When I first came to this place, I had already seen the Swan bar. It is in the opposite of the Bargens--the only shopping market in Cranfield village. About several years ago I had already hear that wine bar culture was very famous in the UK. Now, I have the chance to experience it.
Luckily, yesterday when I came to Mr Dai's house I heart that they had been to there and someone chatted with the natives a lot. Tonight we were just have spare time, so Ning Yu, Liu Lei, Fu Yanyan and I drove to there at about 8pm. When we came in, I found that It was a very small place but the circumstance was very quiet, did not like the bar in china. It was suitable for people to intercommunicate and relax. And the wine price was not as very expensive as our imagination. But to our disappoint, there were very few people in it, so we did not have the chance to chat with them. What a pity is!
We ordered 3 cups of beer for our 3 gentlemen and a cup of grape wine for Miss Fu and some snacks. The taste of beer seemed to be almost the same as Chinese, but the price was almost 5 times as it was in china. Another embarrassment we felt was all the name of wine and beer we never saw before. So we had to point the picture to the waiter and even did not know what the taste might be. And when we want to leave, we even did not know how to express our meaning of paying for the bill in English. We just told the waitress: we want to pay for the bill. But we still had another trouble: we did not how many tip should we give the waitress. after a few minutes' discussion, we finally decided that give her 17 pounds including the tip--the order is 16.4 pounds.
But we did not tell her it included the tip, and she also did not give we change. Maybe this was their custom.
Overall, we more or less felt disappointed to this experience of the Swan, but after all, we had already achieved one of our aspirations.
Luckily, yesterday when I came to Mr Dai's house I heart that they had been to there and someone chatted with the natives a lot. Tonight we were just have spare time, so Ning Yu, Liu Lei, Fu Yanyan and I drove to there at about 8pm. When we came in, I found that It was a very small place but the circumstance was very quiet, did not like the bar in china. It was suitable for people to intercommunicate and relax. And the wine price was not as very expensive as our imagination. But to our disappoint, there were very few people in it, so we did not have the chance to chat with them. What a pity is!
We ordered 3 cups of beer for our 3 gentlemen and a cup of grape wine for Miss Fu and some snacks. The taste of beer seemed to be almost the same as Chinese, but the price was almost 5 times as it was in china. Another embarrassment we felt was all the name of wine and beer we never saw before. So we had to point the picture to the waiter and even did not know what the taste might be. And when we want to leave, we even did not know how to express our meaning of paying for the bill in English. We just told the waitress: we want to pay for the bill. But we still had another trouble: we did not how many tip should we give the waitress. after a few minutes' discussion, we finally decided that give her 17 pounds including the tip--the order is 16.4 pounds.
But we did not tell her it included the tip, and she also did not give we change. Maybe this was their custom.
Overall, we more or less felt disappointed to this experience of the Swan, but after all, we had already achieved one of our aspirations.
It sounds like you did very well. Maybe we should do a lesson on what to do in British restaurants and pubs? I'll speak to Audrey and Mark about this.
ReplyDeleteReally? I think it is necessary to do a lesson on these. I am waiting for that!
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