right, at the base of Montjuic, is the Maritime Museum, housed in 13th-century structures that once served as the royal shipyards. And just across the harbor on a small breakwater peninsula is Barceloneta ("Little Barcelona"), where a number of popular bars and seafood restaurants are clustered.

If you have time only for La Rambla this summer, this stroll down to the sea is enough, I think, to begin to appreciate the city's charm.

After saying hello to Columbus, I spun around and headed back uphill again into the Gothic Quarter, taking one of the narrow passageways that parallel La Rambla. In no time at all, I lost myself in the maze of ancient stone streets winding like stream valleys worn deep beneath steep canyon walls. Though the neighborhood was thronged with shoppers and sightseers, and boutiques and bars lined the way, I felt as if I had stepped back into medieval Europe. Tall buildings hid the sun, and the musty shade added to the mystery.

Jumbled together inside the historic quarter are vestiges of Barcelona's old Roman walls, built of huge stones, and the huge 13th-century Gothic Cathedral of Barcelona. Its adjacent cloister encloses a pleasant garden with a bubbling fountain and a flock of squawking white geese that strut importantly as if they were the masters of the church. Close by is the superb Placa del Rei ("King's Square"), graced with a mix of fine medieval, Renaissance and baroque structures that includes the Hall of the Tinell. Within its vaulted stone chambers, Columbus is said to have made his important first report to his royal benefactors, displaying for them the small group of Caribbean Indians he brought back to Spain.

On weekend evenings, Barcelonans regularly gather in the squares of the Gothic Quarter to dance the sardana, an old Catalonian folk dance in which participants clasp hands and form a large circle. To the sinuous tunes of a small orchestra, they move slowly, stepping around the circle with graceful footwork.

I carried a map of the Gothic Quarter, but I had more fun just poking about at random, discovering quiet hidden squares, a historical museum or two, an ancient royal palace and garden and more Roman walls. I paused at one odd corner trying to figure which alleyway to investigate next when I began to sniff something sweet -- cinnamon, I concluded. And then I turned around and discovered I was standing outside a modern-day candy store whipping up a fresh batch of treats. I had been suddenly yanked fast forward into the present, and it was time to find my way out of the maze.

I consulted my map and turned east toward the Picasso Museum -- about a five-minute walk away on the edge of the Gothic Quarter. Though he was born in southern Spain, Picasso's family moved to Barcelona in 1895 when he was 13; he later settled permanently in France in 1904 but returned often until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The museum, housed in adjoining 14th- and 15th-century palaces, displays dozens of early Picasso paintings and ceramics along with his series of 44 modernistic studies of "Las Meninas," the famous 17th-century painting by Spanish master Diego Velazquez that hangs in Madrid's Prado Museum.

If you set out after breakfast to complete this tour in a day, it should be time now for a late lunch. Given their industrious temperament, many Barcelonans are apt to grab a quick snack rather than linger over the leisurely meal that is standard in the south (although the city has many excellent restaurants). In a hurry one day myself, I dropped into a crowded sandwich shop not far from the museum for a beer and a bocadillo, a ham and cheese sandwich on a hard roll, for about $4.

Leaving Old Barcelona behind, next on the agenda was a look at more works of Gaudi and the modernist architects, which are found in an upscale section of the city just north of the Gothic Quarter called the Eixample. The word means "expansion," and it is a formally laid out neighborhood begun in the mid-1800s just beyond the city's old walls, which were demolished. The city was rich at the time, and it indulged itself in notable architecture. Even in a hasty tour, there are two sights that shouldn't be missed.

Passeig de Gracia is a broad avenue of fine shops that points north from Placa de Catalunya at the upper end of La Rambla. It could be a fashionable street in affluent Paris, except for La Mancana de la Discordia ("Block of Discord"). This is the nickname given to a single block just north of Catalunya where three modernist buildings, including Gaudi's Casa Batllo, stand side-by-side. They out-fantasy Walt Disney in their determination to break the established rules of architecture. Casa Batllo's wavy balconies look as if they had melted under a hot sun. As sculpture, they are a delight. But would I want to come home to a place like this every evening? I'm not sure.

Gaudi's most famous work, about a dozen blocks to the east, is the unfinished Church of the Sacred Family (La Sagrada Familia). He devoted most of his later life to it, and was deeply involved with it when he was killed in a traffic accident in 1926 at the age of 74. His audacious style is represented in the church's soaring towers, topped with abstract ceramic sculptures, and its dripping arches and ornate decoration. I thought the structure awesome, but there is a strange severity to the work that is frightening rather than comforting. Work continues slowly and in controversy. Many Gaudi fans would like it left as it stands.

