October 2023. Tilley. Shropshire. Six (6) pubs in Wem (pop. 6,100), a town with the dullest Wiki entry imaginable. One for fans of history. Count me out. Our first pub is the Raven in Tilley, a hamlet virtually contiguous with Wem. The most interesting thing about Tilley is the polite sign instructing Paul and Will… Continue reading STEALING THE CHILDREN’S COLOURING SHEET IN TILLEY
THE WEM EGG
October 2023. Wem. Shropshire. Our friend Will (aka Sheffield “Premier League Luton” Hatter) has been on top #PubMan form recently, planning exciting trips to exotic small unsung towns like Brigg, Leeds and Wem. Ah, Wem. No current GBG entries, in fact a bit of a North Shropshire Beer Guide desert between Shrewsbury and Whitchurch these… Continue reading THE WEM EGG
Which opening hours would YOU trust ?
October 2023. Ossett. Wakefield. You might assume that CAMRA’s venerable Discourse was a forum for weighty debate on matters such as the outlawing of tasters and those little test tubes showing you what grade of pale the guest beer is, but actually the big issue of late is opening times. Or more specifically, the inclusion… Continue reading Which opening hours would YOU trust ?
NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
October 2023. Newmillerdam. Wakefield. I tried desperately to come up with a blogpost using the Elvis classic as inspiration, but since none of you (except fellow ticker Eddie) knows Newmillerdam it’s wasted effort. My life of perpetual travel began the year after marrying Mrs RM; before that we’d hardly left Letchworth and Cambridge but in… Continue reading NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
October 2023. Crigglestone. Wakefield. We arrived back at Luton Airport to collect our vehicle the day before THIS; Glad we were only away for a week. It took a few days of parent-visiting before I could get back into the swing of visiting weirdly names Yorkshire villages. In fact, I’d never heard of Crigglestone, whose… Continue reading RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
SARAJEVO ’84 BOBSLEIGH TRACK
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia Herzegovina. One last Balkan post before I return to exciting posts from (checks photos) Wakefield and Wem. In a sense we left the best till last. The famous Winter Olympics bobsleigh and luge track is Sarajevo’s equivalent of London’s disused Olympic stadium that a minor football team plays at, or the… Continue reading SARAJEVO ’84 BOBSLEIGH TRACK
FINALLY, THE CRAFT PLACE IN SARAJEVO
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia & Herzegovina. The penultimate Bosnia post, which is a relief for me as much as you as I keep forgetting whether it’s Bosnia Herzegovina, or “&” or “and”. Wars start over these things; on Discourse anyway. These days I prefer overseas tours to be less than a week as by the… Continue reading FINALLY, THE CRAFT PLACE IN SARAJEVO
THE BEST SERVICE WE’VE EVER HAD
October 2023. Sarajevo. We’d spent two hours in a minibus wondering whether our Bosnian tour guide could get the indomitable US traveller Haley back to a hotel by 20:35 to meet a transfer to a bus to Belgrade from which she would head to Nice, and thence possibly to Chad. We couldn’t keep up with… Continue reading THE BEST SERVICE WE’VE EVER HAD
DON’T GO CHASING WATERFALLS (OR WE’LL MISS MOSTAR)
October 2023. Waterfalls, somewhere in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A reminder of the route for our day trip from Sarajevo. Seven of us; Mrs RM and me, a couple from Marseille, and three ladies from Haifa, Seattle and Cambridge (wherever that is) travelling alone. Quite a mixed crowd, and we got to learn quite a bit… Continue reading DON’T GO CHASING WATERFALLS (OR WE’LL MISS MOSTAR)
A BRIDGE TOO FAR – BOSNIA IN A DAY
October 2023. Bosnia & Herzegovina. Despite this latest Balkan adventure being notionally a “holiday” every day started with a 7am alarm, and Saturday saw us standing outside the Balkan tourist office at 8 after a lightning breakfast; Good to know : those shredded wheat pastries are not a patch on the One True Way that… Continue reading A BRIDGE TOO FAR – BOSNIA IN A DAY
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