March 2025. Howden. I probably wouldn’t have dragged Mrs RM for a night out in Greater Goole if not for the new GBG entry in Howden, but it always felt like it would get a Guide pub. Eventually. Cobbled streets packed with bistros, Italian restaurants and craft bars, providing an unexpected bounty of Untappd potential… Continue reading IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S US, HOWDEN
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A FAILED SEARCH FOR MICE IN HOWDEN MINSTER
March 2025. Howden. If this blog has one objective, bar acting as a diary of my travels so I can prove I wasn’t at the scene of that murder on 7th October 2018, it’s to promote the lesser-known gems of the UK. Like Wem, and Stafford, and London. I’d driven through Howden just enough times… Continue reading A FAILED SEARCH FOR MICE IN HOWDEN MINSTER
HOWDY, HOWDEN
March 2025. Howden. One night back in Sheffield, then straight back out to Goole with Mrs RM in tow, kicking and screaming. “I’ve never been to Howden” she says, like Charlene in that 1982 Motown Number 1. “Have I ?“. Well, we’d certainly passed through enough times, headed for East Yorkshire honeypots like Driffield and… Continue reading HOWDY, HOWDEN
A REQUEST HALT AT SALTMARSHE
March 2025. Saltmarshe. Goole. This year’s Good Beer Guide will take you to new entries in lesser visited Britain. Costessey, Quoyloo, Merthyr Tydfil… And Greater Goole. Not in Goole itself, though a biker we met the next day in Howden told us Brew York were opening up in the town market soon. My tick is… Continue reading A REQUEST HALT AT SALTMARSHE
GOOLE – TOM PUDDING, DAVID DAVIS, AND OTHER FAMOUS RESIDENTS
March 2025. Goole. 9 minutes till the train from Goole to Ye Olde Saltmarshe, the final step in my epic journey, and I would need 2 minutes of that to mispronounce my request stop to the Northern Trains guard. Let’s explore Pasture Road; Pierogi, an unusual career change for a carpenter, and a change of… Continue reading GOOLE – TOM PUDDING, DAVID DAVIS, AND OTHER FAMOUS RESIDENTS
USE YOUR SPOONS OR LOSE IT, DRIFFIELD !
March 2024. Driffield. 2 hours home from Flamborough Head, or it would have been but for a crash just north of the M62 near Goole. Why always Goole. Thankfully I’d taken Mrs RM’s advice, there’s a first time for everything, and we’d stopped for a late lunch in Driffield. I’m sure there’s more attractions stops,… Continue reading USE YOUR SPOONS OR LOSE IT, DRIFFIELD !
TO FLAMBOROUGH HEAD
March 2024. Flamborough Head. Bridlington. A last batch of pictures from the “bracing” east coast, and a last tick for East Yorkshire at the Marine Hotel, a very typical holidaymakers small hotel. Is Flamborough a holiday destination ? Well, the Taylor family stayed just up the road at Reighton Sands in a tent (£22 for… Continue reading TO FLAMBOROUGH HEAD
IN PRAISE OF THE BISHOP WILTON COMMUNITY SHOP
March 2024. Bishop Wilton. East Yorkshire. One day at home, either “home”, and I’m restless and irritable. “We need to get you out” says Mrs RM, who acquiesces to my suggestion of a night in Whitby as long as it’s not in the campervan. Sunday night in March is as cheap as Whitby gets, as… Continue reading IN PRAISE OF THE BISHOP WILTON COMMUNITY SHOP
HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 49 – EAST YORKSHIRE
It punches above its weight, it really does. Bring back Humberside and you’d have a great GBG chapter. Well, you’d add one pub from Barton-on-Humber, anyway. In truth it’s hard to stick to one pub in ‘ull, as any UK tourist ought to spend a week here, if only to visit the loos, and a… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 49 – EAST YORKSHIRE
ALL DRESSED UP FOR A NIGHT OUT IN THE FOX AND CONEY
Retired Martin Day. South Cave. Not the most spectacular birthday, but huge relief after resolving a major domestic issue* that morning to actually be out, somewhere I hadn’t really been before. And after a great new find in Beal, a complete circuit of Snaith, a bath (first of the year) in a castle, and a… Continue reading ALL DRESSED UP FOR A NIGHT OUT IN THE FOX AND CONEY
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