Of course me and Perfect Husband were going to be there! We love being pirates so much we actually had a Pirate Wedding, so there's no way we were gonna miss out!
We arrived at the Town Square just before 7pm, as that was when the group photograph was going to be taken. You could not move for pirates- so many people of all varying ages, (drinking age of course!) and everyone had made so much effort with costumes- we knew we were in for a good evening.
The Treasure Map we were given had the names of all the participating pubs and a place for each one to put their stamp; we were on a mission to get them all. And we were off!! The evening was a blur of drinking shots, taking photos of each other, saying "yarrrggghh" at every opportunity (many sore throats the next morning), admiring people's costumes, more drinking, making donations (Perfect Husband had got a roll of Dollar coins from the bank, as these are gold we thought they made rather good treasure to put in the donation boxes), more drinking, parrot tossing (not real I hasten to add) and a bit of dancing too! In one of the bars, aptly in the Captain Cook Hotel we overheard a couple talking. Nothing unusual in that, except they had BRITISH ACCENTS!! Oh great joy, as I sometimes feel like I'm the only Brit in town, even though I'm probably not. So I insisted we had a group hug to which they obligingly and cheerfully agreed, and we were all friends. Big Up to Mandy and Mick from the Cotswolds, I think we made each other's night!! At last, as we made our merry way down the road in search of a taxi to take us home, we saw a rather plump and jolly pirate heading our way. Clutching a pewter tankard in his hand, he nodded his head in the direction of the bar we had just left and simply said "Be there Rum this way....?" Naturally we replied in unison "Yarrrgghhhhh!!"
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