点评:Our best friends were visiting for their yearly Christmas shopping from Southampton so we arranged to meet and take part in a quiz at the cottage tavern in Cleadon village. The tavern is old fashioned, bevelled glassed with a log fire, not too large but hosts bands, football games and the quiz.
We arrived before 8pm and the stand in quizmaster explained the format of the picture quiz, main quiz, bingo and sticky cards games. Entry is £1 per person for each thing you enter. (No limit per person per team by the looks of it). The pub was about half full and the atmosphere was good. Our expectations for the quiz itself was middle to bottom placed based on previous quizzes, so to finish 2nd (don’t mention the soap operas Doctors and Crossroads!) and to receive a bottle of wine was way above our best expectations!
We were there for 2 hours plus. Barmaid was good, prices were okay, fire was lovely and toilets good.
Unfortunately the door nearest us was used by customers sharing a cigarette which apart from the smell the room cooled quickly as they smoked.
A pub where regulars stand out but we we’re welcome as we had been in other visits.
翻译:我们最好的朋友从南安普顿来我们这里进行一年一度的圣诞购物,所以我们约好在克利顿村的乡村酒馆见面,一起参加一个问答游戏。这家酒馆很古朴,玻璃窗是斜面的,里面有个燃木壁炉,虽然不大,但会举办乐队演出、足球比赛和问答游戏。
我们晚上八点前就到了,临时主持人给我们讲解了图片问答、主问答、宾果游戏和粘性卡片游戏的规则。每人每项游戏收费1英镑。(看起来每队每人参赛次数没有限制)。酒馆里大概坐满了一半,气氛很好。根据我们之前参加过的问答游戏,我们对这次的成绩预期大概在中下游,所以没想到竟然拿到了第二名(别提那些肥皂剧《医生》和《十字路口》了!),还赢了一瓶酒,这远远超出了我们的预期!
我们在那里待了两个多小时。酒保服务很好,价格也合理,壁炉很舒服,洗手间也不错。
可惜的是,离我们最近的那扇门被几位顾客用来抽烟,除了烟味之外,房间里的温度也随着他们的吸烟迅速下降。
这家酒吧的常客很显眼,但我们和之前几次来一样,都受到了热情的欢迎。