Bored, frustrated and stuck in Blackheath, SE London......

[pdsquire]

Sorry, I can't organise this now as I've got to look after my daughter.

I've got v little off-road experience so this is gentle. I've done it on a knobbly-tyred XR250 with a pillion so if there hasn't been much rain, resentful or uncomprehending partners might be persuaded to sit on the back of an XRV.

Plan was a combination of Chaucer's Pilgrims' Way and the real one (Winchester to Canterbury), so starting at Borough High Street and taking the A2 to New Cross (Chaucer so far) then taking the A21 and A224 to Otford in Kent (not the Way at all) and picking up the real Pilgrims' Way (metalled at this point) which runs ESE from the junction immediately NE of the station.

Thence past Kemsing and on a variety of surfaces with wonderful views to the E part of J2 of the M2 (it's really two junctions with one number. There's a popular biker caff between the two roundabouts at the E end).

I tend to take the motorway to J6 but you can wiggle round Trottiscliffe etc, finding the odd lane. Either way you pick up the Way by the White Horse Stone by the A229 (1500m N of J6) and go via Detling, Thurnham, Hollingbourne & Charing Hill to Dunn Street where the track becomes illegal. So far it's been more or less a straight line since Otford.

You need to get round Eastwell Park and pick up the Way at Soakwell Farm, NE of Boughton Aluph (It has in the meantime turned from SE to NE. Note for another day the nearby tracks on the Crundale Downs, NE of Wye).

Follow the Way to Dane Street and if you take the metalled road into Canterbury it would only be right to have a cuppa from a Thermos outside the cathedral!

There are a few welcoming pubs on the way and you can blast back to the beginning along the M2.

Hope someone pulls it off.

[Whealie]

Anybody fancy this? I'd go for a meet at Otford though and start from the. Meet about 10.30 Sunday for a leisurely day out?

If not, it will be a day in the garage for me. In which case pdsquire, bring your daughter round here to say hello to mine (10) and we can have a cuppa and a chat.

[Robster]

I'm not going to be able to make this now either...got some urgent jobs to do and time's running out before Xmas.

Looks like I'll have to wait now until the New Year to get the DRZ properly dirty , tsk

[Whealie]

looks like the garage for me then.