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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post

    I lived in a vineyard only about 5 miles S of Buda the classier side with an impressive view,
    I would expect nothing less of you, david.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    Just look for the locals on the buckfast and you've found it.
    For real?

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    Is that mustard Colmans though?
    Of course it is, with a liberal enough smattering to get up my nose.



    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    Pest is the left bank...
    Oh so there is actually a Buda and a Pest?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post





    Oh so there is actually a Buda and a Pest?
    Buda is more residential - and pleasant for a walk around - and Pest is where the action is.

    We actually stayed in Buda though and took a taxi in when we were getting on it. David will know more than me, bit it was a nice place to stay. Not too far from the action and an excuse to get away from it and see different areas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    David will know more than me, bit it was a nice place to stay
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    Indeed I thought I was a peasant until lived in Hungary.

    I had chikens with the Roma and beyond the Alfod on teh Romamian border some mammoth piss ups which would kill me now, Horsemen , home made whiskey gambling singing and schmuggling like Donegal without the culchies.

    There are some fine works of Art, day trip to Lake Balaton or Esztergom.
    Esztergom - Wikipedia
    About an hour north by train from Nygati Pu the main train terminus heading North and a bit like Kings Cross Sydney or London after dark, footpads muggas buggas and pay to play, In fact aside from suburban Kelenfold all of teh main stations are scumful after dark.
    Tokay wine a must try and of course the crazy roof top bars

    Plus some of teh river boats are bars hotles and have live bands

    For the feint hearted there are lots of dogs and pussies cannabis Es and all sorts of strange Absinthe and peach, plum brandies you could run a scooter on.

    Added bonus
    rambling mugga's pikies and that's just the gangs of English slappas dressed as nurses and nuns on hen nights etc
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    I just want the chance to use a bigger porridge bowl.

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    PS PM if planning to visit Brno I will be there for the annual wine and film festival I hope. A small gem of a city , capital of Moravia an easy ride from Vienna Bratislava or Prague.

    Trencin Kromeriz Cesky Krumlov all good

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    PS PM if planning to visit Brno I will be there for the annual wine and film festival I hope. A small gem of a city , capital of Moravia an easy ride from Vienna Bratislava or Prague.

    Trencin Kromeriz Cesky Krumlov all good
    Last time I was in Prague, it was to catch a train to Brno. 2007 conservation project, rewilding Eurasian Beaver..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    Eurasian Beaver
    Did you fertilize Sofia's Gardens tho?

    To roger more may be strictly wronger
    Than to idly Willy Dilly daily longer
    To give Candy Floss in a manner vulgar
    Smeared with with bio actifidus Bulgar
    But more Monga Bunga for yer Wonga

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    Quote Originally Posted by david44 View Post
    PS PM if planning to visit Brno I will be there for the annual wine and film festival I hope. A small gem of a city , capital of Moravia an easy ride from Vienna Bratislava or Prague.

    Trencin Kromeriz Cesky Krumlov all good
    Well you never know, it's on the way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Switch View Post
    rewilding Eurasian Beaver..
    I thought you were more of a chutney ferret man?

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    more of a chutney ferret man?
    Branston man can Pick a Lilly at weekends, be watchful of those who bring Sri Racha hand blended with salad cream to a date rather than MAYO

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    Some pics around Town.

    I’d been out for a whole 5 mins yesterday and I’d already seen a woman manhandle a raging pterodactyl sized seagull out of a cafe, a junky rifling through someone’s Amazon delivery and a kid revving the fk out of a motocross bike (defo not road legal) Down Union street. Didn’t catch those bits on camera tho.

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    Lang may yer lum reek...

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    There is plenty street art around Aberdeen which was part of a Nuart campaign/festival


    King Eddie VII


    Belmont Street is a nightlife hub of bars, clubs and kebab shops, more on that later, I'm sure.


    Back Wynd Taxi Rank is the last chance on a night out to either pull a bird, get in a scrap or both.
    There's a bar on there does Corpse Survivor/Corpse Reviver cocktails that will ruin a night out from the very start.


    St Nicholas Kirk Cemetery on Union Street was always the place to meet before mobile phones as every bus in the city stopped there.
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    This was once the Union St. entrance to the Aberdeen Indoor Market. Although it's currently undergoing a full rebuild, this picture kinda sets the mood for how a post-covid Aberdeen now feels.


    Can't walk past Greggs and not get a steak bake. This thing nearly melted my face off and burnt my fingers at the same time. Straight off the display shelf too, didn't expect it to be like eating molten lava. Thank fk I sat down for it and not attempt it on the fly.



    Union Square. Abdn's newest shopping centre which joins the train station with the bus station on either side. This place killed Union Street as every decent shop or restaurant moved here. Union Street is now loaded with vape shops, £1 shops and charities.


