Decided against it for a few reasons, for some reason Nottingham is a pain to get to despite only being an hour away by car. Instead went to York.
Had a Dark Star Espresso at the Tap, a favourite of mine, the coffeeage is supreme, and goes well with rediscovered month old Oreos. After a taxi trip with a pervy taxi driver pointing out all short skirts within 100m of the taxi we set off for Trembling Madness. Everywhere was insanely busy (Totally forgot it was Saturday, my ipod even said it was Wednesday!). No chance at all of getting a seat upstair, bit gutting I wanted their pie. So bought a haul of beer instead. Got a Durham White Stout (looking for that one too), Sam Smiths India Ale, Titan IPA, Brooklyn Monster Ale, Oakham Hawse Buckler, Kernel Columbus Summit IPA and a Hollows Ginger beer for mummy.
We then set off to find a pub, stayed on the same street though. Yorkshire Terrier was packed, so we went to Ye Olde Star Inne, only outside seats available, luckily it wasn't cold but they didn't do food outside so we just had a beer. It was a good pub meant to be the oldest in York, dating to 1644(?) looked old with beams and what have you, would have liked it to be a Free House but I have a feeling it was a GK. We had a GK Tolly English Ale, one of the new 2.8% beers, it was alright had a nice fruitiness to it and the biscuity flavours but was rather watery, and more expensive than I would want a 2.8% beer, £2.85, the Dark Star at the Tap was 5p more.
It was then back to the Tap for pork pies and beer, Malt Shovel Mild, very nice a lot of roastiness, Cuthroat Porter, a very flavoursome porter, Jaipur, some bog standard Bitter and then home time. Nice trip!
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