Man - Coimbra has *way* better divey college bars than any divey bar I've ever been to in the US, that's for sure. In this case, I was just trekking up the hill, thinking how I could really use some water and didn't have any on my bag, a couple months ago, when I saw this little bar right in front of me and realized, well, I could go into a shop, buy a bottle of water that might not even be that cold and waste plastic for no good reason, or I *could* go into the bar in front of me advertising cheap sangria, get a small glass of sangria for 3 euros and ask for a free glass of water with it, so I did. Well, other than that their sangria for 3 euro was... not very small. Was solid sangria, though. Very refreshing.
You can tell it's a divey college bar mainly by the fact that among their all-day every-day specials, includes 5 euro long islands, lol. I would've loved that when I was in college. (I did not get one.) read more