93 cities. Four or five stops each, verified in live map data, walked in the only order the city allows. Every road ends near a bed.
- Dublin 路 The Dublin Deposition
Four of the five founding dates on this road turned out to be wrong, and the true stories underneath are better every time. 路 via DUB
- Bangkok 路 The R&R Run
Between 1962 and 1975 Bangkok was where the American forces in Vietnam were sent for five days of rest and recuperation, and an entire nightlife was built to receive them. 路 via BKK
- New Orleans 路 The Vieux Carr茅 Procession
The Quarter has been serving drinks longer than the republic has been collecting taxes on them, and it has been telling stories about it for just as long. 路 via MSY
- Prague 路 The Cellar Docket
Prague drinks below street level and dates itself from whichever deed came to hand. 路 via PRG
- Manila 路 The Ermita Reveille
Manila was the most destroyed Allied city of the war after Warsaw. 路 via MNL
- London 路 The Fleet Street Brief
Five rooms between the courts and the old presses, four of them carrying a founding date the statutory record will not confirm. 路 via LON
- New York 路 The Manhattan Arraignment
New York State publishes every active liquor licence as open data and refreshes it daily, so every room below was proved open this morning by the state rather than by a review site. 路 via NYC
- Porto 路 The Invicta Standing Order
Porto eats standing up and keeps a legal register of the shops that let it. 路 via OPO
- Tokyo 路 The City That Stops Talking
Tokyo drinks in rooms that have rules, and the rules are the point: a ticket before you sit, a measure poured to the line, an alley that will not answer to the name foreigners gave it, and a bar where you may talk but not loudly. 路 via TYO
- Singapore 路 The Preservation Order
This city keeps things, and this road is five different ways of keeping them: a soldiers' canteen carried three hundred metres by hand so it could go on standing, a 1910 shophouse in a conserved street, a hawker centre practising the first thing Singapore ever got inscribed by UNESCO, a colonial bar rebuilt as a replica of itself, and a tower block from the nineties doing art deco better than the twenties managed. 路 via SIN
- Abu Dhabi 路 The Corniche Recess
The capital does its drinking indoors, licensed and air-conditioned, as God and the municipality intended. 路 via AUH
- Dubai 路 The Creekside Retainer
Old Dubai first, new Dubai later, dinner unlicensed and unmatched in the middle. 路 via DXB
- Kuala Lumpur 路 The Changkat Adjournment
KL drinks in layers: colonial ghosts, helipads, street woks, and basements with no signage. 路 via KUL
- Paris 路 The Zinc Testimony
Five rooms where the famous claims mostly fail and the paperwork is better than the legend. 路 via PAR
- Amsterdam 路 The Brown Caf茅 Deposition
A bruine kroeg is brown because four centuries of smoke got into the paint and nobody has ever had the heart to strip it. 路 via AMS
- Barcelona 路 The Ciutat Vella Precedent
Five rooms in the old city, each one older than its own paperwork admits or younger than its doorway claims. 路 via BCN
- Rome 路 The Trastevere Motion
Rome does not hurry and neither does this route. 路 via ROM
- Munich 路 The Bavarian Injunction
Every founding year on this road is older than the room it is printed in. 路 via MUC
- Sydney 路 The Rocks Affidavit
Two convict era pubs in Millers Point and a 1922 rebuild in The Rocks, then a basement in the city. 路 via SYD
- Buenos Aires 路 The Bares Notables Writ
Buenos Aires keeps a legal register of its notable bars, and three of these five are on it, which we checked in the statute rather than taking anyone's word. 路 via BUE
- Rio de Janeiro 路 The Boteco Absolution
Rio protects its bars the right way round. 路 via RIO
- Lima 路 The Pisco Deposition
Peru publishes its entire taxpayer register as a daily file you can search by street and door number, so every room here was checked against the state this morning rather than against a review site. 路 via LIM
- Mexico City 路 The Cantina Appeal
Four rooms in the old centre, three of them inside a few streets of each other and the last one out at Garibaldi where the mariachis wait. 路 via MEX
- Madrid 路 The Vermut Summons
Madrid drinks vermouth out of a tap before lunch and argues about dates afterwards. 路 via MAD
- Edinburgh 路 The Auld Reekie Summons
