Lockdown Day 40: Friday 1st May, 2020  I was shitting myself.   We were deeply lost in the Bavarian wildlands. We’d just accidentally trashed a bar in the red-light district. We were completely wasted. We could barely speak the lingo. We were nicked. Not a lot going for us from what I could see.   […]

Lockdown Day 39: Thursday 30th April, 2020 We drank. We drank some more. Inevitably the stilted conversation with the stunted cousins drifted onto football. Partick Thistle were not on their radar so, I regaled them with my sodden tale of a grey evening at Hampden the previous month watching Beckenbauer lift the European Cup as […]

Lockdown Day 38: Wednesday 29th April, 2020 Noch andere?”   “Bitte.”   We laughed. We drank. We grew up.   The neonAzi wandered over wearing a deathshead smile and Grateful Dead T-Shirt. An uncanny Teutonic likeness without the roses.   “Schottische, nicht wahr?”   “Ja.”   “Dudelsack?” He mimicked a madman carrying a burning swan […]

Lockdown Day 37: Tuesday 28th April, 2020 This bar was magic. I loved this fucking bar. I thought about moving in. We were on a rare tear, well off the reservation, deep in the red-light district and lost in that scarlet night. Living it, loving it and lapping it up. Since midnight it had been […]

Lockdown Day 36: Monday 27th April, 2020 Get the beers in Trick!” Desperate Dan yelled from the other end of the bar where he was practising his schoolboy German on a nice slice of Black Forest gateau dressed in little more than a blue bikini and suspenders. She looked pretty fucking amazing, but I doubted […]