heterotopian: The Tale of Two Cities according to Stephi and Heiko - Part 368We are doing this serie
heterotopian: The Tale of Two Cities according to Stephi and Heiko - Part 368We are doing this series for over seven years now and I can’t believe that we never had today’s topic before. This week, i will present you one of the most important places in our cities (and there are a lot of them): the pub. (Yeah, the UK is known for its pubs as well, but we are proud of our pubs just as well.)But we do not only present you an ordinary pub, we give you the corner pub that could be found on any other street corner back in the day. The houses were actually built that way that the building on the corner had the entrance exactly on the corner so it could be the entrance to the pub. About 30 years ago, there was at least one pub in every small village. Nowadays you often have to search in the bigger city to find a traditional pub, especially a corner pub.These pubs usually only served beer and schnapps and probably a little bit of food, mostly small snacks to go along with the beer. The beer isn’t bottled but from a tap. sometimes there was more than one tapped beer but often you just ordered a beer and was served the local brew. The pub was most often visited by men, who played cards or sat by the bar, talking and watching. But it was also packed full on Sunday morning after church, when men had their morning pint as the British seem to call it. We just use the term Frühshoppen. Often the men didn’t return to lunch in their best shape and had a extensive nap afterwards. The first picture is from a classic corner pub in Munich, while the second one shows a corner pub from Cologne.Do you go to a pub on a regular basis or did you used to go? Or have you probably never been to a pub? -- source link