June 2026. Royal Tunbridge Wells.
We arrived back from Armenia at 1:30 in the morning, delighted to have won the Wizz seat roulette and secured aisle seats.
A quick snooze in the campervan before a whizz down the A505 to see Dad in Waterbeach, and then a tortuous 3 hour slog on the hottest day of the year (so far) to Tunbridge Wells to catch up on the in-laws.
But that could wait till the Wednesday. First, tea in the Opera House,
Korean chicken and a cool £1.95 of Abbot. Almost as good as that tomato gose.
You know, I really feel I’m getting my money’s worth out of CAMRA life membership this year with all those 50p tokens. Yes, I know that punishing pubs for putting cider on handpump is more important.
Spoons are showing the World Cup (silently) this year, and the lads were already out in force ahead of the exciting draw with Ghana.
Armenia is great, but they’ll never have what an English pub has.
And you won’t get a full English breakfast like the one in the Russell,
where as you’ll see I persuaded Mrs RM to order the full works this time and let me have her unwanted sausage and black pudding this time.
retiredmartin 
Glad you arrived back safely and in nice seats too. This Spoonies looks a treat! Working my way through blogs the wrong way wrong now I know but WP does not make it easy trying to work from the Reader past.
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I’ve been missing your regular posts, Lana, such a positive outlook on life. Hopefully you’re back now?
That Royal Tunbridge Wells Spoons still hosts an annual opera for the locals, part of the license. It’s not the smartest but it is a cultural melting pot !
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