I’m not generally sentimental about change, but when Mudgie kindly copied me in on the news that David “Taff” Jones had finally retired from Newtown’s Railway Tavern today my heart sank a little. I was surprised to see I’d made three trips to the Railway since 2016 alone, so it must be one of my… Continue reading Cheers, Taff. The end of a legend at the Railway in Newtown
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NO CHANGE IN NEWTOWN, THANKFULLY
Probably 3 days into the West Wales Wander by now, and a break in Newtown, which I’d call Nice Newtown but it’s naff. They had free parking for the Jubilee and let me park the campervan in the attractively named “The Gravel” next to McDonalds. Newtown isn’t a must see, a bit functional like Atherstone… Continue reading NO CHANGE IN NEWTOWN, THANKFULLY
TOP 100 PUBS – RAILWAY TAVERN, NEWTOWN, POWYS
Yesterday I had one of the great half-hours in a pub in unsung Newtown. Until the Wi-Fi died I wrote it up in the new and very decent Wetherspoons, which is as far from the Railway Tavern in feel as it’s possible to get. The Railway has an unprepossessing exterior straight from the Welsh Valleys, in contrast to the… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – RAILWAY TAVERN, NEWTOWN, POWYS
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