One night on Man, 5 ticks = 1 chapter of the Guide completed, 6 revisits to old Manx favourites, and 2 pre-emptives. A good 38 hours work.
38,000 steps, too, including a walk back from the Tram Terminus, whose eponymous pub found favour with Baa Baa and a few tourists eschewing the Okells for the lager.
Pubs were ticking over rather than heaving, I thought,
but then I nipped in Jaks. an American style sports bar-cum-diner full of ladies with shopping bags and Old Boys at the bar.
And rare guest beers.
Yes, the first sighting of John Smiths Cask (NBSS 3+) since Preston in 2019.
And folk were drinking it, too. It’s the new Landlord.
So, head to Douglas for your holiday confident that you’ll find BBB, and decent noodles.
I revisited Time Out for another bargain bucket of healthy Chinese food, and wished I’d searched out the Queenies.
20 minutes till check-in, just in time to check out Bottle Monkey, a Douglas venture into craft.
You’ll want to see the prices; pretty good I thought.
The Squawk was superb. Stick it in the Guide.
retiredmartin 
“the first sighting of John Smiths Cask (NBSS 3+) since Preston in 2019”
– we’ll never get it as good as in the Market Tavern then. .
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No-one will ever believe you when you tell them how good the John Smiths was that day, Paul. Or how good the Unicorn in the Black Horse was next up.
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No, and we’ll never see times like that again.
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