Thanks, finally got it. I knew it was just another case of me not seeing the route. Before I was getting clipped at the edges of the broken statue brige and that bounced me in such a way that I never managed to get the right angle.
I don't know if it's just me, but I've had several times where I had trouble figuring out how to get from Point A to Point B. Maybe it's GWars, or maybe I'm just topologically inept.