The Red Lion

Our village ‘local’ reopens after over 3 years shut!

In 2018 the Red Lion in Peppard shut. The landlord just walked away. It remained untouched; a fully-licensed Marie Celeste, until my mate James called me to say the brewery were no longer looking for a tenant but wanted to sell the place…lock, stock and several barrels of very old beer.

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Wine like milk

Vienna is the world’s best city to live in it said in the papers last week, and they banged on about the choirs, the orchestras, the architecture, the chocolate cakes, the fairground…Missing out the most important thing. It’s the Heurigen stupid. A genius idea every city would/should copy if they were bright enough. And had the climate. […]

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