We'll keep a sort of welcome in the hillside.........

Without sounding like one of tv’s ‘grumpy old men’ I have to recount a bizarre episode we had earlier this evening. It was scary to put it in context with the current advertising campaign to bring visitors to Wales.

We went to a local public house for a meal. There’s a huge banner outside declaring ‘Thursday night is steak night between 5pm and 9pm’. So we called in at 7pm to be told by the waitress, ‘ you can have anything off the menu except steak, we haven’t got any’. Now by this time I quite fancied a nice rib eye, so we left and went to the next pub along the road where there’s a huge banner bigging up their food. After parking the car we got to the door to read that food is only served between 12pm and 6pm. So just when it gets to dinnertime and people are hungry, they stop selling food! Puts me in mind of the bakers in the Wrexham area I visited that closes between 12pm and 1pm for lunch!

If the weather wasn’t a huge incentive to holiday in another country, the reluctance to actually serve customers something to eat would seem to drive another nail into the coffin lid for Welsh tourism.


nick