Peace and quiet and a good view: if that sounds like a lifelong dream, you can apply to be the new leaseholder of the Ship Inn Pub on Piel Island – and you will even become king.
Barrow-in-Furness – It is a question of essence whether you like the royal post recently vacated on Piel Island. The community in the north-west of England is currently looking for a new tenant for the pub on an island of just 20 hectares. Piel Island belongs to the place Barrow-in-Furness at the tip of the Furness Peninsula in the Irish Sea and is about 800 meters from the mainland.
The future tenant of the pub could expect the most beautiful job in the world there – or the loneliest. Because next to the Ship Inn there are only a ruined castle and a handful of old fishermen’s huts. Apart from a few seals and around 10 residents, that was it.
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Some time ago, several British media reported that the local council of the town with around 57,000 inhabitants had started the process of a tender to find a new host for the restaurant. After the pub had to close during the corona pandemic *, the previous tenants had given up.
Known for its spectacular sunsets, the island can only be reached by ferry from April to September. Otherwise, only a guided hike over the mudflats will bring you to Piel Island. “You can’t even walk over to Tesco for a loaf of bread when you’re on Piel Island,” the Guardian quoted cotton leader John Murphy as saying that he still enjoys the view of the island even when he’s “completely drunk ” is.
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On the small island in the middle of the Irish Sea, alcohol also plays a major role in other ways. On Piel Island, the host of the Ship Inn is traditionally referred to as the king of the islet. The semi-official island monarch is crowned by taking a seat on an antique chair and being doused with beer by the other islanders, as the Guardian reported.
How cozy it can be in a pub was last shown when 61 Britons were snowed in for three days in a pub *. * fnp.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA. (lz / dpa)