Edinburgh's pubs claim older dates than Edinburgh's archives will support, and working out which is which is half the pleasure. 路 via EDI
- Vienna 路 The Kaffeehaus Injunction
Vienna's caf茅s are listed heritage and its schnitzel is case law. 路 via VIE
- Los Angeles 路 The Change of Venue
Five rooms that outlived the city that keeps demolishing its own memory, and not one of them is within walking distance of the next. 路 via LAX
- San Francisco 路 The Barbary Coast Appeal
California publishes every liquor licence through a query system that stamps each report with the day you pulled it, and San Francisco keeps a registry of legacy businesses that protects golden Buddhas and trademarked cocktails by name. 路 via SFO
- Berlin 路 The Reconstruction Order
Berlin's oldest rooms are mostly younger than they say, and the reason is usually written down: this city was flattened, then rebuilt, and in one case rebuilt on purpose as a tourist attraction. 路 via BER
- Ho Chi Minh City 路 The Quiet American Brief
Saigon kept the rooms where the correspondents drank and the roof where the briefings lied, and then renamed the ground under all of it. 路 via SGN
- Phnom Penh 路 The Mekong Inquest
Phnom Penh keeps no public company register a foreigner can read and no heritage list we could reach, so every room here was proved open the hard way, off its own dated pages. 路 via PNH
- Kathmandu 路 The Thamel Debrief
Every expedition since the fifties has been argued, funded or abandoned in a Kathmandu bar. 路 via KTM
- Mumbai 路 The Permit Room Petition
Maharashtra never repealed prohibition. 路 via BOM
- Cairo 路 The Khedive's Sidebar
Downtown Cairo was laid out in the 1860s to look like Paris, and the bars that opened in it are still there, behind unmarked doors and up stairwells nobody has painted since. 路 via CAI
- Istanbul 路 The Rak谋 Tribunal
Rak谋 is a procedure rather than a drink. 路 via IST
- Budapest 路 The Ruin Bar Amnesty
District VII was the ghetto, then it was left to fall down for fifty years, and then the city decided to drink in the wreckage rather than wait for anybody to fix it. 路 via BUD
- Lisbon 路 The Ginjinha Statute
Lisbon protects its old shops by law and then lets them tell you whatever they like about their own age. 路 via LIS
- Osaka 路 The Kuidaore Indictment
Osaka's motto is kuidaore, eat until you fall down, and the city means it as an instruction rather than a warning. 路 via OSA
- Boston 路 The Ward Boss Caucus
Boston ran on rooms like these: a parish, a pint, and a man who could get your cousin a job at the yard. 路 via BOS
- Chicago 路 The Second City Continuance
Chicago publishes its business licences as a live dataset and the state posts every liquor licence, so all five of these rooms were proved active against the city's own records this week. 路 via CHI
- Melbourne 路 The Laneway Verdict
Victoria publishes every active liquor licence as a monthly spreadsheet with capacities and coordinates, so what survives here is proven by the state. 路 via MEL
- Bergen 路 The Hansa Ledger
Bergen keeps its drinking by ledger. 路 via BGO
- Copenhagen 路 The Bodega Parole
The bodega is Copenhagen's parole system: brown rooms, candle wax, bottles that open at noon, and everyone released on their own recognizance. 路 via CPH
- Brussels 路 The Lambic Hearing
Brussels files everything twice and believes about half of it. 路 via BRU
- Shanghai 路 The Bund Settlement
Every pin on this road was wrong, two of them badly, and the reason is worth knowing: Chinese public maps run on a deliberately offset datum, so a coordinate scraped off one and published as ordinary latitude lands half a kilometre out. 路 via SHA
- Belgrade 路 The Kafana Oath
A kafana is a courtroom where everyone testifies and nobody objects, and rakija administers the oath. 路 via BEG
- Athens 路 The Plaka Apologia
Socrates delivered the first apologia downhill from here and lost. 路 via ATH
- Havana 路 The Malec贸n Clemency
Havana forgives everything nightly: the heat, the shortages, the century. 路 via HAV
- Stockholm 路 The Bellman Bench
Sweden keeps its liquor licences in a national register and will not let you read it, so every room here had to be proved open the hard way, off its own dated files. 路 via STO
- Helsinki 路 The Kallio Statute
Finland keeps a public alcohol licence register, which means a Helsinki room can be checked against the state rather than its own website. 路 via HEL
