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BRAPA in .... TICK ME ABY ONE MORE TIME (LINCS LOVE IN LOUTH PT 1/2)
The latest leg of my quest for a full Lincolnshire completion by the end of the 2023/24 season took another step in the right direction,...

Si Everitt
Aug 21, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... COMETH THE STOUR(BRIDGE), COMETH THE PUBMAN
The West Midlands. Is there a better county/area when it comes to pub ticking? An area that just delivers time and time again. ...

Si Everitt
Aug 16, 20237 min read
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BRAPA is .... TICKING AT BRECKNOCK SPEED (East Sussex 4/4)
There are some truly gorgeous Harvey's pubs out there, and a short shuffle from Frant station took me to the Brecknock Arms, Bells Yew...

Si Everitt
Aug 13, 20236 min read
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BRAPA in .... TICKING THE SQUIRREL IS ONLY HALF THE BATTLE (EAST SUSSEX 3/4)
Day 3, and it was time to ascend the crazy wooden staircase from Bedfordshire (Rye) for another day of cheeky Kentish / East Sussex Good...

Si Everitt
Aug 11, 20236 min read
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BRAPA in .... HOW FAR TO SNARGATE? (Kent & East Sussex Day 2/4)
A bracing walk along the B2080 was the perfect tonic to clear any morning-after-the-night-before cobwebs. With the train to Appledore...

Si Everitt
Aug 10, 20235 min read
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BRAPA .... A TICK AND A TICKLE IN ICKLESHAM (EAST SUSSEX 1/4)
Four days to get stuck to East Sussex, one of those counties I've criminally neglected over the years. I had my train snacks and was...

Si Everitt
Aug 9, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... WHAT'S YOUR KINK IN LINCS?
1st July 2023, and six spanktastic new pubs to review in brief, otherwise it's gonna be bloody Christmas before I get caught up on the...

Si Everitt
Aug 7, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... YOU ARE THE WYMONDHAM BENEATH MY WINGS
I was entering the death throes of my five day jaunt to Norfolk/Suffolk, with three pubs to tackle before the journey home. Could Great...

Si Everitt
Aug 6, 20234 min read
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BRAPA .... BIZARRENESS IN YARMOUTH
Before we get onto Great Yarmouth, I was roaming the seedy streets of Lowestoft in search of my third and final tick on a grey Tuesday...

Si Everitt
Aug 2, 20234 min read
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BRAPA is .... KESSING(LAND) WITH CONFIDENCE
Southwold had put on a good show on its BRAPA debut, but it was time to hop back on that bumpy bus in a Lowestofterly direction, a couple...

Si Everitt
Aug 1, 20235 min read
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BRAPA .... MONTH END REVIEW : JULY 2023
Good evening pub fans. We're reaching the business end of the 2022/23 pub ticking season, August being the last full month with this...

Si Everitt
Jul 31, 20233 min read
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BRAPA is .... SETTING THE BAR LOW-ESTOFT
Bungay didn't feel particularly remote, in fact it had a nice selection of well tarmacked roads going east and west. But there was...

Si Everitt
Jul 30, 20235 min read
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BRAPA is having a .... BUNGAY BUNGAY PARTY
But before I went the full Berlusconi , it was time for the flipside of my Diss track, the highly pre-emptive local POTY Ampersand Brew...

Si Everitt
Jul 26, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... IF YOU TOLERATE DISS, THEN YOUR CHILDREN WILL DRINK BECKS
Finally using the blog title that's been in my head for about the last five years .... although I've blabbed to half of you already on...

Si Everitt
Jul 25, 20236 min read
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BRAPA in ..... ALL ACE TOURS END AT THE RACEHORSE
If the Star at Wenhaston was tucked deep in the secluded Suffolk countryside, well baby I just ain't seen n... n... nothing yet (not a...

Si Everitt
Jul 24, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... WENHAS(TON) PUB TICKING EVER BEEN THIS MUCH FUN?
Insane that a pub this large could make me feel so hemmed in, so stifled, so trapped, but that is what happened during a miserable half...

Si Everitt
Jul 23, 20235 min read
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BRAPA in .... YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' ELY-ING
I think it was Noel Coward who once remarked "the most flamboyant and farcical plays of our times have their roots firmly planted deep...

Si Everitt
Jul 21, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... A FINE MESSINGHAM YOU'VE GOTTEN ME INTO
6:10pm on a Saturday, only four pubs into the day, because Lincolnshire is a different animal. The kind of six toed (don't mention toes)...

Si Everitt
Jul 19, 20234 min read
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BRAPA is in .... RURAL LINCS PUBS AND 'WILLINGHAM' TO IMPROVE
"If you were a murderer on the run, you could do a lot worse than hide here!" says Daddy BRAPA, as we drive through the isolated village...

Si Everitt
Jul 17, 20235 min read
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BRAPA in .... CHEWY LEWES & THE BOOZE
With Eastbourne done for the day, the only remaining question was 'where to go for two more ticks?' I considered Polegate, I considered...

Si Everitt
Jul 16, 20234 min read
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