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Del Lardo
13-07-2009, 17:03
Inspired by a question on Radio 1.
What's the furthest you've been on a day trip (i.e. started at home, went somewhere and then returned home on the same day). To keep it simple I have got distances as the crow flies.
My top three:
Distance from Cambridge, England UK to Helsinki, Finland is 1082.4 Miles
Distance from Cambridge, England UK to Lisbon, Portugal is 1043.3 Miles
Distance from Cambridge, England UK to Rome, Italy is 932.5 Miles
All involved crawling out of bed at 2-3am and getting home just before midnight.
This may help calculating distances. (http://m.happyzebra.com/distance-calculator/)
I expect to get beaten by someone who has done a day trip to the US ;)
Sounds like a waste of time. Why not spend longer there?
Home to Stockholm = 868 miles
If I think about driving rather than using a plane, then it'll be Sacramento to Los Angeles = 385 miles each way (using driving miles rather than as the crow flies)
Sounds like a waste of time. Why not spend longer there?
Because work schedules can necessitate a day trip. Or in the case of my trip to LA - because LA is a complete and utter toilet and I wanted out of there.
We did a day trip to the Ducati factory in Bologna once. Flew out from Stansted, had a day at the factory, then drove on to the Ferrari museum and then flew back home again, all in the same day :D
Was a great day out.
I drove to Blackpool from London and back in a day, I think it's about 250 miles each way so not that far really but my furthest round trip was Clacton to Brentwood, to Clacton, to Brentwood, to Gatwick, to Belfast, to Edinburgh, to Gatwick, to Clacton. That was the day the Nimda virus hit us badly.
Del Lardo
13-07-2009, 17:38
Sounds like a waste of time. Why not spend longer there?
Work rather than pleasure. My idea of a holiday is spending time at home only moving off the sofa to obtain/drain beer.
Hmmm, not that far in comparison. Furthest is Chelmsford to Liverpool ~220 each way, with Chelmsford -> Leeds at 200 each way. Not had to do either of those journeys in one day for a few weeks though.
Briggykins
13-07-2009, 17:45
I pale in comparison to most of you. About 238 miles each way would be my record (Plymouth to London).
Just Swansea to West London for me, nothing major. Although still rather tiring to do in one day!
Did do Swansea to Buxton to Luton in one day too, but doesn't really count as I didn't return to Swansea the same day.
leowyatt
13-07-2009, 17:52
Liverpool -> Felixstowe -> Liverpool so not far compared to you mega milers ;)
Del Lardo
13-07-2009, 17:56
Just been chatting about this to one of my mates and I think he wins (or rather he would if he'd done it in one day).
Distance from Munich, Bavaria Germany to Beijing, China is 4838.5 Miles
Flew to Beijing, did 2 hours work, flew home.
Creature
13-07-2009, 18:03
Langford > Windsor > Langford > Southend > Langford > Lincoln > Langford
479.8 miles total, was a long day, and had a very numb arse come 11pm.
Because work schedules can necessitate a day trip. Or in the case of my trip to LA - because LA is a complete and utter toilet and I wanted out of there.
I associate day trip with voluntary holiday :(
I haven't had to do many day trips. Now, if you count continuous trips that stretched out over time...
I went all the way around the world. But it consisted of a three year stop in Australia and one year in Glasgow. :)
Newbury -> Liverpool -> Newbury. Visiting a certain exhibition by the name of 'Port of Culture' ;) Can't remember if I did it via Reading or London.
That's a pittance compared to my longest one-way in a day. Cairns (Australia) to Newbury. I am somewhat stretching the definition of day as it started and ended in different time zones and neither started nor ended at midnight. :)
Bristol to scunthorpe and back. ~400miles in a 0.9litre fiat chinquecento.
Stan_Lite
13-07-2009, 22:34
Not sure about the distance (I think about 250 miles each way) but the longest round trip I've done was Newcastle to Aberdeen and back by train - done it a few times.
Done Portsmouth -> Belgium -> Portsmouth in a day before, so about 400 miles round trip. Was giving a guy from work a hand getting some duty free baccy.
Not sure about a single round trip, but my car has done 13,000 miles since the end of April, then again my job is mostly driving.
Stan_Lite
14-07-2009, 07:23
Not sure about a single round trip, but my car has done 13,000 miles since the end of April, then again my job is mostly driving.
Blimey :shocked:
I hope you have a comfortable vehicle. I did just over 1,100 miles last week in my MR2 and I realised just how uncomfortable it is driving for long periods. It's a lovely car but not designed for long distance cruising.
When I was driving taxis many years ago, it wasn't unusual to do over 1,000 miles in 2 shifts at the weekends but that was in a Mondeo and much more comfortable.
London -> Paris -> London would be the longest for me, took the Eurostar. 217 miles each way. Caught the second train of the day out, and the penultimate train back (much cheaper than the first and last trains!)
A previous girlfriend of mine decided to take a youth group up to Alton Towers for a day trip from mid-sussex (crazy woman.) That's around 200 miles of driving each way, and roughly 4 hours assuming good traffic. Up early and set off at 4:30am, arrived at 9am, spent the day at the theme park, stayed for a gig they were doing there, left at 8pm and got back at 12:30am. That'd be crazy enough, but to do it with a youth group in tow, a bunch of noisy boisterous 10-14 year olds tiring you out around the theme park? Insane woman ;D
London to Athens - though I was "awake" for 24hrs it wasn't REALLY a day trip, well... I left home at 4am to get the flight at 640am, arrived and worked till 3am then took the 6am from Athens home. Does that count?
Distance from London, England UK to Athens, Greece is 1464.2 Miles
Total: 2928.4 miles
Otherwise I've done Dozens of trips down to Nice and Palma and Barca, Amsterdam, Bremen, Hamburg and Viareggio for day trips.
If you believe this CO2 crap my footprint was huge! :D :cool:
Blimey :shocked:
I hope you have a comfortable vehicle. I did just over 1,100 miles last week in my MR2 and I realised just how uncomfortable it is driving for long periods. It's a lovely car but not designed for long distance cruising.
When I was driving taxis many years ago, it wasn't unusual to do over 1,000 miles in 2 shifts at the weekends but that was in a Mondeo and much more comfortable.
It's a Skoda Fabia, and it is surprisingly comfortable, better than the Kangoo van they used to provide :D
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