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| The Hillgrove Porter Stores |
The Hillgrove Porter Stores is a good sort of pub - exciting ale, games, cose, an impossible quiz.. The Boy is rather a fan of real ale and the Hillgrove is within easy walking distance of his house so it's surprising we don't end up here more. However I don't think either of us feels quite settled enough to be declaring a local, and it'd take me a lot of steady visiting to pluck up the courage to chat to the bar people. On top of that there are so many pubs out there, all of them with a different selection of drinks, ambiance, facilities, and, of course, location, that it'd be silly to limit ourselves to just one.
The university's ale society (known as BRA) does a good job of keeping Bristol's pubs going. This Friday will see the annual BRAmble, an event where members amble across the city from pub to pub, beginning at lunchtime and imbibing copious amounts of beer along the way. I find it really heartening that despite being a society which is all about alcohol, doesn't promote irresponsible (or downright dangerous) drinking. *cough*UBRUB*cough*
Recently I've been the one with little time (last exam tomorrow!) so we've erred towards Clifton and The Portcullis for our evening excursions when they do happen. It was actually shortly after a Flickrmeet pub quiz at The Portcullis on a cold night in January 2010 that the boy and I became an item. We started as we've gone on seeing as we first met in The Old Fishmarket at my first ever Flickrmeet.
The Bristol Flickr group has very few rules (beyond the banning porn, racism & Not Bristol...) but one thing that is constant is that the meet is held in a pub, chosen every month by whoever feels like joining in the discussion. This has led me to discover vast swathes of Bristol which I'm sure the majority of students don't know about or aren't interested and some very nice pubs, and that's on top of all the interesting & lovely people I've met.
This is a bit of a rambly post and it comes courtesy of my cryptography-addled brain so I shall say goodnight and leave the rest to pictures.
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| Narcissi at The Ostrich, their outside area is right by the harbour |
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| The Hillgrove Porter Stores |
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| The Hope & Anchor |
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| RIP Daisy, The Three Tuns |
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| Alice at The Three Tuns |
Wooo cryptography! May Turing be with you :) Also, this pub looks very cozy.
ReplyDeleteIndeed! Appropriately enough there was a program about him on Radio 4 recently, he has a fascinating but sad life story.
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