And the second beer is….
A look in our Christmas beers stock revealed another beer in The Beer Bible, one of my favourite beers, Hobgoblin, brewed by Wychwood Brewery. The Bible, whoops The Beer Bible, mentions Wychwood’s...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge:Resolved
It’s the start of the New Year and we’ve resolved to join the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. By we, I mean me, Tony, my fiancé Tara ( yes we’ve just got engaged!) and my 17 year old daughter Devon....
View ArticleThe Ale Trail hits Scotland
We spent New Year’s week in Scotland. We were based in Falkland, Fife, a small village some thirty miles north of Edinburgh. Although a small village, it wasn’t short of drinking venues! In fact there...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Illumination
Having just received our e-mail notification for the third weekly photo challenge, I thought I’d best post on the second weekly photo challenge on the subject of illumination. And we’ve got photos...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge:Beyond
Once again we’re late posting on the weekly photo challenge, but here’s our contribution to last week’s challenge of Beyond. It was taken at Tentsmuir Beach , which is on the east coast of Scotland,...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge:Love
It’s the fourth Weekly Photo Challenge of 2013 and this is only my second that I’ve posted on time! This photo was taken earlier this year on 2nd January, just a few minutes after I’d proposed to...
View ArticleThe Ale Trail gets religion!
Today I got to tick another beer off the 1001 Beers to Taste before I die list. I had a bottle of Trappistes Rochefort 10, we bought four bottles of this beer at the 2012 York Beer and Cider Festival,...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge:Unique
A bit of a belated entry into this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge,the subject being Unique. You’ll look at my photo and think what’s unique about me drinking a beer? A common sight I hear you say! Well...
View ArticleThe Ale Trail hits the capital!
Three more beers from the 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die book (The Beer Bible) were crossed off the list earlier this week. On Friday Tara had to call at the Brazilian Embassy to drop off...
View ArticleTony’s Tart Marmalade….a little booze, a little citrus
Hey ya’ll. A while since I posted so I thought I would share a latest recipe with you. I have been cooking non-stop lately after taking a cookery class in fish that Tony had bought me as a Christmas...
View ArticleThe Ale Trail goes European
It’s been a while since my last update on the Ale Trail and as I’m sat in a hotel in the beer capital of Europe, I thought it would be good to log the beers I’ve knocked off the list of 1001 Beers to...
View ArticleAndtisfor cross the English Channel
So it’s Sunday morning and we’re in Bruges, on our first full day of our vacation. We arrived here late yesterday morning, after taking the Eurostar from London to Lille and then driving from Lille to...
View ArticleAnd T is for Three months since our last post!
I can’t believe it’s over three months since we last posted on here, but we have done a lot in those three months, so we have got a good excuse! I’ve now been in Columbus, GA, over fifty days and in...
View ArticleandTisfor Too long….
Yes, it’s been too long since we last posted on this blog, mind you we have had quite a lot going on just recently! Since our last post back in August 2013, I’ve moved from Gainsborough, England to...
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