Start planning your road trips!

HOTEL PRICES HAVE DROPPED AND THE OPEN ROAD IS BECKONING. HERE ARE FIVE BRILLIANT DRIVES TO TACKLE AS SOON AS LOCKDOWN LIFTS!

WE GET IT. You’ve played so much Gran Turismo that wisps of smoke are starting to bloom from the back of the PlayStation. All of your model cars have been built, and destroyed, then built again. And you’ve spent so much time working your way through the ‘greatest car movies of all time’ list that you now know Bullitt is a truly terrible film (car chase aside, of course). The metaphorical walls are closing, though mercifully there’s one avenue you haven’t explored: planning where to drive once the lockdown lifts. This is serious business. You’ll be tempted to return to your tried-andtested routes – familiarity is reassuring, after all – though we’d challenge you to think bigger. So go on, expand your horizons. Fire up Google Maps, jump on Airbnb and start planning. To help, here are five brilliant places to drive, chosen not only for their challenging tarmac but because they aren’t obvious. Some are well-known to enthusiasts, others less so, but you’ll need to think bigger than an afternoon jaunt through the National Park. Go on, you’ve earned it.