Interloping with the Young Ramblers
Black Country Young Ramblers organise events that couldn't be more up my street if they tried. A 10 mile walk, that quickly descends into a pub crawl. Can someone in their mid fifties get away with being "Young"?
My query - where I gave them plenty of chances to say no - was met with "we are merely Young at Heart. All are welcome".
Jauntiest rambling outfit chosen, as I meet them at Blakedown station. Everyone else coming from the opposite direction. I quickly and mercifully establish I am not the oldest. Mrs M thinking of putting me on some sort of register.
The walk? Countryside rambling through Churchill, approaching Stourbridge from Norton.
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| Young Ramblers |
The Pubs? A little bit of everything.
The Crown at Iverley a posh gastro with no cask at all. The mystery of complex rounds is solved by everybody buying individually. Lessons learned that you don't want to be last through the door when out with 22 others.
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| T Shirt Weather at the end of November |
The New Inn - Street food taken seriously, with two tents in the car park. Interesting to see that all 23 of us chose Wye Valley HPA.To be fair, it was the only cask available.
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| Street Food Tent #1 |
The Unicorn allowed me to recommend the Bathams XXX, with caution. Pub was already packed before we turned up. A joy to see. Thankfully, an oversized, overspill police murder tent to accommodate us.
Kingsbridge a little left field, scones on the bar, so we will class this as a cafe/pub hybrid. Nothing Bound - a local brewery to me - that I will alway try and support. Unfortunately forgot to take photos. It was that sort of day.
Despite me having written the event on the calendar, Mrs M has us double booked for a meal out with friends in the evening. The hardcore youth do plenty more work with visits to a Black Country Ales, another Bathams, a craft micro pub and a town centre food venue.
It appears that I missed dancing. In Goretex.
Next planned pub crawl in Lower Gornal.
I love the Ramblers.
Walk Details
Distance - 8 Miles
Pubs - 4
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