![]() The film The World's End starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is plotted around a group of friends embarking on a pub crawl in their home town. It is based on the medieval Assize of Bread and Ale and led by the Guild of Scriveners and Sheriff and of the City. In York, there is an annual charity event known as the Assize of Ale. While numbers vary depending on the weather, in 2008 there were reported to be around 12,000 people involved. Starting at Paddington they work anti-clockwise around the line, ending at Westminster for a haka (traditional New Zealand challenge/dance). ![]() Īlso in London, thousands of New Zealanders take part in the annual Waitangi Day pub crawl, a crawl around the Circle Line on the London Underground. In London, the Monopoly board pub crawl is based around having a drink at a pub in each of the places on a British Monopoly board, set in London. In Leeds, the Otley Run is seen as a rite of passage for students. It involves having a drink at the nearest pub to each of the 15 stops on the line. In Glasgow, the Subcrawl is a pub crawl carried out using the circular Glasgow Subway line in the city. By the end of the 20th century, it was extended also to women, and when it involves a wider variety of drinks, it is more often called poteo. ![]() In the north of Spain, around the Basque Country, the tradition for groups of male friends crawling pubs and drinking a short glass of wine at each pub, and often singing traditional songs, is known as txikiteo or chiquiteo, and can be held at night or day. It is a common sight in UK towns to see several groups orbiting the various drinking locations with little apparent coherence or structure. Most drinking sessions based around a special occasion such as a birthday or a leaving celebration will involve a pub crawl, often with the group splitting up but agreeing on meeting at the next location. Structured routes with regular stops are rare. In the UK, pub crawls are generally spontaneous nights out in which the participants arrange to meet somewhere and decide over drinks where to drink next. Many European cities have public pub crawls that serve as social gatherings for local expatriates and tourists. Background Organised pub crawl groups may provide T-shirts for participants ![]() Visiting multiple pubs or bars in a seriesĪ pub crawl (sometimes called a bar tour, bar crawl or bar-hopping) is the act of visiting multiple pubs or bars in a single session. ![]()
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