‘They were 294 of us on the train and they herded us into an ageing 38-seater coach. But then an announcement came over the tannoy telling us that due to a lack of drivers, we’d have to continue our journey by tramp.’
Michael O’Patrick, 59, of Bexleyheath in Kent, yesterday told astonished locals in The Moon Under Water pub that he much preferred their popular stout than the one he grew up on, in the green hills of Donegal. ‘Its all about the water,’ he explained, ‘and this simply tastes slightly less like burnt coffee than the stuff we got in Donny. It’s OK to be Irish, for sure, but no one does a pint of Guinness like a Wetherspoons in Kent.’
Posted: Apr 17th, 2009
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