Right, time for some of this… April 2023. This is the problem with having completed the Guide. I now feel it’s fine to be distracted from doing GBG23 (if I ever was) by the temptations of the past. I mean, what’s the point of visiting Coventry if you don’t go the Cathedral Town Wall Tavern.… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE TOWN WALL TAVERN, COVENTRY
Tag: Coventry
SENT TO COVENTRY, HAPPILY
April 2023. Thank you GBG23, for giving me a first visit to Coventry since Christmas 2018, bar a (failed) pre-emptive at the Ricoh. Has Cov changed much ? Well, blimey. Where has all this building work north of town come from ? Can it all be student accommodation, like in Sheffield ? Dunno. But it… Continue reading SENT TO COVENTRY, HAPPILY
CELEBRATING MAY PARSONS, FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO COVENTRY
What a day. It takes a lot to bring a tear to the eye of cynical old retiredmartin. David Cameron resigning, Noel Edmonds’ Christmas Presents (Hollies episode), the Maria McKee comeback this year. But I’ll confess I wept a bit at 6.31am this morning as Matron May Parsons, originally from the Phillipines, gave the first… Continue reading CELEBRATING MAY PARSONS, FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO COVENTRY
GHOST TOWN
One for Life After Football now. I don’t know if he ever played at the Ricoh, but if he did his cultured clearances could have gone over the top of the Jimmy Hill statue (is it still there ?) and ended up in the lane comprising Hales Industrial Estate. DO NOT PARK THERE, even on… Continue reading GHOST TOWN
CHRISTMAS CURRY IN COV
The Taylor family spent Sunday at home, the first time we’ve all been together under our own roof all day for 3 years. It’s hellish being stuck in Cambridge, but Mrs RM and I had overdone it yesterday with BRAPA. Our longest family conversation today concerned Christmas meal plans. Due to Mrs RM’s frenetic work… Continue reading CHRISTMAS CURRY IN COV
FARGO – COVENTRY’S CRAFT ENCLAVE
There’s a lot of lonely little isolated Beer Guide ticks to do now, including a host with the sort of unpredictable opening hours visitors just love (i.e. micros and brewery taps). They’re all part of the joys of being a GBG completist. Back in November we nearly finished the West Midlands in Coventry, but the… Continue reading FARGO – COVENTRY’S CRAFT ENCLAVE
HISTORY IS MADE IN COVENTRY
Warwick is a great base for an afternoon in Coventry, provided you can cope with a 30 minute wait in Leamington Spa. Just enough time to photograph all the tourist photos, or use the loos in the Jug & Jester while it’s still a Spoons. By the way, why do all provincial railway stations have those… Continue reading HISTORY IS MADE IN COVENTRY
COV
Coventry is one of those cities, like Stoke, that the rest of the UK seem to miss the merits of. I must visit Cov twice a year, though it’s 15 years since I last saw football there. I’m spending a day there now with Mrs RM, waiting for our boys to exhaust their brains at… Continue reading COV
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