A [tag]condom bar[/tag] has opened in the Northern Indian city of [tag]Chandigarh[/tag].
A first of it’s kind in India, the Condom Bar gives away free [tag]condoms[/tag] and aims to promote [tag]AIDS[/tag] awareness and [tag]safe sex[/tag].
In a city where 30% of students have admitted to practicing unprotected sex, and in a country with a very high incidence of HIV, it is surely a very good move on the part of the Chandigarh Industrial Tourism Corporation (CITCO) and the AIDS Control Society of Chandigarh.
[tag]Indians[/tag] are in general reluctant to talk about sex with the opposite sex, although they seem quite happy to practice it, as they have a population of around 1.4 billion. A number of men interviewed said they could not possibly discuss the issue off wearing a condom ‘with a lady’.
Last year [tag]London[/tag] snatched the title for hosting the World’s Biggest Pub Crawl, from Maryborough, a town in [tag]South East Queensland[/tag], [tag]Australia[/tag].
The Aussies did not like that one bit, and this year 2800 drinkers staggered into 10 pubs imbibing at least one drink in each to snatch the title back from England’s capital city. London has a population of 7.5 million, Maryborough just 26,000.
The crawl was attended by Aussies from all over the country, and Americans and Brits also joined in the boozy fun. Participants carry a card which must be stamped at each bar and handed in at the end of the crawl (If they remember) to qualify for having completed the course. All 10 pubs on the crawl must be visited within 6 hours. It is permitted to drink non-alcoholic drinks, but one gets the feeling not many of them do!
Organisers hope the [tag]pub crawl[/tag] will become an annual pilgrimage for [tag]drinkers[/tag].
I wonder how the staff cope with being besieged with hundreds of boozers at once? I guess they have a few extras drafted in..!
I am well-read on the history of Gangland [tag]East London[/tag], due to having a grandmother who is mad about the [tag]Kray Twins[/tag]- she had a penpal friendship with Reg Kray and occasionally he would call her from jail.
She would give me Kray books to read, as I would also buy books for her and often read them first before I could see her to pass them on. Well needless, to say, with my interest in this area of [tag]London[/tag], as well as London and [tag]London pubs[/tag] in general, and also the Kray era I was really looking forward to [tag]drinking a beer[/tag] in the Blind Beggar Pub. (For those of you in the dark, the Blind Beggar is where notorious gang leader Ron Kray shot George Cornell dead. The [tag]Blind Beggar Pub[/tag] is situated in Whitechapel Road, a bustling street in the heart of London’s East End).
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I had expected, due to the notoriety of the pub, that the place would be a shrine to the Krays- a tourist haunt cashing in on it’s gruesome history. Well, I was wrong, as on occasion I am. There are several Kray pictures on the walls but they do not dominate the place. The furniture had seen better days, and the overall impression was one of shabbiness, and slightly depressing- but this did not put me off the place, I found it quite fitting and intruiging. Read the rest of this entry »
These rather confusing toilet door [tag]signs[/tag] can be found in [tag]McGuires Irish Pub in Pensacola in Florida[/tag].
I bet that causes some confusion after a few pints of [tag]Guinness[/tag]!
McGuire’s have a second restaurant in [tag]Destin[/tag], [tag]Florida[/tag]. They recently had to remove the same signs from the toilet doors after a father lodged a complaint, claiming his 15 year old daughter was upset when a man walked into the ladies room. Read the rest of this entry »
1. Little over 1000 years ago, at the turn of the first millenium, monastries began brewing their own [tag]beer[/tag] as the monks wanted a drink that was hearty and nourishing to supplement their meagre meals. [tag]Beer drinking[/tag] in the monastries soon became a very popular pastime, each monk was permitted to drink 5 litres per day. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you have ever been in the midddle of nowhere with a nice cold [tag]bottle of beer[/tag] just begging to be drunk only to find you have no means of opening it?
This guy has the answer- watch as he easily opens a bottle of beer using a one dollar bill.
[tag]Sangria[/tag] is a [tag]wine punch[/tag] which originated here in [tag]Spain[/tag]. The name Sangria comes from the Spanish ’sangre’ which means blood, which is a reference to the deep red colour of the drink.
Tourists love to try Sangria when they visit Spain, imagining it to be a local custom, but the truth is it is sold to far more tourists than Spaniards! Read the rest of this entry »
