Opening at 3 pm, the Queen’s Arms is not a good choice for a lunch run but the last day before a vacation when you decide to bag the afternoon worth of work for a run it is a good enough choice to have an early IPA. Not far from the Didcot Station and the [...]
Author Archive
Queen’s Arms, Didcot, Oxfordshire Leave a comment
Getting a taste for it — Wines for May Part 2 Leave a comment
“God knows what you’ve unleashed on the unsuspecting South. It’ll be wine, women, and song all the way with Ringo when he gets the taste for it.” – Norm in A Hard Day’s Night (1964) To trace the wine saga for 2012 backwards, start here with the most recent previous post (Ideas, things, and…Wine for [...]
Revolution, Swindon: Pub #910 on way to 1000 Leave a comment
I had luck with the Yates’s on the way to the supermarket, so I tried out the Revolution on my way back past. It was a little more like the chain-bar experience I expected (prefabricated set-up, soulless) but the back garden was pleasant enough and the menu looks good if standard (I had some pasta [...]
Yates’s, Swindon 1 comment
I generally swear off the chains (All Bar One, for instance) but I go to any Wetherspoons I have never been into before so I decided to suck it up on my way to the grocery shop Sunday and give the Yates’s a shot, or rather to get a shot in the Yates’s. Nice house, [...]
The Lazy Frog, Swindon Leave a comment
If you haven’t been in a headshop in 10 years let me assure you they haven’t changed in the last 40. And, if you’ve never explored one outside your hometown, county, district, state, etc I can also assure you that they are the same the world over. That said, The Lazy Frog is a pleasant [...]
Calne Charcoal Grill, Calne, Wiltshire Leave a comment
Sunday with seven and a half miles, three pints (one, two, three) and a can, really required some nourishment and I felt lucky to find a kebab shop. The doner was tasty and seemed to be more meat than connective tissue and the chips started out fantastic. But, either the chilli sauce (again, spectacular for [...]
The King George, Calne, Wiltshire (dead pub) 1 comment
I hate to end a run with a dead-pub memorial (see the rules, here) but the landlady at the White Hart says the King George is being converted to a pizza place. Calne is not saturated with pubs and this beautiful old house of Cotswold stone shouldn’t have seen the last of its good days [...]
The White Hart, Calne, Wiltshire 2 comments
What is with the folks on this run? Everyone is so nice today…almost like they are as relieved as I was to get two days of sun after 6 weeks of rain. The White Hart was lovely and quite an old inn run by a lovely couple that took an interest in my day and [...]
The George Inn, Sandy Lane, Wiltshire 2 comments
From the Soho, I headed to the Bowood Golf Course and looped around toward the hotel. The trails I WANTED to take still exist but are now gated off as a conservation area so I headed across the sheep fields south toward the ponds and then, eventually, up a steep, wooded hill arriving shortly in [...]
The Soho Inn, Studley, Wiltshire 2 comments
I went out to the Bowood House and Gardens for a run because the day was splendid and the grounds are hilly and covered with 17th century farm structures. My bus dropped me at the Soho, so how could I pass up that opportunity? Inside it was crowded with Sunday diners and the staff were [...]
