How To Drive: The perfect B-road

We sometimes drive for days to find them, enduring hours of motorways and dreary dual carriageways en route. And when we reach them it will sometimes be raining or foggy, or both. Worse, there will often be other actual people around when we get there, driving mobile-homes and ordinary cars, all of them there for the sole purpose of spoiling our fun.

But that’s the thing about B-roads: the best are rarely simple to access, and at certain times of the year they are rarely quiet during daytime hours. So you need to work hard to find them, long before you’ve turned so much as a wheel in anger across any. Patience is a vital ingredient in not just finding but getting the best out of the perfect B-road. As it is with all good driving in the end. And it’s worth it.

So let’s say you’ve put the research in, identified and reached your perfect B-road. Let’s also assume you’ve started early enough to avoid the traffic and arrived at a time when everyone else is either still in bed or contemplating climbing back into it. What next?