Time to head home& another beautiful day had dawned. But there was trouble in the camp, an attempt to load the day's route had got a "no route possible" from the SatNav. I've commented on this before, it's a "feature" of modern TomToms, if a way point is placed on a road which is subsequently closed, it just throws a wobbly & is no help at all.
We followed the route in T.Y.R.E. while also following it on the phone in "maps" & found a closed section, re-routed, saved it as V2 & put it back in the SATNAV - "no route possible". Repeat - found another closed road, save as V3 & try again - "no route possible".
Porlock Weir |
The coffee stop in question was at Porlock Weir, usually we go into the hotel, but this year the sun seemed to have bought out enough people to make opening other businesses worth while, so we had coffee outside a small coffee shop on the quayside.
We set off again heading east to Dunster, where we again took the nice winding road, which was more or less traffic free. After that our number dwindled as people broke away & just three of us took in the "lunch" stop at Chew Valley Lake. I say "lunch", it was after two o'clock when we arrived & the waitress said "I'm afraid it's too late for lunch - we're only doing drinks - well drinks & cake". Ah, the magic word.It was very pleasant sitting in the sun looking over the reservoir, but soon we had to move on. The next part of the journey was quite unpleasant as we tried to make our way across to the A303. Appalling road surfaces unnecessarily low speed limits & on one occasion a pair of women cyclists side by side on a 60mph A road, with 1/2 mile of frustrated traffic behind them! I shall re-plot this part of the route if people want to do the tour again next year.
But there it was finished, another successful trip, everybody seemed to enjoy it from the comments posted on the WhatsAp group. It's a fantastic group of friends from all sorts of backgrounds who just enjoy driving. Now we're looking forward to RogueRunners '25 next month - back to Scotland!