[Travel] Most Distance Travelled By Car In One Day

hans kraay fan club · Jul 21, 2018

Not sure of the distances involved but for work, drove a Vito minivan (with one other driver) from Southampton to Prague, and from Southampton to Copenhagen, each in a single day. The Copenhagen run, we left Southampton 04.30am and arrived in Copenhagen at just after midnight.

Also did a ludicrous round trip of Southampton to Nuremberg, to collect a part, then drive that from there to Coventry City (Highfield Road), install it to their display 1 hour before a Premier League game v Man United (they lost 4-0), then back to Southampton- all in about 39 hours.

Icy Gull · Jul 21, 2018

Calais to Barcelona, fecking long way in however many hours it took. I was young then and no way would I consider it now, forget how long it took *senile*

jackanada · Jul 21, 2018

Madrid to Brighton, with a diversion due to major roadworks in Spain. 1100+ miles. Journey started with epic hangover.
In an LDV convoy.
Without a working radio.

StillHateBellotti · Jul 21, 2018

800 miles, Prague to Brighton. One stop for fuel.

Mr Bridger · Jul 21, 2018

Last month completed the Rust Bucket rally in a £500 car for charity , ours was a Jag and drove from Northants to Berlin 1st night, I drove for 9 hrs into Germany 670 Miles then a mate took over.
Second day was Berlin to Lake Como in Italy , then lake Como to Dijon through the Alps on the 3rd day, then back home to Northants on the fourth day.
All in all 2500 Miles.

Notters · Jul 21, 2018

600 miles in England is the equivalent of about 2000 in france!

liverpool_one · Jul 21, 2018

Torrevieja to brighton drove to France then ferry to Dover 1216 road miles

Silverhatch · Jul 21, 2018

Perpignan to Brighton in a Merc 608d with a couple of hundred cases of Roussillon in the back. Just hoped the tacho wouldn’t get checked.

British Bulldog · Jul 21, 2018

Minimum in conparising to others but leaving lancing at 0530 to three bridges for an early turn, three bridges to Oxford to pick up brother, Oxford to Bristol to watch us beat them 2-1, Back to Oxford to drop brother off, couple of strong coffee’s then back to Lancing about 0230. Wouldn’t mind but it was the 2nd time I’d done it after the first game got called off at the last minute.

Arthritic Toe · Jul 21, 2018

Market Porter said:
Brighton to Torrevieja via Eurotunnel, 2 hours kip, get a dog wormed at the vets, lunch, all again in reverse.

Couldn't you have just got your dog wormed in Brighton?

arewethereyet? · Jul 21, 2018

Brighton to Bordeaux took 10 hours from Calais, just under 700 miles, poor car and me were knackered.

DarrenFreemansPerm · Jul 21, 2018

Ardeche to Brighton. 700 miles on my own in my trusty old VW Van, 60mph the whole way, didn’t need diesel until on British soil.

Weststander · Jul 21, 2018

800 miles, from a Calais motel to a French ski resort 4 years ago, just me driving.

It should've been 662 miles, but the Col du Lautaret was blocked by a blizzard (only informed when too late at Oisans), plus my SatNav later wrongly suggested a detour of a completely pointless circular route to ..... Oisans!

At the final destination, I got out of the car limping severely.

I later worked out that 800 miles equated to a drive from Calais to deep inside Poland, for comparison.

Everyone else I know who drives to The Alps, France or Spain, share the driving with spouse or mates.

RexCathedra · Jul 21, 2018

Solo? Boston to Atlanta, 1100 mi. 19.5 hours...
Did Chapel Hill to Boston and Pittsburgh to Boston both ways scads of times. 700 mi.

Choose the wrong start time and you can hit three rush hours.
Boston AM. NY or Philly or DC PM, Atlanta AM, -- there are all sorts of combos.

Official Old Man · Jul 21, 2018

Living in Majorca I would do the drive back once every two or three years.
Majorca to Barcelona on the midnight ferry arriving early hours of the morning. Straight drive through France (this was 1988 to 1996 so not all motorways open) with only a few stops. Calais generally about 2 am ferry followed by A259 / A27 to Brighton. From Barca to Brighton usually 26 hours and 1000 miles all in a Citroen AX (small) with family and suitcases.

Up until a few years ago I'd do a 620 mile non-stop round trip collecting goods for business driving a transit van. Age has got the better of me now and I make two days of it.

DarrenFreemansPerm · Jul 21, 2018

Weststander said:
800 miles, from a Calais motel to a French ski resort 4 years ago, just me driving.

It should've been 662 miles, but the Col du Lautaret was blocked by a blizzard (only informed when too late at Oisans), plus my SatNav later wrongly suggested a detour of a completely pointless circular route to ..... Oisans!

At the final destination, I got out of the car limping severely.

I later worked out that 800 miles equated to a drive from Calais to deep inside Poland, for comparison.

Everyone else I know who drives to The Alps, France or Spain, share the driving with spouse or mates.

A few years ago I was driving with Mrs DFP from Brighton to Risoul for a training course, the plan was to share the load, she took over at one service station and pulled in at the next. 16hrs total and she drove for 20mins :lol:

half time scores · Jul 21, 2018

Drove from John O'Groats to Lands End in a Morris Minor two driving in two hour stints in 20 hours 10 minutes.

Audax · Jul 21, 2018

Brighton to Spa Franchorchamps by motorcycle in a single day. No idea how many miles we actually did. We avoided the dual carriage as much as possible.

Weststander · Jul 21, 2018

DarrenFreemansPerm said:
A few years ago I was driving with Mrs DFP from Brighton to Risoul for a training course, the plan was to share the load, she took over at one service station and pulled in at the next. 16hrs total and she drove for 20mins

My wife is nervous of driving on 'the wrong side of the road', plus other drivng customs overseas. So I do all the driving.

This limits legs of long drives, if I try driving all night on zzzzzzz French Autoroutes, it gets dangerous with me almost nodding off. So we book motels.

Other winter sports people I know, swap drivers 2 or 3 times in the night, plouging on to make The Alps in the one go.

studio150 · Jul 21, 2018

Hove to Frejus

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