Some cracking pubs in Berwick-Upon-Tweed!
Come On You Hatters!
BTW, please see my thread elsewhere, which may or may not be relevant to this discussion.
Come On You Hatters!
Last edited by Mobyduck; 24-03-2014 at 15:41.
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields
Northampton's an interesting idea, and fairly easy to get to from Manchester, Liverpool or Sheffield, though the journey starts to take on nightmare proportions for anyone coming from the direction of Leeds.
Derby is obviously much more accessible from all over the country and is chock full of great pubs. The idea of rotating North/Midlands/South is superficially attractive from the point of view of sharing the pain, but to say, for example, that Worcester is in the Midlands, therefore we can't do Derby next doesn't make too much sense to me.
I would consider Bristol, Oxford or St Albans as doable by train from Sheffield, but then I'm a bit of a pub crawl nut and would go stupid distances for a day out in a good real ale town. The first two named also have quite reasonable trains to/from Manchester & Liverpool. I wouldn't particularly want to do Cambridge though, unless Luton Town happened to be playing there too.
Come On You Hatters!
I have looked at doing Northampton has i have never been there,the last time i tried we were given a police escort away from the town because we were football supporters.
I found the ticket prices from both Nottingham and Derby far too much to get there,i even tried Birmingham to Northampton from both New Street and Moor Street,but it still cost £16 return from Birmingham.
I only posted this to try and help out.
I've twice set out on London Midland Great Escape, intending a Rugby-Northampton combo, but trains and time conspired against on each occasion meaning Northampton is still virgin territory for me.
Think I only had 3 pubs on my list there though - I wouldn't imagine it to be a single destination mission for discerning PGers?