Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The Hollow-Way


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This is absolutely my favourite road to drive at the moment. Holloway Lane, the Hollow-Way, from Turville to North End.

I see if I can power up it in one go, clean, without having to halt and find a passing place to accommodate a car coming the other way.

If you have to pull over from the narrow tarmac, you get into thick leaf-mould. Once, extracting myself from that on the way up meant I spun a shovelful of dirt into the back bumper with a satisfying squeal of wheel-spin.

The first time I drove up here a large fallow deer clopped across the road in front of me.

On the way there and back there is one of the best views of Oxfordshire from the road near Cowleaze wood, especially at sunset.


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