We already knew that when Santa Claus parties he parties hard. Last year he had a drunken sledge crash in Poland and got into a massive street fight with his doppelgangers in New York. As it turns out now his colleague from Holland Sinterklaas also knows his way with the bottle. This weekend the police…
If you are not living on another planet (and even in that case) you probably noticed the shocking 5-1 victory of the Netherlands over Spain yesterday at the world cup. Many theories have been released since then, but we claim we have the one and only real explanation. In Spain they believe garlic brings you…
Ever wondered why many teetotalers are boring? A lot of times they act grumpy and depressed, incapable of letting other people enjoy the things they gave up. Well, Spanish researchers looked into the connection between alcohol consumption and depression and guess what? According to their research alcohol (in moderate amounts) decreases your chances to get…
While art is usually a matter of opinion, Pablo Picasso was without a doubt one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. The born Spaniard was also pretty hooked on absynthe, a drink that also inspired painters like Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Paul Gaugain and Édouard Manet. To describe his relationship to ‘the…
Jan van Speijk was one of the first national heroes of current Holland. In 1831 he blew up his ship along with the whole crew in the port of Antwerpen, rather than to see it in the hands of the rebellious Belgians. In the young new state – Holland became independent in 1815 after being…
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. Today we go to Spain where after a lot of soups we’ll try tome solid food that…
They say that in order to be a top athlete you need to cut down on drinking and smoking. This is simply not true, since some of the greatest heroes in sports were more than just good drinkers. Of course we don’t claim that the alcohol helped them to achieve the top, but it didn’t…
Lords of the Drinks 