fast bloke

your road system is a complete f***up.

Left St Tropez at 6.00am on Thursday. Arrived Calais (780 miles) at 5.30 on Thursday evening.

Left Dover at 11.00 am on Friday. Arrived M25 (60 miles) at 12.30

Continued on M25 to M1 (50 miles) Arrived M1 at 4.00pm

Gave up after crawling at 30 MPH to Birmingham and then coming to a complete standstill for 30 minutes.

Resumed journey at midnight in the hope that there would be no traffic. STILL got held up in roadworks taking 8 hours to complete the last 250 miles. (Last 120 miles from Penrith to Cairnryan took 2 hours)

You guys should all really consider getting bicycles

Little Miss WRX

If I were you, I would have stuck with using the car.

pugoetru

thats why we are thinking of going to france





lifes to short to wait in traffic halve the time

Witchfinder

Our roads are being ruined by "traffic calming". It's all part of a ploy to cause congestion in order to justify charging.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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fb

Shh!!

Don't tell the people here - they might want to try & find some empty roads - like in Ireland

& 2 hours from Carlisle to Stranraer?

Pah! Used to take me just over the hour from Carlisle & that was with the wiggly roads

brickboy

Yep, when you drive in France it really makes you realise that it's 5 times the size of the UK, with the same number of cars ...

Apparition

There are roads other than Motorways and you can get along pretty swiftly on those.

ChrisB

Too true - local knowledge is a winner.

For a starter for ten, avoid the M6 through Birmingham unless it's past midnight and before 4am!

fast bloke

PTMW - I thought 120 miles in 2 hours was quite good in a 4 ton motorhome that doesn't go above 80.

ChrisB

Is that with or without the duty frees?

fast bloke

3.6 ton 'dry' weight. 4 with all the junk you take on holidays. Probably about 6 if you consider we spent a couple of days in the tasting caves in Chateauneuf-da-Pape sampling and buying France's finest, followed by quick trolley dash around the Eastender in Calais