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Midlands Breakfast club 26th April
Followed by a drive out and Lunch
Sunday April 26th is the Midlands Breakfast club held at RAF Cosford, Just off the M54 and East of Telford.
A free meeting held there from 8.30am offering a very relaxed and wide range of cars of various ages and genre. http://www.midlandsbreakfastclub.co.uk/ http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/
Added to this is the fabulous Cosford museum including the stunning Cold war museum, certainly worth a trip on its own and again offers free entry to all. Aprils date is expected to be a really good turnout and we have been offed prime parking spots within the show.
We plan to attend the show and after giving you plenty of time to view the museum and cars venture off, I'm planning to leave the museum at about 11am. Having driven the route the start of the day is the slower roads getting you into the swing of things.
We will firstly meander across Shropshire firstly to Ironbridge. http://www.visitironbridge.co.uk/worldheritagesite.aspx
We'll stop for 30 minutes for a chat and photo opportunity.
Upon leaving the Iron bridge we will meander along the Wrekin valley and the spectacular views of the Longmynd to our lunch stop that offers a great value carvery at £8.95 for adults along with other meal options. http://www.klicksolutions.co.uk/clients/dine/tr/dining.html The drive along the Wrekin is a great road with plenty of space and winding bends after the long straight that is the Wrekin. The lunch venue has a large plentiful parking.
Lunch is approximately 120 minutes from the start (including stops)
Some people may wish to just sample the day and join us for Lunch, I have no problem with that as long as you do book your lunch sitting as it is a very popular venue, especially with other car clubs.[]
The Longmynd is wide open bushland with passing places offering panoramic landscapes for miles.
Crossing over the Longmynd offers some great open spaces sometimes a little too open!
The view over the other side as you come back down, I'm not sure what the plastic posts would actually do?
Following on from Lunch its some great flowing roads into Wales with plenty of hairpins to try your hand at. The directions are easy and the road is challenging. The driving time from the lunchstop is approximately just over 1 hour before we stop at an award winning Tea shop for afternoon tea and scones, all hand made and picnic benches in the gardens to enjoy.
After running the route today, Ludlow seems an ideal finishing point as it allows the group to go its separate ways in all directions via the motorways. I will be heading towards the M5 south/M42/M40 over some great roads and forest sections.
The route is 140 miles and about 3 hours of driving pleasure, with stops and dinner I would imagine finishing for 3.30pm
You will see that I have altered the route in order to finish earlier in the day than originally proposed.
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Followed by a drive out and Lunch
Sunday April 26th is the Midlands Breakfast club held at RAF Cosford, Just off the M54 and East of Telford.
A free meeting held there from 8.30am offering a very relaxed and wide range of cars of various ages and genre. http://www.midlandsbreakfastclub.co.uk/ http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/
Added to this is the fabulous Cosford museum including the stunning Cold war museum, certainly worth a trip on its own and again offers free entry to all. Aprils date is expected to be a really good turnout and we have been offed prime parking spots within the show.
We plan to attend the show and after giving you plenty of time to view the museum and cars venture off, I'm planning to leave the museum at about 11am. Having driven the route the start of the day is the slower roads getting you into the swing of things.
We will firstly meander across Shropshire firstly to Ironbridge. http://www.visitironbridge.co.uk/worldheritagesite.aspx
We'll stop for 30 minutes for a chat and photo opportunity.
Upon leaving the Iron bridge we will meander along the Wrekin valley and the spectacular views of the Longmynd to our lunch stop that offers a great value carvery at £8.95 for adults along with other meal options. http://www.klicksolutions.co.uk/clients/dine/tr/dining.html The drive along the Wrekin is a great road with plenty of space and winding bends after the long straight that is the Wrekin. The lunch venue has a large plentiful parking.
Lunch is approximately 120 minutes from the start (including stops)
Some people may wish to just sample the day and join us for Lunch, I have no problem with that as long as you do book your lunch sitting as it is a very popular venue, especially with other car clubs.[]
The Longmynd is wide open bushland with passing places offering panoramic landscapes for miles.
Crossing over the Longmynd offers some great open spaces sometimes a little too open!
The view over the other side as you come back down, I'm not sure what the plastic posts would actually do?
Following on from Lunch its some great flowing roads into Wales with plenty of hairpins to try your hand at. The directions are easy and the road is challenging. The driving time from the lunchstop is approximately just over 1 hour before we stop at an award winning Tea shop for afternoon tea and scones, all hand made and picnic benches in the gardens to enjoy.
After running the route today, Ludlow seems an ideal finishing point as it allows the group to go its separate ways in all directions via the motorways. I will be heading towards the M5 south/M42/M40 over some great roads and forest sections.
The route is 140 miles and about 3 hours of driving pleasure, with stops and dinner I would imagine finishing for 3.30pm
You will see that I have altered the route in order to finish earlier in the day than originally proposed.
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monty
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okellyt +1
AlexL +1
jbm
PeterK
EHE + 1
Terry
Lancerlot +1
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