Nice places to drink in Regensburg, East Bavaria
Regensburg is one of my favourite cities. It’s beautiful (a medieval bridge and town centre spanning the Danube) with an oddly “Latin” feel. Apparently it’s known as “the northernmost city of Italy”,...
View ArticleNice pubs near stations #1: Victoria Station, London
Also available at Blackwell’s, Foyle’s and Waterstones. UPDATE APRIL 2012: These days, if you’re at Victoria, you’re fifteen minutes’ walk from Cask, arguably London’s best pub. I thought it would be...
View ArticleNice places to drink in Nuremberg, Franconia, Germany
Franconia has only been part of Bavaria since the early 19th Century, and apparently “many of its people do not consider themselves fully ‘Bavarian’ “. Well, that’s the kind of guff Lonely Planet comes...
View ArticleNice places to drink in Westminster, London
There are no nice places to drink in Westminster. Joking aside, Westminster is one of the biggest tourist destinations in Britain, so most of the visible pubs are tourist traps selling “traditional...
View ArticleNice place (singular) to drink near Paddington Station
On my way down to the West Country last night, I ended up stuck at Paddington Station for a few hours. London stations are generally horrid, and pubs in London stations are both horrid and depressing....
View ArticleI wish I was in Cologne
It’s Shrove Tuesday (aka Pancake Day). I love pancakes, don’t get me wrong. But isn’t Shrove Tuesday in Britain a pretty tame celebration, compared to the multi-day benders that go on in many parts of...
View ArticleYork — a great city for beer
If you like beer, York is a great place to spend a few days. And that doesn’t just apply to fans of real ale. From our experience, you can’t go too far wrong following your instincts in York — if it...
View ArticleDrinking in Heidelberg
Anyone who tells you that Britain has some kind of monopoly on binge drinking and rowdiness obviously hasn’t been to this borderline twee university city. Perhaps it was the football, or maybe the warm...
View ArticlePembrokeshire – great place for walking and drinking
The Griffin Inn, Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales The Pembrokeshire coast path, in South Wales, features 186 miles of gorgeous cliffs, hidden bays — and the occasional wonderful pub. I don’t mean that there...
View ArticleMore good pubs opening than closing
It turns out we’ve now got four pubs serving decent and interesting beer within a ten minute walk of our house. We’re spoiled. The Old Rose and Crown on Hoe Street in Walthamstow, in east London, used...
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