A welcome stop on the Thames Path.
This pub is located in Cookham on the River Thames, not far from London. It makes a good place to relax and recharge if you’re walking a section of the Thames Path. It was particularly welcome on the day we stopped, as the weather turned from threatening to rain to bucketing down with rain! (Curious about what a ‘swan upper’ is? Read more here.)
Posted for Becky’s SquareUp challenge. I’ve gone with “playing around with the word up”.
Pics by Kaz 
Nice image, and a nice looking pub. Pre-COVID I’d visit the UK on business. Hopefully travel will be easier soon, and grab a pint there.
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I hope you get to visit this pub — and I hope it’s still in business. Pubs over there are struggling.
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Thanks. I speak with a few colleagues over there periodically, and the impression that I got was that it’s not going so well there. I usually visit either Norhants, West Mids, or Kent. Next visit, I’m taking a few extra days holiday while there… here’s hoping.
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I often miss no longer living in London, but comparing the covid situations in UK and Australia, I’m very glad I live in Sydney now! Good luck with your next visit.
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I’d LOVE to visit AU
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Add it to the bucket list!
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That is a very inviting picture! You’ve got me wanting a pint now.
I guess you know the artist Stanley Spencer was from Cookham? He painted it often over a period of many years, including a well-known painting of swan upping that he completed in 1919.
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Not many olde englande pubs in NYC? 😉 I did know about Spencer, but not the swan upping paintings. I shall look them up!
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English no, but lots of Irish pubs! And they’re often very similar in appearance, though they’re run by Irish people. They’re cheerful places and especially nice in the winter, when they tend to serve great mounds of comfort food like shepherd’s pie, chicken pot pie, fish and chips etc. They’re something I’ve missed during the lockdown.
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With luck, you’ll be able to visit them again next winter.
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That’s what a proper pub should look like.
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I agree!
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Swan Upping is a lovely tradition, isn’t it? And, yes- you can buy me a half of Guinness there, Karen 🙂 🙂
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First round of Guinnesses is on me! 🙂 (I’m not sure the swans think being chased, grabbed, trussed and cut is particularly ‘lovely’, however.)
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I didn’t think they were hurt! Just tagged and recorded these days? 😦
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I think you’re right, it seems they’re no longer marked on the beak.
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😊😊
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That is exactly what a pub should look like in the eyes of us Americans! It really is lovely and being inside on a rainy day sounds wonderful. A good image for winter.
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Sadly, there are few of these lovely old pubs left. Most are modernised to remove all the charm.
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What a great looking pub.. 😉
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One of the good ones!
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