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France every day for us, it’s just nicer! 🤷
But we already live in gods own country, where tens of thousands head to for their holidays, so holidaying in the U.K. has little attraction. Residing in the Dartmoor National Park, 40 mins from an amazing coastline, a very easy 45mins to the ferry at Plymouth, have a beer, head down and arrive in France in the morning……Easy peasy.
The Lake District is a place I love, having been there a few times for my work, now retired. But the mere thought of the M5 and M6 fills me with dread, my son did it a few weeks ago…..8 hours to get home! 😳 No thanks. I go to Thruxton for the BSB every year with the caravan, a great weekend, but it took me nearly SIX HOURS to get home last year on the Monday. The A303, the road to hell, then the M5/A38. Driving around the U.K. is no fun at all, but France is a joy. Admittedly we never go to big towns or cities, can’t stand them, even in France, people, concrete, cars = Hell!
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01/7/2023 at 12:41pm
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You've certainly nailed a point AGAINST the UK there Devonatheart! Last three years journeying to Lake District from NW London, a journey of around 175 miles have taken 10.5 hours, 10 hours, and 8.5 hours, and similar for the return home! It's a journey I know like the back of my hand having driven it for around 50 years now, towing a powerboat on the first 12-15 year's trips, it'd take under 5 hours then, now it's questionable if it's reasonably to attempt it in one day!
The reason, GROSS mismanagement of the roads by Police and Highways Agency, who completely shut down roads for the most trivial reasons (so what that there is the remains of a minor accident on the hard shoulder, the rest of the lanes are clear and usable, why shut the entire road down, and keep them shut for hours! - couple of years ago I sat for 2 hours literally looking at a minor 'fender bender' on M6 hard shoulder, no Ambulances, no Fire Engines, no road surface or barrier repairs required, just Police, HA and recovery faffing on HS and 1st lane, whilst remaining 5 unobstructed lanes remained closed to traffic!!!!!!). I now regard the M6 as an unusable road, it's impossible to travel it without being caught in some major delay it seems! My favoured route to the Lakes is now a detour to avoid M6 entirely, using a variety of A and A(M) roads!
Only this week, I along with hundreds of other vehicles got held stationary for nearly 3 hours on A1(M) just north of M25 because it was beyond the wit or the will of the HA or Police to close the access points to the closed section of road BEFORE shutting the road itself! - we didn't need to be trapped for hours, we should have been directed off the road onto the alternatives, NOT enticed into a trap! The cause to eventually shut the road was legitimate enough, a HGV fire on hard shoulder of opposite carriageway, it's the traffic management that was so appallingly bad!
After some of these nightmare journeys, I've seriously questioned whether I wanted to carry on caravaning, the journeys are just becoming intolerable! The sites and destination regions are wonderful, but all too often impossible to get to in a reasonable manner.
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