tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post2289338897215222697..comments2024-03-26T09:19:10.810+00:00Comments on BRAPA (British Real Ale Pub Adventure): BRAPA - Berkshire Part 2 (and a bit of Oxfordshire)Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-44155415044378063022016-03-20T20:31:02.084+00:002016-03-20T20:31:02.084+00:00Cheers Tom, found it. Cane End and a 20 min walk,...Cheers Tom, found it. Cane End and a 20 min walk, looks easy from the air! I almost thought it was the same as my Caversham bus for a minute but not quite. Still, I might walk that anyway. Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-20577784685084635452016-03-20T20:02:00.148+00:002016-03-20T20:02:00.148+00:00Gallowstree Common would appear to have a couple o...Gallowstree Common would appear to have a couple of once a day shoppers type affairs. However, the X39/X40 Reading-Oxford service provides an uneven two buses an hour and runs along a main road about a mile away.<br /><br />I think Camersons is just as appropriate for a train that stops at Hartlepuddle. Certainly so if you are having Little Valley on the same company's Drabford via Halifax train.Tom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-62950127006558587832016-03-20T18:02:12.409+00:002016-03-20T18:02:12.409+00:00Taxis are great to get you out of a tricky hole a...Taxis are great to get you out of a tricky hole and sometimes, the taxi drivers give great local knowledge on pubs and which landlords are idiots or any gossip like if there has been a pub murder recently. <br /><br />Gallowstree Common has a nice little bus symbol in the GBG so am thinking it must have a bus route or something that stops very close.<br /><br />Surely something like Double Maxim or Lambtons if it still exists would be more appropriate for a Sunderland service, I poured it into plastic to get rid of some of the fizz which I hate in beer. I needed one of those stirrers! Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-32001791831286095372016-03-14T23:23:30.975+00:002016-03-14T23:23:30.975+00:00I'm pleased and envious that you have never us...I'm pleased and envious that you have never used a taxi. I wish I could say the same. When I'm dictator I might ban them.Tom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-34994718754425644842016-03-14T23:20:17.941+00:002016-03-14T23:20:17.941+00:00Taxi for Tom
I've never actually taken a taxi...Taxi for Tom<br /><br />I've never actually taken a taxi, apart from the water ones in Thailand. Morally wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-59825372316595555022016-03-14T22:45:24.288+00:002016-03-14T22:45:24.288+00:00The machine that Mrs Doyle is given for Newtonmas ...The machine that Mrs Doyle is given for Newtonmas is actually called a Teamaster, designed to take the misery out of making tea. I had to watch the episode to check. It is still very good.<br /><br />Is the barmaid in the Royal Oak a contender for any award?<br /><br />I suspect the Little Valley was in the buffet because it is relatively local to places on the windy Grand Central route to Drabford. I'd have though on a Blunderland train, something like Cameron's Strongarm would be more appropriate. I disapprove of the plastic (drinking vessel in this case but I don't approve of the bog cart either), you should have drunk out of the bottle.<br /><br />I am impressed at being made lead BRAPster on a day when I didn't make it into any English pubs - it is a huge honour.<br /><br />Martin, I'm disappointed with you suggesting a taxi for Gallowstree Common - it is quite near to Sonning which has an excellent bus service and I am currently investigating whether it has a bus of its own.Tom Irvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707212109059322727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-4088691353440683252016-03-13T21:06:05.786+00:002016-03-13T21:06:05.786+00:00That Curmudgeon knows his pubs !
The Gallowstree ...That Curmudgeon knows his pubs !<br /><br />The Gallowstree pub did the best Brakspear I've ever had (NBSS 4.5)- worth a taxi.<br /><br />Well done for walking to the Bell, glad it wasn't all foody when you got there, and congrats on doing all of Tilehurst (unspeakably dull apart from the pubs).<br /><br />Very brave of you visiting Berkshire on a Rugby on TV day.<br /><br />By the way, Doncaster bus station was terrifying in daylight on Friday - you were both right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-75346118483444448902016-03-13T18:05:02.903+00:002016-03-13T18:05:02.903+00:00Gallowstree Common looks a bit inaccessible from H...Gallowstree Common looks a bit inaccessible from Henley without a driver - unlikely to be any PT links.<br /><br />I remember when Henley had at least ten really good Brakspear pubs, plus the Morland pub, the Argyll, complete with tartan wallpaper :-)Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-57513381027165412612016-03-13T16:48:13.960+00:002016-03-13T16:48:13.960+00:00Absolutely! It made me think about how many pubs ...Absolutely! It made me think about how many pubs there used to be like this, whether they were commonplace. <br /><br />Everyone in the Bell was telling me to try the Catherine Wheel in Newbury, or the Castle Tap in Reading on my next trip. <br /><br />Henley only has one at the moment, the Bird in Hand. Sounds good, I wonder if Gallowstree Common is easy to combine with it on the same day?! Si 'BRAPA' Everitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17291680772889990384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677885556404476308.post-84374821793524251542016-03-13T16:41:47.960+00:002016-03-13T16:41:47.960+00:00Good to hear that you enjoyed the Bell at Aldworth...Good to hear that you enjoyed the Bell at Aldworth - one of the country's true classic pubs. <br /><br />"three local old boys in the front bar, they looked like they lived there" - more pubs should have these.<br /><br />When I lived down that way, the Catherine Wheel and especially the John Barleycorn in Goring used to be excellent Brakspear's pubs, but things may have changed since then.<br /><br />The lack of GBG pubs in Henley now is quite striking.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.com