[MR] BBC: World's Oldest Pub?

[Garth Groff and Sally Sanford]

Noble Friends, Especially Lovers of Suds:

Today BBC Travel is offering an illustrated feature on Sean's Bar, an Irish
pub in Athlone which lays claim to being the oldest drinking establishment
in Europe. It is believed to date to about 900 AD and still going strong:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190313-an-irish-pub-born-in-the-dark-ages
. Sean's Bar naturally has a Wikipedia page at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%27s_Bar .

The article mentions several other really old watering holes: Leeds'  963
Bingley Arms ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bingley_Arms ), The
Skirrid Mountain Inn near Abergavenny, Wales dating to 1110 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skirrid_Mountain_Inn ), Nottingham's 1189
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Trip_to_Jerusalem ), and Dublin's
Brazen Head which dates to 1198 (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Head ). All of these pubs have
their own web sites, usually linked off the Wikipedia pages cited above.

Here is your chance for a virtual medieval pub crawl without the hangover.

Yours Aye,

Mungo Napier, Laird of Mallard Lodge  🦆