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I would prefer the long route as I always think the short convoy trips area bit, well...short.

Meandering though towns and villages can be fun though as it lets the locals see the cars en-mass.

simonxm21 wrote:if i wanted to stay over, where the best place to stay? (havent got a tent) as i could come saturday afternoon then stay over and get a good start sunday morning!

There's the usual Travellodgy type things and corporate hotels in Milton Keynes Simon, or else, try Buckingham for a nice billet or Winslow, a small town to the south. Depends what you want really.

The South of Milton Keynes is within easy reach of the site and so is Stony Stratford via scenic back-roads. There they have the Cock Hotel and the Bull Hotel - the origination of the term "Cock and Bull Story". Legend has it that one would tell a tall tale in the Cock and then wander down to the Bull and repeat it...

The general consensus seems for the longer rote Will so Robyn and I will concentrate on that one. I can offer both routes if wanted but the long one is a good suspension tester - I found a really sharp little hump back bridge on the route this afternoon...

I'd go for the short route personally. Last years was nice and short!

But I usually blag a lift with someone in a car I have never been in. So if someone has a really interesting car, and wants an "interesting" passenger, put your names forward now

robert_e_smart wrote:So if someone has a really interesting car, and wants an "interesting" passenger, put your names forward now

I promise, you won't be disappointed

Ciarán

CitroJim wrote:

simonxm21 wrote:if i wanted to stay over, where the best place to stay? (havent got a tent) as i could come saturday afternoon then stay over and get a good start sunday morning!

There's the usual Travellodgy type things and corporate hotels in Milton Keynes Simon, or else, try Buckingham for a nice billet or Winslow, a small town to the south. Depends what you want really.

The South of Milton Keynes is within easy reach of the site and so is Stony Stratford via scenic back-roads. There they have the Cock Hotel and the Bull Hotel - the origination of the term "Cock and Bull Story". Legend has it that one would tell a tall tale in the Cock and then wander down to the Bull and repeat it...

The general consensus seems for the longer rote Will so Robyn and I will concentrate on that one. I can offer both routes if wanted but the long one is a good suspension tester - I found a really sharp little hump back bridge on the route this afternoon...

thanks jim, there's bell hotel (not as we know it jim) which offers reasonable rates and isn't far. do you know it? be wary of travelodges as they over book on purpose incase someone doesn't turn up (even if you paid in advance) as to my detriment at doncaster travelodge on a trip to durham! on a late friday night after 7yrs driving i was forced into a further 45mins of driving to harrogate...........

robert_e_smart wrote:So if someone has a really interesting car, and wants an "interesting" passenger, put your names forward now

Ciaran wrote:I promise, you won't be disappointed

...especially after all those pickled eggs!

simonxm21 wrote: as to my detriment at doncaster travelodge on a trip to durham! on a late friday night after 7yrs driving i was forced into a further 45mins of driving to harrogate...........

Well, 45 mins after 7 yrs isn't worth bothering about really..

Dieselman wrote:

simonxm21 wrote: as to my detriment at doncaster travelodge on a trip to durham! on a late friday night after 7yrs driving i was forced into a further 45mins of driving to harrogate...........

Well, 45 mins after 7 yrs isn't worth bothering about really..

7 hours damn keyboard

Must have been a very slow car you were in Simon

That's the Convoy Drive now written up in its first draft ready for a road test by Robyn tomorrow evening and no doubt lots of corrections. I must make certain all my lefts and rights are right and the signs say what I believe they say...

I've changed it slightly after some valuable feedback on here by offering a slightly shortened outward leg to the destination and a slightly longer short inward leg back to Little Horwood.

I've even got a couple of miles of fast dual-carriageway into the convoy route...

The route guide also includes some words on some points of interest you'll pass along the way. Possibly the points of interest will be unique to this guide and described nowhere else...

Possibly the points of interest will be unique to this guide and described nowhere else...

An illistrated tour of MK's roundabouts perhaps?

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