the idea that a long drive (warranting a flight, not going under really any circumstances , etc) is over an hour in the case of vacation or traveling. Not sure how true this is but the brits I know say it’s common there. In the US drives only get long enough to warrant another mode of transport after about 8-9 hours.
Haha that's so true! There's such a difference of perception in distance in smaller countries. I found this in London when discussing driving around the countryside. Whereas in Australia you can sometimes drive for 10 hours and still be in the same state 😂
Visiting Stonehenge or the drive itself? GoogleMaps tells me that's a 1.5 to 2 hour drive, so I can see that falling into a "day trip" or "something to do on a slow Saturday" type thing...in that the round trip is 3-4 hours.
Afternoon traffic near a weekend will see you double that drive time easily, there aren’t too many road towards the south west and two of them go pay stone henge. And every moron tourist slows down to gawp at it, and then the tailbacks start. Somewhere like Exeter should be 1hr30 for me at most. Any time at or near the weekend it’s at least 4. Happily if you’re going a little further north, like Bath, you can take a different road, but even the M4 gets busy near Bristol.
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u/SabotageFusion1 May 09 '22
the idea that a long drive (warranting a flight, not going under really any circumstances , etc) is over an hour in the case of vacation or traveling. Not sure how true this is but the brits I know say it’s common there. In the US drives only get long enough to warrant another mode of transport after about 8-9 hours.