Beach-ready and already relaxed, we headed west on a three-hour drive to Essaouira, the nearest coastal town to Marrakech, where we lunched at OceanVagabond, a laidback surfers' hangout.
For India's middle class, Italian coffee has replaced sweet chai as the drink of choice and Social (9a-12 Hauz Khas Village, socialoffline.in) is an upscale, urban hangout with hotdesking facilities that does a good cup.
Once a popular hangout among artists and writers, from Paul Bowles to Allen Ginsberg and Matisse, who loved the raffish air and wild, drug-fuelled parties, the city had fallen out of favour since its Fifties' heyday as travellers headed to Marrakesh, but things look set to change.
South of Bariloche are a string of pleasant towns, including El Bolsón – a former hippy hangout, and still popular with Argentinian campers – and Cholila, where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid bought a ranch (you can visit Cassidy's log cabin there).
$8 Scott Schroeder, chef of this arriviste hangout in up-and-coming Point Breeze, serves his "Pittsburgh" cheesesteak crowned with salt- and-pepper fries and vinegary coleslaw, as is the custom at Primanti Brothers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Despite chunterings by the locals at the potential blighting of their favourite hangout, the duo have spent a fortune to keep it looking much as it did: the murals, the red booths, the jukebox, all still here.
The MyManifesto project will continue with digital hustings, Findmyseat interactive maps and Google hangout interviews with candidates.
He uses Twitter, Gmail, Skype, SoundCloud, Spotify and Google+ Hangout.
The coffee shop, bar and general hangout recently started selling cheep, cheerful and very colourful single-speeds from China, and a bike workshop is attached, run by mechanic Dawa Rumba.
The club takes place in a rented apartment with a distinct hipster hangout feel, and is as much about the social experience as the food.
Built in 1742, it was once a hangout for ne'er-do-wells, and featured in one of Conan Doyle's murderous tales; it's less threatening these days, so I stopped for tea, as Miss Jemima had 150 years before.
