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Where To Drink Rum: Trailer Happiness, London

by Matt Robold on August 9, 2010

This is a guest post written by Peter and Pauline Holland of The Floating Rum Shack. Peter and Pauline are avid rum enthusiasts and great friends of both this site and its humble author. They live in the UK, where they have a much easier time making it down to Trailer Happiness to enjoy what Rikki Brodrick has wrought there than I do.

To quote their website “Trailer Happiness is an intimate lounge bar, den and kitchen… with the e-z-boy feel of a low rent, mid-60’s California valley bachelor pad.” [Read the full article →]

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