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Road trips! - John1.4 - 03-09-2013
as you guessed from the title, me and the family are currently on the way north, 300 miles yesterday, another 250 today, and if you've looked at the post time, it's REALLY early, but I've got to make thurso for 7am to catch the ferry, (meaning ofc I miss the highlands as I whizz by in the dark) just wondered if anyone else has done a mentally long trip (for fun not work) and where you went etc
mine - Bridlington to Eday, involving 550 miles, 2 ferries over 3 days, with 2 children getting grumpy in the back
RE: Road trips! - cully - 03-09-2013
are we there yet!
RE: Road trips! - Stephen - 03-09-2013
That's pretty long, I drove to fort William and back the other week, was only 900 miles in total. Good fun though
RE: Road trips! - swampy - 03-09-2013
Peterborough to Salou in Spain
1250 miles over two days
RE: Road trips! - 4WayDiablo - 03-09-2013
Longest I've done is Portsmouth - Newcastle which was just over 350 miles each way and that was hell enough!
RE: Road trips! - C2K - 03-09-2013
I drove to Bodmin to buy a car from Peterborough, stopping in Southampton to buy some wheels. I had to fix the car when I was there as the water pump was dead, then drive with my mate back to Peterborough. 760 miles in 13 hours, inclusive of fixing the car.
RE: Road trips! - Jonny81191 - 03-09-2013
I did kendal to Portsmouth to Watford to Portsmouth to kendal last weekend. About 800 miles all in.
Re: Road trips! - THE_Liam - 03-09-2013
I'm in Cornwall just now, 400 miles here from Leeds and 400 miles back next Saturday.
RE: Road trips! - bigcheez2k3 - 03-09-2013
Did John O'Groats to Lands End last year on a 50cc moped. South London to JoG, then onto Lands end then back to South London, around 2000 miles in 10 days. Only the middle bit was on a moped, but the other vehicle was a 60's/70's VW motorhome so not exactly quick either. Did it with a load of people from the internet I hardly knew.
Start of this month did South London>Norwich>Leeds>Nottingham>Cardiff>Cornwall>South London all in a week. We moved every day except for Cornwall as we were at a festival. This one was a little different as it was with friends and the vehicle choice was a bit better suited to the journey. We were also in Premier Inns every night except the festival which was nice as the moped one I slept in a tent every night. About 1075 miles in the week and I did all the driving as it was my dad's car.
RE: Road trips! - Poodle - 03-09-2013
Approximate route for my summer holiday about 4 years ago, camped every evening, stopped at La Rochelle for a day to get some surf, apart from that we (my best mate) pretty much drove solidly between breakfast and dinner every day for a week, was awesome.
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Link fail, can someone delete that for me please lol.
Basically it was about 1300 miles.
RE: Road trips! - Toms306 - 03-09-2013
Longest road trip I done was 1 week after my test, ipswich to benfleet (southend)....about 60 miles each way, more than enough in a 1.4 haha!
2nd longest was ipswich to norwich last year....just a bit shorter....but done in a standard HDi with a broken MAF. I've had several motorway cruisers and not done any distance in those haha.
RE: Road trips! - pugjohn306 - 03-09-2013
I did manchester to munister in germany ok it was for work but was a fun drive not sure on the distance but i did it in 10 hours..
RE: Road trips! - Dum-Dum - 03-09-2013
Me and my dad did Hayes to Arrochar and back to do some painting on their other house which is about a thousand mile round trip
RE: Road trips! - vlj - 03-09-2013
doing Nantes, France to castle combe next week, also did the ridiculous Lyon trip with Jonny and a few years ago did Sydney to Melbourne!
RE: Road trips! - 306Puggy - 03-09-2013
Longest road trip was taking my old man to work in Wiltshire from Kent lol. 326 mile round trip, was quite fun TBH. Wouldn't want to have to do those kind of distances regularly though. Long drives are best enjoyed occasionally lol.
Re: RE: Road trips! - Tyronnster - 03-09-2013
(03-09-2013, 05:34 AM)Stephen Wrote: That's pretty long, I drove to fort William and back the other week, was only 900 miles in total. Good fun though
Yeah crazy drive I do bolton to Inverness every few weeks to see my son
RE: Road trips! - vento85 - 03-09-2013
My longest journey has to be driving to Nordkapp in Norway. 2356 miles there; was a pretty cool road trip.
RE: Road trips! - Mykel_C - 03-09-2013
Longest i've done is about 180 but more importantly what you going all that way for eday to do? haha
Road trips! - Jonny b - 03-09-2013
I done this
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Sorry about pic I couldn't rember em all lol
Oh yeh stopped at nurburgring on way back lol
RE: Road trips! - Jonny81191 - 03-09-2013
TBF, the most epic ever road trip was when Vaughan and I went from Andover to Lyon and back in a rental van to go and collect my car that had blown up
In under 24 hours.
RE: Road trips! - Niall - 03-09-2013
Done 470 miles overnight on a callout a few months back. That destroyed me!
Total ive done is about 550 in a day.
RE: Road trips! - samass - 03-09-2013
i did Aberdeen to Airdrie, to Burton, to Milton Keynes, and then back again last weekend, round about 1000 miles round trip. mind you it was a 1300 mile round trip for me for FCS this year
and before that i did watford to prescott hill, to macclesfield, to airdrie, to aberdeen. and at somepoint ill be going to london or bournemouth or southampton from aberdeen...
Re: Road trips! - kentiiboii - 04-09-2013
Home to Castle combe. About 450 miles I covered that weekend
RE: Road trips! - 306carter - 05-09-2013
Leeds to Milton Keynes to Nairn near Inverness then back to Leeds. About 1000mile about 16hours did that in one day.