Last time out you got a programme from 67-68, the year Manchester City began their 50 year dominance of the League Manchester. Nine years later, we have Workington‘s last year in the League, and the start of Cambridge’s rise to glory, as we raid the Steve Earl programme bundle and visit lovely Vetch Field,… Continue reading SWANSEA – JACKASTORY
Tag: Wales
THE GORGEOUS GOWER
Loads of highlights posts to come, enough to see us through ’till Christmas if necessary (sob). Not many recent trips to the magical Gower, though last year I DID make some major inroads into West Wales, where the beer was better than expected. The beer has been a bit up and down in the vast… Continue reading THE GORGEOUS GOWER
CRAFT, COWBOYS AND A DASH FOR THE PUFT
Hope you’re keeping up. It’s still 21 December, a day before my birthday (mark it in your new diaries now) and I’m taking the legendary Pubmeister round the new Beer Guide ticks on the North Wales coast. You’ll notice I’ve spared you NBSS scores so far. That’s because I was merely sniffing the beer or… Continue reading CRAFT, COWBOYS AND A DASH FOR THE PUFT
UNWOKE AT THE WAKE IN ROWEN
Those end-of-year highlights posts really interfere with my chronology, don’t they. Back to the Big Northern Pre-Christmas Tick, as I leave Stockport to meet the Pubmeister in North Wales. A quick half in Rowen in the Conwy Valley, a pleasant stroll from Bodnant Garden where you can safely leave your OAP for a couple of… Continue reading UNWOKE AT THE WAKE IN ROWEN
ME AND THE FARMERS
OK, I’m not sure if they were all actual farmers, but it’s a better title than “Remote boozer that wasn’t actually in Llangoedmor near Cardigan“. In Llangoedmor, says the Good Beer Guide. With no WiFi, I knocked on all 373 houses in the village asking if they were hiding the Penllwyndu, a tactic that might… Continue reading ME AND THE FARMERS
CHURCHSTOKE – OPEN ALL HOURS
Back into Wales for the fifth time this year, and the mysterious village of Churchstoke. I thought it sounded familiar, but I’d never been before, so I looked up those population stats that Duncan loves so much. I think we should be told more about the statistically improbable male/female balance. In fact, Churchstoke is familiar… Continue reading CHURCHSTOKE – OPEN ALL HOURS
HIPPIE HUGGING AT LLANTHONY PRIORY
Right, a cracker as I close in on completing Gwent. Just how is the Llanthony Priory Hotel such a yo-yo entry in the Guide ? Two years out of the GBG while I finished Gwent, and now back in, taunting me from the Black Mountains. Wales has some of the best located GBG… Continue reading HIPPIE HUGGING AT LLANTHONY PRIORY
ABER, ABER, NAY
Yes, I used a title like that last year. But that was Aberystwyth. And this isn’t. Last time here I was actually just over the bridge in Llanfoist, bemoaning the lack of new entries in Abergavenny. Now I’m back, killing an hour before Y Cantreff (“Begone BRAPA”) opens at an irritating 12.30 (why?). There’s two… Continue reading ABER, ABER, NAY
TOP 100 PUBS – HOPE & ANCHOR, TENBY
Well, what a disappointment. I’d been looking forward to bringing you photographic proof of the merits of the Hope & Anchor, but all I have is this; It’s Dave and Joan’s fault, of course. No sooner was I through the door than they’d thrusted a pint of Brains SA into my fist and were bombarding… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – HOPE & ANCHOR, TENBY
BITTER, BATTER & BARAFUNDLE
It’s a dreadful life, slogging round the country, having the first beer out of the barrel in a cheerless dining pub just so the owner has a bit less to tip away a week later you don’t have to. And then walking two miles uphill downhill both ways just so I can bring you pictures… Continue reading BITTER, BATTER & BARAFUNDLE
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