Beer: Harveys Best 4.0%
Day trip to Arundel from our holiday base in Chichester. Everything’s posh down this way, though there’s no denying Harveys Best is a solid, decent pint.
The White Hart is charming and has made the best of what looks as if it was either an old car port or drive round to the back. It’s now a more than acceptable garden space, and for a mid afternoon on a Friday, there’s a pleasant ambiance, aided by the informative bartender.
A break between the castle and train journey home. Anj’s phone is telling us there are no trains for at least two hours. I could see the damned things walking down the hill. Who’s the smart one, eh? Me or Samsung?
I keep the question to myself.
Otherwise, the highlights of the visit are the aforementioned bartender, who rushes out to one of the punters with a bag of barbecue stuff he – the punter – had left indoors. Presumably at the bar. And there’s an Irish fellow, smoking a fag, checking dinner arrangements and sorting out a £30 on a 3/1 bet in the last race at Newbury.
(I checked. The last race’s favourite seems likely to be Irish’s horse. Inclyne’s betting closed at 11/4, though the horse finished in third place, two lengths behind Pledge of Honour and a length and a half behind second placed Kattani).
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