Cloisters

About three minutes' walk from the Meadows Croquet Club, at 26 Brougham Street, is one of Edinburgh's best pubs - Cloisters, formerly the rectory of All Saints' Church, where the staff now serve constant favourites like Deuchar's IPA and an ever-changing selection of guest ales with religious devotion.  It's a civilised place where they don't have loud music or the clatter of gaming machines and it is usually possible to carry on a conversation with a group of friends even if you are deaf in one ear like me.  And of course, following the ban on smoking in enclosed public places in Scotland, it is now smoke-free.  It is the regular gathering place of members of the croquet club after dusk or after the end of a tournament.  I have happy memories of hilarious sessions there as well as many serious conversations about croquet tactics and about how to improve and enlarge the club.  If the Meadows Croquet Club is my second home during the summer, Cloisters is perhaps my third home - or is it just an outlying room of my second home?

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