Donger
Convoi Exceptionnel
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
I've seen a bit of advice scattered around on different threads warning about road/cycle path closures and letting people know of local events/sights that they might not otherwise get to hear about. So I thought it might be useful to create a thread where you can warn each other of places/times to avoid, and advertise anything unmissable that might be going on in your neck of the woods.
I'll start the ball rolling, by recommending anyone who's thinking of visiting Gloucestershire to get themselves over to Soudley Woods in the Forest of Dean within the next week. The bluebells are at their best right now, and the woods are looking an amazing natural spectacle. Leave it more than a week though, and the ferns will outgrow the bluebells, and it's all over for another year as quickly as it started. There is a fantastic little 12-15 mile clockwise loop that you can do through the woods starting at Soudley, riding through the bluebell woods and calling in at Mallards Pike ( a lake/picnic spot where there is usually an ice cream van and a burger bar) before turning right at Speech House and again at Ruspidge. If you do it clockwise, most of the climbing up through the forest is gradual, and the last leg is wonderfully downhill.
I'll start the ball rolling, by recommending anyone who's thinking of visiting Gloucestershire to get themselves over to Soudley Woods in the Forest of Dean within the next week. The bluebells are at their best right now, and the woods are looking an amazing natural spectacle. Leave it more than a week though, and the ferns will outgrow the bluebells, and it's all over for another year as quickly as it started. There is a fantastic little 12-15 mile clockwise loop that you can do through the woods starting at Soudley, riding through the bluebell woods and calling in at Mallards Pike ( a lake/picnic spot where there is usually an ice cream van and a burger bar) before turning right at Speech House and again at Ruspidge. If you do it clockwise, most of the climbing up through the forest is gradual, and the last leg is wonderfully downhill.
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