26th February 2023. Mrs RM had beat me to Athens by 35 years, and her own recollection seemed to run to “smog, ouzo and grime“, which sounds like a Blackpool Jane away day in Middlesbrough (bar the parmo). I knew there was a big hill, and a curry scene, but then Lincoln has both of… Continue reading TREADING THE FINE LINE BETWEEN ART AND GRAFFITI IN ATHENS
Month: March 2023
TRAIN BEERS
26th January 2023. Tricky post to write, this one, as you’ll see at the end. I’d booked a train for the four hour trip from Thessaloniki to Athens at lunchtime, which took out most of a whole day but at least meant arriving in the capital in daylight, and gave us time to explore the… Continue reading TRAIN BEERS
THE MOUTAINOUS MONASTERIES OF METEORA
February 2023. More holiday snaps from northern Greece, but at least I don’t invite you over to Sheffield to see them as a slide show with sherry and Stilton like in the ’70s. We started our day trip (3 hours each way) to the famous mountain monasteries of Meteora at Thessaloniki Station, which is clearly… Continue reading THE MOUTAINOUS MONASTERIES OF METEORA
MY GREAT BIG GREEK CRAFT NIGHT
February 2023. I can’t profess much enthusiasm for this post, but as this site is legally tagged “Beer and Pubs” (which stops me accessing my own blog on train journeys with wowser Trans Pennine) I ought to mention the bars. There aren’t a lot of them in Thessaloniki, unless they’re all in the suburbs. In… Continue reading MY GREAT BIG GREEK CRAFT NIGHT
THESSALONIKI (II) – CATS, CHURCHES, COFFEE, CRUMBLING BUILDINGS
February 2023. Only two days in Thessaloniki, and Mrs RM quickly reduced that to one with a trip to see the monasteries at Meteora on the Saturday, so we had to squeeze all the culture, craft beer and cats into one day. Some people travel to tick bars, some football grounds, others go purely so… Continue reading THESSALONIKI (II) – CATS, CHURCHES, COFFEE, CRUMBLING BUILDINGS
A LETTER FROM THE THESSALONIANS (I)
February 2023. The only real question is “How many posts will it take to cover six (6) nights in Greece“. Pubmeister, you’ll recall, knocked off his trip in a lone issue that seemed woefully short on kebab reviews. Let’s start with the map. We’d both “done” Greece. Corfu, Crete and a smart southern port on… Continue reading A LETTER FROM THE THESSALONIANS (I)
LUTON AIRPORT OO-EE-NOO
February 2023. Now I’ve ticked ALL the pubs, Mrs RM is determined to tick ALL the countries and major cities. This is the colour-coded wall map (needs some updating) showing which family members have been where. Mrs RM is determined I will NEVER get to Switzerland; I am equally minded to ensure that she will… Continue reading LUTON AIRPORT OO-EE-NOO
DRINKING BASS IN THE OFFICE (WARTON)
Visiting GBG pubs is surely one of the best ways to ensure you don’t spend your whole life (bar 15 nights) in the same place, possibly even better than aiming to have a scone in every National Trust site. Most National Trust properties look like this house, near my next target. So well done, Sarah,… Continue reading DRINKING BASS IN THE OFFICE (WARTON)
HINCKLEY’S CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS
You’ll notice it’s the youngsters like BRAPA and Blackpool Jane that can still pull out the mega blogging. Us folk approaching middle-age, like Duncan and myself, can only manage short posts, and I didn’t even have the energy to lump Hinckley’s many cultural highlights in with the faggots and Pedi post. Cultural highlights ? Well,… Continue reading HINCKLEY’S CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS
FAGGOTS, PEAS & PEDI. AND MOONLIGHT SHADOW.
20th February 2023. Hope you’ve already had your lunch before you saw that pic. Mrs RM just cooked James and I a lovely roast dinner (NRDSS 4), but a pint of Pedigree as good as the one at the Greyhound in Hinckley would have raised it even higher. I did the full cultural tour of… Continue reading FAGGOTS, PEAS & PEDI. AND MOONLIGHT SHADOW.
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