With my Mum's funeral and all the associated paperwork completed we decided to have a long weekend in Rye. Unfortunately pubs in Rye do have television sets and following the England Algeria debacle the rest of the evening was rescued by a particularly good rock band in The Ypres Arms.
On the following evening we were doing the rounds of the local hostelries and decided to try and lower the tone in the cocktail bar of the 15th century Mermaid Inn. Now I won’t say it is the most expensive bar I have ever been in but a cheese and homemade pickle sandwich is £7.25! But you can tell the quality of a watering hole by it’s ablutions and the Mermaid’s are first class – you can’t beat a good Armitage Shank!
While Janice disappeared into the ladies doing whatever it is that ladies do that takes half an hour to complete, who should join me at the bar for a couple of JD on the rocks but none other than Giovanni Dominico Scafone Jr., better known to you all as Jack Scott, the American country rock singer. Good ole Jack, now 74 and still making the occasional performance, was staying at the Mermaid with fellow performer Sleepy La Beef and headlining the Rockabilly Rave week-end at Pontins in Camber Sands.
Don’t remember Jack, well take a look here:
On the following evening we were doing the rounds of the local hostelries and decided to try and lower the tone in the cocktail bar of the 15th century Mermaid Inn. Now I won’t say it is the most expensive bar I have ever been in but a cheese and homemade pickle sandwich is £7.25! But you can tell the quality of a watering hole by it’s ablutions and the Mermaid’s are first class – you can’t beat a good Armitage Shank!
While Janice disappeared into the ladies doing whatever it is that ladies do that takes half an hour to complete, who should join me at the bar for a couple of JD on the rocks but none other than Giovanni Dominico Scafone Jr., better known to you all as Jack Scott, the American country rock singer. Good ole Jack, now 74 and still making the occasional performance, was staying at the Mermaid with fellow performer Sleepy La Beef and headlining the Rockabilly Rave week-end at Pontins in Camber Sands.
Don’t remember Jack, well take a look here:
