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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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