Poles of Inconvenience – The Info
2024 Prize Categories
| NAME | JUDGING CRITERIA |
|---|---|
| Poles of Inconvenience 2024 Grand Champions | To be crowned as “Grand Champions”, you will need the most points scored when all your points from hitting poles – normal and golden – are tallied up. Simple. |
| Spirit of the Poles | When you’ve done it right. Nailed the style. Unfazed by challenges. Hit the hardest poles. Laughed in the face of catastrophe. Have a fantastically shit vehicle. Are generally cooler than a fridge full of frozen cucumbers. Ideally you are all of the above. |
| Most Poles Bagged | Sod quality, you’ve gone for quantity, which is also okay. Grab this one for packing away more poles than a chronically-obese squirrel packs nuts in autumn. |
| Farthest Flung | Travel the furthest in pursuit of adventure as recorded by our clever tracking app and nab this one. Go the extra mile (literally) and find yourself rewarded accordingly. |
| Poles of Steel | You laugh in the face of one-pointers, you are on a mission from a higher calling to willingly push yourself over the edge of reason and plunge, cackling, into the abyss of glory. Score the most points from hitting the least poles to nab this one. Golden poles not included in this one. |
| Best Vehicle | What it says on the tin. We’re hoping for hot air balloons, camels, submarines or a pogo stick. If we absolutely must award this to a car or a motorcycle, it’ll have to be incredibly unfit for purpose, utterly shite and, therefore, outstanding. |
| Stupidest Route | To nab this award, we need to either see a bunch of squiggly nonsense that proves you went into this adventure with absolutely no idea what you’re doing, or you manage to draw something brilliant with cunningly amusing GPS data. Alternatively, it may be a moment of sublime mayhem – driving off a cliff to get to the bottom of a mountain very quickly would qualify. |
| Most Charismatic Reporter | Having a blast? Great. Everything going to shit? Even better. Tell us about it. You’ll get your grubby mitts on this prize if you do the best job of reporting your adventure through the medium of short video clips. It’s about quality, not quantity here folks – just one submission a day for this. |
| Best Cinematography | Once the dust has settled on your adventure and you’ve settled back into your boring lives, we hope you’ll go through your myriad of photos and videos and sort the wheat from the chaff. This prize will be awarded post event to the team that gives us the best content dump. We’re not interested in 9gb of shaky dashcam wank, we want the best photos and short video clips you’ve got – along with any compilation vids you throw together you’re happy to share. |
| Charity Champions | Cool Earth are saving the world, so we’ll still have somewhere to go adventuring in the future. Raise the most for Cool Earth and bag yourselves this award along with enough good karma points for the next few lifetimes. |
| Billy All The Mates | Shake grubby hands with as many of your fellow teams as possible and send us a photo to prove it. The team that meets and shakes hands with the most other teams will claim this one. You’ll probably also catch some lurgy, but it’ll be worth it. |
| Pole to Poles Award | No, not going from the North Pole to the South Pole as you may think (though we will award you if you manage that). Instead, to grab this award we need you to find the most inconvenient pole you can (barber’s pole, flag pole, ship’s mast, dancing pole…etc) and attach it to your vehicle for the entirity of the adventure. Stupidest pole wins. |
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Poles of Inconvenience
| NAME | WHAT3WORDS | POLE DESCRIPTION | POLE SCORE | COUNTRY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monte Cuccio | bugs.plot.crafted | We hear the gravel track to get up here is brutal, narrow and steep. Sounds lovely. | 3 | Italy |
| La Sarga | ///unnatural.undergrads.bellowing | Ever-so-slightly inconvenient this one, though that’s kind of the point. | 2 | Western Sahara |
| Carman’s Pass | modification.mailorder.swerving | Suggested by Mr Aaron – a 2022 participant. It was quickly verified by us after we saw the video evidence of how stupid it is. It’s a real beauty. Bring your sturdy underwear. | 3 | Kosovo |
| Tea and Toast | teacups.emancipate.experiments | Some random flames that have been burning on a mountainside for thousands of years. Great place to toast a teacake. | 2 | Turkey |
| The Salty Desert | grumbling.imaging.biped | What better way to make a difficult journey harder than trying to get 30km off road to the wrong side of a salt flat. You will most likely need sand ladders. | 5 | Western Sahara |
| Karkonoska | ///centuries.lobbed.chillier | Slight detour from the steepest road in Poland. | 3 | Poland |
| Erg Chigaga | singleness.megabits.played | A gigantic sandpit for adult children. AKA the Sahara. We’ve positioned this pole as close to the middle as it might be possible to get. | 5 | Morocco |
| Klekovača | ///fringed.eradicated.mellower | Mary Poppins would struggle here as its apparently rather windy at the top. | 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Great Wall of Guernsey | squealing.crowbars.excel | Time this well and you won’t get your feet wet! | 3 | Guernsey |
| Breaking Point | potranno.sganciato.pagarti | Winner of our Pitch-a-Pole Competition in 2024. Georgia was actually the birthplace of our dear friend wine, and you’ll need a whole heap of it after this conquering this pole. | 5 | Georgia |
| Karagyol Reservoir | salon.guidance.breakdowns | To get here, you have to take the highest paved road in the Balkans. There are 28 hairpins and no barriers protecting you from the sheer drops. It sounds idyllic. | 3 | Bulgaria |
| Dark Hedges | mess.chromatic.married | Famous from Game of Thrones but fuck that as a reason for going there, it’s just a pain in the arse to get to and will make your car look awesome. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| Egg in a Bog | ///wagers.unbeatable.derail | What would Ireland do to commemorate the first transatlantic flight other than put an egg in a bog. Makes perfect sense. | 2 | Ireland |
| Pier of Inconvenience | ///valleys.flounces.fluster | You can enjoy the beach on your way back. | 2 | Germany |
| Strata Florida | compress.dumplings.centrally | One of the most daft tracks in the UK. Totally unsuitable for a small vehicle. | 5 | United Kingdom |
