Game: Name that road!

[ColinJ]

Indeed!

I organised this forum ride to go up there to watch the race go by.

 

[Aravis]

So that you can all go to sleep thinking happy thoughts, I'll post this one, taken on Thursday. Sometimes this game does feel a bit like looking for a needle in a prison.

 

[classic33]

Yep, it's there. You can see it just in front of the leading Lotto Soudal rider's bidon. Or more easily in this Street View image:

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It has the L6 pylon in the background.

 

[classic33]

So that you can all go to sleep thinking happy thoughts, I'll post this one, taken on Thursday. Sometimes this game does feel a bit like looking for a needle in a prison.

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The Halifax?

 

[ColinJ]

It has the L6 pylon in the background.

I was going to ask you about it, but I found Pylon nerd HQ HERE!

 

[ColinJ]

So that you can all go to sleep thinking happy thoughts, I'll post this one, taken on Thursday. Sometimes this game does feel a bit like looking for a needle in a prison.

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It's a nice picture. It looks like some places that I have been to in Scotland, but I think you probably wouldn't have been up there this week unless they have suddenly relaxed their travel rules...

Back to the maps!

 

[classic33]

It's a nice picture. It looks like some places that I have been to in Scotland, but I think you probably wouldn't have been up there this week unless they have suddenly relaxed their travel rules...

Back to the maps!

Seek the light, and don't mumble.

 

[Speicher]

It reminds me of the road leading to Lochranza, the A841 on Arran.

After looking at Bing maps, I mean the section of road between Lochranza and the ferry to Claonaig.

 

[Aravis]

The reason for the trip was to take my elderly mother-in-law to the funeral of one of her brothers. As five of the seven siblings survive, naturally she very much wanted to be there. So within the parameters of this game, it could be anywhere; nothing is off the table.

 

[Speicher]

"Off the table" is that timetable as in ferry?

Or a ferry that runs on demand, rather than to a time table? Which passenger ferry did I take across Loch Lynne?

 

[TheDoctor]

It doesn't look like Cape Town [Table Mountain]. Or like DunsTable, for that matter.
My first thought was Cape Clear Island, or a Hebride.

 

[Speicher]

Gallanach - Kerrera (500m)

Found it - Kerrera to Gallanach. At the end of the last century this was, if I remember correctly, an on-demand service running twice a day.

 

[ColinJ]

It doesn't look like Cape Town [Table Mountain]

That wouldn't be allowed - the challenge is for the UK only!

There would be some amazing roads from outside the UK but very little chance of any of us recognising (or tracking down) a dirt track in Cambodia that the Street View car will not visit until 2037!

 

[Speicher]

I was staying at Ballachulish when I took that ferry.

The sky is very blue, and it is very sunny, so I should be outside,

 

[ColinJ]

Gallanach - Kerrera (500m)

Found it - Kerrera to Gallanach. At the end of the last century this was, if I remember correctly, an on-demand service running twice a day.

Oh, you found the ferry NOT the road!

I caught that one in... (looks it up)... 2016!

Some of my thoughts about the area ...

• Kerrera: I nipped over with my family for a walk on the island. We had never been there before, despite our late mum coming from the area and us having spent many holidays there. The island was more interesting than I'd expected but we didn't have much time to explore because the ferry operators take a fairly long lunch break and we couldn't wait for them to finish that so we had come back before lunch. The ferry only takes about 10 or 11 people at a time, but they seemed willing to come back over to pick up anyone who couldn't get on. There is a noticeboard across the road by the car parking area and you can summon the ferry by sliding a board across as indicated. (They can see it from the island.) That car park is potentially lethal ... If a driver misjudges, there is nothing to stop their car going straight over the edge into the sea! Say hello to the ferry dog, Archie! (A big, hairy thing - an Irish Wolfhound, perhaps?)