fab
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christmas tripswhere do you plan to go for christmas holidays (If you have holyday).
Or what do you plan to do for this particular period of the year ?
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Benjamin [inactive]
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Tomorrow (22nd), my father's family will come round to our house in the evening, and we will eat sausages, potatoes and cabbage, followed by stollen (made by me) and anything else I decide to make tomorrow after going to the music shop to choose a recorder (flute à bec). On Christmas Eve in the evening, we will go to sing Christmas carols with lanterns on the green. Then, on Christmas Day, I will go to church with my parents in the morning, and then my father's family will come to our house again for Christmas dinner, where they will remain for the rest of the day. On 27th December, we will go to stay with my mother's parents for a few days, where we will see most of her family.
So, I'm not really going anywhere or doing anything hugely exciting. 
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Shouga
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Christmas Day will be spent in a pub this year, according to my mother.
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Deborah
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The only family I have here is my brother. We're both invited to my roommate's sister's place for dinner on Christmas, but I don't particularly feel like being around a lot of people. I'm inclined to do something just with my brother, like go to a movie. Bah! Humbug!
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Loic
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Do girls or women, for that matter, frequent pubs? I thought public houses were the last bastions of male bonding!
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| loic wrote: | | Do girls or women, for that matter, frequent pubs? |
Of course!  The last time I went into a pub, about 50% of the people there were women, as one would rationally expect. It's also very normal for children to go to pubs as well — I've been going to pubs for as long as I can remember.
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fab
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| Quote: | | It's also very normal for children to go to pubs as well |
?! Really ?!
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Icke
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| fab wrote: | | Quote: | | It's also very normal for children to go to pubs as well |
?! Really ?! |
And it is the same in Ireland. I've been there two years ago and I remember that whole families gathered there in the afternoons. On the weekends they often had their lunch there - I think, it's similar to what we call "Kneipe" here in Germany.
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| Icke wrote: | | fab wrote: | | Quote: | | It's also very normal for children to go to pubs as well |
?! Really ?! |
And it is the same in Ireland. I've been there two years ago and I remember that whole families gathered there in the afternoons. On the weekends they often had their lunch there - I think, it's similar to what we call "Kneipe" here in Germany. |
Yes, it's the same here as well. Obviously there are some pubs which you wouldn't want to take children into, but many are perfectly child-friendly. And I agree with Icke that 'Kneipe' is essentially the German translation of 'pub'. When I was in Germany this year, I had lunch in a Kneipe one day with a random older man I'd met on the train (who later showed me his house and his beer cellar). It seems to be the same sort of thing — same sort of food as well.
Who did you think went to pubs then, Fab?
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fab
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| Quote: | | Who did you think went to pubs then, Fab? |
Adults.
We have few pubs here, some Irish/British inspired brewries such as
It is popular among students and young adults (also a big British ccommunities), but I never saw a child there (I think he won't be accepted).
The french equivalent would be the bar/cafe, but it is pretty much different from a pub. And it is not at all a place for Kids.
In France, with kids you can go at Restaurant but that's VERY unusual to bring them in a bar/pub. It would be like incitating them to drink alcohol.
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Pauline
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I have travelled to two foreign countrys : Germany (Cologne ) and Ireland. I was in Cologne during one day but I was longer time in Ireland. One day we went to a pub and I liked it very much 
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Benjamin [inactive]
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| fab wrote: | | The french equivalent would be the bar/cafe, but it is pretty much different from a pub. And it is not at all a place for Kids. |
These exist here as well, but they're seen more as 'trendy' places where young adults go (not so much older people or children).
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Loic
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Here's the exterior of a pub in Singapore which I frequent from time to time. Am not a regular there, though.
Over here, pubs mainly serve as venues for us to watch football matches live on the big screen. I was exaggerating when I said that such establishments were devoid of a female presence. There'd be girlfriends who tag along to drink and who'd keep bugging us to leave before the final whistle at the 90th minute.
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Uriel
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I'm in Georgia at the moment, visiting my mother for a week. Other relatives have converged as well.
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Uriel
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My impression of English pubs (which was brief; I ate in one with my dad) was that they are not like American bars at all -- much more like an American bar and grill, which is essentially a restaurant with a larger beer selection than most, and a few taps around a central bar area, which is in turn surrounded by ordinary restaurant-style tables and booths, and is open to all ages. The difference is that we tend to not congregate there socially or have a favorite one that we frequent as regulars. And in my experience, even with bars, it is more common to hit several than to spend the whole night at one -- unless that one is just having a great night.
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