| Thank f**k he’s not a real boy | tarnish.fonts.interactions | 63 Feet Tall Pinocchio. | 1 | Italy |
| Latpari Pass | nomad.motorist.safety | Another very spicy Pole. This road is not for average drivers. | 4 | Georgia |
| El Rocko | defending.tumbles.happens | Pander to your inner geologist and come splendor at this big rock off the Moroccan coast. You could try and go there but you’ll almost certainly get shot, so we don’t recommend it. | 2 | Morocco |
| Spooky Tea Spot | touchingly.joined.farmyard | An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries. Lovely spot for a nice Earl Grey. | 2 | Turkey |
| Area 51 | discomfort.advise.interestingly | This appears to be about as close as you can legally get to this absolutely gigantic solar farm without being shot. We might be wrong of course, and you might get shot, so maybe just check. | 1 | Morocco |
| Pole of Toxicity | plop.levitating.phosphorus | A vast toxic lake, flooded with acidic sludge laced with copper, lead, zinc and arsenic. Don’t forget to pack your goggles. | 2 | Romania |
| Anatori’s Crypt | playoffs.derives.outlined | Medieval communal tombs where infected villagers would wait for death in times of plague. Cheery. | 3 | Georgia |
| Massive Communist Monument | wobbled.darling.assist | Massive ruined communist monument atop a ruddy great hill. | 2 | Bulgaria |
| Mull of Kintyre | sofas.drips.kitten | Made famous by Paul McCartney and Wings, here’s a splendid spot to send you lot. Mainly because its an absolute royal pain in the arse to get there. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| Tizi n’Tamtdit | reliant.finer.bladder | This desert trail is like a walk in the park, if the parks on fire, and you’re on fire, and your cars on fire. Bring some water. | 5 | Morocco |
| Bridge over the Atlantic | Moped.tasks.reeling | Regale the pub with stories of your successful ocean crossing. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| Le Bourg | gullible.rural.madmen | Rather lovely French road. Windy and full of tunnels this one should be fun. | 1 | France |
| La Cite d’Orion | achievements.putters.muggy | Incredible art constructed from the desert by German artist Hannsjoerg Voth. Theres actually something to see at this pole so well worth having your underpants filled with sand for the rest of eternity. | 2 | Morocco |
| Laver Ghost Town | tracks.spouses.torched | What better place to visit than one that has been abandoned by all humanity for decades. | 2 | Sweden |
| Liz’s Phone Box | finders.traffic.tourist | This won’t be the toughest POI to hit, but if you want to snag one that includes a phone box that was once owned by Queen Elizabeth II, then this is probably your best bet. | 1 | Germany |
| Tall Erik | ///gritty.minimum.glean | It’s Tall Erik, is there more to be said. | 1 | Sweden |
| Geographical centre of Earth | veteran.permits.tasteless | The geometric centre of all land surfaces on Earth is here. Directly below every country, every city, every point on the surface, at a depth of about 6 million meters. You’d think there’d be something worth seeing here to mark it… | 3 | Turkey |
| Biggest Jar in the World | ///codified.december.briefs | Allegedly | 2 | Tunisia |
| Devil’s Throat | regularity.sharpen.thirdly | This road is said to end at the entrance to Hade’s Underworld, make it there and we’ll give you an extra point. | 2 | Bulgaria |
| Centaurs Chapel | sarongs.hover.wince | Driving on this road is like stepping into your washing machine and turning it on. Recommend buying insurance for your spine beforehand. | 4 | Greece |
| Maybe Impossible | lads.circulation.unsuccessful | Top of a ski slope. There are vehicle tracks heading up to this point though so it must be possible to reach when it’s not snowy…. right? | 4 | Spain |
| Chott el Djerid | largeness.sniggering.freelance | A huge salty flat thing in the Sahara. This pole is where we feel most inconvenience might be found. | 5 | Tunisia |
| The Pole of Much Measurement | ///postures.house.spurns | This Pole was used to measure the size and shape of the Earth apparently, it’s also Moldovas only unesco site. Off you pop. | 2 | Moldova |
| Pythagoras Cave | hostiles.cinemas.frosts | A² + B² = A massive inconvenience. | 4 | Greece |
| Thrombotic Twisty Track | umbilical.weathers.earring | High up, twisty, and not particularly close to anything else that you may merit convenient. | 2 | Serbia |
| Tad Inconvenient | hamster.darlings.bumpkins | Unless you can fly of course, which you very likely can’t. | 3 | Greece |
| Xenophobic Nightmare | ///prevented.deregulated.capacities | Three borders in one, what a treat. | 2 | Hungary |
| Orava Castle | falcons.occasionally.hyped | Count Draculas Holiday Home. | 1 | Slovakia |
| Furkaing Windy | lifetimes.quilting.vineyard | The site of a james bond car chase, hopefully there’s less explosions this time. | 2 | Switzerland |
| Foder Green | dumpling.jumbo.overheat | A green lane of some magnificence that also has the advantage of being in Devon which is a stupid place to go to. Unless you live in Devon. In which case this one is far too sensible to count. | 2 | United Kingdom |
| Baklava Bastard | likability.skyrockets.infrequent | Absolute shitter of a place to reach. At 3417m, it also happens to be the highest road in Turkey. Perfect. | 5 | Turkey |
| Bealach na Ba | folks.secrets.parked | A high and winding mountain pass through the Scottish highland. Perfect for making yourself lost, and likely, wet. | 2 | United Kingdom |
| Forest Chaos | sidelines.glory.layouts | Ah, the end of the tarmac. What better place to slap a Pole than the middle of a Romanian forest on a slab of mud. | 4 | Romania |
| Papa Kransal | droplet.stages.frock | Ever walked around your town or city and thought you know what this places needs, 500 dwarf statues. Come visit the fella who started the trend here | 1 | Poland |
| Road of Doom | spaceport.unsupervised.obeyed | There’s two ways to get here. We know one might be possible. The other way? What a wonderful slab of inconvenience. | 3 | Albania |
| The Church on Abano Pass | extraneous.roundabout.disarming | You’ll need prayers to get here, and prayers to get away again. Rather fitting really. | 2 | Georgia |
| Everest | ///motor.diagram.melt | The highest point of the Netherlands, only 2 hours and 330m of elevation from the lowest. Small potatoes. | 1 | Netherlands |
| Lost Again? | trucker.hobbit.backstage | Remote, hard to find, and utterly utterly pointless. | 4 | Turkey |
