East Yorkshire is always a great section of the Beer Guide to complete, and now I’m within a “short” train journey of some of the most GBG friendly towns on Humberside, or East Yorkshire as it’s controversially known. As luck would have it, the trip to Beverley allows me to stop off twice on the… Continue reading BEVERLEY, BUSY & BEWILDERED
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PAD THAI & POWYS
This guy is the toilet roll holder in the Firs, our rather wonderful B & B last Wednesday in Builth Wells. Remind you of anything ? We finally met up with Duncan, having somehow persuaded him to eat as well as drink on a ticking day. This picture shows an excited group of pub tickers… Continue reading PAD THAI & POWYS
WHOOSH !!!
More from Builth Wells which, aided by the sunshine I bring to all Welsh towns, looked in decent nick despite the lack of custom. Duncan had done the hard yards the night before and sadly confirmed a lack of Draught Bass. Here’s the statue of someone disappointed at the lack of Bass in 1847. You… Continue reading WHOOSH !!!
BUILTH TO LAST
Having conquered the waterfalls (can you conquer a waterfall ?) we headed back north to our Wednesday stop in bucolic Builth Wells. The B4520 linking Sennybridge and Builth must be one of the most under-pubbed parts of the country, bar the Pwllgloyw Arms with its “occasional real ale” tempter. I’ll be testing you on the… Continue reading BUILTH TO LAST
DIAL “MM” FOR MIDDLE-CLASS MERTHYR
Only a couple of days in Wales, not enough to make much progress in The Guide, especially with my driver “Tired of Pubs” , so we focused on some tourist activities by heading towards Magical Merthyr. OK, the waterfalls at Ystradfellte are technically closer to Aberdare but that doesn’t fit my blog title. The roads… Continue reading DIAL “MM” FOR MIDDLE-CLASS MERTHYR
A BRECON BEACON
We awoke on the Thursday to find a nation rejoicing at the success of a nation in conquering the Danes, and Mrs RM celebrated by breaking a cup. In her defence, the B & B had a grand total of ONE power socket which made boiling a kettle whilst charging a phone tricky. Our host… Continue reading A BRECON BEACON
AVOIDING THE EURO SEMI-FINAL ON THE WELSH BORDER
According to official figures, over half the population DIDN’T watch the England matches, and you know I always take the majority view. Our Wednesday night stop at the Lower House (there’s only a lower, middle and upper) in Huntington was actually back over the border from Gladestry, in the area known as “Scary Herefordshire” i.e.… Continue reading AVOIDING THE EURO SEMI-FINAL ON THE WELSH BORDER
I’M FEELING GLADESTRY ALL OVER
AKA Dodging Duncan. This post from Euro Semi-Final day feels more interminable than the Final itself by now, but we brought it to a close near Gladestry at the end of the Hergest Ridge in what Real County Enthusiasts know as Radnorshire. Not many people are aware that Hergest is named after the “difficult” sophomore… Continue reading I’M FEELING GLADESTRY ALL OVER
OFFA’S DYKE
It’s always exciting to enter a new principality country, and the A49 (and a scary Roman road near Craven Arms) weaves its way via lovely South Shropshire to the Welsh border. Mrs RM decided to have a sleep in Knighton car park, allowing me to reacquaint myself with Offa’s Dyke and a town of 3,172… Continue reading OFFA’S DYKE
UP AND DOWN THE LONG MYND
That carb overload on Tuesday night came back to haunt us the next morning as we headed into the Shropshire Hills for an ambitious assault on the Long Mynd. By extraordinary coincidence, there’s a new GBG pub at the foot of the Long Mynd in Church Stretton. Even more astonishingly, it will be the FIRST… Continue reading UP AND DOWN THE LONG MYND
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