| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice 10:49 - Dec 31 with 7854 views | BrixtonBlue |
Where to go for my first alcoholic drink in a year. It needs to be fairly epic (but not quite as epic as say Australia) because I need a good ending for the book (might have mentioned I'm writing a book about it).
Anyway, myself and my work wife are planning a road trip for that first drink/ending of the book. We've narrowed it down to;
Oban in Scotland - remote distillery on an island, for a fine whisky.
Bushmills in NI - whiskey at the oldest distillery in the world.
Wine in Paris.
Beer in Amsterdam.
The first two fit the epicness best... but I'm more of a beer man than a whisk(e)y drinker.
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:51 - Dec 31 with 4271 views | ITFC_Forever |
Go to the Hamilton Hall at Liverpool Street, drink five pints of weak lager and then behave like a tw*t, but say it's all in the name of epic bantz. |  |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:53 - Dec 31 with 4237 views | Reuser_is_God |
Just go to a 'spoons like any other person with an alcohol problem would. |  |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:54 - Dec 31 with 4229 views | GunnsAirkick |
If you like beer, I'd say Bruges or Ghent! |  | | |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:54 - Dec 31 with 4220 views | jjblue84 |
What’s the book about? |  | | |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:55 - Dec 31 with 4218 views | StokieBlue |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:54 - Dec 31 by jjblue84 |
What’s the book about? |
Jordan Spence I think.
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:56 - Dec 31 with 4210 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Don't do it. The ending of the book can be your realisation that you don't need it. |  |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:56 - Dec 31 with 4208 views | footers |
I'd buy a big bottle of something and drink it next to the water somewhere. Tie a long piece of string to the bottle and throw it in to keep it cool. Drink straight from the bottle, no glasses.
No people to deal with, a lovely view and enough plonk to send you sideways- sounds ideal to me!
P.S. You should have put some money aside from what you've been saving to buy some kinda mega bottle, like a Chambertin or summat. |  |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:01 - Dec 31 with 4178 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:56 - Dec 31 by footers |
I'd buy a big bottle of something and drink it next to the water somewhere. Tie a long piece of string to the bottle and throw it in to keep it cool. Drink straight from the bottle, no glasses.
No people to deal with, a lovely view and enough plonk to send you sideways- sounds ideal to me!
P.S. You should have put some money aside from what you've been saving to buy some kinda mega bottle, like a Chambertin or summat. |
You need some kind of caveat to that. Manchester ship canal for example, would not fit in with your particular idyll. | |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:02 - Dec 31 with 4169 views | Heathlander |
Flying Scotsman Near Kings Cross.
Make sure you take plenty of £1 coins with you. |  | | |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:03 - Dec 31 with 4160 views | footers |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:01 - Dec 31 by Cheltenham_Blue |
You need some kind of caveat to that. Manchester ship canal for example, would not fit in with your particular idyll. |
Oooh, I dunno. Some of my best drinking memories have been in the shadiest of places. Manchester ship canal could look like Venice if the plonk's strong enough!
But point taken. How about Sizewell? | |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:04 - Dec 31 with 4147 views | StokieBlue |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:03 - Dec 31 by footers |
Oooh, I dunno. Some of my best drinking memories have been in the shadiest of places. Manchester ship canal could look like Venice if the plonk's strong enough!
But point taken. How about Sizewell? |
Wouldn't work, the water there is warm as it's used to cool the reaction rods.
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:05 - Dec 31 with 4128 views | Benters2 |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:51 - Dec 31 by ITFC_Forever |
Go to the Hamilton Hall at Liverpool Street, drink five pints of weak lager and then behave like a tw*t, but say it's all in the name of epic bantz. |
Well yeah obviously the right answer they do have a fine selection of ales. | | | |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:06 - Dec 31 with 4128 views | footers |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:04 - Dec 31 by StokieBlue |
Wouldn't work, the water there is warm as it's used to cool the reaction rods.
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Way to spoil my nuclear beach party, SB. Facts have no place on TWTD as you well know. And I prefer my Blue Nun at room temperature anyway. | |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:07 - Dec 31 with 4120 views | StokieBlue |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:06 - Dec 31 by footers |
Way to spoil my nuclear beach party, SB. Facts have no place on TWTD as you well know. And I prefer my Blue Nun at room temperature anyway. |
Well it's lovely for a swim.
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:07 - Dec 31 with 4120 views | BrixtonBlue |
Those are excellent suggestions, thanks Stokers.
I've worked out over the course of the year I'll have saved £5k. Don't want to go crazy on the trip moneywise though (so Falklands might be too much of a trek) as the work wife doesn't have the benefit of that money! | |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:08 - Dec 31 with 4108 views | footers |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:07 - Dec 31 by StokieBlue |
Well it's lovely for a swim.
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And a spot of fishing!
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:11 - Dec 31 with 4091 views | BrixtonBlue |
It's a really good point Libbers. Would make the ending of the book quite poignant... but also, perhaps, dull. Might be good if I did the epic thing, then 'realised' what you've said when I'm there. Best of both worlds! | |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:13 - Dec 31 with 4078 views | BrixtonBlue |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:56 - Dec 31 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Don't do it. The ending of the book can be your realisation that you don't need it. |
Similar thinking to Libbers... but might make the ending a bit dull. | |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:14 - Dec 31 with 4072 views | Pinewoodblue |
If you are going to bushmills they do interesting tours and provide suitable refreshments before and after.
You might need to hurry though if we have a hard Brexit. All the ingredients, apart from water, are imported from the Republic |  |
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:15 - Dec 31 with 4059 views | StokieBlue |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 10:56 - Dec 31 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Don't do it. The ending of the book can be your realisation that you don't need it. |
What if he actually wants a pint?
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| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:20 - Dec 31 with 4031 views | Benters2 |
Not meaning to be funny but if you have managed to go with out a beer for a year why bother having one now? | | | |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:21 - Dec 31 with 4035 views | footers |
| This is a bit look at me but I need your advice on 11:13 - Dec 31 by BrixtonBlue |
Similar thinking to Libbers... but might make the ending a bit dull. |
That's the point really, isn't it- you don't need to drink. Familiarity often breeds contempt and people don't necessarily enjoy drinking if they do it all the time. Moderation makes it all that more special.
You'd soon get sick of fillet steak if you ate it every day. (Amateur steak choice tho, tbh.) | |
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