British Pub Culture
There is no quicker way into the vein of British culture than to enter one of her pubs. The pub is to the Englishman what the coffeehouse is to the Italian or the café to the Frenchman—life would go on without it, but life would be much duller. Just as it is difficult to imagine Paris without her lively cafés, England without pubs is unthinkable . Curiously, one of the difficult questions to answer is "What is a pub?"
A pub is the place where the exhausted football team comes to have a drink after ten hours in the summer sun. It is the first place that a villager takes a guest. In the city pub, financial analysts meet for a quick beer during lunch before heading back to the office. It is where old college friends gather to relive memories, and current undergraduates meet to celebrate the end of exams. It is the place a visitor comes to first when in a new village or city, because it is the quickest way to provide some of the warmth and comfort that you’ve been lacking looking at museums all day.
The pub is an integral part of British history. Many of the pubs in the U.K. could easily be museums where the visitor would be reminded to "please do not touch" the furniture. However, unlike castles and churches, the public house still serves its purpose, and continues to play a vital role in everyday life.
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