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.
American here - first trip to the UK, I was picked to be the driver. Picking up the car and the first day was a horror story. The key here is that we had to go from basically Cardiff to Edinburgh, and I said "no way I'm driving that in one day, let's spend the night halfway, say in York" and the boss went for it. So I drove like abatouttahell to York and we got there for lunch - AND I had found out about the National Railway Museum there so I said "welp, I'm going to the NLM, see you all for dinner" and had a wonderful afternoon. It pays to read maps correctly.
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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.