It’s difficult to overstate the significance of last night’s final evening at the Alpine (formally Sunstar) Hotel. For twenty years, the bar has hosted us through good times and (rarely) bad. This weekend the hotel embarks on a major renovation which will see the bar’s removal. Here are a few photos from many years gone by, featuring some of the people with whom it’s been our privilege to share a space at the bar. Of course in the years since then, there have been many more.

That’s my mum with Val in the picture above, enjoying a cocktail 12 years ago.

So here is the very last photo at the Sunstar bar, of the two of us last night.

We all loved that bar. Here’s hoping the replacement, if there is to be one, will provide us with many more years of enjoyment.