Your favourite road to Bongo.
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Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
the A39 from Minehead passing Dunster and watchit, Bristol channel on your right and Exmoor on your left , be ready for porlock hill its gonna make a bongo sweat !! onto lynmouth turn left up the hill to waters meet so the dogs can have a splash, back down to the A39 and then onto Ilfracombe, twists and turns ups and downs sea views and Moorland , wonderfull.
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Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
Conwy to Penmaenmawr over the Sychnant Pass. Not long but the view from the top is spectacular, just like flying.
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Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
The A.361 - the longest "3 digit" A road in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A361_road
Also the only road I know of that has it's own website.
http://www.strum.co.uk/watcam.htm
The stretch through Oxfordshire (Banbury to Burford) is wonderful, I used to drive it all the time and in all weathers when I worked for OCC. The only time I didn't like it was in fog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A361_road
Also the only road I know of that has it's own website.
http://www.strum.co.uk/watcam.htm
The stretch through Oxfordshire (Banbury to Burford) is wonderful, I used to drive it all the time and in all weathers when I worked for OCC. The only time I didn't like it was in fog.
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Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
I always preferred to glide over it myselfscanner wrote:The A.361 - the longest "3 digit" A road in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A361_road
Also the only road I know of that has it's own website.
http://www.strum.co.uk/watcam.htm
The stretch through Oxfordshire (Banbury to Burford) is wonderful, I used to drive it all the time and in all weathers when I worked for OCC. The only time I didn't like it was in fog.
But seriously.....there are some wonderful roads down south, just too many people likely to want to use them. I can recall though deciding once to travel from Painswock (Cotswolds) back to Chertsey (Heathrow, more or less) by avoiding as many major roads as possible. Our route took us near to Hungerford and through the Berkshire Downs and we managed to creep very close to Chertsey before feeling like we were in anything other than the most remote and rural part of the country. A spectacular drive, if not a quick one (but then who's rushing, when the travelling is such a joy).
Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
But not in the fog?mikeonb4c wrote:I always preferred to glide over it myselfscanner wrote:The A.361 - the longest "3 digit" A road in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A361_road
Also the only road I know of that has it's own website.
http://www.strum.co.uk/watcam.htm
The stretch through Oxfordshire (Banbury to Burford) is wonderful, I used to drive it all the time and in all weathers when I worked for OCC. The only time I didn't like it was in fog.
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Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
Funny you should mention that. Well there was this one time many many years ago where (with an experienced guy in the back) that actually did happen (unintentionally of course). Quite a nut tightening experience. I changed names and places and sent it into to Sailplane and Gliding as a ripping yarn of the cautionary type, parodying Pilot magazine's fright story series 'I learned about flying from that' and calling it 'I learned about gliding from that'. They published it, to the consternation of the gliding club in question, who I never revealed the identity of (the point is, it could have happened anywhere, as accidents and close shaves do, so let's not be too proud).scanner wrote:But not in the fog?mikeonb4c wrote:I always preferred to glide over it myselfscanner wrote:The A.361 - the longest "3 digit" A road in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A361_road
Also the only road I know of that has it's own website.
http://www.strum.co.uk/watcam.htm
The stretch through Oxfordshire (Banbury to Burford) is wonderful, I used to drive it all the time and in all weathers when I worked for OCC. The only time I didn't like it was in fog.
I probably have a scann(er)ed copy somewhere if you're interested
Woops, we're beginning to fly off track again
Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
Lost in the fog....................mikeonb4c wrote:Woops, we're beginning to fly off track again
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That's the whole point of owning up and sharing a cobble up.
Everyone can learn and hopefully avoid a worse outcome, hence the GASIL and CHIRP programme.
Everyone can learn and hopefully avoid a worse outcome, hence the GASIL and CHIRP programme.
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Yup. In that respect, aviation has a lot to teach the world, as us old pilots knowBob wrote:That's the whole point of owning up and sharing a cobble up.
Everyone can learn and hopefully avoid a worse outcome, hence the GASIL and CHIRP programme.
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Re: Your favourite road to Bongo.
Unbelievable I might have a bash at that in summer : ) But that was some extreme Bongo driving right there !mikeonb4c wrote:I thought he'd eventually drag up that old bone. Ignore him BB123, and stick to watching the video. He and another Northern Man who shall be nameless have a death wish I think.Muzorewa wrote:The other fave which is easily accessible for us is this one - especially in the snow http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 37&t=68598
P..S. Helen - Yes I suspected that might be one of the famous potholed Bulgarian main roads you've often referred to in your posts. Great fun trying to negotiate them but not conducive to taking in the view
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You should see Muz when he gets down to some extreme pie eating. Makes driving over Hard Knott pass look like nibbling a rich tea biscuitBongoBongo123 wrote:Unbelievable I might have a bash at that in summer : ) But that was some extreme Bongo driving right there !mikeonb4c wrote:I thought he'd eventually drag up that old bone. Ignore him BB123, and stick to watching the video. He and another Northern Man who shall be nameless have a death wish I think.Muzorewa wrote:The other fave which is easily accessible for us is this one - especially in the snow http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 37&t=68598
P..S. Helen - Yes I suspected that might be one of the famous potholed Bulgarian main roads you've often referred to in your posts. Great fun trying to negotiate them but not conducive to taking in the view