When I start typing these posts I get prompts. Last time it was something like “What’s your favourite animal?“, and now it’s “What bid events have taken place in your life over the past year?”. Well, nothing really. OK, I met the Southworths twice (2x). 1st November 2022. By the time we met up with… Continue reading FRÜH am Dom!
Tag: Germany
UERIGE – DON’T BELIEVE THE TRIP ADVISOR REVIEWS
1st November 2022. Having just done an interview promoting the UK’s wonderful pubs, it’s only to be expected that I spend the rest of the week eulogising the German ones. Their buildings are often gorgeous, the beer consistent and quaffable, and the köbes in Dusseldorf and Cologne as cheery, chatty and efficient as you could… Continue reading UERIGE – DON’T BELIEVE THE TRIP ADVISOR REVIEWS
SCHUMACHER IM GOLDENEN KESSEL – ALT AND OFFAL
1st November 2022. We’d just landed in Cologne, but with only an afternoon and evening with the Southworths we were determined that they’d make the half hour trip to see Dusseldorf. Coming to Germany and missing out on Uerige is akin to visiting Maidenhead and skipping the Conservative Club. But Dusseldorf is more than Alt… Continue reading SCHUMACHER IM GOLDENEN KESSEL – ALT AND OFFAL
IN SEARCH OF KOLSCH
1st November 2022. As you’ll know from the obligatory map in the obligatory November stocktake we managed a bit of authentic tourism last month. I’d been eyeing a return to Germany for the first time since 2016 since the Covid restrictions eased, but it looked tricky to get away with a month of family duties… Continue reading IN SEARCH OF KOLSCH
A DOUBLE IN DUSSELDORF
More German holiday pics from 2015 to make Dick and Dave jealous. Having found a little stash of photos from that German trip with James I might as well press on while I can still remember any of it. I was using the Good Beer Guide to Germany back then; in a BRAPA-style fit… Continue reading A DOUBLE IN DUSSELDORF
DOM KOLSCH
The only way to follow Oldham is, of course, Cologne. To assist those of you who didn’t get a “B” in Geography “O” Level, I’ve shown Cologne in relation to England. Well, Dover, anyway. You’re here because I’ve found my small stash of foreign programmes that Steve Earl used to sell 5 for a… Continue reading DOM KOLSCH
GRUMPY CAT ON THE ELBE
If in doubt, stick a cat pic in your post. Even a grumpy one. Pub cats aren’t that common in Hamburg. On Day 3 of her Hamburg trip, Mrs RM stayed put to rest her foot, so I took elder son James out on the traditional 15 mile walk our youngsters so look forward to. For a change,… Continue reading GRUMPY CAT ON THE ELBE
THE REEPERBAHN
Right, I’ve gone through Lemmy, queueing and smoking in pubs; on to the Reeperbahn. We left Lubeck after an early start (by me anyway) gave me a proper coffee with a view of the Rathaus for £1.60. I love German bakeries with their self services cafes and bargain prices. The normal highlight of the city… Continue reading THE REEPERBAHN
CIGARETTE SHARING, JAYWALKING KASSEL
The drive back from Southern Poland to Calais is 14 hours of motorway punctuated by nine McDonalds across five countries. Even on mainly German roads that’s not healthy in a day, so we stopped at another place we’d hardly ever heard of before, halfway between the honeypots of Leipzig and, er, Dortmund. Kassel is, I… Continue reading CIGARETTE SHARING, JAYWALKING KASSEL
GORLITZ
We’re in Poland with some friends from our Cambridgeshire village, staying at their flat near Katowice, which sounds very middle class. Other folk flew, missing out on tram/hat-Gate in Krakow, and a great border town in Gorlitz. Timing it just right, or wrong, we missed their Christmas markets by a day, but the old town… Continue reading GORLITZ
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