The bad news is I still haven’t seen “Finding Dory” as we’re saving it up for the wet day next week in Wales. That will be my third trip over Offa’s Dyke in a month, as I hope to make some overdue inroads into the 170 Welsh Beer Guide pubs I’ve still to do… Continue reading JULY STOCKTAKE

Tandleman revisited the  issue of pub food this week, following his trip to the Black Country.  Whether it’s pies and cobs or trencherman meals, that area seems to get it right. I recommend the Harrow in Coven (posh Wolves) for cobs. Contrary to comments expressed by C.Tevez and believed by most Londoners, Manchester has plenty of… Continue reading PUB FOOD IN THE MARCHES

It was typical that my phone battery would die just as I reached one of the most attractive places on earth, Tintern Abbey.  Mrs RM will sort me out once she’s ridiculed me, and made me switch it on and off for a 100th time (that didn’t work). I could have used my laptop for… Continue reading CHERRY TREE MEMORIES IN TINTERN

Pub Curmudgeon rightly picked me up for placing the Railway Tavern in Powys. I’ll be sticking to historic counties from now on. For a week or so till I get to West Wales. I popped to Montgomeryshire’s old county town (pop.1,200) to see if anything had changed since Mrs RM got a room at the… Continue reading PROPER PUBS IN MONTGOMERYSHIRE

Camping has it’s drawbacks, but if the rain holds and you have a footpath from the campsite to the pubs it can be the way to go. Foxholes also provided an immaculate little site for £8, which is pretty much as good as it gets.  No new Guide pubs in Castle but you do need… Continue reading PUB CATS IN BISHOP’S CASTLE

It’s only in the last few years that our regular trips to the in-laws have become bearable.  By that, I mean of course the pubs in Tunbridge Wells have improved, as Paul Bailey has reported recently. Little Southborough isn’t Tunbridge Wells though.  What it gains in views over the Weald it loses in terms of… Continue reading THE IMPERIAL, SOUTHBOROUGH