October 2023. Wem. Shrewsbury. We moved into a third hour in Wem as we approached Pub No. 4. It’s quite something that Wem (six cask pubs) hadn’t merited a single GBG inclusuion in the quarter of a century I’d been ticking the Guide, and at least three of the houses we visited would have been… Continue reading WE’M DRINKING WELL IN THE JOULES PUBS
Author: retiredmartin
Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.
WE’M NOT DRINKING WELL
October 2023. Wem. Shropshire. A Pub Man would rather visit six different pubs of variable quality in an interesting town than six different good pints in a town hall or museum. So I didn’t mind the odd disappointment on a generally good day in Wem the other week, as the Dickin Arms had other charms.… Continue reading WE’M NOT DRINKING WELL
THE 40th BIRTHDAY PARTY IN THE FOX
October 2023. Wem. Shropshire. Pub two on our pub crawl “curated pub appreciation in Northern Salop tour“. 10 minutes back into Wem past the old brewery and a sharp left to the Fox Inn, just past the imposing offices of E. Maund & Sons (Garage). I always find it reassuring when a stop on a… Continue reading THE 40th BIRTHDAY PARTY IN THE FOX
STEALING THE CHILDREN’S COLOURING SHEET IN TILLEY
October 2023. Tilley. Shropshire. Six (6) pubs in Wem (pop. 6,100), a town with the dullest Wiki entry imaginable. One for fans of history. Count me out. Our first pub is the Raven in Tilley, a hamlet virtually contiguous with Wem. The most interesting thing about Tilley is the polite sign instructing Paul and Will… Continue reading STEALING THE CHILDREN’S COLOURING SHEET IN TILLEY
THE WEM EGG
October 2023. Wem. Shropshire. Our friend Will (aka Sheffield “Premier League Luton” Hatter) has been on top #PubMan form recently, planning exciting trips to exotic small unsung towns like Brigg, Leeds and Wem. Ah, Wem. No current GBG entries, in fact a bit of a North Shropshire Beer Guide desert between Shrewsbury and Whitchurch these… Continue reading THE WEM EGG
Which opening hours would YOU trust ?
October 2023. Ossett. Wakefield. You might assume that CAMRA’s venerable Discourse was a forum for weighty debate on matters such as the outlawing of tasters and those little test tubes showing you what grade of pale the guest beer is, but actually the big issue of late is opening times. Or more specifically, the inclusion… Continue reading Which opening hours would YOU trust ?
NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
October 2023. Newmillerdam. Wakefield. I tried desperately to come up with a blogpost using the Elvis classic as inspiration, but since none of you (except fellow ticker Eddie) knows Newmillerdam it’s wasted effort. My life of perpetual travel began the year after marrying Mrs RM; before that we’d hardly left Letchworth and Cambridge but in… Continue reading NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
October 2023. Crigglestone. Wakefield. We arrived back at Luton Airport to collect our vehicle the day before THIS; Glad we were only away for a week. It took a few days of parent-visiting before I could get back into the swing of visiting weirdly names Yorkshire villages. In fact, I’d never heard of Crigglestone, whose… Continue reading RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
SARAJEVO ’84 BOBSLEIGH TRACK
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia Herzegovina. One last Balkan post before I return to exciting posts from (checks photos) Wakefield and Wem. In a sense we left the best till last. The famous Winter Olympics bobsleigh and luge track is Sarajevo’s equivalent of London’s disused Olympic stadium that a minor football team plays at, or the… Continue reading SARAJEVO ’84 BOBSLEIGH TRACK
FINALLY, THE CRAFT PLACE IN SARAJEVO
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia & Herzegovina. The penultimate Bosnia post, which is a relief for me as much as you as I keep forgetting whether it’s Bosnia Herzegovina, or “&” or “and”. Wars start over these things; on Discourse anyway. These days I prefer overseas tours to be less than a week as by the… Continue reading FINALLY, THE CRAFT PLACE IN SARAJEVO
retiredmartin 