NY Times Covers Drunks in Prague

God of Chunder · Post by **God of Chunder** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 6:19 am

Sounds like my kind of crowd!
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/04/inter ... 4PRAG.html

massivedrunk · Post by **massivedrunk** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:02 am

hey ya gotta login and i aint got that kind of time.

God of Chunder · Post by **God of Chunder** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:20 am

Log in when you get the time. It's worth it.

LuckyStrikes · Post by **LuckyStrikes** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 8:30 am

I've been reading about Prague being cheap, and a drunks heaven. Bet that won't last long.

The article is worth the read, here are a couple of paragraphs

Also, they are big business. For instance, he said, a party of 23 men drank 180 vodkas and 60 cans of Red Bull one Friday. "I know that sounds totally insane, but they came back and did the same thing on Saturday and the same thing on Sunday," he said.

Tour groups encourage the business by portraying Prague as a center for cheap beer and loose women, and by organizing pub crawls whose participants set out to drink in as many places as possible before stumbling (if they can still stumble) on to the return flight home.

Jimmy&Guinney · Post by **Jimmy&Guinney** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:31 pm

I guess that means we have to get there before it's just another tourist trap. When I was in Europe, all the hostelers and backpackers said that you have to go to Prague, like it was a backpacker's or drunkards or artist's Mecca. I'm going to East Europe this January, I hope it lasts that long.

IntoxiChrist · Post by **IntoxiChrist** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:32 pm

Well, I guess that settles the location of my upcoming bellow for a Drunkard gathering.

Chelsea40oz · Post by **Chelsea40oz** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 11:39 pm

Jimmy&Guinney wrote:I guess that means we have to get there before it's just another tourist trap. When I was in Europe, all the hostelers and backpackers said that you have to go to Prague, like it was a backpacker's or drunkards or artist's Mecca. I'm going to East Europe this January, I hope it lasts that long.

Hmmm. I have been, intermittently, an artist and a backpacker and a drunk, and I still don't think Mecca is anywhere on my personal itinerary. I don;t evencare if they have monkeys. So does the Triple rock. At least the TR has that Billie Dee not my lover 40oz guy.