Rich's Amazing Wales Road Trip 2013

[addzGU]

Rich, I'm not on Facebook. Could you PM me your number if that's possible

[RichwiththeS2000]

Will do ^

The forecast did say showers but seems to be improving as time goes on so I'm quietly confident we should be OK!

Looking forward to meeting everyone :]

[nta16]

possibly too late but in case not -

if you get the chance have some local Welsh Black Beef or Welsh Black Lamb

[hoyin]

Hope everyone made it home safely!

Fantastic trip - the Evo Triangle will be stuck in my mind forever! I loved it!

Well done Rich for organising - top sensible driving by everyone.

What I learnt during this trip:
- my car is a bit noisy
- it seems people who are older lean towards hooliganism a bit more
- the Evo triangle is better going anti clockwise

Best part of the trip - going anti clockwise on the Evo triangle
Least favourite part of the trip - old man running out of his house to tell me to turn down the noise of my car whilst I was waiting at some temporary traffic lights. Wasn't even me who revved! You hooligans!

Weather was ace, company was ace - thank you all! I'll get some pictures up once I get a chance to download them from my camera.

[TackMEU]

hoyin said:

Hope everyone made it home safely!

Fantastic trip - the Evo Triangle will be stuck in my mind forever! I loved it!

Well done Rich for organising - top sensible driving by everyone.

What I learnt during this trip:
- my car is a bit noisy
- it seems people who are older lean towards hooliganism a bit more
- the Evo triangle is better going anti clockwise

Best part of the trip - going anti clockwise on the Evo triangle
Least favourite part of the trip - old man running out of his house to tell me to turn down the noise of my car whilst I was waiting at some temporary traffic lights. Wasn't even me who revved! You hooligans!

Weather was ace, company was ace - thank you all! I'll get some pictures up once I get a chance to download them from my camera.

It was a great trip. I am sure that I(particularly) do not understand the second item on your "Learnt" list *whistles innocently*. My C63 seems to need some new tyres this week.

I really enjoyed giving the beastie a little grief around the twisty welsh roads. I agree on the triangle being taken B4501 first, seems to just make sense that way, for me anyway. Thanks to Rich and everyone for making this a fun event.

Right, I am off to look at planning permission for a guest house/pit stop/pub type thing, somewhere along the A543.

[TackMEU]

Also, forgot a special mention for Addz. Awesome job of hustling that Lexus around some of these roads. Possibly the largest moving object in Wales for that entire weekend.

[RichwiththeS2000]

It was a brilliant trip and I'm glad everyone had a good time! In the next couple of days I'll PM you guys a place where you can upload any video clips you'd like included in the final movie. For pics, just stick them on photobucket and share here or post to the FB group if you use it!

Thanks to everyone who took part, I really enjoyed the roads and meeting everyone and will definitely be doing it again!

[assadahmed]

Great to meet everyone for a great weekend of driving.

Cant wait to start viewing the various vids and pics once they are uploaded.

I'm driving to Scotland at the end of the month for a few days and might do a little detour back to the Triangle on the way back home!

[AdvocatusD]

Guys, given that this has been such a resource could I request the following in a single post, now that we are post-coitus?

1. Could we have the final map as Google Maps that other PHers could use as a route?

2. Any tips on where to stop?

3. Anything that was outstanding, so a list of priorities in case someone only has a day as opposed to a whole weekend?

4. Link to the .pdf so everything in one place

Cheeky requests I know, but I for one know I would be grateful for this.

[addzGU]

It was lovely to meet you all, and credit to Rich for making it happen! Europe next Rich?

Can't wait to see the pics & videos.

Thanks Jason. Couldn't quite keep up with that vicious AMG lol. Can't forget your slides, and Richs badass doughnut

[Andurron]

@nta - I think all of us ended up having a burger at some point, so that's ticked off the list! I was more taken with the Welsh Sausages I got for breakfast at my hotel.

