It’s a dreadful life, slogging round the country, having the first beer out of the barrel in a cheerless dining pub just so the owner has a bit less to tip away a week later you don’t have to.
And then walking two miles uphill downhill both ways just so I can bring you pictures of Stackpole Quay and Barafundle Bay.
On days like this (i.e. not raining) I reckon Wales is the greatest country in the world, and I don’t even begrudge the National Trust their little café (good coffee).
There’s no more than a dozen souls venturing beyond the cappuccino and coffee cake to the caves.
Barafundle has been on my bucket list since Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci named their 1997 LP after it. I used to sing Patio Song on my way home from work back then, terrifying motorists at the A1/A1081 Hatfield junction. You can singalong too.
As so often in Wales, words are unnecessary.
“But what about the beer ?” you boorishly yell at your screen.
Here you go.
The Stackpole Inn is posh, a dining pub straight outta’ Godalming (the posh bit).
Everyone was eating outside.
On a whim, I decided to join them. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss out on any photos of Old Boys on John Smiths Smooth.
I had five minutes till the kitchen shut, apparently.
“Fish and chips and whichever beer is going fastest, please”
“Double Dragon. You can’t go wrong with Double Dragon.”
And he was right.
retiredmartin 
Great shots. We did not see Sea Bass anywhere in Tenby. Interesting it was on here. Nor did we see Double Dragon which was the most common beer in the area three years ago.
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I’ll just get in first with the Goldalming type before Russ comes crashing in with his size 12 tennis racket snow shoes.
You struck lucky with the weather – Wales looks as pretty as a picture.
Mushy peas … nom.nom.nom.
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Is Sea Bass the wet hopped version of Burton’s finest?
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I thought the streets in Godalming were paved with gold.
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Pfft.
First off, I don’t usually comment on proper place names (as I have no idea on most of them).
Second, snow shoes? That’s ‘oop north’, a place I avoid like the plague whenever possible these days. 🙂
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“Barafundle has been on my bucket list” –This got me thinking about how many places you’ve already been, and how few places remain that you haven’t yet visited. Hard to quantify, but it seems to me this GBG quest has taken you to 80 or 90% of the well-populated towns of England and Wales, if not most of Scotland. Are there many more areas left that seem thoroughly unexplored to you?
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90% + is about right, Mark. The gaps are the Scottish islands, Scilly Isles, and Ireland, though haven’t seen as much of the Lakes as I’d like. All photogenic 👍
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“And then walking two miles uphill downhill both ways just so I can bring you pictures of Stackpole Quay and Barafundle Bay.”
Obviously you have better knees than Si.
“Hedges not as terrifying here”
Probably a law against blocking a view of the water.
“Micropub at Stackpole caves closed during Summer”
And only open at high tide at other times.
“You can singalong too.”
I was going to ask if they were singing in Welsh but then I looked them up.
“As so often in Wales, words are unnecessary.”
Especially if they’re Welsh words full of nowt but consonants.
“It’s back, y’know”
What, Game of Thrones? 😉
“That second one is unreadable, isn’t it”
Must be Welsh.
Cheers
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Why do they always put the fish *on top* of the chips when it’s not practical to eat it like that?
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Because they’ve seen some pompous ‘celebrity chef” on television put fish on top of chips.
But you can still find proper plates in remotest Whales.
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Barafundle is an anagram of ‘bad funeral’.
Next Wednesday will be my first funeral this year.
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Oooh! That’s an outrageous claim for Fish and Chips that seem to be served up with some dry, crumbly, green stuff. Peas they may have been once, mushy they are not, dried out they definitely are. The batter looks a bit ‘slimy’ towards the thick end too? Having said that the chips look decent. I’m not in favour of tartar sauce with traditional fish and chips, nor a slice of lemon – what’s wrong with proper malt vinegar, the traditional way of providing the acidity to cut through the greasiness. Instead of killing plants with it, you should have saved some for the other pubs you went in.
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But I surmise that at least they weren’t fried in six-month-old beef dripping, Richard.
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No, that’s why I never try Fish & Chips anywhere south of Sheffield – southern snowflakes don’t do beef dripping.
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I would, occasionally, eat Yorkshire fish and chips, but the shops are always closed at mealtimes.
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Richard,
There’s such a difference between them so do you have an opinion as to which species of fish should and should not be used for fish and chips ?
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All of Godalming is posh. The bits of Godalming that aren’t posh are called Farncombe… 🙂
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Thanks Bobby, always delighted to get insider knowledge. Only 1hr 58 to Farncombe, almost tempted to see for myself 😉.
The Star’s not that posh, is it?
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Not especially, no; but compared to The White Hart in Farncombe…
If you want proper posh, you go to The White Horse in Hascombe. All tweed and no chins.
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