Saturday got off to a good start. First thing I saw from my room window was a shiny salmon leaping from the murky Tyne. Quite why it jumped in the midst of […]
FREE TR D I N, Byker, Newcastle
Last night when I told you all that stuff About the way things are You didn’t understand a word But you said you did … After the Cumberland Arms, our ‘not sure […]
The Cumberland Arms, Byker
I hadn’t realised just how far out of the city centre North Shields was. I reckon it was a good twenty minutes ride and a potential flashing incident on the excellent light […]
Woodfest2018
I’ll sum Woodfest 2018 up in a sentence: A superb festival that is an excellent celebration of the place where the Brewers art meets that of the Cooper. To be fair, it’s […]
A Mighty Micropub – The Curfew, Berwick upon Tweed
I walked past The Curfew twice before I found where it was. Bridge Street seems to be ‘the’ place for the latest trends in Berwick and The Curfew is down a ginnel […]
The Barrels, Berwick
If The Pilot on The Greenses was firmly anchored in a time that, if now lost, we could never get back, then my second Berwick pub, The Barrels is stuck firmly in […]
Berwick upon Tweed and The Pilot
As we approached Berwick on the A1167, I felt the pit of Alnwick in my stomach when I saw the ‘To Let’ sign on the tinned up Queens Head, courtesy of Punch […]
Surprisingly disappointing in Alnwick, despite the Beer Wall!
Fourteen and a half quid for three days bus travel in Northumbria had to be the deal of the week. You can’t go go wrong at that price; point to point pub […]
The Queen’s Head, Newbiggin by the Sea
If you look at a map of Newbiggin by the Sea, there’s a large open space in the middle of the town, like a huge chunk of the place has just disappeared. […]
Anarchy Brew Co – Up in Smoke in North Northumberland!
Built in 1860 by the Craster family, it’s now the only smokehouse left in the small seaside village of Craster, Northumbria. Robson’s took over the business in 1906 and their renowned Kippers […]