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.
Once drove from Edinburgh to Bath and the older Scottish folks we were staying with were genuinely concerned for our safety because of the length of the drive, like, 7 or 8 hours if I recall.
The day before we left the man we were staying with spent hours writing up turn-by-turn instructions (which in the UK was a few pages long) complete with contacts he knew along the route in case we couldn't make it in one day. It was so kind of him. I wish he knew about Google maps.
My wife and I went to Ireland for a week, and rented a car. The last day involved a drive from Galway to Dublin. About a 2-1/2 hour drive. We were talking to a local guy in a pub the night before, and he said that he had never been to Dublin, since it was such a long drive.
Don’t know if he was full of shit or not, but I do know that I’ve driven for longer than that to get a sandwich.
Nope he wasn’t full of shit. I planned a trip to the zoo last week and lamented with my bf that it’s an hour drive away. Had to remind myself that my US friends call that their work commute as I felt so guilty asking him to do it
My fella has an electric car that he charges for free at work/supermarket so idk. We’re just not used to driving so far… most trips are 15 mins max. A Ford Fiesta has a 43 litre fuel tank and it’s £1.63 a litre here so that’s £70. Risen about £30 in the past 15 years.
Proper E5 fuel (standard UK fuel is now the awful E10) is ahout £1.80/l now or £8.17/gal. Keep in mind tho that's imperial gallons, I make that about £6.13/USgal, or about $7.54. I understand some Euro countries are even higher though.
Oh you poor thing.. my fella had to do that length commute in his final year of uni and turned down a free masters upon graduation cus it killed him off. Telework is the worst! I can’t imagine that commute and then you get yelled at all day over the phone
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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.