Saturday 25th November 10:59am A second BRAPA trip in four months to the generous pub town of Stourbridge was the latest step towards a...

Thursday 23rd November 2023, 2pm It was with a genuine sense of trepidation that I embarked on this difficult leg of my DuMuP (Durham Mop...

Saturday 18th November 2023, 12:08pm Daddy BRAPA Lincolnshire Car Day. Are there five happier words in the English language? Those days...

Saturday 11th November, 11:59am Lurking on a splintery bench in a sunny sleepy churchyard, crows cawing high above, you find BRAPA and...

Friday 10th November 12:35pm Ribbit! All aboard the Village Hopper on the penultimate day of my time in Northamptonshire, a county that...

Never before seen blogging on a Saturday morning. But I thought I'd make the most of this rare opportunity. Thursday 9th November 2023...

Wednesday 8th November 2023, 11:15am A second visit to Kettering in a BRAPA guise. Grey, raining, slightly desolate, with some of the...

Tuesday 7th November 2023, 2:35pm Cordwainer, Northampton (2508 / 4666) The final BRAPA holiday of 2023 started, as so many great...

Just off out for a friend's Birthday do so clicking the 'Publish' button on this one earlier tonight ..... Thursday 2nd November, 3:59pm...

Greetings from a frosty York, I'm not looking forward to getting up at 6:30am tomorrow, to be on a 7:30am train I'm not really booked on,...

Saturday 28th October 2023, 10:52am With my train back to York due out of New Street at 5pm prompt, I decided to keep it strictly...

Friday 27th October, 11:21am Word up! After two of the consistantly strongest pub days in BRAPA history, it was time to head north out...

Thursday 26th October, 12:46pm Slept in, skipped breakfast, had shower but still felt grubby not being in my first pub til nearly 1pm. ...

Wednesday 25th October, 2:31pm The beauty of Walsall. High on the BRAPA agenda for many years now, and by the end of my four days here,...

Saturday 21st October, 10:38am "DO NOT TRAVEL UNLESS YOUR JOURNEY IS ESSENTIAL!" comes the LNER announcements every five minutes,...

Thursday 19th October, 10:00am My first thought upon waking up in one of those super soft Lenny Henry approved beds in Bradford's premier...

Wednesday 18th October 2023, 17:30 From York to L**ds to Shipley, and then straight onto a bus bound for the suburban village of Thackley...

Saturday 14th October, 11:43am It wouldn't be the beginning a BRAPA pub ticking season without an excitable phone call to Daddy B. about...

Thursday 12th October 2023, 12:47pm From Islington to Armthorpe. Just like that. Only in the world of BRAPA. A first trip to this...

Saturday 7th October, 10am Time rarely drags more than when I'm waiting for that first pub of the day to open, as happened to me and...