The Barking Dog - Barking

Visited 13th October 2013.

Our last pub of the day before we collected our daughter from her ExCel visit turned out to be a difficult one to find anywhere to park. Eventually we managed to park in a side road but it wasn't easy finding a space, even on a Sunday. It was a dark, narrow and busy pub but I was served my Orange and Passionfruit J2O fairly quickly and Mrs S. had found us a table. As it turned out we didn't need our table for very long as we were now rushing a bit as it was already passed the time we had arranged with our daughter to collect her. Mrs S. had again forgone a drink, knowing that she cannot drink quickly. A total of seven pubs visited today, so not bad, even though the last few had been a bit of a rush. Twenty minutes later we were at ExCel picking up Ms S. and her friend and about two minutes after that we were on our way home, which took way more than it should have done due to several road closures in central London. How can it be so busy on a Sunday?

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The Walnut Tree - Leytonstone, Greater London

Visited 13th October 2013.

It had stopped raining by the time we reached the fourth pub, which in contrast to the previous pub cosisted of a large, light, airy, rectangular room with the obligatory bookshelves. Once again Mrs S. went and found some some seats while I headed to the bar where I purchased an Apple and Mango J2O for myself and a cup of tea for Mrs S. plus a couple of bags of Hula hoops as we were getting a little peckish again. We seemed to be making good progress as we still had a few hours left to go before we needed to be back at ExCel to pickup Ms S. and only had three pubs left on my list of pubs to visit today and they were all in the general direction of where we needed to be. Pub five here we come!

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The Miller's Well - East Ham, Greater London

Visited 13th October 2013.

It's that time of year again when Ms. S. feels the urge to visit a hair show so it's on a cold, wet (actually it's tipping it down) Sunday that myself,  Mrs S. Ms S. and her friend are heading to ExCel in Docklands. We were all up (too) early which means we need to stop for breakfast first. After a small detour we ended up at The Miller's End, just a short drive away from our goal. The rain was so heavy we skipped the photos and went straight in and found a booth. A quick look at the menu and I'm off to the bar where I order a large full English breakfast and a coffee for myself and a regular full English and coffee for Mrs S. leaving the girls to sort themselves out, which they do, eventually. The staff were friendly and helpful and the bar lady was happy to correct my coffee error and replace them with the two lattes I meant to order. We ate, we drank, we took some photos and then we left and went and dropped the girls off at ExCel. Time to go to pub two!

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