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| NEW YORK TIMES [USA] - 08 May 2007 |
| British Bachelor-Partiers Are Taking Their Revels East |
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By midnight, wearing nothing but his socks, Paul Roe had crawled the length of a strip club catwalk here, led on a leash by one barechested blonde woman while another whipped him with a belt.
As one might imagine, Mr. Roe, 27, was inebriated, celebrating his final days of bachelordom in that timeworn rite of passage known as... |
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| DER SPIEGEL [GERMANY] - 05 April 2007 |
| British Stag Parties Head East in Search of Cheap Beer |
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Just a short and cheap EasyJet or Ryanair flight away from London, Western European tourists are storming Eastern European cities like Tallinn and Riga. Unfortunately, British binge drinkers are too.
It's early in the morning in Dicken's Pub, and the punters are hung over. Sean from Worcester has lost his passport. Brian from... |
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| ANANOVA [UK] - 21 March 2007 |
| Poland to ban 'men in skirts'? |
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Calls are growing in Poland for a ban on 'men in skirts' because drunken Scottish flashers have been upsetting locals.
Agnieska Gaspar, 23, from Krakow, said: "You can't go round the corner without seeing a Scot showing off what he has under his kilt while one of his mates photographs him.
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| WARSAW BUSINESS JOURNAL - 04 September 2006 |
| On the prowl in Poland |
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Move over Prague - Warsaw and Kraków are the new destinations of choice for stags and hens looking to celebrate their last night of freedom.
Although the Czech capital was the first Central and Eastern European city discovered by stag and hen weekend organizers, Poles have recently capitalized on this typically British rite... |
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| IOL [SOUTH AFRICA] - 03 April 2006 |
| Europe's stag party A-list |
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Largely undiscovered" Bratislava is bracing itself for a British invasion after being hyped up as the latest "hot" central and east European destination for stag party tourists.
"Great looking women and eastern Europe's cheapest food and beer mean that it won't stay this way for long," urges stag party agency Bratislava Pissup's... |
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| TRAVELBITE.COM - 19 January 2006 |
| Stag and hen do's on a budget |
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Travelling abroad on a stag or hen do to destinations like Las Vegas, Moscow and Tallinn could be cheaper than staying within the UK.
Low cost air travel means it is just as easy to catch a cheap flight to Prague as it is to get a bus to Blackpool.
But it is the strength of the pound in relation to other worldwide currencies... |
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| THE OBSERVER [UK] - 13 November 2005 |
| It's a man thing |
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That's the one I just had a go on,' said one of the braver boys, gesturing at her as she walked out of the knocking shop, over the street to the kebab house and then back to work again, a big, greasy lamb doner in her hands, studiously ignoring us all the while. It was 11 in the morning, everyone sat round, horribly hungover,... |
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| IAFRICA [INTERNET] - 17 September 2005 |
| Stag parties flood eastern Europe |
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Britons nervously waiting to tie the knot are increasingly heading to the capitals of eastern Europe for alcohol-fuelled final flings with their best friends, otherwise known as stag or hen weekends.
Cities like Slovakia's capital Bratislava and Tallinn in Estonia vie for this fast-growing custom with perennial favourites... |
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| TIMES [UK] - 06 September 2005 |
| Warsaw in Pole position |
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Poland's capital may have a strong sense of history, but the faded façades of Warsaw's Old Town belie its relative youth.
WHAT'S IT LIKE?
Warsaw, capital of Poland and the country's biggest, most cosmopolitan and dynamic city, has much to offer - yet foreign tourists remain relatively thin on the ground. That's sure to change... |
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| THE TIMES [UK] - 02 September 2005 |
| Advice to ease stag night headaches for embassies |
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SHORT of a royal visit, the one thing British embassy staff abroad dread most is an invasion of staggers and henners.
An estimated 70 per cent of young Britons now prefer to travel abroad for their prenuptials, and a quarter of those land in some kind of trouble, from loss of passport to death by drowning, according to a Foreign... |
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| GUARDIAN [UK] - 07 May 2005 |
| Big night out: Warsaw |
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It's one year on since Poland joined the EU and Warsaw is emerging as the hot new east European weekend break destination with nightlife to match. The old town with its cobbled streets and pastel coloured houses has never looked finer and a futuristic skyline is being created in the new town by the likes of Richard Rogers and... |
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| TIMES [UK] - 28 April 2005 |
| Warsaw - loud, vaguely seedy but often glamorous |
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While Krakow finds itself touted as 'The New Prague' Poland's capital offers a far more metropolitan experience, and comparisons to mid-90s Berlin are not too far off-the-mark.
Left as a heap of rubble in 1944 the city has been rebuilt in a jumble of styles. While the cobbled streets of old town come lined with colourful burgher... |
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| FT [UK] - 13 November 2004 |
| Where's hot |
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In a recent destination round-up of where was hot and where was not, CondéNast Traveller declared that Amsterdam had gone off the boil. Certainly when it comes to the lager-fuelled stag-party trade, the city would seem to be losing out to now easily accessible eastern Europe: Prague, the Baltic capitals, Budapest and even Warsaw... |
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| INDEPENDENT [UK] - 13 December 2003 |
| 48 hours in Warsaw |
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WHY GO NOW?
Because, as a short-break destination, Warsaw has suffered from an image problem for long enough. True, it might not be as picture-postcard pretty as Krakow down the road, or the Czech capital Prague, that traditional Eastern European favourite, but Warsaw's historic old town is a fascinating maze of cobbles and... |
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