I love holiday’s and the experience of downloading an out of date lesbian listings, to confuse the charming locals, in my search of venues was reminiscent of being in lost in China.
We started at the Prince of Wales, which was not on any list, but has to be mentioned for the genuinely unpretentious and gorgeous women many sporting traditional short hair, thus tantalising my gaydar.
After stopping for food, we progressed to gay friendly “The Scotchman and his pack”, (St. Michael’s Hill, Kingsdown) in the posh grammar school stuffed district of Bristol. I got hugged by Becky the bar maid, for she didn’t know that the pub had been outed. In fact, according to the fishing obsessed owner, the listing is 11 years old and he had e-mailed the site owner to inform them that the pub was indeed gay friendly but not gay exclusive. Just like my first website the owner had left university and thus lost the right to update.
Upon the Scotchman recommendation we rocked on up the hill to Bar 155. This lovely little cafe bar was decked in the joy Christmas which in itself is worth checking out. Aiden and Peter run their bar for the local community (rather than the gay community) and the clientele ranged from students, couples, groups of friends and elderly locals. Enormously friendly. It was enough to end our evening by discovering that we were part of the lock in.
Suggestions for dancing include the Vibe and Queen Shilling which allegedly sports the butch variety of lesbian.
