what did you do with your fazer today ?

[Grahamm]

Yesterday I was up in Bristol, surfing at the Wave Pool near Cribbs Causeway.

I was supposed to be there today as well, but after getting heat stroke after a 2 hour ride in the blazing sun, a 1km walk from the car park to the pool itself and then sitting in the sun having a lesson and waiting for the waves, I decided that discretion was the better part of valour and cancelled today's booking and headed home after staying over at the Holiday Inn.

I made a (fortuitous) goof, because when I got onto the M4, I glanced down at the instruments and suddenly realised I'd forgotten to tank up (I'd planned to do it after I'd finished today's surf session).

So I took the next turn off, towards Bath and found a place to fill up, then decided that, because it was a bit cooler due to a bit of overcast, rather than head back onto the motorway, I'd carry on the way I was going because I knew there were some nice roads around that area.

I ended up on the A46 to Bath, then headed across to Chippenham, before taking the Devizes Road and the A342 down to Salisbury (stopping off at Netheravon to complete the current round of the FOC-U Bike Picture Challenge ) and finally taking the A36 south to pick up the M27.

I really need to find a better route from Salisbury, though. The A36 is pretty boring these days and the M27 is utterly tedious because they are upgrading it to a "smart motorway" (although I noticed at least one sign where the word "smart" had been removed!") and it's all 50mph average speed cameras at the moment and probably will be for the next year or so...

Still, I had some fun on some nice twisty roads which was welcome :thumbup