July (finally) 2025. Glasgow. We leave June with Dad celebrating his 90th in some style, and the next morning I’m at Sheffield station catching the TransPennine to Glasgow. £65.90 return, old folk advance rate, that’s not bad. And in fairness all the trains were on time with actual seats that hadn’t been taken. The Avanti… Continue reading A GLASGOW WESTENDER
Tag: Citra
The one where Retired Martin goes to the Barton(s) Arms and takes more pictures of the Visitors’ Book than the Heritage Pub.
14th April 2023. The centrepiece of our Big Brum Bender was NOT, as you might have thought, the trophy room at Villa Park, but rather a recently re-opened heritage pub gem a few yards away. Shamefully, I’d popped in here last for an emergency comfort break, and owed it some belated custom. The Bartons Arms… Continue reading The one where Retired Martin goes to the Barton(s) Arms and takes more pictures of the Visitors’ Book than the Heritage Pub.
HOOK, LINE AND CITRA
The Pub Bloggers Code states “Thou Shalt Not Visit A Fellow Blogger’s Home Town Without Buying Him A Doom Bar“. That rule was subsequently and contentiously amended to exclude Tonbridge. Arguably Heathrow Terminal 5 is the home of the Southworth clan, and if they’d really wanted to be in the UK we’d have met them… Continue reading HOOK, LINE AND CITRA
HOOKED IN
21st February 2020 Our maiden trip in the new campervan, provisionally called Simon, and a 3 hour slog round the M25 to Hook. It’s my mother in law and her twin sister’s 80th, so why not pick a Home Counties gastropub to celebrate. If I reach 80 and haven’t completed the GBG I’m in big… Continue reading HOOKED IN
A CITRA BEFORE THE KEBAB
No, not the famous pub blogger, the beer. My beer of choice while I waited for the return of the Waterbeach Kebab van after his long Summer holiday, the big news in our village this last week. Large chicken kebab, £6, loads of salad. Matt eats the chicken. I never tire of bringing you NBSS… Continue reading A CITRA BEFORE THE KEBAB
O WOW ! OSWESTRY !
I thought I’d get that little bit of Oswestry disappointment out of the way before I got onto the rave review. What a town this is. It’s not just the “micro in a treehouse” * Mr T Irvin Esq will no doubt appreciate the dead railway station with it’s excellent collection of Thomas and… Continue reading O WOW ! OSWESTRY !
LAZY IN LISCARD
As if to prove my point about the variety on display in the Wirral (the M53 divide, if you will Leon), my next stop was Liscard. It is just possible I’m the person who has spent most nights on holiday in Wallasey over recent years, with several Sunday stays in New Brighton and Wallasey Village.… Continue reading LAZY IN LISCARD
LEARNING TO LOVE LEICESTER
In celebrating Simon’s birthday, a special post from the UK Capital of Crisps, a great favourite of his based on recent posts. I’ve declared a truce on Leicester as well, though I do get the hump with the big money “soccer” teams who look down on less successful, but proper football clubs like Manchester City. I know… Continue reading LEARNING TO LOVE LEICESTER
retiredmartin 