Alcohols and Tenerife

Unusual Spanish beers

It's our day off today and I went out shopping in the middle of the day but found only a T-shirt.
Tonight we have been barbecuing chicken on the terrace.
Clas has also been out in the day and met some Swedish who live here on the island and a lady from Germany had invited them to drink champagne.

The problem when you live here on Tenerife is the alcohol. The tourists are on vacation and cool down every now and then with spirituous drinks and I have heard about people from Scandinavia who have been living here and have had to move back home when they got more and more addicted to alcohols.
If you like beer, don't move down to Spain! You will probably end up as an alcoholic!
Here you'll always find people who like to drink and who invite you to join them. It will be more temptation than ever. And all the alcohols are very cheap!

Many times our guests in the nights like to buy us a drink which is a nice gesture, but to be honest I don't like to drink alcohol at my workplace. I am not on vacation and we have the responsibility for the entertaining at the restaurant. Of course, nobody gets drunk of one drink but the facts are that the musician here on the island who have started drinking at their works have ended up as alcoholics and we have heard a lot of complaints about their venues.
I don't like to stand on the stage affected of alcohol. And I don't think people like to come to a restaurant and listen to entertainers who aren't sober. You are not drunk at your workplace either. Are you?
If a waiter would be drunk at work here on Tenerife he probably would be fired. But the musicians can drink a lot and many bars expect them to drink when they think it causes the guests to drink more. We got digs at us, because of our fizzy water, before when we played in Las Americas.
I like to have a glass of wine every now and then when we have a nice dinner on our day off.
It adds embellish to the taste but I never like to become real drunk. A lot of drinking causes an unwise living.

Our English friends seem to have a nice way of drinking spirits. They always drink the same amount when they go out and that is a amount that is not so much that they put themselves on shame by becoming too drunk. They have decided maybe many years ago about how much they can have and they don't exceed it.
If you go out drinking alcohols without a plan just trying to kill the thirst you probably will end up disabled. Specially if it's warm weather and you like beer.