Fisherman
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How typically British the pub is, and this the 84th post on the topic shows how we feel about our bars and pubs.
I remember in the 70s in Normandy my cousin and I could not find a bar. Eventually we found a cafe that sold beer. Well we sat down and at around 8pm the cafe owner told us ferme, ferme. Now my French was basic then but even I knew that it was closing time at 8, and this was a cafe not a bar.
Even in the US they don’t have the same pub culture, it really is a British institution.
As for the high street, well a combination of the internet, local authority greed and short sighted stupidity has all but finished of the high street, and this death of the high street, is now starting to happen in our shopping centres. Take Glasgow, with the city centre on its knees, the famous sauchiehall street turning into a retail desert, what do glasgow city council do, increase car parking charges.
You couldn’t write the script.
I remember in the 70s in Normandy my cousin and I could not find a bar. Eventually we found a cafe that sold beer. Well we sat down and at around 8pm the cafe owner told us ferme, ferme. Now my French was basic then but even I knew that it was closing time at 8, and this was a cafe not a bar.
Even in the US they don’t have the same pub culture, it really is a British institution.
As for the high street, well a combination of the internet, local authority greed and short sighted stupidity has all but finished of the high street, and this death of the high street, is now starting to happen in our shopping centres. Take Glasgow, with the city centre on its knees, the famous sauchiehall street turning into a retail desert, what do glasgow city council do, increase car parking charges.
You couldn’t write the script.