Nice place to go tomorrow?

[Arch]

If you're up for a little bit of rough then you can get all the way round or just go up one side and then come back and do the other on tarmac and then pop across the road and go for a ride over round the Hope Valley area. Good cafe in Hope - The Woodbine.

I think that's a rather premature question if they've only just started going out....

 

[lanternerouge]

Hehehe no comment!

 

[bonj2]

Um, no there aren't -unless they are in the car parks which were so full we couldn't stop to read them. There really should be more parking provision there as there were absolutely no spaces and so many cars milling round waiting for one.

I've seen signs, they are quite small but you were obviously too busy looking for a space to see them.
Overparking spoils the countryside especially in somewhere popular and touristy like the peak district and fines for those who won't put this above their own convenience reflect that.

there shouldn't be more parking, because that would require some land that's currently enjoyed by something else to be given up to it. Would agree if there was spare land, but there isn't. You should drop the "someone should provide me with what i need" attitude.
If you'd gone 100yds further and turned right on the road to bamford there's a car park on the left there about 100 yds down which usually has some spaces . Alternatively there's the ladybower inn car park.

 

[lanternerouge]

I've seen signs, they are quite small but you were obviously too busy looking for a space to see them.
Overparking spoils the countryside especially in somewhere popular and touristy like the peak district and fines for those who won't put this above their own convenience reflect that.

there shouldn't be more parking, because that would require some land that's currently enjoyed by something else to be given up to it. Would agree if there was spare land, but there isn't. You should drop the "someone should provide me with what i need" attitude.
If you'd gone 100yds further and turned right on the road to bamford there's a car park on the left there about 100 yds down which usually has some spaces . Alternatively there's the ladybower inn car park.

Patronising, presumptious and nonsensical. Not bad in one post!

Fair warning and I have no issue with parking fines. No spare land? It would be simple to create little laybys where those verges are, for example.

Don't know the area that well, but find it incredible that you know where the spaces were on a day when you weren't there!

 

[bonj2]

Patronising, presumptious and nonsensical. Not bad in one post!

Fair warning and I have no issue with parking fines. No spare land? It would be simple to create little laybys where those verges are, for example.

Don't know the area that well, but find it incredible that you know where the spaces were on a day when you weren't there!

there are *usually* spaces there, I said. The reason being because it's slightly further away from fairholmes, which is where everybody wants to go.

 

[bonj2]

Fair warning and I have no issue with parking fines. No spare land? It would be simple to create little laybys where those verges are, for example.

What if other people using that land don't *want* to see rows and rows of cars parked there, whether it's a verge OR a layby? Spoils the scenery, you see.

 

[lanternerouge]

Both fair points Bonj. Sorry if a little hard on you above, not always happy to be told what I "should" think....

 

[Arch]

What if other people using that land don't *want* to see rows and rows of cars parked there, whether it's a verge OR a layby? Spoils the scenery, you see.

It's always ironic, isn't it, when the countryside people come to see is swallowed up by tarmac so they can park their cars before going off to see the countryside....

And where will pheasant hide prior to flying out through your front wheel, if there's no long grassed verge....

 

[haggard rider]

And where will pheasant hide prior to flying out through your front wheel, if there's no long grassed verge....

behind the tarmac matching elephant

 

[Arch]

behind the tarmac matching elephant

When I was a kid, we always went to Bradgate Park (outside Leicester, a big country park with deer and stuff) on Boxing Day. It was a sort of Leicester tradition, you drove out there, walked off your dinner from the day before and if any kid had got a bike, or roller skates, or a doll's pram for Christmas, they brought them to play on.

Unfortunately, eventually it got so that virtually the whole population of Leicester was trying to walk along the same main tarmac path while avoiding weaving kids on bikes, rollers skates etc. Add in the increasing popularity of RC cars underfoot, and over excited dogs, and it got to be more stress than enjoyment...

 

[andyfromotley]

Lantern rouge, thats Bonj's way of saying, 'hello, glad you enjoyed the ride, bit of a pi$$er about the ticket'

 

[lanternerouge]

lol thanks for the translation andy!

 

[al78]

Patronising, presumptious and nonsensical. Not bad in one post!

Fair warning and I have no issue with parking fines. No spare land? It would be simple to create little laybys where those verges are, for example.

Don't know the area that well, but find it incredible that you know where the spaces were on a day when you weren't there!

He does have a point though, once you start pandering to the car culture too much and start encouraging more and more people to drive there you can end up ruining the place through traffic congestion, if nothing else.

If you decide to visit again would going by train be feasible? Bamford station is not far from Ladybower and if you wanted a particularly challenging ride you could cycle to Marsden via the Strines road. The advantage of the train is that you are not restricted to circular routes.

 

[Archie_tect]

Can I suggest from Alnmouth [East Coast line station] through Craster taking in Dunstanburgh Castle to Embleton then up the coast to Bamburgh and Holy Island then across the Tweed at Berwick and get the train back home? ....or maybe next year?

 

[Over The Hill]

Take her in the woods and see if she bonks