14/01/20 - Waggon and Horses, Stourbridge

Distance - 2 Miles
Geocaches - 8
First Cache
GBG Tick - #452


Literally, a walk in the park.   A nice series of 8 micro caches placed in a muggle heavy location, presenting little problems with searching when its tipping down with rain.

Normally, unworthy of a blog, but in this instance I was close to a Good Beer Guide Pub.

Stourbridge is seemingly one of the more democratically inclusive towns.  Over time, every pub will get a chance to be in the bible.  Except the Mitre.   Additions and deletions are constant in every issue.   Some close down - like the Bank - visited last time I was in town.  Some spring up in one issue, only to disappear in the next.   Pub ticking is about the journey, not the destination.

One ever present over the last four years has been the Waggon and Horses.   Just outside the ringroad but well worth the underpass crossing.

Camra decreeing that they are down to a single Horse

A central bar, surrounded by open plan rooms.  I investigated the front two - but with just two other lunch time punters (taking advantage of their Camra Discount), it would have been indiscreet to go mooching around the back.  Five real ales on, but with my steamed up glasses from the rain, I went for the one I recognised - a very decent Salopian Oracle.

Lunch choices were traditionally black country - a cabinet full of rolls and baguettes.   Multiple choices of scratchings - and if I'm not mistaken, sold loose like in the pick and mix at the cinema.   As its #Dryjanuary - I avoided - sticking with the old classic Monster Munch.   Not Pickled Onion, I'm not a monster.

Balanced diet - Beef and Stilton Baguette and (beef) Monster Munch

The overheard conversation was the sort of wonderment that you only get on a wet winter's day on a Tuesday lunchtime.   Discretion means I cannot repeat all but your ears are bound to pick up when the theme of the tale is about a man that missed his own funeral today because of the need for an emergency post mortem.

Only in pubs.