The Odd Bar (formerly Odyssey)

Previously called Odyssey Bar, this underground student bar greets us with an empty room jazzed up with ripped sofas, neon lighting over the bar and TVs on the walls playing music videos. To contrast against what is a bit of a dingy dive some over friendly bar persons make us feel [...]

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The Nellie Dean Pub

From outside and on the ground floor of the Nellie Dean, the pub feels very small indeed, rather like an old lounge where the smell of old gravy lingures in the corners and groups of middle aged men pack themselves on tiny tables where the most obvious advantage being the price of [...]

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Woodies Ale House

Woodies has enough of a claim to fame to be perfectly well standing on its own with the merit of being the start of the otley run. Probably the most famous pub crawl north of the equator. And Woodies is a very busy place to be at midday on a Saturday. Entering from [...]

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Off the Wall Bar

Off the Wall bar in Chester is a popular venue, somewhat more down to earth than the other pubs in the area. Reminding me somewhat of a pub with a disco feel to it, Off the Wall comes complete with sleazy guys, pop music. Carpets, where wooden dance floor should be and [...]

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Orange Social and Networking Bar

The large feature bar at 2008’s London edition of the popular Internet conference was sponsored by Orange Mobile. Rather than a central piece, this temporary bar had been erected at the back of the Olympia main hall. The bar consisted of a number of high chairs and small tables, a fats bar [...]

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The Holloway Pub

The Holloway is infamous with Tottenham fans everywhere. This quite large pub was built for football fans mainly, it sits very close to the arsenal stadium and yet it secretly houses the yid-army. On match days the venue is packed with loud fans cheering and jeering at the numerous football screens around the [...]

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Alcatraz International Bar

The astutely named “Alkatraz* bar in Calella is a young, rough and ready wannabe bar with all the trimmings of a British bar trying to make it abroad and succeeding in pulling punters that crave football, loutish behaviour and pints of their favourite home favourites. The original pull for our party was the [...]

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Inferno Bar and Pub

Inferno is The resident scream bar of bournmouth and next to a club that used to be called the fire station.inferno obviously used to be the pre party venue before people crammed inside the club next door but now it must rely on the student population to keep things running smoothly. It [...]

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Student Union Bar

Hollyoaks has far more student aged characters in it than any of the other British soaps and as such the student union bar remains one of the primary meeting spots for many of the characters. Equipped with a pool table and quiz machine and with suitably trashy pop music the venue also has [...]

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Victoria and Albert

The only pub within a short walking distance of the station is the Victoria and Albert which is often populated by Monopoly Pub Crawl revellers who require this dtation pub to complete the rounds. The pub is comprised of two interconnecting rooms, the first houses the bar and one of two high perched tables [...]

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