A busy June, the usual slogs up and down the A1 interspersed with diversions as far as The Midlands, wherever that is.
A bumper month for blog views, too, aided by visits from some scary sounding places;
If any of you have survived a visit to Upwell (Wisbech) I’d love to hear about it.
My Dad survived a couple of bounces to reach 90 at the end of June. You can see those balloons from the moon.
As you’d expect, my Dad is Hero of the Month, an award normally reserved for Mrs RM.
View of the Month in Corbridge,
during an epic weekend with Blackpool’s finest in Newcastle,
where the Crown Posada shone, but it’s Wigan’s Swan & Railway that takes the coveted Pub of the Month award, possibly not for the last time.
Top Bass expertly matched with Steak and Stilton pie, a cool pint in a month where the heat threatened to play havoc with cask quality, but never quite did. 62 pub visits, all bar one different, and barely a dud.
The Beer of the Month award to a rare NBSS 4.5, the Black Jack Bridlington’s Moon Tap,
though some may query the size of that Northern head.
In July my liver will be recovering from reading BRAPA’s adventures, which remind me I need to head west, maybe even do that crawl of Donnington pubs I always threaten ?
retiredmartin 
Your readership will double and expand even more globally if you do the Donnington ticking. After that do the Batham pubs…by bus.
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I had to check the location of Gradsko as that North Macedonia flag looked Japanese or Korean rather than Balkan
According to Wikipedia they had to change the initial design featuring a more Hellenic sun after a year long economic embargo from Greece which disputes the right of people who are not Greek to call themselves Macedonian
As it happens i shall be in or near Upwell on Sunday.
I like to go for a drive around the Fens and visit a Fenland Parlour pub on my way to Family business in Peterborough.
I was thinking breakfast in the converted cinema Spoons in March followed by a visit to the Dun Cow Christchurch which think you mentioned as being pleasingly remote
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I did mention the Dun Cow, Alan ! Took my dad there on the way back from Wisbech market.
Manea is the place for thrills round there.
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I took on the Donnington pubs as a challenge, a couple of years ago, thinking the beer couldn’t be that bad, could it? Let’s just say the pubs were a lot nicer than the beer.
A tour of Bathams pubs would be an absolute doddle, surely. Even by bus. (There’s only 12: https://bathams.co.uk/pubs/)
OK, not all on the same day, obv.
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I remember. Simon managed to con someone from Kent (sister in Guiting Power) to drive him round.
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Minneapolis sounds scary, eh? Perhaps because there is no cask beer here, at least none I’ve found. Only craft beer, such as Indeed’s “Pistachio Cream Ale”, which may be why Minneapolis is scary.
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You would be wrong. Three Town Hall locations have cask available.
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And so it is; right across the street from Bullwinkle’s which I have been to once or twice but it was a few years before Town Hall existed. I foresee a Bus-n-LightRail journey in the near future.
DRinMpls
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I would very much like to visit the Town Street Tavern. Perhaps after 2028.
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