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I got my usual commute train home from london, it was full of people with kids and big cases as it goes on to crewe
some of my fellow passengers were particularly noisy
We made it back in good time today, little busy round Preston etc but good weather for it and got home before dark.
M6/M74 weren’t too bad today. Here now in time for Duvet Know It’s Christmas on Bluesky.
Left Fife around 3pm down to the Peak District, I think overall that's the quietest long distance drive I've done in a very long time. I guess most people headed out early.
What made it take years then - Google Maps suggests about 4 hours? Did you go through the fabled land of Shropshire where time runs differently?
The reason I wrote "Christmas mornings" instead of "Christmas morning" was in the hope of avoiding the obvious smart alec reply. 😉
For the past 20 years we’ve gone “home” to Edinburgh from London. Aside from occasional holiday period roadworks I’ve never found the traffic to be an issue - once you take the trucks and commuters off the road there’s all the space in the world for perceived nervous women in zafiras*
I suspect there’s some confirmation bias going on for some folks here
As I'm a sad git I looked at the traffic overlay on Google maps yesterday around 3pm and all major roads were green. Same this morning.
Not travelling, but feel like I should just for the novelty.
We'll generally travel up to the Highlands from Chesterfield once or twice a year. We find that heading off at 5am is great heading North, as we get to Westmorland services in time for breakfast then hit the outskirts of Glasgow after rush hour. After that it's generally plain sailing.
But heading South it's crap as the A1 is inveriably chocker in the day and is always awful round Leeds.
So far so good for me really. Pretty much a normal drive each way to and from my sister's house.
However it's forecast for snow early in the new year so maybe all the total chaos is being saved until then? The local press are already doing their clickbait headlines of "exact time SNOW BOMB is forecast to hit Derbyshire with 6 INCHES in places!"
Run back down the road yesterday was fine too, though temps of around 1deg C over Beattock were interesting.
Bourg Saint Maurice to Pau via the Massif Central with two of us in the Zoe this time. 12h driving and 5h charging. The temperature varied from -3 to +4, my humour varied from Zen to rage red when the only non-Tesla fast charger we tried to use wouldn't start which sent us off route to a Tesla. About half of the autoroutes/voies rapides we'd hoped to use were barricaded by farmers despite France Inter telling us they were open. I lost count of the number of radars crawled past on the slow roads - though the farmers had covered some with tyres or vandalised them. And to think I used to enjoy driving.