Bored, you go for a drive. Where do you go?

I have the Woodhead and snakes pass within about 15 minutes of my house, The cat and fiddle about 30. Little bit further out gets us onto the moors or peak district, Or lake district if your happy to do a bit of motorway.

We usually do a loop up through glossop, snakes pass, back down through woodhead and then off up across towards halifax.

blackpool on tuesday on the bike on a tenner (and back also ;D)

pootle to blackpool

cant do the pic thing........

Used to live in Congleton so used to do the road to Buxton. Good times! While I'm down here in deepest darkest Dorset I do several circuits. Some include jumps ;D ;D

But this is one I like to do if I just want to go fast on wide roads with some cool "tree tunnels". I often do this one on my birthday actually as it's a nice country drive with not a lot of dangerous things. Swmbo doesn't like dangerous stuff. Especially jumps.



I also go to the New Forest (sorry horses). But it cost about £4 petrol just to get there! It's a good blast up the A31 though.

I usually head down to Lyme Regis, makes for a nice drive with some awesome views. The nicest route is probably to head out on the A30, with some lovely flowing hilly roads and amazing views (the road you can see above the Porsche is where you'll have come from to get to this point):



Then head south down a very long strait past the Stockland broadcasting areal, this is the second of 2 straits, the first is 2.4 miles long, and this one's 1.1, you can see the aerial here, which is still over a mile away down an arrow strait road, the aerial's pretty spectacular close up:



Then follow this road down to the A35, and follow that to Charmouth, a quite seaside town, where you can park with only a kerb separating you from the beach:

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Then head across one town to Lyme Regis to have a wander down the Cobb for a reminder of living by the sea as a kid:



When leaving the sea front you get to use a little throttle ok, a lot of throttle, up the very steep, enclosed, echo filled Cobb Road:



Leaving Lyme head back home through Axminster and up the lovely sweeping, abnormally smooth surfaced A30, with yet more views, and a nice docile flowing nature that doesn't stop you being able to relax and enjoy it, but at the same time lets you enjoy the car. (Not the best picture):



Makes for a great drive to kill an hour or 2 depending on how long you hang around at the coast, and as long as you go in the evening it tends to be pretty traffic free bar the odd milk tanker, and has a nice number of sensible overtaking places to deal with them at.

I may sometimes moan about living out in the middle of nowhere (Chard's fairly big for a country town, but there's nothing but houses here), but it does have some very worth while perks ;D.

The Route:




OK, the forum's refusing to up-load a chunk in the middle of that for no apparent reason? It still shows up as being in the post when I edit it, but doesn't show up once uploaded??? Seriously, this is weird and really annoying, it will let me post it at the end, but not in a certain place in the middle of the post?? Really annoyed at this, I spent quite a while making this post, and now the computer wont get it right . I just tried viewing it on my phone not logged in, and it still does the same thing, so it's not just my computer or anything. grr.

This should be posted after the picture of charmouth, which should be working just fine, as it works fine on my photobucket?:



And the picture of charmouth which should be higher up, but works here, on the same url??:

You should try going back along the A20; not a particularly exciting drive, but the scenery's nice, and there's lots of long sweeping bends. Far better than the M20 anyway!

The day you pass will live with you forever, and when you have a car women find you more attractive, and you get 'friends' who only want you for your transportation abilities!

Happiest day of my life, apart from meeting my GF

I have a couple of routes. Theres a local one for when I just want to go for a blast and disappear for an hour or so, then theres a slightly longer route that takes all day to enjoy.

Local route (30miles)....



Just a general blast around my favourite backroads. Nowhere hugely impressive, but I can push on as I know the roads well.



All day route (182miles)....



A - Home. Travel along the A64 east until the turnoff to...
B - Castle Howard. Pass through Castle Howard and follow the roads to...
C - Helmsley. Leave Helmsley to the east, until you come across the left turning to...
D - Hutton-le-Hole. Turn right out of Hutton-le-hole and find yourself on top of the moors. Follow the road to...
E - Rosedale Chimney Bank Top. Continue down into the valley and back up the otherside (back onto the moors) and the road leads to....
F - Egton. This road will eventually bring you out in Sleights on the Whitby-Pickering road.
G - Whitby. Leave Whitby to the South, towards....
H - Hawsker. Take the turning from the Whitby-Scarbrough Road towards Ruswarp, but take the Left turn towards...
I - Ugglebarnby. This brings you back out on the Whitby-Pickering Road...
J - Pickering. Back towards Malton, jump back on the A64, this time westbound and Home.

Yeah, I was thinking that, but they seem to mostly be holiday homes, there never seems to be anyone about anyway, plus you kind of don't have a choice but to accelerate hard up there unless you have a low range!

I don't any more because the roads around here are pants.

I used to hoon around the Mendips, and agreed, the roads down towards Lyme are awesome- better yet if you head east out towards Hardy's Tower up in the hills, overlooking the beach at Chesil (Abbotsbury).

But, with $20 in my pocket, I'd stick $15 in the tank and go to New Orleans and have coffee and beignets at midnight, sitting beside the Mississippi listening to someone play jazz.

Man, I'm getting old lol