I just pootle around Wiltshire when I have nowhere specific to go. If you get off the main routes there are some surprisingly fun roads, just spent the last 2 hours with the wife pillion and I doubt we got further than a 20 mile radius from home though covered 80 odd miles total
I do the same. Just follow the front wheel for a bit.
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