Happy new-year

It’s a case of moving up and down. A little bit of hanging around.

But I’m on the way back up again.

New Year

After getting frozen in at Nell Bridge for 2 weeks in the middle of December, I headed down to where I’d just come from, and where my last post was from, Aynho wharf.

Flood boards

The Great Western pub is about a 3 minute walk.

For New Year, it seemed like having considered what few options I had, a local thing would fit the bill nicely, and seeing as I could move the boat accordingly. That’s the option I took.

I visited 2 pubs on NYE, The Duke in Clifton and The Great Western Arms in Aynho wharf.

The owners have recently changed in the GWA and the place was a little empty.

Still, I had no complaints, they dished out the prosecco.

The Duke was a different affair. That was busy. By chance the Sunday was quiz-night, and in keeping with that, they had a New Year’s quiz night when I dropped in. Being a free house, I was able to work my way through the 4 guest beers they had on draught!

CAMRA award winning real local ales according to their website.

Nice 🤭

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