| Stelvio Pass | drive.lawyer.diplodocus | Recommend this lovely straight road after a heavy night to soothe the stomach. Tee-Hee. | 2 | Italy |
| Bikini Bottom | ///capers.shall.flinch | The lowest point of the flattest country in Europe. Enjoy a breather. | 1 | Netherlands |
| Into the Void | jarred.freezer.discrepancy | The highest point in Latvia at a dizzying…um… 312m above sea level. | 1 | Latvia |
| Duncansby Head Lighthouse | fail.illogical.awestruck | About as far away from anywhere useful as you could possibly want to be. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| Säffle | wickets.picnics.chives | It looks like you might be able to get your vehicle here. Maybe. | 3 | Sweden |
| The Hills have Poles | choral.multigrain.intolerance | Romania has some quite resplendent dirt tracks to get your machine stuck in. And here is just such a track. | 4 | Romania |
| Is Zadar’ll you’ve got | ///nuanced.campfires.constructs | Some mad bastards actually run this every year so you’ve got no excuse. | 2 | Croatia |
| Carril del Chaparral | swum.lifting.waffled | Further mountainous track joy to bend your tyres. | 3 | Spain |
| Toxic Oasis | flannel.truffle.repels | Toxic waste lake that was created by flooding a valley with a village in it, the spire of the church is still poking out of the water. | 3 | Romania |
| Island of Lampedusa | careless.vineyards.shires | This island is as inconvenient as it is beautiful. and its very beautiful. | 4 | Italy |
| Whats Amore | esteem.hostiles.pegs | By all accounts, this is the steepest road in all of Italy, with some bits of it reaching a rather engine-warming 30% gradient. Splendid. No prizes for going down it, you have to go up. | 3 | Italy |
| Bastardo | health.asides.leaves | We’ve never pretended to be sophisticated, and we’re not going to start now. This pole is where it is for one, simple, immature reason. | 1 | Italy |
| Road of Much Wideness and Space | flies.version.awkward | The narrowest street on the planet. Now that’s a tad inconvenient. | 1 | Germany |
| Kynthos | uses.horns.walkers | You’ll have to catch a ferry to get here, then you’ll have to drive along a beach which may or not be underwater. Don’t forget to send us a postcard. | 3 | Greece |
| The Mountain with the Hole | eager.adjuster.dabbled | Looks like an evil genius lasered a hole through a mountain. Maybe to test their ‘evil lair’ building equipment, who knows? | 2 | Norway |
| Göbekli Tepe | fanlike.leanness.entering | At over 11.000 years old this is Humanity’s oldest monument. Early man or Aliens -you decide. | 2 | Turkey |
| Big Blue Rock | beggars.crisp.lavatories | If you like big blue rocks we’ve got a treat for you with this one. | 3 | Morocco |
| Handmade Road | thicken.nozzles.typified | The canyon, which is 600m deep in places, is said to be the second-biggest canyon in the world after the Grand Canyon. Don’t look down. Oh, and the road was built entirely by hand | 3 | Turkey |
| The Transfăgărănish | riskiness.resting.airships | Leave one of the world’s most spectacular roads to go search for inconvenience. | 3 | Romania |
| Summer Skier | Reframed.Galaxy.Chasing | The tippy top of France’s biggest ski resort. Recommend avoiding the halfpipe on the way down. | 3 | France |
| Viking Cinema | treaty.sonic.firelight | The Uk’s smallest cinema run by Vikings. what more do you need. | 4 | United Kingdom |
| The Finnishing Touch | ///bicker.debased.argument | If you fall in the sea this one will be rather unpleasant so we recommend you don’t. | 4 | Finland |
| Kiipsaare lighthouse | ///apex.talkative.anyway | There doesn’t seem to be anything overly special about this lighthouse other than its delightfully inconvenient location. | 3 | Estonia |
| Ibiza for Penguins | pavilions.creeps.mixing | Europe’s most northernly point. Make it here, and you’re already 5 degrees into the Arctic Circle. | 2 | Norway |
| Four Leafed Pain in the Arse | ///blackout.unite.scrap | As far west as you can get in Ireland without nautical assistance, so it’s about as inconvenient as we could make it. | 3 | Ireland |
| Parikkala | ///improving.lighter.polymer | This place is less inconvenient and more just weirdly terrifying. | 1 | Finland |
| Zekari Pass | toughen.helped.laziest | Absolute beast of a track, you’ll thank us if you hit this Pole. Well, amongst the curses anyway. | 4 | Georgia |
| Cove of Inconvenience | objectifies.laser.streaking | Try not to drive off a cliff challenge, hard edition. | 3 | Turkey |
| Olympic Overdose | pleads.retinas.dwellings | Aspiring athletes may want to avoid this one, not sure what state the tracks in. | 2 | Greece |
| Really Big Orange | ///finely.condition.comments | What better way to mark the centre of your city than with a citrus surprise. | 1 | Morocco |
| Bombshell Blunders | slope.layers.broker | The site of a former explosion factory. Potentially explosives in the ground. An abandoned building and on a unstable peninsula in Ayrshire | 3 | United Kingdom |
| Banksy’s Bank | hero.fame.crazy | It’s not big, but it’s certainly clever (if you think building a street which only mountain goats can properly navigate is clever anyway). | 1 | United Kingdom |
| Zagari Pass | rosebushes.brainy.sprouted | One of the favourite poles from the 2022 edition, for a very good reason. It’s tough, high like a politician on a weekend in Bogota, and a potential car-breaker. | 5 | Georgia |
| Pylontastic | noisier.mitten.fragmented | Ever wanted to drive right through a pylon? Of course you have. Well, now thanks to us, you can. You lucky buggers. | 1 | Germany |
| Orjens Saddle | ///diluting.wretchedly.pastels | If you make it to the stunning views and mountain hut at the top of this track with all your vertebrae, you’re the real winner. | 4 | Montenegro |
| Bastardstown Beach | district.radiantly.baths | Yes, that’s actually the name of this place. Helpfully, this Pole is at the end of a small slipway too so it really will be a bastard to get to it. | 2 | Ireland |
| Say Cheese | sarcastic.harvester.despicable | Behold. The world’s largest cheese slicers. Bag this and your life shall be complete. | 1 | Sweden |
| The Passage du Gois | compression.exec.refuse | The road to this French island is especially inconvenient as its underwater for most of the day. If you drive fast enough you may be able to skip your car over the water like a stone, or not, who knows. | 3 | France |
| Merenid Tombs | ///fixture.holds.library | 14th century tombs high above Fes. What a view. | 1 | Morocco |
