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NO WAKE AT THE HEREWARD FOR THE REV
November 2025. Ely. Two hours to kill in a freezing Ely before the 3 hours back to Sheffield, with all the pubs that would have offered warmth and comfort packed with a Christmas market crowd. Cele…
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November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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New Post - Only 10 more pints for a free Carlsberg.
Pint of Carlsberg with collectors card at front Exterior of Townhouse pub in Ely View of lager fonts on bar of Townhouse pub in Ely
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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WHEN A CARLSBERG WILL HAVE TO DO
November 2025. Ely. A late lunch in Ely before the cheapest rail fare back to Sheffield (Again. And repeat). It’s a good job the trains are always late; Delay Repay is main source of income t…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, NORTH WALSHAM (NCSS 3.5)
November 2025. North Walsham. Norfolk. Obviously if this were a beer blog I’d have followed my new North Walsham tick with a return to the excellent Hop, but ChatGPT tells me that 137.2% of m…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Lone new Norwich GBG26 tick.
Hop Pocket is a cracker.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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TOP 100 PUBS – THE PEASANTS’ TAVERN, NORTH WALSHAM
November 2025. North Walsham. Norfolk. Next up, an instant classic in rural Norfolk. No, really. The Peasants’ Tavern is Norwich & District CAMRA Pub of the Year, open Noon till 11pm all …
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November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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An unsung gem of the Norfolk Broads ?

Your 300 word guide to North Walsham.
Sculpture of decorated pig, North Walsham Thatched kebab house Town centre, North Walsham Mural of Lauren Hemp, behind scaffolding
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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NEXT STOP, NORTH WALSHAM
November 2025. North Walsham. Norfolk. A first visit to North Walsham (pop. 12, 829) since 2018, a good year for City fans. Manchester City fans, that is. The half hour trip from Norwich was &#8220…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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19 MINUTES BETWEEN TRAINS AT NORWICH STATION ? COACH & HORSES THEN…
November 2025. Norwich. 3 visits to Dad in his care home this week, he’s barely woken when I’m there but he grips my hand which is enough. I took a trip out to Norfolk on Friday, someon…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Wow. In 45 years of regular gig going that's the quietest reverential audience.

The wonderful Annahstasia at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds tonight.
Annahstasia performing at the Brudenell in Leeds
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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ALL THE CHINESE TAKEAWAYS IN CAMBRIDGE No. 1 – LAN HONG HOUSE
I recommend this guy on Instagram (great name). He answers questions about life, the universe and everything from his sofa. “What’s important, Martin ?” Well, obviously for me, it…
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November 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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New Post celebrates Cambridge's Symphony in Brow.
Pint of Abbot in the Champ Interior of the Champ showing bench seating Exterior of the Champ showing pub sign
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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See !
Spoons can do lacings.
Wobbly Bob, Crossed Shuttle Pudsey
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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TOWN OR GOWN ? THE CHAMPION OF THE THAMES
November 2025. Cambridge. Never change, King Street. A row of cars competing for penalty charges on one of the parking lanes closest to town. I laughed about it with a lad coming out of the Prince …
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November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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What you might call an imposing looking pub, Skehans, SE14, London.
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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New in Cambridge, The Handsome Prince. Your King Street run now includes an Imperial stout.
Exterior of the Handsome Prince, all pale blue and golden orange light. Long trestle table and wall art inside the Imperial Prince. Half pint glass of pale beer in Handsome Prince glass.
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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THE HANDSOME PRINCE, CAMBRIDGE
November 2025. Cambridge. Forgive the dull blog title; I’m just back in Sheffield from Rye (via Waterbeach) and a bit brain dead after the UK’s slowest rail journey, in which the train …
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November 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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SUPPING SUSSEX IN THE SWAN
November 2025. Lewes. Back from Newhaven to Lewes for a fourth new GBG tick by 3pm. Four in the bag so early in the week used to set me up for those 20 pub weeks that BRAPA knocks off on the way to…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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New Post - Sussex by the Sea. Harvey's in Newhaven.
Exterior of the Bridge pub in Newhaven. The river into Newhaven Pint of Harvey's Old
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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A HARVEY’S OLD IN NEWHAVEN
November 2025. Newhaven. East Sussex. There’s a lot of dashing around at the moment, multiple rail journeys planned, some mobile tickets, some you have to print out (why ?) and then you miss …
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November 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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A FAREWELL TO GRUBBS
November 2025. Brighton 2 pints before 12.30, and no breakfast. Bad idea, right ? Time for something healthy like a burger. I could have popped in one of the North Laines GBG pubs for grub, the Nel…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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New Post - Another backstreet Brighton cracker.
Door to the Public bar of the Great Eastern in Brighton with light behind.
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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PUBLIC BAR, THE GREAT EASTERN
November 2025. Brighton. Can’t help feeling that an hour and two pints in Brighton then back to the station is poor form, I didn’t even see the seaside, but it’s dark by 4 and I h…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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BRIGHTON, WITHOUT THE SPOONS VOUCHERS (but Jaipur still only £2.25 a pint)
November 2025. Brighton. A few new GBG entries along the Sussex coast, so let’s follow up Eastbourne and St Leonards with everyone’s favourite bit of London-by-the-Sea. Brighton feels a…
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November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Why You Should Visit Pristina: Kosovo’s Surprising Coffee-Fuelled Capital
Europe's newest capital, Pristina, intrigued me long before I arrived, and after exploring Kosovo's biggest city, it still does. If you imagined Pristina would be beige or boring because the “things t...
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November 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM