Pink Monkey Stag and Hen

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Fado Show and Group Meal Fado is a typical Portuguese music genre that symbolises loss and longing. The essential element of fado music is “saudade,” a Portuguese word that translates roughly as longing, or nostalgia for unrealized dreams. Enjoy this delight on your Lisbon Hen Weekend What's included: 3 Course meal Aperitive, digestive and covert included  Fado show starts at 9.00pm  1/2 Bottle of wine per person  Coffee included  Available Lisbon  Portuguese Cooking Lesson Experience the joys of cooking traditional Portuguese food and have the pleasure of eating your creation. The Portuguese love food and your hen party can take away some new receipes and impress your friends and family when you return home. What's included: Prepare, cook and eat a traditional Portuguese 3 course meal  Wine and coffee included  Glass of Port  Discover the variety of flavours and tastes of the best that Portugal has to offer  Avai...

Cheap flights from UK and only 3 hours away! 100 Miles of beautiful sandy beaches are often sheltered by small cliffs such as those in Vilamoura and where you can sun yourself in pretty little coves and take a refreshing dip in the warm Atlantic Ocean, enjoy the fantastic beaches on your Hen Weekend in Albufeira, Surfers love the beaches close to Lagos and Sagres. Near to Albufeira at Praia da Gale, the beaches are popular with windsurfers and watersports are freely available just about everywhere during the summer months, perfect for your Stag Weekend in the Algarve The Algarve has an area of 2,089 square miles and around 130 miles of coastline,  The Algarve has over 3000 hours of sunshine a year, so ladies top up your tan on your Vilamoura Hen Party, The climate in the Algarve is dry and clear and it rarely gets too hot as cooling breezes off the Atlantic take the edge off the heat. But don't forget your sunscreen you do not want to get as pink as Monkey!!  ...

February Lisbon Carnival The small cobbled streets of Lisbon come alive during Carnival with excited party goers. The city holds  a number of free events across the city, the highlight is the Carnival Parade on Shrove Tuesday, featuring dazzling costumes, samba bands and floats on show in downtown Lisbon. May Out Jazz in Lisbon – May to September Out Jazz marks the arrival of summer. Out Jazz is a series of free open-air concerts in the city’s beautiful parks, taking place every Friday and Sunday they include live music and DJs, it’s a fantastic  free outdoor party.
 Rock in Rio 2014 marks Rock in Rios 10th anniversary in Lisbon. Every two years, Rock in Rio comes  to Lisbon as one of the biggest music festivals in the world. Headlining in 2014 are so far Arcade Fire and  Justin Timberlake.  The festival has a strong focus on creating awareness about environmental issues. June Festas de Lisboa (Lisbon Festivities) – 1-30 June is the mon...

Lisbon is actually older than Rome!  According to some historians around 4 centuries older making it the second oldest European capital, the first being Athens  Lisbon’s landmark icon, the Torre de Belém, was just a …    a customs office, although it did start out as a defence tower it has also been a jail, a lighthouse and also a telegraph post. Its the most attractive telegraph post Pink Monkey have seen!   The Tagus is river is Iberia's largest  At up to 14Km wide, is said to be large enough to contain all the warships in the world.  Pink Monkey cannot arrange warships but we can arrange a yacht hire on the Tagus for your Lisbon Stag Weekend or Lisbon Hen Weekend. Lisbonians like to bath naked!  OK maybe not in this century but in previous centuries, one local tradition was for the (daring) people of Lisbon to take their weekly baths by descending the steps of the Praça do Comércio to bathe nude in the river, causi...

Great Grandmother Gets a Little Cheeky!! 83 year old Barbara Davies, of Poole, celebrated her up coming nuptials with a Vintage Themed Hen Party and a Saucy Butler in The Buff ! The 26 guests were treated to Champagne by the Cheeky Buff Butler  and also a game of Mr and Mrs. Since retiring at the age of 71 Barbara has travelled the world, including Vietnam, India and Indonesia. After being widowed 17 years Barbara thought her dating days were well behind her, but cupid had a surprise in store when she met her fiancé John Clode, 71, four years ago at her croquet club, Love blossomed and after getting engaged in Cyprus last summer they planned their wedding for this September, they then plan to travel the rest of the world. Barbara said: “I guess you could say I’m adventurous but for me I just like enjoying life, travelling and I believe you can’t just sit staring at the four walls because the world is not going to come to you. For me my hen party was very special and I wouldn’t ...

Stag Party Dwarf Gets Apprehended! Dwarfs have always been a Stag Party prank favourite but a group at York Race got a little bit more embarrassment than they paid for. The group at York Races hired "Charlie the Drarf" dressed as a Policeman to be handcuffed to the Stag, ingeniously dressed as a horse. But "Charlie" and his props didn't go down well with the local constabulary who apprehended him! Speaking to the newspaper, Charlie said: "They said my truncheon - which I'd specially shortened - was a lethal weapon. "I was in bits. I told them, 'we're just having fun - I do this all the time'. But they told me to free Darren and took me to a room. They demanded my name and address - everything." A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police She said: “The items were genuine police issue, the baton being a prohibited item and capable of inflicting serious injuries on a person. The handcuffs were also law enforcement issue, supplied...

Stag Prank Turns Into International Man Hunt! A Stag Party group ranging in age from 25 to 35 attended a Stag Weekend in Estonia March of this year, the festivities began as normal, booze, sight seeing, booze and strippers however things turned a little sour later into the night. As is normal within a Stag Party the group began drinking early in the day and by 11pm at night one of the group was a little worse for wear and sent home. As the rest of the Stag Party returned to their accommodation in the early hours they realised their friend had not returned. Thinking nothing of it the group carried on with their festivities thinking that he would return in his own time. However the afternoon after his disappearance they began to receive disturbing texts ... ..."Your friend is going to die!" ...."Your friend has been arrested" and finally ..."Your friend is being held hostage and we demand a 5000 euro ransom" Obviously the Stag Party were distur...

So you probably think that a stag party is a pretty resent invention .. wrong! Unbelievably it actually dates back the the 5th century B.C, ancient Spartans were the 1st to celebrate their Spartan Brothers last night of freedom. Spartan soldiers held a dinner in their friend's honor and made toasts on his behalf. But year on year stag parties have been getting more and more raucous! Below are Pink Monkeys all time favourites: Herbert Barnum Seeley had his stag party raided by the police in 1896 as rumours were abound that a famous belly dancer was due to perform naked ... naughty! Jimmy Stewarts Stag party in Beverley hills in 1949 was an interesting affair. Two actors that played munchkins in the Wizard of Oz were hired, the first to dress as a baby and pee on Mr Stewart and the 2nd to call him Daddy all evening.  Later on more munchkins jumped out of a silver serving dish to the surprise of Stewart. The start of todays infamous Stag Parties Pink Monk...