A few short posts to get my photo backlog sorted, and because it’s (still) too hot for more than 400 words. On to the Royal Oak in Old Malton, average age 62.4. Just north Malton to you and I. A pleasant mile stroll for me, no doubt a £10 taxi ride and an argument with a cabbie… Continue reading OLD MALTON….
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BARRINGTON’S ROYAL OAK CEMENTS IT’S REPUTATION
My first pub for ten (10) days, which tells you how much catching up I’ve been doing on the blog. Mansfield/Sutton. Lymington and Ancrum still to come. But I need to bring you up to date on a great lunchtime session in Barrington today. The Royal Oak isn’t in the Beer Guide (yet), but is… Continue reading BARRINGTON’S ROYAL OAK CEMENTS IT’S REPUTATION
OPEN ALL HOURS – KNAPHILL’S ROYAL OAK DOES A PROPER JOB
Just 17 minutes on the train from Aldershot, central Woking feels a different world. Not always a world I’d want to inhabit, with an athletics centre of a football ground and only a Spoons and a Social Club for Beer Guide company. Type “Woking” into WhatPub and the first places you see are an O’Neill’s, a Slug, a… Continue reading OPEN ALL HOURS – KNAPHILL’S ROYAL OAK DOES A PROPER JOB
WONDERS OF WANTAGE
Wantage is an ideal overnight stop for exploring South Oxon, with a couple of great pubs, decent Chinese takeaway and, vitally, a Waitrose. Hotel prices might be described as “ambitious” though; you’re best off camping on this nice bit of greenery; The town itself is neat but functional, pubs apart. Perhaps it lacks the architectural appeal of similarly… Continue reading WONDERS OF WANTAGE
MANIFOLD CONTRASTS
Nowadays children at Cottenham Village College get to go to China, Berlin and Peterborough for their expensive research trips into modern beer production. Back in ’78 it was Ilam Hall or nothing. I remember the highlight was being allowed to stay up to watch the Home International highlights with teachers well beyond 10pm. I presume it’s… Continue reading MANIFOLD CONTRASTS
EXMOOR CLOSED FOR SUMMER
It’s a dozen years since we last visited Exmoor, other than the odd trip to Minehead. Our son is staying with a mate in Bridgwater, so we’ve pitched up near Dulverton, to the north of the National Park. There’s a pub on our doorstep, but that’ll have to wait for the photos to upload. It’s a… Continue reading EXMOOR CLOSED FOR SUMMER
THE ROYAL OAK, TETBURY
Regular readers will be aware I haven’t got a clue what I’m doing technology wise, and this blog is largely indebted to Pub Curmudgeon and my 15 year old son Matthew for the advice and support necessary to maintain it in any sort of shape. Mrs RM has quite addled my brain with DropBox/Google Photos/One… Continue reading THE ROYAL OAK, TETBURY
OAKHAM STARS IN ST. IVES
On those days when I’m confined to home, making a futile attempt at social niceties, I sometimes pick a shorter walk along the Cambridge Guided bus-way. The circular walk from Swavesey to St Ives is the last stretch of the busway proper, and a good 12 miler for a sunny Sunday spent avoiding the football.… Continue reading OAKHAM STARS IN ST. IVES
GOOD BEER GUIDE – COMPLETING BERKSHIRE
Setting aside its other attractions, Berkshire is traditionally one of the easiest counties in the Beer Guide to complete each year (compared to, say, Devon). It’s quite compact, most places are accessible by train, and opening hours are fairly standard. That last quality is being weakened a bit by the erosion of lunchtime opening though,… Continue reading GOOD BEER GUIDE – COMPLETING BERKSHIRE
LAXFIELD HIGH AND LOW
I’m not a great fan of Suffolk, finding the coastal towns of Waveney a little staid, the often heralded villages flat, and Adnams less challenging a beer than it once was. I do, however, have fond childhood memories of caravan parks in Leiston and the Ipswich Town team of the late ’70s, and Woodbridge, the Shotley… Continue reading LAXFIELD HIGH AND LOW
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