August 2023. Chester. Back in Chester to end the night with the obligatory “craft beer” in the suburb and ill-advised Chinese takeaway which I’m still finding the remains of in the campervan a week later. The Shot Tower would make a great micropub. Perhaps it already is, and nobody knows. Elsewhere on the route to… Continue reading ALBION
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A NIGHT IN THE LITTLE ROODEE
August 2023. Chester. Have some tourist photos before the pub onslaught. With Mrs RM on conference calls with Eindhoven, and not really fancying the glamour of a night in a car park overnighter, I set off for the Little Roodee. Chester’s car park by the race course is an ideal spot for motorhomes and campervans,… Continue reading A NIGHT IN THE LITTLE ROODEE
Mrs RM gets told off in a Sam Smiths Pub
If your perfect pub is a symphony in brown (with a pint of BBB in a straight glass), then a perfect English town might be a symphony in black and white, like Chester. It MIGHT be, though I still prefer the continual change and modern v medieval of Manchester. Pub Curmudgeon missed the Gnome on… Continue reading Mrs RM gets told off in a Sam Smiths Pub
PROPER SEATING IN THE CAVERN OF THE CURIOUS GNOME
On towards my last Cheshire Beer Guide tick for the year. You can actually work out the new entries for GBG21 if you look very closely at the different shades of pink, and no doubt historians will in years to come in the same way they study the ceiling on the Cistern Chapel. Chester is… Continue reading PROPER SEATING IN THE CAVERN OF THE CURIOUS GNOME
WILL BARBERS HEAD TO CHESTER ?
It’s a busy time in retiredmartin Towers. My first jab yesterday, Mrs RM has hers Thursday (just in time for pub gardens, I reminded her), carpets laid, elder lad moved home last week and started a job today, and younger sun keeping busy till barbers are back on 12 April. If only he lived in… Continue reading WILL BARBERS HEAD TO CHESTER ?
CHESTER – A LITTLE DEVA
12-13th February 2020 Later today you’ll get tourist Northwich and tourist Runcorn, but first here’s tourist Chester. Yes, it’s my holiday snaps. I know you love them. The Limes B & B comes highly recommended at retiredmartin Towers. Chatty staff, clean rooms, hot shower, good WiFi, free sweets, ten minutes walk to the station and… Continue reading CHESTER – A LITTLE DEVA
SULBY HITS ME WITH ITS BEST SHOT
Next up, my last Isle of Man GBG tick ! As long as that new law preventing micro pubs and gastro-taps is enacted at the next Tynwald, I should be fine for a few Guides now (famous last words). Last up was the Ginger Hall , a real TipTop TT pub. As you can see,… Continue reading SULBY HITS ME WITH ITS BEST SHOT
ANNAN’S CARLING T-SHIRT WINNERS
It took a while, but the overloaded Taylor Campervan finally rumbled in to Scotland on Saturday morning, resisting the urge to stop in Gretna and renew marriage vows over a pint of Youngers Scotch or whatever folk do there. Instead, we stopped for a GBG tick lunch stop in Annan, a place that had long… Continue reading ANNAN’S CARLING T-SHIRT WINNERS
A CHESTER HAT-TRICK
Pubmeister, the man who knows a thing or two about Beer Guide completion, was pondering the merits of revisiting a pub you’ve already done in the comments. And he’s right; to visit 500+ new Guide pubs a year you can’t really afford to be distracted by return visits. Just as questionable is the practice of… Continue reading A CHESTER HAT-TRICK
TOP 100 PUBS – THE OLDE COTTAGE, CHESTER
Odd one this. The GBG records that I visited the Olde Cottage in Chester a fair few years ago and found the beer distinctly average. So why make a special return trip, on a busy day ticking new Merseyside pubs ? Because they keep bombarding me with tweets like this, Due to unforeseen circumstances we… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE OLDE COTTAGE, CHESTER
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