summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Posted this in the Beer thread ; what do you think.
It's an interesting observation really, what makes a pub : for me, it's the beer, but there's obviously more to this. Seems a good idea for thread. I think, obviously the ale has to be good, but there's that indefinable ambience, the people, the whole je ne sais quoi. If course, it's horses for courses depending on what you're looking for on a night out.
I remember when I went for an interview for a job in a hotel/ pub in Bury St Edmunds. It was just how you would expect a medieval building to be : black wa ttle and daub outside, and medieval wooden beans inside. I was most impressed. After the interview had finished I was was waiting for the bus to get home. I got talking to this old chap, who told me it was all fake. It was all remolded in the 19900s to appeal for American tourists who visit due to the airfields that were extant during WW2, and were looking for that authentic ''Olde English ' experience.
You'd never have guessed that the hotel wasn't medieval, rather than the nineteenth century construct it actually was. Artificially created, but if nobody knows, does it matter ?
It's an interesting observation really, what makes a pub : for me, it's the beer, but there's obviously more to this. Seems a good idea for thread. I think, obviously the ale has to be good, but there's that indefinable ambience, the people, the whole je ne sais quoi. If course, it's horses for courses depending on what you're looking for on a night out.
I remember when I went for an interview for a job in a hotel/ pub in Bury St Edmunds. It was just how you would expect a medieval building to be : black wa ttle and daub outside, and medieval wooden beans inside. I was most impressed. After the interview had finished I was was waiting for the bus to get home. I got talking to this old chap, who told me it was all fake. It was all remolded in the 19900s to appeal for American tourists who visit due to the airfields that were extant during WW2, and were looking for that authentic ''Olde English ' experience.
You'd never have guessed that the hotel wasn't medieval, rather than the nineteenth century construct it actually was. Artificially created, but if nobody knows, does it matter ?
