The PRATS are off
to the last league game of the season, we started in Dorset and we finish here
as well with a day out in Dorchester. With over 5000 miles already on the clock
this trip will take us up to 5500, yes this is non-league footy played mostly
by people who have to go to work. We don’t
have the highest mileage either, poor old Bideford and King’s Lynn does
considerably more.
We will be starting
early around 8:00pm and making our way to a Little Chef near Andover before
continuing to the Wayland Sixpenny brewery between Salisbury and Blandford Forum. We’ll
spend around an hour here sampling their finest ales before moving on to Dorchester,
there is a decent cluster of pubs in the town centre, zoom in
on the map to get a better indication. As you will see there aren’t any decent pubs
really close to the ground, the Victoria
Hotel is half a mile away and serves
Ringwood ales. The same distance away is Brewhouse
& Kitchen which is situated in Brewery
Square, location of the former Eldridge Pope brewery. Fuggles still has a
bottle of Thomas Hardy’s
ale dated 1990. We went to one of these B&K pubs in Poole, very nice
with a good selection of their own ales.
Dorset Brewery Company (DBC) tap is Tom Browns located at the top end of the town. You could easily have a good
day out here on a pub stroll.
The match could well
be important with the Mighty Reds still harbouring hopes of a play-off spot; it
will require all the planets in the solar system to be perfectly aligned whilst
Pharp refrains from vacating for 24 hours prior to kick off. We may have a
chance with the planets.
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| Nag's Head |
On the way home, well
it’s a long trip so it will depend on Parker, however, there is a beer festival
at the Nags
Head in Abingdon. It could be a timely stop off point. If
all else fails we can always nip into the Towcester Mill for one last sup
of the season.
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