Oh the Horror, Part 2!

So here’s part 2 of the post on the backpacker bars in Sydney, as I pointed out last time a blog called Gridskipper posted a list of the best bars to shag a backpacker in Sydney. I realized that I’d been to all and had an incident of some sort. I listed a few in the last post, so here are the remaining stories about 2 more bars on the list. #3 is Sidebar, which as pointed out is the hostel bar for the WakeUp! Hostel in Sydney. I stayed at the WakeUp! For like a week before I moved to Brisbane and that week included Valentines Day so yes I spent Valentines Day at the Side Bar, I ended up going with 2 of the guys who were in my room (I was staying in an 8-bed dorm). Needless to say it was a traffic light party, where you wear Green if you are single; yellow if you’re a maybe and Red if you’re taken. Simon the 18 year old Brit backpacker I was with wore a bright green kimono he’d gotten when he backpacked through Vietnam. I didn’t wear one of the corresponding colors, not that it mattered after the drink specials, bar sponsored drinking games, and occasional free shots and drinks that the bar gave everyone…bleh! Needless to say after that night Simon thought he was my boyfriend and I had to hang with him the whole week…you can’t avoid someone when they sleep in the bunk above you.
Next up we have World Bar in Kings Cross. Kings Cross was the backpacker hangout but I hated that neighborhood, so literally I only went out there once. Conor and Danielle and I and mad Mary all headed down to World Bar to meet up with some other Irish Conor knew. On the way we drank all 6 of our emergency beers (these were the beers that conor would put in the band of his pants for the bus ride/walk to whatever place we were going out at). Then Danielle and I had no telling how many vodka lemonades. Needless to say I had a good time and I met a very nice/cute Irishman who Danielle says is the cutest boy in her town and me and him hung out a few times…so all in all I would give World Bar thumbs up. The picture is of the lot of us at World Bar!!!

Oh the Horror!

So I was just perusing Gridskipper, which is kind of a guide to cities around the world but it's basically a blog from various, backpackers, travellers, etc. talking about good bars, restaurants and the like. However I was mildly horrified by this post..Entitled something to the effect of where to find a backpacker to shag in Sydney. The list is here:
http://gridskipper.com/travel/sydney/shagging-a-backpacker-in-sydney-279121.php

Of course when I read it I had in fact been to every one of those bars at least once, and have a story...I think that says something, and I really don't want to think about what exactly. I would agree with their #1 listing of Scubar...damn Scubar, damn them to hell, they had super cheap drinks and pizza. I think you could get a jug of snakebites and a pizza for $10 AUD..which is like $8. Also after that until like midnight jugs of beer would be about $5. After my very first day of work in Sydney I went and met up with this guy I met at orientation and we of course went to Scubar, at about 6pm and didn't leave until close..bleh! Also the girl that worked the bar in there was always super pissy, one time she was telling me how there were rats all over the house she shared with like 10 other backpackers..eww. Then there's 3 wise monkeys which is I think 3 or 4 on the list, there were lots of incidents there too, especially our first couple of weeks in Sydney since it was by our hostel. But the most famous incident at 3 wise monkeys was when Eric and my irish flatmate did heaps of tequila shots there, then stole the maraccas from the band and on the way home Danielle got in a fight with her boyfriend and got out of the cab on the side of the highway, and Eric got out too and they walked home..then someone broke the door off the bathroom later that night..damn you 3 wise monkeys..damn you!! Also I've seen the Lebanese bouncers there literally throw people out into the middle of the street..NICE!
This brings us finally to #2 on the list The Coogee Palace Hotel, which was down the road from my flat, so of course I frequented it. I think all I need to say about this place was that my company Christmas party was held there and it was open bar, and yes I did make out with my boss, and no I don't know if anyone saw, and yes I was embarassed everytime I had to go into his office for the next 2 months...and so be warned..if you go into any of the bars on that list..you WILL have an incident, there's no way around it!!!!!!!!! Also stay tuned for stories about the other bars on the list!!