Pub needed for lunch...

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theboyfold

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Saturday 3rd March 2007
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...ideally at the end of a very nice road to drive!

I'm just off to pick up the new car and would like to find a nice pub, away from london. Starting out near Slough, cough, I mean Windsor(!) and want to head West or South not really fussed, would just like a nice drive to a nice village or town. Someplace by the sea would be nice.

Any ideas??

Smiler.

11,752 posts

237 months

Saturday 3rd March 2007
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Nice one, what car?

theboyfold

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Saturday 3rd March 2007
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Smiler. said:
Nice one, what car?


Boxster S Never wanted one until I drove one...

M400 NBL

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Saturday 3rd March 2007
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I wouldn't worry too much about finding a pub that does a nice meal.

Let's face it, you aren't going to get Gordon Ramsey type food in a pub!

I'd be more interested in a long winding road. I once drove to Eastbourne to stay at a camping site and what sticks in my mind more than anything was the drive. I can't remember the road b ut I think it was the A22.

I also rode my motorbike down to brighton using nothing but A roads.

Btw, I like the way that you admitted starting from Slough - I actually missed Slough (my home town) while in Canada on a winter holiday last week and this week while on a course in a town in Cheshire.

We haven't got it so bad in Slough. Congrats on the car. I drove a friends Boxster a few years back and even though I wanted to (jokingly) tell him it was a shit hairdressers car, it was brilliant...and I think that was a 2.5L.

Like all motor critics say, if someone doesn't like a Boxster, they haven't driven one.

theboyfold

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M400 NBL said:

Btw, I like the way that you admitted starting from Slough - I actually missed Slough (my home town) while in Canada on a winter holiday last week and this week while on a course in a town in Cheshire.

We haven't got it so bad in Slough. Congrats on the car. I drove a friends Boxster a few years back and even though I wanted to (jokingly) tell him it was a shit hairdressers car, it was brilliant...and I think that was a 2.5L.

Like all motor critics say, if someone doesn't like a Boxster, they haven't driven one.


Slough still hasn't won me over, I'm just slightly outside the main part so it's not too bad, but I can't say I like the toen centre.

It's funny you should say that about the Boxster, I remember back in December when I started looking for a car, I walked past a Boxster on my way to test drive an EVO MR340 saying, I'd never buy one of those, then I drove one. I love it!!

I'll bear your roads in mind, could be good for the summer

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Saturday 3rd March 2007
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There are some mint pubs in the vicinity (not realy walking distance though). Be good to see you at the next local meet, keep an eye out.

edt

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Tuesday 6th March 2007
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Try the King William, Hailey, nr Wallingford
Ed

theboyfold

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Tuesday 6th March 2007
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Actually ended up here, www.thehorseguardsinn.co.uk/index.php doesn't look the website has been updated in ages, but the food was awesome, and there are one or two good roads round that way!!