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Would anyone be interested in coming on a weekend driving tour in Wales

Having had a great trip away with members of the Thames Valley Region, some friends with 924s and 968s suggested they'd like to do the trip.
So this time it will be Transaxles only.

I already have routes (which may be slightly modified), a fantastic hotel and tour radios
The routes are all waypointed and ready to be installed into Garmin and many TomTom's.

It will be a three day trip starting on a Friday, with the routes heading through the cotswolds and across to our destination in Mid Wales. Roughly 4 hours driving, plus a stop for lunch.

Saturday is full on with around 5 hours of driving, plus stops.
Sunday is around 3 hours of driving before lunch, then all head home. Lunch stop will likely be around Ross on Wye

The hotel is the Metropole and it has full spa facilites, so any other halves that want to come along are welcome to spend the Saturday back at the hotel if they don't enjoy being a passenger (this option was taken by a few last trip and very much enjoyed)

The routes take in some fantastic fast A and B roads including different passes across the Beacons. There are also some much narrower mountain passes, which are tight and twisty and amazing fun.

Ok, so for the costs
Dinner Bed and Breakfast at £316 per room based on 2 nights for 2 adults (£79 per adult per night), evening meal is 3 course menu (choice of 4 starters, 4 main courses, 4 desserts, tea/coffee). If single occupancy rooms required rate at £208 for 2 nights.

The rooms are fantastic, none of this Travelodge stuff

There are still a few spaces left but there is a limit,

According to my phone calendar the 19th of september is a Monday....am I misunderstanding something?

David

I rather think (in fact I know) Jason means 16th-18th September.

I am "in". I had huge fun on the Thames Valley Region trip and can't wait to do it again

We cannot make it, we are on a trip round Ireland in the 968 which covers that weekend.

David

Oh nice . Where are you headed? I can give you some recommendations of good roads if required.


Im not around for that wales trip but it does sound like a good weekend

We are on an organised trip which starts at the Anglesey race track, then we ferry toDublin, stay overnight and go west across to the coast, then all round the coast going south, east across the bottom and north back to Dublin. All in all about a week. A couple of hours on the race track near Dublin and then over the water and home.

I was hoping we could come on the Welsh trip, but the two events overlap.

regards

David

Well, its just over a week away and we have our group of Transaxles ready to go

we have a 924 n/a, a 924S, a 944S2, my 924/68 and two 968s , pretty good mix i think

Here's a glimpse of Saturday's route,



A great mix of tight and twisty mountain passes, fast sweeping bends and a couple of passes over the Beacons

a full on day of what these cars do best


Anyone bringing a GoPro ?

The Brynamman-Llangadog pass is excellent! Used to live on one end and go to school on the other that was quite a while ago! Have a good trip.

I can bring one.

Just charging the tour radios



Weather is looking good and all I need now is to get my car back

I have to make my final decision on which car to take tonight. The S2 is the sensible option. Much, much, much more comfortable and more power for overtaking... but the 2.7 would be amazing around those twisty roads; I just don't know if I could stand 3 days of driving in it!

I will make my decission tomorrow

Well, as with most trips there are always a few things that don't go quite to plan.

Originally we had 6 booked on the trip with a 7th booking a few days before, sadly Mick cancelled due to health as did one of the others (a couple) and Trevor (924 2.0) had changed from a couple to a single. Leaving my other half as the only woman.

So from 7 cars we were down to 5 but that's not a problem, 5 people is a nice number to manage.
4 of us met up at Oxford services around 10am. A 968CS Richard, 944S2 GlennS, my 924/68 and Andrew's 924S a really nice cross section of the transaxle tree and due to meet up with Trevor and his 2.0 in 3 hrs.



A fabulous drive to our lunch stop through Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds. We had a nice lunch, met Trevor and then headed off.
Sadly Trevor blew a spark plug out of his block. Nice spot to pick in the middle of a 5 mile tailback on local A roads. Two of us were already past Trevor so we headed on to do some shopping (more later) and two stayed with Trev for a while while he sorted out Breakdown.

So now the Famous 5 are down to the Fantastic 4.
I am now in Aberystwith where I have a pre planned shopping trip and after a test drive I now have another Boxster that my other half Lindsay will be driving for the trip, there's always a reason to take your partner on these trips

The 968 and 924S are now following my pre planned satnav waypointed routes to our destination hotel (about 3 hours of fab B roads) . The rest of us also make our way to the hotel.
About 2 hours later than planned we arrive at the excellent Metropole hotel in Llandrindod Wells.
and enjoy a well deserved cool beer (think Ice Cold in Alex)



We had our own allocated parking area that was coned off for us on arrival, a shame that Richard parked the wrong way round

There's always one We make 'em turn around.

Looks like you had fun.