Welsh road trip.

[craig green]

I was telling Edd this afternoon how great the roads are in Wales, its well known, but having never driven around them before (I'm poorly travelled) I went with some mates for a camping jolly for 4 days. We had no idea where we were going, only that we wanted to find some good roads & maybe camp for a night. We ended up camping for 3 nights in Betws y coed & jouneyed out from there every day. It seemed pretty sensible & worked well.

Anyway a few pics of some scenery etc.

Cars were an Ibiza Cupra 1.8T & a haevily modded Corrado G60.

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sheep!
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Bah!

[craig green]

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I remember this as Llandudno pier.
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[Asa-James]

Betws is less than an hours drive from me, and yet i've never been there. looks good, i think i'll venture over this year when the nova works :)

[craig green]

The circular (triangular actually) B-road route around Snowdonia has some amazing twists & undulations on it. Every evening as we headed back to Betws (Betsy), we would finish with some awesome new road.

My fave (from the passenger seat) was the road through Beddgelert. It seemed awesome. The whole time I just wanted to be in my Nova hearing the turbo echo off all the stone walls.

[Asa-James]

Evo triangle? i know Evo magazine regularly tests round there

[craig green]

LOL. Evo triangle. I used to read Evo but the road names would never last long in my memory.
When I got home it felt like I live in a concrete jungle compared to being in mid wales for 4 days. For the record, where I live in largely rural & agricultural.

[CoolTiger]

you would of drove on a (side) of the evo triangle going down the a5 to betws y coed :) it is rather nice when you get closer to the coast :)

[Mike]

Cant beat some of wales mountainous roads for some summer B road blasts!! I know the area you went to quite well too.

[Rexy]

Evo triangle is awesome, Did you see many evos around as the gayers had a run out over that way on the 27th.

Wales holds some very very very good and well hidden roads :D Me and chris used to blast over there loads and loads have a few hours on single track roads then head home :D

[craig green]

We took in a lot of roads tbh. Many un photographed.
On the saturday coming home, we zig zagged accross to Aberystwyth, then to the Brecons & came home through chepstow & wye valley & accross the severn bridge.

Without a map to hand, theres too much to remember.

[Ben]

My mum lives just up the road from one of those pics lol

[dj_wudgey]

i havent been there much went with a mate to get his sierra cossworth which was in the middle off no where but we found some kick ass roads lol

[Jack]

I'd like to go up there in the GT4. One of my ex's used to have some friends that lived in Pembrokeshire (apparently on the side of a mountain) at a place called Maenclochog whom we visited a few times. Some great roads round there, although said ex used to hate driving on them as she was too scared about oncoming traffic etc. To be fair though her clapped-out heap of junk polo was sh!t for driving on those roads.

[craig green]

I wish I took more pics tbh, though stopping half way along a nice road for a measely pic wasnt going to happen. I only remember some of the roads & other guys I went with remember others.

[Lynsey]

Looks like you had fun :) I've been to Betws before, I swam in the river :p Roadtrips rock :thumb:

[John]

Looks like you had fun :) I've been to Betws before, I swam in the river :p Roadtrips rock :thumb:

Skinnydip?

[Riggy]

Lol yeah there are some mint roads round betws etc and up snowdonia , it's only a couple of junctions down the a55 from our caravan so I regulary have a blast up them haha , my personal record though is having to stop twice so that lou could throw up at the side of the road haha

we're still down here ATM aswell setting of back home in the morning , can't wait to get a good 3g signal lol this place take an age to load on edge networks pmsl

[mowgli]

the roads around rhyader in mid wales are pretty amazing too, i used to drive my scania thru hereford & worcester & into mid wales, and i've always wanted to do one of those watch the sun come up on a sunday morning sort of roadtrips

[craig green]

I was just over at my mates place who owns the Corrado. We ran back over the route on the map. I'm a bit clearer now.

For the record we covered 720 miles (in the Cupra) in the 4 days. Consumption was 39mpg iirc, bit lower in the Corrado but the owner does get poorish economy & was chuffed with a 34mpg average.

Anyone know the stretch of road heading towards Anglesey with the tunnels on it?

[Welsh Dan]

That would be the A55?