DragonCol Saturday 13th October

Im pleased to announce the details for DragonCol.

This is an event to commemorate our good friend Colin CJ Jones who passed away recently. Colin was a long standing member of the club and has provided us all with some great memories. Unfortunately he lost his fight against cancer and was not well enough to be with us on DragonBall 2012.

So as a way of remembering Colin I have created a route through Wales, starting in Shrewsbury and finishing by going across the Severn Bridge and in to Bristol for an evening of rememberance in a style to which Colin would have appreciated!!

We will be collecting for Macmillan Cancer Support which was Colin's chosen charity. More details on how to donate shortly.

I will be staying in Shrewsbury on the Friday night, ready for an early start on Saturday morning. These are the hotels available in or near Shrewsbury for the FRIDAY NIGHT. Saturday night will be in Bristol and details on that hotel will be available shortly.

Travelodge Shrewsbury Bayston Hill Hotel (right next to start point)

Travelodge Shrewsbury Battlefield Hotel (about 7 miles away)

Premier Inn Telford (about 15 miles away but better quality)

8.30am meet at Dobbies Garden centre on the A5 in Shrewsbury

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=52.681417,-2.760959&hl=en&sll=52.681794,-2.760186&sspn=0.00934,0.01811&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=16&t=m&z=16

9.15am leave and follow this route

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Unknown+road&daddr=52.33127,-3.59844+to:Elan+Valley+Visitor+Centre&hl=en&ll=52.508699,-3.162689&spn=0.600136,1.159058&sll=52.329675,-3.540001&sspn=0.150644,0.289764&geocode=FYrbIwMdxN7V_w%3BFQaDHgMdmBfJ_ynZg3ofyOpvSDGZj8jfe8GPOw%3BFViRHQMdNn7J_yGFbwictcPCsilZXBf9PcBvSDGFbwictcPCsg&oq=elan+va&mra=dpe&mrsp=1&sz=12&via=1&t=m&z=10

12 noon arrive at Elan Valley Visitors centre. They are happy for us to stop there.

Stay there until 1.15pm then depart on this route arriving at Pant Cemetery for 3pm

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Elan+Valley+Visitor+Centre&daddr=52.2920323,-3.5291713+to:Route+46&hl=en&ll=51.907002,-3.36319&spn=0.318562,0.614548&sll=51.776816,-3.381729&sspn=0.039935,0.076818&geocode=FViRHQMdNn7J_yGFbwictcPCsilZXBf9PcBvSDGFbwictcPCsg%3BFcDpHQMdLSbK_ylBiUaaxsFvSDHxNZ3CI4sNEw%3BFekGFgMdO7HM_w&mra=dme&mrsp=2&sz=14&via=1&t=m&z=11

Arrive at resting place for 3pm, and leave at 3.30pm along this route, stopping at the services just before the bridge to regroup

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Route+46&daddr=51.7662155,-3.3438208+to:Unknown+road&hl=en&sll=51.596055,-2.860479&sspn=0.040095,0.076818&geocode=FbYGFgMddbHM_w%3BFcfjFQMdNPrM_ynrdBFJ2TpuSDFRwFpg8S5gcg%3BFdIrEwMdvrHU_w&mra=dme&mrsp=2&sz=14&via=1&t=m&z=14

then leave the services at 4.45pm along this route arriving at the Holiday Inn Filton

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?saddr=Unknown+road&daddr=Filton+Rd%2FA4174&hl=en&sll=51.504362,-2.541168&sspn=0.010044,0.019205&geocode=FYgrEwMduLLU_w%3BFQbrEQMd-0XZ_w&mra=dme&mrsp=1&sz=16&t=m&z=16

and arrive at hotel for 5.30pm.

Drinks in the bar at 7pm and from there it will all get a bit hazy.

Hotel has now been chosen for the Saturday night. It is the Holiday Inn Filton near Bristol.

We have a group discount, details of which will be posted up here shortly.

Routes above have been adapted to take in to account the stop at Colin's resting place and the trip to the hotel for Saturday night.

Hi John will the route be available as a download for tyre like Dragonball ?

Yes, Im going to try to do the Tyre thing this weekend and then test it on my TomTom.

Cool

Pleased to announce that the TomTom ITN files are now available in the attached zip file.

Download the zip file, unzip the 4 files in there (they are tiny files less than 1k each), then connect your TomTom and open up the drive it creates in My Computer, find the ITN folder and copy these 4 files in. Then when you need them just to go Itinarary Planning and choose the file to start with.

DragonCol TomTom ITN files - copy to ITN folder on satnav.zip

and these are the Garmin files

DragonCol Garmin Itinarary Files.zip