Seems I forgot to include a map showing you where Crewe is earlier. So here it is, with the Blue Mugge in Leek as your reference point. Hope that helps. Last time here I stayed in the Crewe Arms, which sadly isn’t as posh as it looks, but undercut the bargain Travelodge by a fiver.… Continue reading NO SPOONS, BUT CREWE’S ESTATE PUB LIVES
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Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.
3 NIGHTS IN CREWE
I should be in Liverpool today, visiting weird new craft bars with names like the White Star, Globe and Crown. But unfortunately I’ve rather overdone it this week at Stafford, Crewe and IndyMan, which makes a good trio. Crewe’s Travelodge has been my new home since Tuesday. Though in truth I seem to have spent… Continue reading 3 NIGHTS IN CREWE
NEVER CHANGE, BRIGHTON
My most diligent readers will note I’ve used that title for Blackpool before. And will probably use it in Grantham and Kilmarnock as well now. Mrs RM was still preparing her Monday presentation when I returned with a can of Vocation Pride & Joy and a fudge brownie from some indie shop called Tezcoxprs or… Continue reading NEVER CHANGE, BRIGHTON
PICKLES IN PORTSLADE
Sunday saw my little Aygo bravely battling gale force winds along the A259 from Eastbourne to Brighton. I would hate for my ticking to have come to an abrupt halt in Peacehaven, never a place I’ve warmed to. I dutifully dropped Mrs RM off in the Laines and headed for the secret free parking spot… Continue reading PICKLES IN PORTSLADE
HASTINGS SPARKLES IN THE RAIN
The tales of Simon’s traumas in rail replacement bus to Barrow put to shame our own mild irritation with the drunk poet on Rye-Hastings leg of our Saturday Sozzler. We were pleased to make the safety of the scruffy underpass, but then kept bumping into the Port Laureate of the Downs on every corner, haranguing… Continue reading HASTINGS SPARKLES IN THE RAIN
BACK TO THE CASTLE
An hour between trains in Rye, just long enough for that frantic half in the micro and a mad search for an open loo. Don’t laugh, you’ll be old once. Always a wonderful place to amble when the coach loads from Arundel and Ashford have gone. Strangely quiet at 6pm, and that wasn’t because they… Continue reading BACK TO THE CASTLE
WATERWORKS
No, nothing to do with Newark North. This was the cutely named new micro bar in Rye. Yeah, the one Paul Bailey probably advised me to do earlier this year when we walked past. Yes, there’s a spare table outside. But it was about 10 degrees too cold for Mrs RM, so we braved the… Continue reading WATERWORKS
“PRETEND IT’S 1995”
Back to the Sussex Downs, where Mrs RM was delighted to discover that eight drops of rain had fallen, meaning my planned eight mile walk to Alfriston had been replaced with a pint in the Eight Bells in Jevington. GBG aficionados will know the Downs is a hotbed of GBG activism, home to classic village… Continue reading “PRETEND IT’S 1995”
SEPTEMBER ’19 STOCKTAKE + OCTOBER PREVIEW
What a month September was. THE HIGHLIGHTS In sport, England won the Ashes after the Aussies returned home before the 100 ball decider, Liverpool clinched the Premier League, and VAR was cheered to the rafters in Tottenham. Elsewhere, Cambridge finally got a Brewdog , Mrs RM started a blog just to slag off Maidenhead‘s most… Continue reading SEPTEMBER ’19 STOCKTAKE + OCTOBER PREVIEW
POLEGATE – FAIR DINKUM
One more post before the September Stocktake, which for a change will be virtually up-to-date. We had real fun finding a hotel close to the coast, eventually getting an apartment (wait a minute) on the edge of Eastbourne. I’m with holding judgement and reviews till I get the deposit back. Golly, ideally placed for two… Continue reading POLEGATE – FAIR DINKUM
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