Bar Pub Chat

Beer loving Aussie Kenneth Hart is organising the [tag]World’s Biggest Pub Crawl[/tag], which will last for 25 boozy days, take in 60 pubs in 12 countries and cover 4 continents.

The tour will include the world’s top [tag]party hotspots[/tag] including Rio de Janeiro, Cancun, Ibiza and Munich.

Kenneth guarantees there will be no early wake up calls and no ‘boring sightseeing- just a daily dose of the most incredible pubs on earth and the party of a lifetime’. Read the rest of this entry »

If you are looking for [tag]Gay Bars in San Francisco[/tag], I do not think you will have many problems finding them as San Francisco IS the [tag]Gay capital[/tag] of the world!

Although San Francisco is teeming with [tag]Gay Bars[/tag], hotels and nightclubs, over a wide area, there is also a concentrated zone around Castro Street where many gay establishments are grouped together, making barhopping a nice easy experience. Read the rest of this entry »

This is old news, last October Danielle Day from Chicago was voted America’s hottest female bartender.
The story grabbed my attention, because it does a decent job of highlighting some of the differences between the service industries in the US and Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

Way back in the 1950s, Spain’s main holiday resorts were nothing more than small fishing villages.  
Benidorm, Torremolinos, Lloret de Mar and many more were home to simple fishing families who would scrape together a meagre living from the sea and the land. 

Even though times were hard, I imagine they were also very happy without the stresses of modern day life. All this was to change in the 1950s when the first intrepid travellers, known as ‘tourists’ became daring and ventured to strange and distant lands.

The first British tourist to hit Lloret de Mar was a well-to-do English lady named Mrs. Rossell. This lady fascinated the Lloret people, as she wore smart clothes, the likes of which they had never seen before (after all, most of them were shoeless) and she arrived in a motorcar.

During the seventies Lloret and other Spanish tourist hot spots were over run with young British people searching for sun, sea and most of all Sangria, beer, cheap Spanish plonk and anything else they could get down their necks. They arrived at Easter time, and left six months later rather the worse for wear. The majority of the British ‘workers’ and ‘dossers’ as they were known, spent a number of summer seasons in their chosen Spanish towns before going back home to either settle down and have kids or dry out. Read the rest of this entry »

I have often pondered that [tag]bar work[/tag] is the most underpaid profession in the world, even beating hairdressing. (I am writing this from a European point of view-[tag]Bartending in the US[/tag] can be very lucrative although a large part of the money earned is usually from tips).

 

Bar staff in Europe are required to spend long period of time on their feet, often legging it up and down cellar steps to change beer kegs, stack crates and all types of other heavy work.

But aside from the physical exertion, the mental load imposed on a [tag]bar worker[/tag] during any given shift is tremendous. Not only is one required to serve drinks, you must be telepathic or able to lip read slurred words whenever another tipple is required.

A bar worker must also be a psychiatrist, a marriage guidance councillor, a doctor, a loan officer, a matchmaker, and sometimes, God forbid, a babysitter, and on a really good night a flaming unpaid taxi driver.

Inspite of bar work often being a very thankless career choice, there are 5 golden rules, that if you want to succeed in the [tag]bar trade[/tag] you should never disobey. Read the rest of this entry »

I love [tag]London Pubs[/tag].

I adore the incongruity of the [tag]bars in London[/tag]- on one hand you have the historic feeling of sitting in a pub where others have sat hundreds of years before in a setting that has changed very little, on the other hand there is an incredible feeling of inconsistency-in central London there are bars I have maybe visited 4 or 5 nights in a row, and it is quite probable you will not see the same person there twice. In certain bars in the [tag]Paddington[/tag] area even the staff seem to change on a nightly basis!
This is extremely useful should you become [tag]tired and emotional[/tag] and fall of your stool, because the following day you can return without embarassment to a pub full of entirely new faces who did not witness your drunken debauchery of the night before.

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A frequent question asked by tourists in [tag]Lloret de Mar[/tag] is “Where are the [tag]Gay Bars[/tag]?”

Well, practically they are all within an area of 50 square metres, which makes it easy to bar hop from one to the other without the need for hiring a cab or getting lost. There are three gay bars, and a [tag]gay club[/tag] in Lloret.
Click here to see a Google map of the area.
 
David’s Bar
Davids Bar is situated in the Calle Migdia, number 53. It opens at 11pm until 3am but usually closes on Mondays during the wintertime. The clientele at David’s are mostly men, and mainly a younger crowd. Read the rest of this entry »