The current Beer Guide has already given me trips to Tameside (twice) and Tyldesley, and spared me a trip to central Slough. Back of the net, as Mrs RM would say. An early highlight of 2017, Ashton-under-Lyne delivered gorgeous architecture, bargain food, my two favourite beers, and Quosh. And unintentional street art. All yours only 12 minutes… Continue reading ASHTON – QUIRKS, QUALITY, QUOSH
Month: January 2017
MALTY MICROS IN MONTON
You may have noticed that I get my easts and wests mixed up a bit, something to do with my incompetence in science no doubt (Grade 4 CSE). But I always reckon I can tell you where any place in England is, and so it’s slightly embarrassing I continue to get my Montons and Mostons… Continue reading MALTY MICROS IN MONTON
UP TO BONGS, DOWN TO LEIGH
There really is only one place to start a new year, and that’s Tyldesley, not least among Wigan‘s beautiful necklace of towns. It helps if you were tucked up with cocoa by 9pm on New Year’s Eve. Elliot Street was beautifully embellished with the remnants of a New Years Eve clearly celebrated with Holts and kebabs, judging… Continue reading UP TO BONGS, DOWN TO LEIGH
TOP 100 PUBS -YE OLDE VIC, STOCKPORT
In the Boar’s Head on New Years Eve I realised that none of my Top 100 pubs so far are from Stockport, despite me telling you it’s our greatest pub town (now that Bathgate is losing its Wetherspoons, anyway). Stockport suffers from a surplus of treasures, with at least a half dozen potential candidates, and… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS -YE OLDE VIC, STOCKPORT
MIXING PUBS AND POLITICS IN STOCKPORT
And so after “HandbagGate“, we come to the great Dick & Dave meet-up. An early start for Stockport that seemed pointless as I flew up a deserted M6 for the first time all year. I assume I haven’t accidentally brought my 90mph driving speeds from Germany home with me. Parked in the Premier Inn (home of rubbish Wi-Fi) by 11.30,… Continue reading MIXING PUBS AND POLITICS IN STOCKPORT
MISTLEY TO MANNINGTREE
Some of you might think I pick on Mrs RM on this site, but you’d be wrong. I applaud her decision to leave her handbag under the chair in the Waggon at Wix, as it enables me to ask The Question. WHY CAN’T WOMEN WEAR CLOTHES WITH DEEP POCKETS LIKE MEN DO, INSTEAD OF CARRYING AROUND… Continue reading MISTLEY TO MANNINGTREE
STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WIX
Dick and Dave will be safely Back in the USA (was that a song ?) now, but will have to wait a little while longer for my post while I run it past Trump Towers. Instead I want to praise an unassuming little Essex pub five miles from Harwich Ferry, in the Beer Guide for… Continue reading STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF WIX
A STRATEGY FOR 2017
“Steal from the best” is a decent life strategy, so I’m going to continue to nick ideas off Simon Everitt in 2017,though possibly not his fashion tips. But a strategy for the year sounded like a good idea, even though as you know the year actually starts when the Good Beer Guide arrives (end of… Continue reading A STRATEGY FOR 2017
TWO ITALIANS
Snow gives you the incentive to tidy up your photo collection, and find that I haven’t written up two pre-Christmas meals at pubs run by Italians. Nothing that unusual about that, but they’re the two main locals in my village and my in-laws in Kent. The White Horse in Waterbeach has been through the ringer… Continue reading TWO ITALIANS
SINT-NIKLAAS – IT’S NOT BRUGES
A final post from Europe, and a rare Belgian town that doesn’t feature in the European Beer Guide. That seemed odd, as Sint-Niklaas has 75,000 residents, and a tourist draw in Belgium’s biggest market square. More importantly, it was Mrs RM’s choice of fortifying lunch stop on the six hour Kassel-Calais leg. You really need to be… Continue reading SINT-NIKLAAS – IT’S NOT BRUGES
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