retiredmartin
Martin
Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.
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October 2025. Matlock. Matlock always feels a long way away from Sheffield, tucked away on the edge of the Peak, and it’s true you have to get there via an irritating 12 minute change at Derby (irritating in the sense that 12 minutes isn’t quite long enough to get to the Smithfield for a Bass).… Continue reading IS...
October 2025. Sheffield. I’m still working out how many pubs I’d need to visit to complete the new Good Beer Guide; Simon had worked out his “churn” a month ago. But it hardly matters. There’s no way I’m repeating the heroics of 2022, and will forever be the Ben Curtis of GBG ticking. A combination… Continue reading...
22nd October 2025. Sheffield. “What’s new in Sheffield ?” ask folk heading over for one of the UK’s top pub crawls. Well, lots of new buildings, mainly food courts and flats, but not a lot of new pubs, outside the odd sports bar and a flashy European beer house, and this years two new entries… Continue reading NEW...
October 2025. Waterbeach. A deluge of posts now I’m (briefly, possibly) back “home” in Sheffield with Wi-Fi. Back from a rainy Romania to a damp Luton, we headed straight to see how Dad was recovering from his “bounce”. We also listened to some care home entertainment (an OAP with a guitar from the Fens singing…...
October 2025. Peles Castle. Sinai. Romania. Mrs RM was so determined to squeeze a Transylvanian castle into her blog our trip that on our final morning in Romania we woke at 6am, took a Bolt to Brasov station, and an hour later were in Sinai on the way to Peles Castle. A week’s holiday and… Continue reading FINALLY...
October 2025. Sighisoara. You left us in our astonishing £36.27 Sighisoara guest house wondering where the catch was. A few reviews had mentioned that the breakfast didn’t include drinks, “you’ll pay extra for coffee at Paris prices“. wrote one traveller. Few folk mentioned the cat that woke us at 9am, the...
October 2025. Sighișoara. There are two main challenges writing these foreign blogs. One is finding the right button on the phone for the mysterious “comma below” in Romanian names, the other is limiting the number of photos so you don’t get too bored reading the posts. Not that many folk do read the posts to…...
October 2025. Sighișoara. Romania. In the Uber on the way back from the bear cuddling Mrs RM devised a radical plan to boost her blog views. Leaving our room in Brasov for a night we caught a Flix bus from the main bus station, where the coffee, costs as much as the loo, which has… Continue reading A rainy night in...
October 2025. Brasov. Five days into our Romanian trip, and it’s time for bears. Mrs RM had decided we could do better than Bran Castle (“a bit Disney), but a visit to Libearty Bear Sanctuary to cuddle grizzlies was a must. What do you mean I don’t get to cuddle them ? These are the… Continue reading CONTRADICTORY...
October 2025. Brasov. Romania. Following lard and brownies at Szimpa Mrs RM needed something more substantial before we left Sfantu Gheorge alone to the tourist rush these last posts will no doubt create. So, for the record (i.e. to jog Mrs RM’s memory when she comes to her own blog), here’s the carbonara and Ursus…...
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