The Lord Wimborne - Poole

Visited 26th June 2011.
 
Having obtained directions from the barmaid at 'The Quay' we managed to find 'The Lord Wimborne' without any problems. Having found it we realised how close we had been when looking for it from the car, still not sure how we missed it! It looked very imposing from the outside and we were quite looking forwards to checking out the inside. As it was we were a little disappointed, it was pretty standard inside and we didn't find any really outstanding features. This kind of set the tone of our visit. It was not very busy and I could see two barmen behind the bar talking so I was very unhappy at having to wait (for what felt like several minutes) for them to finish their conversation before coming over to serve. One of them even glanced over to me, failed to acknowledge my presence and then continued chatting. After being served we sat down consume our tea (Mrs S.) and large latte. From where we were sitting I counted seven tables waiting to be cleared of dirty plates and glasses. Fifteen minutes later and still none of them had been cleared. Not sure how long they sat there because at that point we left. We felt that by now much of the traffic would have cleared. Sadly we were mistaken and we had a very slow journey home, not even a stop at Winchester services helped because they were also backed up with irate travellers. A disappointing end to what had started out as a very promising day, next time we must remember to stay in the pubs for longer!

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The Quay - Poole

Visited 26th June 2011.
 
Having managed to cook ourselves on the beach (caught out by a thick, cooling mist that, at the time took the sting out of the sunshine) we jumped in the car and almost immediately got caught up in a traffic jam. We poodled along at about ten miles an hour for several miles, before clearing a T-junction that was the root of the problem (peak-time lights or a mini-roundabout would have calmed the anguish). We decided to make a detour and take some time out to let any traffic on the M27 and M3 clear. Instead we headed to Poole intending to visit 'The Lord Wimborne' but couldn't find it, so we switched to plan 'B' and drove to 'The Quay' instead. This was a popular pub with many people sitting outside still enjoying the sunshine. We, on the other hand, had had our fill of sunshine for the day and went indoors to cool off. Inside the ceiling was a long way up, giving a very spacious and airy feeling to the place. We bought our drinks, a half of 1664 for Mrs S. and a pint of forty niner from the Ringwood Brewery for myself. We also took the opportunity to ask the barman directions to 'The Lord Wimborne' which we knew couldn't be very far away. As it turned out it wasn't and we hadn't missed it by much when driving around earlier. We finished our drinks and then set off walking to find the missing pub.

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