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What a great thread!

I have a few.. my first ever coke float in 1988 on my first horseriding holiday and we drank them all week.
Being a teenager and drinking cheap bottles of Pomagne before a night out.
My first ever proper Cosmopolitan in a posh hotel in Paris.
Miami Vice cocktails (consistency of a slush puppy) in Mexico at my best friends wedding. Happy memories!

What fun memories!
* Blue Lagoon cocktails at the swim-up bar at Aggies in Samoa-bliss!
*Drinking apple schnapps on a Contiki tour of Europe- sure made a young Aussie girl forget the cold!
* Cider in Cornwall after big days of walking.
* Being told to try Greek water in Mykonos- not realising it was ouzo-again, a young innocent Aussie quite a few years ago.
Travel memories always seem to include alcohol!

I wanted to say a Singapore Sling in Raffles but really, if I'm honest, I'd say surreptitious swigs of Woodward's Gripe Water when I was far from a baby. I'm sure it was the dill but then again when I was small it wasn't alcohol free. I do recall a rumour (urban myth?) that one beer went out of business because it had a lower percentage proof than gripe water!

[janeg]

Hahahaha Anaria!
I'm kinda hoping that a Singapore Sling in Raffles is one of mine- off there tomorrow. Singapore that it!
My memorable drink memories are too naughty!
One though that I can share , is the full glass bottle of full fat Irn Bru bought from what seemed to be the only shop open in Glasgow that day. I downed it in a oner just outside Bellahouston Park after seeing Pope JPII. Was a roasting hot day and I was somewhat dehydrated. Irn Bru is great anyway but that day it was nectar of the gods!

* Being told to try Greek water in Mykonos- not realising it was ouzo-again, a young innocent Aussie quite a few years ago.

There was one time when I was 6 or 7 years old... we were in Aegina (Greek island, we have a summer house there), it was hot and I woke up from my nap very thirsty. I went to the fridge, grabbed what I thought was a bottle of water and drank a quarter of it before I realised that I was drinking FIRE!!!
I started crying and yelling... it was probably very funny. Apparently, the bottle had raki in it but there was no indication on it. After a while, I fell asleep and woke up the next day.

Home-distilled liqueurs, given to us free of charge, by the owner of a tiny bodega outside Madrid! Our daughter, who lives in Madrid, had taken us there, to a very un-touristy part of Spain, to experience a traditional bodega, a cool, damp cave - carved into the hillside. The food and wine were good (I think) but after trying all the liqueurs on offer I don't remember much about the evening or the drive home!

Hopefully, you weren't the one who was driving?

The most memorable sip I had was of cat milk formula. Strange, I know but one of my cats was 3 weeks when I found her and she needeed to drink 4 to 5 "bottles" a day. To be sure that it had the right consistency, I had to taste it...

The other one was a long island ice tea when I was 22. It was so easy to drink, it didn't even taste alcoholic bug woaw.... I was hot, cold, sweating, giggling and I promised myself that I would NEVER drink one again

One of my most memorable drinks was, as newly weds we were invited to a friends party, my husband was asked to make one of his famous punches which happens to taste like fruity pop (soda) but with an undetectable kick. My friend had been given some 1/2 pint silver goblets as a present so we decided to try the punch in them. A few of these and my new husband had to make good his vow in Sickness and in Health, he had to stay up with me all night, his fault for making it too strong.

Next: 34 years later (last year) and now grannies who should know better, we were in a bar in Marmaris with friends and a very hospitable Turkish host, the 'friends' decided we should try some of the new fashionable drinks, all of us having different ones, this is after a normal night of cocktails, beer and wine. Mine was sent over, a Jager Bomb, I hate sweet drinks so I downed it in one, not a good idea. Anyway we decided to call it a night and arms linked toddled back to our hotel which was two minutes from the bar. 30 minutes later we are still walking up the sea front, turned a corner and I could see Icmeler the next town up the coast. We had missed our turn off and not realised, we had to walk all the way back. I swear it was just a senior moment though.
Chris x

Manderley I had forgotten about the Long Island Iced teas - they were LETHAL! We used to drink 2 of them (10 nips) OMG - I realise my youth was alcohol fuelled LOL. I used to try anything!

Spent ages trying to ascribe 'most' to memorable drinks - it's hard!
Most of the memorable drinks are mugs of tea after particularly long, hard days in the hills. The exception was a long day climbing Sentinel rock in Yosemite in 1977 which ended at the summit just as darkness fell. The way down was supposed to involve at least one abseil and take a couple of hours. Our light-source was a cigarette lighter with the flame wound up to maximum.
We crashed through bushes and slid down slabs above probably precipitous cliffs for ages until we got down to the bottom, and reached the tent about midnight. For food I had a tin (can) of baked beans, which lasted about ten seconds, and for drink a half-gallon (US gallon, so OK) of local Chablis, not exactly chilled but wet enough. Someone woke me up to go for breakfast at 6:30 - probably the last thing I wanted! Lived to tell the tale, though...