And that was it. another 26 bars, this time in reverse alphabetical order: Z to A.
It took 22 weeks to sensibly visit, whenever my schedule and pocket money allowed.
After the A to Z list, and considering whether BAR HOPPING was a reasonable hobby for a lady, I decided to forget all that junk and JUST ROLL WITH IT>
It’s hell fun planning bars, seeing new places, picking modes of transport – a bus, train, boats? – yep! I took all of those, to make for an adventure on top of an adventure. I gathered my friends or just went solo.
I drank cider, I drank tequila, I went through a big WHITE WINE phase apparently. Good beers, bad beers, lemonade and coffee! (Not together).
Ate Mexican foods, Asian foods, Indian foods, SPAGHETTI, Spanish FUSION.. all the foods, and the most DANGEROUS of all: NO foods.
I kept writing my notes (Still have the original notebook) my workmates egged me on to write stories.. Blogging was not even on my radar. I wasn’t planning on a lot of things.
Soon my quirky barfly challenge became a blog of bar stories, then a Facebook page, then an Instagram account! That’s not all that’s changed in that time:
Uh-Oh Spaghetti-O is now Miraak Kitchen and Bar, Tippler’s Tap Fortitude Valley moved to Southbank, the Rumpus Room CLOSED, and Parched is now The Brew Baron Beer Co.
Saddest of all: Fitz n Pott’s is no more. I’d barely published my review, when they announced their closing.
