Planning to travel in France? Or already there and looking for ideas to go out? Balumpa helps you find events taking place around you now, in the next hours or at a specific date and time? From concerts to parties but also shows, dance, exhibitions, fairs, operas, "puces" or "brocantes."
Need any help to decide? Use your Facebook network to see where your friend are going and join them.
As soon as you joined the event, check-in there and see if friends or even friends of friends are there? And meet them.
Data Roaming limit? Think about using our app connected to a wifi, before leaving your Hotel room or your Bed and Breakfast.
Events
Kind of events: Concerts, Theatre and Theater plays, Dance, Shows, Children?s workshops, Sporting events, French wine tasting, etc. Balumpa is your "party, culture and trip advisor in Paris and France."
Museums and theatres
Théâtre du Châtelet and the national theatres are very well known but take the time to discover the others.
What about museums? The Louvre, Centre Pompidou, Orsay and Arts Premiers are to be visited first, but you can also see Victor Hugo's house, the France Musée d?Art Moderne, the Musée Balzac or even the famous Paris Catacombs, or Carnavalet, Cognacq-Jay, Cernuschi, Guernsey: Hauteville House, Petit Palais - Beaux-Arts, Zadkine museums, and last but not least: Centre pompidou?
A selection of theaters: Municipal theaters with Maison de la Poésie, Théâtre 14 Jean-Marie Serreau, Silvia Monfort, du Rond Point, Paris Villette, Vingtième Théâtre, Nouveau Théâtre Mouffetard, Théâtre 13? There are so many in Paris!
Location
With the GPS of your smartphone, you can see activities around you in france, locally. You can also use the service in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Nantes, Caen, Nancy, Metz, Strasbourg, Nice, Montpellier, Aix en Provence and soon in other cities!
Examples of what can be found in the app:
Concerts: at Notre Dame, a Zénith or in a small pub at the corner
Shows or Dance: Opéra, one man show, impro ?
Parties: students parties to meet Erasmus or locals (French girls and boys) for clubbing, salsa lessons or for a drink
Previews or private viewings
"Expos." Exhibitions of the moment: Alice Springs, Canaletto à Venise, Soutine, Rodin, Edward Hopper, Impressionnism.
Large events: nuit des lumières de Lyon, le nouvel an 2012, le 14 juillet, le marché de noël de Strasbourg, les férias de Bayonne, soirée halloween, le réveillon 2013, la fête de la musique, la Braderie de Lille
Airports: CDG, Roissy Charles de Gaulle, Orly or Beauvais if events happens there
French wine events: tasting and sampling of Bordeaux, Bourgogne and of course the cheap and easy Beaujolais.
Events in the Paris neighborhoods: Ile saint Louis, Quartier Latin, Oberkampf, Marche Raspail or Place des abbesses or outside Paris for the palace of Versailles, Le Marais, Trocadero, Republique, Champs-Elysées, République, Notre Dame, Ile de la cite.
Events in the best places to go out : Pershing hall, Experimental Cocktail Club, L'Absinthe, Miroir, O Chateau - Wine Tasting, Vin Chai Moi, Nomad's, Mariage Freres.
Balumpa in the cities you are visiting
The free French app Balumpa is available in the following cities: Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Toulouse, Rennes, Rouen, Nantes, Caen, Nancy, Metz, Strasbourg, Nice, Montpellier, Aix en Provence, Amiens. Soon we will cover the Loire Valley for tourists travelling there, the Palace of Versailles or Chamonix France. Our events are coming from: Fnac spectacle, Facebook, Viadeo, Viagogo, Digitick, Ticket net (ticketnet), ticket minute, ?
