One Day Driving Distance?
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I've just done a couple of long drives and both seemed enough.
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
I haven't done any long drives in a while but on Saturday drove from Surrey to Verbier with my 11 year old next to me. Took about 11.5 hours for 608 miles including stops.
It was pretty comfortable really. I was in a 2016 911 and I really had no aches or pains. Also Apple Maps routed us over the Jura mountains on back roads from Poligny (?) to Lausanne which was an enjoyable route after the monotony of the autoroute.
Longest attempted drive was from 30 miles north of Barcelona to London in a Ford Escort 1.6GL. Left at about 0830 and eventually caved and stopped at a Formula 1 motel around Paris at midnight. Set the alarm for 4am so as to make a pre 7am ferry crossing - it was cheaper and the girl I was with made it clear I wasn't getting any action!
Longest by bike was 510 miles from Brasilia heading north towards Belem. Not a single mile of motorway, mostly single carriageway with lots of trucks to overtake. Lots of potholes too. 13 hours riding in total having set off at 7am. I managed to get my riding gear off, one beer and piece of bread and then out like a light. We arrived lunchtime on the third day. Google reckons 1969km and as the temperatures were in high 30s I felt every one of them.
It was pretty comfortable really. I was in a 2016 911 and I really had no aches or pains. Also Apple Maps routed us over the Jura mountains on back roads from Poligny (?) to Lausanne which was an enjoyable route after the monotony of the autoroute.
Longest attempted drive was from 30 miles north of Barcelona to London in a Ford Escort 1.6GL. Left at about 0830 and eventually caved and stopped at a Formula 1 motel around Paris at midnight. Set the alarm for 4am so as to make a pre 7am ferry crossing - it was cheaper and the girl I was with made it clear I wasn't getting any action!
Longest by bike was 510 miles from Brasilia heading north towards Belem. Not a single mile of motorway, mostly single carriageway with lots of trucks to overtake. Lots of potholes too. 13 hours riding in total having set off at 7am. I managed to get my riding gear off, one beer and piece of bread and then out like a light. We arrived lunchtime on the third day. Google reckons 1969km and as the temperatures were in high 30s I felt every one of them.
bolidemichael said:
The bike journey, two things come to mind... why? and… how?
We actually started in Sao Paulo but had loads of punctures and bike trouble the first couple of days so I omitted that bit. It was part of a trip to ride the length of the Amazon upstream from mouth to source arranged by my sister-in-law and her partner as a film documentary for the Brazilian market. The bikes were BMW 850GSs loaned to us by BMW but they couldn't supply them in Belem and the idea of trucking them to the start fell through, so we rode them instead.
Unfortunately I crashed and broke my leg between Santarem and Humaita so I missed the infamous road to Manuas and the river trip to Peru where the remaining bikes were unloaded and they carried on up into the high Andes.
bolidemichael said:
I've just done a couple of long drives and both seemed enough.
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
What do you find confusing about the Dutch road network out of curiosity. This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
I've just done a couple of long drives and both seemed enough.
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
What do you find confusing about the Dutch road network out of curiosity. This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
* opinion may be considered subjective
GM182 said:
We actually started in Sao Paulo but had loads of punctures and bike trouble the first couple of days so I omitted that bit. It was part of a trip to ride the length of the Amazon upstream from mouth to source arranged by my sister-in-law and her partner as a film documentary for the Brazilian market.
The bikes were BMW 850GSs loaned to us by BMW but they couldn't supply them in Belem and the idea of trucking them to the start fell through, so we rode them instead.
Unfortunately I crashed and broke my leg between Santarem and Humaita so I missed the infamous road to Manuas and the river trip to Peru where the remaining bikes were unloaded and they carried on up into the high Andes.
If your Sister-in-law and her partner ever want to do another documentary like that again, let me know. Sounds epic! You should do a thread on it! The bikes were BMW 850GSs loaned to us by BMW but they couldn't supply them in Belem and the idea of trucking them to the start fell through, so we rode them instead.
Unfortunately I crashed and broke my leg between Santarem and Humaita so I missed the infamous road to Manuas and the river trip to Peru where the remaining bikes were unloaded and they carried on up into the high Andes.
The two that stick out in my memory from recent years are:
1100km from Europort Rotterdam to Helsingborg (just down the road from Koenigsegg).
A few big stints in Germany at 125mph helped, but it wasn't a difficult day. About 12 hours total.
1300km from Madrid to Caen.
The ferry home from Spain had caught fire and so was cancelled - the options were to stay another 6 days (!) or drive closer to home and pick up Caen/Cherbourg/Calais. Caen was an overnighter to Portsmouth so a relatively easy 13 hour run was done and dusted, including a lap of the public road part of the LM24 circuit (just to break the monotony of the Autoroute).
1100km from Europort Rotterdam to Helsingborg (just down the road from Koenigsegg).
A few big stints in Germany at 125mph helped, but it wasn't a difficult day. About 12 hours total.
