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Have you ever been photographed sat on a balcony eating a croissant; or wallowed in luxury just for the sake of it? What's the most ostentatious thing you ever seen or done?

(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 13:18)
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I once bought a pint of beer...
...in Norway.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:43, 23 replies)

I understand. In a meal emergency I spent £25 on a bowl of soup in Oslo.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:53, closed)
Jesus!
That's like filling up a full tank of petrol!
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:54, closed)
Fuck yeah
Oslo Airport = £12 for a plate of chips.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 15:56, closed)
Average price of a pint in Greenland: £7.35

(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:05, closed)
I was so angry at the price of beer on the island that I visited
I got a gun and shot a load of schoolkids etc etc etc
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:07, closed)
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Nice one.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:19, closed)
Should have gone to
Iceland
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:21, closed)
Pfffffwahahahahahahahahaha

(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:22, closed)
WIN

(, Sun 31 Jul 2011, 16:16, closed)
Too soon
:7(
(, Sun 31 Jul 2011, 1:51, closed)
Centre of Milan
1/2 litre of beer: €15
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:20, closed)
They saw you fucking coming.
Were you in a strip club? Milan is no more expensive than any other european city really.
(, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 9:53, closed)
Samuel Smiths pub, Middlesbrough, England
Pint of Alpine (formerley Ayingerbrau) ~= £1.70
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:31, closed)
Old Blue Last, Shoreditch
Stella Black = £4.50
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:33, closed)
Not just Middlesbrough either.
Their bog-standard bitter's about £1.40/pint.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 18:44, closed)
True.
£2.17 for a pint of Sovereign in The Crown on New Oxford St. (and, presumably, every other one of their 40 Central London premises).
(, Sun 31 Jul 2011, 16:19, closed)
Bottle of Paulaner beer in a nice lakeside bar in Beijing
8 quid.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 16:35, closed)
I once bought a round!
Three bottles of Budweiser (the US crap not the real one) for the equivalent of 33 quid.
Worste I've seen though is a bottle of Speckled Hen for what amounts to fifteen or sixteen quid. I hadn't the heart to tell my girlfriend's dad I could buy a bottle for a tenth of that in the local shop.
Top tip: If you're going to drink in Norway buy the wine of the week from the wine monopoly shop -- it's usually decent stuff for around the same or less than we pay for it -- but it will be a fiver a bottle or more.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 17:57, closed)
In Finnmark...
..way up north, everyone we met gave us a fanta bottle of 'burn' - their homebrew moonshine. Yay!

Also, asking directions from Berlevag to Tromso everyone refused to give any directions that didn't involve driving through Finland, because the beer is cheaper there.

So much for getting people to drink less by putting up the price.
(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 20:36, closed)
Reminds me of a visit to Sweden.
I've notnseen people pile that much booze into trolleys outside of a cash and carry. I saw Norwegians with a hundred or so cans of beer coming out ofnthe purpose-built-for-norwegians off-license.
(, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 17:24, closed)
i bought a round of 4 beers in copenhagen
the girls were worth it, though my wallet was much lighter
(, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 20:51, closed)
I brought a round of three drinks in Sweden.
£75

Christ alone knows what was in it. A type of dirty pint I think.
(, Sat 30 Jul 2011, 11:24, closed)
No bought beer when I lived there-
we either brewed it ourselves in the shed or made moonshine out of fermented peas. It tasted just about like you'd expect.
(, Sun 31 Jul 2011, 2:00, closed)

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