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Pubs

We’re home now.

Near the end of our trip we sat in a London Pub

and tried to recall all the pubs we visited. Here’s the list we made:

Day 1 in London



We met at the Sherlock Holmes Pub
lunched at The Albert
Trafalgar Inn in Greenwich

Day 2 in Stratford-upon-Avon

Cox’s Yard


Garrick Inn, the oldest pub in Stratford-upon-Avon
 We drank Shakesbeer

Still Day 2 in Chipping Camden before we started walking

8 Bells Inn for dinner
Volunteer Inn beers and a Jameson's nightcap.
Some patterns were formed during our walk.   We're all comfortable with casual pub food.  With few exceptions we dined in pubs, or bought lunch food in convenience stores and ate it sitting in fields along the way.  The Jameson nightcap grew to be a consistent practice also.

Day 3 in Snowshill and Stanton

Snowshill Arms.  Another pattern formed here.  I was trudging right past this place, when Meg and Jan wondered aloud what was the matter with me.  From here on, until Bath, once it got to be about 1:00 we didn't walk past a pub without going in.
Mount Inn, Stanton, for dinner.

Day 4 Cleeve's Hill and Cheltenham

Cleeve’s Hill CC
The Hewlett

Day 5 Crickery Hill and Birdlip

The Air Balloon Pub at the Air Balloon Roundabout
The Royal George
Where we met Vic Ambler

Day 6 King's Stanley

Kings Head in King's Stanley

Day 7 Dursley and North Nibley

The Old Spot in Dursley is so famous for beer that they stop serving food in the evening to concentrate on beer.  We were there for lunch.



Black Horse Inn

Day 8 Old Sodbury

The Dog Inn

Day 9 Cold Ashton

This was actually a pub-free day.
Hill Farm.  We had communicated to Lucy, our hostess, our beer enthusiasm, and she had bottles of Cotswold Way Ale waiting for us.
Folly Farm.  Sarah had beer and wine to go with our dinner.


Day 10 Bath

I guess we made up for the pub shortage since Dursley once we got to Bath
The Salamander was our first stop after hitting town
Sam Weller's was for lunch
The Pig and Fiddle was a block from our AirBnB
The Huntsman for dinner
The Saracen's Head for a nightcap


Day 11 Bath

Beercraft is a beer enthusiast's shop, with taps
The Boater


The Raven.

Day 12 London

The Belgravia, a sports bar
The Victoria.  There seemed to be a nice symmetry in going to the Victoria near the end of our trip, when we'd been to the Albert near the beginning.  I think this is where we sat to make the first draft of this list, which was Jan's work, and greatly relied on her records on Untappd.
The Swan

Day 13 London

The Knights Templar was our lunch stop.
The Hoop and Toy
The Zetland Arms
The bar in the DoubleTree at Imperial Wharf

Late Addition

Rereading earlier posts, I was reminded that we stopped at the Plaisterer's Arms in Winchcombe.



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