England had gone mad.
London was sunny and over 30° every day, the English football team seemed to be headed for the finals and everyone was obsessing over ‘Love Island’.
-OK I need to pause and talk about this Love Island thing a second especially as I’ve noticed that most of my readers aren’t British… I have to admit that a programme where «single people get put into a villa and they have to couple up» sounded absolutely absurd so only possible explanation was that the sun had obviously got into my friends’ heads… But now I’ve found myself back in Mexico having downloaded a VPN and stressing out when I’m behind on episodes. Oops. #TeamLauraAndJack.
Anyway back to sunny England, and sunny Shoreditch to be exact. I have always loved Shoreditch and actually, some of my first experiences drinking alone have been here in a little underground cocktail bar called Hawksmoor Spitalfields, but we’ll come back to them in another post, perhaps the next.
On this day, I caught up with my friend Lizzie after she’d been showing off some scotch and gin around her accounts. I was half an hour late 😦 But when I finally did make it, we met up in a beer garden which belongs to ‘The Crown and Shuttle’ and it was PACKED. So packed that the actual beer garden was full, and we snuck up to a little balcony overlooking… the plastic covering the beer garden haha.
We were feeling bubbly, so Lizzie had a wine spritzer and I ordered an Aperol Spritz. I’ve been enjoying Aperol Spritz for about two years now, ever since I was having a chat to Luca Cinalli in Oriole, and when asking what his favourite cocktail was, that was his choice. The next day in a pub I couldn’t think of anything else, and on sunny days it’s high up on my list of thirst-quenchers.
Our chat circled about plans for the future. The near (where shall we go next?) and the far (I probably won’t ever get married!) but it’s a great little pub, such a fun vibe from the bartenders to the clients! I don’t know if it’s somewhere I’d go alone though actually – it’s a place more tailored for groups and no seats at the bar, but 100% recommended for groups when sunny or for evening fun.
Cheers!
-Crown and Shuttle, Shoreditch, London UK
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