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...

Thursday 5th October, 3pm. New ticks in Barnsley, Huddersfield and Sheffield City Centre? I thought I was supposed to be some kind of...

Good evening Friends of the BRAP, This is my favourite time of year. Bonfires burning bright, pumpkin faces in the night, red and brown...

Saturday 30th September, and what a month it had been. 56 ticks and 5 more today made it 61. And most pleasing of all, a generous new...

Thursday 28th September, the official release date of the 2024 Good Beer Guide. The churn™ had been 4% kinder to me than in 2022, and...

Still no 2024 Good Beer Guide sitting on my doormat when I returned home from Dundee on Saturday 16th September, and this was still the...

So here we are, the top eight pub experiences of my week in Scotland ..... 8. Ship Inn, Broughty Ferry (visited Thursday 14th September...