1300km from Madrid to Caen.
The ferry home from Spain had caught fire and so was cancelled - the options were to stay another 6 days (!) or drive closer to home and pick up Caen/Cherbourg/Calais. Caen was an overnighter to Portsmouth so a relatively easy 13 hour run was done and dusted, including a lap of the public road part of the LM24 circuit (just to break the monotony of the Autoroute).
I posted earlier in the thread as I did 520 miles in one day with a trip from Yeovil to Münster, Germany in December 2022 which was my personal best! I actually beat that record with 528 miles when I made the same journey last December because of a slight roadworks detour but didn't think it worthy of updating.
Anyway, next month I am returning to Münster for my third European drive but will be making an onward journey east during my visit to just outside Leipzig. The return to Yeovil will be direct from there so by my calculations should be around 700 miles not including the channel crossing. I've booked the channel tunnel this time to save some time and because I've never used it, so something new. The ferry is a bit long and boring to be honest so the extra cost will be worth it I think. Lots more daylight hours for this trip will be nice compared to the previous two.
So yeah, new personal best incoming hopefully!
Anyway, next month I am returning to Münster for my third European drive but will be making an onward journey east during my visit to just outside Leipzig. The return to Yeovil will be direct from there so by my calculations should be around 700 miles not including the channel crossing. I've booked the channel tunnel this time to save some time and because I've never used it, so something new. The ferry is a bit long and boring to be honest so the extra cost will be worth it I think. Lots more daylight hours for this trip will be nice compared to the previous two.
So yeah, new personal best incoming hopefully!
shirt said:
but by far the worst, about 800km across guinea in a single sitting, from up nearish the mali border to conakry. i was told it was a 2 day trip with an overnight stop. f
k that, set off at 2am with a hilux and driver and by 7am we were halfway there. brilliant i thought, but then the next 400km took 13hours. the roads were so bad that they dictated the average speed and it was just awful, my insides were like soup at the end.
The anniversary of this popped up on my fb feed recently. k that, set off at 2am with a hilux and driver and by 7am we were halfway there. brilliant i thought, but then the next 400km took 13hours. the roads were so bad that they dictated the average speed and it was just awful, my insides were like soup at the end.
Worst part was nearing Conakry when we stopped for a quick no.1 and the driver just drove off without me and I didn’t have his number. Quite why he thought to do that when we were in a 2 seater pickup is anyone’s guess.
I think my longest trip is actually Barcelona (circuit de catalunya) to Amsterdam. Did this twice in consecutive years. Roughly 1500km / 930 miles. In a transit van with a trailer and race car on the back. Monotony in the extreme but still preferable to the above.
Edited by shirt on Thursday 11th April 21:51
bolidemichael said:
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
I've just done a couple of long drives and both seemed enough.
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
What do you find confusing about the Dutch road network out of curiosity. This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
* opinion may be considered subjective
Another question, that speedo looks famililar. Is that an AMG?
bolidemichael said:
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
I can easily imagine that having family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in your car could get tiring after a while!NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
I've just done a couple of long drives and both seemed enough.
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
What do you find confusing about the Dutch road network out of curiosity. This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
* opinion may be considered subjective
Another question, that speedo looks famililar. Is that an AMG?
LunarOne said:
bolidemichael said:
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
I can easily imagine that having family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in your car could get tiring after a while!bolidemichael said:
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
I've just done a couple of long drives and both seemed enough.
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
What do you find confusing about the Dutch road network out of curiosity. This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
* opinion may be considered subjective
Another question, that speedo looks famililar. Is that an AMG?
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
NSNO said:
bolidemichael said:
I've just done a couple of long drives and both seemed enough.
This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
What do you find confusing about the Dutch road network out of curiosity. This was Hook of Holland to Füssen by the Austrian border. It was quite relaxing, but morning rush hour in The Netherlands makes the confusing road network worst still (waze barely accommodates any of the long names on screen!). Also, German autobahnen are tiresome with endless variable limits and roadworks.
This was from Salzburg to Nürburg and was bloody tiring, with a car full of family, road works, traffic jams, speed limits and heavy rain in places.
A lot of it comes to how congested the roads are and how fine the weather is, I'd say. Additionally, the ambience in the cabin!
* opinion may be considered subjective
Another question, that speedo looks famililar. Is that an AMG?
Did Halifax to Brive-La--Gaillard in France in 20 hrs including Ferry. 790 miles on the way to the Dordogne Brive was a 1hr short hop from the ultimate destination, but arriving at the camp site and setting up after a 20hrs driving was not on my list of priorities.
Part of the reason why it took so long was I was towing, and also I needed to carefully choreograph the journey to be able to stop for an LPG fill up every 250 miles. (or less).
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Part of the reason why it took so long was I was towing, and also I needed to carefully choreograph the journey to be able to stop for an LPG fill up every 250 miles. (or less).
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