The Austrian region Tyrol is most famous for its winter sports and ski resorts in winter and its hiking and cycling trails in summer. The idyllic mountain sights and landscapes of thick forest and ‘Almenland’, the traditional summer farms where cattle and sheep are kept in meadows above the tree line. However there’s a third…
It has been a tough few months for us social drinkers. Because unless you enjoy downing bottles of booze by yourself, basically all the fun has been sucked out of our lives by the COVID-19 virus. No music festivals, sport events, holidays or even a simple pub crawl or a glass of wine in your…
Although there’s nothing wrong with drinking in your local pub, it’s wonderful to broaden your horizon from time to time. Find new places to get hammered and new people to join you while doing so. The best stories simply don’t start with the words: “This one time I was drinking at home when…” And if…
We already gave you some tips and tricks to get rid of your hangover. But every country has its own traditional dishes to make the process go faster. We like to give you a taste of the international anti-hangover cuisine. And in this episode we return to the Balkans, a peninsula in Europe that is known…
The Dutch language is full of funny proverbs. Many of them sound quite ridiculous when translated literally into English. For example when somebody gets a nasty surprise in Holland “the monkey is coming out of the sleeve”. Or when somebody is trying to hide being upset he is “laughing like a farmer with a toothache”.…
A Japanese pilot was arrested at Heathrow airport (London, UK) for being quite drunk just 50 minutes before he was supposed to fly a Boeing 777 to his home country. The 42-year old Katsutoshi Jitsukawa raised the suspicion of a crew bus driver because his breath smelled heavily of alcohol. After the driver had alerted…
It’s often said that when someone is feeling troubled alcohol is not the answer. But now there’s a study that shows the opposite is true. Alcohol directly affects the gene that encodes if a memory is pleasant or not. Sure booze won’t make your ex doubt the break up or fix your financial debts, but it…
While drinking among musicians in the 20th century is usually linked to rock and roll and other music streams that were popular among the youngsters, there was one classical composer that would probably outrock most metalheads. Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), a national icon in his country Finland, was a true party animal. Taking under consideration that…
We already gave you some tips and tricks to get rid of your hangover. But every country has its own traditional dishes to make the process go faster. We like to give you a taste of the international anti-hangover cuisine. In this episode we focus on a dish from Slovakia, a country in Central-Eastern Europe with…
It’s been an awful long time since we last shared a real drunk story from the past. This post is about a 4 day adventure I had in the summer of 2007 when one of the Lords of the Drinks went to play an international football tournament in the Dutch city of Enschede. After losing…
Lords of the Drinks 