On 22/10/2012 05:49, antoine wrote:
Dear readers I need your suggestion. I will come to England for one week
for visiting London and the sorrondings. Because the airplane is landing
in Stansted, I thaought that taking an accomodation in Cambridge would be
practical for living some days in a beautiful "small" english town and
also being not too far from London.
Is it a good idea to rent a car and to drive from Cambridge to a place
somewhere near London where it is possible to park and to go by
underground train to the center of the city?

No. Get the train. It's about 45 min on a fast train from Cambridge to
King's Cross, which run every 30 min (there are also slower trains, but
there is no point in catching one as they get overtaken). Driving in
central Cambridge will not help your sanity, and long underground trips
might not be fun.

I always do so when I have
to go to Milan from my town in the north of Italy.
Do you think that the traffic conditions near Cambridge are such that I
can make a good use of the car to visit for instance the seaside (Norfolk)
or another town like Oxford? Or I will be spending ours in queues?

A car might well make sense for the coast (although you can get to, say,
Cromer by train for a day trip from Cambridge).

If you are staying in Cambridge, do you really want to do Oxford as
well, which is basically just (an inferior version of) the same thing?

Thank you for your suggestions. I love England where I spent one year
40 years ago

You might find it has changed...


(and I also got a british driving licence).



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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK