Best pub in Puerto del Carmen - past and present

Let the rambling continue... And what better thing to ponder than the impossible and the hypothetical?

So, what was/is the best bar ever in Puerto del Carmen? Freddies, Charlies, The Two Wheels, The Craic n'Ceol, The Brendan Behan? The strange thing is when I think of these bars, I tend to think of them as they were, years ago.

Some have now gone. Others remain and there's nothing wrong with them in their present state. But the nostalgia-filled glory days of years gone by make it impossible for the modern-day Charlies and Freddies (does Freddies still open? I haven't been in that vicinity in the early hours of the morning in some time) and even the Behan in its new location, to compare with their earlier incarnations.

Perhaps its a sign of aging on my behalf, but it seems that the days of Dave Miller in the Two Wheels, Eamonn and Kirsty in the Craic and Freddie himself in Freddies will never be repeated in the Old Town.

Being a different country, the past, of course, is usually viewed with rose-tinted glasses and I do also remember the down-side to having a good time 'back in the day'. Those dark, come-down times usually lasted all day and often into the following night, when you turned up for work ready to cry if a door slammed, because your mental state was so tender and weak.

Thankfully, the human mind banishes bad memories (for the most part) and the rose-tinted images remain. I assume I'm not the only one who takes a similar trip down memory lane these days, with the island apparently quieter than ever and the devil-may-care looks missing from everyone's faces.

Will they ever return?