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* Cross Severn into Wales. | * Cross Severn into Wales. | ||
* [https://goo.gl/maps/bGdKFkWeYy22 Bath to Llanidloes via Black Mountain Pass.] | * [https://goo.gl/maps/bGdKFkWeYy22 Bath to Llanidloes via Black Mountain Pass.] | ||
** http://www.drivingforpleasure.co.uk/roads-and-tours/uk-road.php?s=2011-09-16-black-mountain-pass | |||
** Picked Llanidloes because it has a Texaco that has high octane unleaded. | ** Picked Llanidloes because it has a Texaco that has high octane unleaded. | ||
** Can make a stop at Swansea. | ** Can make a stop at Swansea. | ||
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* Drive up to Conwy. | * Drive up to Conwy. | ||
* [https://goo.gl/maps/6UJnmRAAyT22 Llanidloes to Conwy with detour to Evo Triangle] | * [https://goo.gl/maps/6UJnmRAAyT22 Llanidloes to Conwy with detour to Evo Triangle] | ||
** http://www.drivingforpleasure.co.uk/roads-and-tours/uk-road.php?s=2011-08-30-the-evo-triangle | |||
=== Sun, 05/03/2017 === | === Sun, 05/03/2017 === | ||
* Drive home. | * Drive home. | ||
** Note I will have to return my car by 4pm --lmm | ** Note I will have to return my car by 4pm --lmm | ||
** I'll probably take this [https://goo.gl/maps/TwmB6yXMDL52 route] home. - YYY | |||
Revision as of 08:38, 4 January 2017
Road Trip to Wales 2017
Dates
Thu, 02/03/2017 - Sun, 05/03/2017
Outstanding Tasks
- Get two-way radios.
Itinerary
Thu, 02/03/2017
- Leave London.
- Meet up somewhere?
- Hillingdon?
- I think a good place to meet up, if it has to be near Hillingdon, would be at this Tesco car park. There is also a Shell next to it. - YYY
- It doesn't have to be Hillingdon - just that's about the right area and I hear it has a car park. --lmm
- Drive around somewhere in England?
- Out towards Chesham and then down through the Chilterns to Theale?
- A4 along the Kennet, over the North Wessex downs and through Savernake Forest? (It's the old coach road out to Bath)
- B4632 between Stratford and Cheltenham is supposedly very scenic. Possibly a bit out of our way??
- The other side of where we want to be, http://www.drivingforpleasure.co.uk/roads-and-tours/post.php?s=2011-12-01-the-cheddar-gorge ??
- Spend night somewhere in England?
- Proposed route: https://www.myscenicdrives.com/road-trip-directions?i=9fb78586-c431-4a64-a0f6-59f1d5d552cb
- If the total trip time is 5 hours 46 minutes then it is almost certainly too long. Note that it will also take me more than an hour to get to Hillingdon (I suspect traffic will be bad on Thursday morning). I think it has to be cut down to 3 - 4 hours. - YYY
- I think the obvious thing then is to cut the detour to Cheddar Gorge. https://www.myscenicdrives.com/road-trip-directions?i=c2f2354b-cbd4-4ae6-b698-448702e679ad comes out as 4:13 --lmm
- If the total trip time is 5 hours 46 minutes then it is almost certainly too long. Note that it will also take me more than an hour to get to Hillingdon (I suspect traffic will be bad on Thursday morning). I think it has to be cut down to 3 - 4 hours. - YYY
Fri, 03/03/2017
- Cross Severn into Wales.
- Bath to Llanidloes via Black Mountain Pass.
- http://www.drivingforpleasure.co.uk/roads-and-tours/uk-road.php?s=2011-09-16-black-mountain-pass
- Picked Llanidloes because it has a Texaco that has high octane unleaded.
- Can make a stop at Swansea.
Sat, 04/03/2017
- Drive up to Conwy.
- Llanidloes to Conwy with detour to Evo Triangle
Sun, 05/03/2017
- Drive home.
- Note I will have to return my car by 4pm --lmm
- I'll probably take this route home. - YYY