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Month: August 2016

AUGUST STOCKTAKE

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 4 Comments

August is the cruellest month.  I expected the new Beer Guide last Friday, but I now won’t see it till I get back from End of the Road festival next Monday.  Simon will have completed it by then. Helped by a blitz of the Welsh coast in our campervan, 51 new Guide pubs were visited… Continue reading AUGUST STOCKTAKE

PETROL GIRLS & ST. RADEGUND

August 31, 2016 10 Comments

You’ll have noticed I’ve spent the last few days in Cambridgeshire.  This isn’t because of any Damascene conversion to the beauty of the Fens, but because I’m sitting by the door waiting for the new Beer Guide. In torment. This is my emergency supply for stressful situations; To take my mind of the fact that… Continue reading PETROL GIRLS & ST. RADEGUND

SOHAM – A TASTE OF HONEY

August 30, 2016August 30, 2016 21 Comments

  First things first.  Best wishes to Norwich United’s Andy Eastnaugh for a quick recovery from the sickening injury that brought a premature end to my Non-League experience yesterday. Not a good way for anyone to spend your 30th birthday. The collision happened straight from the kick-off, bringing an understandable abandonment after 16 seconds. I’ll be back in… Continue reading SOHAM – A TASTE OF HONEY

(NEARLY) TOP 100 PUBS – PINT SHOP, CAMBRIDGE

(NEARLY) TOP 100 PUBS – PINT SHOP, CAMBRIDGE

August 29, 2016August 31, 2016 21 Comments

Mrs RM had put up with me trudging round with her in the electronics section at John Lewis (Robert Sayle to me), so she felt she’d earned something strong in Pint Shop. Cambridge’s craft place is the one she picks when we’re out, in the same way my sister has always ended up in Falmouth’s… Continue reading (NEARLY) TOP 100 PUBS – PINT SHOP, CAMBRIDGE

EXEBRIDGE & THE CASE FOR ABBOT

EXEBRIDGE & THE CASE FOR ABBOT

August 28, 2016August 31, 2016 8 Comments

It was a flying visit to Exmoor, but long enough to establish that any tourists there were could be found walking to the Tarr Steps. I’m joking of course, no-one walks that far these days, and there are killer snakes out there. Actually, they were all looking for the lone open pub; that turned out to… Continue reading EXEBRIDGE & THE CASE FOR ABBOT

EXMOOR CLOSED FOR SUMMER

EXMOOR CLOSED FOR SUMMER

August 28, 2016August 28, 2019 8 Comments

It’s a dozen years since we last visited Exmoor, other than the odd trip to Minehead.  Our son is staying with a mate in Bridgewater, so we’ve pitched up near Dulverton, to the north of the National Park.  There’s a pub on our doorstep, but that’ll have to wait for the photos to upload.  It’s a… Continue reading EXMOOR CLOSED FOR SUMMER

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OAKHAM v SAM SMITHS IN PETERBOROUGH

August 27, 2016 17 Comments

    Greater Manchester, Newcastle and Cambridge seem to have the best quality beer, looking at my scoring over the years.  Peterborough has rarely let me down either. The city has had half a dozen reliable Beer Guide pubs of some character for a decade or more now, all scoring highly for quality and pubbiness… Continue reading OAKHAM v SAM SMITHS IN PETERBOROUGH

ON THE KEY KEG AT PETERBOROUGH BEER FEST

August 26, 2016 5 Comments

Beer Festivals don’t feature heavily on my itinerary , (IndyMan and Manchester Fest apart, and I need little excuse to visit the 1st City). My disinterest in F=fests is largely a simple matter that they’re not pubs, and pub life is what my travels are about.  I also don’t need a choice of more than… Continue reading ON THE KEY KEG AT PETERBOROUGH BEER FEST

ELLESMERE RETURNS

August 25, 2016August 26, 2016 24 Comments

There used to be a number of places you could rely on being Beer Guide entry free; Letchworth, Port Talbot, Coatbridge. Then along came Wetherspoons and ruined it for everyone. Shrewsbury and West Shropshire CAMRA doesn’t have a large allocation in the Guide anyway, and the largely rural area up to Whitchurch remains resolutely untouristy. But… Continue reading ELLESMERE RETURNS

NO NEED TO BYPASS TARPORLEY

August 25, 2016August 25, 2016 8 Comments

    My earliest experiences of Robinsons pubs were the slightly run-down but cheery places in the Dark Peak, close to the train carriage B&B at the Little Mill in Rowarth. It wasn’t just the cheap beer that impressed in the unknown lands of Marple Bridge and Romiley; some of our group had never seen a… Continue reading NO NEED TO BYPASS TARPORLEY

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