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It’s semi official, we’re moving! We found this great little place almost in the center of Twickenham, about 5 minutes walk (if that) from the train station and bus stops, and about 15 minute walk to Richmond. So yes, my only worry about moving to Twickenham, that which I’d be way too far away from the Train station is soon to be err…. quashed. The place is a 3-storey attached town house with about 10 pubs (including one 50m away which sells Cornish Tribute Ale), at least 10 restaurants, a hospital, and supermarket all within the radius of about 150 metres. It has two large double/king size bedrooms, a smaller double guest room, huge bathroom, great kitchen and biggish living & dining rooms. Then a great big outdoor area as well, with decking which should be good for sunny afternoons and the occasional shindig.

A tribute to a fantastic ale

This is great, as I firstly hated the thought of a 20-30 minute walk to the train station in the wet/hail/snow/etc, and didn’t want to be further than a short walking distance away from food, people, ameneties, etc. As I’ve said before, I didn’t move to London to not be 100m away from the nearest pub, and as long as we get the place, this will be a perfect compromise between those who love built up, close to city living (me), and outer, less noise living (them).

We looked at another place on Saturday morning which was cheap as hell (cheaper than the place we’re putting the deposit on), and fantastic inside, huge decked out kitchen, nice rooms upstairs, lovely big back yard, but it was just too damn far away from town. To walk from where we are moving (1min from Twickenham High St) to the place we looked at on Saturday would have been close to 30-40 minutes walk. Not good enough, without horses, cars or a swift segway.

Back on the topic of beer again (I know, I know), the BEST thing about Twickenham is that all the pubs appear to have a wide range of beers on sale, I’ve been into 5 pubs, and so far they’ve all had 10+ tap beers/ciders each all with different beers in each. Compare that to the pubs in Hounslow, as well as the few pubs I’ve been to in Mayfair/Piccadilly Circus where they’ve only got two ales and the usual Guiness, Stella and Carling or similar and its a huge change.

Bring on the new house, new area, new beer, shall we drink to it on many occasion.

Tags: London, Twickenham

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