That Was My Favourite Pub, You Know
That Was My Favourite Pub, You Know (As David Gedge might say) It was the annual trip to Belfast with the lads last weekend. After 13 years of travelling over to visit a relocated pal, we’ve got to know the city’s pubs fairly well and a conversation on a group chat a few weeks before we travelled this year discussed which were our favourites. I probably pondered this longer than the others and the reason for this wasn’t because I was desperately trying to figure out which was my favourite, but rather I was trying to work out why a certain pub wasn’t. For many years after visiting The Crown Liquor Saloon for the first time nearly 20 yeas ago, if asked “what’s your favourite pub?”, I would’ve automatically given it as the answer, whether being asked the question in relation to Belfast or overall. But now, as I took time to think about it, I not only started to consider things that I thought prevented it from being my favourite, but also, I started to contemplate what actually make...