Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Back to Adam & Eve
Someone once asked me if the Adam & Eve had low ceilings. I said I didn’t know at the time because I didn’t go to pubs because of the smoke. When the ban was implemented, I went to find out. And so the answer is yes. Look at the lovely paneling.
I also ordered lemonade to quench my thirst (and help with the dizziness), and this time I knew exactly what I was getting. When I first visited Norwich in 2003, I would order lemonade and get Sprite or Seven-Up. I thought they were just random mistakes or some kind of miscommunication. Later I found out that lemonade over here didn’t mean the fruit! If you want that, you’d have to say ‘cloudy’ lemonade.
I am many things - a life coach, a diversity champion, a freelance writer and translator, a dog lover, a citizen of the world, etc - but never thought of myself as a photographer. Norwich inspires me to capture snapshots of this fine Norman city. Take a trip down Norwich lanes or enjoy a walk in the park with me.
on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 9:25 am:
I don’t go to the bar but this place looks nice and cozy. Very good shot!
on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 3:34 pm:
I got barred from there twenty years ago for giving them a rubbish review when I wrote pub and restaurant reviews and have not been in since.
Hey! I caught your radio show!
It’s mostly static out here in the Broads, but I could just about make out your voice.
I’ll have to try to remember to drive into Norwich next time so I can hear you properly in the car.
on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pm:
Hi Tanty! Yeah, I’m not a huge fan either. To begin with, I don’t drink alcohol. And even fizzy drinks - limited only to consumption for ‘medicinal’ purposes
I only drink fizzy drinks when I have motion sickness.
on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 6:15 pm:
Dive, would you dare set foot at the Adam & Eve 20 years hence? I’m sure all is forgotten.
Thanks for listening to the show! I couldn’t believe when the hour was over.
on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 6:47 pm:
Joy, I tried listening on the website but the radio player doesn’t work on my Mac (much like the BBC). The podcasts work fine but I couldn’t find you in the list of downloadable shows.
However, I’ve bookmarked it, so I’ll keep checking back in the podcast section until they include you. Then I can load your show on to my iPod and listen while I’m on the train.
By the way, I noticed Richard Penguin is on one of the shows. If you should bump into him say hi from David the guitarist (he’ll know who you mean).
on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 11:10 am:
that is cool info - cloudy lemonade eh, so the first you really thought they are giving you the someone’s order.
that place look cozy, doesnt look like a pub at all to me
on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 11:32 am:
Akala ko nagkamali sila ng dinig ng order ko. Aba, ewan ko kung bakit lemonade ang Sprite dito. Ang sabi sa akin kasi lemony ang lasa.
Ang pubs kasi dito may mga rooms minsan. So yan may bar area din yan, but unlike other pubs, Adam and Eve is not a modern structure so it doesn’t look like your average pub.
on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 3:31 pm:
Yes, that pub looks like a nice place to relax and have a pint or two. I’m going to look for your podcast on the BBC site too! Cheers!
on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 5:40 pm:
This is the first time I’ve heard bar tenders confusion lemonade with Spite and/or 7Up. But I guess nobody goes to the bar to drink REAL lemonade.
on Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 3:41 am:
LOL at Ming’s comment! Love the interior of this pub just as much as its exterior.
on Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 7:18 pm:
This looks like such a quaint spot to drop in.
on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 12:58 am:
Thank you so much for visiting my Daily Photo blog and commenting. Comments are lovely and one finds new and marvelous blogs, that way too.
I’m so glad for the smoking ban, and that it allowed you to enter this old pub and take photos. I understand the issue of smoke, keeping one from places. -sigh-
Seeing this pub ~ I wonder if you would be interested in an old entry of mine, which shows photos I took, inside an old restaurant/pub/etc. in my city. It’s at the following link…. which I’ll put separate and not try for a clickable link. Not knowing if comments here, will allow one.
http://photoscitymine.blogspot.com/2007/02/original-built-in-1773.html
Thank you again for commenting.. in my ‘Photos-City-Mine’ blog. I’m going to enjoy coming to yours.
Mari-Nanci
on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 4:11 am:
Ohhhh.. that’s beautiful…
on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 12:44 pm:
nice
on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at 9:05 pm:
It’s a lovely photograph, but the interior of that pub is not as old as you might think. I used to drink in there in 1969 or so, and there wasn’t even a bar, and still less any beer pumps. As you entered the front door, you were facing the back of som ancient settles that circled the fire on the left. There was a small room to the right that contained a (locked and never played) piano, and that was where we (the bell ringers from St. George Colegate) used to sit after ringing practice. The round extension part of the building had a door to it with glass panels, and inside you could see that it was furnished like an old-fashioned parlour, there were chintz-covered armchairs with anti-macassars. This was the “private room”, and I never, ever saw it used. Once you were sitting down, and if (this was never guaranteed) Rene liked the look of you, you could ask for a beer. Since there were no beer pumps, it had to be fetched from the cellar, two or three steps down to the left from the front door, and drawn straight from the wood. A week after the brewery changed from wooden barrels to fizzy “keg” beer, Rene and her husband retired; they just couldn’t face having to serve rubbish beer.