| Tizi n’Takchtant | undefined.outing.stresses | A super high dirt track pass into the high Atlas. Good luck! | 4 | Morocco |
| Devil’s Elbow | tonight.dummy.loosens | On the approach to the Cairnwell Pass – the highest motorable road in the UK. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| Rock of Tondi | ///glove.nibbles.eagles | A rock highly rated on Tripadvisor. ‘the best rock I ever seen 10/10 would take the family’. | 1 | Estonia |
| Westernmost Point of Europe | earmark.hairspray.pillbox | Cabo da Roca. Next, America. | 1 | Portugal |
| Centre of Europe | deckhands.internally.turtles | Here you’ll find the geographical centre of Europe – verified by some clever French chaps back in 1989. | 1 | Lithuania |
| Take a dip Smelly-Pants | elastic.raiders.booksellers | Beautiful waterfall swimming spot on a very wiggly backroad. | 2 | Portugal |
| Zelengora Pass | gooseberry.enticingly.applied | This handy Pole of Inconvenience is at the top of a dirt track mountain pass. Why not add it to your collection? | 2 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| The Tip of Portugal | braving.sciences.oppress | Deadend of Portugal in an area full of great dirt roads. | 2 | Portugal |
| Tree Hee | ///turkey.popping.layered | The king of pop immortalised how he would’ve wanted, on a tree. | 1 | Hungary |
| Wet Tunnel of much Cold and Dark | deviated.ramped.skipping | Only accessible by one road we recommend bringing your warmest most waterproof friends for this one, oh and definitely some kind of light. | 1 | France |
| Pico Veleta | automatically.unnecessary.impinging | The highest road in Europe, especially impressed if you’re either a mole or do this on a unicycle. | 3 | Spain |
| Cindery Island | hiring.tuned.encodes | There are no roads, buildings or infrastructure. It’s also mostly underwater. Glorious! | 4 | United Kingdom |
| Picos de Europa Deadend | conned.jazz.softies | Remote. Spectacular. Inconvenient. | 3 | Spain |
| Uninhabited mystery island | confessed.sorrows.perimeter | No plans have yet been announced as to how tourists will travel from mainland Albania to the island – which technically is still an operational military base. It is manned by two soldiers who patrol its two square miles. Wave as you go past them. | 5 | Albania |
| Sunken Sawmill | repeals.harnessing.dignity | A rather picturesque sawmill submerged in an Italian crevasse. | 2 | Italy |
| Jotunheimvegen 1995 | prevented.crouch.fingernails | Discovered in the first Poles of Inconvenience and found to be most excellent. | 2 | Norway |
| Summit of Sweden | tricky.believe.grudgingly | This is the highest public motorable road in all of Sweden. It’s also miles from anywhere. | 2 | Sweden |
| Eddie the Eagle’s Welsh Fancy | span.steroids.paler | May need to buy your handbrake a beer after this one. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| The Monsen Forgotten Road | cope.trudges.prospers | This one is courtesy of a Mongol Rally veteran and bone-fide Norwegian. “Think Cabin in the Woods meets Norwegian Fjord.” he said. Ok we said. We’re coming. | 3 | Norway |
| A trip to the beach | backwater.embroidery.fool | The most Northernly point of Denmark. No reason whatsoever to go there, so go there you should. | 1 | Denmark |
| Pico da Santinha | twinning.clincher.texting | In the mountains, at the end of a tough track ideally designed for 4x4s is this glorious abandoned building. A fine reward to top off the fun of getting here. | 3 | Portugal |
| Village Life | toyed.assumes.boringly | Splendid area this. It will give you a great slice of village life. It’s also a massive faff to get here and away again. | 2 | Morocco |
| Mount Kaliakouda | taxpayer.elves.comebacks | 70 hairpin bends running north-south from Aniada to Stournara. We can almost smell your brakes from here. | 3 | Greece |
| The Poleiest Pole | disregard.lumped.craftily | A mile out to sea, you’ll have to park and walk here to nab this one. There’s even an actual, rusty metal pole waiting for you. You lucky things. | 2 | Latvia |
| Monte Corrasi | ///trachea.microbe.solved | Remote and wild mountain in the Med. Terrible road quality and sheer hundred metre drops. Splendid. | 5 | Italy |
| Bayburt of Yolu | telemetry.follicles.tellers | As roads go this one is a corker. Steep as shit, winding through the mountains with big old drop offs of doom. | 4 | Turkey |
| Punta Cuta | ///pesky.nobody.isomers | People say a 4×4 is required to reach this viewpoint. We believe in you. | 3 | Spain |
| Torre de Hércules | ///lined.lofts.flanks | Something cultural to wet the whistle. | 1 | Spain |
| Remoteness in Road Form | evaporate.garlics.passes | Bugger all here. Really, bugger all. | 2 | Finland |
| Geographical Centre of Northern Ireland | launcher.outwards.joggers | The very middle of Northern Ireland. A place you never knew you needed to go, because you didn’t. Well, now you do. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| The Village of Supreme Creativity | brink.meatball.sprain | This village is called ‘A’ and here’s a sign to prove it. The road is annoyingly flat, but it’s quite the trek to get here. | 2 | Norway |
| Nipple path | chapels.repeating.dolphins | A handy slab of dirt track on the edge of the lake district. | 3 | United Kingdom |
| Mandø By (No. 5) | dust.informally.goodly | Conveniently, or not, to get to this one you have to drive across a tidal road that isn’t there half the time. Super. | 3 | Germany |
| Shore to be a pain in the arse | list.tilts.zeal | Firstly, you need to get to the top of Norway. Then you need to traverse about 10 islands to get here. There are 4 houses on this island. I’m sure someone will make you a cuppa. Will it be worth it? Absobloodylutely | 3 | Norway |
| Prove us wrong | ///underpinned.booed.arithmetic | We’re not really sure how you’ll get here. You’ll likely have to pleasure a fisherman in some way. Bribery is usually relatively successful. | 4 | Finland |
| Lost in the woods | vole.genetic.tailor | If you like trees, then you’ll fucking love this. Try not to use navigation to find this one. You’ll thank us later. Probably. | 3 | Finland |
| 100km dead end | watchable.newlywed.magicians | Sitting waiting for you at the end of a 50km stretch of road is this pole, some glory, and not much else. | 3 | Sweden |
| Contemplation spot | implicitly.storefronts.issuer | In the sticks. There’s a small pool here where you can sit for a while and wonder what the bloody hell you’re doing with your life. | 2 | Poland |
