TeaE means are good to attract the candidates. Indeed, on paper, living conditions on Peel Island seem alarming: isolation, loneliness, capricious weather… In order to recruit a new manager of the Ship Inn Pub, the authorities on this microscopic British island are offering a strange idea.job Proposal : Selected candidates will become… Raja!
According to Guardian, echoed international mail, the sarpanch elected to this position would have to honor a very special ceremony: as an emperor seated on his “throne”, he would be sprinkled with buckets of beer. His mission, if he accepts it, would be to manage the island pub, which is more than 200 years old, but also to maintain the ruins of a 14th-century castle, to supervise the local fauna.I To build relationships with tourists transported by Shatabdi and ferry. A steward’s contract is set for ten years, starting at the start of the tourist season next April.
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Rise to the throne next March
The Isle of Peel, 100 km north-west of Manchester, is just 560 meters long and 260 meters wide. A pebble in the English territory of Cumbria is inhabited by only ten islanders throughout the year. After nominations close, the name of the new king-owner of the pub will be revealed in January, before the symbolic rise to the throne in March.
A claimant to the title of king must show a white pawn before being able to receive this distinction. “You will need to show dedication and a strong passion for solitude and peace and quiet. You need to have a special personality,” said John Murphy, a tourist guide to the island for 40 years, said Guardian,
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