The one thing that immediately struck us about this pub was the smell of stale sweat, caused presumably by the heaving mass of male bodies that had just exited the venue after witnessing England's narrow loss to France in the rugby.
The pub itself was fairly non descript, the music was modern (aka rubbish) and it was frequented by young trendy Covent Garden folk. I was quite surprised therefore to see that there was quite an extensive selection of beers on draught, Shelley was happy due to her spotting Aspall and I opted for the previously untried Adnam's Ghost Ship which I had no trouble sinking !!
UPDATE 29th March
Seeing as it was Maria's birthday it was written in the script, given her Welsh roots, that we should visit The Prince of Wales (a pub literally across the street from previous venue The Freemasons Arms) during our London pub crawl.
Non football fan Denise raised her eyes skywards as we walked in due to the fact that the pub was packed with people watching the Arsenal v Manchester City game.
I have mentioned before when I am gathering material to put in this blog I send myself texts when I'm out and about reminding me of bits of information however I sometimes have trouble with both the effect of drink and also that the predictive text functionality on my phone changes words for me. How I laughed therefore in this pub when I went to type in Arsenal and it changed the word to arseholes !!
Once again there was a pleasing selection of ales, I had plenty of time to study them given the length of time Harry and I were stood at the bar. I eventually settled for a pint of Wells Bombardier.
The football proved to be a bit of a non event so the conversation went round to people we fancy, Kelly Brook got the vote for Craig and myself, Harry, being the sophisticated chap that he is, opted for Susanna Reid, Becks (the footballer not the German beer) was the choice of both Shelley and Maria (is Shelley allowed to fancy anyone but me?!!) and Denise surprisingly went for a bit of rough, Australian actor Russell Crowe.
Talk of Russell Crowe got the conversation onto films and their seemed genuine surprise from everyone when I admitted that not only had I not seen Scent of a Woman, I'd never even heard of it !! Given the fact that I was on pint number five of real ale meant that Shelley would be treated to the sequel Scent of a Man later that night !!
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