Some of Gin Club getting tuned into nature at Kew (this was after two gin based drinks!)* So the inaugural Gin Club with a Reading Problem outing (with more than two members), happened at Kew Gardens on Sunday. The gang ready to get going Our aim was to combine some touristing (I haven’t been to…
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Another one bites the dust
I am of course referring to another page of the Oliver Conquest’s Gin List! Page completed A reduced Gin Club with a Reading Problem (me and Kimmy) managed to complete another page of the Gin List last Friday. We also managed to taste some gin’s just in that morning & not even on the separate…
Gin Club Outing to the City of London Distillery
Friday night is cocktail night! This Friday a depleted Gin Club composed solely of new member Becky and I went to check out the City of London Distillery (apparently you can distill (see what I did there!) this to ‘COLD’). Well it wasn’t very cold when we went, Friday evening had turned out to be…
Sightseeing with the Brazilian in London!
It been really fun not working at the moment – it’s allowed me to be a tourist in my own city and this Sunday evening I was again touristing with someone I met whilst travelling! I met Cecilia and her friends in a hostel in Punta del Diablo Uruguay. They were all from Brasil –…
My favourite gin bar!
It was World Gin Day last Saturday 14th June, so my friend Kimmy and I decided to celebrate with a warm up event at the Oliver Conquest. The Oliver Conquest is pretty much a gin bar – I think their stock of +180 different gins qualifies them for this moniker – they also serve Meantime…
Weekend in Cambridge
Having met Lucy in Argentina and then putting up with her following me through Chile, Bolivia and Peru (such a stalker!) and after an interesting catch up in Colombia, the last time I saw her was in London for a gin (naturally!). So it seemed high time to catch up in her neck of the…
Gin Club outing @ Sipsmiths distillery
For my birthday in April Lauren kindly fed my gin addiction and gave me a tour of the Sipsmiths distillery in Chiswick. We finally got a date booked with some friends and general gin lushes to visit in July! So off we skipped after work on a Tuesday night to get quietly soozled (this is…
House of Bols
I was very excited to be in the home of genever whilst in Amsterdam. Genever is the precursor to gin so very important in Gin’s history, as we learnt the other week at the Martin Miller’s gin tasting. After our culture hit at the Rijskmuseum I managed to drag Tiva to the House of Bols…