- Warsaw 路 The W贸dka Arraignment
Eighty-five per cent of this city was rubble in 1945, which changes what old means here. 路 via WAW
- Bucharest 路 The Old Court Appeal
Bucharest keeps its receipts badly and its rooms beautifully. 路 via OTP
- Sofia 路 The Rakia Ruling
Sofia rules on everything over rakia and shopska, from socialist nostalgia to candlelit secrecy. 路 via SOF
- Zagreb 路 The Tkal膷i膰eva Plea
Zagreb was two rival medieval towns, Gradec on one hill and Kaptol on the other, and they threw stones at each other across the creek between them for a couple of centuries. 路 via ZAG
- Bratislava 路 The Pressburg Probation
This was Pressburg, where Hungarian kings were crowned for two and a half centuries, and its trade was wine: the old town and the castle hill were ringed with vineyards, and in 1767 Maria Theresa declared the local Frankovka fit for the imperial table. 路 via BTS
- Ljubljana 路 The Ljubljanica Redress
A small capital that keeps excellent records and then lets its rooms round the numbers. 路 via LJU
- Riga 路 The Balsam Writ
Latvia publishes its company register, its tax standings and its address register as open data, so every operator on this road was checked against the state this week, down to one bar's tax debt. 路 via RIX
- Vilnius 路 The U啪upis Constitution
U啪upis declared itself a republic on April Fools' Day and wrote a constitution guaranteeing everyone the right to be idle, to be happy, and to love a cat. 路 via VNO
- Tallinn 路 The Hanseatic Habeas
Produce the body, preferably in the same medieval town hall square where the Hanseatic League counted its silver. 路 via TLL
- Valletta 路 The Strait Street Court Martial
Strait Street is a knife cut through Valletta, one carriage wide, and for a century and a half it was the Gut: the Royal Navy's own street of music bars, dance halls and trouble, with the shore patrol at each end. 路 via MLA
- Luxembourg 路 The Grund Gavel
This city is built on a rock with a gorge cut round three sides of it, and everything is either on top or at the bottom. 路 via LUX
- Nicosia 路 The Green Line Armistice
Europe's last divided capital drinks on both sides of its own ceasefire, and this road crosses it: four doors in Greek, one in Turkish, a hundred metres and one checkpoint apart. 路 via NIC
- Hong Kong 路 The Star Ferry Subpoena
Hong Kong publishes every liquor licence as a raw file regenerated daily, so all five of these rooms were proved licensed against yesterday's register. 路 via HKG
- Seoul 路 The Makgeolli Mandate
Seoul keeps its best drinking in rooms the state does not protect, so the city built them a register of their own and called it future heritage. 路 via SEL
- Hanoi 路 The Bia H啤i Quorum
Hanoi brews its bia h啤i every morning and drinks it the same day, which makes it the freshest beer in the world and the cheapest, and the Old Quarter corner where it happens is called the international crossroads by the whole city. 路 via HAN
- Taipei 路 The Rechao Rebuttal
Taipei's beer argument has two sides: the 1919 brewery that made the island's one lager, and the craft generation brewing against it. 路 via TPE
- Penang 路 The George Town Covenant
George Town has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 7 July 2008, with 5,285 buildings on its special area plan, and this road drinks through five of them, from a Sarkies bar to a licensing joke told with a straight face. 路 via PEN
- Chiang Mai 路 The Lanna Recess
Chiang Mai takes its recess early and holds it late: a teak kitchen inside the moat, a press room, a jazz corner by the north gate, and two rooms out east that both had to survive something to still be here.. 路 via CNX
- Kolkata 路 The Chota Peg Chambers
One straight line south, down the spine of the old city: Bowbazar, then the office district, then the Esplanade, then Sudder Street, then Park Street. 路 via CCU
- Macau 路 The Pataca Escrow
Macau keeps its heritage in a law with gazette numbers and its map in a datum of its own, and both were made to answer this week: two of these five doors sit against classified property and one pin turned out to be a resort blob 48 metres from the actual shop. 路 via MFM
- Nashville 路 Three Chords and the Truth
Lower Broadway is now four blocks of bachelorette parties with a live band on every floor, and there is still one door on it worth opening. 路 via BNA
