Furthest you have travelled in a car
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2200 miles. I spent £500 on petrol and a significant but forgotten amount on Road Tax, but on previous holidays and work trips I would gaze out of the window of the plane thinking "that looks lovely down there, I wonder what it's like?"... My missus hates flying so it wasn't hard to convince her too 
We did a camping holiday where we drove down to Palavas-les-Flots (Mediterranean cost of France near Montpellier). That was 820 miles down over 2 days, bedding in at a hotel in the Loire valley around halfway. It was mostly autoroutes, and on the way down a rush-hour situation on the Peripherique where we nearly ran out of petrol... A perfect storm of French rush-hour madness, a 60 litre tank and a 300bhp Vauxhall Vectra. Nowadays I would know better and give Paris a wider berth :-)
Anyway, 820 miles across England and France was a wonderful journey. We saw a lot of beautiful countryside in both countries, we saw the River Loire, we crossed the Tarne valley over the Millau Viaduct, we saw green fields turn to less-green fields, then lifeless mountains, then vineyards and finally palm trees. We saw lorries overheating and cars slugging for power on the mountainous autoroutes, and even saw an old classic (if memory serves it was a 1930s Packard) way up at a service station at over 1000 metres altitude. I wanted to find the owner and congratulate him but time was pressing.
We then had 500 miles of driving around the Languedo-Roussillon coast of France, and for the return journey we went cross-country as far as the Loire Valley though beautiful, tree-lined B-roads that would have been a perfect caricature for southern France had striped-jersey onion sellers been pedaling along them, then motorways (avoiding Paris) back home. So all-in around 2200 miles, mostly over 4 days but some over the intervening week or so.
I also did a 1000 mile route where we went to Brugge, then Luxemburg, then Rotterdam, then down the Zeelandbrug route back to England. It wasn't the most efficient tour, but we had friends to visit and a short time to do it so hey... three birds, one stone.
We did a camping holiday where we drove down to Palavas-les-Flots (Mediterranean cost of France near Montpellier). That was 820 miles down over 2 days, bedding in at a hotel in the Loire valley around halfway. It was mostly autoroutes, and on the way down a rush-hour situation on the Peripherique where we nearly ran out of petrol... A perfect storm of French rush-hour madness, a 60 litre tank and a 300bhp Vauxhall Vectra. Nowadays I would know better and give Paris a wider berth :-)
Anyway, 820 miles across England and France was a wonderful journey. We saw a lot of beautiful countryside in both countries, we saw the River Loire, we crossed the Tarne valley over the Millau Viaduct, we saw green fields turn to less-green fields, then lifeless mountains, then vineyards and finally palm trees. We saw lorries overheating and cars slugging for power on the mountainous autoroutes, and even saw an old classic (if memory serves it was a 1930s Packard) way up at a service station at over 1000 metres altitude. I wanted to find the owner and congratulate him but time was pressing.
We then had 500 miles of driving around the Languedo-Roussillon coast of France, and for the return journey we went cross-country as far as the Loire Valley though beautiful, tree-lined B-roads that would have been a perfect caricature for southern France had striped-jersey onion sellers been pedaling along them, then motorways (avoiding Paris) back home. So all-in around 2200 miles, mostly over 4 days but some over the intervening week or so.
I also did a 1000 mile route where we went to Brugge, then Luxemburg, then Rotterdam, then down the Zeelandbrug route back to England. It wasn't the most efficient tour, but we had friends to visit and a short time to do it so hey... three birds, one stone.
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