Friday, August 13, 2010

The Other Inn at the End of the World

For Sale:

The stagger home from the Old Forge in Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula is a little more challenging than the one from most other pubs.

If you do not live in the village, the only way of reaching or leaving is by walking 18 miles or making a seven-mile sea crossing.

The Old Forge has an entry in the Guinness World Records as the remotest pub on mainland Britain.

It has been offered for sale at offers above £790,000.


More here.

Right at the moment my on-line currency converter says that comes to $1,231,688.68. There go the payments on the Toyota.

ADDENDUM: Bill White informs us that The Forge has its own website here. Apparently it's much more of an established establishment than that news article would lead you to believe. Might even be worth that million and a quarter. But how do they get their deliveries? I have this mental picture of native bearers hoofing it the whole 18 miles with barrels of Guinness on their heads. . . .

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