Holidays 2025.

[Gramaisc]

Looks lovely @Trumpet

Are you in The Maldives?

You need to keep notes.

Holidays 2024.

I agree about the scenery and the fares but the town/city hop on/hop off buses are a good way to familiarise yourself and plan where you want to go in a new environment. I've never been on a town/city hop on/hop off bus but will bear it in mind.

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[Carole]

I must have missed that post somehow.

I thought that it looked like the Caribbean but the time change wasn’t right.
So 5 hours, ahead I guessed The Maldives.

 

[Mudgie]

Unfortunately Thameslink don't go to Brands Hatch and getting there by train is a pain.

I went by train a few years ago after I broke my shoulder and it took ages and involved a £20 taxi fare each way to get from the station to the circuit, never again.

Yes, I understand that rail travel has its limitations.
I've always tended to go to places accessible by rail and so must have missed out on some nice towns, Southwold for example.

 

[Trumpet]

Looks lovely @Trumpet

Are you in The Maldives?

Yup,

Beachfront villa type thang.

 

[Gramaisc]

A sprinkling of snow there, too?

A discount because they've had to bodge up the roofs with grass?

 

[Thehooperman]

Yes, I understand that rail travel has its limitations.
I've always tended to go to places accessible by rail and so must have missed out on some nice towns, Southwold for example.

Wasn't the Southwold Railway still open when you were a lad then?

You would like the pubs in Southwold albeit they're all the same brewery.

 

[Mudgie]

Wasn't the Southwold Railway still open when you were a lad then?

You would like the pubs in Southwold albeit they're all the same brewery.

Having closed when my father was two years old and my mother was four, no, it closed forty five years before I started travelling much.
I first drank Adnams just over fifty years ago and was pleased to get to their Cambridge and Norwich pubs this autumn.

 

[Trumpet]

A sprinkling of snow there, too?

A discount because they've had to bodge up the roofs with grass?

They've done a pretty reasonable job of it though.

 

[Noah]

So they wouldn't have known the Sorrows of Southwold then. Sixty years ago you pretty much had to go to Southwold to get Adnams beers. Didn't have pubs in Cambridge or Norwich. There was one pub in a village near Cambridge which had it, think they must have gone to the brewery to collect it, but it usually wasn't in very good condition. Got recognised more widely as a result of Cambridge & Norwich beer festivals. Only really got into the Cambridge area as a result of one of the strikes at Whitbread Luton

 

[Mudgie]

So they wouldn't have known the Sorrows of Southwold then. Sixty years ago you pretty much had to go to Southwold to get Adnams beers. Didn't have pubs in Cambridge or Norwich. There was one pub in a village near Cambridge which had it, think they must have gone to the brewery to collect it, but it usually wasn't in very good condition. Got recognised more widely as a result of Cambridge & Norwich beer festivals. Only really got into the Cambridge area as a result of one of the strikes at Whitbread Luton

It was in their Castle at Colchester that I first drank Adnams, during July 1974. I think Ipswich and Felixstowe were other outposts of their tied estate but there was also "a flourishing free trade extending well into Norfolk, also Essex and Cambridgeshire".
I was disappointed several years ago with their pub, now disposed of, just south of Tower Bridge. Much better is the Anchor, former Courage brewery tap and now a Sam Smiths pub.