Fum Elephanter Pub

Looking for a local place to drink a beer can often leave you getting more than you bargained for. The elephanter pub looked very much like a traditional English pub from the outside, big pub sign swinging overheard and bold glass frontage windows. Inside every punter turned to look at us and we [...]

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The Moon on the Hill

Another wetherspoons for the books and the first thing we notice is the drop in age of the crowd, that and the signature wetherspoons lack of music. The frontage of the bar is glass but the place is pretty big and it needs to be, of a Saturday, as one [...]

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The Cock and Bull

With walking sticks and hats overhead, heavy curtains and a bar mainly lit at night by the glow of lights from the street outside the place feels cosy and comfortable. Although not small, navigating between the big old tables and chairs and booths can be a challenge. Service is fairly quick and [...]

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Monte Carlo Casino
Don’t ever make the mistake of arriving to Las Vegas for the first time and thinking that walking from one end to the other is a good idea. At some eight miles long it doesn’t quite seem so long because everything looks closer than it is, because everything is enormous. After what feels [...]

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Queens Bar

This is one bar that has had many names, the last before it was called the queen was it as the tabernacle and it resides on rather a quiet corner of old street. Inside the venue is a little grand, the decor expects flamboyant suitors, loungers and taxonomy, the long bar, although busy is [...]

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The Stratosphere Casino

Barblog gives heaps of respect to the casino that prides its drinking culture so much that it sticks a bar straight after the front entrance to this skyscraper casino. The bar is a circular platform nested in a sea of slot machines, lined up like soldiers in the empty aisles of what is [...]

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Circus Circus Casino

I will be honest here, the infamy of a certain Johnny drop movie (fear and loathing in Las Vegas) drew me into this casino in the northern parts of the Las Vegas strip. This is one of vegas’ oldest casinos but remains pretty huge, although the dark interior with nooks and crannies leading [...]

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Bar Vinyl

Inverness street is home to a number of up beat bars and tiny little clubs and bar vinyl fits the bill as the former. Pumping out rnb tunes and popular hits the venue is a succession of a long bar to left right followed by a horde of long tables and chairs with mirrors [...]

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Galvin at Windows

On the top floor of the prestigious Park Lane Hilton in London’s west end is a bar which overlooks the best bits of London although snowball’s it’s pride into a a rather pompous attitude. There is a no coats rule inside the bar so drinkers are forced to hang those up in the [...]

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Paris Casino

Approaching the Paris casino, one thing is apparent, the replica of the Eiffel Tower is pretty much the height of the real thing. This iron structure had literally been plunged into the roof of the casino so that its legs I case the gambling floor. The doors resemble an old bohemian 1800s party hall [...]

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