19th February 2023. I’ve been neglecting my ticking duties since completing the Guide, but I’d managed a trio of GBG entries by 2pm on Sunday, which isn’t bad going, and we’ll gloss over the fact that I’d delegated the actual drinking duties to Mrs RM. She’d delegated shoe-buying duties to herself, too, and Darlington, made… Continue reading SHOE (AND BEER) SHOPPING IN DARLINGTON
Tag: North Yorkshire
TICKING IN THE CHAPEL, TIKKA IN THE BORO
18th February 2023. With Stockton ticked by ten to four, we headed to Middlesbrough via Thornaby. Frankly, my ‘Boro tick was probably closer to our campervan pitch in Stockton, next to the Tees and 20 minutes stiff walk out into the dull suburbs west of the Spoons where I left Mrs RM to enjoy the… Continue reading TICKING IN THE CHAPEL, TIKKA IN THE BORO
POSH MIDDLESBROUGH
18th February 2023. A quick diversion off the A19 to Stokesley, one of those beguilingly “nice” North Yorkshire small towns for people who are too frit to live in Middlesbrough (see also : Yarm, Guisborough, Great Ayton). Stokesley is best known as the home of “Quorn”, but if they’ve a tasting rooms I couldn’t find… Continue reading POSH MIDDLESBROUGH
LONGHORN, SHORTHORN
18th February 2023. Everyone is going to Teesside in 2023, so why not us ? On Saturday morning we picked a proper caravan site for our campervan between Stockton and Middlesbrough, the micropub capitals of the North, and headed up the M1. Mrs RM has resigned herself to the fact that while I’m not actually… Continue reading LONGHORN, SHORTHORN
A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
A start to North Yorkshire, one of the last of the GBG counties I completed a first time (if you see what I mean) in 2018. Since then it’s plodded on with its usual dozen new entries, all in irritating places like Bishopthorpe, just south or York. BRAPA HQ is marked on the map below… Continue reading A NEW BEER GUIDE PUB IN BISHOPTHORPE ? ANOTHER ONE !
AN OLD FAVE IN GARGRAVE
YOU try and find something to rhyme with Gargrave ! A mere two weeks after finishing North Yorkshire in Skipton I was back there on the train again, due to some business in Gargrave, next stop on the line. Fellow ticker Eddie was complaining on our WhatsApp group (aka “TickTillItHurts“) this week about the difficulty… Continue reading AN OLD FAVE IN GARGRAVE
J. STANFORTH PORK PIES, SKIPTON
When I ask Twitter for pub suggestions, as I did for Skipton, they tend to come in 3 forms, all equally valid; 1.Visit ALL the pubs. They’re all great. 2. The Good Beer Guide pubs are the best, that’s why we chose them. 3. Here’s some new micropubs we discovered yesterday. They won’t be open,… Continue reading J. STANFORTH PORK PIES, SKIPTON
SKIPTON SOUND BAR
Having spent £18.60 on my return ticket to Skipton (not having booked advance tickets 3 years ago like BRAPA and Tom Irvin would) I wanted some value from my fare. So I walked from the Slater’s Arms into Skipton via the canal, passing 327 pretend walkers who were actually only going as far as the… Continue reading SKIPTON SOUND BAR
CONSTANT CRAVEN
Ticking gets difficult when you’ve got the easy counties in the bag. Getting four ticks in a day, never mind a BRAPA half-dozen, is tricky. But nothing much beats the thrill of finishing a GBG county, especially one as vast as North Yorkshire, on a first beautiful day of the last weekend in February. Technically… Continue reading CONSTANT CRAVEN
THE 199 STEPS TO A WHITBY TICK
Has anyone ever driven up that lane next to 199 steps in Whitby ? Hard enough for most visitors to walk it, and BRAPA had to moan about the step count last week, didn’t he, but I’d not drive up Church Lane if you paid me enough to afford a room overnight on a Saturday… Continue reading THE 199 STEPS TO A WHITBY TICK
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