At one of the B & B's the proprietor took us pub-hopping.
I walk down the south bank to the Blue Anchor pub, and hop onto a rowing machine to see what the sport – or, at least, my weaker version of it – is really like.
Members £5, non-members £7.50 Nights out in Belfast tend to be pub-hopping affairs, and no place hops more than the Cathedral Quarter.
Restaurants have made Portland a draw in recent years, but it has long been a magnet for pub crawlers who hop among the dozens of bars packed into the city's dense Old Port section.
Sadly, that change only lasted another decade before the rakish, pub-hopping ways chronicled in his 1992 memoir The Hidden Files finally caught up with him.
It's the only pub quiz happening at this year's event, so sign-up on Upcoming to ensure a place: it will be absolutely hopping.
Picture a dripping mummy hop, hop, hopping.
YOUR FIRST VISIT OR YOUR 10TH -- Stroll down to Nyhavn, the dockside district lined with tall-masted old ships and throwback pubs, and hop on a sightseeing boat operated by DFDS Canal Tours.
This is no joke: Weekend nights this town hops with pubs, clubs and restaurant nightlife.
Think of nights like Peckham's Rhythm Section, housed in Rye Lane's gloriously grubby pool hall Canavan's, the Trilogy Tapes affiliated Local which hops from pubs to railway arches around Brixton, or The Occasional Feel Good which turns Herne Hill's Island Arts Studio into a wonked out disco daydream.
