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BRAPA - Berking Mad - Day Three (Maidenhead, Waltham St Lawrence, Wargrave &...
Despite the brilliance of day two, I woke on Monday morning with a grey cloud hanging over my head. It followed me all the way to Maidenhead, a town I had been warned about by every single person...
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BRAPA - Berking Mad - Day Four (Beenham & Newbury)
Tuesday morning was drenched in sunshine as I 'enjoyed' my Premier Inn breakfast, by now getting used to the quirks of the toast machine, the fruity tomatoes and the fact that dispensing a glass of...
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BRAPA - Fenwick, South Yorkshire
Baxter Arms, FenwickThe first of my thrice yearly attempts to prove I can play golf were about as successful as you can imagine(!) but I think everyone knew that the main aim of the day was to get a...
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BRAPA - Manchester Punk Festival - Day One
If my sister and her boyfriend thought that inviting me to Manchester Punk Festival meant that I'd be happy to stand around drinking out of a plastic 'glass' watching crazy bands in equally crazy...
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BRAPA - Manchester Punk Festival - Day Two
The day dawned bright and sunny and after my fifth Premier Inn breakfast of the last week (better sausages here than in Reading and mercifully, no fake Bubble and Squeak, but sadly, no Pia either), I...
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BRAPA - Pub Ticking in Tickhill (and farewell Doncaster)
I have to admit I was not feeling that emotional when I sat in Doncaster Bus Station for the final time (well, until September at least) waiting for the number 22 to Tickhill. It was a typical scene -...
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BRAPA - Bolton (and a bit more of Salford and Manchester)
There didn't feel much point getting a ticket to watch Hull City, this has to be the most depressing season supporting the club ever (well, since the Dolan days), but there were rich pub pickings to be...
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BRAPA - April Review / May Preview (2016)
R.A.F. BRAPA saw it's prize jet fighter beat the ale speed of sound over much of the UK in April in a record breaking month.April Review45 new pubs is a monthly BRAPA record which will take some...
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BRAPA - Chorlton-cum-Hardy (Part One)
Because the young, cool generation that now inhabit Chorlton-cum-Hardy have had to put up with living in such a mouthful of a place, someone has taken pity on them with the naming of their bars.They...
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BRAPA - Harley (undiluted South Yorkshireness) / Survey Results
In the driving rain late on Tuesday evening, I stepped off the train at Elsecar to make the two mile walk south to the little village of Harley. The bus and train connections hadn't been kind, and...
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BRAPA - Slipping into South Buckinghamshire
I felt a bit guilty on Saturday morning, as I am supposed to be focussing on ticking off every pub in Berkshire, but spent most of the day tooling around the South Bucks countryside, imagining the...
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BRAPA - Harthill, South Yorkshire
The strains of "you're so southern, you're practically Derbys" could be heard echoing off Kiveton Water as I made my way to another Tuesday night South Yorkshire pub, and it doesn't get any more...
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BRAPA - Clubbing Woes in Penistone
"One of these days you'll come a cropper and get stranded" chimed the women at work, as I told them about my latest Tuesday night adventure planned for South Yorkshire. In truth, this trip seemed quite...
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BRAPA - An Alternative Wembley (Pubbing in Buckinghamshire)
We were staying overnight in Aylesbury for the 'exciting' play off final against those horrid f'Owls, as it has good train links to Wembley, and more importantly, Bucks is a hot county in BRAPA terms...
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BRAPA - Firbeck & Mapplewell, South Yorkshire
It was the day after Wembley as we travelled back north, quite fuzzy-headed and still disbelieving of how good the day had actually been, but I was just about alert enough to hold Dad to an earlier...
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BRAPA - May Review / June Preview (2016)
Hi! I'm SimonEveritt and you might remember me from pub blogs such as "How to be a Pariah in Penistone", "Chip Fetishism in South Bucks" and "Chorlton-cum-Hardy : just why?"May ReviewAfter the...
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BRAPA - Mossley & Greenfield (Heavy Woollen Tour, Year 3)
The Wellington in Greenfield (see pub 920)Summer is here and that could only mean one thing in the weird and wonderful world of BRAPA, the third year of the 'Heavy Woollen Tour' where a group of...
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BRAPA - Ayrshire (Day One - Ayr & Kirkmichael)
Day one of my annual Scottish BRAPA trip took me to Ayr, and despite leaving York at 8:35am, I wasn't in a pub until 5:30pm. Grrrr. Having changed trains at both Edinburgh and Glasgow, I checked in...
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BRAPA - Ayrshire (Day Two - Up the Coast)
Day two dawned a bit too bright and sunny (hangover) after the five pubs in three hours end to the night before, but a great breakfast and chat with a lovely golfing couple from Motherwell helped.After...
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BRAPA - Glasgow (Day Three of the Scottish Holiday)
Pub 938, flags signify gearing up for the Euros (is that a Jordanian flag in top window?)It was another scorcher in Ayr as I enjoyed breakfast without a hangover despite the 7 pints yesterday (you...
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