With great regret, I announce the Monopoly Pub Crawl, was not an astounding success.

As many would know, its not often I fail at anything, and certainly not when the job at hand involves alcohol. But alas, 26 pubs in a row, is just a little bit too much. After 12+ hours, 17 pubs and what must have been close to 6 or 7 miles of walking, we gave up, and the Monopoly Pub Crawl for January 2008 came to an unfortunate end. Yes that’s right, navigating for 30mins+ for a quick sit down (15 minutes) and a half pint continuously throughout the day is just not worth it.

We will try again though, in May or June, and it shall be finished. Note to self, wear looser, more comfortable jeans (my good ones were wet), and rely more on public transport as opposed to walking some of the longer stretches. All in all it was a fantastic day though, and the people, beer and fun made the whole thing worth it.

Euston-rs!!!

Hi all,

On this eve of maximus greatness, I’m going for a bit of a change from the pro-Nokia Technobabble (resulting in a continuous burst of traffic ever since) of my posts from the last couple of day. Yes tomorrow is a special day, Monopoly Pub Crawl Day, its somethign I’m surprised we haven’t done before, considering my previous obsession with London placenames and the original UK Monopoly Board.

The Game Board

The Monopoly Pub Crawl involves getting a group of people together and visiting each “property” or pub, (on that street, in that area, railway station or utility if you will) and have a drink at each, with the goal of the day to complete the board in a reasonable period. This will, unfortunately, be done in no particuloar order at all, purely to save on travel time in the already tight time span required to complete the journey.

The Crawl however, isn’t a new idea, as a little bit of research into the craze returned a lot of people who’ve done it before, along with people who’ve done it in other cities around the world. What really caught my eye was the guys over at www.monopolypubcrawl.co.uk came up with the idea of issueing chance/treasure chest cards for a select number of players at each pub, allowing for things such as:

• Pass on drinks for this turn (I don’t agree with this though)
• Swap drinks with the person on your left (imagine the possibiblities, swapping a double Havana Gold Rum for a some iccy Malibu mix)
• Collect on… Get free drink from the group
• Taxes, involving the purchase of a persons drink, or whole round
• Go directly to jail (sit in the corner for five minutes!)
• and so on

Imagine what the pub crawl could grow into if it became an annual event? One Saturday a year everyone could don their battleship, car, iron, thimble or dog costume and do the crawl, though I can’t imagine how to implement the ownership of properties, houses or hotels, but I’m sure there’s a good way to increase the gameplay required but not reducing fun, or drinking time in the slightest.

Anyway, time will tell to see how it goes, but expect to see photos, news and a pub/travel/drink/crawl log soon

And yes, I’ve no doubt they don’t serve beer at the water works or the power station, but I’ll be sure to try and get a photo of me with tinny outside at least one of the utilities