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CASUAL SEXISM IN SUBURBAN BUCHAREST
October 2025. Bucharest. The last of the Bucharest posts, you’ll be delighted to know. If nothing else, Mrs RM will find them useful when she comes to her own more forensic blog and wonders&n…
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ADMISSION : I ACCEPTED A TASTER AT HOP HOOLIGANS
October 2025. Bucharest. We concluded the quartet of Bucharest taprooms at Hop Hooligans in the (relatively) genteel suburbs east of the University. Yes, a gorgeous looking home for Romania’s…
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Bucharest Café society
October 2025. Bucharest. More cultural and culinary highlights from our 3rd day in Bucharest, as we leave the unprepossessing surrounds of the Ironic Tap, and stumble upon this; “Don’t …
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Barry White the star of the new Matlock GBG tick, the ultra-cheery Remarkable Hare, where "tables obscuring the path to the bar" make a reappearance.
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TURNING STRAWBERRIES INTO BEARS. TICKING BUCHAREST
October 2025. Bucharest. Mrs RM had devised an ingenious plan to get me to trudge round Bucharest in the drizzle taking photos of Instagrammable sights on our 3rd day. Her blog posts will no doubt …
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Caru’ cu Bere. Your must visit for pork knuckle in Bucharest.
October 2025. Bucharest. Friday was the Big Tourist Tick Day in Bucharest, and Mrs RM had targeted Caru’ cu Bere as the must visit Romania restaurant. And not just because it was close to Gro…
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MEETING YOUNG BOYS (BERN) AT GROUND ZERO
October 2025. Bucharest. Six hours on the Bucharest tourist trail, time for a beer. Luckily for Mrs RM, a brand new bar awaited yards from our coach drop-off. Seven years on from our first trip, th…
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GOLDEN BATHROOMS AND PARLIAMENTARY WHITE ELEPHANTS. A TOURIST DAY IN BUCHAREST
October 2025. Bucharest. “All I remember about that first Bucharest trip is your ****ing craft beer pubs” said Mrs RM angrily. Somewhat unfair, as I distinctly recall it was her making …
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Tadcaster(a).
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Grand Café Van Gogh, Bucharest
October 2025. Bucharest. Romania. Yes ! It’s those forrin muck posts you love ! It’s Mrs RM’s fault. With her parents in T’ Wells heading downhill she’s taking every o…
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THE SHEFFIELD HALF PINT MARATHON. A BIT OF A SPRINT AT THE END
September 2025. Sheffield. You’ll remember (well, Russ will, he takes notes) that I’d started the Sheffield Half Pint Marathon in full Bass Star kit, spraining a metaphorical ankle by l…
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TO CASTLETON, IN HOPE RATHER THAN EXPECTATION
September 2025. Hope to Castleton. Ooh, a tourist pub ! You’d be surprised how few GBG entries there are in the Peak District, with the towns on the edge hogging the entries over the years. B…
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That Bathams is crystal clear !
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Vault, tap room or snug?
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Batham’s Bitter, The Vine / Bull & Bladder (Brierley Hill)
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YOUR CLOSEST GBG PUB TO THE CAMBRIDGE PUNTS
September 2025. Cambridge. The town of my birth, if not my heart, was experiencing a quiet period in the week before the students return. Cambridge gets steady Asian trade, most of which succumbs t…
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ATHERSTONE – A SLIGHT RETURN. (iii) HAUTE CUISINE
September 2025. Atherstone. One thing about Old Mudgie, he’ll make sure there’s a lunch stop on your pub crawl. What he couldn’t have foreseen was that the White Horse, under new …
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ATHERSTONE – A SLIGHT RETURN. (ii) MAID OF THE MILL
September 2025. Atherstone. Just like Oasis, our revival of August’s massively successful Atherstone crawl was a re-run of the big hits, just with better-looking participants. We start off at…
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This latest blog takes a trip to Merseyside....
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Sunlight Over The Mersey....
As the weather has got colder and damper, and the nights have got longer, here is a flashback to the hot days of summer when a few of us vis...
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ATHERSTONE – A SLIGHT RETURN. (i) HERITAGE
September 2025. Atherstone. Barely a month after the official CAMRA curated exploration of Atherstone’s public houses, we were back at Warwickshire’s most beguiling small market town. T…
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MUSICAL DIFFERENCES
September 2025. Crookes. Two ticks on the Sheffield half-pint marathon, a clever device to get you out of the house in a quiet September visiting pubs. As if I need an excuse. Crookes is a decently…
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PIE NIGHT 🥧 AT THE PUNCH BOWL
September 2025. Sheffield. A lot of short posts, as I don’t want to keep you from Strictly Come Dancing or Softly Softly repeats or whatever you lot watch on telly. Back in Sheffield, I decid…
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INTO BATLEY
September 2025. Batley. The suburban towns of Leeds aren’t undiscovered gems, but I really ought to have a better understanding of places like Batley, back with a GBG newbie this year. Ten mi…
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GATECRASHING BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN THE PETERBOROUGH SUBURBS
September 2025. Werrington. Peterborough. Another year, another micropub in the suburbs of Peterborough, which could really do with something new and exciting in the city centre so I can bore you w…
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HAVE YOU THOUGHT OF THE “C” WORD YET ?
September 2025. Bury St Edmunds. It’s hard to tire of Bury St Edmunds warren of streets, though the crowds tend to head to the string of cafes leading to the Abbey, leaving the timber for the…
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