CHRONICLES CHRONICLES FROM ENGLAND FROM ENGLAND V. One of the greatest pleasures I find in England is to enter and be in the pub. I'm looking forward to go to one to practice my English and drink a pint of beer. It is no beer, that you can do anywhere, is the atmosphere that makes them unique and attractive.
The tourists can enter more than one in your excursions London (Or in Manchester, and Edinburgh) and will meet a large group of tourists like him. The true pub is outside the "city" in the neighborhood districts, small towns.
It is not difficult to recognize. For the most part are a huge building and isolated from others, but is not so has a "something" that makes them distinctive, something that is also unnecessary because they already see from afar with its great gilded lanterns protruding from the facade. They look
their names in large letters, also gold, and have always painted on the walls his "coat of arms" that gives them identity and personality.
"The Red Lion" "The Red Lion" is the name most used, in every town there is one. After being named as curious as "The slug and lettuce", "lumberjack arms," \u200b\u200b"The Nightingale morning", "The Masonic symbols" ("The mason arms"), "The duck and squirrel", "Queen's Head" ( In Straford-Upon-Avon, in reference to Anne Boleyn), "The Turk's cap," "The Adam and Eve pub" and the like.
Upon entering the pub almost mystical feel a twinge or mystical-all-because the light enters through a huge leaded glass windows made up, sometimes in colors, like stained glass windows of cathedrals (improving the present, they would say in my town), which gives it a as a sacristy.
The floor is covered with a carpet of many colors predominate warm colors (black, red, ocher). In the British pub is carpeted in the Irish wood parquet.
A bench occupies the bottom of the windows. Is covered by a fabric with geometric drawings baroque floral in which, in this case, the predominant color is green and from the roof fall in a heavy curtains. Taken separately each of the elements are HORRIBLE, but together will provide a cozy home of the grandmother. Before each of the banks are distributed tables, over each of which there is always an unknown number of thick cardboard coasters beer or similar advertising. The remaining space is occupied by solid wooden tables surrounded by chairs characteristics of the English pub.
The rest of the walls is covered with a spaced wood or paper or cardboard embossed in relief, going. In these walls are wall trying in vain to shed some light without being able to break the languid atmosphere, as a church.
The decoration is usually based on old photographs and lithographs of the site in question, a yellow metal plates embossed with themes sailors, hunting or customs, farming tools, jars, tin, pewter and silver of all sizes, old watches or books.
I say, often localized very large (150 or more square feet) presided over by a long wooden bar decorated with carved spiral columns and metopes. And there, delirium. Dozens of suppliers of beers of all styles: Beer type ale, English, bitter and warm to be drawn from the barrels to crank strokes. Lagers, types "lager" or "Pils." Ales, Irish style. A real orgy.
Behind the bar there is usually an exhibition of bottles of whiskey, gin, etc, are upside down and they replaced the original cap has an original measuring cup for each cup always falls the same amount of beverage and not and in Spain it depends on how nice it fall to the waiter. Those of other beverages, standing. These drinks there (do not know how to define it), a concoction they call J2O and bearing fruit: watermelon, cherries, raspberries ... (Say). There is also cider, apple and pear.
And the bell. In all pub is a bronze bell with a chain hanging from the clapper. Until a few years, a quarter to eleven of the night sounded to warn that it was time to serve the last drink at eleven o'clock, the pub closed its doors.
The standard measure is the "paint" (as Columbus's boat), equivalent to just over a pint. The vessels are marked to ensure accurate measurement, have recorded a brand certified by "PINT, the royal crown and a number: 2043." You're
, choose table, you approach the bar and ask. Serve you, you pay and you go quietly to the site chosen to slowly savor your pint of beer ... Ah.
