An outsiders' view on pub life

An Australian/Dutch couple share their thoughts on pub life after running a pub in England for six months:

I don't think they were overwhelmed by the experience: "Every day in the pub the same geezers, over and over again, the same faces, the same drinks, the same bad jokes, over and over again." But they do admit they met a lot of interesting people they wouldn't otherwise have met, and got to see real English culture: "the pub is the centre of the universe...the pub is life...the pub is like the church for the English people."