Why is the music in many bars so loud that you can't hear what the person next to you is saying? Because you go to bars to drink not talk, of course. Because everyone is shouting, the bar becomes even noisier and soon people start to give up trying to communicate and focus on their drinking, meaning more trips to the bar, and more regrets in the morning. Of ... Read full entry

This is something we don't quite have enough of here in Sydney, ornate, ye olde, style pub signs, that are almost a work of art in themselves.

Uh oh. This could reinflame the old Sydney/Melbourne rivilary. As if it's ever been... un-inflamed This morning's paper, the, haha, Sydney Morning Herald, features an article rejecting a "call" for more Melbourne style "hole in the wall" bars in Sydney... According to John Thorpe, the NSW president of the Australian Hotels Association: Melbourne - a land of skivvy-wearing, chardonnay-drinking book readers - is fundamentally different from Sydney in its ... Read full entry