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‘Any day with a
Spitfire in it has
to be a good day’
P Enjoying the rises and falls
and lefts and rights of Kennel
Hill, close to Goodwood
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Fancy galloping to Goodwood? Austin will set you right...
Best time of day pay a price like that in an upmarket venue like
to saddle up Goodwood. Also the White Horse in Midhurst
“Late Saturday afternoon or just off the 272. It’s a nice spot to meet for a
early Sunday morning. good coffee. It has plenty of outside seating.”
Through Loxwood — on a sunny day it’d Saturday mornings are out as
be nice to stroll along the canal banks here. people who don’t drive in the And remember...
“It’s all very stockbrokery,” says Austin. week turn out and don’t expect motorcycles.” “You can turn right or left pretty much
“But it is pretty.” It is too — chocolate box anywhere along this route and find quieter
villages, duck ponds, more cricket Best bit backroads if you just want to potter along and
pavilions. We pass a beautiful old timber “Petworth to Wisborough Green is excellent, if avoid the main roads. Be careful though;
and brick manor; no Victorian fakery here, there’s nothing on it. But everyone assumes there's open war between cyclists and cars.
this is the real deal. I remember my earlier it’s all traffic and 40 limits and stays away.” The 4x4s don’t have the patience and pull out
real-estate calculations and realise I have to overtake regardless of cars or motorcycles
to revise them downwards... Hold yer horses at... coming the other way.”
We’re winding down now. Coming into “After Petworth there’s a long straight (but
Guildford, it seems the budget for mowing with lots of side turnings) before a nice couple
verges and roundabouts has run out, and of curves, but there’s a dangerous junction
so has our time. Austin’s off back to that needs care. Aside from that it’s a bit
Thames Ditton and I have an appointment restricted because it’s the South East.”
with some beer down near Swindon.
“People say it’s too crowded here, he says.” Best place for a nosebag
“But if you have the right attitude, don’t “Goodwood Motor Circuit. Inside by the
hassle people — and don’t hassle yourself airfield, there’s coffee and a really nice
— it can still be a lot of fun.” breakfast for £11.25. You wouldn’t expect to Goodwood café; home to
He’s right, you know... possibly the UK’s most
expensive bacon baps
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