September 2026. Royal Tunbridge Wells.
Arriving late in Tunbridge Wells we’d booked a Travelodge rather than stay at the in-laws (do any children like sleeping in their parents’ house ?).
Sunday night brings £30 rooms at the old Wellington Hotel,
with free parking opposite and the decent Mount Edgecumbe pub overlooking the common. It looked particularly atmosphere the other winter. Will we ever have winter again ?
Until I did my own (rather half-hearted these days) cross-checking of the new Good Beer Guide I missed the new entry just over the East Sussex border.
Odd to think of Eridge Green as a posh suburb of Tunbridge Wells, but it really is.
Perhaps posh folk have Sunday lunch late, as the Nevill Crest & Gun was as busy as I’ve ever seen a pub round here, every seat under the beams taken up. Not a place you sit at the bar, mind.
Rather different pricing here to Sunday lunch in Corby Glen,
but I shan’t be criticising Brunning & Pricey, not when their pubs are full.
Or when their cask is as reliably GOOD (perhaps a little better) as the Harvey’s. The difficulty of finding decent Harvey’s is one of this blog’s 344 recurrent themes.
Unlike Bass, Harvey’s Sussex Best doesn’t seem to have improved since “influencers” started saying how good it is.
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Will we ever have winter again? We’ve had nothing else all year in Shetland.
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Give it another 50 years and you’ll have perpetual summer too, Bill. People complaining about the heat in Leeds yesterday.
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Aye, too bloody ot in Leeds.
On Wednesday, I had a reight dab on between the Tetleys and Adelphi, it was awful. Thank ***** I could have a nice cooling pint of Leeds pale 3/5 😉😁
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50 years? That’ll be a bit late for me.
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We stopped staying at my father in law’s house after my mother in law died. He never did get the hang of cleaning & using the toilet in the pub over the road was a better option than risking his.When we visited at Christmas we had to do a thorough clean of the kitchen before cooking the dinner . Pauline
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Have I missed you, yet again, Martin? I was in the Mount Edgecumbe last Monday evening, wining and dining at the company’s expense (actually the tab was picked up by our Japanese Finance Director, who was over for an audit).
The Harvey’s Best was drinking well, as was the Pig & Porter, apparently, but as I was driving, I didn’t get to try it.
I’m please to report that both the service and the food quality had improved considerably, since our previous visit, 18 months or so ago, and our two Japanese Directors were also suitably impressed.
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I’d just left, Paul.
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Ships in the night, eh?
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I had 20 minutes before my lunchtime train from Tonbridge back to Sheffield and nearly messaged you to say if you could be at the Humphrey Bean in 5 minutes you could have a pint 😉
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It’s been winter all week here just outside Chania.
Thank goodness we brought the dodgy stick with us.
Two excellent village tavernas and a great local Greek bar full of Brits hiding away in the hills.
Sadly there’s always one that lets the side down. Brought his Doom Bar glass in every night as he didn’t like the Greek handles. I’m sure Achilles the barman privately thought he was a bit of a heel.
I’ll get me toga …
Prof
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I did like Chania 30 years ago. The half litre of Paulaner at the end of the Samaria Gorge was the beer of the trip.
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