November 2025. Cambridge. Never change, King Street. A row of cars competing for penalty charges on one of the parking lanes closest to town. I laughed about it with a lad coming out of the Prince who then said ” **** I forgot to pay“. That new craft bar with its trestle tables won’t win… Continue reading TOWN OR GOWN ? THE CHAMPION OF THE THAMES
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“OPENING EARLY ON 19 SEPTEMBER FOR ALL YOUR FUNERAL WATCHING NEEDS”
19th September 2022. While I was in the Blue I had a look at what the other Cambridge pubs were doing on funeral day. Well, that’s clear. BRAPA noted two pubs in the same village, one “closed as a mark of respect“, the next “open as a mark of respect“. The concept of “respect” is… Continue reading “OPENING EARLY ON 19 SEPTEMBER FOR ALL YOUR FUNERAL WATCHING NEEDS”
JUST CHAMPION
You left me at 21:30 outside the Champion of the Thames on Cambridge’s once-mighty King Street, hoping I might nab a table and ensure BRAPA could have a pint in the city’s most proper of Proper Pubs, Is there anything more gorgeous than the light from within a Proper Pub ? Someone came out, I… Continue reading JUST CHAMPION
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