Long car jounrney....help pls

vikingaero

Ellie2758 wrote: »

Do you plan to do that in one day? I ask because I have always fancied Scotland and I live in Kent. Everybody I know who travels from here stops off for a night en-route.

If it was Kent to Loch Lomond/Glasgow then we do it in one hit. But to Fort William is to ambitious for one day, plus we want a longer holiday but not a whole fortnight, so we're taking 2 days to get up there and one stop coming back.

The reason we chose Scotland this year is that even when it's busy it's not busy (IYSWIM) and I'm fed up with the 8-10 hour drive to Southern Cornwall. Our rationale is that in the time it takes to drive to Cornwall, we can be in Southern Scotland.

mikey72

Change the car to one you like less than the kids.
(Wait until one throws up all down the door trim, into the door, over the seats, over the carpet.........)

Sandoval

l21ynz wrote: »

Please also note we do not allow eating/drinking or crayons/pens/pencils etc in the car.

My advice would be to chill out a bit!

"We don't allow eating, drinking, pens, pencils, laughing..."

They're your kids for God sake not army recruits! Let them do a bit of drawing and accept that children make a bit of mess now and again!

Your children's happiness shouldn't play second-fiddle to keeping your car clean!

exil

Have found (18 years experience!) long train journeys generally less trouble than long car journeys. The kids can see out of the window, both parents can give them full attention, there's more room, they can be taken on walks to the buffet car, and so on.

micmac22

drive at their bedtime and share drive time with your partner

Ellie2758

Aspiring_Writer wrote: »

Eliie2758,

I also live in Kent, and I also really wanna go back to Scotland, so if you're thinking of going anytime soon, pm me?

ok, will do. :j

Tarry

I see your point about not allowing food, but like others, please consider drinks, it's better than them starting to feel unwell due to being thirsty especially when it's hot. I've got no children myself, but I always kept myself busy by looking at the surrondings when I travelled as a child, never read books or the like. Than I don't get carsick, I've only ever suffered from seasickness.

Rolandtheroadie

Last time we done it (Glasgow to Paignton, around 450 miles) I drove through the night whilst they were all sleeping. Stopped once, about 50 miles from Paignton for more fuel. Think I was nightshift the night before though, so was in night mode anyways.
The plans the same this year.
Just incase, we'll keep the ds's charged, and a laptop with internet for the teenage one. The youngest 2 can watch stuff on the dvd if they want too.

theonlywayisup

mikey72 wrote: »

Change the car to one you like less than the kids.
(Wait until one throws up all down the door trim, into the door, over the seats, over the carpet.........)

No matter how many years you have that car, the smell is as good as the day they did it.

We drove from Norway to Cornwall once, as we got off the ferry at Newcastle, our (then) 2 year old puked everywhere, it even hit the front windscreen. We stopped at a services and there was a Travel Lodge (type hotel). They let us use the loos to wash the lumps away :eek:. But that smell. I will NEVER forget it. It got stronger every year. Ewwwh. :rotfl:

mikey72

When they where little, I remember feeding some babyfood to one of them, in the car seat. It was one of the pull off tops, which didn't pull off, then did, very quickly.
Apple sauce across the windscreen, dashboard, airvents, and the radio cassette took a fair amount of it.