A $5, five-minute taxi ride north to Guell Park displays a more fanciful side of Gaudi. On a steep, forested hillside, he designed an unusual garden park where 60 private homes were to be built. The project failed, but the garden remains. Filled with Gaudi's colorful pavilions, staircases, towers and terraces, it would do nicely as a setting for "Cinderella" and other happily-ever-after fairy tales. Many of the structures are topped with what looked to be vanilla frosting splashed with ceramic gumdrops. Gaudi's home, a museum, is within the park, and its acres are laced with pleasant walkways. At its summit there is a nice view across the Eixample and the old city to the Mediterranean.

This dazzling little enclave concludes the essential one-day Barcelona tour for Olympic fans. But if you have more time, you should try to fit in the excellent Miro Museum at the Joan Miro Foundation in Montjuic Park; quiet Ciudadela Park, a formal garden of fountains and ponds just east of the Gothic Quarter; and the Palau de la Musica Catalana, a lavishly decorated theater by modernist architect Lluis Domenech hidden in a warren of streets just north of the Cathedral.

And then make your way back to La Rambla, order a cold beer at an outdoor cafe and settle in for a while for some serious people watching. It's a great show, maybe even better than the Games.

WAYS & MEANS

GETTING THERE: There are no nonstop flights from Washington to Barcelona. United flies nonstop from Washington-Dulles to Madrid, connecting with an Iberia Airlines flight to Barcelona. TWA connects in New York for nonstop or one-stop service via Madrid to Barcelona. Continental connects in Newark for flights to Madrid and with an Iberia shuttle to Barcelona. Iberia offers several nonstops from New York to Barcelona or connecting service through Madrid.

Travelers who act quickly and book before Wednesday are eligible for reduced fares of $548 for weekday travel in April, May and September and $648 for weekday travel in June and late August. Weekends are $50 additional. The rates are not valid for travel to Spain from July 1 to Aug. 8, a time period that overlaps the Olympics. You might consider booking a cheap fare to another European destination during the black-out period and driving or taking the train to Barcelona.

For bookings received after March 31, fares are much higher. TWA currently is quoting a round-trip fare from Washington to Barcelona of $744 weekdays and $794 weekends for travel from April 1 to May 31 and Oct. 1 to Oct. 31, both off-peak shoulder seasons. The peak season fare is $1,002 weekdays and $1,052 weekends from June 1 through Sept. 30. However, there is an additional $100 charge for travel between July 18 and Aug. 9 -- because of the increased demand for seats during the Olympics.

WHEN TO GO: The Olympic Games will be held in Barcelona July 25 to Aug. 9. Lodging is expected to be exceedingly tight -- and more expensive -- during this period and the weeks preceding and following the competition. If your primary intent in visiting is to explore Barcelona, seriously consider going at another time. As a Mediterranean port, Barcelona enjoys a moderate climate, with hot and humid summers, damp winters and pleasant springs and falls.

WHERE TO STAY: My advice is to pick a hotel at the upper end of La Rambla above La Placa de Catalunya -- a pleasant neighborhood within easy walking distance of the Gothic District and the exuberant architectural works of the modernists. I stayed at the four-star Regente, a slightly faded but very charming 78-room hotel on Rambla de Catalunya, about a five-minute walk north of La Placa de Catalunya. Last fall a room for two was about $190 a night; this year it is about $215, depending on the exchange rate. The new 44-room Hotel Reding, a first-class hotel near La Placa de Catalunya, is charging about $180 a night for two.

WHERE TO EAT: Barcelona is a sophisticated city with cafes and restaurants from modest to very expensive. At a sidewalk cafe on La Rambla, a bratwurst sandwich with French fries and a bottle of mineral water is about $7.

A full dinner with salad, entree, dessert and a half carafe of wine comes to about $38 for one person at a mid-priced restaurant. A dinner at one of the city's finer restaurants, Jaume de Provenca, came to about $60. At this price, I got an inviting, untouristy setting and an excellent meal that included lasagne of langoustines as an appetizer, beef tenderloin in truffle sauce for the entree, a dessert of fresh fruit and a glass of wine.

INFORMATION: Tourist Office of Spain, 665 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10022, 212-759-8822.

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The universal advice for all things Coachella is simple: Arrive early.

All three days, I made my way to the festival shortly after gates opened at 1 p.m. Yes, this is the hottest part of the day and the sun was especially punishing on Day 1, but it’s also when the grounds are at their most peaceful. You’ll come to appreciate this calm before the storm. As the sun sets, the fields crowd with hordes of festival-goers who get progressively more clumsy as each night wears on.

The grounds have also expanded since last year, with the upgraded Sahara tent located south of its original placement, close to the new Quasar stage. It’s about a 15-minute walk from Sahara (where you’ll find Ice Spice, DJ Snake and others) to the main stage. All the more reason to give yourself plenty of time to explore and discover.

