A walk to Yorkshire & Back

Camping in the forest of bowland again. Walked to north Yorkshire and back again today.

An alleged heatwave with temperatures in the 30s they said, sadly no one told the lancastrians. Damp, humid, overcast and muggy but that was just lancashite. Much nicer in Yorkshire, but hell, when isn't it.

Here we have a pint of hen harrier from the Bowland Brewery served at the mountain bike mecca of the dog & partridge in tosside. thanks to the pubs staff for a cracking lunch and a big bowl of cold water for the Monster. Good pint, reminds me of something else i've had somewhere else but buggered if i can remember. It will make the 4 mile walk back to slaidburn much easier.

For the 15 miles route - see this link http://beta.mapmyrun.com/route/detail/19717614/

Good omen?

Wow, first kitkat ever to have no wafer biscuit inside! Hope its an omen that we'll win the lottery tonight!



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A new disciple for the bible?

The robin hood inn, cragg vale. Been on the hit list for a while but never got around to getting here. A nice surprise, a few comments I had read suggested it was dog friendly and it turns out it is. 3 real ales on, weapon of choice landlord shown here. Its slimmer sister golden best and an ossett ale, Yorkshire blonde on offer.

Lovely bar setting, smells of coal fires even in the middle of summer, reminds me of fitting the flue on the fire at home and being dumped in soot from the chimney.

Good value menu on offer - no credit cards accepted.

Would be worthy of inclusion in the good beer guide.


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Last minute plans are always the best laid plans...

3pm we had no plans, 4pm we we're packed up and raring to go. Back to the forest of bowland.

Travelling light this weekend, well ok Saturday nite only, but here we have mini tent, mini chairs and big bottle of gin!! What more could a girl want? Bbq lit, beer flowing, nandos infused chicken ready... The nite is young.....


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Creature comforts...

There's no place like home, a quick 10 minute walk from marsden gets us to the excellent tunnel end inn. Knock out pub, pint of bass and landlord shown here. Best pub in the valley bar none....

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Next stop Marsden

Ok, so we were going to take on the head of steam however we couldn't take the dog on the pub so had to go round the back. In the absence of any seats, a swift run to the next train sees is in sunny marsden.

Now the railway pub. I've eyed this up several times. The blackboard of guest beers always looks appetising but today, I'm left disappointed. A marstons beer monk something is ok but nothing to write home about. Despite its proximity to the platform, the pub needs to evolve somewhat to cash in on the real ale trail, ok they may get a pint out of it but I doubt whether they'll get much more.
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3 is the magic number...

Well it might be but think that this might be one to miss on the real ale trial v2. Dunno, its ok, but not a patch on the last pub. A theakstons pub, the navigation, wouldn't go out of my way to return, here's a pint of theakstons black bull.

Next stop on the real ale trail is head of steam on Hudderfield platform or maybe we should go back to dewsbury?

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