Oh look, a Home Counties pub in my Top 100; the end of the world may arrive before next Thursday. What’s more, it’s actually a smart pub with uniformed staff, Prosecco and genteel patrons. I wasn’t going to put it in my Top 100 after yesterday’s revisit on the basis the staff called me “Sir” rather… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – KING’S HEAD, AYLESBURY
Tag: Buckinghamshire
A BRAKSPEAR REBELLION IN THE CHILTERNS
A second day in the Chilterns gave me the chance to finish Buckinghamshire and put BRAPA in its box. If Simon continues averaging 20 pubs in 3 days he’ll have caught me up by next Christmas, and that won’t do at all. I was looking forward to exploring the Ridgeway but my walking boots haven’t… Continue reading A BRAKSPEAR REBELLION IN THE CHILTERNS
EURO WATCHING IN WOOBURN*
Wycombe is a large drab town surrounded by great countryside and a few classic pubs. It also has the hardest football ground to get away from at the end of the match. Wooburn Green feels like the end of the straggle of habitation drifting east from central Wycombe, after which you enter a great expanse… Continue reading EURO WATCHING IN WOOBURN*
CHESHAM – CONTRASTS AT THE EDGE OF METRO-LAND
Chesham sits at the end of the Metropolitan line (nearly an hour out) and in many ways feels like most of the dullish North London suburbs as much as the attractive Chilterns town its normally regarded as. As always, you need to walk a bit. I used to walk around here quite a bit when I worked… Continue reading CHESHAM – CONTRASTS AT THE EDGE OF METRO-LAND
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