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Mine's a Pint!

One of the few remaining joys in life is finding a good pub or bar.

Now obviously your definition of good may well differ from mine but I just enjoy those welcoming places with good beer and dogs in the bar.

Sadly a good pub is hard to find but here are the odd few I have found to be well worth a visit.

Le Doublon - Lorignac, Charente Maritime, France. You'll probably never find a nicer more welcoming bar. Pull up a bar stool and get Eithne to do you Garlic Prawns... Tell them Steve sent you. (everybody there is called Steve)

Fox and Hounds - Great Brington, Near Northampton. Excellent beer, friendly staff, log fire, flagstones and dogs allowed. Food's good as well. Open all day. Perfect.

Hobgoblin Reading - a proper old style pub with excellent beer and an oasis from the artificiality of the bloody Oracle. Only been once as I have an aversion to towns and shopping but was very pleasantly surprised.

Cunning Man Reading - It's a chain pub (vintage inns I think) but very well done. Open all day, good well priced food, 3 guest beers, excellent staff and a pleasant location alongside the canal. Nothing not to like.

The Cove Inn Lulworth Cove - OK ish as a pub, good beer, good pub food, slightly disinterested staff but fabulous location about 100 yards from Lulworth Cove. Stay overnight in a room with a balcony (Room 18 worked for us) and wake up to coffee on the balcony with a view of the cove. Free WiFi too.

The Pheasant Inn Shefford Woodlands ( very near M4 Junction 14 ) - Interesting upmarket pub/restaurant/hotel with excellent bar staff, good beer and dog friendly. Very well heeled customers. Can be quite entertaining. Free wifi and a large car park (often with some interesting cars in it)

 

 

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