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BRAPA - January Review / February Preview (2017 Edition)
It's been a liver-busting, kidney aching, bowel crunching BRAPA January, and I'm currently undergoing something of a mini-detox as a result! Â 37 GBG pubs plus 1 pre-emptive were 'ticked off', which is...
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BRAPA - Finishing Berkshire, and a bit of Bucks
I arrived empty handed, I left with Leffe and Ullage magazines.It was a very painful journey down to Kings Cross on my now regular 07:01 train. Â For some boring train engineery reason, we took an hour...
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BRAPA - Back in the Bradford
In that formative year in BRAPA history (2014 to be precise), it felt like I was never out of Bradford pub-ticking, but since an amazing trip Jacobs Beer House on 4th November that year, I've not had...
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BRAPA - North Yorkshire : Even More Ales in the Dales
'Twas a windswept, wintry day up on t' hills, the kind of day where you wonder how on earth you would cope without BRAPA chauffeur extraordinaire B.G. Everitt, and the kind of day where the hamlets,...
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BRAPA - Skipton's Three Links Club
A lot of the remaining Yorkshire pubs I need to visit have weird opening hours, hence why I'm doing the odd bonus BRAPA on a Friday or Sunday in attempt to finish god's own county. Â Of course, if there...
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BRAPA - The Romance of Emley
If all BRAPA nights were like this one, I'd readily admit defeat on my pub-ticking mission, retire, and instead do something more serene, like visiting all Norman churches in England, or becoming a...
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BRAPA - Ackworth & Hemsworth Fun Friday
Friday night fun in AckworthYou know the weekend is finally here when you land in Fitzwilliam station, only to be told by Google Maps (which loves a joke at my expense) that you are to walk 1.8 miles...
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BRAPA - More from the Moors
Saturday morning and for once, Mr Sat Nav wasn't the main source of our frustration as we journeyed north through the beautiful North Yorkshire Moors, past Malton and Pickering - today it was "Mr...
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BRAPA - Kirkheaton / Si's Bathroom Nightmares
You couldn't blame me for missing the bus stop in Kirkheaton. Â I'd had a crazy day, firstly winning the "Yorkshire Bank BRAPA Employee of the Month" award, then my bathroom people confessed I had no...
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BRAPA - The Return of Hebden Bridge
When the first green haired, pagan, vegan, lesbian settlers came to Hebden Bridge in the year 1510, bringing with them a hippie culture, the ability to open shops selling crystals and incense for...
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BRAPA - From Dukinfield to Slaithwaite
If anyone tells you they've visited Dukinfield, or that they even know where it is, then they are lying. Â They are probably trying to impress you, but as I walked through the grey drizzly windswept...
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BRAPA - Saltburn and Staithes (BRAPA-by-the-Sea)
I was nervous as I walked through Saltburn on Sunday morning, one of the North Yorkshire's most underrated coastal towns in my opinion. Â This club just HAD to be open. Â How else would I fulfil my Mum's...
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BRAPA - February Review / March Preview
Icy roads of rural North Yorkshire, a common BRAPA scene in Feb.24Â new Good Beer Guide pubs and 1 pre-emptive was a return I could never have dreamt of when the month started. Â Despite my optimistic...
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BRAPA - Wonderful Warrington : Part One
A hastily arranged day off work and overnight stopover took me to Warrington for the first time in my life, being a town that doesn't have a football team though I did almost consider stopping off here...
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BRAPA : Wonderful Warrington : Part Two
1046. Â Looking Glass, WarringtonLike all good Wetherspoons clientele, I sloped out of bed at 9am, scratched my bum, yawned, and crawled past the bus station to join the old couples, shopping Mums and...
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BRAPA - A Day of Two Halves in Leiceister (not in the beer sense!)
Why have I never FULLY enjoyed any of my 7 trips to Leicester? Â I can't blame them for Hull City's usual inability to 'perform' here, but the pubs and the general lack of warmth and 'giving' from the...
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BRAPA - Bucks Part 1 : Outer MK? Yes Way!
Classic train toilet humourHaving completed Berkshire last month, it was time to get cracking on the next alphabetical county in the Good Beer Guide, Buckinghamshire. Â I'd already made a solid start...
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BRAPA - Half of Southport
The NFFD (Non Football Football Day) took us further than ever before, Southport, despite the national weather forecast telling me that it'd only be horrendous if you went to a north western seaside...
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BRAPA - Putting West Yorkshire to Bed! Sandbeds. And Keighley.
After a traumatic day at work where I first walked through a blizzard, and then found out in a nerve-wracking redundancy meeting that I WILL be keeping my job after all (almost a shame as Tom had...
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BRAPA - The Frustrations of North Yorkshire
So this was the weekend when I would finally finish my home county of North Yorkshire (or so I thought), after almost three years of dedicated effort, missed buses, chauffering genius, Theakstons,...
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