The Anchor, Silver Street, Cambridge

It's big and white, stands level with a bridge and goes all the way down to the
river.  It's far from an amazing pub, but its location, behind the moorings
for a punt hire outfit, is particularly fine.  Trainered men leap between
the backs of seats like people stepping from rafter to rafter in an attic, to
avoid a crash and a shower of plaster and Nice of you to drop in ha ha.
They even have the double-width punts you don't see in Oxford, in one case
improvising by chaining two standard six-person punts together.  Two Magdalene
punts went past.  It looked as if the independent- : state-school ratio at
Magdalene was not what it might be.

6X on tap, fridges full of alcopops, rafters, floors and stairs all over the
place.  Very food oriented, in fact.
(2002-05-11)