| Border chaos | bolting.overdid.multilingual | On a tiny little rock in the middle of nowhere is this. A splendid place to hop between Sweden and Finland. Inconvenience level: yes. | 5 | Finland |
| In the middle of the Vardø Tunnel | ///glaze.napkins.converter | Under the sea at Norway’s most eastern point. Pretty much as far as you can possibly go in the wrong direction in Europe. And under the sea. Still, at least you’ll be out of the weather – which will be terrible. | 3 | Norway |
| Quite a quaint quarry | included.busters.gullible | Rough, uneven and possibly dangerous track through an old quarry. | 4 | United Kingdom |
| Kimmeridge Bay | https://w3w.co/openly.warbler.homework | Beautiful surfing bay on the Jurassic Coast Dorest, miles from the nearest A road, its ‘out of the way’ inconvenient. | 2 | United Kingdom |
| Sometimes Wet | ///like.glare.foamed | Sometimes it’s a water crossing, sometimes not. What fun you’ll have, finding out. | 4 | Estonia |
| Nearly Nordviggen | ///underlines.eraser.overused | Off-road nirvana in the Norwegian woods | 4 | Norway |
| Easy Peasy | pillar.blips.ancients | It’s a 4×4 off-roading trail that looks absolutely filthy | 4 | Lithuania |
| Bocco Calva | whirlpool.quack.overstuffed | It’s a car-ripper | 5 | France |
| Copper Feel | siding.perkily.fiasco | Abandoned copper mine. Bring a torch. | 4 | Sweden |
| Running up that hill | ///tells.measure.unanimously | An off-road course – your crappy car should be fine | 4 | Germany |
| Punchy Forest Road | diffidence.wavelengths.cooperated | We could have picked one of the nice viewpoints nearby – but this way you get to EARN them. | 4 | Moldova |
| Cool for Tokat | wetsuits.declined.torrid | A harrowing off-road, uphill battle. There is nothing waiting for you except some very well-earned points so start this one with caution. | 5 | Turkey |
| A drive in the country | tailing.asserts.sums | Apparently you need a car with good ground clearance and off-road tyres. If you have either of these things you’re probably in the wrong kind of vehicle. Go get it Champ. | 4 | Turkey |
| Irish Blowhard | column.rhythms.sterner | Lovely views, and a blowhole. What’s not to like? | 2 | Ireland |
| Frenchy Forest Fun | swoon.lobby.reject | We needed one over here, so plumped for this beauty. | 4 | France |
| Inconvenient Religion | utterances.dragging.puzzler | This is a tough one – but your prayers will be answered at the end. (not a guarantee) | 4 | Italy |
| Haunted Castle | drizzly.adjuster.falcons | Look out for the spectral white lady who foretells imminent death… maybe visit this one last. | 3 | Ireland |
| Italian Job | stroke.sulkily.straddling | This pole is off the off-road track. Why? Because we love you. | 4 | Italy |
| Bring your snorkel | defected.still.prompting | The most dived wreck in the UK – bloody miles from the sea. We’re not making this easy.. jump in, the water’s lovely. | 3 | United Kingdom |
| Pipe Jumping | anchovy.pertinence.blackly | If you don’t wreck your suspension on the way here, these partly buried concrete pipes should manage it for you. | 3 | Romania |
| Dive on in | stifles.garlands.cope | We have no idea what this is. A quarry, an old reservoir, a sarlacc pit? It looks gross, and massive. Go there and find out. | 3 | Finland |
| Oak Josef | chatted.area.uploads | There’s apparently a 650 year old English oak tree here called Josef. Think of it as a massive wooden pole. | 1 | Poland |
| Chaux Forest | psycho.sour.redial | There’s an actual pole here. That’s what you’re searching for after all, isn’t it? | 1 | France |
| Homage to Mr Tom | boost.toolshed.incense | In homage to our glorious founder, Mr Tom. He’s the reason we’re all in this beautiful mess. This is in the carpark of “La Table de Tom” | 1 | France |
| Pointless | joking.decoration.greases | Lots of great looking dead ends around here. This one looks especially meaningless. | 3 | Italy |
| Bow to the Fiat | lands.hears.vegans | Steeped in history, this monument if here mainly because it has a Fiat conquering a tank. Either of which would be ideal vehicles to tackle the Poles of Inconvenience, | 1 | Croatia |
| Fontana Delle Tette | beaker.restless.info | No, this isn’t here simply because it’s a fountain from a pair of breasts, but because it used to be a wine fountain. Sadly, or luckily seeing as you’re driving, it now only serves water | 1 | Italy |
| What’s the Matterhorn? | dished.ombudsman.looked | Make it to this one, and you’ll have the exact same view of Matterhorn as it is in the event logo. Surely that’s worth a new sump guard | 2 | Switzerland |
| This could take a while… | mini.confederate.demeaning | Not hard to reach as such, but it’ll take you bloody ages to get here. Miles of installed floating walkways will get you to the island, followed by a hefty trek up the mountain. At least there’s a cafe at the top. Hopefully it’s closed when you get there for maximum inconvenience. | 3 | Italy |
| Berghain Bouncers | risking.luckier.bashed | Sla bang in the middle of the most difficult club to get into in all of Europe. | 1 | Germany |
| Palaestra of Petronius | penguin.sunburn.gazette | Some fine looking poles here in the middle of nowhere | 2 | Tunisia |
| Have fun | frothing.liquids.suitcases | You’re going to have a riot making it here. If you make it at all that is. | 3 | Tunisia |
| In a roundabout way | quietly.cements.seasonally | Probably the most scenic roundabout we’ve seen for a while. Helpfully, you’ll have to climb a ruddy great hill to reach the middle, where this pole is | 2 | Spain |
| A ribbeting location | perspectives.perm.sweaters | Get all the way here and you’ll be lucky enough to find an ancient bathtub for frogs and toads. Thrilling stuff. | 1 | Spain |
| Technical Passage | diminishes.petitioning.jobs | Should be totally fine…. | 4 | France |
| Tower = Pole | periodic.overstep.mobiles | Old border station looking out over Germany. Plus the tower could be considered a ‘pole’ if one were to have dirty eyeglasses and a squint. | 2 | Czech Republic |
| Danish Desert Island | coffeepot.educators.quest | Anholt is an island situated at least 3 hours sailing from mainland Denmark. The island with 150 inhabitants turns into a frenzy of music festivals, kite surfing competitions, beach jams and artsy and weird characters overflows the island over summer. The island has a deserted morraine named ‘The Desert’ by locals. Likely, the closest you get to a Robinson Crusoe feeling in this part of the world. | 4 | Denmark |
