"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.
When on the verge of booking tickets to Bath (click now to buy), something about the previous day's conversation about ludicrous RU play-offs sprang to mind. Sure enough, Bath vs Leicester Sat 17:00.
I'm sure it would be a good craic but I haven't toured Bath's pubs, and want to see them in a less, presumably, rammed situation.
Re-routing to Farnham, with a warm up at Alton's Railway Arms, fff...
As a geneally annual visitor to the Rec when my team are in town I can concur that it is usually only the pubs close to the ground (mainly those near the Parade Gardens) that you have to worry about, and obviously The Boater on Argyle Street, which is the unofficial Bath RFC Club house due to its proximity and the steps down to the River which make it the nearest pub to the ground entrance.
And you only have to worry for the couple of hours before kick off as the ground only has a small capacity (by modern premiership standards ) and its quite a family orientated club which means people tend to aim for the restaurants in townafter the game instead large groups of blokes continuing to tank it up..
Work is the curse of the drinking Class - Oscar Wilde
Alerting all West Midlands contributors,the annual weeks booze cruise on the good ship Ramesses II will be visiting the following venues on these evenings
Friday 26th June -- Birmingham
Sat 27th -- Walsall
Sun 28th -- Wolverhampton
Mon 29th -- Dudley
Tue 30th -- Stourbridge
Wed 1st July -- Wolverhampton (different set of pubs)
Thurs 2nd -- Stafford
Friday 3rd -- Stone
There will also be some lunchtime stops,so if anyone is up for a few ales with the four man crew,or even a bit of daytime boating around the BCN and neighbouring canals please just let me know.
"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson
Great to see you, the crew and Andy Ven for a few on Saturday - look forward to your next trip up.
MILD:
Well, the Clangers have returned to TV!
I retired from pub reviewing not from pubs - mainly due to work issues and I started to write my own local history blog (with several pub articles). I also follow PG on Twitter and would like to make a 'gathering' one day. I was up in Liverpool a few weeks back, taking some 'yam-yam' to Real Ale Ray land!
The Dispensary is class - mainly as there are no
MILD:
'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.