Sunday 19th October 2025 'Spoons vouchers at the ready as I embark on a six day tick-a-thon of Greater Glasgow and the Clyde Valley, with a view to Ayrshire if things went really well. Various levels of excitement, anticipation and anxiety always precede a BRAPA holiday, but for this I was '100% buzzing' as unlike say Norfolk or Cornwall, transport links and pub opening times are plentiful and kind. With local lad Owlie McBurnie ready for his homecoming of sorts (hailing from

Saturday September 13th 2025 To recap from part one, I was in Scotland (Melrose to be precise) on a long enforced weekend due to train disruption. I'd just had my first sighting of the new 2026 Good Beer Guide pages for Borders and Edinburgh. And perhaps most thrillingly of all, FIVE consecutive pints of high quality Scottish cask, a new BRAPA record .... Make that SIX as the Tempest Armadillo is on fine form, as it had been in Alnwick a year ago. I'd also had it at the fi

The Maltmeister wagon chugs south from Henleaze to Bedminster, a Bristol 'burb perilously close to Ashton Gate, home of today's game...

Thursday 7th August 2025 "Wot, no hot chocolate?" #ThirstyThursdays are becoming more elaborate as we reach the business end of the pub...

Saturday 31st May 2025 Gawd bless those close-season Saturday LNER trips daaahhnn saaarrf. Zero threat of encountering a carriage full...

Wednesday 30th April 2025 With the exception of Somerset and Gloucestershire, I went into this seven day birthday ticking bonanza with...

Saturday 8th March 2025 Looking south towards Worcestershire might sound like crazy talk when you're booked down to Brum New Street with...

Saturday 1st March 2025 Three years to the day since the scariest BRAPA walk of all time, when I nearly put the 'gore' into Bransgore...

Saturday 21st December 2024, 9:30am Ho, ho, bloomin' ho! You find me deep in the London Underground, ready to embark on a trip all the...