I enjoy driving and one of my very regular routes is across country from Somerset to NW Surrey (Z's manor) where we used to live (a few hundred yards from Z it seems), and have family, and back again, I also worked in Basingstoke for a while so was doing much of it almost daily.
The reverse is Ottershaw to Chobham to Lightwater, M3 to the A303, A303 to Stonehenge and then across Salisbury Plain through Shrewton and Chittern to the A36 at Heytsbury, then past Longleat on the A362, then A361 to Cranmore (home of the East Somerset Railway) and then on the back roads over the Mendips bypassing Shepton Mallet and Wells, lots of great driving roads. I'll occasionally get to Longleat and think damn, 45 mins to go, though I'll usually be in the zone and think damn ONLY 45 mins to go. Any car can be enjoyable on this route, the Focus ST made easy work of it, the 2.0 Clio III was ideal, nice close gear ratios and the '05 BMW 120i has done the journey more times than I could ever count and is always great to steer through the twisties, as is of course the M135i.
Last edited by: Hard Cheese on Fri 29 Sep 17 at 10:51
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