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Knight In Amber Armour - Adventures in Stockport, Manchester and Oldham!

  A slightly bleak blog photo for what will hopefully be an exciting blog of my weekend up north! Once again I received excellent hospitality at the house of Rach and Jo for another Manchester area away day! If you’re wondering if I’m knight in amber armour keep reading! I travelled up on Friday afternoon and arrived in Stockport at around 17:00. Our first stop was Thread, a Belgium themed bar in the heart of Stockport. Here we met up with Liz and Aaron. Plastics only because the food festival was on. I really liked Thread! Lovely building and full of delicious Belgium beers! Since I was post nights (Rach and Jo were too) I decided to play it safe and have a Chouffe session which I really enjoyed!  Our next stop was Petersgate Tap and old fave of ours and somewhere we could sit down!  A rose between two thorns? I missed the memo to wear black Beautiful  The Dry Irish Stout from Stockport brewers Runaway was simply divine.  From here we headed back to Rach and Jo...