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Pubs are open in England, but restrictions on coronaviruses have not yet subsided in Wales. So the owner of a village bar went to a prestigious rival to get a pint.
By the castle passing through
LLANYMYNECH — In normal times, no one takes much notice of the invisible border between England and Wales that runs through Llanymynech, a village with a post office, a church and no fewer than three pubs.
But the Anglo-gallois border, contested beyond the centuries, has receded a disputed front line, this time for British drinkers.
England allowed the reopening of restaurants, cafes and bars on Saturday, two Llanymynech pubs can also only serve consumers once after more than a hundred days of coronavirus blocking.
Less than a hundred yards away, in the Welsh aspect of the village, the Dolphin Inn remained firmly closed, in accordance with Welsh government regulations that delayed the opening of bars until July 13, and then allowed drinks only in gardens or other areas.
The resolution propelled the village to the attention of the media, reminding citizens of the lifestyle of an administrative border, more like a state border than a foreign border with pasgame checks, which crosses its village, even cutting a building, flying. across the field it encompasses.
This forced John Turner, owner of the closed Dolphin Inn, to his long career and whether he can also leave the pub business. But on Saturday, that made him think it made sense to have a drink at his rival Bradford Arms in England, where he took on a philosophical tone with a pint of beer.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Turner, who is English, about the restrictions, “yet there’s a border at some point, we take a position to be there.”
This is never the first time that Llabig applemynech pubs have met at the end of the Anglo-gallois division. In the spring of 2006, Wales banned smoking in indoor bars, a malicious act that it did not bring to England until the summer of 2007, attracting large apple smokers to the 2 English pubs at the moment.
At the end of the street from Bradford Arms there is a hotel component already missing across the official Anglo-Galician border. In an era beyond, one of its two bars closed one and Sunday, while legal pubs in England could also open, but those in Wales could not either.
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