Well it was due to be a fourball .. but Rodders cried off sick at the last moment with the lamest excuse ever. Claimed he had a headache .. but we reckoned due to him being "scotch" he is probably too tight to pay these prices and hence he missed out on his fish and chips ....
Anyway quick review of "golfy's mini pub crawl".. the idea being to knock as many of the remaining pubs off "the list" as possible ..
No 10 bus dropped us off at the "Englands Glory" .... nice boozer, but well overpriced .. one in here and then a quick visit next door for old times sake to "The York" (or the York House as it used to be, it wasn't on the "list" but maybe should have been). Nice boozer, recently done up and re-opened, would go there again. From there a quick stroll into town and into the Varsity .. shit pub, shit lager ..
From there, onto another pub not on the list, "The Cross Keys" (also known as the Star Wars Bar annexe), this is actually a decent mid week boozer, and not full of the "usual" weekend types. Quick visit next door to the "Robert Raikes" (which is on the list and for those that remember used to be the Golden Cross / Malt N Hops .. the Robert Raikes is a big improvement on either of those). Haven't been in the Raikes since it's been done out, and although it's full of Sam Smiths stuff, the lager is pretty good, and it's decent boozer. Fairly informative chat with the barmaid, pint dispatched and off to the next pub on the list, this involved a short walk down towards the docks to "The Tall Ships" .. Surprisingly this was shut .. but "The Whitesmiths" (which is on the list) opposite was open. This is another decent boozer only spoiled by the lack of people in it ..
Well 6 pints into the evening and off to the next pub, which is a favourite of the lads "The Cafe Rene". This is decent boozer and probably the most busy (apart from "The Cross Keys") pub visited during the evening. Onto the 7th pint here, although by now I was struggling to sink this one .. so Golfy and Claude helped out a bit .. so apparently I only had 6.5 pints to their 7 .. Claude reckoned he could handle another 3 pints easily (but only managed to sneak another half in).. all I could handle at the point in the evening though was some of Golfy's pizza and a taxi ..
Quality evening out .. Although the usual poor admin by Golfy means he hasn't done an update and no sign of the pics from last night .. poor admin Golfy .. poor ..
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