March 2025. Cambridge. With “Sunnyside” on the market I’m looking for some budget options when I visit Dad in his care home, and as an alternative to the camper the Travelodge on Cambridge’s Newmarket Road Travelodge looks a good bet. Free parking on Sunday, Lidl bakery for breakfast, Wrestlers over the road for your Thai… Continue reading A DASH TO BEAT LAST ORDERS AT THE ALEX
Tag: Alexandra Arms
CELLAR TEMPERATURE IN ALEX
February 2024. Cambridge. Pub number 4 (of 2) on a dreich night in Cambridge just off the normal King Street run. The Alexandra is, along with the Geldart, a more recent of the city’s GBG perennials, one of the best Greene King pubs in the area, though the beer range gives none of that heritage… Continue reading CELLAR TEMPERATURE IN ALEX
CARLING BY THE JUG
Pub 2 on the Rugby Crawl was but a few yards from the Seven Stars. In fact, a look at my original schedule (being auctioned off in July) shows how close the pubs are together. You could visit eight in less than an hour, if you had Bob Hawke’s drinking prowess. The tourist… Continue reading CARLING BY THE JUG
A BLUE CHRISTMAS (WITH GREEN MARKER) ON MILL ROAD
Back at Taylor Towers we let BRAPA score our tea-making and showed him the plaque commemorating his previous visit. Being a nice chap he’d bought me a present that I unwrapped immediately, being anti-Christmas. Wow. Bass ashtray and beer mat. Stolen from Bridlington, no doubt. Mrs RM told work to “Do one” for the afternoon… Continue reading A BLUE CHRISTMAS (WITH GREEN MARKER) ON MILL ROAD
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