Out with the Girls

 This is something I almost never do.

I do my drinking with the BBB, and sometimes with him and other people.

The only usual exception is lunchtime in St Leonards when I go to Heist with a colleague.

So my trip to Hastings last Wednesday, on a planned proper "Evening" out with a group of women (more than colleagues, too) was a real outlier...and I wasn't really sure whether I wanted to go or not.

As ever, it was combined with a working period.

We all went to the Seadog which is very close to Hastings station - it makes it a really good venue for a non-driver.

The range of beer was a bit quirky - strong pale beers, no cask and lower strength stouts so I had to adjust my usual drinking style.  That would be my only, very slight criticism, however.

Drop Project and Brewing brothers beers were delicious and my fellow beer drinkers at the table very much agreed.  They even had a really good no alcohol beer for the driver and she loved it.  I tried it and thought it was better than most.

The combination of good beer and really good Asian street food (think Bao, Rendang, Wings, etc) together with the excellent company made for a really enjoyable evening - and, after a spritely walk for a train, I was home for 9.15.

I'm pretty sure it'll be something I'll repeat from time to time (not too often, though...this introvert still finds peopling exhausting).