Steady consumption

Just got off the phone with a friend and a genuine drinking partner after hearing a recounting of the previous nights escapades which I missed due to my illness mentioned in the previous blog.

There are places in the world, in a city that you inhabit where you go only to get drunk. I want to use a lot more words for drunk to try and communicate the concept -Sozzled, Shitfaced, smashed,fucked,influenced beyond degrees of conventional standards, bolloxed this list can go on and I want you all to give me the best word you'd like to use for drunk - any language will do!

Anyway, there are 3 places in the world that I adore,worship and hold close to my heart and would visit time and time again. A place where people connect because there is mutual respect as soon as you enter, with peoples thinking - "here comes a person who drinks for the joy, the love for the fluid, the integrity of the whole exercise"

A lot of people will connect with the legendary, the one and only Gokul's - Wikitravel says "Gokul behind the Taj is frequented by anyone who wants a inexpensive drink served quickly". But to us legions of fans, it is a place where you enter and you get a smile and a nod from the waiter (who had helped you throw up 2 months ago when the next morning you woke up and swore to give up drinking)and without a word your 2 dollar pitcher of beer with your favorite snacks is at your table - If you have had a legendary experience at this place that does not involve me, you are allowed to write about it.

Diamond beer bar - Those soft(no lights), the coldest chilliest beers on the busiest street of that city I thought I had gone to study in. Legend has it, they do serve the coldest beers you can ever find. To the trinity who spent many a weekends brooding over life,women known and unknown and future. I raise a large on to you!

Cabralliego - Don't let the website con you! It's an association of Spaniards, it is a club of sorts, I've never realized or bothered to find out what they do, but they run a resto/bar which serve 2 euro Rum(Bacardi), Vodka(Smirnoff), Whisky(JB) and 1 Euro Beers. Please see some pics. This is the kind of place you enter at 10 p.m. and find 10 families playing board games and ranting loudly. You sit down with a close group of friends and offer to buy a round and you come back with 7 Rums and 2 beers and you've not even spent 20 Euros! You sit and finish and before you finish another friend has volunteered for a round. At midnight you are well and truly buzzing and you try to reach for your cellphone to send a text message to 1 of yr ex girl friend or a current project and when you're done you look up, the 10 ranting families have suddenly disappeared and been replaced with 60 young beautiful spanish women, the restaurant/bar has turned into a night club with an MP3 DJ. Tables folded to make way for a dance floor, the bright flourescent lights turned off to let you go crazy, you do forget what text message you sent to whom in a matter of seconds. It's totally impossible to explain this phenomenon. The chosen few who have been there know about it. The rest of you who know me and have visited me and have not been taken there, I apologise. The rest who have been invited, time and time again to experience this and have not shown up - Shame on you.

Opps.. blog is getting too long.

If there is a bar in your town - where you go as religiously to kill yr slow moving brain cells as you would to your place of worship, leave me a note.