This, of course, was a joke, but the truth is though, Baltic capitals like Riga and Tallinn are increasingly becoming hot spots for British stag parties. Western tourism brings to Latvia not only those who are eager to glance at the Art Noveau architecture, but also those who want to drink themselves to near death on laps of beautiful Latvian women and urinate in public .
Spiegel has posted an article about the Baltics becoming a destination for British stag parties for young lads and lasses to live one of the last day of a single life with booze and women.
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 Nottingham lost his heart to a pretty woman in the Cherry Club — and then promptly lost the woman to a rich Russian. James Paul from Clacton-on-Sea hasn’t lost any of his possessions yet. It’s just his hotel that he can’t find, being too drunk to remember where it is.
Sean rubs his baseball cap across the stubble on his chin. The situation clearly calls for another drink. “Three more pints, lad,” he shouts over to the bartender, who looks at him expectantly. “And three voddies,” Sean adds. There is little that cannot be fixed with beer and vodka, Sean is convinced.
Obviously, economics is driving that kind of tourism.
Given the vast quantities of alcoholic beverages needed for such events, the price of beer is the most important cost factor. And when it comes to beer prices, Eastern Europe is well ahead of the competition. In Riga, for example, you can drink yourself unconscious on beer for only £10 (€15) — which would barely buy a round of pints back home. As an added bonus, licensing laws are relaxed — bars in Eastern Europe close when they want to.
Add on top of that, the cheap flights between England and Latvia, and then ask yourself, why wouldn’t these things happen?
The photo above is from Spiegel Online
Scary. But there’s a word that prices are getting higher and peepz from UK are regrouping to other Eastern block countries.