@Advocus - The map is in the first post, and aside from the Triangle the one thing that sticks out is a mountain road we took on the third day. It was very misty and wet when we drove it but I imagine it'd be fun in the dry. Was that Crickhollow?

And thanks to all of you for making it a really memorable trip. Was great to see and experience so many different cars. Looking forward to next time, Rich!

[hoyin]

Some pictures can be found on my flickr page. Apologies that they are not up to my usual standard - I was preoccupied with driving and enjoying myself!!

A couple of my favs. More on the page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78217885@N00/sets/72157634943514331/


IMG_5356.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr


IMG_5372.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr


IMG_5383.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr


IMG_5386.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr


IMG_5403.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr


IMG_5407.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr


IMG_5607.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr


IMG_5650.jpg by Ho Yin Ng, on Flickr

[AdvocatusD]

hoyin said:

Some pictures can be found on my flickr page. Apologies that they are not up to my usual standard - I was preoccupied with driving and enjoying myself!!

A couple of my favs. More on the page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78217885@N00/sets/72157634943514331/

Beautiful clear shots. What equipment do you use? Have these shots been "shopped" at all in any way? They are so very clear and bright.

Edited by AdvocatusD on Tuesday 6th August 10:51

[assadahmed]

Love this pic!

[RichwiththeS2000]

I finished a video compilation of the best bits we had on film of the trip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBpGk1f56ik

In hindsight, next time we’d stop and record more outside footage and maybe document more about what exactly we were doing and where we were going! It just felt a shame to break up the awesome roads and driving to make it into a more focused documentary style, but it’s given me some points to consider next time around.

I’d also like to invest in a decent external microphone as the wind noise ruined most of the clips audio, which is why you’ve been exposed to some questionable background music here



Hope you enjoy the video, and thanks again to everyone who came along and made it an awesome trip.

[nta16]

the vid has set me up for the end of next week when we go (again)

we're going Thursday and stopping with friends of our friends just in England on the first night, so our first stop will be the Sun inn, Leintwardine for a drop of excellent quality Hobsons (on gravity, the co-owner of the pub is a Director of Hobsons Brewery) and we'll take chips in from from the other co-owner's former chip shop and eat them in the 'brick room' before retiring to a time warp genuine parlour

and that's just the start, then the climb over Long Mynd to let the car's know what the next 4 or 5 days will be like ...

[nta16]

also before I forget

assadahmed said:

I’m all booked in to a hotel very close to the camping site.

was it Llynon Onn Guest House or another one please and if another which one and was it any good?

[addzGU]

What a top top video!!

Thanks for such awesome footages, and a great weekend!

If any of you guys have any pics/vids of a Lexus GS300, please send them to [e-mail]

Thanks again

[assadahmed]

nta16 said:

was it Llynon Onn Guest House or another one please and if another which one and was it any good?

Sorry if its too late but yes it was the this place where a few of us stayed and it was a really nice place. The owner was very helpful.

[nta16]

assadahmed said:

Sorry if its too late but yes it was the this place where a few of us stayed and it was a really nice place. The owner was very helpful.

thank you, just seen your reply, we left on the 5th

we've been and back, cracking time this year again especially with stopping at the Red Lion, Dinas Mawddwy - excellent ales, good home made meals, very reasonable priced rooms even more so because they thought the night rally of classic (rally) cars and the 120 for 4am breakfast might disturb us, I intended to get up to have a look but was just too tired, we all were

the pub is at the start of one of my favourite roads and we were able to get several runs on it over the two nights we stopped at the Red Lion including one without luggage or our navigators, apart from a short distance at the start we had the road to entirely to ourselves that time so even better

we realised that we'd B&B'd at the Red Lion about 20 years ago too

rediscovered a few great roads and found a couple of good new ones we'd missed on previous visits to Wales

last two nights we stopped in Llanidloes and what great roads we had to and from there again

even Anglesey had some very pleasant, if unexciting roads (not my choice to go there)

another excellent touring holiday in Wales and great fun on the mountain and other roads