Fitzrovia and Soho Pub Crawl

Posted on 2009/01/12 20:22:20 (January 2009).

[Saturday 10th January]
Had an unforgivably slothful daytime, including a bit of a nap in the afternoon, which provoked a distinct urge as the evening approached to actually get out of the flat and do something.

Some time back I bought a book called London's Historic Inns and Taverns which I would occasionally browse through at bedtime to read about the lovely old pubs I hadn't yet been to. It occurred to me today though that I pretty rarely, if ever, actually get around to visiting any of these pubs - I generally didn't carry the book around with me, and when I was out and about in town I'd generally have forgotten where they all were.

So I decided to do something about that today, and set about making this map using the "My Maps" feature in Google Maps, detailing all the pubs in central London from the book that I'd like to visit at some point.

Better still, given that I could easily browse this on my Android phone, I thought I'd actually set about trying to visit some of these today. A short while later and I'd also recruited a couple of willing volunteers to aid me in this pursuit - Chie of course, and our friend Gav who also turned out to be at a loose end.

There was no way we'd be able to visit all of these pubs in one evening, so I decided to take a slice down through the middle, starting in Fitzrovia, down through a cross section of Soho, and ending in St. James's.

The pictures give a fuller account, but in summary we rather impressively managed to visit 10 pubs, albeit that only 4 of those were actually on my map, and the other 6 were pubs we just happened to walk past and tried on the off chance they might be nice.

Here's another map with the eventual route we ended up taking:


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