Long distance pub crawls

[PTID1862]

The welcome to @DangerousSausage thread, has had me reminiscing about bygone days, and I have just relived a trip we often took on a weekend.

 

Starting off in Krefeld Germany, we used to go on a pub crawl to Dusseldorf. Some distance and not a drink driver in sight.

We would have a couple of scoops of beer before jumping on a tram bound for D-Dorf. Fortunately there were plenty of stops along the way, so the journey was to alight at each stop, and as luck would have it, there was always a bar or outlet within sight that sold beer.

 

Off we would go, have a beer, use the facilities and then keep an eye out for the approaching tram... this would continue all the way to the Altstadt in Dusseldorf, where the party would continue in earnest with a fine night on the town.

 

The only flaw tot he plan, there were plenty of sleeping squaddies on the Dusseldorf Station platforms waiting for the first zug back to Krefeld the following morning.

 

Those were the days indeed...

 

Does anybody have any other mammoth pub crawls they do, have done?

[Chris Website URL Visit Site 𝕏 fmcj10 Instagram fmcj10]

Pub crawls? (I actually sighed when I started typing and as I started to read).

No, I haven't.

On holiday we walk to pubs but I wouldn't count it because we have gaps between. @super_ram is the person who's probably had dozens, it's not really my scene to be in pubs. It's taken me a long time to go inside the MLSB on match days. LOL

[PTID1862]

@super_ram any tales to tell? that won't get you in trouble

[super_ram]

@super_ram any tales to tell? that won't get you in trouble

i'm thinking,but I'll tell you this,pubs haven't half changed in the last 50 years.No TV's back then unless the landlord fixed his own family TV up on the bar.On the plus side there was no karaoke.There was Juke boxes which now seem to be replaced by piped music or local radio.Spittoons have disappeared and you don't have sawdust on the floor.Not much food was available then,just cobs,crisps(plain only),salted peanuts and pork crackling.The toilets are one thing that has certainly improved.I bet @tonyhateley can add to this list even if he is a relative youngster..

[PTID1862]

Sounds like the Hearty Goodfellow lol

[super_ram]

Been in there a few times after work before catching the bus back to Alfreton. from Mount Street bus station..sadly both gone.

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[upthepies]

As I've said before I live just round from my local, grand place it is. Its like PON in some regards!

No need to pub crawl but in south wales, I once walked to 8 pubs all within about 2/3 hours distance of each other. I used to hike regularly back in those days!

[liampie]

no a pub person, never even walked to one. rarely will i even step foot inside one

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

I certainly mourn some of the old pubs and definitely the local breweries, Shipstones, Home Ales and Kimberley Ales. Local breweries brewing beer locally and employing local people, they all disappeared now and it's such a shame, although it's great to see micro breweries popping up all over.

@super_ram is right there was no food on offer just a few mouldy cheese cobs if you were lucky, no kids to be seen, if you'd got kids and wanted a drink the best you could hope for would be a very sparsely furnished family room tucked away at the back of the pub or the kids were left outside with a bag of crisps and a bottle of pop if they were lucky.

No drink drive laws and it was normal and not frowned on at all to drive home after a night at the pub, I often marvel at the fact that I never had an accident. Thank goodness drink driving has been outlawed now.

Anyway I digress, I'm not one for pub crawls these days nor in the past really, it's a waste of good drinking time travelling from pub to pub.

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

no a pub person, never even walked to one. rarely will i even step foot inside one

Isn't that because you're 17 and they won't serve you anyway 

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

I certainly mourn some of the old pubs and definitely the local breweries, Shipstones, Home Ales and Kimberley Ales. Local breweries brewing beer locally and employing local people, they all disappeared now and it's such a shame, although it's great to see micro breweries popping up all over.

 

Kimberley Ales are a big miss

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

Isn't that because you're 17 and they won't serve you anyway 

 

 

It didn't stop me when I was 17

[PTID1862]

@tonyhateley ditto

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

Pubs and Clubs are all over it these days, you will get ID'd. 

Obviously there are ways around it if you try hard enough, but most 17yo can't really afford a drinking sesh these days with the price of pints. Bottle of White Lightning on the park bench is cheaper.

[PTID1862]

Do they still sell white lightning? Our kids used their provisional licenses and with the aid of a very reasonably priced transfer set available from local stationary suppliers, were able to adapt the year of birth and driving licence number to reflect being legal...

 

crafty the kids nowadays

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

Do they still sell white lightning? Our kids used their provisional licenses and with the aid of a very reasonably priced transfer set available from local stationary suppliers, were able to adapt the year of birth and driving licence number to reflect being legal...

 

crafty the kids nowadays

 

No idea if they still sell it, I go for more classy drinks now..... Carling   

[PTID1862]

Apparently not... Heineken decided to discontinue it, due to its reputation of being synonymous with under aged drinking, anti-social behaviour, alcoholism and homelessness...

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

Apparently not... Heineken decided to discontinue it, due to its reputation of being synonymous with under aged drinking, anti-social behaviour, alcoholism and homelessness...

Lambrini's still going 

[PTID1862]

And what the hell is that? hang on google... hmmm, a light perry, marketed specifically at females looking at the website...

[Fan of Big Tone 𝕏 @mainstandpie]

Red Stripe or Carling Special Brew, both really strong for getting inebriated really quickly.

[PTID1862]

Not the cheapest but I would say that Brewdog "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" or indeed "sink the Bismark" would do the trick quite nicely

[liampie]

Isn't that because you're 17 and they won't serve you anyway 

possibly, i wont say. lol

[PTID1862]

@liampie see above re driving licenses

[Super_Danny_Allsopp]

Haha. Theres a disclaimer at the bottom of the site somewhere along the lines of 'If PTID encourages underage drinking - PoN holds no responsibility' 

[PTID1862]

:P    ha ha ha, The views I post are always my own and not necessarily that of the site. :P