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What has been your most tiring Car Journey?

i would say it has to be France from England , we set off on the Friday stayed over at a Hotel in England then set off via Ferry and got there about 8pm on Saturday night , was completely knackered and then slept for 12 hours.
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  • Arklight
    Arklight Posts: 3,184 Forumite
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    One time in the Almera I drove to Mumbles.
  • missile
    missile Posts: 11,886 Forumite
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    I once travelled from Nice to Aberdeen without a break ………….. on a motorcycle :eek:
    "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
    Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:
  • Alanp
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    Back in 1980, me and my gf,( now wife) had both just passed our tests, we’d bought a mini, we’d been invited to go camping with her parents, and their friends, to perranporth in Cornwall, set off Friday night at 8 o’clock ( from York) , in our little mini, with us and her younger brother in the car, plus a roof rack and a boot full of luggage, following the in laws in their car ( Skoda rapid) with them following their friends, driving for the first time through the night, there was no m42 to cut across country in those days( at least I don’t think so) so it was off across the M62, M6/5, with the fil, not being able to drive, his wife and other son did most of it, of course the lead car got lost, no sat nav in those days, and any stops along the motorway were restricted to a quick toilet break and coffee , we arrived some 18hours later thoroughly knackered, crashed out in the tents, and woke up at six, but not sure if it was six in the evening or six in the morning...never again have we driven through the night....
  • Goudy
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    M25 every Friday afternoon.
  • Luckily I've not had to endure it, but i would imagine the longest car journey ever would be with Jack Cork, and him asking his usual inane questions.
    One man's folly is another man's wife. Helen Roland (1876 - 1950)
  • z1a
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    missile wrote: »
    I once travelled from Nice to Aberdeen without a break ………….. on a motorcycle :eek:

    We once did Porec, Yugoslavia to Blackburn Lancs, non-stop on a bike due to overspending and overstaying in Porec.

    Left Porec at 6am Thursday, got home 8pm Friday.

    1380 miles in 38 hours, was almost hallucinating by Paris after 24 hours.
  • Anytime with the kids arguing in the back
  • lincroft1710
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    Going north on the M6 heading for Dover and then finding out at Carlisle that

    THE M6 NORTH DOESN'T GO TO DOVER!

    (and if you believe the first eight words of this post......)
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • Going north on the M6 heading for Dover and then finding out at Carlisle that

    THE M6 NORTH DOESN'T GO TO DOVER!

    (and if you believe the first eight words of this post......)

    You are Dominic Raaaaaab and I claim my £5!
  • jimbo6977
    jimbo6977 Posts: 1,280 Forumite
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    drive overnight manchester to eindhoven, flight to poland, friends' wedding (enbalmed in vodka), overnight train back to eindhoven, drive back to manchester.

    the tiredness was one thing but the smell was quite another.
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