Penrith's Pubs And Past....

A visit to a town in a part of the country I love, but not somewhere I had visited before. But in what was only a stop of a few hours, I found a thriving, bustling place with plenty of history, oh, and a few pubs. Welcome to Penrith....Much as I like visiting places like Manchester, Newcastle, and even London these days, I always like to mix things up in terms of where I go when visiting places for this blog. And so on the basis I had written plenty about the above this year, I needed to go somewhere different. The fact the National League season had concluded (bar the promotion final) and the teams relegated to and promoted in to were either known or at least on the cards already gave me a few options for football/blog tie-ins for next season - subject to the usual mid-winter/mid-week no-nos. Cumbria was a place I hadn't been to for over a year, but with Carlisle now down in the National League for another season the option for that city remained, and if the fixtures don't work out…