As some of you may know my g/f goes to Uni up in Stoke-On-Trent so I tend to travel up there quite a lot, usually in the car on the boring M4-M5-M6 journey. Seeing as it's going to be a nice weekend this weekend I've decided to go on the bike and take a slightly more scenic route...up early on Sat morning (leaving home about 7 so hopefully some nice clear roads) and back Sunday afternoon.
Would welcome any comments or suggestions on these routes...I'm sticking to the Motorway through Birmingham just so I bypass Birmingham nice and quickly
Home to Stoke: (quite a lot of motorway so I get there faster)
Up to Bath M$ junction, straight over and follow A46 towards Cheltenham
Onto M5 at J11a, follow M5 then M6 through Birminham
Off M6 at Stafford, follow A34 then A500 to Stoke
Stoke to Home:
A500 then onto A34 towards Stafford
Onto M6 at J14, then follow M6/M5 through Birmingham
Off M5 at J7, follow A44 towards Evesham
Follow A44 past Evesham and then right onto A429 at Moreton-In-Marsh
Pick up A429 towards Cirencester then down to Chippenham and A350 back to Trowbridge
The way up is slightly less important..I've deliberately put in some big motorway miles because I need to be there as early as poss, but hoping to leave Stoke Sunday about 1pm and spend the rest of the day stopping off wherever looks a nice place for a photo :P
