Investigating the Eel's Boot!

I'm sure all our readers know how much we like visiting pubs. Normally this is because we like drinking beer. There are a few pubs, however, which draw us for other reasons.

One such pub is the Eels Foot at Eastbridge, near Dunwich. Our walk over Dunwich Heath just happened to start from this village, and of course this meant that it also ended at Eastbridge, just a few yards (sorry we haven't gone metric) from this marvellously named pub.

It would have cut our lovely day short, if we didn't pay a visit, so visit we did.


The non beer reason for liking this pub is illustrated in our picture. Not only is this pub located in a scenic spot and have a superbly whacky name, the landlord makes the most of the name, and goes to town with some great illustrations. There is a lovely pub sign (but we were too short to get near enough for a picture) and in the beer garden is this incredible sculpture depicting the pub name. They've taken a bit of licence actually as it's a boot rather than a foot, but we still think it's great and it makes an excellent bear's playground.

It did actually distract us from our beer for a moment or two ... that doesn't happen very often.

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx