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Nice sunny normal post DG.

I also visited the Barbican last week, enjoyed a sunny coffee on the lakeside terrace and can recommend a (pre-booked) visit to the Barbican Conservatory which is bucking the 2020 trend by currently being accessible far more frequently than in pre-Covid times.
Your shiny-floored pub illustrates nicely that it is possible to visit many pubs with only a small increase to personal risk. My experience is that only one person per group needs to register with track + trace - requiring that person to notify their companions in the unlikely event this should become necessary.

Frank F | 16.09.20 - 7:20 a.m. | #

The sign at Beech Street shows no motor vehicles. The 'no vehicles' sign, quite illogically, consists of red circle with nothing in it implying nothing is banned.

You could argue that a horse doesn't have zero emissions as what that means isn't made clear but, as a horse isn't a motor vehicle, it is permitted anyway.

dg writes: updated, thanks.

Pedantic of Purley | 16.09.20 - 7:22 a.m. | #

My few visits to pubs since All This began have been good. Quiet bars, table service - that's how I like a pub. It's only undercut by the melancholy that the pubs themselves must hate it. And this is small Northern pubs - the ones in the City with astronomical rents must be despairing.

(Token public transport comment: that entrance to Farringdon looks really nice).

Scott | Homepage | 16.09.20 - 8:23 a.m. | #

As someone who loves the new buildings of the city and the way they juxtapose with the old, I'm afraid I find 22 Bishopsgate a raging disappointment and would almost be driven to emotive language like 'carbuncle'. Perhaps it is the disappointment that the Pinnacle is not in it's place or perhaps just the banality of it. Opportunity lost.

TomH | 16.09.20 - 8:23 a.m. | #

That reminds me, I must stock up on beer before the next lock down. Last time all I was left with was really horrible lager....

Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 16.09.20 - 8:46 a.m. | #

I visited the Barbican Gallery recently
which cost me a PCN when using Beech St to access the Barbican car park at the bottom of Silk St. I mistakenly thought I was complying with the sign when accessing off-street premises which cannot be done from Beech St itself.

the other eric | 16.09.20 - 9:02 a.m. | #

I am told that if you scan the official T&T QR code the information is only available to T&T. The pub itself by law has to ask for your details and has no access to that recorded by T&T... And having had quite a few pub lunches in general you don't need to book, they are never full.

davews | 16.09.20 - 9:13 a.m. | #

Just a couple of weeks ago I was early for a booked pub visit and wandered round Smithfield and spotted that Crossrail exit. The indicator at street level said an Abbey Wood train was imminent.

I rather liked the purple Crossrail horizontal stripe round the entrance which would be dark blue if a tube station. The multi-coloured office block on the far side is fun and somehow works alongside the older buildings.

As for my City pub visit...

They started turning people away a little after 9. Handed a beer list. Just one cask beer on and even craft seemed more limited than normal. Table service only. Drinks brought on a tray for us to pick them up but we couldn't see how they got put on the tray!

There were enough people to have a bit of a pub buzz. However, having been in France in July, it did feel like the rules were tougher and the atmosphere worse than there.

The one French rule that doesn't seem to be used here is the need to keep your mask on until you have sat down. You also have to put it back on to go to the toilet. Again no sign of that here.

ap | 16.09.20 - 10:18 a.m. | #

I agree TomH 22 Bishopsgate is very disappointing. In the current economic climate a bit of a white elephant as well I suspect.

Mikey C | 16.09.20 - 10:48 a.m. | #

Did the pub serve a certain brand of gassy bottled German lager?

James Matcham | 16.09.20 - 11:44 a.m. | #

Those closed urinals seem more likely to increase the time spent in close proximity while others wait to use the operational one, and don't take into account that two men in the same "bubble" would be fine using adjacent ones. Makes a change from the obligatory blocked one out of use in most pubs I suppose.

Andrew S | 16.09.20 - 5:35 p.m. | #

My son was buzzing yesterday after his team meet up with colleagues. First time since February. The team had been split into 3 groups so much smaller than usual. They all normally work from home so it was a novelty for a live meet up instead of Zoom.

Caz | 16.09.20 - 9:54 p.m. | #

I hope you will allow a pedant to point out that the names-and-numbers exercise is to aid NHS *Test* and Trace. *Track* and Trace is what Royal Mail and the like offer.

dg writes: updated, thanks.

Peter CS | 17.09.20 - 11:03 p.m. | #











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