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It’s the word on every upwardly mobile Melburnian’s lips, just beneath the cappuccino moustache.
Cult British Notebooks and Diaries
Smythson produces visiting cards, writing paper and wedding invitations for the great and the good.
Much-loved painter Beryl Cook drank at The Dolphin in Plymouth and also immortalised the place, in one of her chunky-women art works.
An Inspector Morse Approved Pub
Inspector Morse writer Colin Dexter drinks here, appropriately enough with a ghost.
The Ultimate Summer Pub?
A huge terrace with umbrellas to shield you from the relentless, scorching English sun (ha!)
Jimi Hendrix Drank Here
Rumour has it that Jimi Hendrix wrote Stone Free at the Free Trade Inn in Newcastle upon Tyne.
A Wine Tasting Pub
You can buy a bottle of wine at the shop at The Vine Tree in Norton, drink it in the pub, and take the remainder home if you like.
The Perfect English Pub?
The Lord Poulett Arms in Hinton St George is possibly the perfect English pub.
C.S. Lewis Drank Here
Fans of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe should have at least one glass of wine in Lewis’s honour at The Black Boy Inn.
Ireland’s Oldest Pub
Grace Neill’s Bar (no apostrophe, this is Ireland) is the country’s oldest pub dating from 1611.
Stunning Pub Food
Foodies adore The Royal Oak in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Pub, Actually
Love, Actually writer Richard Curtis has been seen at The Anchor in Walberswick, Suffolk.