The A50 from around Stoke to Nottingham is a good bit of road and then down the M1 to the A14. It depends where you are coming from in Wales but it misses Birmingham which can be a pig in peak hours unless you opt to pay on the M6 Toll Road. You can still pick up traffic at either end of the M6 Toll though.
Surely it would be better to do... M50 out of Wales... M5 | M42 up and around Birmingham where you can link up with the M6, then jump on to the A14 and A11 across the country and up to Norfolk.
A40 is simply taking you towards the M25 where you might as well go round and then back up the M11
Even if the latter stages are slow (A14, A11) it must be better than heading south to the M4, then East towards London & then the M25 around Watford etc - there are always queses from Heathrow to Watford & the M1 - then you have to get to the M11, unless (as mentioned above) you go up the M1. just makes no sense.
I was in wales when England won the infamous Rugby World Cup in Australia. Charlton were at Leicester that day & I left the Harlech area around 11 am and went through Welshpool, onto the M54, then M6 & finally up a liitle stretch of the M1 to Leicester. No problem.
@razil I do a drive from Cardiff to Solihull (off M42 Birmingham) twice a month. If you leave outside of rush hour you can do that in two hours. From the M42 follow the advice provided by @ForeverAddickted
The drive from Llanllwni to the m50 is likely to take a good few hours going through Brecon unless you cut down onto the M4 then back up at a449/a40 which is fast to the m50. But at that point question whether it's worth staying on the M4 and using the m25 - your call but those look like your two best options.
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Joins the M1 at the M6 and had to use it because of a huge crash on the M25 so went along the A14 to join the M11.
Really busy though
A40 is simply taking you towards the M25 where you might as well go round and then back up the M11
I've ignored their advice at my peril in the past.
A: Straight down the M4 mate.
I was in wales when England won the infamous Rugby World Cup in Australia. Charlton were at Leicester that day & I left the Harlech area around 11 am and went through Welshpool, onto the M54, then M6 & finally up a liitle stretch of the M1 to Leicester. No problem.
The drive from Llanllwni to the m50 is likely to take a good few hours going through Brecon unless you cut down onto the M4 then back up at a449/a40 which is fast to the m50. But at that point question whether it's worth staying on the M4 and using the m25 - your call but those look like your two best options.