It doesn't matter what your age, Bedfordians seem to have religiously strict routines when it comes to weekend drinking. The routines might be different for everyone, but people just seem to know where they want to go on a night out before that night out has even begun (arguments usually begin over pre-drinks and carry on well into the night before you can all decide together whether the usual Rose then Pad combination is going to cut it for the fourteenth weekend in a row). Are you a Yates then Vogue person? Or a believer in Chameleon followed by Hi Fi? Perhaps you're someone who'll be found on the High Street yelling "Rose 'Till Close!" at the top of your lungs, even though it's twenty to two in the morning and the gates to the pub are shut. We've all got our favourite haunts (and our less favourite ones). Bedford as a town is full of little pubs and bars. Didn't you ever go to a birthday party at the Ent Shed at The Gordon Arms on Castle Road because you thought you wouldn't need ID when you were underage? Or in more recent years, visited The Auction Room and been rejected because you were wearing a scruffy pair of Converse instead of the shiny shoes they really want you to be wearing? Have you been to Lost and Found and been shocked to find that you were really were in Bedford sipping on a dry martini and not a classy little bar in some high end of London instead? There are almost too many places to take note of, so instead of choosing one particular drinking road to go down, let us instead take a virtual pub crawl of Bedford town centre's more popular venues, in order to get a true feel for the town's best and worst watering holes.
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