- Memphis 路 The Beale Street Bond
Memphis keeps its liquor licences in a state register that took a wrestling match to open and then gave up four of these five rooms, active and dated. 路 via MEM
- Austin 路 The Broken Spoke Statute
Texas publishes its liquor licences as a dataset refreshed daily, so every one of these five rooms was proved active and wet in one pull the day before this page was written. 路 via AUS
- Detroit 路 The Motown Deposition
A city that exported a sound to the world twice, in sequins and then in drum machines. 路 via DTW
- Liverpool 路 The Mersey Beat Brief
Four lads walked between an art school, a basement and a ferry and rearranged the century, and the pubs they used are still pubs, which is the only memorial worth having. 路 via LPL
- Manchester 路 The Madchester Injunction
Three of these stand within two hundred metres of each other on Great Bridgewater Street, which is either lazy routing or the best short walk in England. 路 via MAN
- Glasgow 路 The Clyde Cross-Examination
Glasgow argues about which of its pubs is oldest and most of the numbers are confected, including one its own owner admitted inventing. 路 via GLA
- Jerez de la Frontera 路 The Tabanco Testimony
The word tabanco is tabaco and estanco run together, from the days when the same licensed counter sold you loose tobacco and sherry straight from the barrel. 路 via XRY
- Kingston 路 The Dub Plate Hearing
Kingston's evening runs uphill: a stock exchange listed sports bar, a fishing village the sea half swallowed, the little bar where the longest running dance in the city was born, and a Sunday sound on a hill with the lights below. 路 via KIN
- Lagos 路 The Afrobeat Acquittal
Lagos keeps a national monuments register that famously failed to save its most important listed building, and no public company search a foreigner can reach, so every room here was proved open off dated listings and its own pages. 路 via LOS
- Ibiza 路 The Balearic Adjournment
The island invented a way of playing records that the rest of the world copied badly for forty years. 路 via IBZ
- Goa 路 The Sunset Trance Petition
Goa's drinking law is seasonal by statute: the beach shacks come down every 31 May and rise again in the autumn, so half this road exists for half the year and the copy says which half. 路 via GOI
- Aberdeen 路 The Granite Sessions
A city cut from grey stone that sparkles when the sun finally bothers, built on fish, then granite, then oil. 路 via ABZ
- Wiesbaden 路 The Spielbank Confession
Wiesbaden is the spa town that never got bombed and never got poor, and its drinking runs from a squatted slaughterhouse to a painted cellar under the town hall. 路 via WIE
- Montreal 路 The Quart Amendment
Quebec legislated women out of its taverns in 1937, let them back in on paper in 1979 with a clause exempting every tavern already standing, and only finished the job in 1986. 路 via YUL
- Seattle 路 The Skid Road Provision
Seattle's proof of trading lives in a state workbook nearly ten thousand rows long, and four of these five rooms are in it as active. 路 via SEA
- Thessaloniki 路 The Rebetiko Ruling
Rebetiko is the Greek blues and it arrived the same way the American kind did: with people who had been driven somewhere else. 路 via SKG
- Bordeaux 路 The City That Did Not Burn
South and west of here is the Landes, the largest planted forest in western Europe, and it burns. 路 via BOD
- Fukuoka 路 The Repatriates' Verdict
Everything you drink tonight was invented by people who had nothing, and most of them are still behind the counter. 路 via FUK
- Galveston 路 The Free State Ledger
On 8 September 1900 a hurricane killed somewhere between six and eight thousand people on this island, which is still the deadliest natural disaster in American history. 路 via HOU
- St. John's 路 The Grand Banks Watch
Ottawa closed the northern cod fishery in 1992 and roughly thirty thousand people in this province lost their work in a morning. 路 via YYT
- Saint-Pierre 路 The Bootlegger's Landing
France's last crumb of North America: 12 NM off Newfoundland, euros in the till, gendarmes on the corner, fog on everything. 路 via FSP
- Mannheim 路 First Bicycle, Last Call
A baroque grid of 144 lettered squares laid out from 1606, where streets have no names and addresses read like chess moves: T2, S1, G7. 路 via MHG