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Have you ever travelled long distance?
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The longest flight I have been on lasted about 17hrs and I hated it. Couldn't settle, my legs ached, couldn't sleep.
I have been on the ferry and then across Europe on the train when I was younger. That was quite good fun. Slept in a couchette and had to be sure we were in the correct carriage as the train was incredibly long and at a couple of stations some carriages separated off and headed for a different part of Europe.
We did a fly-drive in the US which was really great. Started off in Utah near Bryce Canyon, then to Las Vegas for the Grand Canyon, across to LA to visit the Getty museum up in the hills, then up to Yosemite via Fresno (weird) and finally across to San Francisco.
The longest I've driven in a day was calais to stuttgart it took from 7am til midnight, and I did have an hours kip around 8pm
I've flown non-stop long haul many times. I get on the plane and take a sleeping pill.
Then as I had just gotten over my jet lag, my boss sent me to a conference in the US. Which went Sydney->San Francisco ->Chicago->Raleigh. And then in reverse. An absolutely wretched time.
I was on a business trip to Japan a couple of weeks ago, which was actually pretty pleasant.
What I'd like to hear about, is people who have done long distance trips over a land/sea route. Much more interesting that just flying to places!
I've just travelled from Kent to just beyond Gloucester recently by train/taxi - a very wretched 6 hours
Me too. It seems like such a long time when you're just sat there
Agreed. Time stands still when you're flying.
longest travel time on a road vehicle:
Travelled on coach for 27 hours on school trip to Austria.
That doesn't sound pleasant at all. Were there lots of delays, or was it just a death by a thousand cuts in terms of service?
Travelling by train in Germany and Austria, has always been a really nice experience thought.
When I used to live in Vienna, my wife and I would take the ICE to Frankfurt around Christmas (before we had kids) and it was always very comfortable and hassle free.
At one point, I traveled to Graz from Vienna by non-ICE train, which was three hours each way on the same day. Again, it was a nice experience, especially going through the mountains.
*ahem* I can't really comment on UK trains these days, as I tend to only do that on business, so we buy 1st class tickets. It's funny how delays on those journey's are never a big deal, because you usually have wi fi and a socket to charge your laptop on if you want to watch a movie.
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not unless you went via China.
I've been snowboarding in Andorra. Where did you go?
My brother how ever been to a nunber of african countries includeing south africa and kenya and he has been to mexico canada and usa most of europe too and india i think
Car journey : Paris to Gibraltar .
Train Bangkok - Singapore 48 hours - ...
Ship - a 3 night inter - island boat in Indonesia -
Bus - 25 hours from Victoria - Bratislava ... was fun on a virtually empty coach with nice people chatting away at different service stations from somewhere in Belgium to Nuremberg to Plzen; got bad at Prague as the bus filled out with early risers and id not actually slept
Train - 26 hours +/- Hong Kong - Beijing - Did this trip twice on visa runs. Generally ok exept the loudspeaker in the compartment and was cool to arrive at Wuhan over the Yangtze river just at breakfast time
Uncomfortable long journeys also included a trip on a bus in North Luzon in the Philippones with my feet squashed behind bags of sugar and flour which meant i had massive cramp. Also, the Peru bus trip in the Andes from Arequipa which reaches 4800m and could be called the pukewagon. Yuck.
I think ive gone off travel. Slippers, a pipe and corrie for me now