Birthday in munich day 2

This bloke doing all sorts of water stuff led us astray....
... so we ended up here....

...which caused this....

and this.......

beer challenge prizes covered the walls

Off to Wiehanstephaner, the oldest brewery in the world, since 1040...........
.... the day that it caught fire

and there were flies everywhere...

now the hacker-pschorr tap house
Had to include Saint Paul's Church
Bavaria in the Thereisan garten where the beer tents go up for Oktoberfest
Paulaner brew house
Pauline 5.8% Munich dunkel mass (litres)
I'll finish it..........
The courts of Justice by night
Andechs bier
Stammtisch warning label
Andechs weiss bier

Sorry, there won't be any twitter updates,cos we're in Germany....

birthday in munich

Biergarten in the Alter Botanischer Garten.
O!!!
Spaten pub sign.
The Spaten taphouse bar.
The Spaten taphouse.
In the Spaten taphouse, Fransiskaner hefe and Spaten hell.
Eilis makes a new friend.
First beer in Munich, at The Augustinerkeller. Edelstoff,from the wood. Tasty!

2009 pub of the year finalists

Canyon on the towpath

Woah..........

.....slow down please

apropos of nothing.... part 2

Meanwhile over in Clapton............

..............here's the New Fountain

Smithfield Nocturne

This is what we did today................

Don't worry, there will be beer.... after Rapha's beautiful old Citroen...

 the olde red cow, which was promoting Tim Taylors Landlord in an unusual fashion....

   and then they were promoting along these lines

Then we went for a beer in The Butchers Hook and Cleaver....

Two pints, one of ESB, the other, keg London Porter came to £7.10, won't be rushing back there in a hurry.......... (oh, they also served their beers in plastic ''glasses'')

lots of bikes locked up in safety at Smithfield Market (including ours, way down the back...)

There were lots of wild, weird and wonderful bike on view, loads of fixies, including this beaut...

However, the maddest thing we found was this (apologies for the flash bounce)

free beer ......  wahey ............ then the other side........

ok the photo won't load but £23.50 for a gents haircut......

How much free beer will that get you?

Anyway, we went to the Rising Sun..

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub176.html

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/27/2745/Rising_Sun/Smithfield

beer prices slightly more civilised....

http://www.nocturneseries.com/smithfield/

Apropos of nothing....

On the river-bank near the Anchor and Hope, High Hill Ferry.

Too many cyclists passed through here too fast; hence the gates...

....and the warning....

we always go through slowly, too many kids and ''tipsy types'' on the towpath outside the pub..

big up to the beardymen outside though

This is on now.

Martin the Mild Man rated it at 18 (out of 20)

He said it was the first time he had rated it above 16.

Burnley Dave was in agreement.

6 days past it's best before date....

ho hum

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Obviously this is not Martin with Black Cat...