October Unofficial

That's my usual route !

Steve

Not had any LPG problems on the route. There's stuff on the A483, at the services before the turn for Shrewsbury. There's stuff at Newtown.

Steve

On or around Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:45:16 +0100, "Lee_D" enlightened us thusly:

I've got some here...

I'll not leave here til about 6 at the earliest probably, wot with having to do school jbex. And that implies a togetherness of act and everything being stashed in the motor ready to roll.

On or around Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:06:04 +0100, steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

hehe. There is another route, involving Languor, Devil's Bridge, Tregaron and Lampeter.

On or around Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:09:58 +0100, Austin Shackles enlightened us thusly:

Langour??

Llangurig.

I suspect the spoil chicken of interfering...

During stardate Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:08:49 +0100, Austin Shackles uttered the imortal words:

Dude, email us your post code and I'll see if it would be worth factoring your pad in the route :0)

Lee D

Right, plannin' this ere route...

Autoroute ses...

Motorway, 288 miles

Scenic, via every fecking village going, 207 miles.

So, prolly not a great deal of differnece in terms of time I guess, but cheaperish going the very long way. Autoroute however, does not really recognise the route you give above...

Suggesting: Sheffield, Bakewell, Stoke (hi Lee), (almost straight line to) Aberystwyth, then down the coast.

Anyone have a better, understandable, route?

On or around Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:51:51 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:

You have to be stern with it, and tell it where you want to go.

Having said that, wrexham-oswestry-newtown-llangurig-aberystwyth-Aberaeron-Lampeter-Carmarthen ain't a bad route, and avoids some of the more obviosuly wiggly roads. You can go further down the coast and cut throught NC Emlyn, but I'd not bother meself.

Quite likely that the motorway route is more expensive - I find I tend to motor too fast for economy, given a motorway.

Multimap fancies M62, M56 and then down through from North Wales. 4

Well, by Volvo I reckon M1, M42, M5, M4 is the way to go. Not sure how long it will take once I fall off the end of the M4, but I reckon I can get to Swansea in 3.5 hours.

so Austin Shackles was, like...

Austin's route from Wrecsam (see I'm a native) is about the best - quite pretty in places and fairly direct. Superb descent into Aber if the weather's right. An alternative would be Wrexham-Oswestry-Welshpool-Newtown (as above) and then keep going South to the Wellses (Llandrindod and Builth), Llandovery-Llandeilo-Carmarthen. Goes through some spectacular country. I would advise against going through Stoke. You're fine as far as Bakewell, but getting from there to the M56 will either take a day and a half, or seem like it. Lots of towny stuff, traffic lights, roundabouts, triple parked shopping trolleys - not really 101 country.

When mum was alive and we visited Leeds a lot, we would always go Chester-M56-M6-M62, or round the south of Manc on the M61 (I think) Circular when they finally built that. Even given the extra distance to Sheffield, that's still the way I'd go. Stoke way looks good on the map, but I only did it the once! Never again.

Are we all excited and sitting on our beds at 4am with our ruckies packed, like the kids (and parents) in the Disneyworld ad?

I know I am.

Yep ! I'm aiming to be there around 6-ish. When is everyone else intending rolling up ?

Steve

I've booked a holiday from work, and I'm about 30 miles away, so probably mid-afternoon. I'll get t'kettle on.

Great. I've been looking forward to this for months. Steve

During stardate Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:51:51 +0100, Mother uttered the imortal words:

How about M1 , A50 (It's especially nice through the city now) Left onto the A500 across Junct 15 M6 and work the way onto A53. Then tag on with us Via Shrewsbury, Welshpool and some other places I canner remeber the name of. We will be doing the Disco and Caravan. Hope to be rolling around four or five-ish from home a short trip (6ml) to hook up the Van at Ma and Pa's and wey hey!!!

I was considering the Motorway then got that Friday feeling and as we would have to go straight through Brum,,,bugger that!

Dunno what time your cruising.. would be much more fun in convoy if we were going in Morph though :0(

Lee D

-- Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. Winston Churchill

Did you get prices on those caravans steve? If they were inexpensive it might be cheaper for me to rent one than put the diesel in my truck to tow mine.

Graham

Planning to leave Sheffield at around 11.00 on Friday

During stardate Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:54:08 +0100, Mother uttered the imortal words:

You will be gone through way before us, though if you do come this way your welcome to stop for a brew.

Lee D

-- Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. Winston Churchill

Weather isn't looking too bad either...