Jon Green wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:31:18 on
Mon, 14 Jul 2008, magwitch remarked:
All I can say is that during the '50s '60s and '70s people managed to
get to Devon or Cornwall for lovely holidays and the 4–6 hour car
or train journey was all part of the fun.

I remember going down there by car pre-motorways, via the infamous
Honiton Bypass etc, and it wasn't much fun. Nor was it 4-6 hours!!

It's not six hours to Cornwall even now! (At least, not if you keep to
the speed limits and don't try to do it in one shift.) You'd be lucky
to make it to the Devon border from Cambridge in four hours - Multimap
reckons 4'24" even on modern roads, and that doesn't reckon in rest stops.

Jon

We used to live 20 miles north of Winchester... I mean (gosh) if you
were travelling to Cornwall from the outer Hebrides it might even take
you 3 or 4 days.