something like this sounds good. Perhaps not 9 pubs and a winebar but i kinda like the idea of off the beaten track places that the locals actually hang out in.
One pint, the rest is history
May 8, 2010
Keith Austin samples 4000 years of London tradition in a crawl between 10 of the city's fine old pubs.
Six hundred years ago, in The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer had his pilgrims meet in the Tabard coaching inn in south London before starting their journey to Canterbury Cathedral.
He was no fool, that Chaucer. London is full to the brim with history but nowhere does it come to life as vividly as in its pubs. Here, in the company of like-minded fellow travellers, you can knock back a cup of good cheer in the knowledge that the mere act of ordering has written you into a timeline stretching back, almost unchanged, for hundreds of years.
Sup your beer and think about all the people who in that same pub have ordered their pint, half pint or pewter tankard of lager, ale, porter or mead. Surely they weren't that much different? Chatting, laughing, drinking too much, arguing - and now you, too, are part of that tradition.
So here, in an easy five-odd kilometres covering a mere 4008 years, is a pub crawl through 10 of central London's oldest.
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/one-pint-the-rest-is-history-20100507-uian.html
