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YOUR CUT-OUT-AND-KEEP PUB GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE NORTH STATION

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November 2024. Cambridge. Leaving the Rose & Crown with blog material on a newish pub in the bag and two strong pints in my tummy, I suddenly realised I’d now have to walk all the way back to Waterbeach as dark descended. And there’s no direct buses back from Histon to Waterbeach, despite it’s esteemed… Continue reading YOUR CUT-OUT-AND-KEEP PUB GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE NORTH STATION

A PINT OF HARVEY’S OLD IN THE LAMB

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November 2024. Eastbourne. Eastbourne is a surprisingly large seaside town (pop. 101,000), as you’ll notice from the train and a walk through the dreadful shopping street to the sea. It can seem a bit under-pubbed for those 101,000 souls, and hadn’t troubled the Beer Guide till this years two beer shop newbies (be patient, be… Continue reading A PINT OF HARVEY’S OLD IN THE LAMB

LOW KEY BUT LUSH. ASHFORD’S CRAFT BAR

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November 2024. Ashford. Two (2) successive posts about Kent’s most beleaguered town (blimey, even Rainham is better these days), can Paul Bailey and I make Ashford the new beer destination ? Well, no, obviously not, but the Spoons is half decent, the flashy Curious Brewery by the station is plain curious, and that GBG sports… Continue reading LOW KEY BUT LUSH. ASHFORD’S CRAFT BAR

The first airing of “Stop The Cavalry” in 2024 comes in….Walthamstow.

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November 2024. Walthamstow. E17. After 3 weeks stuck in the parental home in Waterbeach I headed down into Kent where Mrs RM was paying her own elderly folk some overdue attention. Approaching middle-age, I’ve pretty much swapped the car for the train, particularly in the winter months, and you can get from Cambridge to Rye… Continue reading The first airing of “Stop The Cavalry” in 2024 comes in….Walthamstow.

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 69 – NORTHERN ISLES

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Ah, yes, the Northern Isles. I spent 30 years looking at that tiny section of the Beer Guide, contemplating overnight ferries from Aberdeen or Loganair flights from Edinburgh, those evocative pub names in Kirkwall calling me. But if I did those pubs in 2011, would I just need to go back a decade later ?… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 69 – NORTHERN ISLES

HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 67 – KINGDOM OF FIFE

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Well, my spreadsheet says just “Fife“, but the GBG is insistent on the Kingdom, and the GBG is definitive when it comes to county names. It only took three trips up the A1 and over the Firth of Forth to tick Fife, a county most folks will only know from St Andrews and the chippy… Continue reading HALF A DOZEN PUBS IN EVERY GBG COUNTY No. 67 – KINGDOM OF FIFE

Now THAT’S how to do a cheese and onion cob !

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October 2024. Leicester. And this is the problem/joy of having completed the Guide. Before completion, you break a journey in Leicester, have a rushed weakest half in the new GBG tick, run back to the next train, plan how you’re going to do all four (4) West Midlands newbies before your gig when none (0)… Continue reading Now THAT’S how to do a cheese and onion cob !