May 2024. Warwick.
One more GBG entry to complete the nap hand of Warwick Guide pubs in a night.
From the Wild Boar a long, drab walk past rambling hospital buildings and factories brings you to the Grand Union Canal, and the obligatory canalside pub.
Obviously, I arrived here on the wrong side of the water and had to cross on the little “footbridge” (not actual name but you know what I mean).
It was at the precise moment I took the picture above that a chap walked towards me saying “Is there an issue ?“.
Was there an issue ? I’d no idea, perhaps he thought I was the sort of highly charged Pub Man who pushes other folk in the water in a rush for the bar.
“What ?” I replied, and walked on.
The Cape of Good Hope isn’t the sort of pub where families jostle for position in a race to order their chips, but it’s no chain dining pub, either. Scrubbed tables, fresh flowers, groups of ladies with a bottle of wine. Mrs RM would like this one, as long as I wasn’t causing an “issue”.
Just a good allrounder, another one tonight, with a range of beers on the ambitious side of sensible.
Time for a Hooky, you’re almost in Hooky country,
it was GBG standard but definitely the weakest of a strong night (NBSS 3). I’ve no idea why the Cape is on Untappd (along with the craft bar); it didn’t feel the sort of place for keg craft.
But it was busy, which is more than can be said for the pubs of Warwick market place at 8:28pm that night,
though the average quality of the Crispy Beef and Singapore Rice from Paw Paw can’t be blamed on lack of turnover.
More complete ignorance about what Singapore rice should look like.
retiredmartin 
I’m not sure if it’s just more of your professional photography, but that square is really beautiful. Lovely tour of the town.
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Tourist photos coming up, Dave.
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Really beautiful, just a shame about the building on the left in which I saw someone order a pint of Cropton Two Pints and nearly get charged for two pints.
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Hi Martin – I too remember hurdling the locks to visit the Cape of Good Hope, which seemed a lot easier when first approaching the pub than it did once some ales had been consumed. Great place to sit outside gongoozling on a warm summer’s day, reminiscent in that respect of the Greyhound at Sutton Stop which I also have a lot of time for. Cheers, Paul
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Yes ! Couldn’t be bothered to look it up but it was Sutton Stop above Cov I was thinking of, Paul. Enough of that gongoozling, though ;-0
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I was on a public street the other week, looking at a historic building built around 1750 which has lately been converted into rather posh housing and now looks much more attractive than when it was in a semi-derelict state a few years ago. I saw a woman about my age eyeing me suspiciously from the car park who then came up to the electronic gate and said in a very cut glass voice “Can I ask what you’re doing?”. I was tempted to ignore her, or give some flippant reply, but being polite explained my interest in the history of the building, which she seemed to have some knowledge of. She defrosted ever so slightly and we had a rather awkward brief chat. I had been about to get my phone out and take a photo of it, and still should have done I suppose, but in the end just slunk off under her baleful stare. Some people really need to check their entitlement, as I think young people say nowadays.
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You were LOOKING at a building!
It’s that sort of antisocial behaviour the Tories will stamp out.
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“Obligatory” yes, because canal holidays are just slow speed pub crawls.
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Can’t name them all, but there’s branches of the Grand Union in that Warwick/Northants area, and pubs there always seem decent.
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