I’m nearly up to date on the blog now, just some South Coast sun, a campervan trip to Risby and then this weeks aggro in Alba (not really). This was my hit list for Sussex last week. In the future, there’ll be a museum of pub exploring, containing fragments like this, Duncan’s moth-eaten complete Beer Guide,… Continue reading ADIEU, ADUR – AN OVERNIGHTER IN WORTHING

Someday we’ll all have WiFi connectivity through little microchips implanted in our belly button at birth, but till then there’ll be the frustration of not being able to access my own blog via the Kings Park Hotel in Rutherglen, of which less later.  Parental Controls stopped me reading BRAPA last night; that’s what you get… Continue reading WESTMORLAND

My last Surrey GBG pub was the Blue Anchor in Reigate.  Every year I make the train journey to the town expecting something new and exciting, and leave bewildered. Last year, the Bell promised craft but gave us a Greene King identikit dining pub, and a classic Bieber v Coldplay argument. This year the Bell makes… Continue reading THE WORD THAT DIVIDES REIGATE

  Sometimes the hardest part of doing these blogs is deciding which travel “experiences” to lump together and which to allow to shine on their own. Here’s the four exciting pubs I did from Lymington in what I will call Christchurch Bay. You can see them marked on the second map if you’ve got good eyesight. Starting… Continue reading CHRISTCHURCH BAY – PONIES, DOMS, CIDER, WOWSERS

  I hope you appreciate the effort that goes into these blog titles*, if not the content.  Ten points for the best interpretation.  Wiki is your friend, Dave. Despite a couple of trips into the southern half of the New Forest, mainly for Beaulieu, it remains a bit undiscovered for me. So much so that… Continue reading LYMINGTON – ALL KILLER, NO TILLER

  I like to finish a county’s Beer Guide entries with a good pub, and Nottingham’s Abdication is a cracker.  It’s in Daybrook/Arnold/Nottingham North, depending on your level of geographical pedantry.  I’d never heard of Daybrook. Two important buildings are nearby.  One is a Premier Inn, that essential for a beer break.  The other is the… Continue reading THE ABDICATION – PROPER PUB, PROPER ROLLS

Mansfield Travelodge is ideally located for the pubby joys of Sutton, though a pretty dull trudge along the A38 to Mansfield itself.  I like dull urban trudges. Saving the treasures of the town centre till last, I started at the Beer Guide newbie on Nottingham Road, pleasingly open at 11am for the benefit of tickers (and… Continue reading THE MARVELS OF MANSFIELD