TYPE OF BEER:  Millers [6/10]

COST OF BEER: $4.80 AUD per 350mL [6/10]

SCENERY (PEOPLE):  Brilliant.  Americans at the best of time are known to be a country of flag waving wankers, and no where is this more evident than in the retirement capital of the USA  [9/10].

SCENERY (NATURAL):  Not bad, over commercialised beach with no waves, but full of tryhard yanks on esky lids trying to surf it. [7/10]

PROPENSITY TO BUY MORE BEER:  Pretty average, gotta get off the beach, past the 5 star hotels and into the city to a 'gas station' [6/10]

COMMENTS:  Daytona Beach is one of those places that you have to go to just to say you've been.  Its full of yuppie American wankers, fake tans, and overpriced and tacky everything.  But maybe that's the attraction.  Makes you want to wave the stars and stripes while wearing a shirt that says 'american and proud' with your fat guts poking out over your undersize shorts walking along the polluted beach holding hands with your overweight, neurotic, whinging wife who has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp.  USA will never be my favourite parts of the world, but like everywhere I'm glad I've been.

TYPE OF BEER:  VB Longnecks [8/10]

COST OF BEER: $3AUD per 750mL [7/10]

SCENERY (PEOPLE):  Pretty average really, although Ballarat can sometimes surprise with great people in amongst the hoodlum youths, old fuddy duddies, and teenage mothers.  [6/10].

SCENERY (NATURAL):  Black swans on the venue on a massive lake, the venue of the 1956 olympics rowing.  Great place to watch Australia Day fireworks too.  Very much, like many things, weather dependant.  Much of the ambience is unfortunately drowned out by the loud V8's and 'doof doof' stereos on the road behind.  Reminds you that you're in a regional Australian town where young people have nothing else to do but customise old beat up cars.   [6.5/10]

PROPENSITY TO BUY MORE BEER:  Great, Lake View Hotel 'bottlo' is just over the road, about 100m away. [8/10]

COMMENTS:  As far as a home town place for a beer goes, this is one of the best.  Hard to beat during a summer sunset.

 

OVERLOOKING ISLAND OF VENICE, FUSINA CAMPSITE, ITALY

 

 

OVERALL:  [7.6/10]

TYPE OF BEER:  Tuborg [9/10]

COST OF BEER: $2.72AUD per 350mL [7/10]

SCENERY (PEOPLE):  Brilliant.  The 'free state of Christiania', started by hippies in 1972 attracts sorts of people, predominantly stoners and freaks, some businessmen, and of course tourists  [10/10].

SCENERY (NATURAL):  Lots of stoned dogs everywhere, pretty laid back atmosphere with a constant wafts of marijuana in the air (its legal) [7/10]

PROPENSITY TO BUY MORE BEER:  Great, gotta get off the roof and head down to 'pusherstraat', where the drugs are sold.  In amongst the pusher booths there's Tuborg selling shops [8/10]

COMMENTS:  Great to 'get away' from the order and perfectness of Denmark.  Its a real eye opener this place, a unique part of the world, and sitting up on the roof of the bar is the perfect place to veiw it all.

TYPE OF BEER:  Victoria Bitter [8/10]

COST OF BEER: $1.29 AUD per 375mL can [9/10]

SCENERY (PEOPLE):  This place is in the middle of nowhere, so the people you watch are the people you've brought along.  If you're not offended by blatent nudity, this is for you.  [8.5/10].

SCENERY (NATURAL):  The mighty Murray.  Australia's longest river.  The old river red gums sway gently in the morning breeze, the river water flows ever so gently by, morning dew slowly drips off the gum trees, and the only sound to break the symphony of silence is the whizzing of the rod of a dawn fisherman and the cracking of a pre-7am can of beer. [9.5/10]

PROPENSITY TO BUY MORE BEER:  Shithouse.  Firstly you need a sober driver, and you need at least 45min for a round trip into the country town of Echuca.  Be organised.  Bring too much. [6/10]

COMMENTS:  An absolutely magic part of the world.  An annual and often tri-annual pilgramige for those of my home town of Ballarat.  Week long benders drinking only beer and eating only baked beans are not long enough.

TYPE OF BEER:  Tuborg [9/10]

COST OF BEER: $2.60 AUD per 350mL can [7/10]

SCENERY (PEOPLE):  Bugger me.  Words find it hard to describe what its like being on this beach.  As one of my visiting mates here once said 'Nath, after 6 hours here, I'm nearly sick of looking at tits'.  (I slapped him).  Danish people are, overall, beautiful people.  Danish people wearing essentially nothing and strutting around on a beautiful beach are even better.  [10/10].

SCENERY (NATURAL):  The beach is actually pretty average, you've got to first wade out past a shitload of seaweed to get out into the water, however the 'ambience' of the place makes up for it all. [9/10]

PROPENSITY TO BUY MORE BEER:  Pretty good, the 'StatOil' petrol station is across the road, and sells shitloads of beer to those on the beach. [8/10]

COMMENTS:  Its hard to beat this beach as being one seeminly only reserved for exceptionally beautiful people.  Danish people aren't shy, and they're only too happy to strut around wearing nothing just to reveal the benefits of spending whole dark winters in solariums.

 

TYPE OF BEER:  Kozel Budvar [9/10]

COST OF BEER: $0.09 AUD per 375mL bottle (no shit!) [11/10]

SCENERY (PEOPLE):  The UNESCO listed tiny villiage of Cesky Krumlov is an amazing place effectively overran with backpackers, which is generally cool  [9/10].

SCENERY (NATURAL):  The beer you buy is usually warm and from the supermarket, but the moat surrounding the villiage is cold, so sitting along the moat with your beers in the water just waiting for the perfect drinking temperature to arrive is a great thing [8.5/10]

PROPENSITY TO BUY MORE BEER:  Supermarkets and stores everywhere.  No worries. [8/10]

COMMENTS:  Probably will always be one of my favourite spots in the world.  A place where even the South Pacific Peso (a.k.a. Australian Dollar) is king, the world is relaxed and the beer is 10 times cheaper than water.

 

TYPE OF BEER:  Tuborg [9/10]

COST OF BEER: $2.27 AUD per 350mL bottle [7/10]

SCENERY (PEOPLE):  Again, Danish people are generally beautiful people, and the picture perfect place of area of Nyhavn is a great place to meet and view them  [9/10].

SCENERY (NATURAL):  The atmosphere at Nyhavn is second to none, near the centre of one of Europe's great cities, upper class restaurants on one side of the walkway make way to people drinking on the footpath in front of boats in the canal dating back to the 1700's.  Very friendly and relaxed atmosphere [9/10]

PROPENSITY TO BUY MORE BEER:  Doesn't get better.  There are these asian dudes who 1. open your bottles of beer, 2. get you more beer when you want some more, and 3. clean up after you - for one thing, the bottles you leave over which are worth alot due to the Danish recycling system.  You can sit on your fat arse for hours if need be, without moving a muscle except for your all important drinking arm [10/10]

COMMENTS:  As I was saying to a mate here, 'I'm gunna make a pilgramige when I'm 50 years old mate, and relive these old days by getting shitfaced in this very spot'.  Its a place that like everywhere is weather dependant, and will leave you with lasting fond memories of Denmark's capital.