The Nightlife Blogger: Firsthand Stories From Bars Around The World

Award-Winning Journalism Meets Real-World Nightlife

The Nightlife Blogger is PubClub’s longtime bar columnist, sharing firsthand stories from bars, festivals and nightlife destinations around the world. Written by award-winning journalist Kevin Wilkerson, these articles go beyond reviews to capture the people, places and unexpected moments that make nightlife memorable.

The Nightlife Blogger is the alter ego of award-winning journalist Kevin Wilkerson, founder of PubClub.com. For more than two decades, he has traveled the world searching for great bars, unforgettable nightlife and the stories that happen when you pull up a stool. These columns go beyond reviews, offering firsthand observations, humor and lessons learned from countless nights exploring destinations around the globe.

The columns below span more than two decades of exploring bars, festivals and nightlife destinations around the world. Some are humorous. Others are opinionated. Many offer lessons learned after countless nights of searching for the right place, meeting interesting people and occasionally finding myself in situations I never expected. Together, they tell the story behind PubClub and the experiences that shaped its guides.

Unlike PubClub’s destination guides and event survival tips, these columns focus on the people, surprises, observations and unexpected moments that happen while exploring nightlife. The Nightlife Blogger brings his newspaper reporting techniques – observation, sourcing, verification, scene-setting, capturing emotion – to a subject that most people cover with lists and rankings.

Here are links to these stories:

Start Here

• Learning The Bars And Dutch Culture From “Mr. Amsterdam”

• The Time I Went To 18 Bars In One Night To Research The Best Ones

• I Flew To London To Meet A Girl I Just Met 

Around The World

• Firsthand Stories From Bars Around The World

• Hvar, Croatia

• Finding The Best Bars In Split, Croatia

• Living The James Bond Lifestyle While In Croatia

•  Paris On Foot: Walking The City Of Lights One Cafe And Glass Of Wine At A Time

• Learning – And Using – The Paris Metro

• Zurich’s Hilarious Signs Inside Of Its Trams

• Why Are Euopean Cities So Dull On Sundays?

• Manchester Bar That Bans Solo Drinkers Is Not For Me

Bars

• Drinking With “Maverick” In The Top Gun Bar

• In Praise of Dive Bars

• Wasted Away Again In Pacific Beach

• The Feeling Of Being Pleasantly Buzzed

• My Picks For The World’s 10 Best Beaches

• How I Wound Up Feeling Like James Bond In The Bars Of Zurich

People & Personalities

• Canadian Women

• Why I’ve Never Had A Throning Relationship

• The Girl With The Great Body

Nightlife Observations

• How To Navigate A Crowded Bar

• Cracking The Singles Code in San Francisco

• Doing My Part To Keep Up Beer Consumption In America

• Sorry Girls, Chivalry Is Dead In California

Events

• Munich Oktoberfest

• Mooning of the Amtrak

• Tiki Oasis

PubClub Memories

• Stil Trying To Reason With Jimmy Buffett’s Death

• Concert Memories At The Santa Barbara Bowl

And The Search Continues

There is always another city, another neighborhood and another bar waiting to be discovered and another story to tell. The Nightlife Blogger will keep up the research.