A recap on the progress of the Great Northern Tickathon as it enters the home straight (as straight as it can be with Mrs RM driving now). Excitingly, the next pub came at the end of a trip to admire Sellafield (or is it Seascale ?). Sellafield hasn’t gone down the theme park route yet,… Continue reading A SINGLE IN SELLAFIELD
Month: October 2021
FOR DRINKERS ONLY…
“No greater love hath a woman for her husband than that she would drive him round six West Lakeland pubs on a Friday afternoon to boost his Cumbrian ticks“. Thank you Mrs RM. In truth, this was an easy run along the magnificent A595. The second tick of the day came within five minutes of… Continue reading FOR DRINKERS ONLY…
RELEASED FROM ROBINSONS
You left me in Whitehaven, virtually trying on Regency costumes in the town museum and admiring the birds. But, just as Mrs RM was here on business, I also had A Mission To Tick (unreleased Bond film starring Timothy Dalton c. ’89). What would the Candlestick bring ? Whitehaven has one really smart pub, a… Continue reading RELEASED FROM ROBINSONS
FASHIONABLE WHITEHAVEN
We’ve struggled up to Friday 24th September 2021 with the posts now. A critical day in the Great Northern Campervan Tickathon, as we’ll see over the course of the next 3 days. I dropped Mrs RM in the Whitehaven Spoons, her third of the trip, ordered her breakfast on the App, and accidentally took a… Continue reading FASHIONABLE WHITEHAVEN
THE FAIRY PATH TO MARYPORT
Some bloggers extol the virtue of staying at home all year in your underpants, sipping cans of Peanut Butter Sour (8.2%). Others will tell you there is no need to ever leave their home town of Chipping Sodbury, so great is the selection of BBB (3.8-4.5%) in the Horseshoe. But my only purpose in life… Continue reading THE FAIRY PATH TO MARYPORT
MRS RM HOVERS WHILE I TICK SCAFELL
Now I’m reunited with my laptop I can bring you the post from our brief excursion into the Lakes Proper, before we head to the “characterful” West Cumbrian towns you really want to see. Cumbria is a tricky county to complete, even though most of the Lakes pub have (traditionally) kept generous hours, to cater… Continue reading MRS RM HOVERS WHILE I TICK SCAFELL
IT WAS SO COMFY I DIDN’T WANT TO LEAVE
Our Great Northern Campervan Tickathon heads for the coast now, with Mrs RM trying to play Don McLean but ending up with Don Maclean. We nipped into the Lakes proper, but you’ll have to wait till I get the laptop back for that. Instead we head to Cockermouth where Mrs RM failed to find clothes,… Continue reading IT WAS SO COMFY I DIDN’T WANT TO LEAVE
FREE WI-FI AND OTHER GOOD REASONS TO LOVE WETHERSPOONS
Two things I’m sure you’ve been desperate to find out. What essential provisions do we keep in our solar powered campervan fridge ? And what exactly is that King Arthur’s Round Table next to our Penrith campervan pitch ? I have no idea. But at least it’s not busy. Mrs RM was busy that morning,… Continue reading FREE WI-FI AND OTHER GOOD REASONS TO LOVE WETHERSPOONS
A PINT OF SCOTCH IN EAMONT BRIDGE
Day 4 of the Great Campervan Northern Tickathon ends as we finally approach the Lakes. Yes, it’s a return visit to one of Search for Sites most quirky overnight pitch, the Crown at Eamont Bridge. You might call it “basic”, I call it idiosyncratic. It’ll never make the GBG with only one beer (a tasty… Continue reading A PINT OF SCOTCH IN EAMONT BRIDGE
TAGGY MAN
On to a pub that everyone seems to be talking about at the moment. Scarily (as scary as the lady below, anyway), this appears to be my first time in Kirby Stephen, which raises all sort of issues. Will I miss out a “k” in Kirby* ? What running joke about Kirbs can I develop… Continue reading TAGGY MAN
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