Guys – quick update.
I got out on Sunday and used the route card
http://www.hants.gov.uk/rh/cycling/abbotstone.pdf
Nothing taxing – and as it goes it linked a few byways that I bumbled along on last year when we stayed.
One thing – the route card and map (as they tend to be) was okay but not exact.
I took a wrong turn in the bit that links Nutley to Dummer (between sections 13 & 14) which is estate / farm land. My own fault – I was in a hurry as I had just fixed a puncture – when I realised that I had made a mistake. I went to turn around and retrace my steps on the concrete road I had been on for 1500 meters or so, and I was challenged by a farmer / estate worker.
He would not let me retrace my steps, and in an aggressive manner he escorted me out of the estate and onto a nearby B road.
The farmer gave me his opinion on all the cyclists that make that same wrong turn – telling me that we all miss the @@@king big sign (I felt like saying if it was that obvious we would not be having this chat).
Any way benefit of the doubt that I was the straw that broke the camels back – I was on private land – he may well on another day be a nice chap.
Don’t get lost in order to find out.
G