Yesterday afternoon (New Year’s Eve) was spent in the nearby and enormously likable pub, The Carnarvon Arms which is just a five mins walk from the Teversal site entrance.
This is one of those ‘gastro pubs’ that concentrates more on food than it does on supping!
But fear not, we’re not talking one of those ‘two meals for a fiver’ monstrosities one often encounters around the country: this place is pretty decent both in terms of decor and the quality of grub and beer it serves – not that we had any food by the way, but the menu looked decent! Perhaps on a revisit we’ll have a go at the food.
The Carnarvon Arms, Teversal - Notts
Instead we choose to sample their hand pulled ales for the next few hours (mainly Greene King stuff but all good quality and perfectably quaffable ) and soak up the increasingly busy atmosphere that built up as the afternoon wore on.
This pub has a history as well; the novelist D.H. Lawrence is claimed to have written his classic – ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ within its walls. How cool is that? Check out the pub’s website for more on this.
By 4.30pm we were starting to run out of money and were conscious that our pups had been left, on their own, back at our caravan for a number of hours so we opted to go back, but not before buying two ‘beers to go’ from the bar. Sold in handy two pint cartoons.
Beer to Go? Go on then, You've Twisted My Arm!
What a brilliant idea! The only thing missing was a hole for a straw for those folk who had to travel home by bus!
The remaining hours of 2011 were spent back at our Unit, working our way through a bottle of Bombay Gin and listening to music. We made it to 10pm before bed and sleep beckoned.
What a set of lightweights we are!
New Year’s Day
Our Unit at the Teversal Caravan Site (Note the small picnic table)
Today, being New Year’s Day, hasn’t been the best of weather, but regardless I took the dogs on a 2.5 hr walk around the Teversal Trails whilst Missus Capers did some sewing.
Hangovers were non existent today (which is unusual for us on NYD), so once the Sun had passed the Yard-Arm, a few tinnies were cracked open after refilling the ‘water’ and other caravanny type chores had been done.
We leave tomorrow, so until our next Caper – best wishes for 2012 and happy caravanning to all our blog readers.
You can bet your bottom Dollar that we’ll be back to this site, one which has already been marked as one of our favourites.
Tags: New Year's Eve 2011, Nottinghamshire, Silverhill Colliery, Teversal, Teversal Colliery, Teversal Trails, The Carnarvon Arms
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