Matt Prior

A reader writes to ask if I could recommend some good driving roads on his way to and from Wales.

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And I will, by direct message, but not, if you will forgive me, in print, because advertising driving roads widely (even though I know I've done it) is almost universally a bad idea.

It's a shame, because one wants to share the love, no? Like an amazing restaurant: my goodness, you must go there. But some roads are just so well known that for all of the sensible drivers and riders, there will be a few who drive and ride badly and let us all down.

Early one morning recently, a farmer stopped to shout at me while I was in a car park cleaning a Lamborghini because he assumed I was going to spend the day driving on local roads like a pillock, which is what some visitors do. I wasn't, but while I tried to explain this, slightly hurt at being yelled at, I understood his annoyance. We don't share where this road is – it's just good for photography - but people do, so drivers go there, some drive dangerously and it wouldn't even be on my private 'recommended' list. One day they will drop the speed limit and install cameras.