Just back from a few days' holiday, cycling in the Welsh Marches (Shropshire/Powys/Herefordshire) - managed to pick up 20 new pubs to bring my total up to 321. Also photographed quite a few previously photoless pubs in Powys & Herefordshire - hope they'll be enough to get those two counties into the top half of the table.
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A Friday night visiting some Manchester bars that I never go in plus
A trip to Leamington Spa/Warwick/Gloucester yielded 28 new pubs, so I'm now on 183.
I don't think there will be many more this year though.
Last edited by ROBCamra; 04-11-2013 at 08:18.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
A day in London was really a trip to go round the Houses of Parliament, but the organiser took us round 4 Heritage Pubs which were not in the Good Beer Guide, and they were new ones for us, so my total for 2013 is now 84.
Alcohol doesn't solve problems .... but then again, neither does milk.
Billy-no-mates last night so went to Bury Beer Festival in the afternoon.
Then had a crawl round some Bury bars that I hadn't done before and then 5 more in Heywood on the way back.
Another 10 new pubs, so I'm on 193.
Despite not having a target this year I'm very tempted to find a way to get to 200 now.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
An enjoyable voyage up the Ashby Canal has netted quite a few new ones and my total for the year so far is 184,based on the number of new reviews.The Leeds PuG crawl will bring in a few more,but 200 might be a struggle with the boat on very familiar territory,unless I pop down to Cov and am prepared to be brave.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Reached 340 with a few new pubs in Chester prior to the Luton Town game there yesterday. In danger of massively exceeding my recently imposed target of one-per-day for the year.
Luckily I've been to all the pubs on the forthcoming Leeds PuG meet-up.
Come On You Hatters!
That was 94 not 84, and with Leeds and Cheltenham visits this past week I have got to 100. If someone had said I could do that many new ones in a year, I wouldn't have believed it!Originally Posted by gillhalfpint
Alcohol doesn't solve problems .... but then again, neither does milk.
Well the Leeds crawl yielded a mere 3 new pubs for me bringing me up to 196.
No new pubs this weekend as I'm not Billy No Mates on Friday.
I'll have to get inventive and focused to get the extra 4 needed for my 200.
Last edited by ROBCamra; 29-11-2013 at 06:55.
A pub is for life not just for Christmas
Accidentally went in three new ones on the Leeds crawl last Friday: Cross Keys, Red Lion and Ship Inn. On Tuesday before the game in Luton I went to The Painters Arms, which brings me to 349. I've got seven pubs in Cockermouth planned for December, as well as half a dozen in Bawtry, so I really need to slow down if I'm not going to go way over my 365 target.Luckily I've been to all the pubs on the forthcoming Leeds PuG meet-up.
One of my drinking mates reckons that the reason he's not a beer ticker is that if your favourite beer in the whole world is on the bar, but there are five new beers too, you have to "tick" the five rather than drinking your favourite. That's a little how I feel after doing all these "new" pubs this year, so in 2014 I'm going to relax and visit some old favourites. Any "new" pubs that I come across will be ticked, of course, but I'll not go out of my way to get them.
Or at least, not so far out of my way.
Come On You Hatters!
No chance, Will - you will be drunk under a table on John Smith's Smooth cr*p on Jan 2nd!
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