Driving Long Distances – Some Advice.

So we have just returned from France driving from Lancaster, England, down to Dover. From Calais we drove across to Brittany. Ten days driving around then back the way we came.

1604 miles later.

All very pleasant and a fantastic family holiday was had.

However, a day later on returning home I woke up with excruciatingly pain in my right upper arm.

I mean I could hardly lift my arm and when I did it screamed in agony.

Thinking I had slept on it funny I thought it would just settle. Oh no has it hell.

Then it dawned on me. I had spent the majority of the drive with my right arm rested on the window frame of the car door, the position of which was just above horizontal.

So my advice to anyone on a long drive who has a tendency to rest their arm on the door. Bloody well don’t – it sodden well hurts – eventually.

Lesson learned.

Motorway Madness

Chaos

For the love of everything holy, why are the motorways in the UK just completely choked with lorries and cars and why the hell can’t people drive. I could not believe the state of the roads. The verges are completely littered with rubbish and burst tyres the traffic is start stop, stop start and most of the time at a stand still.

Not sure what the solution is but what I do know is that UK road trips are out from now on.

Here is what a BBC report says:

UK drivers wasted an average of 31 hours in rush-hour traffic last year, costing each motorist £1,168, a study by traffic data firm Inrix suggests.

The UK is the world’s 10th most congested country and London is Europe’s second most gridlocked city after Moscow.

Manchester, Birmingham, Luton and Edinburgh completed the UK’s top five major areas affected. 

The government said a record £23bn was being invested in road schemes.

The study – which took into account direct costs such as wasted fuel and time, as well as indirect consequences, such as higher prices for household goods due to increased freight fees – found London drivers spent an average of 74 hours in gridlock last year, at a cost of £2,430.

The worst stretch of road was the A406 outer London ring road from Chiswick roundabout to Hanger Lane during the evening rush hour.