Furthest you've been on a day trip - Page 3

Stan_Lite · 14-07-2009, 07:23

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Originally Posted by Dunketh

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

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.

Garp · 14-07-2009, 08:01

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

Will · 14-07-2009, 08:40

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!

Dunketh · 14-07-2009, 09:47

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Originally Posted by Bigstan

Blimey

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

14-07-2009, 08:01	#22
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	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 __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?

14-07-2009, 08:40	#23
Will BBx woz 'ere :P Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 2,147,487,208	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! __________________ *No No!*