March 2024. Whitby. Some more holiday snaps from the Yorkshire holiday coast, as we join the throngs on the tight little lanes leading to the Abbey. Not sure how I found an empty street at 3pm on a Sunday. The hordes were congregating outside the black jet jewellery, Whitby fatties, and ambitiously priced antiques that… Continue reading “WHITBY FATTIES”. DO THE 199 STEPS.
Tag: North Yorkshire
TOP 100 PUBS – QUIRKY DEN, WHITBY
March 2024. Whitby. Hard to believe, but Whitby is the UK’s tourism cash cow, its Monschau or Lake Como if you like; the all-year tourist attraction for Brits young and old, frail and sporty, drawn by steep steps and seagull stealing saveloy, which is my best alliteration for a while. We only had to sell… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – QUIRKY DEN, WHITBY
SNAITH – BOUNDARY ISSUES, HERBERT NAPPY ASKE AND JACK PUNTON THE WALKING MAN
December 2023. Snaith. Pubs are fine, but what you really want (possibly) is a compelling reason to visit small, unsung, market towns on your UK holidays. Towns like Snaith (pop. 3,176 souls), an improbable 55 minutes by train from Leeds (not on Sundays, nothing happens on Humberside on a Sunday). Your reward at the rail… Continue reading SNAITH – BOUNDARY ISSUES, HERBERT NAPPY ASKE AND JACK PUNTON THE WALKING MAN
RETIRED MARTIN’S BIG GOOLE BIRTHDAY
22 December 2023. Beal, nr Goole. Thanks for all your birthday wishes, I really appreciate the love for Retired Martin Day. Mrs RM spared all expense, adapting a card for her nan that been sitting in a draw for 12 years; And of course Stockport’s own Phil Foden has just capped off the night by… Continue reading RETIRED MARTIN’S BIG GOOLE BIRTHDAY
LACY
Yes, I’m going to be nicking all of Olivia Rodrigo’s song titles for these blog posts because she deserves the honour. November 2023. Oatlands. Harrogate. Ooh, a bit dark as I left the warmth of the Harrogate Tap and headed for my actual tick in Oatlands. By now I only had 32 minutes to walk… Continue reading LACY
“I mean, if you’re there, you can’t NOT go in the Harrogate Tap, can you ?”
November 2023. Harrogate. Thursday night, back in Sheff from my parents, and straight out after doing the laundry to Leeds for the Julie Byrne gig, Except, having got to Leeds I thought I’d head straight on up to Harrogate and get the Oatlands Club ticked. A couple of cheap advance tickets would see me in… Continue reading “I mean, if you’re there, you can’t NOT go in the Harrogate Tap, can you ?”
THE COORS TASTES A BIT “EGGY” IN NORTHALLERTON
October 2023. Northallerton. One more post from a successful raid on the North-East/Yorkshire sections of the GBG, with what felt like an overdue return to Northallerton after a three pub tickathon back in 2018. Five (5) years ago I wrote of “a solid blue-rinse town, generally resting on its laurels by virtue of being better than… Continue reading THE COORS TASTES A BIT “EGGY” IN NORTHALLERTON
RICHMONDSHIRE REVISITED
October 2023. Hunton. Richmondshire. Mrs RM kindly agreed to taste the beer on our two North Yorkshire ticks on the way back from Newcastle. Some of you will be horrified to learn I consider “a swig of the dregs is a tick” but as the latest GBG completist I get to set the rules, at… Continue reading RICHMONDSHIRE REVISITED
LEMON TWIST
September 2023. Scarborough. I meant to send my mum a postcard from Scarborough but a) I forgot, b) a first class stamp is £1.25, c) couldn’t find a Post Office anywhere. I did see loads of hotels though, including the Grand. rated “Passable” on Booking.com (i.e. dreadful), the Adelphi of the North. But take the… Continue reading LEMON TWIST
THE BEST PART OF COMPLETING THE BEER GUIDE IS BEING ALLOWED TO DRINK PINTS IN PUBS LIKE THE SCHOLAR’S
September 2023. Scarborough. Well, you can’t spend the equivalent of 13 and a third pints of OBB on your rail ticket getting to Scarborough and just do the two ticks. If I’d turned up a few days earlier I could have seen Glamorgan grind out a draw to keep Yorkshire in their rightful place at… Continue reading THE BEST PART OF COMPLETING THE BEER GUIDE IS BEING ALLOWED TO DRINK PINTS IN PUBS LIKE THE SCHOLAR’S
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