The focus of my trip was to be in attendance at Craft Beer Rising , a beer festival held in the old Truman Brewery Site on Brick Lane in East London. Thursday morning I walked to the station , stopping to procure a crab sandwich. A lot of negative things get said about English food…
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Travel :Beer and Cheese in Brum
Weds I took the train to Birmingham where I was to host a beer and cheese tasting organised by my mates from Regional days Helen and Will. They live on a narrow boat currently moored in the canal in Birmingham and Helen is working for Beer Yeti who organised the event. England’s second city is…
Beer: A pint of bitter , a love letter.
In this day, when the NEIPA is increasingly being seen as the more traditional and staid option in a market bursting with milkshake , fruit, brut …bollocks (there is that grumpy old man peeping through, and hypocrite I love some fruit beers!) , I want to write a letter of love to bitter. Now the…
Travel : In the footsteps of Colin, Oxford
Tuesday I took the train to Oxford. Walked from the station into town and located Jesus College which was to be my accommodation for the night. This was to be my geek night . I’m a huge Colin Dexter fan so it was to the pubs of Morse I went. There had been two potential…
Food : Spicy Pickled Eggs
Spicy Pickled Eggs Pickled eggs, now there is a word to get me salivating and to confuse or dismay 90% of my country men and women. I bloody love them but the urban myths and scare stories are rife. Hard boiled eggs pickled in a spicy vinegar solution are a match made in heaven for…
Travel : Chasing ancestral ghosts in Salcombe
After a quick breakfast I met Joe and Adrian outside my hotel and set off for the South Hams area where my Moore side ancestors lived. We drove initially on motorways but were soon on country lanes. We had a slow cruise through Totnes complete with “Bogan House” , the humour of which was lost…
Travel : Devon , Land of my forebearers
Sunday I set off on my West Country trip. A train into London ,a quick stop at M&S for train picnic supplies and train beers. Then it was off to the land of my forbearers. The trip through lush beautiful Dorset and Devonshire countryside was great, as was the M&S cheese and onion sandwich and…
Travel : White Cliffs of Dover
Saturday was a rest day. Stu , Fritha , Teddy and Sonny and myself headed out to Dover to walk the white cliffs and visit the Battle of Britain memorial. It was a bit chilly on the cliffs but in a very gentle English way. Nothing like a good Cook Straight Southerly. There were Exmoor…
Travel : Soho and Sam Smiths
Friday I caught a train back to London. I headed to Soho and explored the markets and a couple of music stores. I managed to replace my Portishead cds that have become scratched over the last 20 odd years. Then i had a couple of 1/2s in a nice Shepherd Neame pub opposite the Harold…
Travel : Winchester
We got to Winchester late afternoon. Checked into our hotel and headed out to see the town. An old walled city it had plenty of old buildings and plenty of the wall still in place including one of the gates. We said goodbye to Charlie who jumped on a train back to London. Popped into…
Raise the Dawn 