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BRAPA - Sick Astley, Dive Tyldesley, Intact in Acton (Birthday Bonus Bonanza...
So where were we? Ah yes, escaping Leigh on a hot Saturday afternoon. Any bus would do, but the bus driver had other ideas ......BD - "Where in Astley are you heading pal?"Me - "The Old Boat House...
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BRAPA - Magic Wandsworth, Clapham Misfunction & Waterloo Scumset (BBB Part 4/4)
So, the football season was officially over. It was a relief. And nice of Hull City on my Birthday to give me the biggest present of the lot, promising not to inflict their awfulness on me for 3...
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BRAPA - Cambridgeshire II - I Don't Wanna Be Buried in a Pet Sematary (Part 1...
It was 10:40am, it was Saturday, and I was in the confusing Royston train station. Why confusing you might ask? Well, it is in Hertfordshire and not Cambridgeshire, not what any sane person wants to...
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BRAPA - Cambridgeshire II : Peru in Possible Eurovision Debut Shocker (Part 2...
Piggy timeSo where were we? Yes, deep in the South Cambridgeshire countryside with the venerable Martin Taylor for company. We'd just been failed to be wowed by GBG mainstay the Queen's Head in...
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BRAPA - Mobb Mentality, No Marstons in Marston & Moody Cricket
With just four current Good Beer Guide pubs to complete in Cheshire, I set off over the Pennines on Saturday morning full of hope and apprehension, with three of them in my sights, one of which had...
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BRAPA - A Cheshire Twap and a Stockport Two (Part 2/2)
Saturday evening, three of my remaining Cheshire pubs done, and my train wound itself north to all those places which probably don't really exist like Hale & Ashley, until we came to Altrincham, a...
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BRAPA - Brass Bands Are Bad For Your Delph
L**ds to Rochdale. Rochdale to Oldham Mumps on the Metrolink. Bus 350 from Oldham Mumps to Delph.It seemed a relatively simple Friday night formula, and one which works better in the endless heavy...
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BRAPA - Carrion Oldham
So I'm on the 350 bus heading back from the chaos of Delph to Oldham, and even then, a man in hi-vis stops us to divert the bus down a different road. "Noooooo, THIS IS MADNESS!" says an outraged...
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BRAPA - Tales of Fortitude from Willey Moor Lock
One more to tick off!So there I was, waking up disorientated in a Premier Inn on Saturday morning thinking 'where am I? what have I done?' with the empty Big Mac meal remnants next to me, before the...
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BRAPA - Grindley Brook has me shook, Whitchurch makes me lurch
Some of you may have heard of #CanalMan James Brindley. He built canals and stuff. And he loved it. He was a great bloke too, always having cracking banter with the lads over a pint of Burton Bitter...
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BRAPA - Month End Review (May 2018), Preview (June 2018)
Albion Ale House, Standish - where May 2018 pub ticking commencedMay ReviewWe have just witnessed the best May in BRAPA history, with 34 new pubs visited easily beating the 26 I did in 2015. The...
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BRAPA - Cambs Part III : For What is Chatteris? (Part 1 of 2)
It was time to be brave and go it alone, sans-Taylor, for the third instalment of my Cambridgeshire leg of GBG ticking. I was in Ramsey for just after 11am, the hour long bus journey from Peterborough...
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BRAPA - Cambs Pt III : The Strides of March (Part 2/2)
It could've been the extra pint in Ramsey. It could've been the weirdness of Chatteris. It could've been my phone deciding to get stuck and stop working for long periods of time. But whatever it...
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BRAPA - Conquering Cornwall - Part One
So, here I was, back in Cornwall for year two of pub ticking, this time staying near Hayle because Newquay was never well situated, and certainly not an ale haven.The aim was to finish ticking off all...
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BRAPA - Conquering Cornwall Part 2 - Helston is Bad for Your Lizard
In our family, I don't know why, 'liver' is always referred to as 'lizard'. I think it might go back to Spanish family holidays, so if someone has too much to drink (usually me), the cry will go up...
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BRAPA - Conquering Cornwall Part 3 - More Tales from the Lizard
It was about a three mile walk from Porthallow to Manaccan, between what must be two of the hardest pubs to get to in the entire Good Beer Guide. Not enough travel bloggers have done this walk (I'm...
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BRAPA - Conquering Cornwall Part 4 : Feeling Well Chouged
After the traumas of Tuesday, where I walked the Lizard peninsula and beyond, dabbled in some Spingo Special, and paid a fortune in taxis, I needed a 'steadier' Wednesday, and was feeling surprisingly...
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BRAPA - Conquering Cornwall Part 5 : The Streets are Alive with the Sound of...
My hopes for this blog title was that it'd sound like a punk rock album, but I've managed to only to achieve Julie Andrews levels of punk rockery (got some of that in my garden).Anyway, just to re-cap,...
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BRAPA - Conquering Cornwall Part 6 : Trevaunance Traumas
Redruth is a particularly scuzzy place for a county as delightful as Cornwall isn't it? My second time here, both times waiting for a bus to take me elsewhere, both times inhaling vape smoke from an...
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BRAPA - Conquering Cornwall Part 7 : Pre-Emptive Pick Me Ups?
As I sat on the sand dunes above Gwithian and Phillack eating a bargain bin chicken tikka sandwich as the waves crashed in and twurfers (you guessed it, twat surfers) ran around in tight costumes like...
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