    Walking over the Bridge St. Bridge, looking down on Windmill Brae. There are a few large bars, a wee club I used to visit every weekend and a Strip Club. Those cobbles (or cassies, as we call them) are deadly on a wet night on the steep Brae after jumping around to the likes of Lisa Lashes until sunrise.


    Not a bad haul for £21.95. Sorry mate, you're going to have to do your job and run this lot up for me cos I have no fkn idea what's going on with this self service nonsense and I refuse to be a part of it.
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    Good pics, great start.

    went to Budapest about 5 years ago. wasnt as impressed as i was with Prague, found it more expensive. but the underground is cool, as are the sites etc. and well worth a visit. In Pauge stayed miles out but right next door to the Starapromen brewery. will take my offspring one day, as day drinking in street is encouraged
    we won it at wemberlee
    we on it in gay paree...

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    Time to walk to Mum’s for supper.

    This is the retired undefeated best chipper in Scotland. I used to own a flat a few doors down.
    There will be more on this later when I tackle the Ashvale Whale for old time's sake.
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    This is the local chipper to my Mum's house, where I grew up.
    Apart from the battered deep fried pizzas, it's pretty shit.
    The weekend has almost landed, more on battered pizzas later, I'm sure.
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    Mum pulled one out of the bag. Braised beef with gravy, stuffing and trimmings.
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    Ooh fit fine, min!
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    And she sent me away with 2 cartons of beer (Stella for me and Budweiser to keep everyone else's paws off my Stellas) and a large bowl of homemade soup.
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    Thanks for the Aberdeen memories Dirk. I recall some memorable places going back to the 70's/80's. 'Henry J Beans' for example in Windmill Brae where I tasted potato skins for the first time. A western themed place, quite apt for the number of 'cowboys' in Aberdeen at that time. 'The Tappit Hen' on Back Wynd was another good place, and there was 'The Wild Boar' a bar/restaurant around the corner in Belmont Street that had good food and served Grolsch with the ubiquitous swing stopper top which was quite rare at the time. A place for a great lunch was 'Poldino's', as the name implies, Italian. Had a memorable lunch one rainy winters day there, followed by a matinee performanace at His Majesty's Theatre of 'A Man For All Seasons'. Charlton Heston played the lead, 'Sir Thomas Moore', though was completely upstaged by Roy Kinnear in the role of 'The Common Man'. It wasn't long after that Roy Kinnear was killed falling from a horse during the making of a Don Quixote movie in Spain. Opposite 'Poldino's' was 'Ma Cameron's', another Aberdeen institution.

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    What was above Henry J Beans back then? HJB made a return for about 5 years before becoming Campus, with The Garage upstairs. In my early drinking underage days it was Berlins on the bottom and Zuu on the top. Might get a look if I'm down that way this weekend.

    The Tappit Hen became O'neil's Irish Bar, will check on that later too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    What was above Henry J Beans back then? HJB made a return for about 5 years before becoming Campus, with The Garage upstairs. In my early drinking underage days it was Berlins on the bottom and Zuu on the top. Might get a look if I'm down that way this weekend.

    The Tappit Hen became O'neil's Irish Bar, will check on that later too.
    There was nothing above HJB when I knew it, nearest disco/dance place was around the corner, near Market Street. Can't remember the name but know for it's 'grab a granny' nights......

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAG View Post
    There was nothing above HJB when I knew it, nearest disco/dance place was around the corner, near Market Street. Can't remember the name but know for it's 'grab a granny' nights......
    I think you had The Happy (Clappy) Valley across from HJB?

    Grab a Granny was at the Metro!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dirk diggler View Post
    I think you had The Happy (Clappy) Valley across from HJB?

    Grab a Granny was at the Metro!
    No, I remember it now, it was 'Ritzy's' in Bridge Place, originally 'The Palace' cinema, also known as 'Fusion'. The Silver City Vault::Aberdeen Cinemas: Palace

    I seem to recall a 'Happy Valley' being a Chinese restaurant?

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    Nice home cooked grub Dirk.

    Used to love our local grab a granny nights!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PAG View Post
    No, I remember it now, it was 'Ritzy's' in Bridge Place, originally 'The Palace' cinema, also known as 'Fusion'. The Silver City Vault::Aberdeen Cinemas: Palace
    The Palace Cinema became Bonkers at one point, upstairs was called RPM. It later became The Palace nightclub, then got a huge makeover and became Liquid. I walked past yesterday and it's called Atik.

    Google says it's not open til 11pm on Saturday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Used to love our local grab a granny nights!!!
    I've got a feeling you still do!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    Nice home cooked grub Dirk.
    I've managed to abstain from the soup until tomorrow morning's fuzzy head.

    I might even knock up some Cullen Skink if I can get some smoked haddock.

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    Dirk we're 40 posts and not a sign of a pavement pizza or a fur burger shot.

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    I've not had a night out yet, but there is a 3 day bender imminently approaching.

    I'm jus away to post more lovely Granite City architecture pics and get caught up before the brain damage sets in.

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