Well I've got enough time for diversions.
Tefals badly planned holiday, coming to a sofa near you...
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Well I've got enough time for diversions.
Looks like for your Cornish leg you're just going up and down the A30? Which would be incredibly pointless. It's just a bog-standard dual carriageway.
At least when you drive past Hayle you can get a proper Cornish pasty from Philps
Cornwall is a complete rabbit warren of road so get off the A30 and hug the coast. We're all about quaint old fishing villages and small mining communities. Just don't be surprised when everybody has a London accent: there are no locals left in these places
At least when you drive past Hayle you can get a proper Cornish pasty from Philps
Cornwall is a complete rabbit warren of road so get off the A30 and hug the coast. We're all about quaint old fishing villages and small mining communities. Just don't be surprised when everybody has a London accent: there are no locals left in these places
If you happen to be near Stroud on a Saturday morning i highly recommend going to the farmers market. Nice cheese, homemade wines, doughnuts, thai food. It's rated as the best farmers market in the country
Ive heard the place is full of ***** though
Ive heard the place is full of ***** though
Place is packed full of hippies and loonies, keith and lilly allen occasionally turn up too! It's a lovely place though, if you ignore the hippies and the drug addict celebs.
Go up Selsey common on a nice day, and you'll get some nice rides to ride on, and some views along the lines of this: http://i.imgur.com/Xf4s2SJ.jpg
Your route on the east coast looks kind of boring around the Midlands, I would be trying to incorporate more of the Peninnes/Yorkshire Dales (or North York Moors) and the Peak District. Otherwise you're pretty much just cruising on dual carriageway for hundereds of miles.
For the 20th time the route is basically a blue crayon scrawl to show the rough areas I'm planning to visit not the specific roads
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From Brighton to the New Forest (assuming you're going clockwise) don't take the A/M27, it's a horrific road and boring as hell.
Go 10 mins back up the A23 from Brighton, nip onto the A273 at Pyecombe up over the South Downs and follow it up to the A272 at Haywards Heath, then take that west all the way through Petworth, Midhurst & Petersfield to Winchester. Honestly, it's some of the most beautiful countryside and villages. Lunch in Winchester, visit the cathedral or go see King Arthur's Round Table and then leave west and pick up the A3090 which will take you right down to the New Forest.
Go 10 mins back up the A23 from Brighton, nip onto the A273 at Pyecombe up over the South Downs and follow it up to the A272 at Haywards Heath, then take that west all the way through Petworth, Midhurst & Petersfield to Winchester. Honestly, it's some of the most beautiful countryside and villages. Lunch in Winchester, visit the cathedral or go see King Arthur's Round Table and then leave west and pick up the A3090 which will take you right down to the New Forest.
Yes, I read that, however the blue scrawl doesn't actually go near any of these with the exception of skirting the very edge of the North York Moors.
I'll leave you too it though as you obviously didn't want suggestions and I'll let you discovery how boring the A19 and A1 are.
im not planning on going on those roads them im planning on goping through the moors but thats since i last made the picture.
will do
will make a list of toens/places ocukers are who are up for a get together
my birthday will likley fall somewhere on the coast of scotland lol
The a46 good road up past prinknash lived in Wotton most of my youth never liked Stroud but Gloucestershire is nice enough
Avoid it, just ride through.
Rhyl is that of a nuclear fallout zone and it's inhabitants are that from The Hills Have Eyes.
North Wales ride the A5 and A470 scenic routes like Llanberis, Bala, Betws Y Coed, Llanrwst, Porthmadog, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Capel Curig, Beddgelert and particularly the road opposite Snowdon the A4086.
Might be lucky and get a glance of Kurt Suttur (Sons of Anarchy Writer) filming his new show The ******* Executioner and possibly Charlle Hanahman and Jude Law filming Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur.
Llanrwst is a nice place to stop for lunch on a sunny day!
I live in northwales so know the place well lol.
Spent the weekend riding all round those places (I cba to retype the Welsh lol) on the bikesafe course.
Absolutely chock full of speed vans though when the weather's nice
Not sure what route you're taking north of Glasgow there, but I'd really, really recommend a visit to the Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum along the A82. Passed through there on a Land's End - John O'Groat's cycle trip a few years back, and it's one of the strongest memories I have. Amazing food, awesome location.
Sounds good. Will definitely check it out.
Anyone got advice camera wise thinking of just using the phone. Drift ghost looks decent but like the go pro I don't really see it getting much use after this
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I have a Sony AS100. Great little action cams. Take it on most days out, film something, chuck it the pocket.
I see your bypassing most of the east coast. Scarborough, Whitby are nice places. The road between the 2 is decent ride as well.