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BRAPA in .... EAST-BOURNE UNDER A PUB SIGN (Part 2/2)
Greetings! And if you read my previous blog, you'll know that I'm down in Eastbourne, or Ocklynge to be precise, where I'd just enjoyed...

Si Everitt
Jul 13, 20234 min read
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BRAPA IN .... IRRATIONAL GRANTHAM / EASTBOURNE UNDER A PUB SIGN (PT 1)
Back in Grantham after some ridiculous long walking, so when I finally hop off the (delayed) bus in town for the mad dash to two pubs...

Si Everitt
Jul 12, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... HATS OFF TO THE BRENTWOOD BOVVER BOYS (& LINCS DRINKS BONUS)
I was coming towards the end of the first summer Saturday in June, kindly chauffeured around by Simon & Daddy Dewhurst. It had all been...

Si Everitt
Jul 11, 20236 min read
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BRAPA and .... THE PLUSHIE PRODIGY IN PLESHEY (PUB TICKING IN RURAL ESSEX)
Okay, I'll admit that the skip and scaffolding doesn't reflect the quintessential picture postcard peak 100% English village pub...

Si Everitt
Jul 10, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... WHAT A WONDERFUL (PUB TICKING) WORLD : FROM DOVER TO CHELMSFORD
I don't think I've ever quite seen an open pub looked quite so shut as the Louis Armstrong, Dover (2507 / 4401). So much so that it it...

Si Everitt
Jul 3, 20234 min read
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW JUNE '23
Good evening all, 'Tis the end of June, where does the time go? Less than three months until the 2024 Good Beer Guide arrives, in all...

Si Everitt
Jun 30, 20235 min read
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BRAPA in ... CANTERBURY FAILS? (Kent Pt 4/4)
Apologies for the unsociable release time on tonight's blog, my body clock is all out of kilter after my Norfolk/Suffolk adventure, I've...

Si Everitt
Jun 29, 20235 min read
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BRAPA in .... YOU CAN KEEP YA COSTA BRAVA ... (dahn to Margate Pt 3/4)
A couple of Kentish Gypsy Tarts on your bed, probably the best way to start any day's pub ticking: ..... and on the eve of my Margate...

Si Everitt
Jun 23, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... BABY, IT'S COLDRED OUTSIDE (Dover Pt 2/4)
Safely (in a manner of speaking) checked in at my accommodation in sunny Dover, it was time for the 'evening session' on day one of my...

Si Everitt
Jun 20, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... DOVER R. SOLE (PART 1/4)
Wetherspoons Dover, there is no better way to light the blue touch paper on a late May Bank Holiday weekend of pub ticking, I'm sure you...

Si Everitt
Jun 19, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... HOW NOW COW & PLOUGH : CIRCLING THE DRAINS OF LEICS
Leicestershire won't come quietly as a ticking county. The sheer lack of pubs opening at a sociable hour (12 noon or earlier if you...

Si Everitt
Jun 18, 20236 min read
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BRAPA in the .... BRENCHMARK FOR ALL GREAT PUBS (Rural Kent 2/2)
Halfway through perhaps my most spectacular of all Kentish pub ticking days so far (and yes, I HAVE been to Gillingham before you ask),...

Si Everitt
Jun 14, 20234 min read
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BRAPA in .... I BEG YOUR PARDON, I NEVER PROMISED YOU A ROSE GARDEN (OF ENGLAND) : Rural Kent 1/2
There have been times during my quest to fully complete the Kent GBG entries when I've questioned whether the famous 'Garden of England'...

Si Everitt
Jun 12, 20234 min read
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BRAPA is ..... THE KING OF WISHFUL HINCKING (Leics 2/2)
Hinckley! At last. Once described as 'the most rewarding of all Leicestershire towns to pub tick' by a bloke who knows, he completed...

Si Everitt
Jun 11, 20233 min read
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BRAPA .... IT'S THE ENDERBY OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (Leics 1/2)
It's raining, it's pouring, but BRAPA wasn't snoring on this Thirsty Thursday as I find myself back in Leicestershire, determined to find...

Si Everitt
Jun 7, 20235 min read
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BRAPA is ... ACEING HASTINGS! (PART TWO OF TWO)
After the dynamic duo of 'First In Last Out' and 'Jenny Lind' (both safely on my BRAPA Pub of 2023 shortlist), I didn't think that our...

Si Everitt
Jun 5, 20235 min read
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BRAPA is ... ACEING HASTINGS! (PART ONE OF TWO)
Sister BRAPA (not a nun), lovely as she is, used to forbid me to go to the football on her birthday, and that has filtered through into...

Si Everitt
Jun 4, 20235 min read
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BRAPA IS ..... CORONATION TICKIN' IN NORTH KENT (PART 2/2)
You left me at the end of Part One in a grumpy mood after two consecutive ropey pints in unconvincing pubs (Wainscott & Cooling), but I...

Si Everitt
Jun 2, 20235 min read
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BRAPA MONTH END REVIEW - MAY 2023
Good evening all. Just a quick one because I fell asleep after a virtual trip to Dresden (don't ask), haven't had my tea yet and wanted...

Si Everitt
May 31, 20232 min read
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BRAPA IS ..... CORONATION TICKIN' IN NORTH KENT (PART 1/2)
May is proving a fruitful month in my quest to complete Kent by late summer, and on my 44th Birthday, I found myself trudging the...

Si Everitt
May 24, 20234 min read
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