Two down in Dumfries, four to go. But first a little tourism. With the Burns centre and the Bruce pub, it helps if you like Roberts. Sadly no Cure museum, though the Coach & Horses had plenty of their stuff on the jukebox. I thought Dumfries would be smarter; it looked unchanged since the ’70s… Continue reading “WAIT HERE TO BE SEATED”
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.
MORE YE OLDE DUMFRIES
My notes don’t record a lunch stop, so I fear we just ate crisps (whether plain cheese or something less exotic) in Dumfries that afternoon. It may account for later grumpiness. These posts are compiled by me uploading photos and going “aha” (not the Norwegian one), but the one below took a while to… Continue reading MORE YE OLDE DUMFRIES
DUMFRIES, DYLAN, DRAUGHT BASS
We arrived in Dumfries after a lunch of pastries and painstakingly looked for somewhere to park our campervan for zero pounds, which isn’t a big budget. Luckily the council free car park along the old dock had a space just big enough, and no height barrier to smash into. Result. Dumfries has been high… Continue reading DUMFRIES, DYLAN, DRAUGHT BASS
ANNAN’S CARLING T-SHIRT WINNERS
It took a while, but the overloaded Taylor Campervan finally rumbled in to Scotland on Saturday morning, resisting the urge to stop in Gretna and renew marriage vows over a pint of Youngers Scotch or whatever folk do there. Instead, we stopped for a GBG tick lunch stop in Annan, a place that had long… Continue reading ANNAN’S CARLING T-SHIRT WINNERS
FIVE OUT OF FIVE AIN’T BAD, PENRITH
A fifth post squeezed out of Penrith, and rightly so. It was pub heaven (can wait), right down to the little craft bar I popped in to give Mrs RM full value from her time in Spoons. Two years ago this place was the trad-sounding Moo Bar, now it’s got the quirky Fell Bar as… Continue reading FIVE OUT OF FIVE AIN’T BAD, PENRITH
TOP 100 PUBS – AGRICULTURAL HOTEL, PENRITH
Moving on from the Dockray and its craft, I knew I couldn’t leave Penrith without a pint of Jennings in a traditional pub like the Agricultural, the GBG stalwart. I might even get to watch a bit of World Cup Shaqiri, who seems to have metamorphosed into Robbie Williams in his time in the Potteries.… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – AGRICULTURAL HOTEL, PENRITH
DEADRINGER FOR (BRUNNING & PRICE) PUBS
We left Mrs RM with a rum & coke in front of a TV showing Serbia/Albania v the Swiss rollers in Spoons, as good a place as any to leave her. Penrith looked rather beautiful, like catching St Neots or Leominster on a good day. Even the tat was good tat. Appropriately, the tanning parlour… Continue reading DEADRINGER FOR (BRUNNING & PRICE) PUBS
I CAN SEE PARADISE IN THE PENRITH NIGHT
There are times when this blog feels like a collection of photos of mobility scooters, inappropriate glassware, perfumed hand wash and unconvincing tribute acts. But isn’t that pretty much life ? * So what’s a Friday night out in Penrith like ? Well, start in the newish (non-GBG) Spoons and find out. This former… Continue reading I CAN SEE PARADISE IN THE PENRITH NIGHT
A STEP BACK IN TIME ALONG THE A66
“Never write posts after a penalty shoot-out” says the Pub Bloggers Manual. Oh well. I have a lot of photos and scrappy notes from the Great Penrith, Ayr & Glasgow Campervan Trip of 2018, some of them usable. Before I start on twenty-three pubs, here’s the quiz. “What will be the average NBSS score across… Continue reading A STEP BACK IN TIME ALONG THE A66
IT’S A TUFF(NELL PARK) LIFE
Would you Adam and Eve it. Two pints of Pedigree in two days, and in Cambridgeshire and North That London, not Derby. Is this a comeback for Marston’s second finest ? This one came, rather unexpectedly, after I’d been summoned by youngest son Matt to meet him at Boston Music Rooms in Tuffnell Park. Apparently,… Continue reading IT’S A TUFF(NELL PARK) LIFE
retiredmartin 