👍 to all the later posters, I had no net access for the mini-vacation but I'm back home now after an awesome ride home (typical for a GTPer I enjoyed the journey about as much as the destination). For those interested, I took the A5 all the way pretty much, up through the rolling hills and valleys of Wales. It's a truly beautiful place and the road itself is hardly a let down either, well worth taking over a dual carriageway (the A55 for me) and it's 20 miles shorter but takes roughly the same time.