June 2025. Tynemouth. Staying in Gateshead gives you that wonderful walk across the High Level Bridge on the return from Corbridge, but in the morning you have to contend with Gateshead’s less than pedestrian friendly streets (2 minutes for the lights to change !) on the way to the metro to start Day 2’s pubbing.… Continue reading THE TURK’S HEAD, TYNEMOUTH. DARTS, DEAD DOG, DRAUGHT BASS

A busy June, the usual slogs up and down the A1 interspersed with diversions as far as The Midlands, wherever that is. A bumper month for blog views, too, aided by visits from some scary sounding places; If any of you have survived a visit to Upwell (Wisbech) I’d love to hear about it. My… Continue reading JUNE ’25 STOCKTAKE + JULY PREVIEW

June 2025. Corbridge. 1 tick down, 2 more to go in tiny Corbridge, and then a mile  sprint back to the station with a tummy full of curry. Mrs RM was not impressed. She was also done for the night, sitting out the Pele, possibly the only pub in the GBG named after a footballer… Continue reading (aka) Edson Arantes do Nascimento

20th June 2025. Corbridge. The recommended post-curry train back to Newcastle was due just after 9pm, but there were three (3) GBG pubs in Corbridge to tick, and no-one should run after curry, particularly on the longest day of the year. I know that 20 June has the same number of hours (I think) as… Continue reading THE LONGEST DAY, THE SHORTEST CORBRIDGE PUB CRAWL

June 2025. Newcastle-Corbridge. In 1995, on our first visit to Newcastle, we stayed in a rambling country house in Corbridge with the largest free standing bath in the UK. And the Corbridge stand-out, apart from (I think) having all six pubs in my first GBG, was a curry house directly on the station platform which… Continue reading A PASSAGE TO INDIA (via CORBRIDGE)

June 2025. Newcastle upon Tyne. You left our “curated pub exploration” looking for trousers in Grainger Market, giving up, and heading up pedestrianised Northumberland Street, with its reminders of Newcastle’s crucial role in UK history. I’d like to have brought you the traditional picture of the Town Mouse, but there isn’t really an exterior to… Continue reading “CLASS IS PERMANENT, CONDITION IS EVERYTHING”. NEWCASTLE’S TOWN MOUSE

June 2025. Newcastle upon Tyne Big Weekend. A confession. I’d arrived in Newcastle in a fetching red pair of 15 year old shorts, roughly 8% of my entire wardrobe. Possibly only the third ever outing for those, and with a smart casual curry in Corbridge that evening I was going to need a change of… Continue reading NEWCASTLE BROON IN GRAINGER MARKET

June 2025. Newcastle upon Tyne. There’s three (3) things Mrs RM is very sure about when it comes to pubs and beer. “Beer should taste like beer“, “Ugh, that’s off” (it’s supposed to be like that, Mrs RM) and in Newcastle you MUST go to the Crown Posada. And of course, as so often, Mrs… Continue reading THE JOY OF FINDING A SEAT IN THE SNUG AT THE CROWN POSADA

June 2025. Newcastle upon Tyne. What’s it like being the lone male in a group of professional pub crawlers doing Newcastle ? Well, conflicted between taking the lead in choosing the route and being outed as Alpha Male and ridiculed on MumsNet, or just going with the flow and risking spending the weekend berated for… Continue reading NEWCASTLE (ii). IN THE BRIDGE, OUT OF THE BRIDGE, UNDER THE BRIDGE