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BRAPA - Guildford Arms, Edinburgh (Day Four) / Survey Results
As I wound my from Glasgow to York, I had to change at Edinburgh so I made sure I had time to play the one remaining pub shaped card up my sleeve, my 20th pub of the holiday. Â Luckily, it was very...
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BRAPA - Berkshire (Windsor, Eton, Datchet, Wraysbury) and South London
5 seconds of sightseeing complete in WindsorAs I arrived at the front of my first pub in Windsor just off the main drag, it really hit home just how many people are pub ticking these days .... at least...
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BRAPA - Sheffield to a Finish : Part One
Bit of a strange city Sheffield, it seems so stretched out that you never really feel you are "in" a city. Â Railway and bus stations excrete you from their backsides into two streets masquerading as...
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BRAPA - Atherton, Tyldesley and a bit of Leigh
It was time for the next leg of my Greater Manchester pub ticking adventure, normally saved for days where we don't want to go to a particularly unattractive Hull City away game, so one purpose of...
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BRAPA - Sheffield West A.K.A. Studentsville
Maybe I was a bit harsh on Kelham Island last week. Â Certainly, the barren industrial wasteland in the summer sun was more preferable than this weeks Studentsville in the driving rain. I was relieved...
View ArticleBRAPA - June Review / July Preview (2016)
As the BRAPmobile tears across the British countryside in search of it's next pub roadkill, we need to reflect on a wonderfully productive June, and see what lies ahead in July......June Review41 pubs...
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BRAPA - More Ales in the Yorkshire Dales
Trying to keep tourists at bay with my own beermat in Muker.It was time to get back in Dad's car and tick off some of those remote pubs in that most difficult of counties (so far), North Yorkshire. You...
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BRAPA - Three More Sheffield Pubs
It was only whilst I was on the train from L**ds to Sheffield after work on Tuesday night that I realised The Wellington (one of my two planned for the night) doesn't open Mon or Tues. Â Had I...
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BRAPA - Berkshire Part VI (but mainly Hampshire!)
I arrived into Blackwater on Saturday morning just before 11am, where I saw two desperadoes (rough old men, not tequila beers) sitting impatiently in the sun outside the Mr Bumble. Â By 11:10am, it...
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BRAPA - Sheffield West & South to a Finish
Sheffield seemed to have been hit by a plague of elephants when I arrived in the city on Tuesday evening. Â Not real ones, just model ones, painted all different colours, and randomly dotted around the...
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BRAPA - Richmondshire La La La
Sightseeing from a beer garden is my kind of sightseeing."Did you just talk to my dog?"Â That was the first thing anybody said to me in Colburn, and he wasn't happy. Â You know how it is, friendly dog...
View ArticleBRAPA Special - Campaign for a Smaller Good Beer Guide
I'd like to go to the next CAMRA AGM and pass a motion. Â And when I've done that, I'll wipe my bottom, pull my trousers up, take to the stand, and ask a question.And that question would be "Can we...
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BRAPA - Morecambe and a bit of Lancaster
Most stereotypical Morecambe tourist photo. (I hate myself)It was a nice trip down memory lane to be back in Morecambe with two friends, where we'd come for the Punk Festival pre 2006, after which it...
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BRAPA - Sheffield (The City That Won't Be Beaten)
From Gotham City to Shalesmoor, top Batman relocation.It looked like being the evening that I'd finally finish ticking off Sheffield pubs, and it felt like it too. Â A microcosm of Sheffield life...
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BRAPA - West Bridgford
Elsie Mo goes all 21st Century on us.The annual "Welly Summer Day Out" (organised for us Hull City fans who used to frequent Hull's brilliant but now defunct Wellington pub) was down to three...
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BRAPA - July Review / August Preview
Ruby helping me work out where Criggion actually is!July ReviewHello pubbers.  27 new pubs for the month wasn't a bad outcome considering I had no time off work.  I'd been aiming at 30 but you can't...
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BRAPA - South Anston (Loyal Trooper)
It was deja vu from my previous train journey to Kiveton Park (Harthill on 17th May), just missing the train connection in Sheffield by seconds so forced to wait twenty minutes whilst disconsolately...
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BRAPA - Punk Rock Pub Ticking in WEST Lancs
A 16th year of attending the Rebellion Punk Festival in Blackpool (even though it used to be in Morecambe and called things like 'Wasted' and 'Holidays in the Sun'), and I've learnt over the years that...
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BRAPA - Mid Wales : Bad Ankle, Good Anchor. (Part 1 of 3)
I'm pretty sure that when Mum and Dad invited me the chance to tag along with their Welsh holiday, they knew that the biggest factor (along with their obviously great company) was the chance for me to...
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BRAPA - Mid Wales : Bad Ankle, Good Anchor. (Part 2 of 3)
Sunday dawned bright and sunny in Bwlch-y-Cibau and although Mum decided not to join us (not trusting pub steps, and she can't put any weight on her sprained ankle, though we did try to twist her arm...
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