Thirsty Thursdays: My Top 5 Bars When Backpacking In North Korea

Thirsty Thursdays: My Top 12 Bars When Backpacking In North Korea

While North Korea is hardly world renowned as a wacaday “party country” or somewhere to get ridiculously drunk and go on pub crawls, of course there are bars and restaurants there that are open to foreigners. Anyone who believes the biased western media excrement is stupid – the country has bars and they know their Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: My Top 12 Bars When Backpacking In North Korea[…]

Friday's Featured Food: Spicy Atlantic Oysters at Coqueiros, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Atlantic Oysters at Coqueiros, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau🇬🇼

“No pearls inside my oyster; just a world with no answers” – Ian McCullough. Growing up in the seaside city of Bangor definitely influenced me in wateric terms. I love the water, the ocean, the sea. Then again, I also lived in Belfast, Bournemouth, Poole, Dartford, London, Sydney, Gdańsk and The Kong hardly shy of Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Spicy Atlantic Oysters at Coqueiros, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau🇬🇼[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Touring Over 50% Of The Bars of Alderney In One Weekend

Thirsty Thursdays: Touring Over 50% Of The Bars Of Alderney In One Weekend!!

“Alderney on loneliness; motorcycle emptiness” – Manic Street Preachers (altered lyric). On arrival into Alderney in July 2022, I picked up my usual maps and guides to this small island country. It was my first time to visit magical Alderney having previously been in only Guernsey 🇬🇬, Lihou, Jersey🇯🇪, Sark and Herm. Their fellow Channel Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Touring Over 50% Of The Bars Of Alderney In One Weekend!![…]

Thirsty Thursdays: STEVEN DAVIS Pub Crawl in Lviv, Ukraine

“YAMD” – Northern Ireland football supporters, circa Denmark away 2006. When I first backpacked in Ukraine in 2015, I raved about how incredible the bars in Lviv were. It came as no surprise to me of course, as countries such as Poland, Belarus, Ukrainę and Russia generally have the best bars in the world, in Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: STEVEN DAVIS Pub Crawl in Lviv, Ukraine[…]

Maximum Safety & Enjoyment When Traveling in LA

Group Touring Los Angeles’s Famous Watering Holes

Looking back to my early backpacking days and indeed the birth of this site, one of the first places I ever wrote about was Los Angeles! Yes, I was there back in 2007 when David Beckham signed for LA Galaxy and I toured Venice Beach, Hollywood Hills and of course the famous Hermosa Beach, where Read more about Group Touring Los Angeles’s Famous Watering Holes[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Top 10 Pub Crawls From My Travels So Far

As I just begin to plan a major pub crawl on a big reunion day with the lads in London during the World Cup, it’s a good moment to recollect the top 10 pub crawls from my travels, some I’ve told before on Don’t Stop Living, some I haven’t yet shared. These have been absolutely Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Top 10 Pub Crawls From My Travels So Far[…]

The Ultimate Monopoly Pub Crawl 2015 in London, England

Thirsty Thursdays: The Ultimate Monopoly Pub Crawl 2015 in London, England

Back in 2005, two years before this blog even existed, I was in a club in London, England with my mate John Johnson. The club was the Venue in New Cross. At the time, John told me it was on the Old Kent Road and on the heat of the moment, we decided there and Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: The Ultimate Monopoly Pub Crawl 2015 in London, England[…]

Hilarious Tube Stations in London, England

Years ago me and my mates used to do pub crawls in London and even in 2014 on my return to London town we did another crawl. It’s a great spot for it. Basically London has pubs on every corner of every street. We worked our way through all the cool pubs crawls over the Read more about Hilarious Tube Stations in London, England[…]