Stoke to Nantwich avoiding dual carriageways

agrinnall

Mercdriver wrote: »

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Or buy from any train operating company that doesn't charge the fee that The Trainline does.

woolythoughts

Hand your drivers licence back as you shouldn't be behind the wheel

AdrianC

Sorry, but I'm going to jump on the "tough love" bandwagon here.

Stoke to Nantwich is less than 18 miles.
There is an obvious route going straight from A to B.
Sure, there are back routes, but most of them will inevitably involve going through Newcastle.

If somebody has passed their test, yet their confidence is so low as to make them unwilling to take such a basic route, and is incapable of looking at a roadmap to figure out their own alternative, then I do question whether they are suited to holding a driving licence.

We've all known their kind... people who refuse to ever drive anywhere except to and from work and the supermarket, and will go some bizarre route to avoid turning right or avoid roundabouts... I even worked with one person who, when the company moved the office about two miles, actually resigned because they didn't know their new commute - and they were gutted at "having to", because they professed to loving their job.

The correct solution is more driving lessons, with a sympathetic instructor who can help to instil confidence and get over these mental blindspots.

kazwookie

More lessons
Take a train
Take a bus
Take a taxi
Get someone else to drive you there.

MEM62

SirMixAlot wrote: »

Hi,

Does anyone know the best route from Stoke to Nantwich for someone who is a nervous driver and wants to avoid dual carriageways?

Thanks

If you avoid dealing with something it will become an even bigger fear / issue. Also, I would voice the opinion that, if you are not sufficiently competent to use dual carriage ways without anxiety then you should not hold a driving license.

Consider some additional driving lessons aimed at correcting those areas of driving that are causing you issues.

Manxman_in_exile

Car_54 wrote: »

Indeed. The default limit is 70.

Thanks!


I was "old" when I passed my test and we had a walking holiday in the Scottish Highlands planned (c. 2500 miles in two weeks).


I was a bit apprehensive at having to do my share of the driving (hadn't been on a DC) so booked a whole day's session with an instructor as a "refresher". Worked wonders and I had no problems doing my share on the A1. That one holiday (and extended lesson) did wonders for my driving. My wife couldn't get me out of the car afterwards!


When I was learning, a work colleague told me cautious driving was good, but nervous driving was potentially dangerous.


I don't know how "nervous" the OP is, but if the roads are unfamiliar to them, I'd take a DC over a SC any day - I think they're much safer.

agrinnall

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

...we had a walking holiday in the Scottish Highlands planned (c. 2500 miles in two weeks).

Crikey, that's some pace! :rotfl:

Manxman_in_exile

agrinnall wrote: »

Crikey, that's some pace! :rotfl:

It was nearly 19 years ago and we were much fitter! It wasn't so much the running up and down Munros and Corbett's that was the problem, as running between them. :rotfl:


Funnily enough, on one of our walking holidays we nearly ran over Hugh Symonds. If it had been a DC he wouldn't have been there!


http://www.hayloft.eu/running%20high.html


We hadn't caught the Munro bug then, so didn't know what this loonie was doing!

agrinnall

I don't know that book, or him, but I have a couple of others that recount continuous treks, Martin Moran's The Munros in Winter and Mike Cawthorne's Hell of a Journey.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Munros-Winter-Martin-Moran/dp/1905207697


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hell-Journey-Through-Scottish-Highlands/dp/1780270356

Manxman_in_exile

agrinnall wrote: »

I don't know that book, or him, but I have a couple of others that recount continuous treks, Martin Moran's The Munros in Winter and Mike Cawthorne's Hell of a Journey.


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Munros-Winter-Martin-Moran/dp/1905207697


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hell-Journey-Through-Scottish-Highlands/dp/1780270356[/QUOTE]


Symonds' book is a really good read. I didn't realise but the link I gave suggests that the book had become really difficult to find. There was also a really good TV documentary about his run as well.


Martin Moran's book is also excellent. My wife went on a walking course run by him (or actually his wife - he was climbing in the Alps at the time) in the early 1990s. She loved it.


We both couldn't believe it when he was reported to have fallen off the roof of his house in Lochcarron while doing some repairs!


Sorry - going a bit too far off topic now...