Drinking in a pub on your own

[Markymark]

I do it all the time in Spain but not at home, but there the bars have everything I want, not just the beer, but newspapers, TV and ready food too. The pubs near me don't, which is a good thing..........

I like the bars in Spanish cities that have a small street counter so you don't even have to go in!

 

[perplexed]

Ive done it so often, that Ive got to know people in the pubs, so much so, that it stopped becoming 'a pint on my own' and had to move on to another pub to find some solitude...

... Im currently on my 3rd.

What, today?

 

[ColinJ]

I like the bars in Spanish cities that have a small street counter so you don't even have to go in!

I used to like the kind of West Yorkshire 'bar' with a small coffee table next to a sofa so you didn't even need to go out!

 

[MarkF]

I like the bars in Spanish cities that have a small street counter so you don't even have to go in!

Yeah! It "normalises" boozing, non of the negative connoatations of old billy no-mates sat in corner of a dull pub nursing half a mild. I like this one on the edge a La Raval Barcelona, I've done a lot of drinking there............

 

[Roadhump]

Oh how I know what you mean.Before Christmas I was engaged in conversation by someone whom I suddenly realized,with horror,had been the class bore at school.I hadn't recognized him, but all of a sudden,the awful reality hit me.Now a beer bore,I traversed the world with him, listening to tales of beers drunk in far flung places such as Manchester ,Lincoln etc.I stuck my hands in my pockets so as not to punch him and then endured a "lesson" on the best lawnmowers of all time!All the while,my other old friends from school stood grinning at the end of the bar.S**s, the lot of them-and next Christmas,its their turn.

Did your old schoolmate tempt you into a visit to Southport, home of the British Lawnmower Museum?

http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/

Come on, admit it, you know you want to visit!!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Hair of the dog?

.... a short?

 

[Hyslop]

Did your old schoolmate tempt you into a visit to Southport, home of the British Lawnmower Museum?

http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/

Come on, admit it, you know you want to visit!!

Fortunately not,but I bet hes been to visit!

 

[tyred]

Did your old schoolmate tempt you into a visit to Southport, home of the British Lawnmower Museum?

http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/

Come on, admit it, you know you want to visit!!

I would actually enjoy that. I love old machinery of all types

 

[uphillstruggler]

its one of lifes pleasures as far as I am concerned, when i was young, travelling around the world taking in pub/bar culture whilst drinking a local brew or two was bliss.

if only I had more time nowadays, I still travel for work but not to the same extent so the opportunities are not as frequent but I still like being the outsider.

just wondering what/where everyone's most memorable sit on your own bar/pub/establishment might be? some might be in far flung places but im sure some are next door.

I think mine has been the bar in the train station in Brugges - wonderful place to people watch on a sunday lunchtime-ish whilst recovering from the excesses of a Saturday night in said city.

 

[martint235]

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I think mine has been the bar in the train station in Brugges - wonderful place to people watch on a sunday lunchtime-ish whilst recovering from the excesses of a Saturday night in said city.

My first time in Ostend. The travel agent had buggered up the timings on my ferry so I'd got there at 3am rather than the expected 7am so had 4 hours to kill waiting for my mate to arrive from Germany. Saw a little bar (The Sealink) that was open so went in. To someone who had grown up in an environment where the speed of drinking went up the closer you got to closing time, it was a massive shock. Here were people drinking as the sun rose but who weren't paralytic (or noticeably drunk at all). My Flemish is limited, my German at the time wasn't much better but I whiled away the time drinking halves and either chatting to them in a mix of languages or just reading my book. To me at the time, it was the height of civlisation!

Edit: just checked and the Sealink is still there, it's just changed its name to Taverne Sealink.

 

[Roadhump]

I am a regular pub goer and am quite happy in a good pub in company or on my own. In the summer when out cycling I occasionally stop for a pint at a nice country pub and lose myself in my own thoughts.

Many years ago, in 1990, I was doing an Open University course and attended a summer school in York. There were no activities planned for the Wednesday afternoon so I wandered into the city and after looking around I found a pub called the Bonding Warehouse which was on the first or second floor of an old riverside warehouse and had a balcony overlooking the River Ouse and the park on the opposite bank. It was a lovely summer day and I sat outside on the balcony, on my own with my pint, watching the passing river traffic and people in the park opposite. It was such a pleasant half hour that I decided to have another pint, then another, then another......then another....and another.....etc...etc....needless to say, I ended up blotto, but blissfully blotto.

Last time I visited York, about 7 years ago, the Bonding Warehouse seemed to have fallen into decay, so sadly there was no chance of a repeat.

 

[uphillstruggler]

My first time in Ostend. The travel agent had buggered up the timings on my ferry so I'd got there at 3am rather than the expected 7am so had 4 hours to kill waiting for my mate to arrive from Germany. Saw a little bar (The Sealink) that was open so went in. To someone who had grown up in an environment where the speed of drinking went up the closer you got to closing time, it was a massive shock. Here were people drinking as the sun rose but who weren't paralytic (or noticeably drunk at all). My Flemish is limited, my German at the time wasn't much better but I whiled away the time drinking halves and either chatting to them in a mix of languages or just reading my book. To me at the time, it was the height of civlisation!

Edit: just checked and the Sealink is still there, it's just changed its name to Taverne Sealink.

this has just reminded me of a bar we stopped in on our way back from working in Germany. we got a train from dusseldorf to London, but had to change in Antwerp with about a two hour wait in the middle of the night! fear not says my mate, I know a little bar. about 50 metres from the train station exit we sat in a cracking little bar/café playing cards from about 2- 4 in the morning, along side the locals drinking their various tipples. whilst not strictly drinking on my own, it could be another thread entirely.

fond memories from long ago

 

[uphillstruggler]

I am a regular pub goer and am quite happy in a good pub in company or on my own. In the summer when out cycling I occasionally stop for a pint at a nice country pub and lose myself in my own thoughts.

Many years ago, in 1990, I was doing an Open University course and attended a summer school in York. There were no activities planned for the Wednesday afternoon so I wandered into the city and after looking around I found a pub called the Bonding Warehouse which was on the first or second floor of an old riverside warehouse and had a balcony overlooking the River Ouse and the park on the opposite bank. It was a lovely summer day and I sat outside on the balcony, on my own with my pint, watching the passing river traffic and people in the park opposite. It was such a pleasant half hour that I decided to have another pint, then another, then another......then another....and another.....etc...etc....needless to say, I ended up blotto, but blissfully blotto.

Last time I visited York, about 7 years ago, the Bonding Warehouse seemed to have fallen into decay, so sadly there was no chance of a repeat.

theres something quite wonderful about being blissfully blotto on ones own.

edit: this is the second bar on my list, I had a wonderful couple of very late night drinks here: http://www.degarre.be/ in fact, I like that place so much I bought two magnums of their very own beer home - pretty costly as I remember

 

[Piemaster]

Not something I do at home but regularly sit by myself when travelling and mostly think nothing of it but that depends on the pub to some extent. A beer garden or sat in a corner of a quiet pub yes, a city centre one with blaring music I'd avoid. Actually I'd avoid one of those anyway as I'm a boring old git now
I was sat on a beach in Rio on Sunday on my own, cold beer from a shack, watching the throngs (and thongs) go by. Any clips of Rio beaches show bright slender things in very little. They don't show you their mothers, and grandmothers wearing the same thing.

 

[perplexed]

This place doesnt take it itself seriously, surely....

I was just wondering the other day what the heck Rula Lenska was up to these days...