This was an especially pleasing crawl because we started and finished early. Meeting at about midday, we found ourselves in a quiet backstreet pub at Sloane Square, the Fox and Hounds, a very pleasing and traditional pub with a cosy if cramped interior and a few nice beers: Young's Bitter, Young's Special, Grandstand, Eagle. A bit quiet though, but one that you could settle into if you chose to do so. Skylight in the rear room too I seem to remember. The Orange however was a shit pub because it was full of families, including one where some boy had pissed himself at the table, and a bit of a culture for food and less emphasis on the bar, though one set of diners did have a splendid oyster sharing platter. Lots of untreated wood and gastro feel, this is not a place to settle into, even though the beer, London Copper, Topee, Lighthouse, was not bad.

The Rising Sun at Pimlico is a very spacious and comfortable yet unremarkable Young's pub. Nothing wrong with it but little character. Big toilets for you to empty your bladder of Young's Bitter or Bombardier, how pedestrian. Crossing the main railway lines and heading down some obscure backstreets we reached the Greyhound in Pimlico, a salt of the earth boozer with a front room and back room with simple furnishings and well-kept beer, of which there were four, including London Young's Bitter, Front Row, and Christmas Cave. Perhaps not the most upmarket but decent enough and we sat at the long table looking out the window.

A run of pubs on Warwick Way was then encountered, the first of which was the Marquis of Westminster which was a trendier establishment but in a nice way, with some good beers available although very few seats. London Cornish coaster, New World, Ghost Ship, Tribute were our offerings and there was room upstairs for diners. As I recall the stairs to the toilet were quite precarious. Nice atmosphere though in an interestingly shaped venue. Some sort of rugby match was being shown at the Prince of Wales on a nearby side street. Fortunately this did not spoil our stay too much and despite there being a lot of people around, there was a conveniently placed table where it was impossible to see the TV from at the end of the pub and so we sat there. It is a long and thin and not particularly remarkable place and we exited by a handy side entrance. Beer not bad: London Grand Slam, Timothy Taylor Landlord, London Pride, ESB.

The Warwick is a gastropub a little way up the road, but the kitchen was closed when we arrived, so it was rather empty. We sat in the large square front room that is filled with wooden furniture whilst we enjoyed drinks of Splendid Tackle, Green King IPA and Abbot. We could equally have sat on some leather sofas in a conservatory area on the way to the toilet, but someone else had set up shop there. Reasonable enough for a drink but not memorable at all. The nearby Queen's Arms seemed much livelier and had a bit more going for it - it seemed a bit less tired. Still a gastro pub, but a much better bar to stand up against and an even better selection of beer: Two Cocks Cavalier, Truman Swift, Attaboy.

On to the Constitution, a particularly pleasing and traditional boozer in a single room with a long bar down one side, plush red carpets and plenty of wood. Not a gastropub at all, and some excellent beer available. We had the choice of London Seafarers, Greene King IPA, Doom Bar, Bombardier. Not a hipster in sight either, and indeed the final scores on TV! An even more extensive establishment was CASK, a short walk away, though with much more hipster-age. One happy coincidence of hipsters is that they like decent beer, albeit overpriced and in bottles, so places like this at least do exist. Also a single room, but in a shop unit and far more modern though not that sophisticated, quite simple actually and with beer mats on the walls. A man behind the bar with a beard outlined the selection. We decided to eschew craft bottles and go for real ale: London Acorn White Oak, Barnsley, Gorlovka, Netherword, Single Hop, Aureole, Rose Red Hop, Ascot Penguin Porter and Winter is what I had written. Keg ales, lager and cider also available I think but I could not be arsed to write that down.

There is nothing to be proud of as far as the Pride of Pimlico is concerned. Huge sprawling place with a single bar that did not have any decent beer on the occasion of our visit, pool tables and sky sports. One redeeming feature was a very plush seating area mercifully near the entrance. At least the evening ended a little better in the Gallery. Nothing special but a reasonable enough place to finish off the evening with a pretty decent choice of beers: Pedigree, Mr Chubbs, Scrum Up, Clifton, Cumberland. I suppose the ideal place just to wind down really, ready for the trip back. Which we did, and it wasn't even 8pm!