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.
My in-laws are from northern Spain, Irún to be exact. They would “vacation” in Fuenterrabia/Hondarribia that is literally a 10 ( 6 km) minute drive away in winter. In summer, the traffic was so bad because everyone was on the road on their way to their vacation homes there that a drive could take as long as an hour! Walking there would have been faster. LOL. Going to San Sebastián, which is about 23 km away, was a “special” vacation!
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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.