November 2023. Wisbech. A final Cambridgeshire Guide tick, and yet more GBG24 joy as I’m taken kicking and screaming to Wisbech, which a bit of me still believes in is Lincolnshire. Perhaps GBG25 will place it there, like that pub in Danehill that keeps moving back and forth across the Sussex borders. I know you… Continue reading CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMPLETE – BEER STRAIGHT FROM THE POT PLANTS, NOT IN THEM
Tag: Fenland
FOR WHAT IS CHATTERIS ?
15th December 2022. We arrived back in Waterbeach to find the “worst snow since 1982”, but at least it hadn’t closed Chung Hwa. Mrs RM helped me conquer the final new Cambridgeshire entry for GBG23, an overdue return to Chatteris, a town immortalised on Half Man Half Biscuit’s best seller. I can’t believe I hadn’t… Continue reading FOR WHAT IS CHATTERIS ?
“ALWAYS OPEN”
I know how much you lot enjoy it when Simon travels 7 hours to find a pub closed despite being promised it would be open. Truth told, this year has seen fewer epic fails than usual, despite the complete absence of opening hours in the Guide. I guess we’ve had to work harder, comparing Facebook… Continue reading “ALWAYS OPEN”
MARCH ! MARCH !! MARCH !!!
I’ve always wanted to use that headline, the name of a pointless walk through nothingness to Cambridge. Reading the 35 year history of the walk tells you quite a bit about Fenland pubs. Far from walking, on Thursday night my sister and I took two rattling trains to March via Ely, while cousin Keith came in … Continue reading MARCH ! MARCH !! MARCH !!!
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