June 2023. London W9. The pubs come thick and fast in London. One of the joys of ticking the capital is planning where you’ll have a half rand where definitely a pint, when you’ll swerve the cask in favour of craft*, which tube lines will give you the shortest gaps between loo stops, and how… Continue reading JUST MORE W9 VICTORIAN PUB TILING PORN
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.
WHEN I GET TO WARWICK AVENUE, MEET ME BY THE ENTRANCE TO THE PUB
June 2023. London. After that little bit of negativity, let’s get positive again as we cross the Grand Union into Warwick Avenue Loads of nice looking pubs, like the Bridge House by the, er, bridge, but often disappointing experiences with tired beers and tip boxes. Oh yes, Little Venice, not as good as the real… Continue reading WHEN I GET TO WARWICK AVENUE, MEET ME BY THE ENTRANCE TO THE PUB
A PADDINGTON BEAR STARE FOR THE TIRED BEER IN W2
June 2023. London Part 2 of 11. My heart leaped for joy when I realised I could ride the Central Line from Fairlop straight to Queensway, less than a mile from pub tick No. 2. My joy was only slightly lessened by the realisation that after 7 years as Mayor Sadiq Khan still hasn’t installed… Continue reading A PADDINGTON BEAR STARE FOR THE TIRED BEER IN W2
WHERE THE “F” IS FAIRLOP ?
June 2023. London. Anyone like London ? Strap yourself in. By the time I finish this set of (oh dear) eleven (11) posts you’ll be heartily sick of the capital. The problem is, with an off-peak return with Travelcard costing the same as 25 pints of Doom Bar in Spoons you need to get your… Continue reading WHERE THE “F” IS FAIRLOP ?
BACK TO £5 A PINT SUSSEX
June 2023. Hawkhurst. The Google travel map for June is going to be fun; a series of trips from Sheffield to Waterbeach to Rye and back again. Repeat. Returning from “home” to the caravan park at Rye the day after that pint of Moretti I found myself in need of some Harvey’s. Which is odd,… Continue reading BACK TO £5 A PINT SUSSEX
WATERBEACH SWITCHES TO THE LAGER
June 2023. Greater Waterbeach. Two nights a week spent in Waterbeach taking Dad out to remote Fenland villages, with the bonus of some of England’s great takeaways. Worryingly, Mum has developed a favouring of the chicken shish and salad box at Waterbeach Best Kebab, the van that turns up six nights a week on the… Continue reading WATERBEACH SWITCHES TO THE LAGER
“I told you I was ill”
June 2023. Winchelsea. A walk in the June heat around WinChelsea, two words rarely seen in the same sentence since Lampard took over. It’s a mini-Rye, a town on a hill with a pub and a church and some ruins. You can walk its streets in 10 minutes, but the lanes south of town to… Continue reading “I told you I was ill”
TOP 100 PUBS – THE RED LION, SNARGATE. DORIS WOULD BE PROUD.
June 2023. Snargate. In late May 2000 I walked from Appledore station to Snargate to visit Doris’s, one of the Good Beer Guide’s legendary pubs and one of the Classic, Basic and Unspoilt legends on RW Coe’s list. The walk through the marsh (adjacent to Speringbrook Sewer, I now note) was as magical as the… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE RED LION, SNARGATE. DORIS WOULD BE PROUD.
THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND
June 2023. Rochester. Finally, finally, a last Kent GBG tick for the year. What a shame I’d been so distracted on the way from Strood to Three Sheets to the Wind, to such an extent I can remember almost nothing about it. Almost. I’m not sure what I was expecting with talk of an Austrian… Continue reading THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND
“Oh grief this Doom Bar is brilliant”
June 2023. Rochester. And it was all going so well. A nice riverside walk from Strood, a late morning glass of murk in a pub that might get in the GBG when the CAMRAs drop the “Real” from the name, a triumphant pint of BBB in a backstreet survivor, and some culture in the cathedral.… Continue reading “Oh grief this Doom Bar is brilliant”
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