Alcohol + Alcatraz

Last Saturday was Emma’s 20th bday so we all went out for a drink to celebrate. We started off in ‘Chez Auguste’ on place de la Victiore, where all of us girls had a cocktail- that basically set the tone for the evening!! We then moved on to ‘El Bodegon’ a Spanish style bar were we had quite a bit more alcohol including some margaritas, which were like a slush puppy with one hell of a kick! The bar staff there were all dressed as women and Ryan even thought one was actually a woman, they were that convincing lol.
From there we’d planned on going to ‘Calle Ocho’ bt Emma went back to campus to spend the rest of her day with her boyfriend who’d flown out just for the day! So instead we ambled down the street to ‘The Cock and Bull’ (of course)!!!!!
In there a guy called Kieran bought me, grace and Nicola a shot each, so we had dominoes i.e. 4 glasses, 3 with a red bull type drink in them and 4 shots of something (not sure what it was) balancing on top of them. The trick is to knock the first shot glass which knocks the others and makes them fall in to the glasses and mix with the red bull stuff and then obviously we had to down them in one. And i'm quite proud to say that i’m pretty damn good at it! Then this Kieran guy decided that he wanted to see us take the shots again so he bought us 3 more!!! Each shot cost 5€ so we had 30€ worth of free drink! Then we bought ourselves some vodka/cranberry’s, vodka/orange’s and chatted to the staff at the pub until closing.
When the pub closed, Andrew (one of the barmen) and an Erasmus student called Chris took us to a club whose name I forget except to say that it sounds like Alcatraz. In the club we had yet more drink and met up with Ryan and Bobby who’d left the cock and bull sooner than us because they weren’t getting free drinks! So that’s where we had our first dance in 6 weeks- and it was soooooooo good!!! The club was tiny but it had music and room to dance to we couldn’t complain too much.
At around 3.30 we were joined in the club by Rich (another one of the barmen- who by the way got my vote in the ‘who’s the fittest barman?’ debate on the cock and bull facebook!) and Mickey an English guy who works on the boats (or sumthin like that) and is always in the pub. So we stayed in the club until it closed at around 4am at which point we decided to head back to the cock and bull to wait for the next tram at 5am. Except when we all got out the club, grace was nowhere to be seen so Andrew had to go back into the club to fetch her, it seems she was held up because she was giving her number to a French guy in a wheelchair! She was very excited about the prospect of practising her French lol- obviously she barely remembered about this the next day! She does remember however, playing with the buttons on his wheelchair lol!!!
Having dragged Grace out, we all walked over to wait by the tram stop outside the cock and bull. All of us just sat and chatted and took pictures. Except for Mickey, who was winding me up about Rich and taking advantage of my drunken gullibleness- and i’m still not entirely sure whether everything he said was a joke or not. I’m hoping everything was a joke, or Rich has some serious explaining to do!!!
When we eventually got the tram it was full of people just like us: drunk and in dire need of some sleep! Nicola went to sleep on the tram until we got to ‘Peixotto’ at which point we had to help her make a quick exit so she wasn’t sick on the tram! Bless her, she’d mixed her drinks a bit too much and was paying the price. Thankfully she was the only one to be sick, but to be fair, she had drunk a couple more drinks than grace and me. So then we had to get back on the tram, but there wasn’t one for another half an hour. So we sat patiently, one coat between 3 of us, waiting for the bloody tram! When grace and me had taken Nicola to her room, and we were satisfied that she was ok, we finally got to bed about 7am- just as the birds started to sing!

So that was our first PROPER night out in Bordeaux, but hopefully its the first of many :) obviously more things happened than what I wrote in here but as the saying goes “what goes on in Bordeaux- stays in Bordeaux!”

Until next time xxxxx