| Mystery Compound Coffee (Royal Guard Café) | ///damsel.concepts.readjusts | Possibly the most remote cafe in Western Sahara? Located in a mysterious looking compound miles from anywhere useful we have absolutely no idea what you’ll find here. Although the reviews say the coffee is a bit thick, it’s just a short 2.5 hour detour from the coastal highway to drop in for a snack and a beverage. | 4 | Western Sahara |
| Biggest (flag) pole in Europe | bearers.hunter.statins | Because it’s a fucking massive pole. No other reason needed. | 1 | Bulgaria |
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Geographic Centres
| NAME | WHAT3WORDS | POLE DESCRIPTION | POLE SCORE | COUNTRY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Deepest Darkest Germany | focal.truancy.couch | The geographic centre of Germany. | 1 | Germany |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Czech Republic | divots.funky.cupcake | The geographic centre of Czech Republic. | 1 | Czech Republic |
| The Bullseye of Italy | ///coached.achieving.ankle | The geographic centre of Italy. | 1 | Italy |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Cyprus | rational.gliding.proceedings | The geographic centre of Cyprus. | 1 | Cyprus |
| The Deepest Darkest Serbia | bootstraps.corrects.originate | The geographic centre of Serbia. | 1 | Serbia |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Luxembourg | novelist.trumpet.circulate | The geographic centre of Luxembourg. | 1 | Luxembourg |
| The Deepest Darkest Sweden | testify.fiction.trespass | The geographic centre of Sweden. | 1 | Sweden |
| The Deepest Darkest Malta | burying.youth.happy | The geographic centre of Malta. | 1 | Malta |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Switzerland | losing.fillings.regime | The geographic centre of Switzerland. | 1 | Switzerland |
| The Bullseye of Moldova | hurtle.cupful.consumable | The geographic centre of Moldova. | 1 | Moldova |
| The Bullseye of Montenegro | studios.pollsters.engrossed | The geographic centre of Montenegro. | 1 | Montenegro |
| The Innermost Bosnia & Herzegovina | relationship.dwells.misleads | The geographic centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | 1 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| The Deepest Darkest Slovenia | wiped.vegetables.tram | The geographic centre of Slovenia. | 1 | Slovenia |
| The Deepest Darkest Poland | potato.bookstore.sangria | The geographic centre of Poland. | 1 | Poland |
| The Inner Hungary | cafeteria.tactfully.responsibly | The geographic centre of Hungary. | 1 | Hungary |
| The Innermost Latvia | jointly.rejoiced.jawbones | The geographic centre of Latvia. | 1 | Latvia |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Netherlands | meows.compete.declaring | The geographic centre of Netherlands. | 1 | Netherlands |
| The Innermost Kosovo | spouts.strayed.liking | The geographic centre of Kosovo. | 1 | Kosovo |
| The Bullseye of San Marino | tango.clod.notated | The geographic centre of San Marino. | 1 | San Marino |
| The Bullseye of Romania | deerskin.coating.farce | The geographic centre of Romania. | 1 | Romania |
| The Bullseye of United Kingdom | obligated.passions.bunks | The geographic centre of United Kingdom. | 1 | United Kingdom |
| The Innermost Denmark | watered.rook.odds | The geographic centre of Denmark. | 1 | Denmark |
| The Inner Andorra | invent.facelift.impresses | The geographic centre of Andorra. | 1 | Andorra |
| The Inner Monaco | braved.blunt.dame | The geographic centre of Monaco. | 1 | Monaco |
| The Bullseye of Slovakia | probing.hits.softies | The geographic centre of Slovakia. | 1 | Slovakia |
| The Deepest Darkest Vatican City | udder.husbands.dished | The geographic centre of Vatican City. | 1 | Vatican |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Georgia | dealmakers.doted.stoppage | The geographic centre of Georgia. | 1 | Georgia |
| The Deepest Darkest Spain | records.greeting.amends | The geographic centre of Spain. | 1 | Spain |
| The Bullseye of Estonia | acquisition.runaways.barring | The geographic centre of Estonia. | 1 | Estonia |
| The Bullseye of Greece | kangaroos.ovary.originated | The geographic centre of Greece. | 1 | Greece |
| The Bullseye of France | revenge.swabs.portables | The geographic centre of France. | 1 | France |
| The Innermost Liechtenstein | captures.partly.solicitor | The geographic centre of Liechtenstein. | 1 | Liechtenstein |
| The Innermost Turkey | objecting.excessively.alleyway | The geographic centre of Turkey. | 1 | Turkey |
| The Innermost Albania | noodle.pumas.angrier | The geographic centre of Albania. | 1 | Albania |
| The Deepest Darkest Austria | salt.counted.dilutes | The geographic centre of Austria. | 1 | Austria |
| The Innermost Portugal | escaping.curdle.tutored | The geographic centre of Portugal. | 1 | Portugal |
| The Deepest Darkest Belgium | drilled.poser.boast | The geographic centre of Belgium. | 1 | Belgium |
| The Bullseye of Ireland | assures.edging.floral | The geographic centre of Ireland. | 1 | Ireland |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Lithuania | unbeknown.slumps.anchoring | The geographic centre of Lithuania. | 1 | Lithuania |
| The Deepest Darkest Iceland | reforms.strongholds.amps | The geographic centre of Iceland. | 1 | Iceland |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Armenia | squeaky.fussier.handwritten | The geographic centre of Armenia. | 1 | Armenia |
| The Deepest Darkest Finland | ///sizes.tagged.putters | The geographic centre of Finland. | 1 | Finland |
| The Slap Bang Middle of Bulgaria | enrichment.housemate.hereafter | The geographic centre of Bulgaria. | 1 | Bulgaria |
| The Deepest Darkest Croatia | monorail.opposed.elitist | The geographic centre of Croatia. | 1 | Croatia |
| The Bullseye of Norway | rock.rationed.glosses | The geographic centre of Norway. | 1 | Norway |
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Poles of Refreshment
| NAME | WHAT3WORDS | POLE DESCRIPTION | POLE SCORE | COUNTRY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Malt Room | along.invent.jars | You’d walk right past it if you didn’t know it was there, and you’d be missing out. Some of the best whisky served by some of the best bar-staff in Scotland. | United Kingdom | |
