I suspect you think us GBG tickers all live together as a big happy family in a giant mansion in Chipping Sodbury, sharing lifts and market pens and intelligence on micro closing times.
Not a bit of it. With so many Asian gamblers having switched from the Premier League to Guide ticking betting, it’s a cutthroat market at the elite end of pub completists.
Last night I attempted to scupper the Pubmeister’s progress with an 11pm Curry Club in Haverfordwest, never a wise idea when you’re sharing a twin room. FACT : A plain twin in a dull West Wales town costs more than 72 pints of Doom Bar in Spoons (with vouchers).
I’d just completed the whole of Wales that afternoon, and was in celebratory mood. It’s my first ever completed country (is Wales a country ?). Baa Baa Toure was there to see West Wales completed, in a caravan park near Tenby.
I’ve enjoyed the rural Welsh pubs as much as any in the UK.
Often unspoilt, nearly always a welcome at the bar. And locals who can sing Elvis better than Elvis.
That brings my target down to 24. The anticipation is palpable.
Where next ?
retiredmartin 
Sounds almost as exciting as the Top Out tap takeover I’m currently at in Pitmedden. Who says we don’t lead lives of wonder?
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Sorry, no one can do Elvis better than Elvis, not even Pavarotti.
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He did Sarah Brightman better than Elvis too !
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True.
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You betcha sweet biffy Wales is a country. 🏴🏴🏴
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Ruled from London.
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Joking. Honest.
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22 in Scotland, 2 in Wiltshire?
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Wiltshire has fallen.
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Are you saying that Northern Ireland isn’t a country?
And you paid for your room with Doom Bar sourced from the nearest Spoons?
This ticking malarkey is more complicated than I realised!
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Yes, Welsh hotels have rejected crypto and non fungi tokens, and insist on payment by Doom Bar and Spoons vouchers. And that’s a FACT.
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Getting to the business end of the season now, squeaky bum time.
I’ll def set my alarm for 7am when you are on BBC Breakfast red sofa chatting to Charlie Steak and Nagga Munchetty about your achievement
Crack on, Wilts next, then a Shetland hol?
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Finished Wiltshire, and England last night in lovely Swindon. Where better.
Next tick 6+ ,hours away in Pitlochry, then 4 return ferries to plan.
I’m staying anonymous, apart from Duncan getting Sarah Brightman to sing ‘Time to say goodbye”, obviously.
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Damn – my Donnington irony theory blown out the water. 😉
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Where next?
Reckoning, as a gesture of incontrovertible evidence that it’s the pub that makes the beer not the beers that make the pub, you’re deliberately leaving a Donnington outlet just across border in a little corner of Wiltshire to be the final tick. 🤣.
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If only that were true.
I have “walk between all the Donnington pubs and score them all NBSS 5” to do if I complete the Guide .
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Be careful what you wish for, although Donnington have some smashing pubs, regardless of what you might think of the beer! 😎
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Yes, I’ve always liked their pubs.
https://retiredmartin.com/2018/02/03/donnington-nice-pubs-shame-about-the-beer/
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I have a Donnington pubs tour on my schedule for 2023. Someone’s got to do it!
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If you want company…..
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Have you got a bike?
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Yes I have. Would you like to borrow it while I walk.
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Most of this
https://ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Donnington+Way
was a lovely way of spending three days before my knees failed, wonderful beer but maybe not quite all of if it NBSS 5.
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Yes, that’s the one. I’d be surprised to find anything above NBSS2.5. I haven’t looked at the route in detail yet, but 15 pubs suggests it’ll more than just a day trip.
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Not at your pace !
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