STREET DRINKING IN CHIPPING SODBURY

“Welcome back to Chipping Sodbury You can have another chance It must all seem like second nature Chopping down the people where they stand” (John Cale – Graham Greene from Paris 1919) Good grief, prescient lyrics 47 years on, as Chipping Sodbury once more makes the front pages of Bristol Live and CAMRA Discourse. I realise… Continue reading STREET DRINKING IN CHIPPING SODBURY

THE BRIDGE TO ABERGAVENNY

The last leg of the Gwent trip took in Abergavenny, yet another Welsh town that seems to have escaped the Beeching savagery (correct me Mudge/Tom). Gwent/Monmouthshire is always an attractive county for me.  3 hours in the car and then decent train links from bargain motels.  If only the Chinese takeaways were better. Obviously the only… Continue reading THE BRIDGE TO ABERGAVENNY