William wrote on Mon, 5 May 2008 15:48:12 +0100:
> 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.
If the car has right-hand drive, using it on a British motorway
is not difficult and even narrow two-lane roads are not too bad.
It's not likely on a motorway but anyone's unthinking reaction
in an emergency might be the wrong one, especially if you
encounter some oaf who wants the whole road. I've even driven
the one lane roads with passing spaces of the Scottish
Highlands.
--
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
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