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t’s official it’s the end of the financial or musical maturity. Yes the dive bar is Now that you are suitably tipsy and dressed Here is the rundown of Scotland’s
world! Banks crumble, jobs are lost, back and you’d be a fool not to get stuck to kill why not get fired into that special three best dive bars.
bread becomes the staple foodstuff of in and enjoy them. At best you’ll find a someone you’ve had your eye on since
millionaires only and houses can’t even cheap new local at worst you’ll lose an freshers week. You don’t even have to be
shift for Monopoly money. So what eye. Either way it’ll be a more fun than flush to impress them because everything The Moorings_
should we do about it all? On a budget forking out £30 to wander round a cattle you need for a decent date can be had Aberdeen
you can easily drink well, dress well, dine market where you’ll eventually lose your for under twenty quid. Keep an eye out Whilst this is down by the harbour it
well and date well. Why not, there’s been coat and walk home smelling like you’ve for deals at local restaurants. Edinburgh’s really isn’t that dodgy, in fact it’s far more
no better time to embrace the chicness been standing in sick for the past year. Papilio is situated in classy Bruntsfield and inviting than anywhere else in the area.
of shabbyness. offers decent Italian lunches at just over Here punks, goths, grizzled seamen and
With the extra money saved in those £6. Afterwards, if the Autumn bite hasn’t everyday Joe’s cluster in the eclectically
Let’s start with drink. Most students dive bars burning a hole in your worn set in, you can even take a romantic stroll decorated and dimly lit rock bar drinking
follow a tried and tested path to oblivion. out pockets why not splash out and grab across the Meadows on your way towards fine beer at even finer prices. Student
It normally starts in the flat with a few yourself some new threads. Whilst Aston a few drinks in some downtrodden den discount is offered all the time, and
bottles then moves on to a student pub. Martin might not have sold much more of debauchery (company depending of some nights have promos too. Why not
And if you’re all feeling a bit fruity probably than a dozen cars last month worldwide course). For those of you who prefer to pop down and grab a Jaegermeister –
some soulless commercial hell hole British clothing brands are experiencing put the moves on inside and not out, a they sell more here than anywhere else
to grind on the dance floor and imbibe a slightly better time. Why? Because night in with good food and a film needn’t in the UK.
Danish lager of questionable quality believe it or not whilst you might not bankrupt you. Decent 2
nd
hand DVD’s
before you all stagger home £40 worse be able to buy eggs, milk, bread and a direct from amazon.co.uk can cost less
off. Sounding familiar? It doesn’t have to banana for much less than a fiver you can than £4 and in some cases are cheaper The Brunswick_
be. That place you walk past on your way buy yourself some swanky new stitching. than renting. And if you can’t buy a decent edinburGH
to university which smells like a farm and Clothes prices are some of the few to meal for two along with a bottle of red for Leith houses some truly disgusting places
starts serving at seven in the morning, have remained the same and in some less than £15 you’re going to struggle in to drink but the Brunswick just about gets
that is where you want to be. Because in cases have even gotten cheaper. You just the real world! pass marks. Here Edinburgh’s detritus
here beyond the prehistoric doorway and need to know where to look, and the best celebrate their terminal unemployment
behind the rotting damp wooden bar is a place at the moment is the internet. Play. It’s easy to have fun without much money with drinks so cheap you’d think that
drinkers heaven. Here pints cost pennies com in particular are offering their users and with the new term just started why not you were back in the 1920’s. Not that it
and vodka shots are cheaper as doubles brand name t-shirts at under a tenner get going now. Websites like hotukdeals. looks like a 1920’s bar, The Brunswick is
than singles. Welcome to the dive bar. including delivery. For the girls you can com alert readers, sometimes dozens surprisingly nice inside and out . . . if you
pick from labels like Supreme Being and of times a day, to the best bargains like that kind of thing.
When times are hard it’s difficult to put a Bench whilst blokes can take a browse online and off and are brilliant if you are
brave face on things but in the dive bar and pick up bits and pieces from the likes determined to live it up without feeling
times were always hard so things in some of cool London label Fenchurch. Internet the pinch. Here you’ll get updates on Old Toll_
ways seem better. You’ll almost certainly shopping is all about taking the time to mispriced goods and money saving GLASGow
get a friendly welcome for starters as in look around. Take ebay.co.uk, if you are offers which can save you hundreds on Just across from the Grand Old Oprey
the dive bar business won’t be as frequent familiar with a brand and know your size everything from flights to toilet paper. sits the Old Toll, a classic Glasgow
as that of a chain pub. Here the bar staff what’s the risk with spending a little less Just think, if you spend less now perhaps bar. The drinks are cheap, the punters
may even make the effort to befriend on last seasons look? That Paul Smith come Easter you’ll find you’ll be the one predictably noisy and the football almost
you, there might be darts on offer and a peacoat you just missed out on at £45 with cash to splash on whatever you like, always on. You’ll never be in any danger
jukebox rather than a pre-programmed would have cost £450 brand new a year whilst your mates survive on beans and but you can pretend you are and tell your
ipod selection devoid of taste, charisma ago. Take the risks, reap the rewards. think a litre of 99p white cider is a treat. mates about it afterwards.
DIVE
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_by Chris Hammond
The Good Life_56_
www.scotcampus.com_
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