Where did you wish you were not?

[G3CWI]

Cycled for a few miles along the North Wales Expressway by mistake on Saturday. I really did not enjoy it at all. The bit with no hard-shoulder was very very horrid. I came off at the first opportunity and straight into a traveller village with no through road so I had to rejoin the carriageway. SH*T. Yuk yuk yuk.

I hope that I will not make that mistake again - ever.

Have you ever been anywhere you regretted?

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Miles from nowhere with a hole the size of Mars in the back tyre.

 

[Bobby Mhor]

On top of a hill playing radio

 

[MikeW-71]

A66 whilst riding to Centerparcs. On an MTB. With knobblies.

The original planned route required only about 300 yards of this road, but I stupidly decided to try a different way when I got down there and ended up on the 66 just after a DC section ended with about 1.5 miles to do. Mostly uphill. Into a headwind

After a frankly terrifying 10 minutes spent on the rivet at a painfully slow speed, with lorry drivers queueing up behind thinking I must be a nutcase, I turned into the park entrance and sat down in a panting mess.

Next time I'll stick to the plan. 300 yards can be sprinted in less than a minute

 

[TheDoctor]

My personal worst was going skiing in Romania.
The snow was dreadful - icy in patches, rocks sticking through, cruddy in every way possible.
The food was awful - potatoes that had gone yellow with age, meat that was tougher than a char-grilled Marathon Plus, no veggies that weren't pickled and no fruit at all.
The wine was red, rough and sweet, ffs...
One afternoon, after a swim in an Olympic-size pool that was lit by three working fluorescent tubes and about a hundred burnt-out ones, we were in a bar miserably nursing some beers, when a familiar piano-and-bass line came on.
Dum dum dum dubba-dum dum. Dum dum dum dubba-dum dum.
The start of 'Under Pressure'
And I thought 'OK, things are bad, but there's always hope. There's always Queen.'
And then the vocals started. 'Yo, collaborate and listen...'
Vanilla. farking. Ice.

 

[Hip Priest]

Any time I've been overseas! I get terribly homesick.

 

[alans]

As a result of AlNav failure ( I missed a TL leaving Pitlochry southbound) & had to proceed onto the A9.
I didn't wait for the next exit.I after a very short distance & shouldered the loaded tourer,legged it over the Armco,a field,a farm gate & onto a nice quiet lane.

ETA I also did the same thing leaving Inverness but persevered with the A9 for several miles until I reached the sign for Tomatin.

 

[G3CWI]

[QUOTE 3088069, member: 45"]In a tiny, stinky, fithy fibreglass sixties cruiser in Norfolk, in Apri[/QUOTE]

You have my sympathy. I have been there and done exactly that. It was our worst holiday ever. It was remarkable that we remained married afterwards.

 

[flissh]

Summer before last on the Kennet & Avon canal in a boat with three others for a week in end to end p1$$ poor weather. As the week went on, confined in the small canal boat we drank more and more. Result, me most mornings with my head down the toilet chucking up as had mother of all hang overs!
Sadly, the sewage storage area was filling too, and head in the pan was not a nice place to be

I'm sure when the weather is nice a canal boat holiday is lovely.

 

[gavroche]

Work

 

[vernon]

I'm sure when the weather is nice a canal boat holiday is lovely.

Not when the family you are sharing with are going through a marriage breakdown and trying to hide it from their kids and my wife falls off the barge on day two and I was unable to stifle the giggles while trying to be sympathetic.

 

[Maverick Goose]

Work

+1 on that-another interview coming up though!

 

[MontyVeda]

Under a fast flowing river weir... having capsized a canoe... stuck in a torrent that went round and round... unable to breathe or swim out and thinking "This is the end." ... popping up and regaining consciousness twenty or thirty feet down stream really was a relief, as much for me as it was my friends.

 

[stuee147]

A66 whilst riding to Centerparcs. On an MTB. With knobblies.

The original planned route required only about 300 yards of this road, but I stupidly decided to try a different way when I got down there and ended up on the 66 just after a DC section ended with about 1.5 miles to do. Mostly uphill. Into a headwind

After a frankly terrifying 10 minutes spent on the rivet at a painfully slow speed, with lorry drivers queueing up behind thinking I must be a nutcase, I turned into the park entrance and sat down in a panting mess.

Next time I'll stick to the plan. 300 yards can be sprinted in less than a minute

iv travelled the A66 thousands of times luckily in cars vans and lorry's but never a bike and i hate it every time not a nice road at all

 

[Hyslop]

Standing knee deep in a patch of nettles this afternoon.I didnt do this deliberately you understand,the saddle was squeaking like a banshee,I had had enough and got off to shout at the saddle,stepped back and the result was painful and noisy!Typically,as this happened,2 cars left the nearby garden centre and a runner came round the corner, all aghast at this mad cyclist.I wouldnt care but next to a garden centre?Surely the roadside should be ablaze with nice flowers not those nasty,anti social things.No dockins either i noticed,and I can still feel them now!