Reader Etu will be thrilled to know that the Aygo passed its MOT (care of We MOT Anything, of Hillsborough), and stands on the brink of 200,000 miles (in 6 years, one of which was a pandemic(. To celebrate, we set off on our first campervan of August to finish the East Yorkshire section of… Continue reading HALF MOON RISING (INTO THE EAST YORKS SECTION OF THE GBG)
Tag: East Yorkshire
BEVERLEY, BUSY & BEWILDERED
East Yorkshire is always a great section of the Beer Guide to complete, and now I’m within a “short” train journey of some of the most GBG friendly towns on Humberside, or East Yorkshire as it’s controversially known. As luck would have it, the trip to Beverley allows me to stop off twice on the… Continue reading BEVERLEY, BUSY & BEWILDERED
A HULL OF A TIME
3rd January 2020 The big news first. Those twins from Love Island, a show about people who like visiting countries surrounded by water, are from our village ! They came to James’ birthday party once ! Media enquiries to Mrs RM. Enough of the humping, back to the Humber and you’ll see I succumbed at… Continue reading A HULL OF A TIME
COTTINGHAM WANTS ME FOR A SUNBEAM
3rd January 2020 Last stop before the train returns to civilisation is Cottingham, providing a first new GBG entry in what seems like a century but is probably two years. Cottingham, not to be confused with the village next to me where I lerned to rite, can best be summed up in two words. David… Continue reading COTTINGHAM WANTS ME FOR A SUNBEAM
“Hiya John”
Onto my last East Yorkshire GBG tick for the year, and a lovely sight on Page 525 it makes. Eight new entries, 20% of the total, and one new classic with the Board Inn joining the Dog & Duck, Nellies, Whalebone, New Adelphi Club & the Jemmy Hirst in my Top 100 pubs. Not bad.… Continue reading “Hiya John”
PICTURES OF LELLEY
A nice picture of flowers for my Mum, if she reads this (she doesn’t). Cheaper than actually buying them from Tesco, even two days after Mothers Day. There were loads of mothers, probably grandmothers, at my penultimate East Yorkshire tick in the backwaters of Holderness. The “Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness” if you’re living… Continue reading PICTURES OF LELLEY
HORNSEA HOPES DASHED
“Enough of all this culture, give us a pub !” says Mrs EthelHiggins, of American Samoa,my new star reader*. Indeed I will. How about the Marine in Hornsea, the lowest of lowkey East Coast resorts, somehow making Withernsea seem cutting-edge. But it’s got a big lake with a café, and a big discount shopping centre… Continue reading HORNSEA HOPES DASHED
UNBRIDLED JOY IN BRIDLINGTON
OK, that title only really works if you pronounce your favourite East Yorkshire resort as “Bride“, but bear with me. The train from Hull rattled past Beverley and Driffield, normally homes to at least one new GBG tick each year. This must have been a first tick in Brid for a decade, since the wonderful-looking… Continue reading UNBRIDLED JOY IN BRIDLINGTON
A SPURNED OPPORTUNITY
When you’re as far east as Hull it pays to take the opportunity to visit one of our most geographic remarkable features, one that (like midweek drinking) probably won’t be with us in another 20 years time. And pay homage to one of our most remarkable pub survivors. The walk from the Kilnsea car park… Continue reading A SPURNED OPPORTUNITY
LAND OF GREEN GINGER AND CHILLI DEVILS
A second new GBG pub for Hull, but not one that had inspired much excitement, despite BRAPA’s positive pre-emptive review a couple of years back. I see in the comments that John Watson said pessimistically “not a shoe-in for the GBG“. But then John’s a Mackem. I’d assumed Chilli Devil’s was one of those… Continue reading LAND OF GREEN GINGER AND CHILLI DEVILS
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