Trolley hunt 2

After the inconclusive trolley hunt noticed at reference 1, we thought we had better continue the next day. In the event we did not even find a shopping basket, but we did come across various other stuff.

Woolly hat.

Road sign about parking lying on a bench.

Beer bottle times two.

One glass, half full of lager.

Heavy steel pipe, maybe an inch in diameter. Possibly former water pipe or gas pipe. Too far from home.

Bucket full of plastic bottles.

A pair of pillars guarding the entrance to Lonsdale Gardens. A relic from the once grand entrance to some grand house?

Wooden pallet. Heavy.

Sandbags in Castle Street. It must rain enough in this part of west Kent that the water coming down from the High Street above can wash into these shops and bars, drains notwithstanding.

Traffic cone.

Ferrari.

Jaguar.

Two useful planks. Too far from home.

Cardboard tubes probably from inside rolls of carpet or other floor covering. Soggy.

Squashed traffic cone.

Lots of private car parks, generally quite tidy.

An old-style public house in a rather quaint part of Tunbridge Wells known as the village. See reference 3. On the basis of a sample of one, the accents of the inhabitants are probably rather quaint too.

Next to the old-style public house, there was an old-style shop, seeking new owner to bring it back to life.

Frog Lane. Hanging poles, possibly once to do with some kind of blind. Decrepit garage. A selection of plastic frogs. Boot scraper outside a front door. Rustic cobbles, not like the sort of thing you still get in places in London at all.

Private car park, untidy. One dead garage in the row of ten or so. One dead van, just like in Stones Road here at Epsom. Green bin box. Two traffic cones. Grit box (small).

We did not get to find the Masonic Hall but we did get to find the Bridge Club. Clearly a big sport in Tunbridge Wells. It probably helps that, unlike the Masons, they do allow lady members. See reference 4.

The day before we had bought a bottle of 2016 Rolly Gassmann Gewürztraminer from the Secret Cellar in Church Road (reference 2), which had gone down very well and so, with the festive season in mind, thought to buy a few more. This turned out to be impossible as we had just had the last bottle.

So we decided to spread our bet and buy one bottle each of a 2014 Gewürztraminer from Hugel and a 2017 Reisling called Rosacker from the Cave de Hunawihr. Both of which sport a website, unlike Rolly Gassmann, who content themselves with Facebook. See references 5 and 6. Oddly, despite being with a youngster, I was not offered one of the chocolates which were sat on a plate on the counter. But we were treated to a lady customer explaining to one of the staff about her taste in breakfast cocktails.

Back home, we were advised that we might have done better to start at the big Sainsbury's and head from there into one of the nearby housing estates.

Reference 1: http://psmv4.blogspot.com/2018/12/trolley-hunt-1.html.

Reference 2: https://www.thesecretcellar.co.uk/.

Reference 3: http://www.grovetavern.co.uk/. Seemingly taken over by a new-style entrepreneur, that is to say a chap whose day job is IT contracting.

Reference 4: http://twbridgeclub.co.uk/.

Reference 5: http://www.cave-hunawihr.com/. 'Située sur de beaux terroirs à dominante calcaire sur les communes de Hunawihr, Ribeauvillé et Riquewihr, la Cave Vinicole de Hunawihr a pour philosophie de vinifier sa production dans le plus pur respect de la richesse et de la diversité de ses terroirs. Avec des récoltes issues à 100% de nos vignobles, Anthony Bondon, notre oenologue, produit une gamme complète de grands vins d'Alsace reconnus par la Presse dans le monde entier'. Didn't know that Antony was a legitimate first name in France.

Reference 6: http://www.hugel.com/.