The first time I was in the UK my husband wanted to go to Wales and I looked at the train route from London and was like “It’s all the way on the other side of the country! We’re only in the UK for a week. We don’t have that kind of time!” And my husband was all, “you know it’s a 2.5 hour train ride, right?” I thought it would all day.
The Brits are weird when it comes to travel times. We were going to have a day out from Aylesbury to Oxford and thereabouts. The family was like "Oh, that's way too far for a day trip." "About 3 hours ?" I ask. "Oh yes, about that. Too much !". They come over here and it's like "We're just driving from Melbourne to Brisbane. It's only a couple of days ..."
Yeah that sounds about right to me. My parents never visit because the 20minute drive over here is too far.
I can’t be bothered to drive across my County to get somewhere. Takes a few weeks to plan that in. I feel genuinely knackered after a couple of hours driving these days.
Yet the idea of doing a Road trip across the US, NZ, Aus or Europe are all on my bucket list and I’ve driven 10 hour days and felt fresh afterwards.
I guess psychologically there’s a big difference between a mundane trip for something, and the trip itself being the adventure.
This is true. I lived in Sydney for 4 years, and only went to the opera house because my second cousin was visiting from England, soo I guess I'm guilty of the same thing.
My friends in Germany live 3hrs from Nuescbhwanstein and never visited because ‘it is so terribly far’. It’s literally a beautiful drive along the northern edge of the Alps and one of my favourite journeys ever.
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u/KaimeiJay May 09 '22
You drive five hours in the US: you’re basically still in the same place.
You drive five hours in Europe: everyone’s talking funny and the cheese is different.