Posted in France, beer, health, pubs, smoking, travel on January 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I am not going to bore you with lots of posts about the smoking ban, but I’d like to mention that the Economist Certain ideas of Europe blog covers the issue. Their focus is on all the outdoor heating systems being installed to accommodate the smokers (which I have blogged about before).
What none of these [...]
Posted in Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, USA, beer, beer marketing on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The (US) National Beer Wholesalers Association is asking “Which of the presidential candidates would you have a beer with”, and you can vote without being registered in Iowa or New Hampshire. Barack Obama has a solid lead so far.
The teetotalers, like Huckabee and Romney, predictably get low results.
You could make variations on this theme in other [...]
Posted in Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, UK, health, pubs, travel, tagged cafe, smoke free, smoking on January 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Those who want a beer without having to dry clean their clothes and wash their hair the next day have an increasing list of countries to choose from in Europe. Both France and Portugal have banned smoking in bars and cafes from January first.
The list now includes Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, [...]
Posted in Belgium, France, UK, beer, travel, tagged Eurostar on December 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Nice of the Eurostar blog to link to my post about the Bier Tempel. And it got me thinking. How about a European Pub Crawl? Brussels-Paris-London during a long day? I’ll have to look up their schedules!
Posted in France, beer, beer history, pubs on November 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Per Christian sent me a link to some World War 1 color photographs. Being me, I managed to find a pub in Rheims in one of the pictures.
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