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BRAPA in ..... THE TAMAR OF THE FEW : Cornish Holiday Pt 2/10
All systems go for my return to Cornish pub ticking .... could this be the year I finally achieve a fully green county?  It was looking quite promising before I'd even started :Having been down here...
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BRAPA in ..... MINOR RUIN AT RUAN MINOR (Cornwall Pt 3/10)
Up and in the shower at 4:30am on the Monday morning. If you want to achieve pub ticking greatness, these are the hours you sometimes have to keep!Not that I did achieve greatness mind, but as they...
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BRAPA ..... GETS HIS BLUE PETER BADGE / SHIP AHOY IN FOWEY (CORNWALL PART 4/10)
A bit of a downcast Cauli early on - he wanted a pain au chocolat, he got raspberriesTuesday morning found me in Truro, the Cornish capital and easily my favourite inland Cornwall place, not that...
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BRAPA in ..... WAKE CRASHER (Cornwall Holiday Part 5/10)
I'm not a religious man by any means, but as I sat in a Launceston churchyard at 11:30am on Day 5 of this most bonkers holiday in Cornwall, I looked up to the heavens and prayed for an easier day than...
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BRAPA is in ..... THE DOOM BASS REGION (Cornwall Holiday Part 6/10)
It was a relief to be away from the Rising Sun in Altarnun, where the wake was still in full swing. Has there ever been a more painful, toe curling tick in BRAPA history? I cannot recall one.  This...
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BRAPA is ..... RUNNING UP THAT HILL (TO THE BUSH INN) : Cornwall Holiday Pt 7/10
 "And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God (or Jimmy Case), and I'd get him to swap our places. I'm running up that road, I'm running up that hill, I'm running to that building (Bush pub)"Kate...
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BRAPA in ..... KINGSAND QUEENS & HIGHLIGHT GREENS (Cornwall Holiday Part 8/10)
After the rigours of Bude and Launceston over the last two days, I thought I'd keep it local on day seven of my nine day epic quest to get a fully green Cornwall (Scilly notwithstanding due to BRAPA...
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BRAPA in ..... DAFT SOULS IN CRAFTHOLE (Cornwall Summer Holiday Part 9/10)
 "Five more, we've only got five more, so go on BRAPA tick, not including the Isles of Sic (sic)".There have been better football chants written, let's face it, it is Isles of Sil anyway. But this was...
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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW (JULY '22)
A bit of breaking news to start with (quite literally) as my Good Beer Guide front cover is hanging on by a thread .....Even more worrying, the binding is slightly coming apart too. Expect to see a...
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BRAPA is .... FROG HOPPING TO SPINGO LAND (CORNWALL PART 10/10)
The day of judgement was finally upon us. The last day of my Cornish holiday and with only TWO pubs needed, it looked a doddle, on paper at least.  South Petherwin (just south of Launceston) and...
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BRAPA in ..... DARWEN'S BEERY OF BRAPTUAL SELECTION (& AN OTTER FAREWELL)
Here are the five steps of Darwin's guide to pub ticking for any scholar's out there:Variation - a nice mixture of pubs. Heritage, micros, 'Spoons, dining monstrosities. They help keep the blogging...
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BRAPA .... MORE HOTCH-POTCH THAN TOP NOTCH IN ROCH(DALE)
With the heat ramping up in readiness for the record breaking temperatures a week from now, I found myself in Rochdale for a Saturday six tick extravaganza.  Daddy BRAPA was here, and so too, was third...
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BRAPA in ...... GORTON & THE WELLIES : Annual Summer Outing 2022
Flowery Field was the starting point for a Saturday Super Six ticks in the 'burbs of Greater Manchester.Time for a song?  'Welcome all to my Flowery Field / With the dandelion clocks and the cowslip...
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BRAPA is ..... BISPHAM GREENED (IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN)
 Colin returned from his long post-Cornwall layoff for a rare Thirsty Thursday appearance. He needs an eye operation for cauli cataracts, but that would happen soon.We'd said farewell to KLO three...
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BRAPA in ..... DARTFORD GENERAL ADMIN /ANOTHER FOOT IN THE GRAVE-SEND
I'm perhaps at my most anxious on a pub ticking day when confronted with a GBG Club.  You just don't know what you are going to get. A grilling from the staff.  A need to show your GBG or a CAMRA...
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BRAPA is ..... TICKING THE COL WAY ON SOLWAY : Cumbrian Adventures Part 1/4
The youngest BRAPA highlighter in history picks up the Stabilo in HaytonThe bank owed me two June Thirsty Thursdays which I'd agreed to work to cover some Calypso testing. I won't go into detail, but...
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BRAPA in ..... IT'S A HARDKNOTT LIFE (Cumbria Part 2 of 4)
Thanks to Cannock Chase CAMRA for the blog title, your BRAPA cheque book and pen will be ready to collect next time I tick off a Cannock pub in 2027.Ravenglass to Boot. The La'al Ratty steam railway....
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BRAPA is .... CRAVIN' WHITEHAVEN : Cumbria Part 3 of 4
I thought I was pretty bloody clever finding a 'Calderbridge solution', one of my trickier remaining Cumbrian ticks. So on a sunny Friday morning, I once more took the train from Carlisle along that...
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BRAPA is .... WALKIN' TO TALKIN (Cumbrian Adventures Part 4/4)
Never have I felt less motivated for a day's pub ticking in BRAPA's 8.5 year history.But a mental and physical lethargy had well and truly swept over me when I woke on Saturday 29th July, the last of...
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BRAPA in .... THE PUNK ROCK ALPHABET (BACK IN BLACKPOOL : PART 1 OF 4)
 Wednesday 3rd August 5pm, all aboard the Blackpool North bound Northern Fail stopper for my 19th (nineteenth!) trip to Rebellion Punk Festival (previously of Morecambe and known as 'Holidays in the...
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