The Reid wrote:
> Following up to d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne) wrote:
>
> >> I have. What time is the flight BTW?
> >
> >It's a while ago now, but I think it was around 1030 from Heathrow.
>
> check in 9.30 or earlier? I'd probably have to leave home same time as
> for driving.
Do you mean 5 or 7. I usually try to get to the airport 2 hours early.
> >> >> lugging bags towards LHR or
> >> >> driving onto the open road.
> >> >
> >> >Open road? Oddly, you never seem to encounter the traffic which I did
> >> >when I drove from London to Scotland.
> >>
> >> Use intelligence. Saturday early start you get very little.
> >
> >Ah, so you've got the freedom of the open road, but only on certain
> >days. :)
>
> correct
>
> >I assume you time the return 9 hour drive to coincide with
> >little traffic.
>
> correct
I wish I had that freedom.
>
> >> >> Both ways you are having lunch somewhere
> >> >> nice in Scotland the same lunchtime and the holiday has truly started.
> >> >
> >> >Well that's progress from the airline passengers having to have lunch at
> >> >the airport, I suppose. When I take ferries, I don't usually find
> >> >getting on them the holiday part, and more than getting on a plane.
> >>
> >> I do. (I assume that was "any more than the plane"?)
> >
> >Yes. As a kid, I found the wait in the car for the ferry, then getting
> >on part, tedious.
>
> What wait? You drive on once you arrive.
> I think you are really
> pushing your luck trying to emphasise "waiting around" in car v PT.
I frequently waited in the car in a queue for a ferry when I was a kid,
on the Newcastle-Bergen trips, and the return.
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