| Oepfelchammer | ///shifting.tenses.shopping | You’re allowed to carve your name into the ceiling of this bar if you can drink a glass of wine hanging from a beam. | Switzerland | |
| Extra Budapest | cosmetic.field.pose | There’s a lot of ruin bars in Budapest, most of them full of tourists and stag parties. Extra is a little off the beaten track and sees more local visitors. Drinks are good and the courtyard (under the red umbrellas) is the best place to drink palinka. | Hungary | |
| Bar turrisi | digress.breath.relaxed | The place one person on the internet came ‘ to look at all the penis’. | Italy | |
| Hambara | fondest.sharper.kettles | This used to be the secret bar where artists, writers and philosophers would gather to exchange ideas freely during communism. It’s in a barn in a residential courtyard in the centre of Sofia and back in the day people would only be let in with a password and they didn’t use electricity to stay invisible. Nowadays it still doesn’t have electricity or any kind of sign on the door and someone needs to open for you. Still lit by candles only. | Bulgaria | |
| Folkklubs Ala Pagrabs | hatter.shape.accent | 30 beers on tap and authentic Latvian moonshine even the pickiest people , yes you, will like it here. | Latvia | |
| Pavilhão Chinês | against.coolest.coolest | Quirky, overloaded rambling bar filled to the rafters with bonkers stuff, stuffed animals antiques and the like. Feels like a museum. | Portugal | |
| The Apartment | mostly.clouds.youngest | An old apartment in the centre of sofia, which is a multifunctional space with a bar, screening rooms, books etc. Good underground vibe. | Bulgaria | |
| Rockaway Park | passenger.husband.dawn | It’s like Banksy’s backyard, all built from scrap, very punk, fresh, arty, unexpected, worth seeing and experiencing. They have a cafe. Be aware they close at 17:00 though. | United Kingdom | |
| La Pergola | ///events.fortress.giving | Marrakesh rooftop, amazing cocktails, smooth jazz and a view even Stevie Wonder could love. | Morocco | |
| Last Penny | postcard.journals.future | Turkish Jazz ? Could be the move. | Turkey | |
| Lapland Brewery Pub | belonging.perform.wink | Have you ever had a beer brewed in the artic circle? Didn’t think so. | Finland | |
| ICEBAR Stockholm | office.halt.shorten | The worlds first permanent ice bar. You may be denied entry if you happen to be on fire otherwise enjoy the guarantee of a cold drink. | Sweden | |
| Klo Bar | scout.mountain.graphic | An essential for all toilet enthusiasts this ‘cabinet of curiosities’ even live streams your drinking exploits. | Germany | |
| Double Locks | ///stands.latest.soft | Inconvenient in the fact you have to go into Exeter and find the one single track gravel road to take you to the pub. Lovely river views, it’s a Youngs pub, does good seasonal traditional British food. Has a red telephone box in the garden. | United Kingdom | |
| Pigs Nose Inn | confident.pumps.honey | Definitely weird, stuffed with oddities both inanimate and animate. Great atmosphere. Rockstar vibe but in South Devon. | United Kingdom | |
| Speakeasy | ///traded.weekday.officer | Bespoke cocktail bar hidden in an apartment complex in the north Macedonian capital of skopje, Something for everyone and on sunny days drinks can be taken down to the adjacent park. good live music and social atmosphere. | North Macedonia | |
| Sjøgata Pub | sizes.cuts.goodness | Enjoy a local beer in Norways most northern town, with their own brewery in the basement you know the beer is going to be fresh. | Norway | |
| HR Giger Bar Museum | along.edit.squares | If you want to experience life inside a ufo without the risk of a probing this bar is for you. | Switzerland | |
| Fischladen | insiders.critic.lobby | A weird little bar in Leipzig which used to be a fishmongers. Great locals place and a bit different from the rest. | Germany | |
| Elfde Gebod | revise.stencil.boxer | The preferred pint of Antwerp’s Jehovah’s Witnesses this bar has been open since 1425 and is made special by the unique church like decor. | Belgium | |
| Baba Yaga | allows.hears.cheater | This spooky local bar tucked down a side street serves beer and cocktails to travellers and locals alike. | Bulgaria | |
| Canudos Ethnic Bar | stack.migrate.brings | Melting pot of nationalities and cultures this Georgian Gem was the first underground pub in Tbilisi. With a large beer garden and live music Canudos is an excellent place to stay till the early hours. | Georgia | |
| The Old Forge | aced.debut.tedious | The most remote pub on the British mainland is only accessible via 25 minute ferry over Loch Nevis from Mallaig, stunning views and crisp pints await anyone who takes the journey. | United Kingdom | |
| El Bosc de las Fades | ///corded.globe.arrival | Off las Ramblas where everyone is away with the fairies, also theres a thunderstorm every 20 minutes so hold on to your sangria. | Spain | |
| Taberna Zé Raul | underfed.acknowledged.succumbing | Tucked away down a nondescript alleyway, this is about as local as you can get. Great atmosphere, cheap food and they serve their homemade wine and port by the litre. | Portugal | |
| Dow Jones Bar | dimes.stuns.dribble | Prices in this bar fluctuate due to popularity, so revellers must make the decision to either follow the crowd or take a risk with a low stock. | Spain | |
| Pensão Amor | exacts.audit.bunk | A brothel turned cocktail bar that invites dancing among the nooks and crannies of its red light decor. | Portugal | |
| Dupong | think.amber.lizard | At the forehand of Copenhagens table tennis scene, drinks here are served with a smile. | Denmark | |
| Boulevard of Broken Dreams | mincing.wisdom.retinas | A deliciously grimy greek rock bar awaits anyone bold enough to attempt this journey. | Greece | |
| Joben Experience bar | chilled.developer.outsize | Remarkably extravagant and wonderfullly random this steampunk bar delivers on all fronts. | Romania | |
| Fabrika Tblisi | develops.fizzled.lanes | Very cool old factory which is now a hub of bars and places to eat. Graffitti’d and a real hub for Tblisi nightlife. Where all the cool kids go. They also have a hostel. | Georgia | |
| Babuška Pub | truth.cashier.command | Exotic beer from jamaica and singapore, don’t mind if I do. | Serbia | |
| 3 Siostry | rubble.music.measures | Every weekend DJs play untill the dawn in this local favourite, run by three sisters that actively encourage dancing on tables, just make sure you don’t leave your shoes on the ceiling. | Poland | |
