Went to Durham today for a change. Well impressed , great pubs, beers and free food, and lots of pubs/businesses blowing fake snow out of their establishments, though my old man still reckons it was a pigeons that got caught in the air conditioning fan.

Anyhow, pubs visited, 1120 from gods village , so assume it left Yates on the hour, 1230p, Market Tavern ( great pic of Blackhall Miners Banner on the wall, amongst others) then Victoria, buffet to die for, up there with the Golden Smog in Stockton as best buffet on a Sunday in the NE.

Then onto Half Moon, Swan and 3 Cygnets, cheap Sam Smiths beer 2 quid a pint, then Colpitts again SS 2 quid, then Elm Tree , free Yorkshire Puds and Roast Pots with gravy, finishing off at the Station House underneath the viaduct, before getting last bus home to Hartlepool at 1717.

I would reccomend it.

Sounds a good day that. I lived in Durham for 3 years when I was at uni there but shamefully never went to any of these ‘proper pubs’. Recently moved back to Durham and keep meaning to go to the Station House as I heard it won an award for the best cider in the country.

Horden pub crawls anywhere n everywhere almost.
Cant fault him.
One good pint leads to anutha and if u go out with Mutley its a good allday session.
We shoud have a good xmas bunker n back to blue piss up.
and trust.

Never a bad idea, to get everyone together now and again , for a good p*ss up and a laugh at the world.

You did some walking there! Victoria to the Colpitts is one side of the city centre to the other. I'm my five years living in Durham and ten years working there, never went in the Colpitts. Did like the Elm Tree though, and the Swann and the Half Moon were all regular haunts.

Not that far , if you know the short cuts, up North Bailey, across the bridge near Dunelm House, and you're practically at the Vic. The roaring open coal fire and the buffet in there yesterday was fantastic, could of stayed in there all afternoon, will do next time I visit on a Sunday. Cracking fire in the Colpitts as well. Half Moon is a proper pub, nice in the summer sitting in the courtyard. Elm Tree probably my favourite, don't know why, just has a nice laid back ambience every time I go in there.

Never had a day on the sauce in Durham, will have to try it one day.

My favourite place for a crawl has to be York, but Burton is a close second. Loads of good pubs in Lincoln too.

Some great pubs in Lincoln, was there about 3 weeks ago for the weekend. The walk up steep hill is worth it for some of the boozers.

Lincoln is decent. Remember going there in 1995 to see Pools, with wife and kids. Stopped in a pub near top of that hill, frickin live music on the night, kids couldn't get to sleep and something wrong with the plumbing in the bathroom, that made room constantly smell as though someone had farted. Oh for Trip Advisor in those simpler times.