My options for easy ticks have long gone. As of today, my closest new Guide pub is a cricket club with one handpump in Yardley/Sheldon/Marlborough/East Brum, a mere 3hrs 38mins away on the train. Perhaps I should ask BeerMat to recommend some highlights of the Sheldon area (Andre Marriner was born there ?) and then… Continue reading YOUR PRINT-OUT-AND-KEEP FELTWELL GUIDE
Tag: Norfolk
AN OUTING TO DOWNHAM MARKET WETHERSPOONS
Mrs RM was in combat-ready mode at the weekend, preparing herself for a new IT consultancy job that started with a day in Maidenhead. She didn’t make me travel with her. To calm her nerves, I suggested a relaxing afternoon at the new Wetherspoons in Downham Market, half an hour up the line into Norfolk… Continue reading AN OUTING TO DOWNHAM MARKET WETHERSPOONS
GHOST SHIP ON THE YARMOUTH COAST
Less talk, more photos this morning. One new pub left in Yarmouth, and a decent walk to take me through the heart of town. Back over the Yare, past the huge grainstore I fully expect to be a micro pub on my next visit. Hall Quay has some great buildings, great beer less so.… Continue reading GHOST SHIP ON THE YARMOUTH COAST
BLOWING BUBBLES OVER THE YARE
New GBG Pub No.2 was very exciting. A trip to the Bridge Over The River Yare, inspiration for the 1957 war epic starring David Niven. More importantly, the first pub in Yarmouth Southtown in the history of retiredmartin. Pint and Pubs ventured here in 2012, before the Beer Guide caught up. I retraced my steps… Continue reading BLOWING BUBBLES OVER THE YARE
“A DREADED SUNNY DAY, SO I MEET YOU AT THE (YARMOUTH) CEMETRY GATES”
Sadly (for me, if not you) loads of Norfolk posts for the next week. If you like Norfolk you probably a) live in Islington and wear a pashmina or scarf or b) are confusing it with the Virginian one. Great Yarmouth isn’t really Norfolk, of course, anymore than Stockport is part of Manchester. I joined… Continue reading “A DREADED SUNNY DAY, SO I MEET YOU AT THE (YARMOUTH) CEMETRY GATES”
THE SPIRIT OF PUNK LIVES ON IN CROMER
More cultural references, this time a celebration of the Pistols gig in 1977 which led to the banning of all young people under the age of 30 from Cromer*. Forever. Sid has aged well, less so Glen. I never thought I’d get two posts out of Cromer, but that’s 2017 for you. The only… Continue reading THE SPIRIT OF PUNK LIVES ON IN CROMER
NOT CRABBY IN CROMER
Two short posts from Cromer for you. It must be Christmas. Cromer really is at the end of the world. In fact, if you look at the OS extract you’ll see in the top right hand corner where the sea ends (darker blue) and you fall off. A lot of Cambridge people, all over… Continue reading NOT CRABBY IN CROMER
LITTLE WALSINGHAM – AN ALTERNATIVE PILGRAMAGE
It took 20 years for a pub to get me to make a pilgrimage to Little Walsingham. That was the Black Lion last November. If only I’d known then the other village pub would be joining it in the Good Book a year later I’m sure I would have persuaded Mrs RM into the Bull… Continue reading LITTLE WALSINGHAM – AN ALTERNATIVE PILGRAMAGE
JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF WYMONDHAM
That’s right, lure you in with a KLF line and then burn a million quid in front of you. (Hoping even Pub Curmudgeon will get that reference). One of the downsides of following the Beer Guide trail is that you’re limited in the number of pubs you can revisit (if you did all the pubs in Leicester… Continue reading JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF WYMONDHAM
YARMOUTH – IT’S GREAT
I’ve an affection for Great Yarmouth that I don’t have for many other East Anglian resorts. I have particularly fond memories of an early career training event in the Imperial Hotel that culminated in a session on snakebite*. If anyone around then is still alive, I can only apologise. And for the string vest incident in Ritzy’s.… Continue reading YARMOUTH – IT’S GREAT
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