And here’s a quick summary of my blog posts from the day out that Jen, Roy and I had on Sunday. They were both, as ever, marvellous company and they were also lucky that they had me there to amuse them. Or something like that in terms of them being lucky.
We visited ten venues and I have to confess that I can’t match Roy’s ability to drink. He had a pint in each venue, I went for a half in each, so I ended up having a total of five pints over eight hours, whereas Roy cleared ten pints. Very rufty tufty.
Thank Jen for her driving, which was much appreciated as that meant she couldn’t drink ten pints, but instead stayed on soft drinks.
The venues were selected as part of Roy’s complex old Woodforde’s Ale Trail books system (that I won’t even try to explain), but what that gave us was a selection of pubs that was nearly entirely new to me, I had been in two of them before. The pubs were all very much at the heart of their communities and all doing a good job at serving them.
We had a selection of country pubs, town pubs, one chain pub, estate pubs, one social club and two hotels. It was a really rather lovely day and we also deliberately visited a couple of two pubs that are now closed, but were in Roy’s books, that I will write about from a historical perspective at a future date.
So, the pubs, in order, were:
Gorleston – Mariners Compass Pub
Great Yarmouth – Lichfield Arms