I have done two Pub crawls here in the UK, one in London, and one in Edinburgh. A pub crawl is where you pay a flat rate, say 15 Euros or pounds or whatever, and you go on basically a tour of a few of the best pubs in town, like 5ish or so. You don’t have to pay a cover charge at any of the bars or pubs, and they give you a free shot at each pub that you go to either when you get there or before you leave. But, you do have to pay for your drinks other than that, which is never good.
The London pub crawl gave us a T-shirt to wear during the crawl, and then markers that people can write on each other’s shirts throughout the night, which in the end was a bad idea cause obviously things are written on your shirt that you wouldn’t allow you to wear it in public, though I found out that the marker came off first wash, perfect! Most of the bars in the London pub crawl were in Piccadilly circus (its an area in London) which was Amazing! I had an absolute blast and danced and drank the night away, met some really cool people and didn’t even need to get really drunk. I stopped drinking about 2 hours before we went home, so that was good because usually I am not very good at the, stop drinking when drunk thing, but so far on the trip I’ve been doing great with that :)
Heres some pictures from the London Pub crawl!The last one is on the way back to the hostel with our pizza in the cab :)
The Edinburgh Pub crawl didnt give us T-shirts, but that’s okay because it was for my girl Taylor’s 20th birthday! The whole group of girls on the trip went out for her birthday which was super awesome; we went to dinner in Edinburgh first then headed to the bar! It was on Memorial Day which was a Monday, so the bars weren’t super crazy, but still a good time. I met a few good people, few boys and had a good time with the girls.! Half of the group left a little bit earlier, but we still all had fun, and no drama! Here are some pictures!
The first one if of the whole group on the abroad trip, minus the only boy with us
Brittany, Taylor and myself <3
Taylor and I
Britt being her crazay self that i love!
some of us girls at one of the pubs!
this is me infront of the place that "Harry Potter" was written!!
this is only funny becasue our check out check in list for the pub crawl was writtin in Crayola Crayon haha
Then there is Dublin, which I haven’t blogged about yet, but while I’m on the subject ill talk about the night life there, which I must say was a-mazing. Our hostel was right around the corner from the “temple” area of Dublin and Temple bar and such, the whole street is just extremely wild, crazy and fun at night. We didn’t even have to walk a block to have a good time. Our first night out a couple of us girls went to a first bar which had a really great bar but was super packed and we wanted to explore around some more. Then we went to another bar which was fun, lots of people, cute boys and drinks flowin! We decided to pre-game that night because we knew drinks were expensive, so I drank a half a mini bottle of vodka (just a little purse size bottle, was like 6 shots total or something) and I just was NOT getting drunk I felt completely immune to the 6-7 shots I had just taken, so that itself was kind of a buzz kill itself. The 2nd buzz kill was that I finally toughen up and decided to get a drink at the bar and I order a “rail” vodka soda, she pours a shot into it and hands me a small bottle of tonic water to pour myself, I hand her a 5 euro bill, and she basically says “honey, its way more than that” I was like WHAT holly, how much? It was like 8 Euros which is over $10 USD, I apologized and said I’m sorry but I can’t pay for that because threes no way I’m paying 10 dollars for a shot of rail vodka when I just paid 10 dollars 2 hours earlier for a bottle of vodka haha. Then I ended up leaving the bar with Rachel to walk a block or two back to the hostel to drink the rest of the bottle, (the bottle really isn’t that big, it was like 4-5 shots more) So we got back to the bar and it helped a bit, I didn’t get really drunk at all, but it was a perfect little buzz I guess you could say, at least it got me on the dance floor where my and 3 of the girls spent the next 3 hours dancing, screaming songs at the top of our longs and having a damn good time with everyone else at the bar.
this is us after the long night of dancing and drinking in dublin :)
Dublin and Piccadilly Circus in London have amazing night lives and I would love to go back some day, but then again there are so many other places around the world I want to go to as well :)
We obviously have gone out more nights then these, but these were the major drinking nights instead of more casual drinking, I guess I’ve only gone all OUT these three nights, but I can’t say I haven’t been drinking at dinners and lunches and stuff! I hope to go out with the girls another night in Edinburgh before we leave, and then there is still Amsterdam, which is self explanatory!
PS this is Taylor Britt and I eating the BEST icecream ever, its called "99" or something, really good icecream with some sort of chocolate flake stick in it. YUMM--
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