You left Mrs RM and I outside Mr Thomas’s Chop House, one of the few central Manchester pubs I’ve neglected to visit over 30 years of pubbing here. And I still can’t tell you if the beer there is better than in Wales, as the luxurious interior was a sea of reserved tables. Another time.… Continue reading “A PROPER PUB, NOT A HIPSTER BAR”. FLORIAN THE PSYCHOLOGIST LOVES THE JOLLY ANGLER
MAGYARS, MANCS & CONDENSED MILK
More holiday snaps from Manchester. It really is a treat to visit when you’re not a bag of nerves. Worth remembering is that this blog is basically a diary, like Pepys without the lechery (that’s BRAPA) so you occasionally get posts without pubs. NO, you can’t have your subscription back. Sunday evening after that quick… Continue reading MAGYARS, MANCS & CONDENSED MILK
(HIDING ON THE) BACKSTREETS (OF PICCADILLY)
Enough of Wales. I’m back there next week, with the UK’s top pub ticker (no, not him), so expect more tales of plant watering in, ooh, August. Next up is a place you may have heard of. Yes, back to Manchester with Mrs RM and Matthew for a family shopping and gig weekend, if you… Continue reading (HIDING ON THE) BACKSTREETS (OF PICCADILLY)
HIPPIE HUGGING AT LLANTHONY PRIORY
Right, a cracker as I close in on completing Gwent. Just how is the Llanthony Priory Hotel such a yo-yo entry in the Guide ? Two years out of the GBG while I finished Gwent, and now back in, taunting me from the Black Mountains. Wales has some of the best located GBG… Continue reading HIPPIE HUGGING AT LLANTHONY PRIORY
ABER, ABER, NAY
Yes, I used a title like that last year. But that was Aberystwyth. And this isn’t. Last time here I was actually just over the bridge in Llanfoist, bemoaning the lack of new entries in Abergavenny. Now I’m back, killing an hour before Y Cantreff (“Begone BRAPA”) opens at an irritating 12.30 (why?). There’s two… Continue reading ABER, ABER, NAY
TOP 100 PUBS – HOPE & ANCHOR, TENBY
Well, what a disappointment. I’d been looking forward to bringing you photographic proof of the merits of the Hope & Anchor, but all I have is this; It’s Dave and Joan’s fault, of course. No sooner was I through the door than they’d thrusted a pint of Brains SA into my fist and were bombarding… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – HOPE & ANCHOR, TENBY
THE TENBY OBSERVER
“Finally” say Dave and Joan, “a post we’re in“. Not quite. This is the setup. Loads of this, and pubs to follow. Tenby was a key strategic objective in what I’ll indelicately call The Welsh Clearances. Two GBG pubs, one of them allegedly a cracker, in a town so posh that even Americans will stay… Continue reading THE TENBY OBSERVER
BITTER, BATTER & BARAFUNDLE
It’s a dreadful life, slogging round the country, having the first beer out of the barrel in a cheerless dining pub just so the owner has a bit less to tip away a week later you don’t have to. And then walking two miles uphill downhill both ways just so I can bring you pictures… Continue reading BITTER, BATTER & BARAFUNDLE
UNDER THE COSH IN COSHESTON
I see young BRAPA is back in Cornwall, no doubt whining about the rain and justifying his use of taxis. No such problem for me in another smart dining pub tantalisingly out of range of the average P. Docker. Cosheston is situated on an inlet of the Daugleddau estuary, says Wiki, which is easy for… Continue reading UNDER THE COSH IN COSHESTON
A VIEW OF THE CLEDDAU
A nice uncontroversial pub next; one you could take your parents to without them leaving a grotty review on Trip Advisor. Clearly, the bridge over the River Cleddau was built by the residents of Pembroke Dock in 1990 to allow them to sample the award winning Burton Ale in Burton at the Jolly Sailor. Of… Continue reading A VIEW OF THE CLEDDAU
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