Hi all , I organised an ASOIAF pub crawl stag do a few weekends ago and I thought a few of you might be interested . The pubs I found and thought wd make a reasonable circuitous route on the tube were as follows
The Kingsland - dalston junction
The Dragon - Hoxton
The Blind Beggar- whitechapel
The Hole in the Wall - waterloo
The Three Stags - Lambeth North
The Falcon- Clapham north
the Rose - Vauxhall
The Golden Lion - greenpark
Montague Pyke - Tottenham Court rd
The Sun Tavern -Covent Garden
John Snow - oxford circus
Woofes Bar - Holorn
There were a few rules (natch) we had a pair of silver antlers which had to be kept raised at all times by two "antler men" these antler men had a dragon (fridge magnet) and a lion (coin) hidden in their pocket. Whenever we reached a pub on the list ( or any inbetween that cd be connected to asoiaf , kings heads, red lions etc) the antler men had to ask the barperson dragon or lion, and the loser had to buy the winner a shot , before nominating the next2 antler men. We were a bit late starting so didn't make the last 3 , but when Tina and I ventured up to the scalethewall event a few days after we decided to find the remainders to check them out for next time .I shall drop the woolfes bar as its a bit posh , and swap it for the Clapham North next time we have a crack at it ( when Amin comes over maybe ?)
NB the Blind Beggar has 2 connections to asoiaf 1 Arya in Bravos (natch) and 2 it was the pub in which the notorious gangster TWINS Ronnie and Reggie Kray shot some poor fella ( Jack the hat McVitie if memory serves ) dead, back in the sixties.
There are no other asoiaf crawls in London to my knowledge, I couldn't find any on the net anyway , so I'm claiming the first and original A splendid time was had by all

Awesome! The Kingsland is a 10 minute walk from my flat!

I've actually frequented the latter half of that list on different outings. All really good places for a drink!

You forgot The Trout in Hammersmith!

This HAS to be what we do for the next Cockneymoot!

sounds good to me
the Trout was a possibility but I thought it was a bit far out, altho' with an early start it cd be included
I forgot to mention my fav part of the day , on one station platform there was a poster of Jack Gleeson advertising s4 which led to a football style chorus of us 12 blokes singing " Joffrey , you're a c*** . Joffrey Joffrey you're a c***" I've never felt so happy

OMFG we totally need to have a ASOIAF football chant filks edition!
Also rewritten football songs - an ASOIAF version of blowing bubbles or you'll never walk alone.

oooh my expletives were bleeped ! who done that ?! didn't think it was a problem seeing how GRRM uses it all the time . I'll know better next time , sorry
great idea bina

That sounds like a lot of fun! Does your hearty English constitution enable you to actually have a pint at 12 different pubs with extra shots thrown in for good measure and still remain on your feet and loosely cogent at the end of it? I know that I would be under the table before we even approached our final destination. Maybe if it was an all day affair with food throughout, then I could complete such a trek. Anyway, more power to you, you have my respect and admiration.

weeellllll we had 5 pints in hatfield waiting for some late arrivals before we caught the train (at 3pm) but only made 9 official pubs , so it wd have been 14 pints plus a few shots , not a bad session. we did grab a pasty off the stall at waterloo station to eat en route to the next pub , but we have a saying over here , "eating's cheating" when out on the lash, but it is pretty much compulsory to have a kebab on the way home

I don't know if I'm proud or ashamed of this , a bit of both I think

I can't believe that an asoiaf pub crawl happened so close to me and I missed it sad face! I really need to meet with other book lovers at some point and a quick trip into Londinium would be just what I need!

Hey Sarah, you're more than welcome to the next Cockneymoot! PM me for details.

bump for this old thread in light of the upcoming crawl in jan, and so maybe sarah chargaryen might not miss it (as it seems to be her only post )

Oh maaan. This happened. Wish I'd joined the forums sooner. I'm in North London and if there is two things I bloody love it's Beer and ASOIAF!

You should join the new one
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