One of the hiccups of the Harbour Arm opening weekend, for me anyway, was the lack of being able to pay by card! First world problem I know. That is resolved already at Follies, where we first came across it, and generally seems to be being rolled out. Folkestone Beer Festival, which has just moved to the harbour arm can also take payments! And they're offering free beer! To CAMRA members! But not me! You have to get down there before 5pm tomorrow to claim your free half, and I'll be working until five. Oh yeah and I'm still not drinking, this must be day 10 now. Going to stop tomorrow by the looks of it, whether I get to the beer festival or not...
To clear up other confusion, while the Harbour Arm generally doesn't open until 5pm, the beer festival is on from 1pm. The other pop up food establishments, Dr Legumes, Follies, etc will be starting at teatime, but the beer will be flowing from lunchtime.
This is part of my website The Folkestone Gerald that I built in a fury of enthusiasm when we first moved here sometime in 2004. I'd been a frequent visitor for a while previous to that so I am technically one of those DFLs you get nowadays. The site was a lot more dynamic with a gig calendar and voting for favourite places and stuff, and I know it was a useful resource for those who were moving to the area. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though just to Hythe) it doesn't get as much love as it used to. Ironic really as The town is now becoming the exciting place we knew it was just about to. I am not Gerald by the way, the name comes from a pretend newspaper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, and how there is a local paper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are great aren't they? Do get in touch if you have something to offer, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on Twitter.