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BRAPA in .... CARDIFF BAY CITY STROLLERS
I suppose that looking back now, one of the most pleasing aspects about these Glamorgan Good Beer Guide pubs is that even when they are cited as having 'an emphasis on dining' or 'serving food to a...
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BRAPA .... FROM THE DOG END OF CARDIFF TO THE CAT'S WHISKERS OF NORTH KENT
Cardiff seemed pretty wired on this particular Saturday night. No doubt they all wanted to give QE2 a resounding send off in the only way they know how, by getting smashed. Daddy BRAPA had made the...
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW - SEPTEMBER 2022 : LIVING IN A BRAPSTA'S PARADISE
59 pubs for the month, my best 2022 tally and third best ever .... and I would easily have broken my record of 61 if it hadn't been for a demonic combination of wedding do and dentist (not at the same...
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BRAPA in .... I LUV SHEPPY (KENTY WAS PLENTY : PART 1/11)
Rewind to mid September, and Kenty was plenty as I took myself down to Sittingbourne of six days of morale boosting pub ticking.Sorry I'm so far behind, Gwent and jury service are to blame. At least I...
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BRAPA in .... LOVE ME TENTER(DEN) : Kenty Was Plenty Part 2/11
No sooner had the BRAPA feet touched down on the firm ground of Maidstone for the first time in my life, I was straight back out the other side to the arguably more life-sapping town of Ashford.It was...
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BRAPA is .... PUTTING THE SNORT IN KINGSNORTH (Kenty was Plenty Pt 3/11)
Kingsnorth is a village just south of evil Ashford. Village might be a bit generous, it feels in danger of being swallowed up by the arsehole of mid Kent.  But more importantly, it contains a GBG pub...
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BRAPA IS ..... LYING-IN-STEAK (BAKE) : Kenty was Plenty Part 4/11 State...
Ticking on a Bank Holiday Monday is generally the hardest of days to be a pub ticker. But a Bank Holiday Monday due to a State funeral? Peak difficulty levels. Impossible to predict what pubs would...
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BRAPA in ..... DON'T JUDGE A GBG BY ITS MISSING COVER : Kenty was Plenty 5/11
Canterbury had done me pretty well on this most difficult of State Funeral ticking days. Three pubs down, one to go. I'd had to hang around until 17:30 opening, which hadn't been ideal, but at least...
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BRAPA is .... CHARING CROSS, BIG PIG, PLOP LARKINS : Kenty Was Plenty Part 6/11
 "Phew, back to normality, or whatever normality means in the world of BRAPA lolz!" I cry to my fluffy cauliflower as I rise from my slumber at 8:30am on the Tuesday. I boil the mini kettle and make...
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BRAPA .... THE 2023 GOOD BEER GUIDE IS HERE
Well, you could've knocked me down with a feather! Jury service finished, and I'm sat in BRAPA Towers having a leisurely late lunch, watching 1986 Neighbours, before logging onto work for the first...
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BRAPA in .... HAPPY NEW (GOOD BEER GUIDE) YEAR : TOUGH CHURN / PRE-EMPTIVES...
Another one back on the shelf.Good morning and happy new Good Beer Guide year!The cross-ticking is complete and I've just got one word for you ..... OUCH.The Damage312Â pubs lost, bringing me down to...
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BRAPA in .... AN APPALLING MAULING IN MALLING IS MY CALLING : Kenty was...
As I dart through the mean streets of Maidstone with #PubWoman and BRAPA debutant, Pauline Sharp in tow, she comments on my fast walking pace. I try to slow down but fail. When any GBG tick is on the...
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW : OCTOBER 2022
Good evening, happy Hallowe'en, Samhain and all that jazz.  I might still be reeling from that dodgy GBG churn that we don't like to talk about (the new 'dodgy knee'), but I can report a record 66 new...
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BRAPA in ..... NEVER MIND THE JORROCKS : Kenty was Plenty Part 8/11
Wednesday was to be my penultimate day's ticking of this Kentish holiday. It was unfortunate to cut it short, but I was required in Ilkley on Saturday for the wedding evening do of a Bradford City fan...
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BRAPA in ..... LINTON, TRAVEL & TAVERNS (Kenty was Plenty Part 9/11)
Linton Corner is a handy pub stop on the fruitful Number 5 bus route south of Maidstone down to Sandhurst, and what a drag it was at rush hour on my penultimate day of mid and north Kent ticking.And at...
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BRAPA is ..... PITCHER PERFECT (Kenty was Plenty Part 10/11)
Sadly, this isn't a tale about the day I finally turned my back on boring real ale, ordered a pitcher of 'Woo Woo' and 'Sex on the Beach', and went 'oi oi, chug chug chug'. I'm sure that day will...
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BRAPA in .... THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVERSHAM THINGS (Kenty was Plenty Part...
We were on the home stretch. Three pubs left of the holiday, although at this stage, I had vague hopes of pushing myself for 8 or 9 pubs out in Hernia Bay, but that'd prove a step too far. Today's...
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BRAPA in ..... THE LLONGEST WALK : LLANTHONY TO LLANGATTOCK LINGOED (Gwenty...
 Ouch! I was barely able to move by the end of my first day in Gwent (or through much of my second day), and I ended up dreaming I needed a double hip replacement operation, though it was to be...
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BRAPA is ...... SKARED IN THE SKIRRID (Gwenty is Plenty Pt 2/12)
Looking back now, the long walk back from Llangattock Lingoed to the main road and Skirrid Inn was actually not so bad.Despite the multitude of aches and pains I don't like to talk about, it was mainly...
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BRAPA in ..... THE DAY OF BRECONING IS BECKONING : Gwenty is Plenty Part 3/10
Day One of my Gwent debut was nearly at an end. I'd walked over 50,000 steps, my right knee and right hip hurt like buggery (not that I'll keep mentioning it!) The Skirrid Inn had scarred &...
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BRAPA is .... BRIDGE INN THE GAP : DON'T (LLAN)FOIST IT UPON ME (GWENTY IS...
 2:20pm on 2nd October, and it was time for my third and final of Brecon's GBG pubs ......And the Clarence, Brecon (2423 / 3987) would prove to be my 'Goldilocks' pub. The George Hotel had been a bit...
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BRAPA in ..... NEW(PORT) BEGINNINGS : GWENTY IS PLENTY (Part 5/12)
I've pub ticked in Newport Essex, Newport Shropshire, Newport Isle of Wight, and I'd certainly have ticked Newport East Yorkshire if it had a GBG pub.  But I'd never been to the Welsh Newport, perhaps...
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BRAPA IS ...... A REBEL WITHOUT A COORS (GWENTY IS PLENTY PT 6/14)
Q : When do you most want your Good Beer Guide to look like this? A : When you are in a Sam Smith pub!It was the shortest walk from Tiny Rebel in Newport centre to this gem, but they were world's apart...
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BRAPA ...... MONTH END REVIEW : NOVEMBER '22
62 pubs done in November, the second best ever BRAPA total - eclipsed only by my 66in October this year. And if we throw in the 16 I've already done in December, that is a liver shattering 144 pubs...
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BRAPA in .... 'ERE WIG GO AGAIN : MORE FROM NEWPORT / LAST POST ON BLOGGER...
(LAST BLOG ON BLOGGER, actually wrote this before Edinburgh when the photo upload was just about bearable). Join me on Wix from tomorrow (link at the bottom, as the kids say).'Bottle of red for...
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