Day 1: In the Rose Garden

With an Outstanding in the Field dinner planned for Friday night, my first stop was the VIP Rose Garden to get my wristband. Pro tip: Even if you don’t have a VIP wristband, dinner with Outstanding in the Field includes access to the Rose Garden for the entire day of your dinner. Take advantage of the shaded, floral nook if you can.

After I secured my wristband, I took a peek at the Rose Garden vendors: Mila was there with plush soup dumplings paired with caviar, Post & Beam had brisket sandwiches, and Woodfire Wings was offering plates with flame-kissed chicken wings and fries.

In the corner, KazuNori’s setup included a wraparound bar where chefs could pass over warm hand rolls. I arrived early enough on Friday afternoon that most of the vendors weren’t yet open, but hesitated too long to nab one of the open seats at KazuNori. By the time I decided I did want a hand roll, a line was winding out of the booth. It held steady throughout the weekend, so if you’re keen on a hand roll and a seat at the bar, I recommend visiting as soon as gates open.

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Still hungry, I moseyed over to the Beer Barn. This 21-and-up area has about double the food vendors as the VIP Rose Garden, as well as craft beer taps and the Cabin, with creative cocktails served in an immersive mountain environment complete with a digital fireplace. Food options here include Prince Street Pizza with thick, square pies; Indio-local Sumo Dog with Japanese-style hot dogs; Dave’s Hot Chicken; and the Goat Mafia, which is where I ended up.

The fourth-generation birrieria did not disappoint — in fact, the first thing I ate ended up being my favorite meal of the entire weekend. You have an option between a plate with three birria tacos and consommé or a birria quesadilla with consommé — I chose the latter, which was ready almost instantly with juicy, piping-hot meat and gooey cheese.

Not wanting to spoil my appetite, I only had one other snack ahead of my dinner with Outstanding in the Field. It was a tray of tenders and waffle fries from Fuku near the Do Lab stage. I was pleasantly surprised by David Chang’s crispy-chicken-focused outlet: The tenders had a crispy, flavorful casing around tender chicken and the waffle fries were coated in an addictive sweet jalapeño seasoning blend. Both were delicious when dipped in spicy Fuku mayo.

Outstanding in the Field is an underrated Coachella experience. True, it might sting to miss a couple of performances, but it’s also a chance to pause and reset before braving the festival after dark when it reaches capacity. The dinner by Tijuana-based chef Javier Plascencia touted local farms and sustainably sourced seafood in dishes like hush puppies bursting with chunks of Baja abalone and whole kanpachi collars that got splayed and slow-roasted over an open wood fire.

The Prisoner Wine Co. had pairings for each course, and by the end of dinner I had made friends with all of my neighbors, many of whom were also attending solo. A mezcal-spiked, roasted pineapple upside-down cake finished the meal. I noticed that the meal’s pacing seemed to have picked up since last year; the entire dinner was around two hours, giving me just enough time to catch Chloë’s set.

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Day 2: Tacos, frosé and ‘giant’ sandwiches ...

The weather was more reasonable Day 2 of Coachella, so I started by trekking across the grounds to Indio Central Market, which is tented so it’s automatically 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the festival. It’s a huge space with plenty of picnic tables, battery outlets and food and drink vendors, including many local names, such as Happy Ice with Philadelphia-style rolled ice cream, Sunday Smorgasburg L.A. vendors Maneatingplant and Battambong BBQ, Burger She Wrote, Farmhouse Thai and Ramen Hood, which offers a cold vegan ramen at the fest.

I opted for Tijuana-style tacos from Tacos 1986. I got the three-taco plate, and because I was there early, they let me try three different proteins instead of one. I went with carne asada, mushroom, and adobada pork, the last of which was my favorite.

In the 21-and-over section of Indio Central Market, I got my first frosé of the festival at Kim Crawford Wine. They also offer rosé and a crisp Sauvignon Blanc by the glass, but the frozen concoction with bitters was the perfect antidote for Coachella’s striking afternoon sun.

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With my belly full and the day still young, I set out to unearth some of the festival’s secret speakeasies. I found the Basement at the back of Pies and Lows pop-up pizzeria, though you’ll need a password to enter and it changes every day. (There’s no straightforward trick to get the password, save sweet-talking the security guard or trying to glean it from someone else in line.) If you gain entrance, you’ll be treated to a dim, air-conditioned den with neon, glow-in-the-dark posters of Cheech and Chong, ‘90s hits playing overhead and “Super Mario World” bleep-blooping from a box TV in the corner.

