If you missed Part One, you can find it here. On Friday evening, having lined our stomachs with a lush...
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After a heavy couple of days exploring the Black Country and Birmingham, I spent 48 hours holed up at home....
(If you missed Part One’s antics, you can find it here). Park Inn Radisson Hotel, Bescot We’d stayed here on...
After a fab day out discovering the hidden gems of Dudley and Tipton, it was time to hit the town...
It was an 0545 start on Maundy Thursday for our first Football Tourist Guide weekender since Cardiff. Now I'd been...
After a good night’s sleep after last night’s crawl round Salford and Manchester I woke up refreshed. I showered and...
Now the clocks have 'sprung forward' and the evenings are lighter, midweek missions feel much safer. Thus on Friday night...
It is a rare treat to have a weekend free in the football calendar. Following Blackpool is, of course, (sometimes)...
(If you missed Part One, here it is). Shickers Micropub I had arranged to meet Evo in another ‘safe place’...
My friend and fellow blogger Evo Boozy Scribbler was in town this weekend. We’ve done some belting pub crawls together...
This fixture was sandwiched between two heavy weekends and I wasn’t planning on going to the pub at all. But...
This weekend has been a bit of an epic, exploring hidden corners of Blackpool that I wouldn't ordinarily have visited....
After my big day out at Wigan Beer Festival the previous day, I wasn't up for a full-on Football Tourist...
I had been planning Salford as my next Manchester Good Beer Guide (GBG) mission but my calendar instructed me otherwise....
A beer festival! In Wigan! Well there was no way I was missing out on that. I tapped out a...
After two long away trips it was a relief to have a home match. Today was going to be action-packed...
(You can find Part One here and Part Two here). After another good night’s sleep (guaranteed) on the Hypnos mattress...
(If you missed Part One, here’s the link.) Premier Inn Cardiff East We had a great night’s sleep in the...
The day before Lee and I were due to set off to Cardiff, I received several concerned messages from friends....
After my impromptu Manchester debut the previous week, I almost immediately set about plotting routes to complete the city’s GBG...
I've written about football since time began (well since I fell in love with the game during Italia 90). My...
Thanks to the influence of Retired Martin and Si BRAPA, on Friday night I found myself commencing a Good Beer...
It was an early start to Cov on Tuesday morning - an 0700 departure - as I had an action-packed...
Dear reader, what an absolute pleasure this weekend has been. If what I write below doesn't convince you to visit...
Diet notwithstanding, I've decided it's high time I get out and about around the pubs of the Fylde Coast more...
(If you haven't read Part One, you can find it here). I left you in Part One just as we...
I had been so excited about this trip ever since the FA Cup draw was made - and I fully...
A Change In Fortunes It was time for a change today, on the back of two heartbreaking results for Blackpool....
I woke at 0930. Hmm. I had already calculated that we needed to set off at 1030 and I hadn't...
Christmas Morning: The Dream & The Presents On Christmas morning I dreamt that Lee and I had upsized to a...
To go or not to go? To pub or not to pub? Those were the questions. I think you know...
Wigan is my favourite place in the whole world. Why? Well this post (featuring Giraffe Woman and friendly homeless man)...
Ahead of our match at Birmingham we were staying at the Park Inn next to Bescot Stadium. There had been...
Much as I love researching and exploring on away missions for the Football Tourist's Guide, I do need a break...
After the traumatic end to my Lytham crawl last week, I decided that this week's pub crawl was going to...
When your team hasn't won a league game all season and they are playing the team at the top of...
Having enjoyed last week's exploratory mission to Poulton, I resolved to go again in Lytham, either side of the Blackpool...
One of my coping mechanisms during lockdown was researching and writing virtual pub crawls around the country. The method in...
Monday 17th May 2021: On The Piss (Without Jerry Yates) I've got the week off! Yippee! It's a fluke that...
It's the last awayday of the season - and you know what that means? Fancy dress! Today, I'm heading to...
I've never properly explored Sunderland, so today will be mainly dedicated to exploring its pubbage. There's a match later on...
A local match - yippee! I'm getting quite exhausted with all these long-distance virtual trips (fun though they are). It's...
I took a gamble on Monday night and arranged a drink with a friend without making a booking in advance....
Dear reader, you may recall I fell in love with Lincoln on my visit there last season. I have even...
There is always something special about an awayday. No matter how early the start, I bounce out of bed, bang...
I've been to Oxford a couple of times in recent years and found its pubbage to be excellent. I did...
Dear reader, when we are safe again, I am planning a train crawl to Preston. To maximise my time at...
I have always viewed Poulton as an enigma. I have been a dozen or more times - but always with...
I confess I've always found Milton Keynes rather an odd city, owing to its design. However, in the course of...
Being from the Far North of Blackpool (Anchorsholme), the southern reaches of the Fylde Coast always seemed so far away...
