Around The World In 80 Waves

Flying into ‘the Windy City’ of Chicago just to party on a Saturday night. Sinatra sang that it was ‘my kind of town’ and I have to agree. I love it here despite the freezing wind blowing off Lake Michigan

Chicago is the home of the Blues Brothers, Al Capone and more recently Batman because it was used as the set for Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy

I check into a hotel and am given a great room on thee 14th floor overlooking the lake. The bellhop tells me to head for the intersection of Rush and Division streets, where I find loads of Irish bars and quickly get chatting with the locals. I am introduced to the noble game of Beer Pong (http://www.angelfire.com/ak6/beerpong/) and am delighted to find that I am quite good at it. In a winner stays on style I am playing the locals for about an hour. All I will say is that the last cup is a knightmare every time.

There are an awful lot of santas about apparantly because the second Saturday in December is the day of the university’s festive pub crawl. As a result I get to see the great site of a whole dancefloor full of them boogie-ing away. I check out a few bars but spend the most time in one called Mother’s which was immortalised in the 80s Brat pack film ‘About Last Night’.

Lots of fun and a top night. Prohibition is certainly not in effect in the Chicago of today