Then we were given the chance to make five cocktails: a margarita, sidecar, Manhattan, Negroni and two kinds of daiquiris.

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But the business model of the cruise industry is: Strike up the band and hand out the daiquiris, the cruise must go on.

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Barcelona's first cocktail bar, it was opened in 1933 by Miguel Boadas, who'd learned his trade mixing up Hemingway's daiquiris at El Floridita in Havana.

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Le Jardin is a semi-outdoor, trellis-covered alternative to the packed bars of the popular Lan Kwai Fong district located on the streets below, while Feather Boa lacks any sort of signage out front and serves fruity daiquiris in massive glasses with chocolate dusted rims.

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