[Skud Kid]

Looking to start a newcastle meet in april and maybe continue evry month, meeting at washington services then on through chester le street and accross to stanhope. There is some great country roads up there and a few good pubs and cafe's as well as a cracking chippy. Even if you just meet at the services and dont fancy the drive get yourself there so we can all meet the members we talk too

If anyone is interested i can arrange it and do a map layout of a journey we could take, any input would be great to keep everyone happy

Names and dates would be good too

Mark

[e3silversurfer]

Looking to start a newcastle meet in april and maybe continue evry month, meeting at washington services then on through chester le street and accross to stanhope. There is some great country roads up there and a few good pubs and cafe's as well as a cracking chippy. Even if you just meet at the services and dont fancy the drive get yourself there so we can all meet the members we talk too

If anyone is interested i can arrange it and do a map layout of a journey we could take, any input would be great to keep everyone happy

Names and dates would be good too

Mark

we could do a drive along the coast since newcastle is so near the coast. But I think best to ask people if they prefer a challenging drive or just a drive with a good scenery. I prefer scenery over challenging route. Have setup my car to be able to capture videos by the way So I will most probably be attaching a digital camera to my car to flim the drive (got my pc hooked up in my puma for this purpose as well).

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[e3silversurfer]

@Mark:

I wouldnt mind going with a recce on the route with you if you need someone to accompany

[1an]

family still lives up in Newcastle, can't wait to try stevenage to newcastle in the Puma ,

some nice coastal routes up there, beware of tractors!

[e3silversurfer]

I was thinking either a drive at around cumbria/ durham country side, or the costal route from north shields/ whitley bay up to somewhere say holy island?

[Skud Kid]

Well the coast is good but you tend to get alot of chavs along that route. The durham/cumbria route is good but something that came to mind is the a69 route, thats very nice too. What you think ?

[e3silversurfer]

Hmmmm I havent been to the A69 route before but I wouldnt mind going for a recce with you this weekend if you want . I have just been on microsoft virtual earth and did a little readup on A69 surroundings and Must say it looks quite promising : http://www.northern-pennines.co.uk/eden.htm it has good scenery and good spots for photographic people . Also the A69 route is pretty long therefore not sure where you would like to start and where you would like to stop haha.

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This post has been edited by e3silversurfer: 20 March 2007 - 06:16 PM

[Skud Kid]

Well the A69 heads up towards slaley hall and you can get on the alston roads and head west. Cant do recce this weekend as the boot build is being fitted in durham and its gonna take the full day not including the retrim.

Can do next weekend though

[angelxxx]

Can you not bring it a little further down for those of us nearer north yorkshire and Teesside? as i know there are a cpl down this way

[e3silversurfer]

I travelled down to Leicester last weekend for the puma meet all the way from newcastle . Well we could bring it down but I was hoping I dont have to travel too far this time. Hmmm you can suggest a route for us as well . anyway the point of us organizing a up north is because we need to recce the route and it is not very "economical" for us to go down and test drive some far away route I hope you understand what I mean . Well I wouldnt mind the drive but I think it would be difficult for the organizers if the route is far away from their area.

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[angelxxx]

i get wjat you mean but i have a son so tend to not be able to get out for as long as most so cant do meets far away unless i can get him watched for a whole day which is rare, route wise depends what you want theres the 689 etc

[Skud Kid]

If you can think of a good route then we can recce it and see what its like, i dont mind the drive wherever it is

[P7 TNY]

Washington is not Newcastle

[e3silversurfer]

Washington is further down from Newcastle . How many of us are there in the North? I think at most there is only about 7 or 8 of us that I know of at the moment.

Elvin

i get wjat you mean but i have a son so tend to not be able to get out for as long as most so cant do meets far away unless i can get him watched for a whole day which is rare, route wise depends what you want theres the 689 etc

You can bring him along never had kids on the meet before. Just make sure he is all buckled up and well could let him hold the camera for fliming the route or taking photos while you are driving .

[angelxxx]

Dont you think if i wanted to bring him along i would have said anything? Have you not thought that going to a meet is something i might want to do to have some time to myself?

Anyway it dont matter i cant be bothered to go to this kind of meet ill go to a different one cheers now!

[angelxxx]

Most that know me will realise i dont take any advise over the wellbeing of my son from other people, esp those that i dont know, thats my reason for not bothering with this meet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[e3silversurfer]

Most that know me will realise i dont take any advise over the wellbeing of my son from other people, esp those that i dont know, thats my reason for not bothering with this meet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm, sorry I didnt realise that I am being too bossy. Apologies Angel. My dad used to drive me around to meet his friends and therefore I had this impression that other people might like it as well.

@darrenspalmer

I am not the organizer of this meet. Just a helper I believe.