In France it's legal to drink when you're 16 and with your parents, to buy it you have to be 18
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If you are old enough to serve your country, you are old enough to drink
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Back a million years ago when I turned 18 in the US it was legal for me to drink as well.
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In Europe in general you can drink earlier than 18 but can’t buy before 18… It just the way of life there
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You are partially right...In most european countries are different drinking ages, depending on the strength of the drink...usually less potent ones like beer and wine are 16, and the rest is 18...
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In the military when we were deployed with the Brits. They couldn’t believe our under 21s couldn’t drink. They said we were treated like children.
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I know in Germany it’s 16 for beer and wine, but 18 for hard liquor.
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As a kid in France, I regularly drank wine cut with water at the dinner table. This was normal, everybody did the same. By a kid I mean from about the age of 5yrs old. Different rules applied in public. Every café had a notice on the wall about the prevention of public drunkenness and the laws that applied. Being seen in public inebriated was regarded as a most terrible thing and most French people even today drink slowly with food so as not to be intoxicated. The very idea of drinking in order to be 'sloshed' (as a lot of Brits like to do) is totally unacceptable to the French.
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depends on the drink... hard liquor 18, but wine and beer is often lower
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In Germany it's legal to drink beer and wine under supervision at 14-15 ages and I think most of the European countries do that, the only that changes are the legal age for buying alcohol from stores which i believe mis 18 in all of them.
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In the US, you can get married at 16, be tried as an "adult" at 10, drive a car at 16, but a twenty year old can't legally enjoy a glass of wine with dinner!
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This wasn't the question but in UK you can have a beer with a meal, if accompanied by an adult and the adult buys, which is nice on the 16/17 pockets😅
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@travel-yourself-forever-young
In the usa its 21 to drink but they are already driving cars at 16. In Western Europe its 16 or 18 but they are more relaxed in eastern Europe with rules such as drinking or smoking 🤔
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I was in Italia with my grankids in December. They may a a drinking age, but it isn't enforced. 😂
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But, there are exceptions across the board. You can drink wine in public with your parents if under age.
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I was 18 when I had my first Jameson Whiskey, and Guinness in Ireland. I didn't like Guinness it tasted like grass, but it tasted better with Chocolate. 😝
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Well, they sure didn't abide by it on my trip to Italy 😂. School kids were smoking and being served wine during midday break
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What is the legal drinking age in Italy, France and Spain?
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