Where some Europeans go to for cheaper alcohol (from what i’ve heard)

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  1. I’m like 100% certain at this point that Moldova’s sole purpose for existing is to provide cheap alcohol and cigarettes for Romanians across the border.

  2. I think prices in Sweden are similar to Finland. And there is an interesting “phenomenon” where Finns (mostly) go to Sweden to buy alcohol, but not from Sweden. They buy it on the ferry which has special taxation and alcohol is cheaper.

  3. Some hardcore alcohol consumer in Finland even goes extra miles to Latvia to get even cheaper one than from Estonia.
    I read this from YLE a couple years ago.

  4. I just don’t drink. We pay €5 for a beer in a regular, not expensively situated plain as day bar. It’s five times what you’ll pay in the supermarket.

  5. Every year, around Christmas we would drive to France from South West London. (On the Ferry) and pick up enough alcohol to last for Christmas and half the year.

    A Booze Cruise

  6. Ten years ago I was about to cross the border between Spain and France in Irun. We stopped to get tobacco. There were a lot of french cars outside, inside the tobacco shop there were four cashiers and each one had like ten people waiting at 8:00am!

  7. Didn’t read all posts, but some Norwegian people come by ferry from Oslo to Kiel to buy cheap alcohol there.

  8. You forgot about the biggest (alcohol) migration our blue planet has ever seen. The brittish comming to spain every summer.

    It’s a shame David Attenborough hasn’t covered it yet

  9. Due to the unrivaled alcohol prices here in Norway, almost everyone I know travel to Sweden several times a year to purchase beverages together with bacon and other food. I still remember the shock of first seeing the low prices for wine in Poland in person. A bottle of the same wine which costs 15 euros here goes for a mere 1-2 euros there.

  10. Used to be able to buy heimbrent (moonshine) at almost any farm in central Norway, but I think that tradition is almost dead now, and have been replaced by border trips to Sweden

  11. Swedes go to Poland 100%. All my Swedish friends have visited that country to get wasted for a week straight.

  12. Swedes don’t exactly go to Finland to buy cheaper alcohol. They go on a cruise where they can buy alcohol on the ship tax free because it’s on international waters….

    Which is what us Finns do, too.

  13. Poles who live in the south east go to Ukraine to get cheap alcohol, cigarettes, and a lot of other things. At least until recently. Idk what the law/ conditions are now.

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