August 2024. Canterbury. A new Guide entry, an old favourite, a pre-emptive tick and two hours of cheery conversation with strangers. Let’s call it a night, Canterbury. Actually, the town centre is so compact we immediately bumped into Kathy and Wayne who we’d left 5 minutes earlier trying to finish off a shared sticky toffee… Continue reading £17 POUNDS !
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TALKING U.S. POLITICS OVER STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING WITH TEXANS IN THE THOMAS BECKET
August 2024. Canterbury. A night in one of the UK’s top tourists towns, a million visitors a year, not all of them French and Italian teenagers either. Crossing over the Great Stour again, as we left the delightful Dave aka @Asthouart to his tea and his wonderful art, Canterbury looked magical. And who knew of… Continue reading TALKING U.S. POLITICS OVER STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING WITH TEXANS IN THE THOMAS BECKET
TOP 100 PUBS – THE UNICORN, CANTERBURY
August 2024. Canterbury. CAMRA’s national beer scoring system, the one that determines which pubs make the Beer Guide (admit it, you thought it was about discounts and stocking beers whose pump clips you can’t read), has a very useful prompt to marking your pint (0 is Doom Bar, I believe. Mrs RM and I were… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE UNICORN, CANTERBURY
A CANTERBURY TALE
August 2024. Canterbury. If short of a witty blog title, fall back on a cliché. We arranged to meet our local resident in the Monument at 6, which gave us 45 minutes to explore a few other local monuments, including the Norman castle still awaiting conversion to a Brunning & Price. I’m sure falling masonry… Continue reading A CANTERBURY TALE
THE CANTERBURY SCENE
August 2024. Canterbury. The Grand Tour of Kent continued on Friday as we veered inland to Canterbury, where we will later meet up with a mystery friend of this blog. Quite an arty friend, as it turns out. The Bat & Ball, our bijou B & B (too many Bs) a mile south of the… Continue reading THE CANTERBURY SCENE
“Presented to the bat & trap team of The Golden Lion by the Grand Association of Fun Kings 12th July 1969”.
April 2023. No hurry, here’s Sturry. That would have been the best title. 10 minutes out of Canterbury, we arrive in the land of weatherboards and lamb samosa (£1.20, 20% up on a year ago). Broad Oak has its own heading in the GBG so I guess it’s a bit more than a suburb of… Continue reading “Presented to the bat & trap team of The Golden Lion by the Grand Association of Fun Kings 12th July 1969”.
Seven (7) Italian tourists, all asking for tasters.
April 2023. You left me at Canterbury, heading towards the Bell & Crown for an ultra-rare tick in an increasingly charming but touristy Cathedral city. Somewhat surprisingly, Cathedral’s GBG entries have been quite earthy over the years, solid back street boozers called “Dolphin” and “Unicorn” and “Thomas Tallis”. The Bell & Crown wears its ancient… Continue reading Seven (7) Italian tourists, all asking for tasters.
TO CANTERBURY !
April 2023. Everyone is visiting Kent these days. BRAPA, Paul Bailey, Pauline, the bloke doing every GBG pub in the county… I was in good company as we went down to Rye Harbour to make sure our caravan was ready to receive a few visitors. 3 days; enough time to get a few ticks. And… Continue reading TO CANTERBURY !
THE TAYLOR’S TALE – MICROS IN CANTERBURY
I like Canterbury. If it’s good enough for my niece Emily (4th year at Uni and still no trip to Thanet) it’s good enough for me. This was my first visit since 2014, when I stayed in the Premier Inn on opening night for £29. Same room next Saturday is £115.50. Premier Inn have… Continue reading THE TAYLOR’S TALE – MICROS IN CANTERBURY
KENT GASTROLAND – SERVIETTES FOR BEER MATS
Next stop, lovely Kent*. No arguments about the quality of this county, anyway ! And you never know quite what you’re going to get in the Beer Guide entries, which is something I like a lot. East of Canterbury, the topography has a similar quality to the Somerset levels, though possibly less celebrated. Mrs… Continue reading KENT GASTROLAND – SERVIETTES FOR BEER MATS
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