[Travel] Most Distance Travelled By Car In One Day

Barry Izbak

U.T.A.

Dec 7, 2005

7,324

Lancing By Sea

• Jul 22, 2018

• #61

How about the furthest by car non stop
Hove to Dundee in just over eight hours
No petrol or toilet stops
The joy of the travelling salesman

 

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mxs_harrow

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Jan 20, 2009

195

HA5

• Jul 23, 2018

• #62

Gregory2 said:

done the Dieppe run from Toulouse and vice versa quite a few times,only one way mind,which is around 600 miles

last week I travelled to Nantes and back in the same day,clocking up around 660 miles

thinking this is probably the most I've ever done in a day

but to my surprise,Brighton to Newcastle and back is a staggering 690 miles!

what's your record?

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Harrow to Sitges, avoiding Paris via Calais-Rouen-Evreux-Dreux-Chartres-Orleans ( Eurotunnel and Dartford Crossing did some of the heavy lifting). Annoyed a lot of French and Catalan drivers ( plus, probably, most of NSC) enroute.

UK - Aberdeen to London on a Friday night after work. Plus Harrow to Perth (Scotland) and back in a day when I forgot something ( apart from the Highway Code)

Brighton to Wurzburg in a Ford Anglia in 1965, albeit performing more of a back seat driver role, as I was ten at the time...

 

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Seat Stealer

Active member

Jun 23, 2012

304

• Jul 23, 2018

• #63

Eastbourne to fredrikshaven (Northern Denmark) 884 miles and 5 different countries.

 

Lyndhurst 14

Well-known member

Jan 16, 2008

5,128

• Jul 23, 2018

• #64

New York to Chicago, about 800 miles and 5 different States

 

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kjgood

Well-known member

Nov 11, 2008

997

Brynna South Wales (And I'm not Welsh either!)

• Jul 23, 2018

• #65

Hamelin in Germany to St Tropez 863 miles

 

The Clamp

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NSC Patron

Jan 11, 2016

24,506

West is BEST

• Jul 23, 2018

• #66

Dorking to York and back in same day, only about 465 miles but that was a looooong day. Over 8 hours I think.

 

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KingKev

Well-known member

Jun 16, 2011

867

Hove (actually)

• Jul 23, 2018

• #67

Some of these journeys are heroic!

As a regular thing I used to do the c 400 mile round trip from Nottingham to Brighton via Steyning or Worthing for virtually every home game back in the Withdean era, but can’t get near any of the above one-off odysseys other than Brighton to the Trossachs one Friday night (c 500 Miles) and being a passenger for the Brighton-Boro-Brighton trip a couple of years back (a touch over 600? - thanks again James)

 

Hillian1

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Jul 15, 2010

15,364

Struggling for breath at the top of the stairs

• Jul 23, 2018

• #68

Did Burgess Hill to Dover (97 miles) then Callais to Frejus (725 miles) in 20 hours once.

7 days later did the reverse.


Was young then though, could't do it again.

 

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jasetheace

New member

Apr 13, 2011

712

• Jul 23, 2018

• #69

Aviemore (a place I liken to Twin Peaks btw) to Brighton. Blinding Sunlight all the way and a 1 hour motorway closure to boot. Still could not ruin what had been a blinding Scottish Golf Trip including an 85 at the very difficult KingsBarns which I regard as my best round of golf ever (18 handicapper generally).

 

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Poyningsgull

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Apr 12, 2007

1,625

• Jul 23, 2018

• #70

Poynings to Tescos in Burgess Hill last Friday (and back). Had a lie down afterwards and was ok.

 

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wigman

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Oct 10, 2006

4,735

East Preston

• Jul 23, 2018

• #71

Carlisle and back in a day.
1st game of the season 1984, we were rewarded with a 3-0 win.

 

Weststander

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NSC Patron

Aug 25, 2011

63,938

Withdean area

• Jul 23, 2018

• #72

jasetheace said:

Aviemore (a place I liken to Twin Peaks btw) to Brighton. Blinding Sunlight all the way and a 1 hour motorway closure to boot. Still could not ruin what had been a blinding Scottish Golf Trip including an 85 at the very difficult KingsBarns which I regard as my best round of golf ever (18 handicapper generally).

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I went there with friends in August 1982, camping nearby. As niave 17 year old southern softies, in the (ugly 60's/70's) Aviemore Centre bars and clubs we were surrounded by Glaswegian older blokes drinking far more than us - gallons of Tartan lager, with sudden outbursts of aggressive shouting and then fights. Great memories though - brilliant pop music for me at that time and cute Clare Grogan lookalikes.

Passed through Speyside in January 1995 - beautiful villages in the snow, but the Aviemore Centre was still ugly!

 

desprateseagull

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Jul 20, 2003

10,171

brighton, actually

• Jul 23, 2018

• #73

About 500, on holiday- went from Kissimee in Florida (near the theme parks), to Atlanta Georgia, where a mate was working on a long term contract.. we rather got lost, and went voa Macon, Georgia- ar5e end of nowhere..

Whenever The Simpsons mention that place, I have to laugh..