The Intrepid Fox among the undead

Last November (2006) our annual trip to London was about to begin. As usual we had everything well planned in advance. Basically our plan is always to head to best pub in London, The Intrepid Fox, drink some beers and see where else we could go to once the pub closes. This had been proven to be the best plan ever.This year Andi, Bertl and me went on the trip. Bertl had never before been to London so we promised to show him the sights, always telling him how great the Fox is :)
So on the 9th we arrived in London, looked for a place to stay at Kings Cross and headed off to show Bertl the sights (which included spending way too much time at Virgin and HMV, going through all the nice DVDs). When we were close to the Fox I wanted to take a quick peek at it in anticipation of the fun later that evening...

BUT.... THE HORROR!!!

The Fox was boarded up and we could clearly hear construction work going on inside. Right at that moment we (Andi & me) were devastated and at loss on how to spend our evenings at London.

Of course we found other places, especially the Purple T will stay forever in our memories. It's an east end pub located in a former financial institute and offers about ten different kinds of cider. The evening there was very strange and weird...

Well, anyway, we only learnt about the Intrepid Fox' true fate until after we returned to Vienna. Apparently the building was bought, the pub given a one month notice to get lost and now the whole building is going to get rebuilt into an apartment complex. Sad but true :(

But rejoice!!! Some help from google soon revealed that the Intrepid Fox was moving into a place in Denmark Street (near Tottenham Court Road). And tonight I looked again and it seems that it already reopened there. See this blog at http://www.lyingonthecovers.net/?p=113 written a month ago in December.
This finally made me sit down and write this piece (and that Bertl finally sent me the picture last weekend helped, too :))

So live in London makes sense once more and I hope the new fox is still as homely as the old one was!