On Mon, 5 May 2008 15:48:12 +0100, "William Black"
wrote:
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> wrote in message
>news:7cfaf36c-50d2-4056-8fa8-8620095e144a@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> I'll be visiting Scotland and England in a few weeks, starting out in
>> Edinburgh and finishing in London. Would it be cheaper for my partner
>> and I to rent a car? Or travel by train? We are planning an over
>> night in Manchester and would need the car for only four days.
>
>Edinburgh to Manchester in a car is either a dead boring trip on motorways
>(and the A74, which is worse) or a 'challenging' drive across incredible
>countryside on incredibly bendy and slow roads.
>
>You don't say where you're from but if you're from the USA I'd suggest that
>mastering driving on the wrong side of the road isn't a skill you'd wish to
>acquire on either motorways or the twisty roads of the Scottish Borders.
There's not a lot of skill in driving a RHD car on a motorway, it's junctions
and roundabouts that can be tricky.
--
Martin
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