Well: A7 in Germany goes all the way from Flensburg, on the Danish border up in the very north of Germany to Füssen on the Austrian border in the very south. 🤷♂️
Many phenomena — wars, plagues, sudden audits — have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for Exhibit A.
Side of the road. Actually, the whole queue took to twitter and we were all chatting to each other while we waited (this was before, when twitter was merely a shithole, not the Nazi hellscape it is now). Lot's of encouragement for those that were holding in a poo. I think a few people actually went for a bush poo.
A lorry carrying lithium batteries had caught fire in front of us and melted the road surface.
I once hit it at 23:30 on the way back from Manchester, what should have been a 45min blast to my exit was an additional 3hr nightmare, a lorry had jack knifed blocking all 4 lanes next to an exit junction. so all the cars had to filter off and filter back on to the M25.
Wasn't there an old couple a few years ago who had to be rescued from M25? They kept missing their exit and rather than taking the next exit they just kept doing laps of entire motorway
I've never had to drive through Australia, but I know for a fact that driving across Texas is a tougher trip because it requires willingly spending time in Texas.
Don't bring up Australia to Texans, they don't like how it's bigger in all their favorite fun facts.
For example, the biggest cow farm in the US is the King Ranch in Texas at 825k acres(3.3km2). Anna Creek Station in Australia is almost 5.9m acres(23.8km2). It has more area than Texas has fresh water surfaces(~7.3k miles2(~19k km2)).
It has more area than Texas has fresh water surfaces(~7.3k miles2(~19k km2)).
to be fair, Texas is kind of known for not having a lot of fresh water surfaces. we only have one natural lake in the state; all the other ones are man-made.
The saying "everything is bigger in texas" is actually an inversion. The people in texas are smaller, that's why it takes them so long to get anywhere.
I feel fortunate that as a Floridian my travel is restricted - 2-3 hours east or west and I'm in the water. But I can go south for 8-10 hours and not run out of road. 3-4 hours north to enter another state.
I'm closer to the Bahamas than I am to most of the lower 48. If I could drive straight there then I think I could hit Nassau in less time than it takes to get to Atlanta.
That must have been the longest drive in Connecticut history. I've driven across the state multiple times and it's never taken me more than about 3 1/2 hours.
Not to knock you guys but saying that the country with the 3rd highest gdp in the world has better trains than the Balkan seems like a really low bar to clear. It's also that the Deutsche Bahn of the 70s was substantially better than what we have now, maybe apart from the bullet trains, which are hilariously expensive and comparatively slow regardless.
Back in 2015 I took the Trans-Siberian Railway. 72 hours non-stop on a train surrounded by a bunch of Russians who didn't speak a word of English, and most of that time was indeed spent within Siberia.
I have a friend who was in the Soviet army in the 80s. He got two weeks of leave but didn't take it as he would have only made it halfway home before he would've had to turn back.
I did the bottom pic route except I used DB and I made it in <6 hours. I can't believe that this stupid system notorious for its delays and fuckups is faster than a car
Edit: what is this "Bielefeld" thing there wtf that is fake
Tbf it only works for this route, despite everyone else saying it sucks (3 times both ways so far, no delays to report) and the "easy" ones go like boom, here, have 3 hours to sit in the middle of nowhere
Yeah, it fully depends what train you take, but I also have had only pleasent experiences. Maybe I am just used to the DB, but I don't think I maybe had half an h delay max in that route, which is fine to me.
It’s an hour. If the departure time lines up with your travel time you can save a shit ton of time. If you need to wait for the ferry though it’s diminishing returns. On the plus side there’s bar on board.
Yeah, my coworker lives in Hamburg (northeastern part of the city and has to drive to Oldenburg each monday morning which is roughly halfway between Bremen and the border to the Netherlands. He spends one half of his commute to navigate through Hamburg and the other half to drive from Hamburg to Oldenburg. 🤡
Honestly, the comparison to a place filled with odd tribes of people obsessed with thousand year old battles and who believe myths written in a bizarre alphabet is so unfair on Mordor.
"Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Europeans, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will bring no report to darken the light of day."
I was in Brazil and once took the short route but same time (12h ride), I passed through roads in the mountains where some parts of it there was only one lane to drive on because the other had collapsed into the cliff, it was crazy that the road was left open and they just put some signs of "collapsed road", plenty of times you couldn't see anything past the curve as they were extremely tight, and at one point the fog took over all my view. It took me 50% longer than GMaps said cause I was driving extremely slow and careful.
Saw someone be like "oh, Europe is so small, we were driving in Sweden, and every time we took a wrong turn we ended up in Norway" and it's like "uhm, yeah? That's cause you were driving along the border. I personally would have to drive for almost 8 hour to reach Sweeden cause I'm no right by the border."
That is what they did with the states in this example. Big states you will still be in them with 8 hours of driving, 8 hours in most cases might be two states. To get 6 you need to be at borders.
In the soap opera Neighbours they never needed to kill someone off, they just had them move to Perth on the other side of the country and they were arguably more out of the way
You have to find spots there are actually roads. I put a Google Maps link above which is about the longest single drive you can do entirely within the country at roughly 9,100 km.
Argentina North/South is similar. If you do La Quiaca - Rio Gallegos it's 3800 kms +/- 46 hours. If you want to reach Ushuaia its a bit more complicated by land because you need to cross to Chile for a bit, then take a ferry that reenters Argentina. That's like 4400 kms, but the time goes off by +10-12 hours.
From France, a trip from my mom's place to my dad's place is a 11-12h drive (not counting breaks), so realistically 2 days. I live an 8h drive away from both. We all live in mainland France of course, not even counting our overseas territories or Corsica.
Ha this reminds me of a time when I was younger and me and my dad were driving north in Alberta Canada about 80% of the way up to go to one of my families ranches in Northern Alberta. We were gassing up at a gas station, when a nice American couple came over and asked us how much longer it would take them to get to Alaska, and we were like WTF... they had no idea how big Canadian provinces were and thought they were similar size to American nothern states, we pointed them towards the nearest hotel and told em they were at least 1 day full drive out still...
Meanwhile, in Michigan (one of the maps shown), it took 12 hours to get my kid to college without leaving the state. And we don't live on the border, either.
Guys I love making fun of the dumb American trope too, but this is clearly a meme about how people always say you can drive six hours in the US and never leave your state but in Europe you'd have visited X amount of countries
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u/Sir-weasel 17h ago
For the UK, 8hrs on the M25 = still on the fucking M25 in traffic