Bar Life Archives - This Drinking Life A world of alcohol and fun Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:21:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 62332568 Winterthur, Swiss football away days 12 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/#respond Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:19:06 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=16183   Back in Switzerland for a week or two, I decided to take the opportunity to do another Swiss football groundhop for my blog. I managed to get a game in the city of Winterthur to see the local team play against FC Vaduz. I also planned to get a hike in the morning, climbing […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/winterthur/feed/ 0 16183 Schaffhausen, Swiss football away days 11 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-schaffhausen/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-schaffhausen/#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2021 12:46:41 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=15638 With Covid reeking havoc on my football schedule in the year 2021, I could only get to do one Swiss football groundhop for my blog. I managed to get a game in the scenic town of Schaffhausen to see the local team play against FC Aarau. Schaffhausen, a German speaking town of about 36,000 inhabitants, […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/fc-schaffhausen/feed/ 0 15638 St Pats, football away days https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/st-pats/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/st-pats/#respond Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:45:31 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=11565 My football day trip this time was to be a little different. Rather than head straight to the pub for a day of drinking and having the craic and then finish it off with some football, this time I was to shake the day up a bit by including some more cultural and creative pursuits. […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/st-pats/feed/ 0 11565 Seans Bar, the World’s Oldest Bar https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/worlds-oldest-bar/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/worlds-oldest-bar/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:18:23 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=11843 Pub watch  Sean’s Bar Address: 13 Main Street, Athlone  Facebook Website Well there could only be one bar that I could start the day of fun in and that would have to be Sean’s bar, just around the corner from Athlone Castle on the banks of the River Shannon.  The oldest pub on the island […]

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]]> https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/worlds-oldest-bar/feed/ 0 11843 Bern, Swiss football away days 9 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/bern-swiss-football-away-day/ https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/bern-swiss-football-away-day/#respond Mon, 20 May 2019 07:55:46 +0000 https://www.thisdrinkinglife.com/?p=11388 For my next Swiss football groundhop, I would be doing my usual bar crawl thing but this time taking in not the one, but two football games. FC Breitenrain the first game, and the famous Young Boys of Bern (German), or Berne (French), the second. Football, beer, and fun, all in Switzerland’s capital city.  Bern, […]

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