| Poco Loco | ///rockets.shift.tinted | Pizza by the metre to line the stomach. | Italy | |
| Tangerine | ///paddles.debated.mascot | Rather lovely Tunisian rooftop and brief break from all the inconvenience. | Tunisia | |
| Michalska Cocktail Room | ///early.engaging.mulls | Ask the barista at Urban Bistro for directions. | Slovakia | |
| Pub Magneeti | ///monopoly.intend.readily | Eccentric and authentic, open till 2. Perfect. | Finland | |
| La Carbonería | sailing.casual.hedge | Immerse yourself in authentic Spanish flamenco while sipping on a cocktail. Free for tourists and located in the courtyard of an old coal house you can even indulge in some tapas if you’re a bit peckish. | Spain | |
| Sean’s Bar | dragons.anchors.claim | Said to be the oldest pub in all of Europe. It was a 1000 year history. What better place to imbibe a beverage or six? | Ireland | |
| Kvarntorp Finngård | ///ignorance.belief.plumper | Off-the-beaten-track refreshment | Norway | |
| Yew Tree Inn | handicaps.visits.correctly | Quirky pub filled with old shit. | United Kingdom | |
| Beers & Fish Far Out in Norway | ///named.locator.perplexed | Wonderfully far away from the any big city on the end of a tip of Norway ituated in the small fishing village of Bud, this bar and restaurant offers a rustic charm with stunning sea views. It’s a great spot to enjoy fresh seafood and local beers while soaking in the maritime atmosphere | Norway | |
| Cascate del Mulino di Saturnia | views.hairspray.downright | Eat a vending machine pizza whilst sitting in your pants in a terraced hot spring next to a bunch of locals – most likely an Italian mamma to your left and the pimp from the nearest village to your right. Don’t mind the red worms in the water, they’re meant to be good for you. So they say. Also, free bath. | Italy | |
| Work-Work | perkily.reply.sublet | If you’re into beer, board games, pin-ball machines or shuffleboard, then stop by here. It’s quirky and nerdy – maybe the only place where you meet Norwegians which main passion isn’t hiking – it’s technology. | Denmark | |
| Karma | dignitary.attitudes.growl | Quaint cafe where you can sit and watch the Mostari divers jump off the 24-metre-high 16th century Ottoman bridge. Probably wise to not try it yourself, instead enjoy a Bosnian coffee or a cold brew. | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| La Java Cafe | ///blank.sigh.kind | Located in an old boat dock in St Malo, this bar has a nautical theme with quirky decor. It’s full of puppets, dolls and flea market items. It’s a great place to enjoy a drink with a view of the harbor, offering a surprising blend of history and modernity. | Denmark | |
| ICEBAR | ///cartoonist.release.improving | Located in the famous Icehotel, this bar is made entirely of ice and snow. It offers a unique, surreal experience where you can enjoy cocktails served in ice glasses while surrounded by stunning ice sculptures. | Denmark | |
| Toby’s | ///inform.monuments.broccoli | A slightly smaller, local pub compared to its more famous counterpart. Matt Molloys. But still bleedin gorgeous | Ireland | |
| Levist Väljas | ///country.keyboard.lamps | The diviest dive bar in Estonia, seedy, cheap, and open till 6. Bliss. | Estonia | |
| Pink Flamingo | ///multisport.burden.midbrain | May this be your alcoholic oasis. | Western Sahara | |
| British Saloon | ///neon.timeless.prestige | Im sure many a poor decision was made in this former British consulate, seems only right that you add a few more. | Morocco | |
| Wine Vibes | undertone.boot.chef | Best wine bar in town with a massive courtyard where you can sample enough wines to forget the fact you left your exhaust somewhere up a nearby mountain. | Georgia | |
| Eszeweria | ///brain.crawled.part | A nostalgic oasis where time is measured in hand-rolled cigarettes and spoons of honey. Eszeweria’s brass candelabras, murky mirrors and incense-filled rooms beckons. | Poland | |
| Red Nose Bar | ///leaps.feathers.command | Cool, breezy, and a long cocktail menu. Whats not to love. | Greece | |
| Dirty Onion | ///spits.tells.insect | Craft beer, whiskey, and chicken in one of Belfasts oldest buildings. | Ireland | |
| Zeze Bar | century.aimless.snake | Huge vaulted ceilings, opulent artwork and a cracking vibe. This is a splendid place to wash the dust away. | Turkey | |
| Archeobar | ///drilled.works.falters | Rather splendid cheap negronis. Don’t plan to set off too early tomorrow. | Italy | |
| Loco Bar | rooftop.hounded.trace | Marvellous place near the river to chat sump guards and goat tracks with fellow teams. | Greece | |
| Yes Beach Bar | shampooed.rummaged.reproduces | It’s a bar, on the beach, called “Yes”. You know what to do. | Turkey | |
| Liman Restaurant | motorcade.spread.shelved | Superb location, right on the river with bloody awesome views. | Turkey | |
| Cafe Szafe | ///steadily.flies.cosmetic | For those who want to enjoy a nice warm bar atmosphere, cool decor, and sit in a wardrobe of course. | Poland | |
| Herkus Kantas | ///taker.routine.decisive | Largest beer selection in Klaipeda with a smattering of other assorted beverages. | Lithuania | |
| Il Santo Bevitore | ///under.money.sectors | A cool Venetian Pub that will have you trying your best swan dive into the canal, which is of course a terrible idea and we don’t want to see any video footage at all. | Italy | |
| McDonnel’s (The Lobster Pot) | wedding.umpires.headstrong | As per the web page describing it “This is a unique place because it is also a national bus stop and an undertaker” and you can’t get more Irish than that. | Ireland | |
| Littlepub | ///succeed.noise.stored | Little pub thats going to give you a big headache in the morning. | Finland | |
| Dick Macks Pub | pounds.harvest.bundles | Where else can you get a pint of Guinness and buy your leather goods in the same place. | Ireland | |
| Lowry’s Music and Whiskey bar | ///enjoy.banter.filer | Music and Whiskey. | Ireland | |
| North Shield Pub | ///washed.shower.petition | Doesn’t look overly clean here but we doubt you are either so you’ll fit right in. | Turkey | |
| Rabason | ///punky.anew.usefully | A Pyrenees pitstop that looks like Gandalf vajazzled his cave. Bare in mind it says its only open from 6pm-10pm. | Spain | |
| PartyZan | ///dribble.engulfing.start | A wide selection of both drinks and evening entertainment to keep the picky ones happy. Ring the doorbell and hope you qualify for entry. | Moldova |
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