Carlton

Finally it was time for the Big Smoke leg of the Royal Tour to come to an end.  We departed the solidly acceptable confines of Carlton for our final stop on this leg of the tour: The Royal Hotel Sutherland. I would be lying if I said we rocked up to the Royal Hotel Sutherland […]

With our expectations sufficiently brought back down to earth, we departed Granville for the Royal Hotel Carlton.  “Surely”, we reasoned, “this Royal is going to fall somewhere in between the extremes of Ryde and Granville”.  It did. Yes, I do realise that is exceedingly lukewarm praise.  But this was a lukewarm pub.  But I mean […]