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Road Trip to Wales 2017

Thu, 02/03/2017 - Sun, 05/03/2017

Get two-way radios.
Create custom routes and get app that can navigate them (Google Maps seems rubbish in this regard).

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=c2f2354b-cbd4-4ae6-b698-448702e679ad comes out as 4:13 --lmm
- Lunch: perhaps http://www.thespringinn.co.uk/
- Evening: https://www.thermaebathspa.com/treatment-prices/spapackages/package/twilight-package ?

Cross Severn into Wales.
Bath to Rhayader via Black Mountain Pass.
- http://www.drivingforpleasure.co.uk/roads-and-tours/uk-road.php?s=2011-09-16-black-mountain-pass
- Picked Rhayader because it looks like it has more accomodation.
- Make a stop at Swansea for lunch or something.
Mid Wales Inn - 1 Twin (£65) and 1 Double Room (£51) left.

Drive up to Conwy.
Rhayader 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
- Llanidloes, further up the A470, has a Texaco that has high octane unleaded.
- Stop somewhere for lunch?
- [[1] - Lots of choices

Drive home.
- Note I will have to return my car by 4pm --lmm
- I'll probably take this route home. - YYY

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 ** Llanidloes, further up the A470, has a Texaco that has high octane unleaded.
 ** Stop somewhere for lunch?
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