“Enough of that Nu Yawk already“ shout readers Dave and Dick from the States. (They really do talk like that, though these days with a distinct Bewdley rather than Brooklyn twang).
Sorry, loads more.
Back in Brooklyn, 3/4 of our family were wiped out by 6pm, so I had to do the hard yards myself.
Nearly all the suburbs and neighbourhoods of New York sound familiar, though I can’t yet find any Prefab Sprout references in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Some of the best Victorian remnants in the city, says Wiki.
Gentrification of the area is indicated by the asparagus at the entrance to the supermarket.
This was a great area to wander, the South-East London of the, er, west (?).
And I really liked the Fulton Ale House.
Not because of the 18 beers on tap (no Bass).
or the bargain murk,
or the Aretha Franklin soundtrack. Or even the brewery trays, that made it seem a bit like a micropub in Burnley.
It was the really diverse crowd, mixed in age and ethnicity, that made this different to the first night.
It was so good I stayed to watch the first half of Ecuador v Chile, along with exactly zero other customers.
Mrs RM got the craft can, again.
retiredmartin 
Dartboard! Swoon….
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I would have taken photos of the billiards and skittles tables but I knew you’d be bored of those, Mark 😉
Actually that’s one of the things that sets American bars apart from English pubs. They’re just too small for anything but wall mounted TVs.
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Try the Red Lion on Bleecker Street in Manhattan.
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Bleecker Street is coming up soon Trev.
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Burp Castle.
I did tell you.
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On the way home now.
Cidered out.
My eldest just messaged me to say you’ve lived long enough to watch England win three different world cups in three different sports,the only country to ever have done that,and I’ve watched two of them with you.Thanks for coming over Dad
*sniffles*
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You think rugby is a sport?
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I think drinking is a sport.
So yes.
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Excellent point. Well made.
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Some people think that motor racing is. As for rugby, the Romans had some similar stuff.
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It has to be a sport young Martin.
Because if I’m driving it’s a game of two halves.
I thang you.
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“Golf”, warn experts.
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Surely Australia has won the World Cup in cricket, rugby league and rugby union ?
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The asparagus is merely a throwback to Dutch colonial days, when it would have been spelt correctly (Breukelen).The Dutch have a bit of an asparagus fetish – best not to go bar (toilet) crawling in Amsterdam in Springtime.
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Yes, asparagus from the low countries was much more sensible than broccoli from the eastern Mediterranean or Asia Minor.
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“Fire escapes on the outside”
a good thing as long as the fire is on the inside.
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Are English fires different to US ones?
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“It was the really diverse crowd, mixed in age and ethnicity” –America at its best, I say. Though I expect lots of English cities can provide an equally diverse crowd, if not more so.
After returning from Japan (and I do love Japan, to be clear), it was nice to look around and see the sort of “United Nations of random pedestrians” one can encounter in America, depending on where you are.
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I know exactly what you mean Mark.
One of my favourite pubs is the multicultural Vine in West Bromwich. Places and pubs where folk of all ages and ethnicities just get on, rather than enclaves.
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And the Stile in Wolverhampton.
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“It was the really diverse crowd, mixed in age and ethnicity, that made this different to the first night.” – but did you have time for the Stonewall pub in this fiftieth anniversary year ?
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