The Deep is worth a look if you don't mind/can avoid the crowds of people
OT Well that's next weekends trip decided.
Apr 08, 2019
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Is there a more luxuriously smug, fee-based entry system for assorted southerners & huge?
Blood of Christ?
We are just going to use dice at the road junctions and roundabouts to decide which way to turn and after an hour an half of driving the just find the nearest hotel.
Sorry, but I'll be washing my hair.
Then throw a few more dice ;-)
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why not just turn the satnav off, and give your GF a map and get her to direct you to where you want to go, then after an hour and a half you'll be nowhere near anywhere instead ?.
A random walk is a very, very inefficient way of doing this. You'll end up surprisingly close to the starting point, compared to the distance travelled. As an example, if you average 60 MPH and there are 100 junctions/roundabouts, you'll have travelled 90 miles but can expect to end up around 10 miles from home.
You would do better to stick a pin in the map, then drive straight there in 10 minutes. :)
Yep. Can't think why but my first thought on reading Adam's post was "it's the "drunkard's walk"!
Could you be going to Blackpool? God help you, because if He can't, nobody else can.
No.
In general the square root.
??? how long is this journey? What does it matter how many =junctions otr runadbouts tehre are?
"you will have travelled 90 miles" in what - a lifetime?
Thanks for the advice. I had planned some rules to stop travelling in circles or travelling back towards home. However she has managed to stick a pin in the Humber so we decided that as Hull was the closest point then we are going to Hull.
It's about a 70 minute drive and we have never been before (I've worked there but not in the centre).
It will make a nice change.
It's on the to do list.
Not this time (see my other post). I'll have to take you for a pint some other time.
Because she's a Beaver leader and can read a map.
If I wanted to get lost I would let an apprentice navigate.
You leave Doncaster, drive up the A1 and arrive at Ferrybridge power station.
The apprentice then asks "Are we in Scunthorpe?"
Have fun where ever you are going. Avoid Bleakpool.
and there's an old (ex) North Sea Trawler moored on the river you can get a guided tour around, often by an ex crewman. Very interesting.
The museums along by the river near that trawler are well worth a visit to.
The trawler is the Actric Corsair - it's going in September.
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For going I think gone, that article is over a year old and the various works to conserve the vessel have started.
GH
ooops, so it is. Shame, I really enjoyed a guided tour around that boat, and scary to think of it out in atlantic storms.
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