Name the best Boozer
Ah.... The Lady Street Club after closing time....rather like squeezing a whole squadron into a mini. ....and, the Back Back Bar of the Beehive with Samantha and her mate...now that's also like trying to get a squadron and a snake into a mini.
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In oder of my discovering
1 Camelots in Doncaster, always a good start to a Thursday night out.
2 The Brass Nut, Keflavik. The best way of wasting a winters evening in Iceland.
3 My Apartments in Halifax, followed by a stagger up the hill to the Princess nightclub at the end of the evening. Great sirloin tips in a restaurant the following lunchtime, the name of which temporarily escapes me.
4 The Voodoo Lounge and a witch doctor cocktail. Dancing girls, good bands and a great view from the terrace.
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1 Camelots in Doncaster, always a good start to a Thursday night out.
2 The Brass Nut, Keflavik. The best way of wasting a winters evening in Iceland.
3 My Apartments in Halifax, followed by a stagger up the hill to the Princess nightclub at the end of the evening. Great sirloin tips in a restaurant the following lunchtime, the name of which temporarily escapes me.
4 The Voodoo Lounge and a witch doctor cocktail. Dancing girls, good bands and a great view from the terrace.
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70 hits in less than 24 hours just shows what a bunch of uncouth boozers you all are. Right, I'm off to the Rovers Return, Aqaba now to kick off the weekend in style.. Chin Chin 
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On home soil, it has to be the Belgian Monk, Norwich.
For mainland Europe my vote is a bar in Leuven (not the one already mentioned) - OCCWMF help me out. The one where we drank our body weight in Leffe?!
Further afield would have to be Cactus Moon or the other one in Tucson (good on a Sunday night) whose name I can't remember! I'm having a bad day, memory wise!
Some good bars in Abu Dhabi, but sadly I also can't remember the names of those!
Sorry, not much use today!
BV
For mainland Europe my vote is a bar in Leuven (not the one already mentioned) - OCCWMF help me out. The one where we drank our body weight in Leffe?!
Further afield would have to be Cactus Moon or the other one in Tucson (good on a Sunday night) whose name I can't remember! I'm having a bad day, memory wise!
Some good bars in Abu Dhabi, but sadly I also can't remember the names of those!
Sorry, not much use today!
BV
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Monkey Bar - Saigon. The charming young ladies are sooo friendly if you buy them a bottle of bud.
The pub with no name - Hampshire. Big open fire, many Real Ales.
African Star - Dakkar, Senegal. Cheap, Bizarre, Wonderous !
Any pub in Hong Kongers where they serve a flaming lamborghini
The London Pub - Grenoble, France. Watching the French get rat arsed on ale is most amusing
The Gardens - Yeovil. BEFORE it became Le Jardin. Guaranteed pull (varying degrees of beauty from back end of a cow - Sienna Miller esque, I found the girls got much, much better looking as the evenings progressed. Very strange that.)
Bar Buddha - Ibiza. Ahhhh the sunsets, the music, the girls, the booze.
The Cocked Hat - Gosport. Only Joking
The pub with no name - Hampshire. Big open fire, many Real Ales.
African Star - Dakkar, Senegal. Cheap, Bizarre, Wonderous !
Any pub in Hong Kongers where they serve a flaming lamborghini
The London Pub - Grenoble, France. Watching the French get rat arsed on ale is most amusing
The Gardens - Yeovil. BEFORE it became Le Jardin. Guaranteed pull (varying degrees of beauty from back end of a cow - Sienna Miller esque, I found the girls got much, much better looking as the evenings progressed. Very strange that.)
Bar Buddha - Ibiza. Ahhhh the sunsets, the music, the girls, the booze.
The Cocked Hat - Gosport. Only Joking
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Anybody remember the Officers Mess, Salalah circa 1972?. Now that was a bar...
....I know a couple of blokes who went to a patio party there and it (nearly!) cost them an arm and a leg .........
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One must remember, we were all volunteers then, I know of what you speak but have to thank the plant box for an outcome that could have been much worse.
However, speaking of expensive, a night with messrs Duncan and Best is hard to beat...
KW
One must remember, we were all volunteers then, I know of what you speak but have to thank the plant box for an outcome that could have been much worse.
However, speaking of expensive, a night with messrs Duncan and Best is hard to beat...
KW
Nah, I second the earlier nomination of the Engineers' Arms in Henlow for that honour. Not only does it have up to 20 ales and ciders on at any given time, it also has a cracking beer festival where that range is dramatically extended...
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For those of you going into Warton or Blackpool on a course or a night-stop, it's go to be The Taps on Henry Street in Lytham. Also a great award winning fish and chip shop on the main street to soak up the ale afterwards.
Great hosts (Ian and June) and at least eight real ales on the beer menu.
Great hosts (Ian and June) and at least eight real ales on the beer menu.
The Belgian Monk, Norwich
May I present the case for the defence of the mighty Monk?
With a regular menu of 40-50 different Belgian ales (not just Stella!
) ranging in strength from 4% up to a 12% monster, there is plenty of choice.
The food isn't too bad either with a respectable choice of moules et frites type food.
It looks pretty nice and is in a handy location (I can't believe that any pub in Henlow can offer such a claim!).
I suppose it depends on your particular tastes in ale though.
BV
With a regular menu of 40-50 different Belgian ales (not just Stella!
) ranging in strength from 4% up to a 12% monster, there is plenty of choice.The food isn't too bad either with a respectable choice of moules et frites type food.
It looks pretty nice and is in a handy location (I can't believe that any pub in Henlow can offer such a claim!).
I suppose it depends on your particular tastes in ale though.
BV
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For those of you going into Warton or Blackpool on a course or a night-stop, it's go to be The Taps on Henry Street in Lytham. Also a great award winning fish and chip shop on the main street to soak up the ale afterwards
I remember the Reds had a memorable evening there many moons ago. My sister has never forgotten it.....................
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The balcony of the Punch and Judy in Covent Garden a few years ago used to be like an unofficial Officers' Mess on a Friday at about 1700. Everyone piling into London for the weekend would start off there before hitting town. All the RAF in chinos and light blue shirts, the Army in red cords or pink shirts (sometimes both!) and the Navy in leather caps and tight t-shirts.
The balcony is now full of Essex rudeboys so the officer corps starts elsewhere.
The balcony is now full of Essex rudeboys so the officer corps starts elsewhere.
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Anybody remember the Turtle Bar at Masirah in the 70"s. Green or Black Carlsberg and Amstell on the beer menu. Tam Hood, one of our crew chiefs marching up to the bar one evening with his bagpipes blasting away during one of our detachments from Akrotiri with the mighty flat iron - a sight not to be missed. Empty beer cans for the Berlin wall, then dive through the cans and out the window the other side. Also the Masirah sailing and fishing club, good for an afternoon beer or two, there and back on the Masirah State Railway after lifting the trucks back on the track due to the rails bowing in several places. Happy days...........
Further afield would have to be Cactus Moon or the other one in Tucson (good on a Sunday night) whose name I can't remember! I'm having a bad day, memory wise!
