Land's End to Ness Point, Midsummers Evening 2021
Discussion
I'll answer several points here...
It's a real headache about what day is best to do it. I've picked to leave on the 21st as that's when a load of people did it in 2014 (there's a post on this site about it somewhere). There's is only about 1 second difference between 20/21 and 21/22
Sunset is 21:36 at lands end. Sunrise is 04:30 at Ness Point.
When I did it previously I went A30, A303, South M25, A12.
I have thought about a route through London but a lot of it's 20MPH with speed cameras everywhere, I doubt you'll complete it in time
It's a real headache about what day is best to do it. I've picked to leave on the 21st as that's when a load of people did it in 2014 (there's a post on this site about it somewhere). There's is only about 1 second difference between 20/21 and 21/22
Sunset is 21:36 at lands end. Sunrise is 04:30 at Ness Point.
When I did it previously I went A30, A303, South M25, A12.
I have thought about a route through London but a lot of it's 20MPH with speed cameras everywhere, I doubt you'll complete it in time
Johner said:
Yep, I'll be doing it over the night of the 21st.
Just make sure that yiu arrive at the Lands End car park after 17.00hrs.
There's a charge (£5 or £7 I think) if you arrive before 17.00.
We will drive down to Plymouth on Sunday and have a leisurely tourist type trip to LE on the 21st.
Sounds good, see you there!Just make sure that yiu arrive at the Lands End car park after 17.00hrs.
There's a charge (£5 or £7 I think) if you arrive before 17.00.
We will drive down to Plymouth on Sunday and have a leisurely tourist type trip to LE on the 21st.
I've also just found this post from 2017 from "No Ideas For A Name"
"I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread for discussion on this year's potential run.
I have considered it for a while but maybe this year is the year to give it a go. As the years go on, I expect this will become less possible legally, due to lower limits on roads, roadworks etc.
I am making the assumption that technically, the shortest night is on the evening of 21 June through the morning of 22 June. So the optimum night is the 21st/22nd. As far as I can tell, there isn't much in it in terms of time for a few days either side of that.
From other threads I pickup that some people want to do this on the 24th which I assume is just because it is a weekend. I think my preferred night is that 'proper' one.. hotels are cheaper mid week and traffic is probably lighter.
Again from other threads I see that a variety of routes have been tried, though I haven't drawn a conclusion as to the 'best'.
A303 will probably be full of Druids on the morning of the 21st, but should have dispersed well before the evening.
A30/M5/M4/M25 is a boring but safe route, but a little longer.
It also depends how many people are up for this - I don't think a large convoy/group would go down too well and would probably be attracting the attention of the authorities - though as I understand it, it can be completed fully legally.
Motorway route is around 450 miles, sunset 21:36, sunrise 4:30 giving a 6h 54m time window (6.9 hours) giving a required average of 65.2mph
I will need a fuel stop as I don't have a 450 mile range, so that eats in to the time."
"I have taken the liberty of starting a new thread for discussion on this year's potential run.
I have considered it for a while but maybe this year is the year to give it a go. As the years go on, I expect this will become less possible legally, due to lower limits on roads, roadworks etc.
I am making the assumption that technically, the shortest night is on the evening of 21 June through the morning of 22 June. So the optimum night is the 21st/22nd. As far as I can tell, there isn't much in it in terms of time for a few days either side of that.
From other threads I pickup that some people want to do this on the 24th which I assume is just because it is a weekend. I think my preferred night is that 'proper' one.. hotels are cheaper mid week and traffic is probably lighter.
Again from other threads I see that a variety of routes have been tried, though I haven't drawn a conclusion as to the 'best'.
A303 will probably be full of Druids on the morning of the 21st, but should have dispersed well before the evening.
A30/M5/M4/M25 is a boring but safe route, but a little longer.
It also depends how many people are up for this - I don't think a large convoy/group would go down too well and would probably be attracting the attention of the authorities - though as I understand it, it can be completed fully legally.
Motorway route is around 450 miles, sunset 21:36, sunrise 4:30 giving a 6h 54m time window (6.9 hours) giving a required average of 65.2mph
I will need a fuel stop as I don't have a 450 mile range, so that eats in to the time."
vikingaero said:
How many hours do you have between dusk to dawn?
And what cars are you doing it in? At the moment I don't have anything PH - just 2 diesel cars which would be fun but a little boring. My fun/wackjob car of choice would be Mrs V.'s Mitsubishi i-Car - all 660cc Turbocharged with max speed of 84 mph!
I've got an Astra GTC, did it comfortably with 1 fuel stop somewhere near Andover on the A303And what cars are you doing it in? At the moment I don't have anything PH - just 2 diesel cars which would be fun but a little boring. My fun/wackjob car of choice would be Mrs V.'s Mitsubishi i-Car - all 660cc Turbocharged with max speed of 84 mph!
Personally I wouldn't try a route through London. I'd probably get lost (unless it's on the underground, but that's for a different forum)
I'd recommend doing it this year if you can. Also by leaving in until the 21st we (hopefully) won't have any restrictions in place so we can't be done for breaking covid rules.
I'd recommend doing it this year if you can. Also by leaving in until the 21st we (hopefully) won't have any restrictions in place so we can't be done for breaking covid rules.
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