June 2023. St. Leonards. Reader “Alan” seemed surprised you can get from London to Rye in a little over an hour, providing you don’t eat for a week to fund the Southeastern leg of the journey, and it’s certainly been fascinating to see how many Londoners have been visiting the east Sussex coast these last… Continue reading GROYNING THE DOTS IN ST LEONARDS
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BACK TO £5 A PINT SUSSEX
June 2023. Hawkhurst. The Google travel map for June is going to be fun; a series of trips from Sheffield to Waterbeach to Rye and back again. Repeat. Returning from “home” to the caravan park at Rye the day after that pint of Moretti I found myself in need of some Harvey’s. Which is odd,… Continue reading BACK TO £5 A PINT SUSSEX
“I told you I was ill”
June 2023. Winchelsea. A walk in the June heat around WinChelsea, two words rarely seen in the same sentence since Lampard took over. It’s a mini-Rye, a town on a hill with a pub and a church and some ruins. You can walk its streets in 10 minutes, but the lanes south of town to… Continue reading “I told you I was ill”
“You can’t rush Guinness, can you ?”
June 2023. Winchelsea. Mrs RM has enjoyed her time down in Rye Harbour, tidying up the caravan, contemplating her next bottle of Shepherd Neame 1698, and contemplating possibly engaging in some twitching at the nature reserve. The harbour is heaving with gentlefolk in beige, armed with binoculars, heading for the hides. Twitter seems to have… Continue reading “You can’t rush Guinness, can you ?”
AN ULTRA-QUICK TICK IN SOUTHWICK
April 2023. Staying in Rye gives you access to the joys of the English south coast, with access to new pubs at Brighton a mere 90 minutes away, if you can fathom the train timetable with its weird 10 minute step-back-in-time at Hampden Park (not Sussex). Regular readers will recall I was at Southwick just… Continue reading AN ULTRA-QUICK TICK IN SOUTHWICK
WINCHELSEA – I TOLD YOU IT HAD A HILL
April 2023. Rye is a great base for pubs in all directions (except south. No idea what’s south), and has wonderful walks west through the nature reserve to Winchelsea. One lesser-known footpath takes you through fields full of pebbles, past the meteorite that flattened the nascent East Sussex micropub movement in 1478. The ducks took… Continue reading WINCHELSEA – I TOLD YOU IT HAD A HILL
DYMCHURCH DELIVERS THE DOOM BAR (AND THE ALPACA SOCKS)
18th November 2022. Another GBG23 tick, a Kentish single calmly collected like Chris Tavaré compiling a patient 18* while all around him go mad with the marker pen/bat. Back to Dymchurch, which had let me down the week before (not their fault). But before Hidden Treasure, we sneaked a visit to Alpaca Annies, where Mrs… Continue reading DYMCHURCH DELIVERS THE DOOM BAR (AND THE ALPACA SOCKS)
MERMAID STREET
17th November 2022. Back on the Sussex coast, Mrs RM finally took a break from IT to spend an afternoon had a spare afternoon in Rye. It really is a gem of a place, but how good are the pubs that aren’t called “Ypres Castle” or “Waterworks“, I wondered. But not for long. Mrs RM… Continue reading MERMAID STREET
THE MERITS OF REVISITING A RYE MICRO PUB
Spending a week or two down in Rye presents some challenges for the GBG completist. There’s a couple of dozen new Guide entries easily accessible by train, exciting places like Broadstairs and Hove. But I don’t want to do those too soon, so I’m also revisiting a few places I wasn’t sure about first tick… Continue reading THE MERITS OF REVISITING A RYE MICRO PUB
THE STAR IN THE EAST (OF SUSSEX)
“What skills or lessons have you learned recently?” asks Word Press this morning, as an unwanted prompt for a blogger with writer’s block. The only lesson you need ever learn is “Don’t take the A57 in the snow“. The other lesson is, of course, NEVER believe a micropub’s opening times. The Hidden Treasure in Dymchurch… Continue reading THE STAR IN THE EAST (OF SUSSEX)
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