Rutland Visit - Part One
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jazzy_daveThursday evening was spent over at my brother’s place. We had a spaghetti dish washed down with wine. Friday morning we caught the 11.04 train from Brighton station to St. Pancras, and then transferred to an East Midlands train to Leicester, and finally a Cross Country train to Oakham. We then caught a taxi to Uppingham. Arrived at the Crown Inn at about 3pm.
Dinner was going to be at 7pm so i took the opportunity to go on a walkabout.
I popped into an Age UK charity shop which doubled-up as a coffee shop selling cakes ,teas and coffee. I bought a book for £1 , Julian Barnes “Flaubert’s Parrot” (Picador). I then had a poke around the Loros secondhand bookshop opposite and picked up a copy of the Ian Fleming book “Casino Royale” (Penguin Modern Classics).
Afterwards, I had a beer at The Vaults, and one brewed by themselves., which was called Vaults Ale I think, about 3.6 % ABV, hence a good session beer.
I took some photos around the compact little town, or offically a village, as it only has a population of 3,500. These will be n a separtae blo.
Before dinner, Mike and I had a few beers. Being an Everards tied house we started with the Tiger beer (4.8 % ABV). During dinner I had a pint of their Original (5.2% ABV).
They also had guest ales and thus i had a pint of Castle Rock Preservation Ale (4.4 % ABV). In total, including the one at the Vaults i had seven pints of beer that evening. I might have kept up up my borther a bit with my loud snoring when we retired to bed.
Dinner was going to be at 7pm so i took the opportunity to go on a walkabout.
I popped into an Age UK charity shop which doubled-up as a coffee shop selling cakes ,teas and coffee. I bought a book for £1 , Julian Barnes “Flaubert’s Parrot” (Picador). I then had a poke around the Loros secondhand bookshop opposite and picked up a copy of the Ian Fleming book “Casino Royale” (Penguin Modern Classics).
Afterwards, I had a beer at The Vaults, and one brewed by themselves., which was called Vaults Ale I think, about 3.6 % ABV, hence a good session beer.
I took some photos around the compact little town, or offically a village, as it only has a population of 3,500. These will be n a separtae blo.
Before dinner, Mike and I had a few beers. Being an Everards tied house we started with the Tiger beer (4.8 % ABV). During dinner I had a pint of their Original (5.2% ABV).
They also had guest ales and thus i had a pint of Castle Rock Preservation Ale (4.4 % ABV). In total, including the one at the Vaults i had seven pints of beer that evening. I might have kept up up my borther a bit with my loud snoring when we retired to bed.
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