April 2023. Old. Not just one of the best tracks from one of the best albums of 1982 produced by a Brummie, but the highlight of my third tick on the Greater Brighton Tickathon. In truth, the Harvey’s Old was the only highlight of Guide newbie the Maris & Otter, virtually dead at 3pm and… Continue reading OLD
Category: Uncategorized
GRUBBS BURGERS
April 2023. There’s a lovely guy called Drunken Bunny who runs a pub and kebab blog called the Endless British Pub Crawl (here). Sound familar ? Either he or BRAPA should sue, surely. The posts are short, daily slices of pub life, and I feel ashamed I haven’t read or commented more. But that’s life.… Continue reading GRUBBS BURGERS
HOVE – HARVEY’S, HIGH CULTURE, HOG RACING
April 2023. Mrs RM was very keen to tell the lovely Southworths that I wasn’t ticking the Beer Guide this year, and I clearly take my instruction from her. But when you have a day on the South Coast free to yourself as your wife is staying in the caravan all day typing it still… Continue reading HOVE – HARVEY’S, HIGH CULTURE, HOG RACING
AN ULTRA-QUICK TICK IN SOUTHWICK
April 2023. Staying in Rye gives you access to the joys of the English south coast, with access to new pubs at Brighton a mere 90 minutes away, if you can fathom the train timetable with its weird 10 minute step-back-in-time at Hampden Park (not Sussex). Regular readers will recall I was at Southwick just… Continue reading AN ULTRA-QUICK TICK IN SOUTHWICK
WINCHELSEA – I TOLD YOU IT HAD A HILL
April 2023. Rye is a great base for pubs in all directions (except south. No idea what’s south), and has wonderful walks west through the nature reserve to Winchelsea. One lesser-known footpath takes you through fields full of pebbles, past the meteorite that flattened the nascent East Sussex micropub movement in 1478. The ducks took… Continue reading WINCHELSEA – I TOLD YOU IT HAD A HILL
BONDING OVER ROQUITO PEPPERS IN BRITAIN’S SMALLEST TOWN
April 2023. I’d got my two Canterbury ticks in the bag by lunchtime (a lamb samosa); perhaps I’d stop and explore an unsung Kent town like Ashford Chartham on the way back to Rye. The train left Sturry from Platform 1 at 13:32. It was now 12:27. I spotted Platform 1 across the line and… Continue reading BONDING OVER ROQUITO PEPPERS IN BRITAIN’S SMALLEST TOWN
“Presented to the bat & trap team of The Golden Lion by the Grand Association of Fun Kings 12th July 1969”.
April 2023. No hurry, here’s Sturry. That would have been the best title. 10 minutes out of Canterbury, we arrive in the land of weatherboards and lamb samosa (£1.20, 20% up on a year ago). Broad Oak has its own heading in the GBG so I guess it’s a bit more than a suburb of… Continue reading “Presented to the bat & trap team of The Golden Lion by the Grand Association of Fun Kings 12th July 1969”.
Seven (7) Italian tourists, all asking for tasters.
April 2023. You left me at Canterbury, heading towards the Bell & Crown for an ultra-rare tick in an increasingly charming but touristy Cathedral city. Somewhat surprisingly, Cathedral’s GBG entries have been quite earthy over the years, solid back street boozers called “Dolphin” and “Unicorn” and “Thomas Tallis”. The Bell & Crown wears its ancient… Continue reading Seven (7) Italian tourists, all asking for tasters.
TO CANTERBURY !
April 2023. Everyone is visiting Kent these days. BRAPA, Paul Bailey, Pauline, the bloke doing every GBG pub in the county… I was in good company as we went down to Rye Harbour to make sure our caravan was ready to receive a few visitors. 3 days; enough time to get a few ticks. And… Continue reading TO CANTERBURY !
LOOK WHAT WE FOUND IN KENT !
April 2023. I had to leave Sheffield to visit assorted parents, in-laws and caravans on the Sunday of the CAMRA AGM and therefore missed an (I’m sure) riveting debate about paper and whether opening times should be in the GBG, even if they’re wrong. By the time that was being argued we were in Sevenoaks,… Continue reading LOOK WHAT WE FOUND IN KENT !
retiredmartin 