We do like to be beside the seaside – and lots of other places too
You may or may not know this, but your favourite pub guide is a Google Partner and we were part of the Street View launch last year. Much of the hoo-hah surrounding Street View seems to have died down now that people are more used to it, however, there was another lower-key announcement from Google last week, which should make the rest of Britain happy/unhappy depending on their point of view.
Google Street View now covers almost all of the UK – 99% /238,000 miles – and we’re working hard to update fancyapint.com with these new views. We’ve already been down to the seaside and updated the Brighton pubs and we’re steadily working our way through the rest of the UK. It takes time as we’re checking each pub before we update it.
Now, with Street View you can view and explore 360 degree street-level imagery of places as far North as Shetland and as far South as Penzance; from Pembrokeshire in the West of Wales to Ipswich in the East of England or over the sea to Northern Ireland and many places in between.
By increasing availability to cover almost all of the country, the UK joins countries like Spain, France, Italy and the US, which already enjoy nationwide coverage in Street View. Street View has already proved both popular and useful across the UK, with more than a 30% increase in Google Maps usage since launch [source: Google Inc.].

We moved servers over the New Year and, in doing so, got a few wires crossed and not everything worked quite how it should. Fancyapint.com’s quite a big site nowadays and we keep finding and sorting problems even two months on. And, one of the things we missed until now, was a malfunctioning comments system.
So, once we realised we’d almost missed it, we came up with a few favourites where we’ve had pretty good pies, lately, and this is what it looks like.
Many people in the UK aren’t aware of it, but there’s a bill threading its way though parliament right now that could mean the end of free WiFi (or any Wifi, for that matter) down the pub.

Yet another thing we’ve been meaning to do for a good while now, is to provide all you Tweeters and Facebookers with easy ways to tell your friends about the pubs and bars described and defined by our esteemed and erudite reviewers on your favourite pub web site.