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Wanted a bartender king for a pub on an island off the English coast

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LONDON – Wanted a pub manager willing to also become the king of a castle off the coast (but not too much) of the English coast. Ah, you also have to be willing to have a bucket of beer spilled over your head. It is a job offer definitely up to the eccentricity attributed to this country that issued by the local authorities to take care of Ship Inn, an inn on Island skin, tiny island separated by 800 meters of sea from the peninsula of Barrow-in-Furness, city of 60 thousand inhabitants in Cumbria, in northern England.

Since 1300 there has been a castle on the island and for two centuries there has been a pub with rooms to sleep: apart from this Piel Island is practically deserted. But in 1487 he had his moment of notoriety, a 10-year-old boy, Lambert Simnel, landed there with an army of 8,000 mercenaries, claiming to be the Earl of Warwick and the legitimate heir to the throne. From there they marched on London, but were defeated by Henry VII’s army in the last battle of the “war of the two roses” and they were never heard of again.

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Connected to land by a ferry between April and September, or reachable on foot with guided tours when there is low tide, the islet has over time become a tourist destination, to visit the castle, drink, eat and possibly sleep at the Ship. Inn. But the manager of the pub, John Murphy, at the age of 73 doesn’t feel like continuing anymore and therefore we need to find someone to replace him. We need a candidate who does not let himself be melancholy by the cold and rainy climate, by the lack of company, because apart from the occasional visitors to Piel Island, nobody lives, and by the difficulty of reaching the mainland, especially in the winter months.

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In addition, a man or a woman who accepts the traditions of the place is needed: by managing the pub one automatically becomes responsible for the island, with the informal title of king or queen, the task of guaranteeing the maintenance of the castle and the obligation to agree to being showered with beer during the inauguration ceremony while sitting on some kind of throne. On the other hand, anyone who takes the throne without his authorization is obliged to pay everyone a drink. Assuming there’s someone else around, of course.

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