(16 Mar 2015, 7:33 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote then the motorway to the Lakes. Bit of a ride around Kendal, Keswick, then head up to Carlisle before using the motorway back to the north east

Eh? A66 and A69 motorways?? We're not that developed you know!!! A69 is a 30mph to 50mph windy narrow track road, depending on what slow-moving vehicles you get stuck behind! (Whole section from just outside Carlisle [Scotby] to Hexham is single-carriageway, albeit with a few crawler lanes along the way)