Welcome to the last post for my travels in July 2020, a tumultuous month of highs and highers. Expect a euphoric Review next up, unless I have to go into hiding after my infamous Daily Mail appearance on Monday. BRAPA may have endured 51 Surrey pubs last week, and now looks like my avatar, but… Continue reading WITHERING AT THE WREKIN
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A JACKFIELD JAUNT
Short post from a Wetherby car park. Hands up who knew where Jackfield is? On the Saturday I persuaded Mrs RM out for a jaunt round Jackfield before we headed south. The little map you get with Search for Sites tells you where to go to park your campervan, but fails to highlight the pubs.… Continue reading A JACKFIELD JAUNT
BLACK SHEEP ON THE IRON BRIDGE
To the bridge ! First stop here for a decade, and it was good to see the Friday evening daytrippers out in decent numbers, drawn by free parking and Holdens Bitter. Not quite the honeypot of Bewdley or Bilston, but there’s little better than a stroll over the Iron Bridge. And back again. Takes,… Continue reading BLACK SHEEP ON THE IRON BRIDGE
BEDLAM
Nope. Not THAT one in Beckenham, though BRAPA is dangerously close to the Surrey/South London borders at the moment. This is Bedlam Furnaces, where Mrs and I stuck our campervan on Friday night. So, another night of free parking and at least £50 saved on chintzy B & B, with this view mere minutes away.… Continue reading BEDLAM
LEARNING THE ROPES IN IRONBRIDGE
12th February 2020 Slightly out of sequence, these next two. But then one of my readers, probably called Derek, would no doubt have studied the next photo and declared “Sir, Jupiter looks particularly high in the sky for a visit after 8pm on a Thursday“. That’s the view over the flooded plains above Buildwas Abbey… Continue reading LEARNING THE ROPES IN IRONBRIDGE
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