Maybe I will regret posting this but having just spent a few days back in Wales for the first time in 18 months I have to say that the pleasure of driving around there increases each time I go back. As an ex Aberystwyth student, when I go back I tend to spend most of my time in mid Wales which is often overlooked and perhaps has less traffic as a result.
Whilst you still have the tailgating, non-overtaking numptys following a 40mph truck on occasion, the open nature of the roads makes it relatively easy to read the road ahead and overtake them. The roads are a delight to drive (incl. Elan Valley), traffic is 100 times better than my regular commute involving the M27, and the scenery is stunning. Respect the speed limits of the villages in particular and you get no grief from the BIB.
My forays to the estate agent windows in the area were definitely more intensive this time. Give it a couple of years and I might even persuade SWMBO.....
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don't encourage them. we want it to stay that way
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Mods. Can we get this thread removed?
The next thing will be everyone cluttering up Luton parkway railway station car park to get to Harpenden's 'Classics on the common', (damn, I've given it away).
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Mods. Can we get this thread removed?
No way, promote the driving pleasures of Wales. Leave Scotlands roads for those who know where the best driving is!
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No way promote the driving pleasures of Wales. Leave Scotlands roads for those who know where the best driving is!
too true.....relatively recent convert and still can't quite get my head around the polite and courteous driving techniques. Absolute pleasure to drive there.
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i much prefer driving here then anywhere ive been in england
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Quote "traffic is 100 times better than my regular commute involving the M27"
The M27 is horrific, what part do you do?? I go J9 to M271 in the mornings & the reverse at night, what a nightmare normally but horrendous with the roadworks
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Jct 2 to M3 & vice-versa in the evening :-( Tis a pig if you don't hit it before 7:15 ish
Bost
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Best roads:
1) Kington to Aberystwyth
2) Eardisley to Hay-on-Wye and then on into any number of deserted beautiful roads.
When driving at night watch out for local, possibly drunken nutters treating the roads like a special stage.
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NB: Lived there for years and it is interesting that when I was a teenager (20 years ago) you would quite often see Ford Escort MKI and MKII's in hedges, then the car of choice hedgewise was the Nova etc, etc.
I guess the lessons of history passed by yocal petrolheads....and good for them!
Edited by Whitney Paine on 04/07/2008 at 22:26
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Jct 2 to M3 & vice-versa in the evening :-( Tis a pig if you don't hit it before 7:15 ish Bost
Ouch - joining J3 from the Northbound M271 is a right royal pain in the afternoon
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Having spent seven years in west Wales now, I doubt if I would be classed as fit for coping with London traffic again. I would probably get in everyones's way and be the subject of fingers and horns, the quiet roads here have blunted my fighting skills. It is a different world.
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It's a different kind of fight.
Old tractors at night with no lights.
Sheep and cows wandering about the roads.
Old dears who haven't a clue how to reverse even 10 feet to the nearest passing place.
Townees in giant 4WDs who have no intention of putting even 2 wheels on the verge in order to pass on a narrow road.
Assinine local councils erecting pointless and unreliable "temporary" traffic lights and then forgetting about them.
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