"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote in message
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> Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
>
>> >>> 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.
>>
>> The A74 has some rather impressive fatal accident figures.
>>
>> One rail option might be via the Settle-Carlisle line - much slower,
>> but one of the most spectacular stretches of railway in Europe.
>
> The mainline train route is hardly uninteresting either.
Look, you can't have it both ways.
Either the train is more fun or the drive down the motorways is more fun...
For me it's the train every time.
I've spend a couple of evenings trying not to fall asleep before I got to
Carlisle...
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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