Circle line pub crawl

[Pavilionaire]

I've done the Circle Line pub crawl, starting at St. James Park and going anti-clockwise so you end up back at Victoria for the train home.

The hard bit was about 20-22 pubs in at Paddington / South Ken. Once you get past that the end is in sight. A half in every pub spreads it out, I think I ended up having a pint at Victoria Wetherspoons before catching the 10 o clock train.

 

[London Calling]

Some people haven't been on it for quite some time...

Your right, I am not going out with a bunch of sissies who do only 14 pubs cover 50 miles in a day

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

Your right, I am not going out with a bunch of sissies who do only 14 pubs cover 50 miles in a day

Not sure it's even 14 any more. Do you remember the really dicey one that was quite near Upton Park?

 

[sten_super]

Might be a bit tricky travelling to each location, especially after skinful and best keep it simple knowing some of the dim wits who will be in the party.

There is more travelling involved on the monopoly one, but it's not too difficult, you can get pretty good directions.

http://www.monopolypubcrawl.org.uk/

As scooter1 said, the circle line is difficult on a weekend because some city pubs are not open. When we did it we missed some of the city pubs and made up for it with pints in other pubs.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

A group of work colleagues tried a similar thing one weekend in Tokyo with the Yamanote line. 29 stations to drink nothing but shorts at each one.

A jolly time was had by all.

 

[Mtoto]

I helped to organise a 50-strong Circle Line pub crawl back in the mid-80s and I still have occasional nightmares about it now.

It started with a pint in the Union bar near Euston Square - it was in the days of fairly strict licensing laws, and they opened it an hour early at 4 to give people a chance to get round by 11. Then onto the tube at Euston Square and off clockwise, with a half in every pub all the way around (think Cannon Street was missed out as it was shut) and a pint to finish back at the Union.

The pubs had all been alerted, and there was a book for people to sign to prove they'd finished the half (it was a sponsored event). Most of the signatures were just scribble by Embankment, though.

The winner was a legendary drinker who had organised two mates to go ahead of him and line up the drinks. He'd run in, down them in one and run straight out. Just after halfway, though, he decided he couldn't be bothered waiting for trains and simply started running between the pubs too. Overtook both his mates by the time he reached Bayswater and was back by 10.15, then had five more pints to celebrate victory.

He wasn't the problem. The trouble was that unleashing that many people on central London with an open invitation to drink themselves unconscious - while also using public transport every five minutes - was, with hindsight, a recipe for disaster. Two people were arrested for walking on the track at Edgware Road - they allegedly told the police that they just wanted to get home and thought the trains had all finished. Several more ended up sleeping where they fell, and another needed an emergency blood transfusion after putting his hand through the glass on a cig machine to get a pack of Marlboro and severing something that he really didn't want to sever.

How someone wasn't killed I'll never know. These days I'd have people suing my sorry arse until I didn't have a penny left.

Obviously it's different if it's a small group, but for God's sake remember to stand well back from the edge of the platform and mind the gap!

 

[London Calling]

Not sure it's even 14 any more. Do you remember the really dicey one that was quite near Upton Park?

TBH few of them are actually top pubs except the WBA ione n Hackney and perhaps the one, of Upper Street, Islington.

The idea of touring more than drinking dissuaded my full commitment to such important matters.

Are you allllllllllll doing it again this year?

LC

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

TBH few of them are actually top pubs except the WBA ione n Hackney and perhaps the one, of Upper Street, Islington.

The idea of touring more than drinking dissuaded my full commitment to such important matters.

Are you allllllllllll doing it again this year?

LC

There are mutterings about it, yes.

 

[Dave the OAP]

dont be tempted to do a Rusco and perform a pole dance in the middle of the tube train.