Visited 2nd September 2012.
Our third 'spoons of the day and we have all decided to get something to eat. This pub does allow children, so we all troop in, push a few tables together (not easy as it was very busy) and start looking at the Sunday roasts. Most of us opt for the roast beef and head off "en masse" to the bar to order and then return to our seats to choose again after being told they had run out of beef. A few minutes later and we are back at the bar but ordering the chicken roast where we had much better luck. We stayed longer than we expected, mainly because the food took quite a while to arrive but when it did it was fine. We then left and went and found a funfair, seriously, we'd just eaten...
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Visited 5th February 2012.
Mrs S. had booked a night away staying in a hotel in Chichester for us. The big question is, with all the snow on the ground do we make the trip? We spent a fair bit of time looking out the window and checking the weather forecast and online travel maps before loading up the car with a spade, old carpet, torch, water, stiff broom and a million other things plus one small traveling bag with our clothes in. As it turned out we needn't have worried, by the time we were on the M3 all the snow had disappeared and we didn't see any more until we returned home. And the roads were amazingly empty! Our first pub of the day was 'The Crown' in Fareham. Fareham turned out to be a larger town than we expected and were very protective over their parking spaces, we ended up having to pay - on a Sunday. A short walk and we found the pub. Inside it was warm and welcoming but very busy, almost everybody was eating a Sunday roast and we thought, at first, that we were not going to be able to find a table. I went to the bar while Mrs S. hovered. Then she pounced and a table was ours - for as long as it took to drink two large lattes. We didn't stay long as we were on a bit of a tight schedule. Due to the snow at home we had left a lot later in the morning than we had originally planned so what was going to be a long leisurely day pub hunting had become a lot more condensed. Fortunately the next pub is just down the road, at least that's what the barman has told us...
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Visited 9th August 2009.
What can I say, we were hungry, the kids were hungry and nobody felt like cooking. Only one thing to left to do then - pub lunch! So we all bundled into the car and headed off to The Falcon. Parking was a cinch but only because it was Sunday, most of the time the road we were in is closed to regular traffic. But the weather was nice and we were in good spirits, even the kids were behaving. What could go wrong? Actually, nothing. We all opted for the Sunday roasts which arrived swiftly and they even had one of my favourite beers available, "Rebellion Blonde" which to quote www.rebellionbeer.co.uk is a "4.3% blend of both lager malt and bitter malt. When combined, they offer the unique qualities of both a lager and bitter, within the same bottle. Serve chilled to savour it as a light, thirst quenching alerternative to a continental style lager. Let it wam up to cellar temperature, (10-14 Degrees C), and the complex falvours of the bitter malt are liberated and the product becomes a light, easy drinking bitter, with a dry finish and a delicate hop aroma." All I know is it tastes great. Well done Wetherspoon, a good choice!
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