Next to Pies and Lows is TKB Deli, a family-run bakery in Indio. The stand advertised giant sandwiches and while the reality is pretty normal-sized, they do arrive on fluffy, fresh-baked bread and my turkey club was stacked tall with thick strips of turkey, crispy bacon, provolone, tomato and lettuce. Plus, the $20 meal comes with chips on the side — a bargain as far as festivals go.

Tied with the Goat Mafia as my favorite food-centered experience of the festival was the Aperol Terrazza , a reservation-only pop-up in the 12 Peaks VIP Area. During the magic hours of 4 to 7 p.m., the citrus-hued space offers Aperol spritzes alongside a menu of Italian cicchetti curated by chef Samuele Silvestri, executive chef of the Terrazza Aperol in Venice, Italy. The elevated snack tray comes with crudités alongside a pesto yogurt sauce, a tuna tostada, a carpaccio hand roll, shrimp toast and a refreshing, fruity and herbaceous granita that comes in a hollowed-out tangerine rind. Grab an Aperol spritz to-go before you hit the road.

I assumed that the wood-fired spicy soppressata pizza I got from Ronan in the 12 Peaks VIP area just before No Doubt’s Saturday night set would be my last bite of the night. Nope. I couldn’t resist stopping by the In-N-Out off Highway 111 for some animal fries and a burger. A desert road trip doesn’t feel complete without a stop through the iconic California burger stand.

Day 3: ‘This is Coachella!’

I began Day 3 by meeting DJ Will Clarke at the Postmates Sauce Bar in the 12 Peaks VIP area, where the first-time Coachella performer and I ordered French fries and tots paired with sauces from L.A. favorites like Monty’s Good Burgers, Prime Pizza, Irv’s Burgers and Bludso’s BBQ. Our favorite was the ghost chile sriracha sauce created in partnership with producer Benny Blanco , though we both agreed the fiery, subtly sweet sauce would go best on wings. Monty’s honey mustard was our second favorite, but my ultimate suggestion is to dip your fry or tot in the ghost chile sriracha followed by the honey mustard for a bite that’s hot, sweet, tangy and peppery all at once.

All of my indulgent decisions were starting to catch up with me by midday Sunday, so I balanced it out with a Peruvian chicken salad from Alfalfa, which comes in a generous bowl that should have kept me satisfied for at least a few hours. But when I saw Fatty Mart’s blue-and-red build-out in between the Spectra art installation and the Ferris wheel, I couldn’t resist trying a Philly cheesesteak with Wagyu, American cheese, pickled peppers and cilantro.

I thought about taking a tour of all of the taco spots at the festival, but my hopes were dashed once I realized that spots like Kogi BBQ were offering loaded fries, and burritos were more common than street-sized tacos.

I settled on a quesadilla quest and tried one stuffed with carne asada from Erratic Tacos in the Beer Barn. The meat was well-spiced and a colleague agreed that the quesadilla was “better than it needed to be.” When I asked the owner where I could find them, he revealed that it was their first-ever pop up, which makes the operation all the more impressive.

I had high expectations for my last bite of the festival. Just like the headliners, I wanted to go out with a bang, to seal a sacred food memory before I ventured back up the 10 to Los Angeles. I found that core Coachella food memory at Island Time, a festival-only pop-up located in the 12 Peaks VIP Area. Like a moth to a flame, I zeroed in on a sign advertising lobster rolls. I was also encouraged by the festival-goer in line in front of me, who had the genius idea to get hand-pulled noodles from Bang Bang Noodles next door, then topped them with lobster from Island Time (he was charged for a lobster roll, but the vendor made sure to pile on a small hill of the plump meat). “This is Coachella!” he exclaimed as his friend filmed the exchange.

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The lobster roll is crowned with tobiko and comes stuffed in a buttery brioche roll, with chips on the side. The portion is generous, spilling out with each bite. Because it was my last meal, I went all out with a kanpachi tostada that came with ikura and a small vial of soy sauce that you can squirt on top.

I would’ve been happy to end the night there, but when walking toward the Ferris wheel, I spied the entrance to a tiki-themed speakeasy. The outdoor space had pretty typical drinks, but the interior bar from New York-based Sonny’s by Attaboy was all faux-foliage and neon lights with an ‘80s soundtrack and an LED dance floor. I boogied down to a couple hits by Wham! before leaving to stake out a spot to watch Doja Cat.

Even as Coachella grows year after year, the festival retains its sense of wonder. In this desert playground, a live performance can awaken the deepest part of your soul, a wind-milling art installation can alight your inner child and a stellar food spread can give you the energy to sing your heart out all night. I hope you find this magic during Weekend 2.

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Danielle Dorsey is the assistant editor and writer of guides for the Food section. Previously, she was the senior West Coast editor at Thrillist, where she covered food, drink and travel across the California region. She grew up across San Diego and Riverside and has happily called Los Angeles home for more than 15 years.

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