On Thursdays, Don’t Stop Living brings you an alcohol related story from around the world.
Thirsty Thursdays: Bars I Visited In Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 Well who’d have thought Guinea-Bissau would wire me up to inspire creative writing via bar hopping, poetry and the room of hope? I flew in from Guinea, just after the unfortunate timing of arriving in Conakry the day after the Oil Explosion. I was able to get Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: 9 Bars And Cafes I Visited In Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼[…]
Thirsty Thursdays: Visiting The Oldest Irish Pub In The World, Grace Neill’s Donaghade, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️ Grace Neill’s, located in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, is often cited as the oldest pub in Ireland, and as you can see on its website, it claims the title of the oldest, although this is often disputed. The history of Grace Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Visiting The Oldest Irish Pub In The World, Grace Neill’s Donaghade, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️[…]
Thirsty Thursdays: I Pub Crawled EVERY Bar In Seborga Back in 2022, I thought I was hardcore by visiting over 50% of the bars in Alderney in one weekend. On Rathlin Island in the same year, I did 1 out of the 2 bars there (the other was shut) and on Sark in 2009, I Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Drinkpacking A WHOLE Country – I Pub Crawled EVERY Bar In Seborga💙🩵🤍👑👸[…]
“I’ve been a wild rover for many a year and I’ve spent all my money on whiskey and beer” – The Pogues. Northern Ireland is my home country and it has some hidden gems for the thirsty traveller. Not only does it boast Ireland’s Highest Pub (The Ponderosa on the Glenshane Pass) and Ireland’s Oldest Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Touring the World’s Oldest Whiskey Distillery, Bushmills, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️[…]
“Dreams aren’t what they used to be, some things slide by so carelessly” – Brandon Flowers. Sao Tome And Principe is famous for coffee and chocolate. While backpacking in the capital city, São Tome I visited two chocolate shops, did a chocolate tasting and tried chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream and coffee. It was Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Coffee With A View At Roca São Joao dos Angolares, São Tome And Principe 🇸🇹[…]
“I loved her enough to forget myself” – Truman Capote. So the story goes that I had Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and this ain’t no love story, though weirdly it could and should be. Actually, probably it is. The books will get that; the blogs won’t. There’s too much magical mystery at play here on these Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Actually Having Breakfast At Tiffany’s, in Timisoara, Romania 🇷🇴[…]
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🇰🇵[…]
Thirsty Thursdays: 11 Bars And Cafés I Visited in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 “The self unseeing” – Thomas Hardy. On my West Africa tour of 2023, the last of a hat-trick of new countries on my jigsaw was Sierra Leone (which followed my repeat into Senegal, and the Guinea brace – Guinea and Guinea-Bissau!). The plan Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: 11 Bars And Cafés I Visited in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱[…]